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i know my posts have been lacking in substance lately (thanx brand) but a real update is coming soon, i promise! things are kinda hectic at the office right now with the canada d'eh celebrations coming up so hold on to your seats for a major update!

and in the spirit of the bus uncle phenomenon, here's me making a fool of myself for the ubc alumni promo video. this is not the actual video but one of the MANY out-takes from the shoot. we shot it in a few hours by the star ferry for vancouver to promote the ubc alumni association in canada. we were going for the "live it, love it" vibe but you gotta make-do with a zero budget and an unwilling subject.

i had to use dropshots cuz you never know with youtube these days. i can see this coming to bite me in the butt later when the real video comes out and is shown at every single ubc convocation.


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after reading derek's post on fame, it reminded me of an incident last year dealing with this issue (albeit very short lived and in a totally different context).

my first experience of fame in hk was last summer at a club in lkf. my friend had invited me out for the nite and i went out thinking nothing of it at the time. a week later, over lunch with some family friends, an auntie took out an hk gossip magazine and pointed at a photo inside and asked if it was me.

the photo was a very bad, poorly pixelated, nite-vision ish image of a group of people sitting in a club. and lo-and-behold- there was me in all my glory. apparently, the person sitting next to me was an offspring of some famous socialite or celebrity in hk. i am clueless about celebrities in hk so i had no idea who she was except a friend of my friend from vancouver. the title of the article was something like 'partying every nite and spending daddy's money' blahblahblah.

when i first saw my face in that photo, i was like, cool i'm in a magazine! but then the creeppy factor came into play and i realized that fame, or at least the hkgossipmagazinekindafame is not what it's cracked up to be. it's intrusive, usually negative and has only one goal in mind- to make money at someone else's expense.