Canadian Songwriter, Performer and Audio Professional; living an exciting story in Asia.
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Accusations against Apple are true.
I’m guilty of using the products myself (and they’re awesome) but I’ve been hearing some pretty nasty rumours about the company, Apple Computers, lately. Some of my friends here in China talk about the bad conditions in the factories, while picking up a call on their brand new iPhone 4 in the same breath. It’s strange, but the phone works -so people buy it.
Apparently, Apple’s new CEO has issued a fancy letter to clear up the suspicion. I just want to clear that up a little further and say that according to more reasonable claims coming from China itself, the situation is not good.
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A friend of mine recently asked me to give advise on what headphones, currently on the market are worth looking at. I didn’t really know what to tell him at the time. I rhymed of brands that I trust, but didn’t know of a specific model to recommend.
He was looking for something for regular listening, but suitable for travel, so not too bulky. I came across these upon recommendation from another friend. I had a listen and was very impressed by the sound you hear from this small package.
With solid features like hands-free phone compatibility, noise-cancellation, and a huge frequency range (11hz - 30hz). Not to mention that they fold up and come with a nice little carrying case; great for travel.
AKG K480 - Model referred to in this post.
AKG K450 - The same great sound, without active noise-cancellation.
AKG K420 - If you’re still able to find a pair of these guys, they’re about the same as the new K480, but without all the great features (but much less cost).
Today was my 24th Birthday. I got a number of momentos written on the ol’ Facebook wall (turned out to be a refreshing finish to my day). I spend the day with my lovely bride-to-be. She and I went Prague cafe for a relaxing, late lunch; breakfast sandwich and pancakes, served with a steamy cappuccino. It was delicious.
Following that, we decided to invite a couple of our favorite Chinese friends to join us for dinner and a movie back at my place. Suki and I then spend a good portion of the afternoon tidying up my mess as I re-wired the studio monitors up to the big screen TV for movie night (sounded spectacular).
Suki bought me this awesome ink-pen for my birthday. I mean, a pen is a pen, but when it comes from your fiance, with the intent that you will write a few more songs with it, it means a lot. It really is a nice pen. I’ve seen a few nice pens, but this is by far the nicest, German engineered, aluminum bodied, ink-pen, with custom-fit-leather cased pen I’ve ever been given.
Thank you, 郭哲!
Exaggerations of China
To Abe Sauer and other writers I have no respect for,
It makes me angry when I read articles about China, written by people who really don’t know what they’re talking about. Recently in the news, there’ve been many stories about fake Apple stores and other fake products specifically in Kunming. The people writing these articles really have no idea. I live in Kunming… I’ve seen the stores. They’re not ripoffs, they’re just stores. The Apple product’s, but they exist because there are no official Apple stores.
And then there’s the case of the fake IKEA. It’s actually pretty cool. It looks exactly like IKEA. But it’s the only place to buy good furniture in all of Kunming. There is no IKEA.
So before you start criticizing something you know nothing about, take my word for it, there’s a lot more time than what you’ve heard.
