Posts categorised as Sweet
I went to the launch of the new MINI Cooper R56 and my friend Dane took these video clips of Russ Swift, one of the world’s best stunt drivers, showing what you can do if you turn the ABS off.
“Dancing” to Queen
Parallel Parking in less than 2 seconds
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I couldn’t access my blog from China so I haven’t been able to post about my time in Shanghai until now.
What an amazing city. Here is my summary of what to expect in Shanghai.
There is an amazing energy to the place that is difficult to explain.
Two entire city blocks of traditional Shanhai houses completely restored and renovated into a smart area of shops, bars and restaurants. Avoid the German pub/restaurant though, food.
Beautiful fine dining restaurant overlooking the Bund. Right next door to the more famous M on Bund. Food is as good as anywhere in the world. There are also two very good bars attached for drinks before and after. We spent New Years Eve there and had an amazing time.
This is apparently the biggest in the world and is very cool. Allow plenty of time to get around as it takes awhile. I saw some crazy things I never knew existed. Check these guys out!
The Magnetic Levitation Train from Shanghai Airport (Pu Dong) is the first of its kind and very fast. It got up to 426 KPH when I was on it. It unfortunately stops well short of the centre of town but you get the Metro the rest of the way which while not as fast is extremely easy and costs about US$0.40 for a single ticket.
I didn’t go but the missus came back with four handbags and was very happy.
Two tailor made suits for US$120 all ready within 5 days. Amazing value and much better quality than you get in Hong Kong and Thailand.
Translation is just so literal that most of the time it doesn’t make sense even if it is in English.
Plentiful (except when it rains) and cheap. The first 2km costs about US $1.50 and they don’t seem to charge for waiting time. Just don’t expect working seatbelts.
This is a restaurant in Shanghai where these guys change their masks in a split second over and and over again. It is cool.
I guess it would drive you crazy if you lived there but I thought it was funny. Examples:
Electricity Bill Lady
The electricity company sends a lady around to your home who knocks on the door and hand delivers a reminder notice to pay your bill. You can’t pay the lady then and their, you have to pay the bill at specific outlets. She is just the reminder lady. Full employment makes for very creative positions.
Bund Underwater Sightseeing Tourist Tunnel
I assumed that this was under the water but it is actually under the ground and you don’t see any actual water. You board these wierd looking tram things that look like they should be in a ’60’s sci-fi movie and are then subjected to a bewilderingly awful light and sound show as you travel the 5 minutes under the Bund river. It is so bad and so ludicrous that this should be considered a tourist attraction that it makes it must for any visitor.
For a communist country, consumerism is rife! Budweiser is the biggest selling beer, every brand you can imagine is plastered everwhere you look.
Screens are everywhere. Huge LCD screens on buildings, on barges in the river, in taxis, on the metro (the subway/underground train), in shopping centers. Maybe this is where Kevin Roberts got his is Sisomo idea.
We went to see the Panda bears but this a drab very communist instution and we just left depressed and upset by the conditions the animals were kept in.
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What better film to watch when you are flying out of a city than The Departed?
This is the perfect American remake of the Hong Kong Chinese movie “Infernal Affairs”. Martin Scorscese has been demolished by the critics for this movie. However, those critics obviously haven’t seen the original. This is Scorcese’s tribute to Hong Kong cinema.
The masses will never queue up for a movie in Cantonese with English subtitles and so they will never understand how far Hong Kong film makers have come since Tarantino and his ilk started stealing from them.
The Departed does not feel like a US movie and that is because Scorcese stayed as true as he could to the orginal but still transporting the story from HK and Triads to Boston and the Irish Mob.
I loved it and despite what you will read in the press, rent “Infernal Affairs” and then watch “The Departed”. You will enjoy both and also understand why the undisputed genius of American film making (Godfather, Raging Bull, The Aviator, need I go on?) saw fit to pay homage to Hong Kong cinema.
If you like “Infernal Affairs” then rent … You will not be disappointed.
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You thought it would never happen but New Zealanders can now finally get the full iPod and iTunes experience with access to the iTunes online store. You can now purchase music from Apple via the iTune interface, download and sync to your iPod easily.
New Zealand is the last English speaking country in the world to get an iTunes store, but better late than never I guess.
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What a brilliant website and campaign, how could you not click on a Google AdWords ad like this:
Unique Birthday Gift - www.cloneme.com.au - Clone somebody for their birthday! Made and delivered in 4 weeks.
Send in a digital photo of your loved one and they’ll send you back a clay clone in handy keyring size.
This is the new online virtual iPod. Not the best application I’ve ever used, but it is in beta to be fair. Great idea though.
For more Apple/iPod news check out Wired.
Some times I doubt if Donald Trump actually writes for his own blog, then you read a post like this one about the Paul and Heather McCartney divorce. Who else but the man himself could have written this:
Get a prenuptial agreement. I don’t care how much you love your fiancé; it’s just idiotic to get married without one. Don’t believe me? Ask Paul McCartney what he thinks. I know he wishes he had one.
I guess he would know a lot about pre-nups.
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