August 6th, 2008 Amy
8.8.8 - Will you be watching? At 8:08pm~~ Be sure to watch, coz word has it that it will be spectacular. Also, word has it Jay Chou will be performing… will his vocal ability match Celine Dion
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Apparently, Faye Wong was asked to do the Opening Song (a la Bjork, NE?) - Anyway, she refused… so they held a contest of sort… all very confusing to me. In the end, Jay Chou is singing~~~ obviously. Will you be watching him making faces… looking all cool and mumbling? You know, like in the S.H.E video?? Ha!
Moving on! Aside from all the controversy…. *rolls eyes* I am very impressed with the marketing that China’s come up for the Olympics. First and foremost, I am sort of… in love with the logo. Dancing Beijing by Guo Chunning.
Dancing Beijing by Guo Chunning
There was a WHOLE spread on the issue of Communication Arts of months ago, read it all… devoured it. I am tempted on scanning it, LOL’ And the mascots! Maybe it’s my overly-occidentalized brain, but I thought their naming was smart. BeiBei, JingJing, HuanHuan, YingYing and NiNi… you know, as in Beijing Huanying Ni - Beijing Welcomes You~~~~
Another reason to watch? Zhang Yimou~~~ his films are visually stunning, so it only promises visuals and colors! *SWOON!* ALSO~~~~ How awesome is the new Beijing National Stadium - aka. Bird Nest - My mom thinks someone smoked of the good one when making up that concept. When it was under construction, I told her it looks sort of like a nest, and she didn’t believe me. xD
NatGeo… or was it Discovery Channel? Someone was showing an hour special about its construction. Niftiest thing ever, and I don’t even follow architecture. The budget was around $500M USD… which is like $4B Yuan, and the design was the winner of a contest xD All very architecture stuff~~
Tags: architecture, beijing, beijing national stadium, bird nest stadium, celine dion, dancing beijing, design, jay chou, olympics, sporting events, zhang yimou
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June 8th, 2008 Amy
Apparently there’s a manga based on Fuji TV’s Last Friends, it’s set before the show… so I suggest watching the show before this. Anyway, ^Yuuki made some lovely scans (but I won’t post those because they are in Japanese), and suketeru (who also makes the subs for the show uploads, DOMO!) made a translation for it. I took the liberty to make some nice text inclusion, and some changes in phrasing. I think it looks pretty good, almost like it’s real. Take a look yourself! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: fuji tv, japanese to english, last friends, manga, prologue, rasuto furenzu, scans, suketeru, translation, yuuki
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April 21st, 2008 Amy
Eigo de Asobo (in its original 1990 title display 英語であそぼ, or in hiragana えいごであそぼ), meaning… I think, Play in English or Let’s Play in English. Well, I actually didn’t know what the heck ASOBO meant, lol… but I looked it up. (answer here, if you’re interested in use and phrases), is another NHK show I remember catching a glimpse of. I actually went through my video archive on VCR tapes, and I had recorded some of the show during its 1998-2001 period.
According to Japanese Wikipedia, the show began in 1990 and went through several changes (as apparently many Japanese kids shows do), Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children's programs, christel chiari, eigo de asobo, google, google funny translations, happy land, kai and patch, let's play in english, nhk, play in english
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April 18th, 2008 Amy
When my family first got cable, I remember watching NHK. Now, as a person who doesn’t speak Japanese at all, and being a Japanese wannabe… the only programs I could actually follow sans subtitles were kid shows. One of them is the long-lasting Okaasan to Issho, which apparently began showing on October 5h, 1959. I think the first time I saw the show was in 1999… or I could be wrong and be 1998. Anyway, if you don’t know about it… it’s like hmm, Menudo meets Sesame Street, but for really really small kids. I’m guessing 2-3 years old. The show has been inventing and re-inventing itself throughout the years. Changing life-size-puppets, and hosts in their many years. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children's programs, daisuke yokoyama, doremifa nattsu do!, educational programs, gu chokorantan, haida shoko, hiromichi sato, imai yuzo, itou mayu, miho itou, nhk, okaasan to issho, sugita akihiro, takehisa kobayashi, takumi mitani, tari kiyoko, tsunoda ryoko, yoshi hisa kobayashi
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April 8th, 2008 Amy
I’m not one to talk much clothing, but I just wanted to remind myself of these. I mean, like Julyssa said - being broke is always hard. I wish I had the money to buy these at Karmaloop.com
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Tags: 8 track z/u hoody, bandit hoody, break the chains hoody, cardboard robot, clothing, comrade hoody, hoodie, karmaloop.com, obey, pollock pullover, soundgirl, swedish rebel, tank theory, the crown royal hoody, the high horse hoody, triple 5, wesc
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