Archive for July, 2006
It’ll only get hotter now…
Today wasn’t too bad - hitting 90-odd degrees F, although the so-called real feel temperature was some 5 to 7 degrees more. Otherwise, I took my sort-of vacation, without leaving town…
–> Saw “Superman Returns” yesterday. Okay movie. Well done, in that art-y sense, evoking memories of the Christopher Reeve series. Major [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Fly away ..
Catching up on some blogging now at the Dynasty Lounge in Jakarta international airport before heading back to TPE. Been on the road now for 8 days, KUL -> SIN -> CGK (Jakarta Airport code). Glad to have missed the Typhoon up north but the weather down here has not been normal either. [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2006 under En route.
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It’s Getting Hot Here
I can take the heat; but not the humidity. The insane rainstorm isn’t any better. At least the high temperature wasn’t there today, but next week will be a scorcher…
More summer reading: C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters - wherein Screwtape, a certain high level official of the Underworld, writes letters to his nephew, [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Teabag
Went to the Teabag NYC Film Show yesterday with P to support one of my friends. He was showing the intro to a movie that they want to produce, “Pretty to Think So”, and promoting the DVD to their documentary on the Korean/Chinese party scene in New York, “Party“. Good stuff.
Afterwards, went to Jaya, a [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Taking the New York out of NYT?
I think that the whole point of the New York Times is to give a New York view of the world, and a world view of New York. Otherwise, it might as well be USA Today with the Life magazine insert.
In this week’s New York Times Magazine, there is an article celebrating Gazpacho, when [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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