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Beijing Olympics - Closing 2008

Written by Amy on Sunday, August 24th, 2008 ( One response ) | Share/Save

OMG, are you watching?? I can hear millions of Asian girls swooning~~~ Wang Lee-Hom and Bi singing Beijing Beijing Wo Ai Beijing!!!! Poor Kelly Chen… who? Where was Guan Zhe, though??

American-Chinese musician Wang Lee-Hom, and Korean musician Bi (Rain) perform together Beijing Beijing Wo Ai Beijing in the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

Are you waiting for London? Eh, No~ What the heck was that, London? That looked more like a Superbowl half-time entertainment than an Olympic closing performance. We all love some Beckham… and some people love themselves some Leona Lewis and then some Led Zeppelin… but that was just so anticlimactic.

Anyway, going back. Closing ceremony was not as HOLY-CRAP-CAN’T-BELIEVE-THAT-I’M-SEEING-THIS, but it was pretty good. LOL’ I am still swooning over Wang Lee-Hom and Bi together….

I think one of my favorite parts was when the performers made the Olympic logo, because I’m so-oh-in-love with Dancing Beijing… unlike the ‘unnamed’??? 2012 London Logo. While watching the whole London Olympic sequence, I couldn’t help but think about school Motion Graphics. Yes, sure… aim at young people, but don’t alienate the older viewers. My mother sure didn’t appreciate that~~

Performers make the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics logo, Dancing Beijing, on the Memory Tower.

Moving on… again! Placido Domingo made an apperance! He sang alongside Song Zuying (which the dude on TV made sound like ‘Son Su Jin,’ which made me think she was Korean).

Hmm… will look for photos. Photos are everything… or at least a video clip. Did you swoon? Lee-Hom Wang and Bi deserve my swooning~~~ I hope you swooned!! xD

**EDIT** 8.54pm - Found some photos!

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Filed under: Celebrity, Chinese, English, Fun, Korean, Music, Photographs, Reviews, Sharing, Television
Tags: beijing, ceremony, china, dancing beijing, david beckham, feng wang, guan zhe, i love beijing, jackie chan, lee hom wang, leona lewis, nicholas tse, olympics, placido domingo, rain, song zuying, wo ai beijing, zhang yimou

Cuentos Chinos? En los Medios Occidentales~

Written by Amy on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 ( 2 responses ) | Share/Save

Chinese stories? Yah, in the Western Media.

Last week or so, my mother woke up to some news reporter, what else, talking about the Olympics. Such news report, title Cuento Chino (Chinese Story, as in Tall Tales?), broadcast sometime on Sunday (probably Reportajes) in Canal 2 (Frecuencia Latina).

Furious, my mother wrote a letter to one of those so-called opinion columns, for Somos magazine that is part of El Comercio newspaper.

Here is the copy of her email to them.

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Filed under: English, Rants, Screencaps, Spanish
Tags: beijing, canal 2, china, comments, el comercio, frecuencia latina, give credit, olympics, somos, western media

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due~

Written by Amy on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 ( 2 responses ) | Share/Save

Enough, I’m tired of the western media nitpicking.

Rant ahead~~~~~

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Filed under: English, Rants
Tags: beijing, china, comments, give credit, olympics, western media

Do You Know Your Asians?

Written by Amy on Friday, July 25th, 2008 ( 2 responses ) | Share/Save

Lainey does not have a grandma named Mrs. Wong.

See, even us Asians can’t tell their Asians apart. As I said in the last post, it was the 16th anniversary of the restaurant. We went to eat meat… loads of meat, which was also bad for my jaw.

Anyway, it was a big ass table, so I sat next to my cousin. We got to talking about school, music, economy, eco solutions, and stupid people, among other topics, like Japanese, Korean and Chinese. I told them it was getting harder to tell each apart because everyone is getting a slicker style. However, my cousin was proud to admit that he could tell them apart, which I refused to believe~~

I asked him once again,

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Tags: asian people look the same, china, japan, korea