christopher ming lee

Are you a lucky person?
What is luck?
Luck is the equal distribution of opportune chances.
Everyone receives the same amount of luck.
The people we typically label as “lucky” are the people who seize those chances. The “unlucky” are the people standing around with thumbs up their asses, complaining about how some motherf*ckers have all the luck.
Are you [...]

This post may be old news for people who’ve been in the publishing business for years. However, I wanted to define the various methods (or “business models”) of publishing. I noticed a lot of the “question-answer” websites aren’t clear in their definitions, and you can’t get very far if you don’t completely understand the [...]

Maxi left me this message the other day. I found it propped by his mate bottle:
The other couch surfer, Hermando, accidently took Maxi’s keys when he left for the bus station the day before. Hermando left them in a kiosko to be picked up the next day, so at the moment, Maxi had no keys.
I [...]

I know I´m a big dork for actually being happy about this - but you know, I´m a pretty big dork, so it´s all good.
My picture in front of Los Dos Chinos made it on the angryasianman blog - check it here.
I´ve been a fan of angryasianman and his work since my friend Steve introduced [...]

“Do one thing everyday that scares you.”
I read the quote in Tim Ferris’ blog, and it sounded like something I wanted to apply. So when Gabriel asked if I’d like to cook for his weekly Thursday get-together, I ignored the voices screaming “Don’t do it! For the love of all good delicious food in the [...]

This is one of physically and mentally grueling workouts I’ve done in a long time, so I feel like I should post it. Click on the picture or here to watch the video on Crossfit’s website. Gillian is a badass motherf*cker - finishes in under 15 minutes(!)
It took me 40 minutes, 40 seconds. I could [...]

When I first started working at Yip’s (also known as The Restaurant) I was ready to quit after my first day. I barely knew enough Cantonese to call orders, I didn’t know what the dishes looked like, I hated all the side work. I went to sleep dreading the next day spent in the dark [...]

I forgot about this group, iLL-Literacy, until I heard some spoken word recently. I’m very glad to have caught this particular performance - thanks to the person who recorded it.
This is Nico, performing at ECAASU 2008 hosted by Cornell University.
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I love shopping for original schwag, but dammit, I hate all the work it entails. Nothing makes me hate life more than heavy traffic, parking lots, and bumping elbows with teeny boppers and tool boxes.
Plus, malls (with their plethora of Abercrombies, Aeropostales, and America Eagles) don’t exactly promote creativity or independent thinking.
I started working on [...]

I have a general aversion to technology, and distrust anything that pledges to instantly make my life easier/faster/more streamlined. If this thing was so great, they would have invented it already, no?
But I did pick up two new toys last week worth talking about:
AlphaSmart Dana

The Dana is a wordprocessor that’s built for writers in mind. [...]