The good the bad and the beautiful

My week started out like CRAP. I blame it on the rain and.... global warming! The rain finally stopped Thursday and that's when things started getting better.

Thank goodness for friends, and retail therapy.

Weekend:

Friday night, Wendy and I went to The Fringe Club for Listen Up! I really appreciate what this place is trying to do, the whole giving new artists a stage to perform on, gallery space to show work..etc etc. We checked out their gallery space. What's funny is that there were paintings for sale, actual price tags next to all the pieces (there were big paintings for 8000HKD). To me that's a little awkward and kind of cuts down the...should I say "warmth" of the whole place. When I was walking around it felt like they were trying to do everything at the same time. Obviously a recent art school graduate doesn't want to make "starving artist" as their profession...and this is giving them a chance to make some dough to pay the rent. But pricing the paintings like shoes for sale — at a place that's supposed to be encouraging — is "cold".

Anyhow, here's a band that performed. Can't remember their name. We saw 2 of the 3 performances and this band was the better of the two...just an opinion.





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Saturday I went computer hunting. It's finally time to replace my Powerbook G4, she's been with me for the past 4 years through thick and thin. I've dropped her numerous times, she's been sent to "the station" 3 times and now she's begging me to let her go. You can get a pretty good deal for a Macbook Pro here. All hail for tax-free HK!

I saw The Incredible Hulk!! Reminds me of...
Anyway, it was 1000x better than the first one! But that's because my favorite actor is in it! Edward Norton is the epitome of the perfect man to me. The sad eyes, the dark hair, the way he talks, the script writing, the directing, the environmental activism, educated. I love the roles he chooses to play. Fight Club, Norton beats Brad Pitt by farrr.



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An afternoon with Olivia, at Cafe Epoch, then some shopping at Pacific Place and IFC...
I really enjoyed Epoch when I first arrived in HK. It's worst weekday lunchtimes when its filled with men in suits and it becomes a big and chatty corporate meeting room. Best at night, for dessert, when it's most quiet, right before they close.













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I'll be in Shenzhen for most of next week. Ah why is everything so hard?? ...
Must be global warming.