Everybody's pinking about us!
(the tag-line in an advertisement for an HK pharmacy)
1) Finally watched Untold Scandal last week-- saucily elegant. Why can't all soft-core porn be adaptations of Les Liasons Dangereux set in 18th-century Korea?
2) The People's Liberation Army has a new winter uniform!
3) Hong Kong school children still have the same uniform (and they leave it out to dry on the side of a bright orange building?)
4) Last week, Cosmopolitan Hong Kong celebrated its 20th anniversary with a huge party on Victoria Peak. Karen Mok, Carina Lau, and Vivienne Tam (among others) are honored as "Fun, Fearless, and Female." I am somehow in attendance. The only decent gift-bag gift is a (full-sized) bottle of Bailey's. Later that evening at Dragon-i (Hong Kong's boring nightspot for beautiful people), everyone is busy smashing their ego into everyone else's face, while Vivienne Tam sits back quietly in her sparkly coat and eats lemon wedges from a glass of hot water. Sheer elegance.
[For more comprehensive HK celebrity gossip than I could ever muster, check out Daily Baseless Blah, which every few days culls the best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) of Chinese entertainment journalism and translates it into English. In the latest posting the Daily's "chaffing editor"(?) covers the Golden Horse Awards (Taiwan's Oscars), typical Canto-pop teeny-bop delirium (Deep Ng Ho Hong breakdancing, Edison Chen surprise-guesting an Eason Chan concert, the rumor that Bobo Chan Man Woon has been dropped by her record label), and Andy Lau Tak-Wah's father's struggle with prostrate cancer.]
5) On the flip side, I'm just a few ungraded papers away from completing my first term as a university teacher. Bizarre.
6) And I must finish grading papers hou fai, because my parents arrive in HK this Friday and we are going to Shanghai next Wednesday. The Culp Family Christmas is always wacky-- who knows what it will be like in China.
7) Just wanted to leave you with a perfect hippo from a 60's French children's book. This is my new visual philosophy.
1) Finally watched Untold Scandal last week-- saucily elegant. Why can't all soft-core porn be adaptations of Les Liasons Dangereux set in 18th-century Korea?
2) The People's Liberation Army has a new winter uniform!
3) Hong Kong school children still have the same uniform (and they leave it out to dry on the side of a bright orange building?)
4) Last week, Cosmopolitan Hong Kong celebrated its 20th anniversary with a huge party on Victoria Peak. Karen Mok, Carina Lau, and Vivienne Tam (among others) are honored as "Fun, Fearless, and Female." I am somehow in attendance. The only decent gift-bag gift is a (full-sized) bottle of Bailey's. Later that evening at Dragon-i (Hong Kong's boring nightspot for beautiful people), everyone is busy smashing their ego into everyone else's face, while Vivienne Tam sits back quietly in her sparkly coat and eats lemon wedges from a glass of hot water. Sheer elegance.
[For more comprehensive HK celebrity gossip than I could ever muster, check out Daily Baseless Blah, which every few days culls the best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) of Chinese entertainment journalism and translates it into English. In the latest posting the Daily's "chaffing editor"(?) covers the Golden Horse Awards (Taiwan's Oscars), typical Canto-pop teeny-bop delirium (Deep Ng Ho Hong breakdancing, Edison Chen surprise-guesting an Eason Chan concert, the rumor that Bobo Chan Man Woon has been dropped by her record label), and Andy Lau Tak-Wah's father's struggle with prostrate cancer.]
5) On the flip side, I'm just a few ungraded papers away from completing my first term as a university teacher. Bizarre.
6) And I must finish grading papers hou fai, because my parents arrive in HK this Friday and we are going to Shanghai next Wednesday. The Culp Family Christmas is always wacky-- who knows what it will be like in China.
7) Just wanted to leave you with a perfect hippo from a 60's French children's book. This is my new visual philosophy.
2 Comments:
That should be Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Liaisons is feminine.
Kass.
What did you think of Untold Scandal? Or more specifically, of Bae Yong-jun? He starred in this Korean drama/romance series called "The Winter Sonata" which gained explosive popularity in Japan. Japanese women have fallen ga-ga over him and given him the honorary nickname "Yon-Sama." His role in the series is supposedly the impetus behind a huge cultural interest in Korea among the Japanese. Admittedly, I watched the sappy series and fell in love with him too ;)
- Vinh
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