Going to work hungover is de rigueur in Hong Kong. That’s our style—find an event offering free drinks and continue on our merry way into an evening of oblivion. The next morning, however, is an OH NO! moment. Your eyes snap open with the fear of what you did the night before, and you...
published: Oct 26 2012 - 12:00am
My weekend evenings generally consist of: a) a massive intake of alcohol, followed by b) a series of increasingly meandering conversations, followed by c) the realization that I’m sick drunk, followed by d) skulling bottles of Gatorade and Bonaqua, followed by e) a kebab or Tsui Wah noodles,...
published: Oct 19 2012 - 12:00am
There are three fall traditions that I love. Eating myself fatter than a fat-fat turkey on fat-Thanksgiving (the American one—Canadians don’t have anything to be thankful for), looking at girls dressed their sluttiest during LKF Halloween and the Ocean Park Halloween Bash (herein...
published: Oct 10 2012 - 12:42pm
Editor’s Note: The article this week is in response to the news story that billionaire Cecil Chao has offered a $500 million “marriage bounty” to any man who can win the heart of his daughter Gigi Chao and walk her down the aisle in a traditional wedding ceremony. The only problem...
published: Oct 5 2012 - 12:00am
There are only three reasons to gamble: 1. You believe in luck and think you can make money; 2. You enjoy the act of gaming; 3. Both 1 and 2. Otherwise you’re one of those rational people who think only about odds and your expected chance of making money and decide that it’s not worth...
published: Oct 3 2012 - 7:03pm
Having trouble getting out of bed in the morning? Try these simple tips.
Open your curtains before you go to sleep. UV rays will stream into your bedroom in the morning, melting your eyeballs and causing you to jump out of bed.
Figure out which hot guy or girl who lives in the building opposite...
published: Sep 21 2012 - 6:09pm
One of the perks of writing at a lifestyle magazine is free drinks. Sadly, they don’t come at the snap of a finger but instead at media events—shop openings, soft openings, try-our-food-and-drink shindigs, etc. The organizers normally time these from 6-10pm with the rationale (I’m...
published: Sep 14 2012 - 5:52pm
A few weeks ago I attended Splash! Vol. 6, the Macau Hard Rock Rockporium of pool parties, debauchery and complete mayhem. Besides the fact that I was fatter than 95 percent of people out there (and, for the record, I’m not fat—pool parties just attract in-shape people for obvious...
published: Sep 7 2012 - 12:00am
Over the past year, my dinners have steadily declined in enjoyment. I’m not sure if it’s just getting to me now or I’ve become some sort of curmudgeon, or it just is what it is. Come on, Hong Kong. Dinner used to be a family gathering where we’d talk and laugh, and I’d...
published: Aug 31 2012 - 12:00am
A shoulder injury I have chronicled all too much has kept me from the gym, the office, and from general happiness all summer. It has not, however, kept me out of the burger joint, Mexican restaurant, or off the phone to my mom to complain. I have caught up on a lot of TV shows (watch “Game of...
published: Aug 23 2012 - 3:22pm
