Archive for September 2008

24 Sep 2008 0904H

White Rabbit candies contain melamine

Tesco is pulling the sweets, which are sold worldwide, found in every Chinatown and not a few non-Chinese supermarkets. Holy cow, no pun intended, this is an enormous problem. White Rabbit is practically one of China’s oldest and strongest brands.

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20 Sep 2008 0812H

The museum fire

Several years ago, working with the emerging Chinatown Museum Foundation, I remember telling them, regarding the building they were about to inherit, that they should establish a relationship with the national archives, or with the Chicago History Museum, or a local university or college, and not store anything of historic value inside that building in [...]

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18 Sep 2008 1326H

I read the news today, oh boy

From the Sun-Times this morning:

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18 Sep 2008 1009H

Excuse me?

Probably being baited here, but, as a resident of a Chinatown, I kind of take offense when I read this sort of thing:
Along with shopping malls, petrol stations and branches of McDonalds, the old China Town renders all of our cities boring and alike. It is nothing more than restaurant streets and fake traditional buildings [...]

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17 Sep 2008 1751H

Considering the lobster

By now everyone’s heard that David Foster Wallace is dead, by his own hand. He was an extremely bright light in contemporary American writing, probably made all the more brighter by the fact his life was so short. Take a gander at his essay, “Consider the Lobster,” for Gourmet magazine in 2004:
The point is that [...]

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16 Sep 2008 2100H

Can someone explain to me…

the Seinfeld Gates commercials? Cause I really just. Don’t. Get. It.

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16 Sep 2008 1100H

Oh no you di’n't

By way of the LA Times Blogs’ Countdown to Crawford:
Now comes Dick Armey, once House Majority Leader, who described a classified one-on-one briefing in the vice president’s hideaway office in the U.S. Capitol where he says Vice President Dick Cheney went beyond that into outright deception.
Yet why do I feel he is only slightly [...]

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16 Sep 2008 0712H

Happy (belated) Mid-Autumn Festival

Was yesterday, technically Sunday (since it’s a day ahead in Asia). Go out and look at the moon, have a mooncake, maybe play a few rounds of mah jongg.

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16 Sep 2008 0648H

I’m not so sure

the collapse of Lehman is such a bad thing altogether. I-bankers are notorious for working ridiculous hours, for which they were compensated quite handsomely, and maybe now they face a kind of involuntary unpaid vacation of indefinite duration, perhaps they might put their amassed resources into work, since they never had time to make use [...]

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15 Sep 2008 0918H

I have a modest proposal

Been saying this for years now. Let’s just catch ‘em and eat ‘em.

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