WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Super Bowl

At Ellen's (who else?). Jeff, Boehner, Jim, Shan, etc., crashed at her place on Sunday night and then watched the Saints upset the Colts. Nothing of note happened. Nothing of note. By which I mean nothing that is appropriate to note.

WEEK IN REVIEW: In preparation for next week's Chinese New Year

It's almost that time again, to flip the other calendar, set off fireworks and drink till our livers scratch the blackboard of our nerves. Beijing Ultimate's got big plans. Until then, count down the days, friends.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK (belated... they were actually from two weeks ago, taken at the slideshow viewing at Jiggly-Wiggly):







Comment-that-makes-no-sense-out-of-context of the week:

P.S. re: Hsing-Hui's comment I don't think everyone attending a party at joe and my apartment needs to be put inside condoms and then slowly inserted into the house one lengthening stroke at a time...

I think that was what you were lewdly alluding to earlier.

--The one and only Jeff Orcutt

RETROSPECTIVE: Char Lam

Beijing Ultimate recently lost an important member of its community and it embarrasses me to be reporting on it only now. (Don't fret, no one's died.) Charmian Lam, former treasurer of Beijing Ultimate Committee and leader of Big Brother, has moved back to Hong Kong. Two weeks ago she held a goodbye party at Purple Haze.

The following are from China Nationals 2009 and China Nationals 2008, respectively.




We'll miss you, Char, and hope you visit us sometime soon. And we'll be seeing ya.

Jim deserves better than City Weekend

Nonetheless, I thank the editors for exposing him to the greater Beijing expat community.


From 2 Kolegas

This was for City Weekend's reader caption contest. Click here to see who won.

Who's that in the background?

Here are some more pictures from that night (click to enlarge):

Away for a moment

Beijing Ultimate is going to take a few days off. Be back next week.

There's a big brunch planned, and half-price burgers at Blue Frog on Monday.

RETROSPECTIVE: Manila Spirits compilation video

From BlockStack.tv.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Slideshow 2009

Thanks to Sandy for organizing the venue, Piggly-Wiggly bar in Nanluoguxiang.

Slideshow "Prologue" here.

It's also on Youku!

• Prologue (Part 1)
  
• Part 2
  
• Part 3

Update: also see: China Ultimate Players Association, Be Active for China

China Ultimate in Southern Metropolis Weekly

Beijing's very own Candice Lee (and Tory) is in the picture.

Article here.

A reminder that after tonight's slideshow viewing, it will be available on YouTube.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Slideshow announcement

The slideshow live screening is tomorrow night.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:



Babygirl is the 13th most popular password for Americans. For Beijing Ultimate's Baby Girl, it's the first most popular. His email is mofat115(at)gmail(dot)com. Hack away.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Slideshow time (Tao, 1/19):

WHEN: Saturday, 10:30 p.m. (screening begins a bit after)
WHERE: Piggly-Wiggly bar (owned by Sandy's cousin) not far from north entrance of Nanluoguxiang. 北京登陆酒吧，南锣鼓巷黑芝麻胡同1号.
WHAT: 2009 Year-in-Review Slideshow LIVE SCREENING and other merriment

WHY: 10-kuai beers and half-price liquor. Also, because YOU are in the slideshow, most likely.

PROLOGUE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFh8FWqgoL4 /
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQzMDY0ODMy.html

For folk who'd like to get dinner/hang out beforehand, let me know and we can organize a BCD(?) or game of caps at my place at Dongzhimen. All are welcome. If you don't know what caps is, why not?

Cast, in order of appearance:

*PROLOGUE
Jeff Orcutt
Mark Scott
Doc Tobin
Kevin Reitz
Joe Pellicano
Wang Bin
Sandy Wang
Anthony Tao
Lincoln Cheung
Big Brother
Perkin Chai
Ken Su
Amy Gardner
Casey Guo
Andrew Shen
Case of Tsingdao
Therese Mendez
Alicia Lui
Mike Shyu
Helen Shyu
Helen Lu
(Zoey Lee)
Jim Kirchhoff
Michelle Tang
Happy Rat
Air Kazak
Beijing Bang
Larke Williams
Lassi Kokko
(Richie Liu)
(Edward Wang)
Qi Zhenjia
Steven Zhang
Yin Kong
Zhao Yu (Apple)
Feng Qi
(Candice Tse)
Candice Lee
Jehan Azad
Nick Liu
Kelly Yang
(Milan Alex)
Gareth Marshall
Yan Hao
Andy Young
Chris Boehner
Brian Marterer
Hsing-hui Hsu
Francis Chan
Aaron Leung
Tina "Pnut" Yen
Michael Chaitkin
Ellen Wong
Andrew "Baby Girl" Moffat
Lauren Reed
(Sara Udow)
Doozers
Beijing Ultimate

*PARTS 1 and 2:
Tina Xue
(Barbara Simeles)
Ryan Perez
(Mike "Nads" Narodovich)
Belem
Chee-Nar
Lin Lin
Kang Haiyan
Guy Sivan
Nicki Fung
Yao Guai (Nick Cheng)
(David "Blondie" Bergmark)
Jason Bergman
(Jon Greenberg)
(Nick Hatt)
Pat Li
Char Lam
Missy Rock
Duff Douglas
Laurene Desclaux
(Ebru Tekinturhan)
Mitch Moxley
Xie Yuhui
Chen Yunyun
Roger Liu
Zhi Jian (Xiaozhi)
Zhao Zhenming (Laozhao)
Heihei
Zhang Huizi (Tracy)
Xiao Pang
Russell Young
Zahlen Titcomb
(Kat Velayo)
(Andrea Shaw)
Joel Rosen
Steph Kwan
Hao Yifan (Zhengzheng)
Ken Dry
Tory Hislop
Charlotte Chang
Margaret Sietsema
Sara Miller
(Andrea Chang)
(Rie Kimura)
(Miles Schneider)
(Caitlin McKimmy)
Adie
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
Veronica Lee
Talia Tay
(Phil Chien)
Liz Lin
Jesse Day
Wang Yao (Aurora)
John Wang
Cheris Chiu
Wang Yucheng
Helen Zhao
Luo Zhaoyuan
Fang Zhang
(NIC Alpert)
Greg Ericksen
(Ivan Xu)
(Carmen Tong)
(Kyndra Turner)
(Joei Calixto)
(Kristin Franke)
(Angela Bauer)
(Ness Fajardo)
(Panoy Delos Santos)
(Raquel Grape-Flores)
(Aya Larsen Su)
(Martin Butler)
(Dennell Reynolds)
Tom Rippe
(Warren Pottrill)
Nora Sluzas
(Emma Shyu)
Marshall Wang
(Angel Hsu)
(Reid Barrett)
(Julia Filip)
Donald De Bona

RETROSPECTIVE: Big Brother at Dalian

The forgotten tournament, in many ways, because it was cold and Shanghai won, freshly revisited by Mike Shyu's new Facebook albums.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP, part 2: Hungover Sunday pickup

Luckily I don't get hangovers and was therefore able to take (some of) these pictures:

WEEKEND ROUNDUP, part 1: Kevin's birthday party and The Redbucks

Happy... how old are you anyway? (At Crescent Moon, Xinjiang restaurant)

At 2 Kolegas.



We'll give you one guess as to who won the limbo contest. (It wasn't Therese, and not Joe, though someone who may or may not be his brother.)