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Mad week

September 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s been rather crazy the past week.
There was major pitch going on, one worth quite a big sum of money. So big that they had the regional guys flown in. But there were too many cooks wanting to cook the broth, so we couldn’t start drawing the storyboards until the night BEFORE the pitch.
Everybody was [...]

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Tags: music · shanghai · shanghai work

Must go for at least one!

September 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Question is, which one? I can’t afford them all
Grammy Award-winning jazz maestros Al Jarreau and George Benson are performing in Shanghai this Saturday. Cheapest ticket RMB 480 (RM 240). Post edit: Cheaper tickets sold out. Only RMB 880 and above available.

Diana Krall is coming soon on October 9th.
Cheapest ticket RMB 500 [...]

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Tags: music · shanghai

Nice weekend

August 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The gang came over on Friday for dinner. It was quite impromptu but it was fun to have them over, cooking and chatting and laughing and eating. Made simple stuff like choy boh with mince pork, some blanched broccoli, kung pao chicken (the real deal of course, with szechuan peppercorns).
Saturday morning, went apartment hunting with [...]

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Tags: cooking · food · friends · music · shanghai · shanghai food · yongfu lu

Dong dong chang in summertime!

July 11th, 2008 · No Comments

It was between spending some hard-earned (don’t you laugh) Renminbi on Hairspray the Musical (from the US of A), or to catch a performance so strange I may not see it again. Guess which I decided to go for tonight?
When Jazz meets Kunqu features China’s prince of Kunqu (not Kungfu) Jeffery Zhang and Jean Maljean, [...]

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Tags: chocolate · music · shanghai