102% Asbestos-Free

What I want for Christmas/birthday 2011. Click for details. And...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:30:06 +0800

EM Table, £2 465

Sinn St Ar 103 UTC, $?

Aether Atmosphere, $450

Woolrich Men's Passage Jacket, $129

Beats Executive, $TBA; only Beats I want

Audioengine 5+, $399

Jack Spade Waxwear Pocket Brief, $365

Nokia Lumia 800, $670

27" iMac, $YouProbablyAlreadyKnow

What I want for Christmas/birthday 2011. Click for details. And yes, I actually really do want a Lumia 800 (or whatever phone comes out after it) once Skype becomes available for WP7. I tried one out at the Starhub shop the other day and was pretty impressed.

Always. Yes.

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:11:57 +0800

Always. Yes.

Survey for Londoners

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:19:48 +0800

becscheong:

This survey is part of my group project research and we need responses from Londoners and Americans. The link below is for Londoners only.

If you guys could help me out that would be awesome. It is short and requires zero writing.

SURVEY FOR LONDONERS.

Thank you!!!

Newsweek: Oh, Daily Beast, get a copy editor.

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:41:23 +0800

Newsweek: Oh, Daily Beast, get a copy editor. :

benita:

My friend Jordan sent me this email today:

What’s wrong with this subject line?

————— Forwarded message —————
From: The Daily Beast <emails@thedailybeast.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Cheat Sheet - Hedge-Fund Boss Gets His Just Deserts
To: Jordan

My…

newyorker: “Vignelli’s 1972 map wasn’t just lovely to look at....

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:22:05 +0800

newyorker:

“Vignelli’s 1972 map wasn’t just lovely to look at. Its obsessive clarity turns out to be the perfect basis for digital information. It’s more modern looking than any of the maps that followed it. Now that people at the M.T.A. have figured out that this map is good for things other than dresses, why don’t they go the rest of the way, and bring it back as the basis for a more complete interactive map that will be kept live seven days a week?”

Paul Goldberger discusses how the M.T.A. brought back Massimo Vignelli to update his famous subway map.

newyorker: A selection of pictures of St. Vincent - who will...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:07:03 +0800

newyorker:

A selection of pictures of St. Vincent - who will be at the New Yorker Festival - by Gabriele Stabile, who photographed the singer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur: http://nyr.kr/qu2fUe

unlikelywords: Why the Oxford comma is important. Via @Peterc /...

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:34:37 +0800

unlikelywords:

Why the Oxford comma is important.

Via @Peterc / Stellar

++

Update:

I think this is the original, inspired by this.

Jin’s new apartment. Am I feeling the pressure? Heck yes....

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:58:00 +0800

Jin’s new apartment. Am I feeling the pressure? Heck yes. He’s got a dressing table now. Hehe. Also, first time out with my new camera.

Wish I was here. I’m one of those people that believe in...

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:36:00 +0800

Wish I was here.

I’m one of those people that believe in déjà vu—that if I experience a moment, I’m exactly where I need to be in life. Since the beginning of September I’ve had so many instances of it from conversations with close friends, writing banal emails and even looking at apartments that I’m convinced even though this education is costing my parents (and many other parents) a ton of money, that in the grand scheme of things, I am exactly where I need to be, and that I will be alright.

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:29:00 +0800

(And by what I want, I mean that amazing apartment I saw today.)

I— I follow, I follow you
Deep sea baby, I follow you
I— I follow, I follow you
Dark doom honey, I follow you

God I love SMBC. You know, this comic reminds me of several froyo—and some other—places in...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:25:00 +0800

God I love SMBC. You know, this comic reminds me of several froyo—and some other—places in Singapore: ”Sir! How come all the females in your establishment have the same phenotype? Why do they all wear t-shirts, shorts, and caps with ponytails?”

(Yes, I believe in the Oxford comma.)

via orehrepus / dear-photograph

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:04:10 +0800

via orehrepus / dear-photograph

I need to get my head around this. orehrepus: TO. DIE. FOR.

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:04:25 +0800

I need to get my head around this.

orehrepus:

TO. DIE. FOR.

50 rich Europeans call for Higher Taxes for the Wealthy

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:45:00 +0800

50 rich Europeans call for Higher Taxes for the Wealthy:

A group of 50 rich Germans have joined the “tax me harder” movement by renewing their open call to Angela Merkel to “stop the gap between rich and poor getting even bigger”.

I don’t think you’d see this in Singapore, for a variety of reasons apart from the obvious.

MLB presenters experience an earthquake for the first time:...

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:36:00 +0800

MLB presenters experience an earthquake for the first time: “Is there an earthquake? Should we… go somewhere?”

Priceless. Guy in the studio control room switching cameras must be from California.

qeedee: Minimalist Room. I like. Maybe I’ll get an...

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:39:05 +0800

qeedee:

Minimalist Room. I like.

Maybe I’ll get an unfurnished apartment in London, just so I can do it up however I want. The living room would be a pain in the ass, though.

50/50 “Balls Trimmer” clip (safe for work). Starring...

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:49:06 +0800

50/50 “Balls Trimmer” clip (safe for work). Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Anjelica Huston. I cannot wait for this to come out. Watch the full trailer on YouTube.

I like head-shaving scenes because (if they’re real) there is no way you can screw them up—there’s only one take, and once the hair’s gone, it’s gone. You can’t reshoot chronologically earlier scenes unless you get some really good wiggage.

Desktop, August—September 2011. Blasphemy.

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:19:00 +0800

Desktop, August—September 2011. Blasphemy.

theatlantic: cultfilms: francis ford coppola plots out the...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:30:06 +0800

theatlantic:

cultfilms:

francis ford coppola plots out the intensity of the scene in his notebook.
the godfather

Awesome!

Watches on rotation. That watch on the left is almost as old as...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:19:00 +0800

Watches on rotation. That watch on the left is almost as old as I am. Hat-tip to Ernest for making me go NATO.