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September 14, 2008
Do you hold strong views on topics you know little about? Have your friends suffered enough with your moaning? Starting this week, we will publish an opinion piece from readers when we feel like it, so if you feel like you've got something to get off your chest, email it to us at contact AT shangzilla DOT com and if its any good, we will change the name to our own and sell it to a proper magazine publish it under this column. This week, Shengnan Huang has a moan about Pecha Kucha:
Every so often, Creative, Artsy, Angsty, fashionable Shanghaiistas types get drawn out of their shelter and into a series of Tupperware Parties, also known as Pecha Kucha. What is heralded as 'creative chit chat' usually results in a shameless promotion of Chit Chatterers' website/business/design studio/flatulence. How avante garde!
Attendees attempt unsuccessfully to look more interested than they are whilst organisers muster their last shard of enthusiasm to introduce the next speaker. The unmistakable air of dismay hangs ominously as yet another Taikang Lu-esque shop keeper trots out photos of their wares while the audience thinks, I paid 40 kuai (+taxi to Home Depot) to listen to advertising?!
Going to Pecha Kucha is akin to going to Bar Rouge. Every time, you promise yourself it's the last time. But you find yourself there, hoping, nay yearning, to see something more. But alas, more often than not, vacuously leaves you wondering, what am I doing here?
Shanghai, with its multitude of interesting and colourful people, can surely amass a few passionate people to present more interesting topics, no? Perhaps commerce can be taken out of the equation and with more stringent vetting, it may indeed turn into the 'Salon' that was originally envisaged.
All views expressed by Opinionated writers are their own and do not indicate any official position taken by
Every so often, Creative, Artsy, Angsty, fashionable Shanghaiistas types get drawn out of their shelter and into a series of Tupperware Parties, also known as Pecha Kucha. What is heralded as 'creative chit chat' usually results in a shameless promotion of Chit Chatterers' website/business/design studio/flatulence. How avante garde!
Attendees attempt unsuccessfully to look more interested than they are whilst organisers muster their last shard of enthusiasm to introduce the next speaker. The unmistakable air of dismay hangs ominously as yet another Taikang Lu-esque shop keeper trots out photos of their wares while the audience thinks, I paid 40 kuai (+taxi to Home Depot) to listen to advertising?!
Going to Pecha Kucha is akin to going to Bar Rouge. Every time, you promise yourself it's the last time. But you find yourself there, hoping, nay yearning, to see something more. But alas, more often than not, vacuously leaves you wondering, what am I doing here?
Shanghai, with its multitude of interesting and colourful people, can surely amass a few passionate people to present more interesting topics, no? Perhaps commerce can be taken out of the equation and with more stringent vetting, it may indeed turn into the 'Salon' that was originally envisaged.
All views expressed by Opinionated writers are their own and do not indicate any official position taken by