Your idol: Andy C for drum’n’bass. He can mix 28-30 records in an hour, and Wong Chee Chung, who brought me to the scene. Listening to now: Drum’n’bass that’s not too heavy, and a bit of reggae. In your pocket: My iPod. I carry it everywhere. Stupidest trend: Love...
Dec 1 2006
Grappa’s
Grappa’s When it comes to lawyers, time is literally money and of course you don’t have the funds to wine and dine your solicitor. You know that your lawyer bills you in seven-minute blocks so to save your wallet, take her down to Grappa’s, which is exactly a four-minute walk from...
Dec 1 2006
Samsung Sonoma S7 LCD TV
If video killed the radio star, then high definition is going to annihilate everything in its path. The latest revolution in home entertainment, hi-def—which brings a kind of clarity to the entire visual and audio experience that was unheard of before—is primed to change the way you...
Dec 1 2006
HK Magazine: Why did you choose Chinese medicine over western? Wong Hung-bor: Actually, I majored in western medicine but I didn’t go to medical school by choice. I was studying in China and during that time, the government decided your major for you. I wanted to get into the sea school and...
Dec 1 2006
Feeling flush? Bring a date for caviar at FINDS
Award-winning OPIA at the Jia Boutique Hotel has a whole new menu leaning further to the European side than the Asian. They now describe it as "Edgy Australian" vs. "Australian Freestyle" but it doesn't matter, it's all incredibly fresh and innovative as created by exec chef...
Lately when writing restaurant reviews, I’ve been finding myself saying things like, “And entrées are a bargain at $205 and under.” Since when did $205 for an entrée become a bargain? That’s something like $30 a bite. But it’s so common these days. The...
Dec 1 2006
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): On Jupiter’s moon Europa, there is an absolutely straight narrow line about 125 miles long. NASA’S photos show it clearly. Commenting on this improbably regular feature, renowned author and inventor Arthur C. Clarke says he finds it hard not to conclude that...
“Saw III,” the latest installment in this popular and sadistic series, is easily the goriest. But blood and guts aside, the film falters towards the end, and is a fairly disappointing sequel. Everyone’s favorite maniacal mastermind John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), is back...
Nov 30 2006
It’s 1944 and Spain’s currently under the rule of a fascist regime. Not exactly the best place for the young, imaginative and inquisitive Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, Fragile) to grow up, but right in the middle of this horrible world is where she finds herself after her mother Carmen (...
Nov 30 2006
Michael (Zach Braff, TV’s Scrubs) has the perfect life: A job he’s good at, his closest childhood friends still by his side, and Jenna (Jacinda Barrett, Poseidon), a girlfriend who’s madly in love with him. But as relationships all around him start crashing down, and the prospect...
Nov 30 2006