I am currently spending a couple of days in HK, organising my resident visa for TW. Then Sunday afternoon, a large-ish earthquake knocks the cranes off the top of the half-built 53-storey new financial center, just around the corner from where I used to live on Jenai Rd. (Sorry Tom – architect on the project and friend – a new bit of PR is needed on this one!) It is to be the tallest building in the world. This event reminds me vividly of when best bud Nina escaped the Sept. 27 quake of ’99 by one day. Yeah, that one was bigger by far, 7.6 and 2,400 deaths, but current word from TPE is that this one was one scary ride too. I’m back in TPE tomorrow, ready for rockin’ and aftershockin’. Egads.
Category: Mental Notes
Mental Notes: March 2002
From a March 1998 posting on a Humbug bulletin board:
Mental Notes: March 2002
TAIPEI–room needed ASAP chungsiao e-hsinyi-guangfu-fushing e area.
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Mental Notes: February 2002
TAIWAN–It puts it all into perspective for those who swallowed the dream. Luckily, I wasn’t one.
Mental Notes: February 2002
TAIWAN–Hijinks in Kenting… the crew takes main street to stage an impromptu dance party in a total traffic jam, which is always fun. Then the cops came. Grab your ponytails and see the video. Note three other new vids too.
Mental Notes: February 2002
TAIWAN–The Taipei Times has got the jump on me: I wanted to see the Hello Kitty Ninja Show first! The bizarre touring show, from Japan’s Harmony Theater Group and certified by Sanrio, is being performed in Taipei until Feb. 10 then to Chungshan University in Kaohsiung until Feb. 15. Mental notes: see the show; and try and interview this (obviously) mad genius Saito Toyoji, the writer and director, who has Kitty and Krew battling a devil, inspired by 911. Curiouser… Kitty comes alive, Taipei Times, Feb. 8.
Mental Notes: February 2002
TAIWAN–For decades now, Hong Kong’s Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) has been at the forefront of Chinese language television programming and the veritable engine behind most of the entertainment industry, notably Hong Kong’s enormous film empire and gregarious star system. TK GUSH ABOUT HOW BIG IT IS
Mental Notes: January 2002
AUSTRALIA (satirewire.com)–After what witnesses described as an all night blinder during which it kept droning on about how it was always being bloody ignored by the whole bloody world and would bloody well stand to do something about it, Australia this morning woke up to find itself in the middle of the North Atlantic.
Mental Notes: January 2002
TAIWAN–While the Chu Mei-feng VCD saga has been rattling the bedposts of Taiwan’s citizens for well over a month now, the repercussions of the former Hsinchu City Cultural Affairs Bureau chief’s brazen – and by all accounts admirable – sexual performance in the 40-minute liaison, continues to do what centuries of foreign perversion has failed to accomplish – get the Chinese talking openly, and mostly vividly, about sex.
Mental Notes May 1998
PERTH–More a placeholder for one great artifact rather than a post, here’s the departing party flyer for one or two of the Goats of Joy in May 1998.
