Hooray- I’ve survived a weekend escapade to Shenzhen! Everyone keeps saying Shenzhen is 'the future' and the richest city in China but to me it still seems like a kitschy place full of gold buildings, Karaokes with B-side Madonna songs, fake goods, squat toilets and people who aren't internationalized just yet. I suppose if you embrace the crazy and accept the randomness and sur...Read more
Recently, the Mandarin Oriental invited a few popular food bloggers to a 7 course lunch at Man Wah to taste popular and new items on the menu which were lovingly created by the new chef Man Sing Lee.
Recently I was invited by my friend who is PR at The Mo Bar at the Landmark Mandarin to enjoy dinner and drinks with musician and aspiring Presidential candidate of Haiti Wyclef Jean. I was delighted to have an opportunity to meet the lyrical poet as I’ve been a fan since his days with Th...Read more
Bel Air in Pok Fu Lam is a cluster of concrete buildings that is meant to look posh and European however it looks more like ‘Euro-Disney’ due to kitschy details -like a sculpture of an Egyptian sphinx guarding the entrance or cheesy wrought iron barricades with leaves on them. Everything there seems contrived and has an element of artificiality much in the same way that ...Read more
One of the perks of working in the media is that you sometimes get invited to shows and premieres. On Sept 15th- I trekked out to the City of Dreams in Macau to witness the unveiling of House of the Dancing Water- the new oeuvre directed by Franco Dragone, the creative genius associated with the early Cirque Du Soleil shows.
One of the perks of working in the media is that you sometimes get invited to shows and premieres. On Sept 15th- I trekked out to the City of Dreams in Macau to witness the unveiling of House of the Dancing Water- the new oeuvre directed by Franco Dragone, the creative genius associated with the early Cirque Du Soleil shows.
In case you don’t already know about it, ART HK 10, Asia’s largest, most prestigious Art fair is coming up from the 27th to the 30th of May. 35,000 people are expected to blow through the fair which features international galleries and their star artists which hail from around the globe.
For the art f...Read more
Last night I ventured out to Macau to see Electro-Punk Shock Rocker PEACHES- who has been praised by music legends such as Madonna, Joan Jett and Iggy Pop. Born in Canada, Merrill Beth Nisker quit teaching in her 30’s and decided to move to Berlin to pursue a career in music. She was reincarnated as Peaches- an androgynous songstress with a trashy mullet whose incendiary lyrics make conservatives...Read more
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