Red Carpet Blues

I was invited to the Shanghai edition of this year's Elle Style Awards.  Victor & Rolf and Christian Louboutin were there to accept awards.  But apart from them, unfortunately, I'm not up on my Chinese celebrities, so I had no idea who everyone was fawning over and trying to take pictures with.  They were tall and good looking and I'm sure very good at whatever it is they do, but I was neither here nor there..

Having been to my fair share of events in Shanghai, what I'm always surprised at/disappointed in is that no one ever stays to party!  It's always like as soon as the show is over, and people have got their pics to post on their social media to say that they were there, they're out.  Any other city where there's a DJ and free flow booze, you can't get people to leave!  It doesn't seem like there's a culture here of just hanging out for the sake of socializing and getting eff'd up on free champagne.  What's up Shanghai??

Something's Fishy

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

- Kurt Cobain -

Give Me A Reason

New piece I did for my living room.

Wasted Youth, Pt. 45

Damn, an hour and a half delay on my connecting flight.  It's been a long travel day. I just wanna get home.

Airline: Shanghai Airlines

Route: Guangzhou - Shanghai

Delayed flights: 45

Total time spent waiting: 2 days, 7.5 hours

What's Your Poison?

At Bar Trench for some absinthe drips.

Tokyo Skytree Tilt-Shift

Went to check out the new Tokyo Skytree, currently the tallest tower in the world at 634m (2080 ft.).  Its primary purpose is as a broadcasting tower to replace the outdated Tokyo Tower, which is only about half the height.  Of course in Japan, it wouldn't be an attraction without numerous shopping and restaurant options, as well as 2 observation decks.

We went on a Monday morning, figuring it wouldn't be too busy..

Wrong.

After lining up for a time slot ticket, dilly-dallying around the shops till our designated viewing time, and then lining up some more in a seemingly endless zig-zagging cue, we finally were able to pay our 2000yen ($20) to be whisked up in a super high-speed elevator to the deck at 350m.  The view is admittedly pretty great, and once up there, you have the option to pay an additional 1000yen ($10) to go up to 450m.  However, everything looked pretty ant-like already, so we didn't see the point.

Trying out some tilt-shift photo editing techniques, making everything look like a scale model.