My second set of Moo Cards arrived Thursday!
Inspired by epmd’s project, I’ll be leaving these around London, Hong Kong and probably Tokyo. If you find them, I’d like to hear from you via the e-mail address printed at the back.
Archive for March, 2007
Moo Cards Everywhere
Saturday, March 31st, 2007Moo Cards
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
My Moo Cards arrived over the weekend! It’s such a brilliant idea to print out the mini stylized version of your photos from Flickr, so that you can use them as business cards, gift cards, invitations, etc.
The Moo printing service is pretty straight-forward and easy to use - if you have a Flickr account, you can simply import the photos from your account to Moo, before you select the ones you want to print. 100 pieces for £9.99 (excluding postage) in any combination of up to 100 different photos of your choosing.
Next, you are ready for the most time-consuming step - cropping. Not only will you have to make a decision on how to crop your beautifully composed photos, but the cropping tool on Moo isn’t very accurate (probably the only negative aspect I’ve experienced so far). It certainly took me a while to crop my selection of 50 photos!
Apart from Flickr, you can also make mini cards from Bebo, Second Life and Habbo.
I ordered my second set of Moo Cards today - can’t wait to see them in about a week’s time.
Hot Fuzz and British Comedies
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
I am admittedly a huge Spaced fan and have watched both series many times. Although I felt a little let down by Shaun of the Dead, I still have faith in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg.
Hot Fuzz turned out to be a fantastic comedy with lots of interesting (and sometimes subtle) film references. The most obvious ones include The Wicker Man, Bad Boys II and El Mariachi.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are as funny as always. There are also plenty of familiar faces among the supporting characters, including Edward Woodward (the original Wicker man), Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, and not to mention Steve Coogan, Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman and Adam Buxton (the Adam & Joe Show). I couldn’t help but expectt Jessica Steveson (Daisy in Spaced) and Mark Heap (Brain in Spaced) to have cameos in Hot Fuzz.
It’s great to see Hot Fuzz doing well at the box office. Hopefully, it is helping to promote British comedies, which are very often much funnier than their US counterparts. Most people in the US and Hong Kong should have now heard of The Office, but there are so much more to be discovered by the international audience, such as Spaced, Green Wings, Peep Show and Black Books, only to name a few.
The Secret History
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
I haven’t enjoyed reading a novel so much for a little while. Donna Tartt’s story of a group of twenty-somethings’ dark past is clevely plotted and beautifully written. It was an amazing experience with plenty of suspense, getting to know the characters and trying to get into their minds. I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next, but at the end of the book, I slowed down hoping to prolong the enjoyment.
The biggest attration for me was that I felt for most of the characters, even Bunny; I couldn’t help but have a sense of loss when he was gone. It was disheartening to see an innocent experiment somehow turn into a monstrous act, and even worse, turned a group of friends against each other. The ugliness of distrust was remarkably described; sharp and unmistaken. Like Richard, I was hoping that the series of incidents would only strengthen the bond between the group. That’s why it was even more painful to see them drift apart. The indifference and isolation was almost unbearable.
The Secret History remined me of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. It was shocking to see innocent kids group together to kill, but the emotion was much stronger when I was absorbed into the pyschology of the quiet, manupulative Herny and the nervous, desperate Charles in The Secret History.
4.5 of 5 stars
Chilli Flavour Vodka
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
I had a relatively quiet weekend after the dim sum fest and lots of Vodka shots with Tony and Albane. We somehow managed to spent over £100 pounds on 32 dishes of dim sum between four of us at Ping Pong! The food was very nice but by the end of that meal, we couldn’t even think about food an hour later.
Next, it was Tony’s mission for the day to try the fizzy Vodka drink at Revolution. Unfortunately or fortunately, they had stopped serving it, so we switched to the Vodka sticks. After two rounds of those, we had come to a conclusion: my favourite was chocolate orange; Brad’s was raspberry; and Tony’s was probably not the chilli one, which was crazily hot and was not recommended unless you are super drunk or a masochist.