unilever hypocrisy?

the dove campaign for beauty + axe marketing are housed under the same corporate roof of unilever - does that make the socially conscious advertising from dove the ultimate hypocrisy?

Dove's viral video attack on beauty advertising has produced a surprisingly strong and enduring blowback against Unilever from activists, newspaper op-ed writers, bloggers and videographers who see it as hypocritical coming from the same company that markets Axe.

To be sure, none of the critics is coming to the defense of beauty-industry advertising, linked in the "Onslaught" video to everything from low self-esteem to plastic surgery to bulimia. Rather, they're attacking Unilever for simultaneously trotting out its own endless stream of buxom, scantily clad, sex-crazed women in ads supporting Axe.

via AdAge.

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lost in translation.

sometimes when i have conversations with my mother in chinese i realize that a large percentage of what i am saying is actually just english peppered with bits of chinese words.

something as simple as "she called today to let us know about dinner at the restaurant" will sound something like: "that lady, she called [in chinese] umm to tell us [in english] we're going to have dinner, [in english] with her, at that...place [in chinese] ".

i mean, i know how to say that, but when i'm on the spot and trying to say a lot at once, my brain can't think that quickly in chinese. sometimes i look at my mom and she kind of has this confused look on her face like she is trying to put the random jumbled stream-of-consciousness coming out of my mouth into some sort of coherent statement.

sigh. someday i will wake up and not know a single word of chinese, even after living in the san gabriel valley all these years. the shame!!

10 things to do before i turn 30.

1. go to olympus fashion week
2. live in another city for at least a year
3. eat at french laundry
4. go to the ninja museum in japan
5. make two straight guys make out
6. learn to play the guitar like glen hansard
7. visit a rainforest
8. have a bathroom with a clawfoot tub
9. see swan lake
10. i can only think of 9