Before John Legend Came Out... Tor+ and Julia Duncan

Ok, in yesterday's blog about the John Legend 'Evolver' CD Listening Party in Hong Kong,  I actually put the main course in and left out the appetizer... before John Legend came out, they had a Thai Pianist named Tor Saksit come out and play some songs.   He is signed up with Sony BMG Asia, who was hosting the John Legend event.

He is very talented, but just ...Read more

In Search of the Hamasaki Ayumi Bus...

So as you guys may know, in June, right before I went to Tokyo to see the end of Hamasaki Ayumi's Japan tour ( blog, photos), they FINALLY announced the show dates for the overseas stops in her '10th Anniversary 2008 Asi...Read more

'Detective Mr. Gong'. aka 'A Big Match'

Mark hooked us up with a bunch of his old korean DVDs the other day.  I have a huge stack now that will take me a year or two to go through.  Since I didn't want to go out Saturday night, I watched one... a random Korean police story called ' Detective Mr. Gong'  (공필두), also referred to as 'A Big Match' on some sites. 

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Tropic Thunder Review

 6/10

Movie:

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Wow, turned out to be better than I thought!

I didn't expect much, if anything out of it... but it actually had a few pretty funny scenes. And believe it or not, a pretty creative plot - a ...Read more

John Legend New Album Promotion in Hong Kong

Wow, what a totally kickass last minute opportunity! Around 7pm Shan got a call asking us if we wanted to attend a Sony BMGAsia Promotional event in Central.  It was for John Legend's new album, titled 'Evolver',  which will be released worldwide on Oct 28, 2008.  木曜日晩、John Legendは香港のCDプロモイベントをした。とても面白かった！第３枚CDもすぐ出たから、CD Listeningパーティだった、CDの新歌見せた、その後、４０分ぐらいピアノした。とてもよかった！下のビデオを見て下さい！

So what was so special about it?  unlike Madonna's CD release party,...Read more

Chivas Studio

Another set of pictures from an event two weeks back!

this was from a Chivas event held at the Watermark at the Central Ferry Pier.  Called ' Chivas Studio',  they did an exhibition of photos as part of a multi-day art and design event. . ;-)

They even had a commercial for it:

Video: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=c1t501SNnCY The phot...Read more

Korean Film Review: Beautiful 아름답다 (2008)

I bought this korean movie on DVD a few weeks ago and decided to convert it to MP4 and watch on my iPhone while I was in Japan this last weekend. (I've been doing this a lot recently).  So basically I mostly watched it while riding the train in Tokyo. :-P

I knew nothing about it except for the fact that the girl on the cover looked like Jun Ji-hyun (but it actually is act...Read more

Venetian Casino Macao Hotel

Here's some more of my pics from the Macau trip two weeks ago.  Specifically of the Venetian Casino in Cotai. 二週半前のマカオの旅行の写真もとが有る、このブログ中にべネシュンカジノホテルが一杯が有る。見て下さい！

From the Bus.  They were doing the grand opening of the shopping mall for the new Four Seasons ...Read more

Cirque Du Soleil Zaia Premiere at Venetian Macao

OK, i apologize for being slow on this one! two weeks ago we had a special opportunity to see the premiere opening for the new Cirque Du Soleil show ' Zaia' at the Venetian Casino in Macau.  You recall that I attended Read more

I am Densha Otoko! 僕は香港の新聞にもう一度見える

Thanks to Lisamm for forwarded me the link to this article in today's 'Headline News' newspaper in HK:

'中女趕搭尾班車 老嫩電車男通殺 原子鏸一拖四遊街晒命' 2008年9月13日

Its an article about alivenotdead artist  Marsha Yuan.  But I'm afraid its just more paparazzi garbage... this time the important news is about Marsha walking around Central HK  with some non-Chinese guys (aka me, Adrian, Read more