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  • June 6th, 2006

    Here’s an article on Adam Block [nytimes.com], the celebrity restaurant manager/opportunist who will be bringing Thomas Keller and a couple of other renowned chefs into Singapore’s new Marina Bay Integrated Resort development, developed by the Las Vegas Sands corporation. Block was also largely responsible for the celebrity chef restaurant explosion in Las Vegas itself.

    But are satellite restaurants, where chefs spends a couple of weeks out of a year roaming the kitchen tasting (not creating), any good at all? This corresponding article [nytimes.com] published today declares that the sex is almost always missing. Even Gordon Ramsay has bollocksed it up. But how well can you train sous-chefs and staff to recreate Michelin star work? In Singapore?

    Mark Bittman concludes by saying only Joel Robuchon has succeeded in maintaining quality:

    [He] achieves this with a team of four people who have been with him for 20 years or more. Most multirestaurant chefs claim they’re operating the same way, with a training “team” and a surplus of talented underlings who are poised to move to Las Vegas, Hong Kong or even Dubai — and who will open their own restaurants if they aren’t promoted. Some of Robuchon’s team will accompany him to New York this summer, when he plans to open another L’Atelier, in the Four Seasons Hotel.Neither my brilliant meals at Robuchon nor my irksome ones at Ducasse, however, are representative; most operations lie somewhere in between.

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  • Overheard at the PC show

    June 3rd, 2006

    Salesman hawking off-brand videocorders that take interpolated 11mp pictures:

    [These can take up to] 11 megapixels! This is one of the most megapixel in the… (pause while thinking)… technology today!

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  • Bus Uncle video

    June 3rd, 2006

    Companion news story here: Video of grumpy Hong Kong man scolding fellow bus rider becomes Internet hit

    This thing has become a massive remix/joke phenomenon, even outside of Hong Kong. Youtube has scores of song remixes from techno to rap, incorporating soundbites from the older man, and apparently his phrase, “it’s not settled” (x3) has become a catchphrase on the streets of Hong Kong. Personally I’d like to beat his face in, but he acts like a triad member.

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  • Summer’s Eve Ad

    June 3rd, 2006


    Summer’s Eve Ad
    Originally uploaded by sangsara.

    “For intimate cleansing in between.”

    I must meet the team behind this ad. Clearly there is much I have yet to learn. What a brilliant intersection of art and copy direction!!

    (By the way, I’ve finally renewed my flickr pro account.)

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  • New bag

    June 1st, 2006

    Bigger than a timbuk2 Small, smaller than a Medium. Dimensions are quite close to timbuk2’s Medium but the holding volume is a lot less (14 litres vs 22 litres; Small holds 12 litres). I was going to buy from timbuk2’s excellent online store, but USD$50 for shipping is a little too much.

    I basically bought it to hold two smaller bags, which were too small to justify carrying my Fux Deluxe around for:
    + !=

    Hmm.

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  • Sometimes I pity these friends of mine

    May 27th, 2006

    9:49:05 PM friend: hello
    9:49:05 PM friend: i want beer
    9:49:14 PM brandon: now?
    9:49:16 PM brandon: let’s go
    9:49:17 PM friend: and i feel uber grumpy
    9:49:26 PM friend: cos someone stole my white sandals
    9:49:28 PM friend: *cries
    9:50:13 PM brandon: how did they get stolen
    9:50:25 PM friend: from my door
    9:50:31 PM brandon: maybe accident
    9:50:40 PM friend: accident??
    9:50:49 PM friend: our doorways are very far apart
    9:50:50 PM friend: fuckers
    9:51:19 PM brandon: =(
    9:51:21 PM brandon: maybe a dog!
    9:51:45 PM friend: hello
    9:51:53 PM brandon: hello
    9:51:56 PM friend: it can’t be a dog
    9:52:05 PM brandon: oh you have proof?
    9:52:05 PM friend: this floor has no dogs
    9:52:16 PM brandon: dogs can climb stairs!
    9:52:30 PM brandon: ok don’t feel bad
    9:52:35 PM brandon: how about you imagine
    9:52:52 PM brandon: a little girl with leukemia
    9:52:57 PM brandon: was walking barefoot
    9:53:08 PM brandon: home from the hospital
    9:53:14 PM brandon: her parents just passed away
    9:53:17 PM brandon: and she doesn’t know yet
    9:53:19 PM brandon: nobody told her
    9:53:23 PM brandon: so poor thing
    9:53:29 PM brandon: she didn’t have money to pay the bills
    9:53:34 PM brandon: so she snuck off from the hospital
    9:53:40 PM brandon: to die alone in her family home
    9:53:46 PM brandon: along the way, her feet were bleeding
    9:53:47 PM friend: …
    9:53:51 PM brandon: and an intelligent dog
    9:53:55 PM brandon: took pity on her
    9:53:58 PM brandon: and stole your shoes
    9:54:03 PM brandon: what floor do you live on?
    9:54:14 PM brandon: the dog climbed x number of stairs to get them
    9:54:17 PM brandon: the dog is also very old
    9:54:21 PM friend: stoppit
    9:54:24 PM brandon: and risked cardiac arrest by doing so
    9:54:29 PM friend: my anger is the only way i can get over it
    9:54:32 PM friend: pissed!!
    9:54:35 PM brandon: anyway it has a happy ending, she has slippers now and she’s going home to die
    9:54:44 PM brandon: fuck i think i’m going to cry
    9:54:47 PM brandon: brb
    9:54:51 PM friend: idiot
    9:55:07 PM brandon: i’m not kidding!
    9:55:29 PM brandon: ok back
    9:57:53 PM brandon: how do you feel now
    9:57:58 PM friend: sian

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