Post :: Rock

ポストロック
最近はまっちまった。

ぶっちゃけこのジャンルをどう説明していいか分からないが・・・まぁ、ロックの一種だと（←当たり前）、とりあえず思ってほしい。簡単に言えば、従来のロックになかったリズム、メロディーや楽器をアーティストの理論を取り入れてアレンジしたもの。ヴォーカルはほとんど皆無で楽器だけで音楽性を表現している為、各アーティストの理論はもちろん異なるから様々なスタイルが生まれる。たまにヴォーカルの入ったものもあるがほとんどがトーンを抑えて「楽器の一つ」としてブレンドされている（と思う・・・）。この前アップしたtoeの「グッドバイ」が良い例。

ヴォーカルが無いため、音楽の表現力がッッパネぇところが実におもしろいので、聞いてみて損無し!

下記少し紹介しましょう。

1.
toe - グッドバイ
mouse on the keys - 最後の晩餐
enemies - Two Lads
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Label: MachuPicchu Industriasが誇るポストロックバンズ。MYSPACEで調度この３曲が揃ってるのでマジでチェッケラ。

MachuPicchu Industrias MYSPACE

2.
他バンド紹介

God Is An Astronaut - オススメ曲：No Return
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初めてポストロックに触れるきっかけをくれたバンド。センスがやばすぎる。MYSPACEにNo Returnが外されてたのでYOUTUBEでチェックすべし。

God Is An Astronaut MYSPACE

No Return YOUTUBE


Collapse Under The Empire - オススメ曲：Depending on You / Crawling
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最近掘ってたら、当たった。うまい。MYSPACEにオススメ曲のってるのでGO。

Collapse Under The Empire MYSPACE

あとは～、まだまだあるけど、いっぺんに出されても、って感じなので次回機会があればと思っております。とりあえずまずMachuPicchu Industrias聞いて、気に入ったらどんどんいってくれ！Xだった場合止めてもよし！いつか目覚める！

Recent Films :: Ninja Assassin

Ninja Assassin
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ (4/10)



Actions were pretty top notch and Rains physical aesthetics are screaming asian perfection (although he's fugly) but....just couldn't get over the boredom of knowing what's coming up next, by a mile.

A movie for Rain fans.

ガキ :: 使

ガキの使いやあらへんで!!

こいつらに何回助けられたか。

JLPT :: 日本語能力試験

I should be typing Japanese with this post (or maybe not, for my fellow int. readers), but I just had enough of Kanji's (chinese characters)this week.

It's been approx.7 years since I left Japan and set foot in Hong Kong, and I just noticed I'm not "Japanese" anymore, like, half a year ago. Felt a slight plunge with my Japanese when I was talking to a client one day so I thought it was time to slap a cert on my record right now before it gets any worse. JLPT will do.

HK Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)
香港日本語能力試験

Simply a test to evaluate and certify non-native speakers. JLPT has 4 levels, with Level 4 being the easiest and Level 1 most difficult. 150 hours of study are necessary for Level 4, and 900 hours for Level 1.
Pssh. I lived 20 years in Japan. So I decided to go with Level 1. Didn't study at all, just a bit the night before the test. It can't be that hard. So I slept a bit early and took off the next morning.





DAYUM THAT SHIT WAS HARD



I knew it wouldn't be THAT easy but this was way beyond my assumption. I basically learned my Japanese the 'street way' so I don't really know the concepts behind what I blabber proudly all the time. That's why grammar and all was pretty easy because you choose a correct word or phrase that fits in a sentence, and street smarts people will be able to detect the correct one naturally. What's hard is the damn Kanji's. Since the world's gone digital, people don't write anymore. Or they don't need you to write, so you don't write. The necessity of writing is vanishing and we all rely on typing. It may be ok in other countries but asians here have to deal with 50,000 characters. The kids in the new age probably can't even write their own name in chinese.
The point is, there are Kanjis that look very similar. The fuckers behind creating these questions decided to stick 2 similar kanji's together and take away 1 stroke from one of them. Both of them look very natural. But you just can't remember which character is correct and these are the type of questions that piss you off even more if you get them wrong. I think you need to write down what you want to remember, to really remember it. Writing is like scanning what you write to your brain. The physical movement of your hand is recorded to your brain so it's easier to memorize stuff. But since writing is becoming a minority now, I don't know how kids are going to memorize Kanji.
Anyways, the test wasn't too bad though. Still a chance of failing. I need to pass the 70% mark (for Level 1) and I think I'm at around 80%. 84 tops. But maybe not. I might of been wrong with some questions I thought was 100% right. That'll take me down to 75% and hopefully not any lower.

Results in March (why??). Wish me luck.

If you're interested check it out here.

toe :: グッドバイ(Goodbye) MV

Video and music is full of sense. These guys are nuts.

toe is a post-rock band from Japan.

Check them out here.

肥 :: 満

チャウやいびんどー。久々っす。
縦幅に成長していく凶暴な肉食亀のチャウくん、デブめ。

と、私が言えたたちじゃないが、最近ハラがボコりすぎて足がギリギリ地面に着くぐらい。まだなんとか歩けるようだ。飼いたての時は使い終わったティッシュを丸めたぐらいのサイズだったのに、今はティッシュボックスの角を丸めたぐらいのサイズに・・・（適当な例えですんません）。

もうチャウ宅の3分の1をしめるでかさ。これがマックスサイズじゃなければ野放しにする以外住むところが・・って状況でちょっと大問題に。アカミミガメ（ミドリガメ）は大概このサイズがマックスってどこかで聞いたことあるので、そう願いたいばかり。

ちっちゃい頃は遊び半分で水槽に野放しにしてたんだが、気づいたら魚達が全滅・・・どうやって捕まえたんだ！と残り少ない魚を犠牲に観察してたら（ごめんなさい）こいつ獲物に見られないよう下から潜って回り込み、後ろからパクっと一撃。カメって猿より賢いんじゃ・・・しかも大食い。結構な魚の数いたんだがな～・・成長を反対する飼い主も飼い主だが・・・・もっと縦に成長してくれ！！

デブでもかまわん！


マガーでわるかったな、くら。メシ食わしてんのテメーじゃろが！お？

と言わんばかりの面構え。
さぁてどうする・・

VQ1015 :: 結果

VQ1015を購入して一週間。色々使わせて頂いた結果こうなりました。

予想範囲内ってとこかな。ウェブでみた画像とさほど変わらない、なかなか感じのあるうつり。しかし難点もあり。

A:ベランダで撮った中距離の建物-この距離と光具合なら結構バランスがいい。◎
B:ちょっと暗い部屋-光がちょっと足りないとかなり暗く写る。×
C:ベランダで撮った香港島-光がちょっと強すぎると対応出来ないがこの一枚はギリギリセーフ（とする）。手持ちで撮る場合かなり安定してないとボヤける傾向あり△
D:地下鉄内の路面-地面において安定した状態でシャッターを押すとかなりきれいに撮れる。でもやっぱり白（光）がちょっと目立つかも。○

とまあ良いとこあれば悪いとこもあり。

でもスクリーンが無いので撮ったあとはすぐに確認出来ない。これがまたいいところで毎回楽しみに撮らせてます。普通のデジカメは撮ったあとすぐ確認出来るから楽しみが無いっていうか、無くなったというべきか。撮った写真を楽しみにする遊び心を思い出させるいいトイデジですわ。ユニークな上、２GBSDカード対応なのでかなりオススメ。

New Stuff :: VQ1015 Entry

不覚にも心を奪われた一品、トイデジのVQ１０１５。友達に紹介されてウェブで色々調べた結果、画像に独特の雰囲気が漂ってて面白そうだったので購入。通常の値段より安かったので即決だったり。サイズも名刺を半分に折ったぐらいでかなりちっちゃめ。


こいつSDカード使用で２GBまで。手持ちのSD全部２GB越えだったのでいまだに試し撮り出来ず。動画も撮れるけどこれは期待しない方がいいかも。
今日買いに行くので後日画像をアップする予定。


スライド式。閉めたらファインダーも隠れる。

Cheese :: Noodles

Had one of these "cheese noodles" the other day for lunch. Not something you want to have everyday, maybe once every 2 months if you have cheese cravings. Then you'll need 2 extra weeks to run that flubber off.

This particular dish is called Lo Mein, which means "Stirred Noodles", where the soup is usually separated on the side. However for this Cheese Lo Mein the soup ain't even served, but instead they pour a bowl worth of melted cheese on top of instant noodles and top whatever you like, beef, chicken, pork and so on.

....Basically it's like spahgetti but with instant noodles...(and very al dente sometimes)

It's popular for all the celebrities that visited in the past and each photo is wall-mounted, including the windows to draw in the flies. It works though, coz the place is packed during lunch hours.

...You can actually make these at home if you get the cheese right...but.....

Check it out anyways if you're interested.

新記芝士麵茶餐廳
灣仔灣仔道l51-163號新世紀廣場地下G11至G14號舖

Recent Films :: 2012

2012
★★★★★★★★☆☆(8/10)



Emmerich. This guy never gets enough. Either he's giving us all a message (in 3 attempts) or he just hates the human race and wants to wipe us off the face of the earth (3rd time now, I won't count Godzilla).

Gotta hand it to him though, y2k12 was way over my expectations. The title (and director) speaks for itself so there isn't much to say really. Story-wise at least. It's a great popcorn movie where you don't have to think much, sit back and just enjoy Emmerich do his thing to humans.



I read a few reviews and comments about the movie and I gotta say here, why the hell do they even look forward to plots in this movie. Not sure if you define "dumb" in world-end plots coz there's only one place to end up in. Oscar worthy? Not really but that's not really the point in this movie and all the creators probably know that. I take it as a message of how "dumb" "WE" are and the movie is a reflection of how things should be. But since we're too dumb to visualize it, it's been done for you. That's another significant part of the movie.

The CG is just...I don't even have a word for it. I respect all the CG's done in other movies but this one was just off the hook. The detail, realism, detail, and detail. The effects are at a scale beyond human imagination (like space), but Emmerich somehow puts the visuals to life, and hits us hard with it. I think that's one of the reasons why there's such a big impact. It's something we can't imagine happening, but it is portrayed so real it makes us believe in the happening. Like the first image. When you hear "worlds end", the first thing that pops in my head is a big explosion. Natural disaster? Maybe earthquakes. But who woulda thought the damn crust would shift like that? It may not happen like that, but it is portrayed so real that you believe it may happen that way. Independence day was a good example too. We knew we'd be seeing UFO's but goddamn I never thought they'd be city sized. But maybe the mofo aliens out there really have a city sized ride.

I kinda said I had nothing to say about this film but damn I just went on. Go watch it in the theaters. If you want dildo seats (which I recommend), go watch it in the Grand Cinema at ELEMENTS (HK). It's a different experience. Fuck iMax.

8pts for the "HOLY SHIT" effect.

Oh and John Cusack is the shit!

JIN :: 仁

夏が中々抜けない今日この頃のファッキン香港。そんな中、先月始まったのが秋ドラマ。「東京Dogs」、「ライアーゲーム２」と色々続くがダントツでおもしろいのがこの「JIN－仁ー」。


原作がマンガからとも知らず、内容が全く分からないまま観始めたのが幸いしたのか、予想外の展開にドップリはまってもぉた。

簡単に言うと幕末の江戸へタイムスリップした現代の医者がその時代の様々な病や人物と交流し、幕末の歴史に巻き込まれるSF医療ドラマ。ろくな医療器具も持たないままあの時代の病に対応していくアイデアがおもしろい。
初めはタイムスリップものと知って半信半疑で観てたんだが主人公が脳外科医と知ってかなり納得。結構おもしろいストーリーが期待出来そうな要素がたくさんありそうで今後も観ようかと。（現在第６話待ち）


あと大沢たかおと内野聖陽に脱帽。

タムハン :: 魚編

ボンに引き続き、タムもご無沙汰で～す。
先日初めて小魚を数匹はなったら本能が反応し、速攻で狩りモードにチャンネルチェンジ。
初ハンティングなのでちょっと時間かかったが見事にゲット。魚が速い速い・・
パックンいったと思ったらもう一度よく飲み込むために口開けたら魚がピュビューっと逃げるのでかなり苦労した様子。15分でなんとか終了。

いつも狩らすとムゴイのでたまに渡してあげたり↓


デブだからたまには運動してもらうが・・

ボンのコオロギでもそうだが、やっぱり生き餌を与えるのは最初ためらうけど、与え続けるとどんどん感覚がマヒしていくのが分かる。これって殺人魔と同じ心理じゃぁ・・・でも栄養を考えるとやはり今与えてるのがベストだし。「仕方がない」と片付けるシマツ。どうだろう。だいぶ前から砂肝を食わしてるからいいけど。どうでしょう？？

ちなみに↓が狩りの様子。小魚の視点からみるとかなり迫力だ・・・

Monotone :: Defintion⇒

⇒Lab rat with no outdoor exercise for helluva long time.


Just look at those paled out legs. Looks like it just got sucked the hell out of by a thousand mosquitoes. You can see how long those legs were hiding from the holy sun if you compare 'em with those manly arms.

BTW badminton was way out of my list back in the days and I don't have much exp (in fact none), so I thought it'd be like playing ping pong but DAMN WAS I WRONG.

久々 :: さしぶィ～ッッス

ご無沙汰ですわ。

調子が衰えたこと無い超ガエルでございます。食事はいまだに平均０．５秒でくいつき、夜は大暴れ。

みよ、この獲物を狙う眼力。
おなかいっぱいでも食べるから食べすぎで死ぬケースも少なくは無いのでちょっと間の抜けた眼力に。
そこがまたね。

タム系はもっと凶暴でもっと食べるからこいつも気をつけねば。

最近怖いのが冬。ボンの方は風のあたらない場所に置き、ライトを当てれば出来上がるんだが、新人のタムが頭痛のネタ。水中型なのでライト当てても多分無駄。水の管理が必要になるからちょっと厄介。まぁ・・なんとかなるだろう。


ってなわけでがんばりまっせ。最近のボンでした。

3BL +1BE+1BR+1WH+2YE :: The Whole World

It's been all about Russell Peters lately, and he's got me thinking about "colors". Black, Brown, White, Yellow, Beige. That right there represents the primary colors of the world already. It means the whole world. Let me know if I'm missing a color from the palette, red doesn't count.

Anyways I was skipping down the street after work as usual, passing by the usual basketball court outdoors with yellow sticks running around with an orange ball, as usual, supposedly, but something was unusual this time. The canvas was painted rather colorfully with various colors....so I took count.


(Click to count too)

Brown - Check
Beige - Check
White - Check
Black - Check.Check.Check
Yellow - Check.Check...waitWTF

Hong Kong is a international city and colors mix around pretty often, hell almost everyday everywhere, but it was pretty fresh for me to see them together in a palet...basketball court. Thats global competition right there, in a small half-court canvas and I haven't seen anything like that since back in the days in Okinawa. What stunned me more was the 2 yellows were only KIDS, playing buffcut black and beiges in their 20's~30's. They made a shot too. Ok they're just playing around but c'mon you don't see shit like that on a normal day. Props to the kids with enough balls guts to play those guys.

Anyways it was a really weird scene so I snapped a photo. Thinking about it now, if one of them were wanted or something I woulda been killed.

MIA :: FYI

いや～～～

忙しい！！

殺人的忙しさ！なんだこれ！なので一ヶ月あいちゃいました。すんません。

まあ。どうしてかと言うと今月２週間ぶっ続けに展示会があったり、展示会の後は接客したクライアントの数々とのフォローアップ、２週間展示会で突っ立ってたので当然十数個のプロジェクトは宙ぶらりで今死に物狂いでカムバック。

後が大変だけど展示会は実はそんなに悪くない。デザイナーなのになぜ接客せねばならんのかちょっと疑問もあったりしたが・・・↓の展示会はKENFAIRのMEGASHOW。パート１とパート２あるが今回は１のみ。でもブース二つ（何故に？？）。４日間ぶっ通しで接客だがこれがまたおもしろい。世界各国の美女みなさんが集まるからだ。


インチキ臭いインド人や、ずる賢いイタリア人、くっさいインド人に超美人なフランス美女。こんな街一つに世界各国の人種が集まる。これって結構すごい事だと気づいた。世界各国の美女人々と話していると様々な国の性格がみるみる把握できる。文化が思考や行動にどう影響していて、何故こんなに異なるのか、結構間近で見れておもしろかった。インド人なのにUSAのタッグぶら下げていたいた人もいたが・・・・


今回のフェアはデルモもかなりいて中々の景色だったが・・・デスクで山積みにされてるプロジェクトをどうするか検討中。

ギア落としたんでブログのペースは保てるから、今後もよろしくお願い致します。

Collection :: Abduction

When you work in this field, you get all sorts of sweet deals if you have the right resources. I happen to work in the Industrial Design field and through a few cobs the resource happens to have some hookups with nice deals for watches……..
Nah I have my cap on sideways. To put things straight, just got them through a friend. lol


Alessi :: Kaj :: Designed by Karim Rashid (Abducted - 50%)


Appetime :: Pips (Abducted - 100%)


Nike Timing (Abducted - 75%)

Been waiting for these for a month since I ordered them. It was such a good deal I couldn’t resist buying 10, which sums up to the equivalent price of buying 1 digital watch only. NICE.

Enjoyed the collection for about a day maybe.

Then more than half has been abducted, as usual. or2…

National Day of the P-R-C :: and my balcony

"October 1, 2009 National Day of the PRC = Holiday Hell yea."

That's what scrolled by my mind before the 1st of Octo, high and all until I found out we were being ripped off, again.

I was at a factory the other day in mainland feeling the tension rise, a strange spark of excitement and a shitload (shit.load) of traffic jam. It was ex-National Day and all em people of the the Republic of China were rushing home.

Preparing for their holiday, which I later found out they had 1 damn week.

Us, em people of the Hong Kong Boondock's only have 1 day! WTF? I know we kiss a lot of western ass but c'mon we're still YELLOW, have eyes with the potential of being blindfolded with a dental floss and we speak CHING CHANG. What's with this workaholic shit. It's all boondock's here and we need to crop more but c'mon give us a break right.

Anyways, feeling blue and all I was surfing the web for anything that'll cure this jealousy thing with some laughs, until I heard some noise outside. Ignored it the first few times but it just kept going so I put my foot down and took a peak out the balcony and whatdyaknow. Cash being lit and burned to ashes in the air.



For 25minutes.

Gotta say it was pretty good though. That's a lot of fucking money evaporating but it does put up a good view, so I took some pictures.

Back to work again.

方言が:: と感じる人の出身県ランキング

Mixi　ニュースで興味深い記事発見したので纏めてみた。(gooランキングより）

方言がカッコイイと感じる人の出身県ランキング
１．大阪府
２．東京都
３．福岡県
４．広島県
５．神奈川県
６．京都府
７．沖縄県
８．鹿児島県
９．兵庫県
１０．高知県

沖縄7位。う～～～ん微妙～～。たしかに「かっこいい」とはいえんわな。ちょっとかわいらしさはある、と思ってスクロールしてたら関連記事発見。

方言がカワイイと感じる人の出身県ランキング
１．京都府
２．大阪府
３．福岡県
４．沖縄県
５．青森県
６．秋田県
７．北海道
８．山形県
９．兵庫県
１０．岩手県

やっぱり浮上。でも微妙～～～。大阪強し！

んで、Mixiの関連日記一覧をみてたらすんげぇ方言の嵐！（笑）
方言でランキングの抗議あったり、おもろっ！

「いかんまいけ」「好いとうっとっとと」。ツボッたｗ

沖縄人もっとこおおお～～い！

路上の・・:: ●●

前回紹介したが、ウチに新入りがきた。こいつがいろんな意味で問題児でナカナカの反響でございます。ブサかわいいの理論、好き嫌いの理論、究極の不細工理論、まぁ色々ありました。

ウチに来て数日、様子を見ていたが指を近づけると噛み付こうとするのでとりあえず元気。てな訳でそろそろ名前でもと思い色々考えては聞いてきて、最終的に誰かさんMが・・


「路上の痰みたいだから、タンで」


という結論に至りました・・・「タンって、おま・・」。でもちょっと笑ったんでこのナチュラルリアクションを信じて・・

タンに決まりました～って言ってみたら↓




と、見事すぎる土下座をされたので勘弁してやろうと思います。う～～ん。じゃあどうしょっか・・

学名がマルメタピオカガエルだから・・・マルタン？・・と思ってたけど、な～んかアレなんで。

でもうちょっと考えてみたら、痰は広東語から直訳すると実は発音が「タム」。タンに非常に似てるがちょっとM音が入るのでタムになる。もうこれ以上痰の事は考えたく無かったのでそのまま決まった。

タムです。


マルメタピオカガエル（バジェット）
学　 名：Lepidobatrachus laevis
英　 名：Budgett's Frog
分　 布：ブラジル、パラグアイ、アルゼンチンあたり
全　 長：５ｃｍ

命　 名：タム

ブサカワイイ :: キモカワイイ

という領域が存在するが・・・どういう基準でそうなるのか。まず人間以外の生物でしか成立しないこと。人間にブサカワイイは存在しないだろう・・・・でしょ？・・・いんの？・・・・・いなくね？？？しかし動物には許される。それでペットを飼う人もいるだろう。ブルドッグとか、パグね、あとある種の高い猫とか、実はハムスターもとか。ハムスターもネズミ類っしょ？シッポが丸いから許されるのか！ドブネズミはシッポが長いから抹殺されるのか！・・まあそれは置いといて。前々から出会ってたんだが決心がつかず、先日店に行ってみたらちっちゃいのがたくさん入荷してあった・・・・ので、またやっちゃいました。



これは行き過ぎたかもしれん。（＊注意：かなりどアップ）







新入りでごわす、シクヨロっす


マルメタピオカガエルでごわす。

そう、彼（彼女？）はマルメタピオカガエル。又の名はバジェットガエル。ブサイク、キモい、とぼけヅラを兼ね備えたある意味最強のカエル。とぼけた感じするがかなり凶暴なヤツ。そんなところがツボでやられちゃいました。

まあ、いまのところ辛い反応ばかりです。それもそうでしょう、このツラじゃあ！そこが好きな自分って・・・壊れてるのか？オレ！？

今後もよろしくお願い致します。

名前はまだつけてない。特徴からしてメスかもしれない。ユニバーサルな名前はないものか。

東京零九 :: 完

今回色々目的はあったが、一番印象的だったのが親友と１０年ぶりに会えたこと。小学３年生からの付き合い（くされ縁）で高校まで色々バカやった仲。

気づいたらもう１０年。早すぎる。

久々に会ったにも関わらず知り合いが最初に放った言葉が「太ったな」と「サモハン」。

「太ったな」は予想範囲内だが、「サモハン」はノーガードだったのでちょっと戸惑いを隠せず。しかしお互い変わらんもんだな～。社会に出て仮面を被るようになってもお互い裸になれるもんだ。

ワイフと食事に連れてってもらい来月出産予定（おめでとう！）の子供の命名や、昔話で盛り上がってたらいつのまにか１１時半。終電もあるのでここまでと。楽しすぎる一夜だった。ワイフさんホントすいません夜遅くバカ話につき合わせてもらって。

ゴチになりやした～！うまかったです。子供の名前期待してるぜ！（！）

東京零九 :: Shoku

今回東京で平らげた数々の「食」。多すぎるので纏めてみた。築地はやばかった。

築地編


東京編


築地はやばかったわ～。東京編はモスとか、Ｄｏｕｔｏｒ等等。右上は無視してよい。あと吉祥寺に用事あったのでついでにＳＡＴＯＵの松坂牛メンチカツをもう一度。他にも色々あったが写真撮りそこねっちまった。しゃぶしゃぶもいったぜ。

こんなに食って太るハズなんだが・・なぜか香港帰ってはかってみたら痩せとった！！ありえんがな。ストレスがインテイクをりょうがしたか、体重計が壊れてたのか・・・う～む。不思議だ。

「ショック」

東京零九 :: DQ9

ブログの右下をみて頂けると分かると思うが、今ドラクエやってます。国民的人気ＲＰＧでＤＳ持ってる人にドラクエありと言ってもイイほど人気だ。発売4日で国内出荷本数３００万本。鬼だろ。


そんなドラクエですが、今回はすれ違い通信ってのがあって、通信モードに入ると本体を閉じても同じ状態の人とすれ違ったらその人のデータが見れるというモノ。その人が宝の地図を持っていればすれ違った時地図も手に入る。すれ違った人数も増えると宿屋もレベルアップする仕組み。


今香港滞在でして、それをやろうと思ったんだが2週間頑張って一人もおらずＯｒ２、落ち込んでる時になんと東京行きの話が転がり込んでくる。これはラストチャンス！！！来年も東京いく予定だが、現実を冷静に見るとすれ違い通信はこれがラストチャンス・・来年（ってか来季）にはもうやってる奴は少ないだろう。

で、東京到着。ＪＲ入って通信をつけ、

開始３秒でソッコウ一人目が！

これは感動した。やはり日本大好きだ。つづけてつけといたら10秒も経たないうちに3人。ＪＲでしかつけないので限りはあったが香港帰るまでには50人とすれ違った。改めて日本が好きになった四日間である。

東京零九 :: Shopping

今回接客とビッグサイトの展示会目当てで上京。ついでに市場調査という事で色々回ってきた。銀座のＴｏｋｙｕＨａｎｄｓ、ロフト、秋葉原そしてなにより表参道にある数々のデザイン店。腐るほどおいてあるデザイン雑貨の中で唯一違うオーラを解き放っていたのがこの丸い奴。Ｙｕｅｎ’ｔｏのスピーカーでございます。


「なにこれ、かわいすぎだろ！」が第一印象。気づいたらもうレジに・・・


グリーンもいいけどついでにレッドの替え玉ゲット。


iPod Touchにも着せてみた。なかなかだ。

でも考えてみたらこれを公衆でぶっ放してたら結構迷惑（笑）。ハイキングか釣り行く時使ってみるか。

Spaghetti :: Noodles

Spaghoodles

Never thought of this one...

Ultimate Ears :: SuperFi 5

Been hella busy recently but since it's 090909, can't resist to post. A very big THX to the ladies 'n foes.

Got these extremely fun pair of cans last week.

Looks great. Sounds great. Been using these ever since. These cans really push the level of a single armature to the limits.

Thanks a lot guys!

Recent Films :: Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds
★★★★★★★★★☆ (8.9/10)



I stared at the monitor for approximately 5 minutes to figure out how many stars I’m gonna stamp on this title. What a DAMN GOOD FILM. Watchmen, the best movie I’ve watched this year was a while back and the impact is fading. Current impressions tend to overwhelm the impressions in the past (right?), so I had to be careful. They’re both really different movies but shot by 2 directors that share common tastes in differentiation. Definitely one of the best films this year....

People into Tarantino films probably know what to expect from him or at least assume how it’s going to play so I’ll just save a whole page on that….Just one thing I have to mention is the style isn’t exactly the same and some criticize this but I think it completely makes sense. What you expect from him is still here but more remixed into the era we’re in now. What’s a director without various perspectives?


One thing that got me pinned to the screen was the weird intensity. One out of the bunch: Just 2 men talking in a wood house located in the mountains of France. They’re just talking. I don’t know WTF it was I had chills run down my spine a couple times. I’m (still) guessing it’s the camera movement + situation….or it could be Christoph Waltz. This guy’s nuts. But it got me nervous the whole scene, and I still don’t know why. I guess the way Tarantino portrays “whats next” is just genial.

Must watch.

Promotion = :: Coca-Cola + Ice + Lady

Coca-Cola, known for their blubber guaranteed sugar liquid is promoting their money tree right now with a twist. I'm sure most of you experienced this before, the ice flakes that form out of nowhere when you popped a can of soda. They made that a product and it's pretty damn cool. These ideas are something you brainstorm on a napkin and just scribble out coz you ain't pulling it off...but I guess crazy ideas do work sometimes with a little research and experimenting (and doe).


The concept is "Ice in your bottle". Opening the cap will form ice in your drink for a short period to keep the temperature cool for a longer period but it only lasts a few seconds. There's a trick though.
What you do is pop the cap to let the gas out a bit and twist it back on. Rotate it upside down for a while and back. In a few seconds an flakey ice bar will form in the center and you're set. It's also got ice flakes on the surface to drink along with.


That was cool and all...until I noticed a lady standing beside me with a mop. I thought she just walked by during her duty to see all the dumb-found people wandering around the vending machine but there was no sign of her leaving. One problem I experienced during the process was when I opened the cap after the Ice form thingy the coke burst out a bit. I had to wait a while till it chilled. And then there's this lady. So I asked. And it turns out she's on duty alright, but only in that specific area around the vending machine coz a lot of people spilled half their coke on the floor....she even told me some popped their coke to the roof! I guess that's one flaw coz now a lady has to stick with the promotion on each vending machine....But luckily there's only a few in HK right now and most are sold out, and it's seasonal so it'll only be a few weeks of hell for the lady.



You should try it once but I forgot the locations.

Survival Cooking.05 :: 麻婆豆腐四川風（家庭走辣版）

After deciding the title for this post I started typing the content and hit a dead end on the 2nd sentence....So I backspaced the hell out of there, crossed my arms and just stopped.

WTF is 麻婆豆腐 in english? Directly pronounced from Japanese/Cantonese (like in between) it'll sound like "Ma-bo Doufu". But that doesn't really translate coz we still look like a bunch of pigeons. The chinese characters in english would mean....Numb..biOld Lady Bean Curd.....That sounds like a diss so that prolly ain't right. It was a waste of time trying so I just Wiki-ed the damn characters and got.....

...Mapo Doufu

Ok Mapo Doufu it is. The whole dish basically is Bean-curd with minced beef and spicy pepper sauce. The origin comes from a Pock-marked old lady making a bean-curd dish, so the name ended up being 麻婆豆腐. MA-PO DOU-FU. Anyways you can check her out later if you're interested. So the title for this post is "Mapo Doufu Sichuan Style" (マーボーどうふシセンふう　かていソウラーばん）

A bit long already so I'll make things short. There are many ways to make MAPO DOUFU but things should be kept nice and simple at home so you can ditch the fancy stuff like chili flakes and rice wine. What you do need is garlic, fermented black beans, chili broad bean paste(豆瓣酱), chili oil, spring onions and minced meat(can be pork or beef).↓


Just throw them all in, cook a bit, dust some salt, add few blocks of bean-curd and you're done. Don't need to add any extra water because the pork and bean-curd provides enough moist. Just one thing to note is not to smash the bean-curd too much or it'll turn pasty...which I almost pulled off.

The taste was pretty good. Not as spicy as I preferred. It's gotta be lip-numbing spicy if you label it "Sichuan Style". The people in Sichuan would beat the shit out of me if I served this, so 6 it is.

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ (6/10)

Epoch :: Coffee Bar & Desserterie

This cafe was buzzing around recently so some Colleagues and I went to see what the fuss was all about. Home to a HK Barista champion introduced last week on radio, sporting illy's, was more than expected. They really do know what they're doing with their illy's the cappuccino was off the hook. I ain't shelling out anymore doe to SB or PC unless I'm desperate. The pastry was pretty good too. The Orange Chocolate Dome (above) was better than expected but not overwhelming. You can taste the orange...a bit, but you can't even call it an accent. The chocolate and coating was really good though, but just doesn't live up to its name.



We had lunch there with a bowl of Risotto and Cream soup, which I forgot to snap because the hunger just took me over. All in all a great place to chill, we almost forgot lunch time was over.

Epoch