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Halloween

Posted on 02/11/2010 by haonowshaokao

Halloween isn’t a Chinese festival, and it’s perfectly possible that it isn’t an English one. There’s no worthy moral behind it*, and frankly no point beside dressing up and being silly. That’s why it’s more fun than other festivals and … Continue reading →

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Pullover

Posted on 28/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

This is the second in an intermittent series of posts about bands I loved in the 1990s who have little or no internet presence. I was listening to an old Mark & Lard Graveyard Shift show last week and it … Continue reading →

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October Update

Posted on 26/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

Last week the company decided that renting an apartment in the centre for no particular reason wasn’t a great business move, so I’ve been forced to move my few things out of there and resume the daily commute from Tongzhou. … Continue reading →

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RIP Ari Up of The Slits

Posted on 22/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

Ari Up’s death at the age of 48 was announced yesterday. I can’t write anything more incisive about her than Jon Savage so read this instead. I’d just been getting into The Slits over the past couple of months, and … Continue reading →

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Further Reading

Posted on 20/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

Living, as I obviously do, in China, it’s always difficult to keep up with anything interesting with the Great Firewall in my way. Every proxy gets blocked and every VPN fails after a couple of months. Fortunately, though, there is … Continue reading →

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Office Space

Posted on 18/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

I spent a couple of weeks commuting into the centre from Tongzhou, and it’s proved to be completely impractical. Getting up at 6.50, eating my breakfast on the bus and not getting home until 7.40pm is at best an occasional … Continue reading →

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Tram across Hong Kong island in 3 minutes and 20 seconds

Posted on 15/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

A video I made a while back. I’d like it to be higher resolution and on Youtube, but this will have to do. The music is “Ritual” by Broadcast & The Focus Group

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Army Hospital

Posted on 11/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

On Saturday I went with V to the “Army Hospital” in Tongzhou. We’re scouting round the different maternity hospitals in the local area and right now it seems like the best bet. All the same, it’s a Chinese hospital, and … Continue reading →

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Holidays

Posted on 08/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

A week off is a pretty rare thing for me, and 10 days off is almost unheard of, even if I did have a little left-over work (one-on-one students and the like) to take up some of that time. I … Continue reading →

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More Ozmotron Remixes

Posted on 06/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

Last week I posed something here about the Ozmotron Remix Project. Since then there have been three more remixes made. The first is Mr Pineapple’s glitchy, melodic Remix of “Pink Elephant”, my current favourite actually. http://www.mrpineapple.co.uk/music/Pink_Elephant_remix.mp3 Then there’s the Rygo … Continue reading →

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