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On June 27, Shang Wenjie, the 2006 winner of the Chinese equivalent to “American Idol” – “Super Girl“, or literally “Super Female Voice” visited the Swedish pavilion. I interviewed her and sang with her. It was fun. See the full article here. For the interview, see the embedded Youtube video below this text:
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Today the Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited the Nordic Confucius Institute (part of the University of Stockholm). Speeches were held and songs were sung, Debora Hjälmarö sang “Kristallen den fina”, Alicia Rempler sang “wo ai ni zai bei de xue” and I, Paul Philip Abrigo sang “wo de zhongguo xin” accopmpanied by my very [...]

Dear fellow human beings, it’s been a while but things have been quite hectic on my front, to say the least. As I am leaving for Shanghai on the 1st of April (I know, it’s a joke ), to work at the Swedish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, looking for apartments for rent, [...]

Friends!
As the temperature went up a few degrees, rendering the previously white snow-covered streets of Stockholm an everyday realist gray, so did my calendar pages shift from an otherwise clear white to a cluttered black. It’s been a hectic few days with choir rehearsals, other music stuff, social activities and most important – the first [...]

It’s official! I got accepted after a long round of picking and choosing by the recruitment company; out of 700 applicants in Sweden and China, a team of 60 including me was selected. I am soooo hyper right now, this is quite literally a dream come true – To live and work in Shanghai! And [...]

Themes: Places, People, Climate Shift
Go see! http://www.paulphilipabrigo.mpchallenge.com/se/gallery
Good luck to all competitors!

What’s up oh Children of September?
School’s moving on with a steady pace, but all fun and no work makes Paul a dull boy – thus I’ve got three gigs coming up:
Thursday the 24th of September (TOMORROW!) – DJ:ing at Antics again! Epic win! Swing by – it’ll go down at Bonden @ Bondegatan 1, we’ll [...]

Yo peeps!
Two main things here:
1. I desperately need to find a good guitarrist, preferably amongst my friends, to help me out with a gig at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. I will be part of a cultural show and sing one song. The last couple of times that happened it went well, but now the [...]

Listen up music lovers and gamer g33ks! Big, big news! Do you LOVE the Beatles? Are you completely hooked on Guitar Hero and Rock Band? If that’s the case, after the 9th of September 2009 (that’s right – 09/09/09) your social, private, work and school lives are screwed!
This September, the ground-breaking gaming company Electronic Arts [...]

My father proudly e-mailed me and informed me just now of these sick news. Patriotic pride in all it’s glory shines through when reading about the “celebrated and divisive” director Brillante Mendoza supposedly praised by Sean Penn and Quentin Tarantino. Click the links below to see what CNN has to say about the whole thing. [...]