Riding With Hong Kong Street Racers This weekend is the grand prix in Macau, which means I have known the street racers for a year now. I met them last year just before, and started riding with them just after. I had not seen Ah Lai for months, with the exception of tonight, not sinceContinue reading “RWHKSR: Fractional Small Things That Make A Journey Home Safe”
Author Archives: Yan Sham-Shackleton
Hello Baby Kiran, Your Mommy was a Bad Bad Girl!
Hong Kong My best friend in high school Nishana just had a baby boy named Kiran (Sanskrit for “Ray of Light.) Awwwwwwww. I am auntie Yan (again). I love being auntie Yan to all my friend’s kids. My friend are all extra nice to me now because I whisper in their kids ears that IContinue reading “Hello Baby Kiran, Your Mommy was a Bad Bad Girl!”
Glutter Presents: The Kiddie Cheese Days
The Concert Series Glutter Plugs and Doodles A lot of people asked last week, “Who else have you seen?” And I couldn’t really remember, so I wrote it down. It turned out to be nine pages long. So I have split them up into seven categories, and shall post one a day for a week.Continue reading “Glutter Presents: The Kiddie Cheese Days”
Glutter Presents: Drum ‘n’ Bass
The Concert Series Glutter Plugs and Doodles A lot of people asked last week, “Who else have you seen?” And I couldn’t really remember, so I wrote it down. It turned out to be nine pages long. So I have split them up into seven categories, and shall post one a day for a week.Continue reading “Glutter Presents: Drum ‘n’ Bass”
Glutter Presents: The Music Issue
For the last two and the next two weeks Glutter is on a musical tangent, as I was hit by a large dose of nostalgia after seeing Neil Young. As the grandfather of the early/mid-nineties alti-rock scene played, my friend said, “Yan, you know why Eddie Vedder and those guys love him so much now,Continue reading “Glutter Presents: The Music Issue”
American Tofu?
Hong Kong Saw on TV: China will be expanding its import of Soy Beans from the US in record numbers. We can mull together on the social, political, and economic reasons and implications of this for days. But lets not. I mentioned this becuz doesn’t it just seem weird? I mean…our tofu will be AmericanContinue reading “American Tofu?”
We Are Just One Strange Diseased City
Hong Kong. On the News: 11 Children have come down with a strain of unidentified intestinal flu. They have been isolated. Well first it was Chicken Flu, then it was Special Administration Region…. I mean Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARSie)… Now KTA (Kiddies with Tummy Ache).. Great! Now for some news to cheer you up!Continue reading “We Are Just One Strange Diseased City”
Most Recent Comments Activated
Matt, Mike, Giles and Harald, I just activated the “Most recent Comments” on this template. So if you go to the bottom left, there is a short cut to your posts and replies. Yan
Glutter Presents: Deeejaaays and Electronic
The Concert Series Glutter Plugs and Doodles A lot of people asked last week, “Who else have you seen?” And I couldn’t really remember, so I wrote it down. It turned out to be nine pages long. So I have split them up into seven categories, and shall post one a day for a week.Continue reading “Glutter Presents: Deeejaaays and Electronic”
RWHKSR: Forgetting What I Know, No One Else Does.
Riding With Hong Kong Street Racers Since I re-acquainted myself with a group of people in the last few weeks due to Harbour Fest. I have had to field a batch of questions about the street racing documentary, “How is it going?” “Are you doing this?” “How Fast do they Race?” and as I speakContinue reading “RWHKSR: Forgetting What I Know, No One Else Does.”
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