Entries Tagged as ‘Out and about’

January 31, 2010

A New Theatre for Singapore

The Pasadena Playhouse announced this past week that the final curtain will fall on Feb 7, 2010. It will cease operations with the closing of the currently running Camelot. The historic theatre represents 90 years of American Theater history and undoubtedly, its closing will be a big symbolic and physical loss to the artistic world [...]

July 31, 2009

I <3 LA

I love LA for its eclectic mix of randomness.
Billy goats grazing in the middle of Downtown LA greeted me one Wednesday as I emerged from the Pershing Square Metro Station.

How about a hipster karaoke competition  at Royal-T, where the waitresses look as if they walked out of an anime novel? There was this crazy good [...]

July 14, 2009

Portable Screening Day

Tell me, isn’t this cool?!  Portable Screening Day, organized by the The Portable Film Festival:
The Portable Film Festival, now in its third year, is an international festival of film and user created content. It works in the same way as other film festivals – the only difference is that it is delivered completely online and distributed [...]

July 12, 2009

宋冬 @ MOMA NYC

There’s an amazing installation at the MOMA NYC  by Beijing based artist 宋冬 Song Dong called 物尽其用 or Waste Not. The breathtaking display of his elderly mother’s entire collection of material possessions (including the wooden frame of the house) covers the entire space of the second floor atrium.
Visitors are invited to walk through clear paths spliced through [...]

June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson RIP

If you haven’t heard already, Michael Jackson passed away around 1pm earlier today. He was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center after paramedics, responding to a call, couldn’t revive him. He had already stopped breathing when the paramedics arrived. He had suffered a heart attack.
Within hours, hordes of fans rushed down to the medical center [...]

May 30, 2009

Merlion in LA

I kid you not. There’s a shop near downtown LA, at the edge of old Chinatown, where you can buy a Merlion, the internationally known symbol of Singapore.

Fact: the Merlion is not a Singapore legend but a symbol owned by the Singapore Tourism Board, which has “all intellectual property rights (including design rights or copyright, [...]

May 24, 2009

Seeing in the Cemetery

Okay, it was more “watching” in the cemetery, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It was a Cinespia screening. On screen was the 1955 Hitchcock flick To Catch a Thief,  staring the wonderfully glamorous Grace Kelly last night. Love the badly blatant symbolism, understated, witty dialogue, and many double entendres. Thought the 50s was an era of  sexual repression. The doorbitch was [...]

May 22, 2009

Back in LA

The best thing about jet lag is that I get to see the sunrise. LA is beautiful in the twilight, before the hustle, bustle and smog starts.

May 3, 2009

Swine flu and other pleasantries

Thought I’d share this. When I was in transit in Japan, the authorities didn’t let anyone off the plane until they had given everyone a pass with a thermal scanner and collected our health declaration forms. A guy next to me had his temperature checked after he failed the thermal scan. Some other folks in [...]

March 4, 2009

Midnight Ridazz Bicycle Ride

I totally wanna do this. I “ran” into them while trying to taking the LA subway for the first time. 

The Midnight Ridazz is formally described as a group of bicycle enthusiasts who have been riding together on the second Friday of every month since February of 2004.Skeptics may scoff at the irreverence of this alleged [...]