JC Medina

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:42:49 +0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7):

[IDEA] One-Shot Travel Expo

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:24:00 +0800

“A one-shot (meaning, you’re not obliged to organize another tour in the future), let’s-figure-out-the-schedule-once-we-get-enough-people-interested, I’m-only-sharing-this-experience-once travel expo.”

Let’s talk about travel options you’ll never encounter under normal circumstances. With you as tour operator, you provide us with interesting options. Are you finally ready to share this secret with the world? Would you like to improve people’s perception of your neighborhood? Is it time to find people crazy enough to join you in your secret island?

Interested parties shall be asked to design a tour based on the following parameters:

Duration wise, it should not exceed 2D/1N - the point is have everything in bite-sized pieces.
Determine the size of the group you can handle.
If it’s an out-of-town trip, try to include accommodations as much as possible. Food is a bonus.
Transportation is optional, unless it’s a secret island tour, then you MUST find a way to get us from one point to the other.
Thinking small is not a bad thing.
Putting all these elements together should NOT stress you out.
You can either be strict or flexible with the tour date. What’s important is that you get enough sign-ups during the event.

Then we’ll give you your own booth in the venue for cheap. Prepare the following:

A one-page brochure of your tour.
Pricing information.
…that’s pretty much it.

Here are some ideas:

Have a curated walking tour of your neighborhood. Foodie stops are a given but interesting standalone tour of small stores add a curious element to it.
A no-holds-barred food fight in some farm in Batangas? You provide the pie and fruit. Complete with hosing facilities of course.
A scenic roadtrip to nowhere while you treat your “clients” to an impromptu music appreciation class in your car. Lunch is served after.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:08:38 +0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

The Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2010

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:35:12 +0800

The Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2010

Like a scene from 28 days later.

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:27:25 +0800

Like a scene from 28 days later.

Brought a phone with me during the HK Half Marathon. Took some...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:01:40 +0800

Brought a phone with me during the HK Half Marathon. Took some photos.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:06:57 +0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21):

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2006 - committed one of the biggest blunders of my life. Then...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:50:12 +0800

2006 - committed one of the biggest blunders of my life. Then came this song. Sometimes you just have to be genuinely happy for those people that mattered.

Jens Lekman is coming to town, playing in MAG:NET High Street on March 31.

I’m one happy fella.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:35:32 +0800

I’m one happy fella.

"Gabriel is a man who has written and recorded many good songs with thoughtful arrangements in his..."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:33:10 +0800

“Gabriel is a man who has written and recorded many good songs with thoughtful arrangements in his life, but his approach to this material is that of a pompous buffoon who has no understanding of why any of these songs worked in the first place. His bombast is flat, his phrasing is awful, his instincts are poor. He eliminates rhythm and melody from his Talking Heads cover, strips the wit from the Magnetic Fields and the levity from Paul Simon, and performs David Bowie’s “Heroes” in a way that ignores its essential dramatic restraint. There are two modes on this album, and sometimes they intersect: Bloated melodrama and/or clinical depression.”

- Matthew Perpetua on Peter Gabriel’s Scratch My Back. And I have to agree.