January 2010
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“If I just breathe in and fill the space between I’ll know that everything...”
– Michelle Branch - Breathe
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Music Playlist for Week of February 1st, '10
The great thing about HK is that it really never gets too cold. There might be a few days here and there where the temperature drops to around the upper 40s and 50s (7 - 13 degrees celsius). But generally, it’s pretty nice and warm out here.
Having a rooftop at my apartment affords me the opportunity to throw some kick a- parties and BBQs. As you know I love BBQs. And what good would a BBQ...
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Another Wickedly Awesome Dream featuring the...
My alarm went off at 7:30am this morning, but I kept pressing the snooze button so that I can finish this dream. That’s how awesome it was.
Apparently, my family was the official guardian of the Maharaja’s diamond, which has been laid hidden for hundreds of years! We were a highly trained and skilled fighting bunch. One day, someone that we knew and were close to revealed that they...
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Amount I Owe to Charity for Abused Women-...
As some of you may remember, I made a new year’s resolution where I will no longer pretend to hit on girls all of the time, and pretend to talk as if I like them by making references to us being together. This includes:
Pretending to hit on girls
Intentionally flirting with girls
Making references of me hooking up with girls
Making any sort of enuendos
say anything along the lines of...
no one should go broke just for going to college. #stateoftheunion
I’m glad someone is finally believing that green energy is the next boom industry. been saying it for years! Go O!
listening to President Obama’s state of the union address. and I must say, I’m enjoy listening to him a lot more than Bush. Go O!
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thanks to everyone who voted (and I know a lot of you did) in the cute baby contest. He (Andrew) won! He can now go to school. Thanks!
You Got Me
“If you were worried ‘bout where I been or who I saw or what club I went to with my homies baby don’t worry you know that you got me” - Erykah Badu/Jill Scott on The Roots Track You Got Me
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The problem with caffeine and other Google updates...
The big problem that I have with Google’s Caffeine update and their other updates to their search algorithm, is that they don’t have an option to display searches from a non-local search query. Here’s the scenario, I’m looking for some online tech updates in blogging, social media, etc. Basically, I’m looking for something new. But here’s the thing, Google has...
I suppose it’s about time to finally get some work done this week. it’s 4:30pm on friday.
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House Warming Wishlist and Donate to Haiti Relief
I’m having a house warming party next saturday (2pm) at my apartment. Below is my wishlist for those who wish to purchase something. Though it’s totally not necessary. It’s just a list of things that I’ve been meaning to get but haven’t had time to get (i.e. toilet paper) or I just don’t know where to get it (i.e. wire brush for BBQ grill). Please leave a...
Postcards from Abroad
This post is for all of my friends abroad back in the states or somewhere else in the world that’s not Hong Kong (or China). If you would like, please email me your address and I will send to you a postcard from all of the way out here in HK. I was feeling a bit inspired by the Christmas and Birthday Cards that I received from my dear friends:
Diane C, Katie W, Alice R(oommate) - @awong718,...
who #ishotr? jennifer aniston or @johncmayer
can anyone recommend a good lounge similar to Habitat in QRE (Wan Chai)? looking to host a bday party for a friend. @timeouthk
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seems like a quiet day on twitter…anything interesting happening tonight?
#NowPlaying Ra Ra Riot’s Oh La on myspace. Wish imeem worked still…stupid Murdoch.
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Your Weekend Update BMak- Jan 16, '10
Here is your weekend update:
Friday: Attended a Protest with local bands at chater park, that got out a little out of hand the next day:
Saturday: Green day concert with Stan and Rhonda. Paid for nose bleeds tickets, and snuck onto the ground floor. Moshed my way to the front. Stan crowd surfed it. Sweaty un-deodorized people everywhere. I still smell them…(sad…)
Sunday: Bought...
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My Wickedly Awesome Dream featuring Beer Pong and...
And it goes a little something like this:
I got back to my house (in Long Island) where all of my friends were hanging out. The house looked a little different, but it was definitely my house. Aileen and Joanna had just finished playing beer pong where Joanna won. I yelped that I wanted to play, and Aileen (in her Aileen voice…) screamed, “OK! BRIAN PLAYS NEXT…”
So...
so for a HK$3000 (US$400) deposit, I can get a phone plan w/o HK ID…should I do it? it’s kind of dough. T-pain app…so close, yet so far
dear life and world, you are about to get rocked! @victa_co I’m taking boxing classes from Mike Tyson.
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“I’d be geeked when she come around”
– Common Sense I Used to Love H.E.R.
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“We only got 86 - 400 seconds in a day to
turn it all around or throw it all...”
– Kris Allen Live Like We’re Dying
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#youknowurfat when your work shirts you wore last yr pre-unemployment are feeling tight around the tummy during ur post-unemployment job
i either I still have paint on my hands from y’days art jam session, or it’s the sauce from my lunch…
did my first “art jamming” y’day w/ K.A.M. 2.0 at a studio in Wan Chai. It was a great time. totally cheap - only HK$580 for the both of us
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But to her it sounds like home...
“…And all the colors look like fireworks, In skies she knew before
And nights can’t hide the day Then the tears roll down her face And the lights so high, that’s she’s dying to say ‘Just take me away’
But the fog just sits like blankets And it’s drowning out the glow You can hear voices loud and singing out, A song nobody knows But to her it...
still alive but i’m barely breathing…SO…T-I-R-E-D!!!
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Hong Kong is a Hang Out Paradise
and pretty much that’s it.
The other day, Vicki, Kim, and I were having lunch at one of my fav restaurants in NY - Bar Pitti. Vicki was giving Kim some heat about Kim not having any interest in visiting Hong Kong. Vicki said, “OMG Kim…you HAVE to go! You won’t know unless you go.” This got me thinking about about why people would want to come to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong...
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Music Playlist for Week of January 11th, '10
Back from my 10-day holiday trip home in New York (City, Queens, Brooklyn, and Long Island included), I come back bringing a fresh set of tunes for my first playlist of 2010. Happy New Year, everyone!
It was a nice trip filled with family, friends, singing (karaoke), and a very unexpected and outright unnecessary short trip to a somewhat fervent past…revelations ensue - more on that and my...
#musicmonday #nowplaying my playlist for this week http://bit.ly/4ri0oH
Nice Guy Michael Cera gets a guide hair blowout courtesy of Jersey Shore’s DJ Pauly D http://bit.ly/7l550N
help my baby nephew win money for education. Details are here: http://bmak.tumblr.com
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Help my nephew win the Cutest Kid of the Year...
(He’s the one pictured on the left)
Click on the following link http://www.facebook.com/bigcitymoms and click on the “Become a Fan” button.
Then go to the following link:http://bit.ly/6rPcoR and add a comment voting for “Andrew” under the main album page - not under his actual picture.
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Boys and Girls - Friends, Lovers, or Bust
Relations between close boys and girls friends is kind of a difficult and tricky thing. Christina said years ago that boys and girls can’t be great friends without one liking the other at some point in time. And while I disagreed with her at the time and still do, I do believe that there will be some level of attraction between the two. And so it is the responsibility of both people to tread...
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“omg! I’m like totally in like with him…”
– Ashley
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I got fatter since starting work...
And this is why: Every morning, this fresh, sweet, warm, chewy, little motherf-er of a Pineapple Bun stares at me in the face every time I walk past the Taipan Chinese bakery in my building right before I hit the escalators.
It sits there, looking at me, taunting me saying “EAT ME! EAT ME! EAT MY BUTTERY SWEET CRUST!…Brian…I love you…”
And now I’m fat…
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“I guess when you’re young you just believe there’ll be many people with whom...”
– Before Sunset (via oldfilmsflicker) (via youuuarewhatyoulove) (via nokindofelegance)
Ask me anything
I just put up a new Q&A section in my blog. Basically, it’s a chance for you to ask me anything. I’ll try my best to answer.
Doubt anyone will ask. But I figured that I would put it up because last time I was home people kept asking me questions about HK and my life out here.
Anyway, if you feel like it, ask me a question. =)
http://bmak.tumblr.com/ask
i want the Nexus One. Exciting…it’s supposed to work in HK! Yay us! but it’s
US$580 wtf! that’s DOUGH!
