Month: February 2005
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Together the people: Hainan, Part Two
This is a continuation of my blog post about Hainan Island. ‘Short the distance, together the people’ is Hainan Airlines’ tagline (while you’re there, check out their subsidiary Deer Jet and their flashy website), and Hainanese Chicken Rice doesn’t come from Hainan. Over the next two days of the tour, we were taken to one…
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Music for the eyes
What’s a guy to do on the weekend when there’s not much on besides soccer on the telly, crowds on the streets (made worse by the grandstand built for the ChinGay parade) and expensive drinks? Trawl the ingterneck! From my referrer roll, I clicked on this weird looking link and it happened to be the…
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Absolute torch and twang
I was very very tired last night and I went and watched k.d. lang thinking I was about to waste $138 because I was going to be too tired to enjoy anything, especially after battling traffic to get to Our Esplanade. But let me tell you this now. Never, ever doubt k.d. lang and her…
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Another day another interview
In return for allowing the best photograph of myself on his blog, I am now digging through my Adventures in Hong Kong archives for sordid details and pictures of Cowboy Caleb’s Pre-Marital Adventures in Wanchai and I remember this totally useless (until now) phone conversation I had with him: Eh, Miyagi, come join us. I…
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Lamb’s Tales
I’m-a half-asleep because I’ve just been woken up by a work emergency. But still, I haven’t been this tickled (not by the work emergency) since the letter ‘G’ blew out on the neon sign of Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus Steakhouse. It’s about yesterday’s post, the subject of which I filched off Mr Brown’s extensive coverage…