If you watched the video of the torch relay from my earlier post, I’m sure you were as shocked as I was with all the hullabaloo over two seconds of pop culture glory. I’ll level with you: the real fun in this year’s Olympic torch relay is not in watching the relay, but in watching [...]
May 31, 2008
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After Chris, Magi and I each got a good 20 minute workout on the wake board yesterday (March 16th, 2008), the rotation started a new. Magi asked how I approach jumping from my weak side into the wake before her second run. I thought about it, acted it out, and then told her [...]
May 31, 2008
Categories: Crazy Hong Kong, HKUST, Sports, Unbelievable, Video . Tags: Exchange Students, head injury, HKUST, hong kong, hong kong university of science and technology, hospital, International Students, Michael Dorsher, sai kung, Tsuen Kwan O, Tsuen Kwan O hospital, Video, wake boarding, wakeboarding . Author: hkdangerduo . Comments: 2 Comments
On the heels of the popular Freeze at Grand Central Station, and the lesser known Freeze at Times Square (mall), comes the next wave of living theater: Freeze at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology!
May 31, 2008
Categories: Crazy Hong Kong, HKUST, Society, Video . Tags: facebook, freeze, freeze grand central, freeze times square, HKUST, hong kong, hong kong university of science and technology, Michael Dorsher, The Red Album, Troublemaker, Video, Weezer . Author: hkdangerduo . Comments: 1 Comment
China visas used to be farily easy to obtain. One photo, three or four days, and US$100 was all it took to get a bright and shiny new visa for visiting the People’s Republic; multiple entry visas were a little more difficult, but that was mostly just for Americans who were here in Hong Kong. [...]
May 17, 2008
Categories: China, General Update, Society, Travel . Tags: beijing, China, china olympics visas, china visa, exit requirements, heightened visa restrictions, hong kong, Michael Dorsher, new travel requirements china, new visa requirements, stupid china, tough travel into china, trans-siberian railway beijing, usa citizens travel to china, usa passport china visa, visa . Author: hkdangerduo . Comments: 1 Comment
As many of you know, I spent Spring Break this year traveling around the isolated nation of Myanmar – aka Burma. I had the great fortune to meet a number of wonderful people while traveling around, including several couch surfers in Yangon who were both very helpful with information and wonderful people to meet and [...]
May 14, 2008
Categories: General Update, Society, Travel, Unbelievable . Tags: asia, burma, burmese, couch surfing, cyclone, disaster, Michael Dorsher, myanmar, rangoon, relief efforts, yangon . Author: hkdangerduo . Comments: 2 Comments
Despite spending every waking hour these days working on my final project, a soul-consuming quantitative analysis of comedy in Hong Kong, I was able to take the morning off yesterday to go out for the first leg of the Olympic torch relay over Chinese soil here in Hong Kong.
Up at 7, I joined a group [...]
May 3, 2008
Categories: China, Crazy Hong Kong, Festivals, HKUST, Society, Video . Tags: 2008 olympics, beijing olympics, China, HKUST, hong kong, mainland students society, Michael Dorsher, nathan road, olympic, relay, torch, torch in china, torch protests, Tsim Sha Tsui . Author: hkdangerduo . Comments: 2 Comments
