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Tag Archives: HK
Anime-Comic-Game Hong Kong (ACGHK) 2009
I have never before found myself immersed in something so utterly foreign and bizarre. The manga fans I know in the States are mere wannabes compared to the 600,000 plus enthusiasts who flocked to this year’s ACGHK sporting imitation M41 carbines, full sets of samurai armor with matching katanas, and hair of every conceivable unnatural color under the sun.
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Tai Mo Shan, Done
A sign reading "No Trespassing," a ten foot high fence wrapping all the way around, barbed wire everywhere? Sounds like an unambiguous invitation to me.
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“It’s like all the Mexicans in NYC just stopped working one day.”
Imagine every Sunday all the Mexicans in NYC with low-skilled jobs stop working, go to Wall Street or Times Square, and just throw one big street party.
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HK Ivy Ball 2009 – Take Two
I have been challenged to rewrite my previous post, which may have come off as a one-sided and unpleasant diatribe to those who actually attended the Ivy Ball. Since I am not one to let a challenge go unanswered, I present to you a different, yet truthful, rendition of the same sequence of events.
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HK Ivy Ball 2009
Ivy Ball is a social extravaganza for Ivy League alumni who live in Hong Kong. Every summer, hundreds of men in tuxedos and women in evening gowns enter the Grand Hyatt ballroom, which overlooks the harbor on land reclaimed from the sea, for professional networking and auditory/gustatory entertainment.
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Citadels of the Almighty Dollar
HK has at least a dozen Swarovski stores, Armani shops selling not only clothes but even books and flower arrangements, and a Louis Vuitton-sponsored art exhibition at the HK Museum of Art (raising too many disturbing questions than this post can address).
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What Is a Trowel?
troweling: using a trowel, digging a hole, pooping, wipe with leaf, then refill the hole.
Massive, Harmonious Madness
A day spent experiencing HK's is enough to put any urban-dwelling American to shame.
CEO HK Interns
Here are some additional flattering pictures of the CEO contingent.
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Kowloon Tong
All that's missing now is a towel elephant with complimentary chocolate mint for eyes eagerly waiting to greet me when I return from work.
Why I Wouldn’t Live in Hong Kong