"China's North Korea Trade Best Birthday Gift For Kim"
bahahahahaha, Bloomberg. you are the best.

on a more serious note, a neat post about Dodd-Frank's Conflict Minerals Provision. (oh Fast Company, you and your playful font.) it's relevant to the industry my company is involved in, so there's that. i kind of wish Apple - who is one of our ( Read more... )

WHAT. SHINMOE PEAK, WHY YOU BE DISRUPTIN' EVERYONE'S FLIGHT PLANS? BRB, OFF TO EMAIL BOSS TO SAY: "HI, CAN'T SHOW UP TO WORK TOMORROW. VOLCANIC ERUPTION, YOU KNOW."

on the - er - plus side, i just blew a lot of money at Uniqlo. (damn you and your comfortable clothes, Uniqlo.) also, Narita Airport's I-Think-He's-Supposed-To-Be-A-Pilot Mascot has ( Read more... )

about to board my flight back to the States. popping in to say Happy Chinese New Year! :D ( Read more... )

first: the-azure-blue is certifiably the holder of my heart, for sending me Mack's Kabuki: Circle of Blood. which promises to be a chilling and terrifying and beautiful graphic novel, all at once. with Palahniuk's involvement to boot. how can this not be mind-blowing? plus plus plus: references to the works of Tolkien, Shakespeare, Orwell, Nietzsche, Kurosawa, ( Read more... )

oh, holiday sales are so good to me. i'd been waiting on the dress for months.
Alexander Wang, i would ask you to marry me if it weren't socially unacceptable.

snagged the last XS at I Dont Like Mondays. (they don't like apostrophes, either.) and the top from Revolvewill pair with my favorite boots from United Nude, and try not to fall on my face ( Read more... )

Christmas Eve! spent it with a colleague at the Marco Polo Hotel's Japanese restaurant in downtown Shenzhen. we went traditional: warm sake & hotpot. there was a pair of giant chopsticks that made me ridiculously happy.


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first, i wanted to take the time to say thank you to all who decided that i deserve beyond-miraculous Inception stories, for some utterly indiscernible reason. i'm one for brevity (not entirely by choice), so i won't say much more than what i've already said to the authors themselves. all i can hope is they know how much i cherish their work. <3

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‘tis the season!

(i’m not actually excited about the holidays themselves, but i am excited about the commercial aspect: presents!)

who doesn’t like making wishlists in the hopes that it will just start raining gifts?

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