http://www.due-east.org Musings on Things Asian Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:18:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lu, 妳好！妳還看我的Blog嗎？我等inLove出新專輯。我給我的幾個朋友聼你們的專輯。 他們都很喜歡。你們會什麽時候出新專輯？ 請留言吧！ 謝謝！ 孫智謙 (Chris) http://www.due-east.org/2007/09/21/lu-%e5%a6%b3%e6%80%8e%e9%ba%bd%e6%a8%a3%ef%bc%9f/     If you're going to rely on a computer translation to name your restaurant in a foreign tongue, it's probably best to follow these simple rules:Know enough of the target language to understand if your translation is at least somewhere in the general vicinity of being halfway near the point of ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/08/04/chinglish-the-perils-of-computer-translation/     Are you tired of Chinese popular music? I am. Over all, it stinks. I mean, I'm a huge Jay Chou fan, and I like almost everything Sun Yan Zi and Wang Li Hong put out. But for the most part, Chinese pop music - like pop ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/06/29/check-out-neochacom-for-chinese-indie-music/   I wouldn't mind living in there...   From the 'only in Japan' file......If I were a 58-year-old homeless Japanese woman, where would I take up residence? I have no idea, but one lady in Japan moved into someone's closet. According to the article, she slipped inside a man's house and took ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/06/02/japan-has-either-huge-closets-or-tiny-homeless-people/   So your kids won't scratch their ears?   Well, all the news coming out of China right now is either depressing or politically charged (or both), and I'm tired of posting about Magibon, so I'm back to looking for random stuff about Asia in general. I came across this South Korean ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/05/29/crazy-korean-umbrella-hat-thingy/     I was looking up Chinese video sharing sites after my buddy teople introduced me to a few, and I came across a great post on Danwei.org with an overly-lengthy-in-a-good-way list of them. Careful not to overdose, Chinese junkies. And if you're interested in seeing a good comparison of ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/04/25/chinese-video-sites-an-obnoxiously-long-list/   I swear I need to start a Magibon category. This is the third or fourth post about her. I really didn't plan on making any more posts about her, but in the interests of answering the biggest question about Magibon (WHY?!?!), and because I'm way too busy lately ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/04/23/magibon-explains-why-she-makes-youtube-videos/   A couple of months ago, I commented on the Magibon phenomenon and how her videos are both infuriatingly pointless and incredibly mesmerizing. I didn't expect it, but that post for some reason put the site right near the top of Google's search results when you search for her name. ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/04/18/magibon-made-it-to-japan/     Wow, I didn't know people could get this small. The world's smallest girl hails from India and is only 1 ft. 11 in. tall at 15 years old. Amazing! She seems to have a positive attitude about the whole thing, though, saying, "I am proud of being ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/04/07/the-worlds-smallest-girl-lives-in-india/     Learning Chinese is a pretty daunting task. The tones, the ambiguous tenses, the multi-use particles...it can be extremely frustrating at times. And Chinese people recognize that, so when they see someone working hard to learn their language, they're usually more than happy to help out. They're also ... http://www.due-east.org/2008/04/03/spotlight-on-howmacom/