i'm not sure if i posted this story before. but it's funny. and it comes up every year for my moms birthday because she has two birthdays. her birthday is december 17th of the lunar calendar of her birth year. we never knew what her "normal people" calendar was until i was in my late teens, in college even. and so one day in mid january, i get a call from esther, "wtf is wrong with you! you are a bad son! it's your moms birthday and you didn't even call!! she just told me when i called your house phone"
"uhhh....it must be december 17th on the lunar calendar today. a calendar i don't check at all...that's what you get when your mom is a diva and demands two birthday celebrations in one year..."
last year we spent her birthday in taiwan together. she wished for the same things. good health. happy family. dads health. son and daughter good work. son and daughter get married and have kids. though last year wasn't so pushy about that. this year, she's making these same comments all over facebook. all while forwarding proverbs and life stories via email.
happy birthday mom.
how does a chef hate eggs? hate the taste of eggs? how does a chef not like the raw whole animal? how does that happen??
and so 中天 was interviewing pig n pepper and we were invited to be one of the guests interviewed and filmed. sunkai used this opportunity to slap WERD stickers for free publicity. and i turned this opportunity to get caught checking out the reporter and pimping myself out on tv. single ladies? holler at this number. kkkk.
"i too want to be a slumlord"
Taiwan Largest Roll
單人挑戰45分鐘吃完,阿Ｊo 請你吃！
It’s a challenge!! If you finished in 45minutes, Jo will buy your roll for “FREEEEEEEEEEEE”
i'm cutting down my alcohol intake...but i somehow manage to have breakfast beers with you anyways...
Northern California Inspired Sushi? WTF is that shit? i'd be embarrassed by that name and the restaurant concept...GAH. this is a party roll joint opened by some sacramento abc's calling it california sushi with korean influence (whatever that means). it's basically rolls that white people would eat made at your local barnes n noble, starbucks, shop rite, arcade, where mexicans make the rolls and the overweight gotee in a button down and sand-washed jeans drowns them in soy sauce and swallows them whole. it's located in an area where the food challenge roll might work. 2500 NT to finish a goliath roll in under 45 minutes. food not memorable tho with endless sake, an older crowd, bi lingual lesbians and abc's, it kind of turned into a great night.
"people go for the food and come back for the hospitality" - danny meyer...
勇者挑戰 Warriorz Challenge
台灣最大壽司捲 …............................................................................ 2.5k
Taiwan Largest Roll
單人挑戰45分鐘吃完,阿Ｊo 請你吃！
It’s a challenge!! If you finished in 45minutes, Jo will buy your roll for “FREEEEEEEEEEEE”
hopefully i will be alive for another 50 years. and i don't see a problem continuing to work through 50 years albeit seems that i'm continually mired in leisure. and so i wonder how to strategically place myself in the next decades to come. live in asia? yes. which country? which business lines have the most potential? china is not the china of 20 years ago. a sure correction of chinese markets has come and it's a good time to re-asses the surge in global economica power which surely will be china again, but this time, it will be different.
the rise in fiscal growth has shifted to the east. not just china but asia. watching how east asian countries (korea, japan and ASEAN) align themselves for the next 30 years is a first hand view into how to position yourself for the future. it seems almost yesterday when asia was going through a brain drain where no one wanted to come back, expats needed to be lured to asia with huge stipend packages live in this part of the world. today, i hear companies are now discriminating against the expat as the educated abroad workforce is more than plentiful and the comprehension of asian values is much preferred in any dealings in the east. yes, as china's name means "center of the world", it is proud and looking forward to becoming the number one supremacy in the world but will slowly move forward with precision and peace. (communism is here to stay, americans need not fear it).
by learning from history and the mistakes of japan, china will continue it's industrialization spreading it's wealth and development outside of it's cities. it must rely on the buying power and technological prowess of it's neighbors japan and korea to help increase individual gdp. korea's current rapid growth is why i moved there. they're becoming economic leaders through it's chaebols and even becoming social pop leaders for the asian community. they're squeezing every last ounce of manpower from it's people, politically making china it's best friend, and allying with natural resource rich indonesia to sustain this growth. what i didn't account for was how hard it'd be to find cultural acceptance in korea...and so...i think im moving to jakarta...
Lee (kuan yew) said it was unlikely that China could ever match the US in its ability to innovate, even though the Chinese economy may eventually overtake America. This is because of the lack of free exchange and debate of ideas and thought in the country, he said. This also explains why a country with a population four times that of the US has not — in modern history at least — made any notable breakthroughs in technology, Lee added.
it looks like a mess. that's cuz it is. and it's drenched in this cornstarch gravy that probably helps fill you up. so cheap. dirt cheap. not so tasty. but wow it's cheap.
i failed my platelet tests in elementary school. reds and greens close to each other are a problem for me. and it's really a non issue for everyday life because i can see the actual colors, just not when they're very similar and all dotted closely together. when in life are you ever going to encounter this problem? ANIPANG...and LINEPOP. i'm not very good at either. GAH. the blues and the yellows are more preferred colors while the other colors take longer for my eyes to adjust to. takes a few rounds to warm up. i have to tilt and angle the screen at a certain distance. focus on the bubble expressions and essentially play a probability strategy to successfully pop my way to a semi decent score. GAH. why is it so addicting.
Wired interview with tim o'reilly
Wired: Your new credo these days is “Create more value than you capture.” What does that mean?
Tim O’Reilly: Everybody wants to foster entrepreneurship, but we have to think about the preconditions for entrepreneurship. You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take as much as they can for themselves. And we have a patent and copyright regime that makes sure that nothing goes back into the commons unless by an extraordinary act of generosity. This is not fertile soil for innovation.
So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in. We saw this happen with Microsoft. It started out with a big vision: How do we get a PC on every desk and in every home? It was profoundly democratizing. But when Microsoft got on top, it slowly started choking off the pathways to success for everybody else. It stopped creating more value than it captured.
Wired: You’re a publisher and big reader as well as a technologist. What is the future for books?
O’Reilly: Well, what kind of book do you mean? Because there are many, many things that were put into codices that have no particular reason to be books. Things like paper maps and atlases are just gone. Online dictionaries and online encyclopedias have killed printed dictionaries and encyclopedias. I collect how-to books of various kinds just because I want to have them. And certainly if there were a major disaster, a book could be a useful thing to have. But I don’t really give a shit if literary novels go away. They’re an elitist pursuit. And they’re relatively recent. The most popular author in the 1850s in the US wasn’t Herman Melville writing Moby-Dick, you know, or Nathaniel Hawthorne writing The House of the Seven Gables. It was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writing long narrative poems that were meant to be read aloud. So the novel as we know it today is only a 200-year-old construct. And now we’re getting new forms of entertainment, new forms of popular culture.
Wired: What about the argument that the Internet shortens attention spans and will kill the demand for long books?
O’Reilly: I do think that there are pieces of sustained argument that deserve to be in books, but most extended-argument books are inflated. You know, there are an awful lot of books that are pretty lousy, and I don’t think we need to be pissing and moaning because there are fewer of them. On the other hand, I’m listening now to a wonderful audiobook, The Swerve, about the rediscovery of Lucretius. It’s erudite, it’s well written, and I’m hanging on every word. So I think what will happen to long books is that people will have to get better at writing them.
this samsung s3 camera is absolutely amazing. tons better than the iphone5 camera. s3 phone functions are all up to par so if anything, choose the s3 for the camera. again, amazing. look at this panorama function!!
if you don't care. asia will make you care. and care a lot you will (thanks musee). and as larry explained how he, in short, "counts calories" hence limiting himself to one meal a day, i on the other hand continued to feel hungry pondering every few hundred feet if we should stop and eat at the next food stall. while we walked, i had a few questions for larry like "how do you feel about 自助餐。。。the overall experience, the price, the atmosphere because it absolutely turns me off. i find heated plates to be an incubator of bacteria." and he replies, "yes i like it, for the price, it's a good place to get a good variety of vegetables. get fiber. cleanses the system. like eating 麻辣鍋。 oh man. nothing cleanses your system like 麻辣鍋。 sometimes i'll get it if i feel i need a cleanse. it does a good job"
and for the next two days, not on purpose, i experienced both. i went to 自助餐 and i got a fried chicken leg with my 便當。 while larry would've probably gotten fish. tho the fish did look very unappetizing. 70 元。 c'mon. and continuing, i experienced a dietary cleanse the 2nd day. i got a 麻辣豆腐 takeout. and for the rest of the day i wasn't feeling so comfortable. up until even this morning...
"u know u've been working out a lot when you start touching ur muscles." - and with that quote in mind, it's time to bring back this soundbyte. an oldie but a goodie.
in college, i dormed with larry at the water street residences. victor lived next door with albert wei. albert, a transfer from suny binghamton who grew up in queens and was notorious for his "tough guy-ness" back in the day, had seemingly put that all behind him while he focused on a finance degree from NYU. no matter how erudite he came across, no matter how much he suited up for his internship, no matter how much manhattanite culture he portrayed, we always caught the old albert strutting around the dorm room in a tank top intermittently massaging his pecs (claiming he was sore from working out). breast massaging compounded with his baritone machismo were much more than us stooges could handle and hence this soundbyte impersonation ensued.
http://derpderp.xanga.com/audio/fc85d436809/
http://www.xanga.com/media/xangaaudioembedplayer.swf?c=2&i=436809&m=fc85d
THE RASTA OF SNOOP
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On Being a Role Model
Snoop Dogg: "I probably will become more of a positive image, but that's way down the line; I'm not looking on that page right now. I'm just tryin' to...entertain people. If you don't like it, come and get it." Snoop Lion: "I don't want to speak death no more. When I saw Nate Dogg going in the ground, that shit breaks my heart. I don't ever want to lose nobody else like that, so I try to write life." On Drinking Snoop Dogg: Now, that, I got me some Seagram's gin / Everybody got they cups, but they ain't chipped in / Now this type of shit, happens all the time / You got to get yours but fool I gotta get mine. Snoop Lion: "I had a real bad experience at the Playboy mansion." Someone slipped a roofie in his drink, and "after that, I was like, I ain't drinking no more, because that's how I was able to get got." On Business Snoop Dogg: From a tweet: "Ayo sumbody tell Zuckerberg to holler at me. He n I need go buy a pro sports team tgether." Snoop Lion: "There is only one reason the Nets are in business with Jay-Z: He makes Brooklyn basketball cool. They sorry as fuck; they got all the money, but they don't have cool. They're buying [it] from him." |
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