Hong Kong (3/10 - 3/11): Weak Ends

Saturday I had arranged to meet up with X-Tina at the Jusco in Tai Woo around 11 a.m., but I was running late in the morning so we rescheduled for noon. After we met at the MTR station the first order of business was lunch, so we grabbed some food at the McDonald's above the station.

X-Tina brought her daughter along with her too. It was kinda neat pushing the stroller around and getting a feeling for what it might be like to have a kid, but I came to realize something. Well, two things. First, if you're a g...Read more

Hong Kong (4/14): HKFA Dress Rehearsal

AFter our rehearsal at the JC Group offices we have a couple hours to kill before going to the venue for a group dress rehearsal that evening.

the alive not dead crew, along with the fine folks from audio traffic (and jason tobin) caught a cab and headed over to the ferry terminal area to grab some food at white spot.  (i opted for a wrap at mix).

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Hong Kong (5/12): Let's Fight - Round 2

The first night of Let's Fight was the more "punk" type of rock music. The second night was supposed to be the "hard core" type of rock.  The rumors were in no way false.

After doing some work at the office in the afternoon we (the usual suspects) met up to eat some yoshinoyas and grab some taxis to the venue.  The second night was sold out, which is a great thing, and they had another round of tables for more bands.  I bought a King LyChee t-shirt, got a QiuHong Sticker and another ...Read more

just trying something out.

Albany (3/28 - 3/31): Cold and SUNY

After Seattle it was off to Albany, New York.  Why Albany?  Well, my friend Jisue was over there attending the State University of New York (a.k.a. SUNY) as part of a Graduate School exchange program so I thought I would pop over and check out the scene.

Well, it turns out there is no "scene" in Albany.  So, you can save yourself the trouble of heading over there yourself.  Especially if you plan to fly Southwest.  3 planes (Seattle -> Chicago -> Baltimore -> Albany) to get there and an entire da...Read more

Los Angeles (3/31 - 4/1): Southland Reunion

The trip from Albany to LA was considerably easier than Seattle to Albany.  Just two legs this time.  First a trip from Albany to Chicago, then from Chicago to LAX.  I even had some time in Chicago to sit down and get some work done online.

I arrived in LA pretty late -- around 10:30 p.m. if I recall -- and was picked up by Jenn and Wang Wei, who were nice enough to come get me and let me crash at their place for the night.  But first we were going to go meet up with Matt, Peter and Kathy over in Westminste...Read more

Bay Area (4/1 - 4/3): Touring the Bay

And here we are, the 5th and final installment of my recent trip to the U.S.

When I arrived around 11 p.m. at Oakland Airport, I grabbed a shuttle over to the hotel where my mom and Reid were staying.  (Reid is my step-father, for those of you who don't know.)  I grabbed a room for myself and after chatting with my mom for a while, I did a little bit of online work and then went to bed.

The next morning I met both of them in the lobby and we checked out.  It had turned out that my sister was actually ...Read more

Hong Kong (4/15): The Hong Kong Film Awards

The day had finally come!  It was time for the Hong Kong Film Awards.  I got ready in the morning and then headed in to do a bit of last-minute work at ... work.  After-all, we had just launched so there was quite a bit of things to do for the site.  I bumped in to Terence at the office and we confirmed that we were meeting at the venue at 2 p.m. for rehearsal.

As I'm writing this I realize that, while most of the Alive fans or people here in Hong Kong know what this whole thing was for, some people who...Read more

Hong Kong (4/15): The After Parties

Unfortunately I can't get in to too much detail here.  I'll just talk in generalities and you should get the gist of what went on.  (When are we going to have friends-only entries anyway?)

So, after the big event we first headed back to Pat and Stephen's.  The show was on time-delay so we tried, unsuccessfully, to search for it on their TV, but eventually gave up and just turned on the Wii instead.  After a while Hiro joined up with us and then we all grabbed a taxi over to Kowloon. 

We went to ...Read more

Hong Kong (4/16 - 4/19): All Work and No Sleep Makes Mark Something Something

If anyone ever tells you that all the works ends when a website launches, do me a favor and punch them in the brain.

After the festivities and our "launch" party, I ended up getting home around 7 or 8 a.m.  I decided to sleep as much as I could before going in to the office ... and that meant I woke up 12 hours later at 7:30 p.m.  I got in to work just before 9 p.m. and started at it. There was a LOT of stuff to do.

I won't get in to the specifics here...Read more