Decided to switch to Word Press. Movable Type wasn’t working too well, so I decided to delete it and reinstall the latest version. Big, time-consuming mistake. I was able to install it, but not able to get it to show up in my browser. This five-day vacation is about the only time I have to get this kind of stuff done, and I was running out of time. It took me like 5 seconds to install Word Press, but like hours to do MT. We’ll see how Word Press goes.
I knew watching all those episodes of America’s Next Top Model would someday pay off. The Taipei Times got the photo wrong for its little piece on Naomi Campbell today. That giant forehead and rack tells me that it is Tyra Banks, not Naomi.
I keep seeing these ads for the “Tokyo Lash Bar” all over town. What the hell is a Tokyo Lash Bar? I found out soon enough while wandering around, trying to find a birthday present for my friend R. I wanted to get her something unique, and I think I succeeded.
The Tokyo Lash Bar is a false eyelashes counter, part of the Shu Uemura brand. They had tons of different lashes. I am not really sure if a set of eyelashes is considered a single shot or double at the Tokyo Lash Bar. You have to keep in mind this was the first time I’ve ever purchased false eyelashes, or let alone eyelash glue (I guess that’s considered a chaser at the lash bar). I’ll probably be back, though, since they’ve got this radiant yellow pair that would be perfect to wear to chamber of commerce luncheons. The saleslady was really professional, but appeared to be slightly jarred by waiting on a foreign male customer. Maybe she thought I was an off-duty drag queen or something.
Our own little Snake Alley is featured in the New York Daily News’ Daily Dish (at the bottom).
What an odd coincidence–the Whore-a-day Inn here changes its name right around the same time a foreign, former bell boy tries to fight back for being treated like crap.
My secret spies tell me some people weren’t impressed with Missy Elliot’s concert last night. There’s the usual unprofessional comments that insiders here make about many visiting artists when they get a chance to get close (the artist looks, um, a little bigger than she does in her videos, questions about her sexuality, blah, blah, blah). The crowd, however, was not really happy about being treated to over 90 minutes of opening acts. I can see having to wait an hour and a half for Madonna, but not Missy Elliot, and I don’t care how many times they force us to listen to her albums at California gym (which, strange enough, has been a lot in the weeks leading up to her concert. I am really sick of that toys song–really inappropriate gym music.) The big laugh apparently came when she tried to pass the mike to audience members for “Get Your Freak On”. No one knew the words. (On the other hand, the tickets weren’t really pricey–NTD 900/1800.)
Update: Looks like my spies were right. The Taipei Times blasted her show today as “another big name from the US coming to Taiwan for a pay day and doing the barest minimum in return.”
I took a look around the street by my house for dirty license plates, and this was the only one I could find. Parked right outside the front door. My own scooter’s license is “DOE”, a female deer, but that’s not really naughty.
It is nice to see that the beautiful and talented (and former Taipei resident) Laurie Underwood has now become a successful book author. Her book, “China CEO: Voices of Experience from 20 International Business Leaders“, coauthored with Juan Fernandez, has earned five stars on Amazon and is racing up the top of the business book lists. Freakonomics, schmeakonomics–this lady’s well on her way to business author fame, so watch out!
“ASS”, “BRA”, “BAD”, “BJ”, “BS”, “BUM”, “DOG”, “DIE”, “PIG”, “G8″, “GAY”, and “LP”. What do those words have in common? They are all naughty words that a Taipei councilman is trying to get the Transportation Ministry to ban on license plates. They forgot about “FAG”, “NUT” and “ICK”.
Like, oh my gawd, I don’t know why everyone’s getting all worked up over the name of the new bank created with the merger of International Commercial Bank of China and Chiao Tung Bank. I think it is such a totally awesome new name. Like the other day I was at the mall, and I thought, like wow, wouldn’t it be cool if there was like a mega-cool ATM machne I could stick my cash card into so I could go shopping. There’s like Breeze Center with all these really great shoe stores and stuff. And now there’s like this awesome new mega bank, with like this really cool name that’s totally cool ‘cuz it’s like one of the biggest banks in Asia now, and the name totally makes it look classy and stuff.