I couldn't help myself. I was cruising Xiaxue's fabulous blog site and came across her video of hangover cures. Particularly apt since I was, er, largely incapacitated. Since it's nearly the holiday season and the parties will pile upon parties, I thought the timing was perfect. I don't know whether the cure or the hangover was worse. Xiaxue admits she's never been hung over. But who knows, these ideas, gathered from the Internet, may actually help those farangs from Songkhla to Chiang Mai to Udon to Trat immobilized by alcohol poisoning. Take it away Wendy (Cheng, author of the extremely popular Singapore blog). Warning: Colorful language ahead . . . Not for office computers, unless you have a headset.
BTW, earlier I posted that I'd seen more than 200 comments on her posts. Well, she belted one out of the ballpark this week when readers posted almost 400 comments on a single post. In that one day, she trippled my year-to-date comment count. Sad, eh?
Sometimes you just need a dose of crazy-assed antics, you know, some amusement and distraction from the everyday world. You want to forget about the Red Shirts vs Yellow Shirts, the shrinking U.S. dollar and mutual funds, the Thaksin roadshow antics, the plight of Burmese refugees, and the farang-Thai stories. That usually means the subject matter is about everyday stuff, like checking out a new bar or restaurant, or going to a chi-chi party or making risotto with Asian twist or make a perfect hair bun in 1 minute or visiting Disney World in Hong Kong.
I find quite a bit of this material on blogs from young people in Singapore and Malaysia. There may be more. Lots more. A recent post by the extremely popular Xiaxue, a Singapore hottie, led me to many more English-language blogs by Southeast Asian young people. It also gave me a colourful tour of Disney’s Hong Kong establishment. I’ll tell you right now that I don’t give a rat’s ass about things Disney. But Xiaxue’s report and pictures of fellow bloggers getting the five-star treatment was a hoot. (Image above, from xiaxue.blogspot.com, of Princess Aud, Redmummy, Xiaxue (Wendy) and Cheesie)
Need I tell you the report is full of pictures of pretty blogging girls? Asian hotties? I do like ethnic Chinese girls’ looks and there’s much to like in this report as well as the reports by the other blogging hotties. And there’s food. Do Asian girls like food? Do humans breathe? If the posts aren’t full of young Asian women having fun, they’re full of amazing, mouth-watering, beautifully prepared and presented food. I’d recommend these blogs if your only interest is Asian cuisine.
Then again, how does a girl survive if she doesn't know how to make a hair bun. You'll get that too in these blogs. Visit cheeserland.com and you'll see Cheesie (you won't mind her screen name too much after you get a look at the hottie herself) shows how to do it [Update: dropped 1-min version for longer one. More is better, isn't it? ]. Watch a new, longer YouTube video:
Xiaxue, a.k.a. Wendy, is a multi-award winning Asian blogger. It's interesting that her rants and antics are rather atypically Asian. Which is maybe why she's so popular. She doesn’t hold back when something bothers her such as a whinging reader or poor restaurant service or something done in bad taste. I like that. And so do her readers, it appears. Her site registers some 20,000 pageviews a day! I’ve seen as many as 200 comments on a post.
Note that Xiaxue’s blog takes quite a while to load, because of the heavy image load. It took maybe 2 minutes on my 10 megabit service to fully acquire the page. I will also warn you that her language is colourful. This is not for office computers not because of the pictures, although your buddies might not leave your work station if they get a eyeful of the Asian pretties, but of the oversized displays of the f-word. Many of these Asian girl bloggers use the f-word. Liberally. Speaking of language . . . the blogs are a mix of English and Singlish, as well as being peppered with (what I think is) Malaysian and Chinese expressions, but transliterated into English. One blog in particular, Redmummy.com, is full of multi-language expressions. Couldn’t fathom too much of it, I have to admit. But then, it’s not aimed at a Canadian dude the other side of the planet.
