August 2008 Archives

This is really good, I love it.

Summer is slowing going away, I watched three films in Boston so far. Pixar's Wall-E and its attached film Presto. Batman - Dark Knight. And Tropic Thunder. Wall-E and Batman needless to say, are great, but I didn't expect Tropic Thunder to be, I watched it because I missed Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I laughed so hard in there. The movie did toss political correctness out of the window, but man, its really clever and used in the right way. Robert Downey jr is amazing, I totally recommend people to watch it.

O, For those of you that watched the closing ceremony of summer Olympics last night. Wholly shit right? NBC didn't get to the Performer's microphones and there were terrible echos for every song, but it was still fantastic! Lets see if London can top that!

The weather lately in Boston couldn't be anymore perfect. I liked what Justin from work said, "The weather is so good it makes you wanna bite into it." I decided to do some exploring on the Charles river. I loved it so much that I kayaked in the river for an hour and half. This came from someone that can't do anything for an hour and half. The Polaroid of the week is the pictures I took while paddling.

Look at that! The light bouncing off of the waves and got into my camera, I love random things like that.

I'm Loving this Song, goes nicely with my mood.

Lyrics after the jump.

Man, I can't get enough lobsters, they're so good. On Friday there was the all you can eat Lobster bowl! Allie brought the whole table down though, by saying its basically the rat of the sea, and its true :-/ Anyways, I think this is like, my high point of this summer, I ate so much good food at the Mullen office. The weather's been awesome too lately, I'm in a good mood.

Mullen had its last Summer Party at the Manor House today. I've had a huge lunch. I love New England Lobster!

Mmm Lobster... Uhrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Allie, just glowing after her date with her dream guy. Damn you Hughes, you can't be this happy!

"Hu Yang's extensive photographic publication "Shanghai Living" documents the living spaces of 500 families living in today's Shanghai. A selection of 100 of the images were first displayed at ShanghART Gallery and caused unforeseen public attention due to their rare and particular presentation of intimate and protected private spaces." - Design You Trust.

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I got another lovely SX-70 camera. I resisted of getting the chrome tan SX-70 camera for so long, but finally, i had to give in.

Our dear designer Kim is leaving Boston to go to New York, we had drinks at this bar appropriately named 21 amendment.

Allie is my neighbor in the office, we're having a nose contest.

Kim and Jim

Group.

Walked around Harvard over the weekend. Saw this little fella.

Blank stone tablet in Harvard.

I always remind my friends that we live in a increasingly superficial world. I initially didn't want to comment on the Lin MiaoKe and Yang PeiYi as millions of Chinese bloggers already have I'm sure. Before I make my comment, I want to make clear that I think we're all judgmental, yes, we all have that subconscious of judging a book by its cover. Don't agree? Just look at US congressmen today and compare them to the ones from the 50s, where 70% of them were bald back in the day.

The choice between the two girls I suspect is purely out of aesthetic reasons, like picking someone for an endorsement of something. In this case however, I do have to say, the game organizers or whoever 's responsible didn't choose wisely, and took the Olympic Spirit and hijacked it into a typical marketing campaign. I respect Yang PeiYi because she went through a grueling nation wide hunt for this Ode to the Motherland voice. It would be shallow to say the least, to cast such a judgement upon a girl this young and deem her as not cute enough, despite her obvious talent.

China, this is really, in poor taste, No one in the world respect style over substance.
Zhang Yi Mou, where were you when Miss Little Sun Shine was playing in theaters?

Having said that, the opening ceremony is still mind blowing, and I still think its the best opening ceremony ever and extremely proud... The game continues in the nation of contradiction.

From Boston.com. These pictures are out of this world. More from that site. It's a must see.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/2008_olympics_opening_ceremony.html

This entire week has been a week of thunder storms and flash floods for Boston and its surrounding areas. Between the rain and sun, there are these amazing clouds. I caught this moment as I was driving home from work. I love Vanilla Sky. Yes, because I just got an amazing scanner, the white frames are back!

Prior to my departure from Beijing, I took pictures of this charming city at night. Like a beautiful woman in her sleep, without the charade and make up during the day. I see a truer Beijing. I dedicate this album to the coming opening ceremony of the Olympic games tonight. Best of Luck, Beijing, and have a wonderful night!