Hey all,
If you didn’t catch the reference in my last post, I’m off to Bali this week. I’ll be staying at a decent hotel for the first part of the trip so should have internet and should be updating the blog with pics from the area. Also look for our content launch for Accidental Epicurean this week 
Paul
Hey all,
Anyone who knows me knows I love a good “that’s what she said” joke, but this could be stretching things a bit too far. What do you think? Unnecessary iPhone app? Think it’ll inspire a laugh or two?
Paul
Hey all,
No, I haven’t turned this thing into a foodie blog… but in an effort to increase posts and let you in on more of my daily life I’m going to give you a sneak peak of what I’m doing personally in life and with a not-so-secretive new project under development.
Yes this is a picture of Granola, click to read more to find out why › Continue reading
Hey all,
Trying to do more content on my blog. Don’t know if this will be of interest to most, but it’s funny to me so I’m putting it up. Occasionally I see funny signs out and about in Asia. Sometimes I find Engrish or just random signs or writing that makes me stop and laugh. Thought I’d take the time to post them for your enjoyment 
If you can’t read this one, the upper left upper right drawing on this poster demonstrates that we shouldn’t wet the bathroom floor but go in the urinal. I would have thought that would be obvious, but I haven’t lived in Singapore long so maybe people haven’t quite figured out public restrooms yet (which seems to be the case at the horrendous bathrooms in Ikea)
Paul
Hey all,
Thanks to the post and facebook status yesterday the blog saw a record (well not in time of emergency, strangely had a lot of page views after Santika) of over 100 page views - 114 to be exact. Not too shabby. If that happened every day I’d be averaging 3,000 page views per month. I can only hope. › Continue reading
Hey all,
Yesterday received info from the agency helping me with my Entre Pass application that my Entre Pass was approved! › Continue reading
Hey all,
I’m in Hua Hin now resting up for the Jamie and Alicia Price wedding. Saw the resort and met the bride finally today. Should be a great wedding - the weather has been fantastic, there’s over 60 guests, and the location has lots of lovely areas for photos. This will be my first Hua Hin area Wedding, which is good and bad. Good to shoot somewhere new and discover new locations, bad because the sunset won’t be over the water (it’s a sunrise location as it’s the Gulf of Thailand).
Full report once the long day is over.
Paul
Hey all,
Back in Bangkok again. Have some work this week leading up to a wedding in Hua Hin on Valentine’s Day (they said they preferred Valentine’s Day to Friday the 13th ).
Anyone that needs to get hold of me in Bangkok can use my old number.
Paul
Hey all,
This isn’t a normal recommendation or work experience. Felt I had to voice my deep concern over some treatment I received last night.
Yesterday I went to a networking event hosted by The Expat Club Singapore. The event was supposed to start at 10 PM and sounded pretty straight forward. Wear red to meet friends, white to take it easy, and red and white together if you were single and looking to mingle…whatever, I decided to ignore the pseudo-swinger theme and just enjoy myself, do some networking, and meet some other expats.
Wrong. Showed up at 10:15 and it was empty. Maybe 4 other people. Then literally out of no where there was way, way too many people packed inside. Any chance of networking was out the window. It was a full on clubbing party now… still fine with that, except the music sucked in the “hip-hop” side of the club - not just kind of, the DJ was playing the horrible top 40 stuff you’d hear at some teeny club in RCA as a warm up act (I thought the DJ pool was better in Singapore) and songs that were popular when I was a DJ (ten years back).
Stayed for a while and was still somehow managing to have a good time. Joanna and I were joined by a Swedish friend we met in Bangkok a few months back. Later in the evening our friend Ather showed up and that’s when things really went south. Ather was having trouble getting in so I went out and gave him the “password” to get into the party. He was in for a few minutes and wanted to go outside to smoke. Upon leaving the club he called me to say he was denied entrance back in and we couldn’t figure out why.
It was now about 1 AM and we decided enough was enough for the night (needed to get home and watch Lost). Got to the door and it looked like a zombie movie - young 20-year olds looking to get into the club were pushing forward and smashed up against the door. The idiot security guys hadn’t kept the line back and now everyone was up against the door. The club was obviously over capacity and they had finally decided to shut the doors…
Except the idiots weren’t letting anyone out.
So there were clubbers outside yelling at the security to get in and we were yelling from the inside to get out. Meanwhile they had barred the doors with their bodies and put their arm through the door to keep it from opening. So we stood there at an impasse for about 15-20 minutes with more and more people all looking to exit the club without options to do so. Finally when everyone started pulling out their phones to call the police they opened the door and let about 10 of us out before immediately closing the doors again.
After the tragedy of Santika this was an outrage. I felt unsafe and uncared for by the club owners. I can understand keeping people out (they should have started that hours earlier), but barricading the doors with human shields to keep people from getting out of the club is unacceptable. After leaving we called the police to report, but don’t know if the call was effective or not. I don’t know if I’ll ever bring myself or friends back to that terrible club. It was an awful experience - which is a shame because I love the pixel art walls and electro room.
If in Singapore and looking for a good, safe night out - steer clear of the Butter Factory.
Paul
Hey all,
I’ve recently setup a Gravatar account and installed some plug ins for the blog.
For those who don’t know a Gravatar is a “globally recognized avatar”. These avatars show up wherever you’re visiting online and posting. So when you go to a favorite blog (mine?) and post a comment you’ll have a nice graphical representation of you, next to your name, that identifies you in the crowd. This can be particularly nice if you visit larger blogs with 100’s of comments after each post - like Gizmodo.
You register an email account and every time you sign in with that particular email your Gravatar travels with you, wherever they’re supported. A nice little feature that adds a bit of personality to things you’re doing online. Since it’s free why not?
Paul