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Rarrrr!!! Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It's been a roaring good start for us here at the Hip Network. We've been in Thailand creating our latest and greatest project- HipThailandGuide.com.

Here are a couple of videos we created for HipThailand about two of Koh Samui's hottest beach bars. Nikki Beach is a lifestyle franchise which is located on Lipa Noi beach, on the sunset side of the island and Beach Republic is located conveniently on the chic end of Lamai beach.
 

7am is an ungodly hour to wake up on a Saturday, especially when you’ve only had a few hours of sleep, however I was slotted to attend the Blair Singer seminar on Sales and Leadership and I felt sure that If I skipped it, that I would be missing out on some very valuable information about how to take my business to the next level.

For any of you have been to other American-style NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) self-improvement seminars such as Tony Robbins, you will recognize immediately that the formula used is the same one. Just like at the Tony Robbins seminar, loud Top 40 music was blasting in the auditorium as we walked in. The music is meant to wake you up and create energy in the room and I tell you- at that time hungover on a Saturday morning-you need it!

The Sunseeker in Sai Kung

The other day, a friend of mine who is a filmmaker and producer asked me if I wanted to be filmed for an American TV show. While my days in front of the camera are long gone, I could hardly say no to this project as it's a reality show about travel, food and entrepreneurship (some of my favorite topics) And besides, millions of people in the United States are potentially going to see it and hear about hiphongkong.com! Kewl.

The show, which will air on the ABC network in March, is called the Erik Kaiser show. The star of the show, Erik Kaiser, is a dashing American entrepreneur who reminds me of a younger, fitter Donald Trump, both in his upright capitalist demeanor and in his somewhat feathered hairdo. Erik is the kind of guy who is inspired, driven, whose brain never stops whirring and is constantly calculating how much profit can be made off an idea. He's the type of person who has to keep a notepad by his bed for when he wakes up in the middle of the night with one of those awesome ideas.

Hong Kong is really doing a decent job of setting up arts, design and music events recently. Within the past half-year, there was the Detour Art Exhibit at the former Married Police Headquarters and Sculpture Sunday in Repulse Bay. There was also Rock Raiser and Clockenflap at Cyberport and now there’s a fantastic exhibit in West Kowloon for the Hong Kong Shenzen Biennale of Design and Urbanism.

It’s a bit of a trek to get out to West Kowloon but last Saturday post-punk band The Yours and this German experimental band called A Roller Control were playing live at dusk so I figured it was a great excuse to trek out there and check out what was going on. In addition, it was a stunning afternoon and gave me a good reason to dust off my SLR and get some pics.

When I was in Thailand over the Christmas and New Year holiday, I had a reading by a numerologist who lived in a stunning wood house up on a hilly patch of jungle amidst a forest of coconut trees. The place had view of the sea, a bed hung with mosquito netting, some retro Thai furniture, and a completely open kitchen which was exposed to all the elements. There was a hammock strung up on some trees which allowed you to gaze at the endless Zen view while blissing out.

By 'Passionista'

Can you find love in the gilded charms of a sex toy called Yva? The organizers of the 2nd Asia Adult Expo, that took place recently in the Venetian Macau, would certainly like you to try.

I examined the toy in question rather dubiously – a ‘pleasure object’ in 18K gold designed by Swedish brand LELO that seemed almost too delicate and valuable to survive the furious working over I would imagine a much-appreciated sex toy might have to endure in the course of its lifetime. But it certainly was very pretty to look at…

Dear Anita,

I have a whopper of a tale to share with you and your readers. You might be tempted to believe that it isn’t true, but it is and for the sake of those involved, I have changed the names, but I promise that this story, full of craziness and stupidity, actually happened.

Dear Anita,
I just read your entry on loneliness and I have to say- holidays suck bigtime-especially when you've just broken up with your boyfriend. I wrote this poem recently and I just wanted to share it with you because heartbroken souls need someone to commiserate with.

The poem is about my ex. One day he turned as cold as winter on me and I found out he had been sleeping with some other girl. I was so gutted and wrote this poem after drinking myself into oblivion in front of my computer. Interestingly, after I wrote it, I kind of felt better. Hope you enjoy it.

First came Crackbook- now there’s a new form of addictive social media, Twitter, and I’m becoming a bonafide twaddict. I couldn’t really figure out what the hoopla was all about surrounding till I saw this hilarious video.