The only thing missing is their refusal to accept medical insurance at this medicinal establishment. I mean, we all have our personal ways of dealing with pain. And this Clinic is exactly what we all need, without the sights of sick people and god forbid, dead people.
Instead, you get the sights of a clever and ironically themed lounge bar + restaurant located in the heart of Singapore’s party zone – Riverfront at the Clarke Quay. This place is exactly the way one would play it with their wheelchair seatings, drinks served in syringes and IV drips and surgery lighting fixtures.
FINALLY, a perfect nice place to play out your naughty nurse/patient fantasies.
While we make our travels through different parts of the world, we would come across some amazing stuff. At the same time, we would come across penises.
Thankfully, not the ones from a naked dude flashing us on the streets. We’re talking about items that are innocently phallic-like and placed in public display.
This was a flower arrangement in the Beijing International airport. The florist was probably a little too imaginative or he/she hasn’t been getting some lately.
Eat your penises. Literally. Well, this is actually a popular and expensive seafood thing. Popular among Asians. I think I’m gonna stick to the salad.
Ahhh. Awards season. Narcissistic individuals dying to either get famous or reignite their 15 minutes of fame. Everyone’s lobbying for a chance to get on stage, watched by millions as they shed fake tears while grabbing onto every available phallic-like trophy that’s supposed to honor their excellent work.
Except the Razzies.
This is one award no celebrity would dream of having, because it awards the yuckiest, the crappiest and the lamest movies out there. While they’re making fun of the movies made in Hollywood, we do wish that this award could have included a “Worst Foreign Film” category. And let’s just say that Asia alone has an abundance of excellent nominees.
We’re not saying we should include the low budget crap because you know, they had no money. We want the BIG BUDGET SHIT. Last year, we’d say the credit belonged to once talented-turned-Oscar greedy director, Zhang Yimou and his overpriced period epic – Curse of the Golden Flower. This movie was filled with cliches and an ultra-cheesy storyline while being covered up with shots of tens of thousands of extras killing each other plus the ever essential but tired wire sequences.
This year thus far, we think it belongs to a movie starring another lame Asian pop singer-turned-actor Jay Chou, who incidentally also played a role in Golden Flower as well. So he decided to shed his warrior clothes and put on basketball shorts instead. Throw in wire sequences, kung fu moves and cutesy Asian bimbos. And you get Classic Crap!
Congratulations Jay Chou, we think you deserved a Foreign Razzie!
Here’s something neat from a Taiwanese artist, Yaya Chou who’s based in Los Angeles – Gummi Bear Sculptures. By painstakingly piecing all these candy together, she’s managed to wow us with her patience, her unique thinking and most of all, she’s made us really wanna eat her art.
A well-known college football coach, Frank Leahy once said, “Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
I can’t think of a better quote to describe Hong Kong sex photos scandal – Mr. Edison Chen. Edison is a somewhat famous actor in Asia, less known for his acting but more so for his Ladies’ Man lifestyle. The story was that he had in his laptop almost 1600 images of sexual pictures of him and his various HK starlets ex-girlfriends, and they were unknowingly downloaded by a computer repair technician. Which of course led to the whole damn world knowing about it.
Now, we at TBL thinks this sucks in terms of one’s privacy, especially for those girls. And while rich boy Edison can apologize and quit the entertainment industry, the fact remains is that all this happened because of his super-ego. His arrogance and cockiness was the fire that pushed his acting/singing career and his urban lifestyle design group, CLOT to the peak. He gave the impression that he was major shit and was invincible. In fact, he was an idiot.
In the end, this story has reminded The Bag Ladies to always STAY HUMBLE, STAY SMART and STAY REAL as we become more successful as a design group ourselves.
Last day of the Chinese New Year, and the gang at The Bag Ladies celebrated it with dinner and some major bang-bang! The Chinese believes that the noise from the firecrackers will scare away the evil spirits so they can go party like a rockstar in peace.
Party on, Bag Ladies. Party on.
Stocking up with fresh ammo.
Boom!
The madness was popping like 25 feet from our faces.
There are loads of benefit living in China – one of them, the ability to obtain fake goods for cheap. They would fool most people unless you really take a good hard look at it.
Sadly, this blatant lack of originality is now even affecting the advertising world. Just yesterday, we saw some ads from an advertising agency that are producing work that seems strangely similar to work from other agencies! Check out the following ads to see what we mean.
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To this advertising agency, we expected much, much more.
Contrary to popular belief, every bag lady has a job (or two). While others were busy collecting empty bottles, the following are some stuff we’ve worked on in the past at former establishments.
Screw the newly built, “unique” “lofts” with state-of-the-art-heating and seamless ceilings, distressed new bricks. I say be posh, be real, and stay with the time; look at The Chicago Spire. Inspired by nature, it’s designed by the much celebrated architect Santiago Calatrava — truly a modern residential building with a twist (literally).
Getting inspiration from nature isn’t a new concept, but with the whole organic movement, it makes sense to live in more nature-inspired spaces… sans moving to the country. If not shells and rose buds, the structure reminds me of DNA strands. I like that instead of an organic and abstract approach to nature, it’s the mathematical aspect of nature — “…The beauty and perfection of the geometrical force” — and bringing that back into the city jungle of us evolved monkeys.
To be honest it looks kinda odd amongst the blocky buildings. Perhaps it’s just that I too, have been too used to squares and rectangles in the cityscape. Yah it’s gonna cost a bomb, but at least someone took the time and brains to design a place in the city to call home.
Two weeks of family gatherings, gorging on food, absorbing noise and air pollution from fireworks. But now we’re back! We were away for the Chinese New Year, sorta like a Thanksgiving on steroids. In this entry, we’re gonna show you images and a video of the celebrations from THREE countries – China, Malaysia and Singapore. We were there, and we were overloaded in every sense.
This video was taped by our buddy, DJ Patrick Yu (www.blinkevents.cn) from the top of his apartment in Beijing. July 4th is kid’s play compared to this.
The color RED is key to everything. It means fortune, prosperity, cash, money and hos. The vibe is quite overwhelming and one can really feel the energy. If you weren’t color blind before, you will now.
But in case that ain’t enough, we have loads of other activities to make sure you know shit’s happening, like lion dancing and offerings to the gods (with booze, fruits and burning fake cash money.) It’s kinda like you could bribe Santa for goodies.
The last day of Chinese New Year is February 21st, the fifteenth day of the new Lunar Calendar. And on that day, the sky will once again explode and families will have one last gathering. One significant dish served is called “Lo Yee Shan” – it has various colorfully dyed veggies, crunchy chips and raw fish and jellyfish. To eat it, everyone has to jab their chopsticks in it and toss it like you would salad. The idea is that everyone will share in the fortunes to come, as if you’re tossing cash money in the air. We’ve had quite a few of these dishes so we’re gonna be rich.
Now we can afford new pants to fit our larger waistlines.
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