Giles, J.D

Our serious conversation with “H” vendor… They wear suits, we wear casuals, but our interests are same…

Very unique Malaysian restaurant in somewhere. Yep in Beijing. Very dark, yet cozy… with team members.

Keep thinking of this sign in front of my hotel door. My first impression was “wft!”. Well, if I give more look on this with some time, I realize the sign I’m seeing is different from my first impression. A index finger is covering the mouth. That’s what it is. How come I got an impression with middle finger sticking up to the air? Because of line art work. It’s too thick and lips isn’t look like what it suppose to be. Guess some people would not think about the way I think. But obviously it didn’t work with me well… Especially this button is only 1.5 cm by 2 cm size…

Monocle is innovative, and yet deeply conservative. In fact, it’s almost surprising no-one’s tried it before. Still, there’s no question that Brûlé is to be congratulated. Monocle lives up to the hype — a stylish, intellectual magazine, which is a pleasure to read. – Peter Parkes

Curiosity out of many other reviews, I put down my name on subscription form. Few weeks later, I have delivered two issues of magazine…

It’s definitely a high quality, above-expectation magazine. Since many of design magazine spent so much advertising which is even not well organized and common topics on design, Monocle covers both seriousness and fun well.

More than my words, grab a copy of this magazine…

** I was lucky enough (have extra cash refund from hotel) to buy Monocle tote bag made by Porter (Japanese bag company). While I was stay over Tokyo, I went to Daikanyama fashion area to visit B.Yoshida’s store.

Often I compared the meal service in the plane. This is a typical meal service in Asiana business class and I fully enjoyed this in only 2 hours flight between ICN and HKG. So you could imagine the first class meal. I’m wondering why many American airline companies are providing quite old-fashion, instant-look meal service in different class. Frankly, the meal services in United or American Air would not be “gorgeous” or “delicious” look. It’s getting better, but maybe the attitude of service could drop the economy in States at this moment? Attitude of service = Quality of service…