I was holed up at this convention centre for the last week attending this international seminar. I can’t remember much about the seminar, it was something to do with my work I think. I only went for the awesome complimentary bag for the participants. And the food. This wasn’t a small seminar of 50 people, no siree, bob. There were like 600 people in attendance, mostly wearing their spiffy navy blue suits (except me, I was wearing my short sleeve company shirt. Don’t expect to see my pic appearing in the trade newsletters). I later found out that most of the attendees were actually from the nationwide branches of a…

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Music Television, or better known by its three-letter-acronym, MTV. There was an article featured on digg.com last week highlighting the 10 ways the upstart channel changed the world. Here in Malaysia, we get the sort of a lite version of it called MTV Asia, which is pretty much the same content as the American counterpart, minus some programs and videos deemed not appropriate for ‘Asian values’. In it’s place there are locally or regionally produced shows like MTV Jus and request programs. One of the biggest gripe that the younger generation have with MTV these past few years is that they have actually…

Was watching a [tag]Hong Kong[/tag] [tag]Cantonese[/tag] [tag]TV series[/tag] the other night. Actually, i wasn’t watching it, my wife was, i was just lounging around. I’ve blogged about Hong Kong Cantonese serials before, comes with living with people who religiously watch them on videotape, TV and Astro for more than 20 years. The thing is with tight-budgeted family / police / relationship drama-comedy serials is that they tend to re-use location sets. Watch any one show for a few episodes and you’ll see what i mean. Top Ten Overused Clichéd Scene Locations in Hong Kong Cantonese [tag]TV Serials[/tag] At night, on a park bench – Usually for the main character when…

Oooh, who can forget him? The white boy with the solidly gelled-up hairdo and the raised eyebrow, making strange signs with his fingers (doesn’t it look strangely like the Vulcan welcome gesture?) and making everyone suddenly start thinking rap is cool and clean fun? (Sidenote: This is the second in the start-stop series of Anyone Remember… series, where I reminiscent about some forgotten star of the 80’s and 70’s. The first one was Milli Vanilli. Boy, was that a good one…! End of sidenote.) In 1990-91, ‘Ice Ice Baby’ was everywhere, man. My neighbour was so into it, he went out and bought the tape, and played it at full…