Have you ever secretly wished to have a cool taciturn guardian angel with special abilities nearby, protecting and saving you from evil forces? If you haven’t seen any in real life, then see Ryan Gosling in Drive. A loner with a sensitive soul. Immensely suppressed anger with pure childlike innocence. His melancholy teary eyes contrast [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by unjoo
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Are you ready to be a STAR? I mean… “Digitally Successful”? About 10 days ago, a NYC band called “Atomic Tom” posted a video taken from their iphones on Youtube, shooting their live subway performance. Their musical instruments? iPhones and iPhones only! In about three days from posting their video, their album hit #38 on [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2010 by unjoo
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What is Steam Punk? Hmmm… If I dare to summarize in one phrase, it would be “A Fantasy Trip to the Futuristic Past!” or “Retro to the Future!” Steam Punk used to be underground culture here in New York. It has become more embraced by a large population. But still… There are many New Yorkers [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2010 by unjoo
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There are many good restaurants in the City. Sometimes too many to choose from. Many of these attractions are enticing and luring me to their decorated and aromatic dens on a daily basis while walking by, like the Sirens from Greek Mythology. Despite these restaurants’ attractive group sing-alongs, I always feel like nothing is more [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by unjoo
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His name is Jerry. He is a super lawyer, also my advisor, my mentor and my friend. One day at his firm’s networking event, he told me a very interesting story about the first social networking services online. Once upon a time in 1980s, when the internet barely started… There was a client for Jerry’s [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2010 by unjoo
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Several days ago. I got an email from my friend, Ray Beckerman, a well-known attorney fighting against the music industry, representing people being chased by RIAA.. The email said: “Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!” (Further Details: Recording Industry vs. The People – [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2010 by unjoo
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I love Flight of the Conchords and I love their show. I think they are the most intelligent band on this earth. They are amazingly deft at crafting words for their funny situations. It seems like daft jokes, but they are in fact brilliant. I believe that only the people with intelligent minds and warm [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2009 by unjoo
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Here are some useful tips from my friend’s blog. (www.cianca.com) —————————– I often get requests from friends and their friends who are looking for jobs to take a look at their resume. It always surprises me by the number of mistakes or perhaps assumptions that people sometimes make with their resume. There are some pretty [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by unjoo
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