2011-12-30
2011-12-28
2011-12-27
2011-12-26
Sainsbury's iPhone App
Can't use it as Nectar card yet as there's no barcode function. While competitor Tesco has such function already
2011-12-08
4G in Japan vs UK
While UK warm up on 4G LTE with a very small coverage map and the launch of Samsung Galaxy Nexus (=Google Nexus Prime) late 2011. Japan is gearing up on WiMAX.
2011-12-07
2011-11-29
2011-11-19
2011-11-18
2011-11-17
Final Fantasy Type Zero
Final Fantasy Type Zero (ファイナルファンタジー零式) tops the game sales chart on all formats in Japan this week. Official launch price was ¥7,700, amazon.co.jp is having it at ¥7,150 now, see http://goo.gl/97MV6
UPDATE: ¥5,880 on 2011-12-07 at amazon.co.jp
UPDATE: ¥5,880 on 2011-12-07 at amazon.co.jp
Rituals Products
A Netherlands brand with Chinese branding. Available in Westfield in London. This bottle was borrowed from colleague for this photo.
This is "Rituals ... Mei Dao Organic White Lotus & Yi Yi Ren rich nourishing body cream"
This is "Rituals ... Mei Dao Organic White Lotus & Yi Yi Ren rich nourishing body cream"
2011-11-14
Mercedes-Benz Advert Featuring Hong Kong Streets
Mercedes-Benz advert on London newspaper front page today, featuring Hong Kong streets. I also saw the same advert on UK Youtube Yesterday. Must be the work of Thomas.
2011-11-01
2011-10-31
2011-10-29
2011-10-27
2011-10-26
2011-10-25
2011-10-21
2011-10-16
2011-10-13
London 3D Google Map
Just realised area near my office and central London has been 3D'ed up in google map on android phones.
2011-10-12
Google Health Dies
Google Health service will discontinue on Jan 1st, 2012. And I am downloading all my medical record from Google Health now.
2011-10-10
Youku.com Android App
The first image showed the first page as I enter the Youku android app. The new thing I noticed was the apple tv style "send the video to big screen" feature and the kung fu panda banner. The kung fu panda was playable and come with 3 languages. In the embedded player, it has a PS3 style "click thumbnail to skip to specific time feature". The copyright blocks since Youku went public was also there on the android build. The streaming was surprisingly smooth. Tudou on the other hand often needs to buffer, but tudou offers "download video in the background" feature.
2011-10-07
2011-09-30
1st Cheese Fondue ever
at the Androuet Cheese Shop at Spitalfields Market, London
UPDATE: many comments were received for this post. I am copy and pasting the feedbacks here
UPDATE: many comments were received for this post. I am copy and pasting the feedbacks here
- this place looks scary
- you are supposed to each the bread with the cheese, but not the meat
- they have no idea what they are doing
- but you having to stir it
- they mixed two meals that has nothing to do with each other into one
- this is a national dish, anyone can do it (in switzerland), and it's very easy to do
- summer will be too hot for the cheese, you do it quite often when it's cold
- red wine?! *wide eyes then both hands on his eyes*
- normally £140 for this?!
- "you eat the salty meat with the bread, not with cheese"
- you should leave it just before it bubble, and if it bubbles, it's too hot.
- hot cheese is at the bottom, that's why you need to stir
- don't eat leftover cheese, that's the best way to get food poisoning
- white wine, no red wine.
- stir and don't drink water
- a website teaching how to eat fondue http://eliadorcuisine.canalblog.com/archives/2010/ 02/24/17032259.html (translated) When you stir up your fondue on the bottom, made attention not put a too strong fire, which would make precipitate cheese and would make it dissociate. In the same way, you NEVER stop stirring up to the complete cast iron of cheese! Separation in two phases is the risk if you do not respect this council. Small Swiss trick: always turn in the same direction, your chances of success will be better
- * Do not be used as water with the fondue. To drink water with a met 100% cheese makes digestion much more difficult. Indeed, more there is water in your stomach, more acidity is weak. A low acidity will slow down the digestion of the cheese, which will thus have time to form a ball causing a long and not very pleasant digestion. Prefer fruit juices, or better, white wine, whose acidity will contribute to a faster digestion.
- " as they were lot of fault in yours: drinking water, having red wine, no gruyere, and the list go on... Next time we shall try a fondue neuchateloise with some proper kirsch! Or we can do a raclette :)"
- On sainsbury £3.25 Swiss Fondue box: "You still need a caquelon and some Kirsch :) "
2011-09-29
Thé Vert de Chine
The green tea of China, or Thé Vert de Chine, made in France. Purchased in Mulhouse, France Sep 2011
2011-09-27
Hello Detangle
Never even heard of this until today. Looks like I gonna need this for my long hair for the foreseeable future
2011-09-13
2011-09-10
Vudu $5.99 Credit to try for free
No contract, no monthly fee. $5.99 to try out. Vudu has deals like 99 cents rental and $2 for 2 nights deal.
2011-08-19
World's First 3D Erotic Film
Coming to UK in September 2011. A made-in-Hong Kong production. Previously covered at http://billhung.blogspot.com/2011/04/worlds-first-3d-porn-imax-movie-broke.html
2011-08-17
2011-08-16
2011-08-09
UK Riots
Riots broke out in London, Birmingham and other cities since last weekend. Pictured is the Sony warehouse in Enfield, UK
2011-08-05
2011-08-03
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