Archive for the ‘The Oddball’ Category

must-view chi bi

By Pat Law™ • Jul 27th, 2008

IMDb, for some reason, decided to retain the Mandarin name of the film, Red Cliff, ignorantly in hanyu pinyin without the essential tone marks. I don’t imagine John Woo being too pleased of his major Chinese epic film being called a vagina in Hokkien.



font conference

By Pat Law™ • Jul 24th, 2008

What if fonts were humans? This is wicked. What’s your favourite font type? Call me scruffy but I love my Georgia.



the finish line

By Pat Law™ • Jul 24th, 2008

After a long day of brutal email wars, merciless threats from the intern you shouldn’t have slept with, and non-stop hurling from your clients, aren’t you glad to be home? That is, assuming your wife hasn’t found out about the intern.



fancy some tea, dear?

By Pat Law™ • Jul 14th, 2008

Perhaps the whole point to this is to encourage one to substitute cigarettes with good ol English Breakfast tea (or Camomile, whatever takes your fancy) but it’s starting to make me want to quit my usual 1600h tea altogether.



diy laser tattoo

By Pat Law™ • Jul 6th, 2008

Please, do not try this at home like this bugger has. I don’t want your mother coming after me for this.



hard to swallow

By Pat Law™ • Jul 5th, 2008

Fancy some giant toasted ants alongside with your scorpion vodka? Or maybe tea picked by specially trained monkeys from China? To think I thought we Chinese were weird when it comes to food.



when some guys get bored…

By Pat Law™ • Jun 25th, 2008

And when you get bored too. Videos you otherwise wouldn’t bother with if you could find your brain back from that last painful meeting with several egos fighting.



how to nap

By Pat Law™ • Jun 25th, 2008

I wonder how this would fly with my boss, if I say I need to crash on the leather couch at 1500h.



designer mahjong by gucci

By Pat Law™ • Jun 21st, 2008

Not sure if I’d buy in to their marketing approach but I’m sure tai tais will appreciate Gucci classifying their beloved past time as a sport.



wardrom by paula

By Pat Law™ • Jun 8th, 2008

Answering the dreams of your lazyass boyfriend/ husband, the geniuses from Italian design group Paula has created a vertical wardrobe that allows you to escape (extremely basic) household chores like placing your clothes in the fucking laundry basket, and create an art installation piece on your wall at the same time.