Could this be true!??!?! 

Two of the most beautiful women on earth, together?

Jessica Alba and Lee Hyori, easily my two favorite celebrities sat down side by side... I am breaking out in hives...

Most of the video is in Korean, which I don't understand a thing, but it didn't matter, your eyes can do all the listening. There is a short interview of Jessica in the middle and towards the end.

Interesting facts... makes you think, the world is changing and shifting...

As a coffee fan, the worst part of every morning is having to dump out the staled coffee from the day before, wash the pot, replace the filter and wait for 10 minutes before taking a sip. Then when you go for the 2nd cup later, the pot you just made is already cold, or worse, it is bitter from being left on the warmer plate for too long; what a waste!!

That routine is history now, yeeaaa! I got a Breville Keurig Single Cup Brewer for the office, which I can choose from over 150 variety of coffee/cocoa/tea K-Cups (the single disposable filtered cups). Pop it in the Breville, and a minute later, volia! Instant gratification! Love it! Love it!

You might ask, isn't it more expensive to brew coffee this way? Well, as it turns out, it is actually cheaper. Each K-cup is about $0.42, compare to a Starbucks at $1.98 (grande coffee), and roughly $1 for the old 10-cup brewer. On top of being thrifty, it is one pretty piece of machinery too!

I've always wondered about this myself. Now I know

• The Silent generation, people born before 1946. 
• The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1959. 
• Generation X , people born between 1960 and 1979. 
• Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 1995. 

Why do we call the last one generation Y? I did not know, but a caricaturist explains it eloquently below...Learn something new!

ha... this is a good reflection of our life...

Can you live like this? 

I guess our rush hour traffic is nothing compare to this!

glumbert - Rush Hour Squeeze

This has been a busy week for Apple, software updates to iTune and MobileMe were rolled out to accommodate the iPhone3G and the me.com launches, respectively. My .Mac account went offline Wed afternoon while it was being upgraded to MobileMe. While the online community reported the new me.com was up and running late Thurs afternoon, the new look didn't appear for me until 2am Friday 7/11 morning...

It is pretty cool tho...

Ok, I am going out to line up for the iPhone3G now...

Frank showed me this today...
AWESOME!!!

glumbert - Best wedding first dance ever

MUSE is officially the weekend home for the group of us here in Shanghai. MUSE is probably as successful as any club ever wish to be. It commands premium price and nights after nights of packed house. Backed by celebrity investor and experienced shares holding management staff, MUSE enjoys the tier one club status status, keeping its position amongst the countless formidable competitors. It is the place to be for the more financially stable hip partygoers here in Shanghai. It is not unusual to see famous models, professional athletes, actors/actresses, TV hostess, flight attendants, and deep pocket business men there, as the matter of fact, those are the people we party with on regular basis.

The price is not cheap at MUSE, a bottle of Greygoose can set you back 800RMB (~$120), with the minimum spending requirement for a reserved table starts at 3000RMB, this price easily double the fee at other establishments. However, the premium buys you a different type of crowd, mostly well educated, well doing individuals, who often have foreign backgrounds or understands the western culture, and can speaks fluent or passable conversational English. In comparison, the more "local" pubs and clubs are more tailored for the local audience, usually very young aged, they'd plays the Chinese styled hip-pop/techno music, and often time some retarded MC would be on the mic yelling senseless english phrases all night long in attempt to pump up the atmosphere; oh yeah, there are those really "local" clubs that features bouncing dance floors, you will be involuntarily hopping up and down as the springs underneath the floor forces you to "dance", while it is a great assistant for those who have no rhythm, it is very annoying to me as I can't even stand still on those things.

As a second home, we'd often running into other "distant family members" here, we would spend some time at our table, then hop over to other tables to socialize with friends in other groups. I swear there are people here I see everytime I come, it is almost like a high school Homecoming Ball.

So, on the weekends, there is always someone in our group sending out SMS message informing the rest the reserved table number at MUSE. While it is sickening to go to the same place night after night, but somehow, the feeling of second home always bring us back, time after time.

Shanghai is the place for shopping and entertainment, the activities has always been the same every time I come to Shanghai -- going out with friends, drinking, meeting and gawking at the beautiful people in the pubs and clubs. Shanghai really is one amazing place, I love it, besides all the laughs and good time, the best part about Shanghai really is the opportunity it provides.

My contact list constantly grows while I am in Shanghai, it seems like I am always meeting new people while I am there. The best part is, the people I meet in Shanghai are from all different walks of life, engineers, actresses, alcohol distributors, PR agents, graphic designers... it is a huge contrast comparing to the simpler life in the Bay Area, where it seems every person I meet is either a software engineer working for Google/Apple or a hardware engineering working for Cisco/IBM and the likes.

It really helps to have a diverse group of contacts, things are far easier when you have the right connections at the right positions. Connections is followed by opportunities....

Did I already mention that I love Shanghai? and that comes with a good reason!

陈冠稀最近的艳门照的主题电影，超搞笑，超无聊！

We had a fun day in the burning sun yesterday, picking out lavenders and spending way too much money on lavender-filled pillows and slippers.

It was our 2nd time attending the Sonoma Lavender Festival, had to go there since Lavender happens to be Vivian's favorite flower, one of her favorite flower I should say. I do agree, the gentle smell of the lavender is soothing, and acres and acres of light purple lavender is indeed quite a sight.



More pictures:
Lavender Festival 2005
Lavender Festival 2007

We ran into some friends we met back in US here in Taipei, and they invited us to attend their wedding, on the spot. Vivian and I have never attended any wedding in Taiwan before, and since we are pulling our hair out preparing for our wedding, we thought, what the hey, let’s check out their wedding.



The wedding was interesting, fairly high class, a mix of Taiwan and western style. Unlike in the US, where the banquet usually follows the ceremony, it was combined into one event here in their wedding. The bride walked down the isle (between the banquet tables) and was handed off to her new hubby by her father, then proceed to the front of the room to undergo the “yes, I do!” ceremony. All that happens at the same time as the guests chews on their appetizers. Although sequence of events was different, but it made sense; Chinese weddings these days are mostly about the banquet, it is logically to integrate the “I do” part into the banquet.



What didn’t make sense to me was how quiet it was, as the newly wed couple went from table to table toasting, the MC actually goes around and instruct the guests not to get up during the toast. I don’t know about you guys out there, but my idea of a wedding is a good and happy time for everyone; loud and obnoxious is totally normal and wanted by my book, similar to My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Just can’t believe they actually make the effort to quiet people down.



The food was excellent tho. It was Chinese dishes but served western style. The wait staff separates the food into individual plates for the guest, quite convenient indeed and you don’t have to fight with others over food.

Interesting experience...

One of Dutch’s largest radio stations, Radio 538, announced that Tiësto will host a new weekly show titled “Club Nouveau by Tiësto”. The show will broadcast every Friday evening, beginning April 6th, from 10 pm to Midnight.

Tiësto: 'With 'Club Nouveau by Tiësto' I can reach a worldwide audience on a weekly basis. For me it's a way to experiment with the variety of styles which dance music has to offer'.

Tiësto’s show will be split in two parts. The first hour will feature a mix of current hits, and in the second hour Tiësto will present all kinds of genres, from minimal, house and trance, and of course the most exclusive releases in advance. Included in the second hour Tiësto will give an upcoming DJ the opportunity to have their “15 minutes of fame”.

Tiësto’s show will also be produced in English. This will result in a podcast and show which will be broadcasted through digital internet radio. At the moment possibilities are being explored to syndicate the radio show to various countries worldwide.

Club Nouveau presented by Tiësto will kick off on Friday April 6th, from 10pm till midnight.

(Grabbed from official www.Tiesto.com newsletter)

Magicienne nue : Ursula Martinez
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Ok, Armin Van Buuren was good, but not great.

Actually, I was quite disappointed with his performance this past Monday at Ruby Skye. :-(

#3 DJ in the world? Nah, not by my book, I don't think he deserves that honor. He changed his beat tempo way too much... every minute or so, there is a new beat, new tempo, it breaks the mood, felt rushed and chappy. The rythm was never long enough for me to build that explosive feeling from within, and to me, that's what Progressive Trance is all about, gathering and building that urge from deep inside.

DJ Tiesto still gets my top vote!!

Related Pictures:
Armin Van Buuren 2006.07.03
Paul Van Dyk 2004.12.11
Tiesto 2003.06.06

They have Do Ra E Mon cartoon shows here in Taipei!!

How cool is that!!

DJ Tiësto is releasing his new In Search Of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles on March 26!!

With all the traveling I am doing these days, hopefully one of my trips will collide with his tour...

DJ Tiësto's upcoming Asia tour:
March 18th Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
March 20th Tokyo Japan
March 31st Manila Philippines
April 01st Seoul South-Korea
April 04th Hong Kong China
April 06th Shenzen China
April 07th Guangzhou China
April 08th Hangzhou China
April 09th Bejing China
April 13th Bangkok Thailand
April 14th Singapore Malaysia
April 15th Taipei Taiwan
April 20th Bali Indonesia
April 21st Jogjakarta Indonesia
April 22nd Jakarta Indonesia

One of the world’s best DJ making an appearance in San Francisco this month. Anyone besides me interested?!?