For most of the people I know Hong Kong is a glorified glitzy shopping mall, all big shiny buildings where you shop, eat, and sleep, waking only to do it all over again; this is perhaps punctuated by complaints about feet worn sore from citizens used to a much less pedestrian friendly city. Visiting Hong Kong as often as I have however has since ( Read more... )

Charlie Kaufman: There was this time in high school. I was watching you out the library window. You were talking to Sarah Marsh ( Read more... )

I have been to the first rehearsal for the new repertory philippines musical I got into, workshopped with SPIT in preparation for our uber busy christmas season (so many private gigs we can't even do our regular high street gigs till january!) and had my toe stepped on and bloodied at the amber superlounge during my first gig ever with the Brigada ( Read more... )

I largely enjoyed 500 Days of Summer; I thought it was at times extremely funny (the pretentious art flicks sendup culminating in the Ingmar Bergman mashup comes readily to mind), mostly sincere and very affecting ( Read more... )

For my last birthday I resolved to spend sitting quietly in my new apartment sipping wine as the clock struck midnight, reveling in my newfound freedom and (relative) independence. It made a wonderful contrast to the large party I jointly celebrated with my kaberk Altair (the only reason I'd even consider holding a large celebration ( Read more... )

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What happened to all the nice guys?2 ( Read more... )

Psychological projection (or projection bias) is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are ascribed to the outside world, like the weather, the government, a tool or another person or people. Projection is one of the most profound and subtle of human psychological processes, and extremely ( Read more... )

http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_(The_Culture)

"Can you tell me about this city ( Read more... )

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About halfway through; figured I should run through it so as to better answer all the smarmy smug atheists in class. Am hoping to get through all this research without losing it myself; we'll see.