Entertainment/Reviews

Time To Face The Book

After endless pestering from my friend Sarah, I’ve finally jumped on the Facebook bandwagon. I’m not a huge fan of social networking sites, mostly as I’ve just been over exposed to them. From back in the day when my friends were on Campus Kiss, and then migrated to Friendster and MySpace and now they all …

April 9, 2007
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Aprilfoolery with Chinese characteristics

Sorry for anyone that spent any amount of time searching China Daily for that article I referenced yesterday. As you may have noticed, it was tough to find… Despite having “claims” on inventing numerous things, baseball is most likely not one of them and the story is completely fabricated (as some of you seemed to …

April 2, 2007
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Chinese Invented Baseball

It’s hard to take this recent article, found on China Daily, seriously. Baseball a Chinese invention (Xinhua) Updated: 2007-04-01 08:35 Though long thought to have evolved from the UK-created rounders, new evidence suggests that the sport of baseball’s origins extend back nearly 500 years to China’s Ming Dynasty (c1368-1644). Li Gang, of the National Council …

April 1, 2007
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Conversations With 小i

No friends? No problem. John, at Sinosplice, has got an interesting post about a new little Chinese netizen called 小i, China’s first chat bot, who will happily be your chat partner. The little unisex critter offers up some quick responses to nearly anything you ask of it. John references Roddy’s post at Chinese-Forums.com, incidentally, a …

March 23, 2007
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Media Machine, Meet Thy Master

Sean’s LLW post, “TV-Condom Nation“, got me thinking about how great living in China can be sometimes. As the only TV I watch is via entire seasons on DVD, I miss out on all the sensationalist news that is piped into most Western homes like so much sewage. I talked a bit about “pull media” …

March 22, 2007
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Dickhead of the Day Award

Some quick facts: 10 people die on British Airways flights each year (I assume this is a statistic that is mirrored in other airlines, and doesn’t have something to do with the food). One such person was a woman flying economy with her daughter from Delhi to London. Planes are small, contained tubes hurtling at …

March 20, 2007
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Mao E’Gao

Apparently there’s an “artistic” (expect a lot of bunny-eared quotes in this post) revolution taking over the Chinese Internet – and I’ve indirectly been a) promoting it, and b) adding to it. Crap. TaiTai over at Sinocidal pointed me to a horribly written piece of “journalism” from Xinhua (big surprise) that explains the “new art …

January 25, 2007
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Christmas Spirit

Christmas Spirit: n. An essentially altruistic approach to oral sex adopted by ladies who believe it is better to give than to receive. ie. ‘Henry rather liked his new bird as she displayed the Christmas spirit in abundance, noshing him off three times a day and never asking for anything in return.’ That rather profane …

December 21, 2006
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Tenacious Me!

Alright, this is got NOTHING to do with China, but it has everything to do with Jack Black – and surely China needs to appreciate JB a bit more. As do the rest of you! I've been a fan of JB since seeing High Fidelity a few years ago, but I didn't KNOW JB until …

December 12, 2006
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Infernal Affairs vs. The Departed

I just finished watching The Departed, Martin Scorsese's latest bloodbath. It was, as expected, great. For all the flack he gets, I think DiCaprio is easily one of the most talented actors of his generation. No stranger to violent Scorsese films, he fit right into the part of an in-deep undercover cop slowly losing his …

November 20, 2006
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I’d Like To Thank The Academy

There's just something more "real" about British future-world/post-apocalyptic movies. I think it's the drab, muted colours of the country itself that lend a very plausible tone to the films. Logan's Run, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, 28 Days Later and now Children of Men are all movies I enjoyed greatly and I am a man …

November 20, 2006
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