June

I like this song. This song makes me recall so much. I miss the time I was in San Diego. Even though I moved out from there several months ago, it is still sad for me to hear that the story in that warm and lovely place is going to the end. So much to be memorized, just use this song at this little place to express my feeling.

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Controversial 228 documentary

These two videos are very controversial in this island. The embed links are also requested to be removed from the youtube so that I can not show the video directly here. 228 now is our national peace memorial day, a holiday. For over 50 years ago, several hundreds and thousands people are killed because of the demonstration to the new government. This history had been hidden for so long, over 40 years, by the government. Our people did not dare to mention anything about this. Today Taiwan people finally get our freedom to discuss our past; however, the competition of the two political parties, it makes every discussion is so controversial. I feel such attitude to against understanding our past is sick, even though they are political controversial. None of historians can be pure objective. Every interpretation implicitly has its own perspective. For such important hidden tragedy of our nation, we should listen to as many studies or reports as possible to help us understand the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgFpdWktVxc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjrg-DV-GgA&feature=related

A cute cut

A very cute song ... it reminds me what I was in my childhood. I tried to mimic everything from my dad, even speaking the "bad words" as it is in the lyrics. My dad also asks me why I did that with angry and the same response I did as the kid in the mtv ... very funny song.

Remember -- A-Mei

I just saw this mv by accident. Maybe it says the similar story I have been going through these months. I felt the tears stuck in my eye while I was watching, even before the song started. The voice-over before the song is very touching. For me, even if the date is really about to end, I would like to say thank you for all this. Let's enjoy the song.

記得 - 張惠妹

 曲︰林俊傑
詞︰易家揚
編︰吳慶隆

 
＊誰還記得是誰先說永遠的愛我
以前的一句話　是我們以後的傷口
過了太久　沒人記得當初那些溫柔
我和你手牽手　說要一起走到最後

我們都忘了　這條路走了多久
心中是清楚的有一天
有一天都會停的　讓時間說真話
雖然我也害怕　在天黑了以後
我們都不知道會不會有遺憾

重唱　＊

我們都累了　卻沒辦法往回走
兩顆心都迷惑　怎麼說
怎麼說都沒有救　親愛的為什麼
也許你也不懂　兩個相愛的人
等著對方先說想分開的理由

誰還記得愛情開始變化的時候
我和你的眼中　看見了不同的天空
走的太遠　終於走到分岔路的路口
是不是你和我　要有兩個相反的夢

重唱　＊

我和你手牽手　說要一起走到最後

A long-distance song (Hey there Delilah)

I saw this song in one of my friend's blog. It is touching as long as you have any experience like this. This song is for myself, my past, the one I love and for my dear friend who is being suffered in this kind of relationship.



PLAIN WHITE T'S LYRICS

"Hey There Delilah"

Hey there Delilah
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true

Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me

A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You'll know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This ones for you

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me.

Yellow Book in South California (Food)

Staying in south CA for almost 2 years, today I just find this very interesting website for Taiwanese or Chinese people. The ChineseYellowPages provides very abundant information for life and entertainment. The most important, of course, is the restaurant info. You can find where to go by selecting the restaurant category, city, or even zip code.

Yoga Lin's songs

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(註:聲音檔轉載自youtube及I'm vlog)

Iraq won the Asian cup

What an emotional moment it is. Just one hour ago, I accidentally switched the channel into CNN and saw the last few minutes of the game. The Iraq beat Saudi Arabia by one point in Asian cup soccer game. I saw the Iraqi crowded at the TV and cheered for their coming championship together as I experienced our third position of the world cup baseball game tournament in 2003.

From the news, I realize that it is the first soccer championship for Iraqi for the last 31 years. Iraqi people made the impossible into possible. As discussed in the news, this incredible job is made under the condition of lack of money, lack of training, lack of everything. Even more, these players fought for their countries, their families, every victims of the war. They are the historical heroes of Iraqi now like our little baseball players from the little league with the championship cup few decades ago. Their achievement will last for long. They give the Iraqi hope. The gunfire started everywhere in Baghdad at the moment they won.

Congratulation to Iraqi. I can feel their joyfulness. I hope they can stand up again after the years of suffering by the invasion and suppression. I also hope our Taiwanese can stick up too to show the world that they should not ignore the truth of our existence. But I think the pity is we will not be able to this emotional moment from our very biased Taiwanese media.

Rising Superpowers in the history (大國崛起)

This series was produced by CCTV China. It is no doubt today that China is one of the most terrifying emerging power in the world. Many magazines or articles predict that China or India will overpass the US in the next few decades. This series shows their Chinese people's ambitions. This series discuss every super powers in the past or nowadays about the mechanism, the boundary conditions and the reasons for their success. These countries includes Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, British, France, Germany, Soviet Union, Japan, and United States. Every country took its own historical opportunity to become the major domination of the world. Such discussion generates a lot of buzz within China as mentioned in some newspaper. No matter whether the China will become the next super power as the media or Chinese people expect, this series can always be a good media for us to understand our world nowadays and the contemporary history in the world.

Be a Taiwanese, the funny thing learned from this series is that Taiwan was found as Formosa by the first super power, Portugal, then governed by the third super power, Netherlands, and then colonized by the other one, Japan, and finally controlled by the current super power, United States. It can be said that we are so internationalized.....ha...

Such a educative series can always help us understand where our position is even though we will be never in the list of super powers. The series still teach as how to find and hold our own opportunity. Hope one day we can be the Netherlands in the series ....... as long as we will not fight each other anymore. The vision should take further into the world rather than the political opponent as we are doing now.

Taiwan -- A People's History (打拼-台灣人民的歷史)

Taiwan's PTS (Public Television Service Foundation) recently produce a series talking about the Taiwanese history. Given the previews, I anticipate to see this series very much. I do not remember I had seen any kind of very organized Taiwanese history TV shows in the past, even though I am from Taiwan and I had been focus on our own culture and history for a little while.

I do not know if this series had already been broadcast, at least I still can not find their full version on youtube. Anyway, I believe this must be a valuable series to see at least for our Taiwanese generation who had never been well taught our history. It generates the debates and argues nowadays about the Taiwanese identity in Taiwan society. In addition, the production from PTS is always good from the past experience, as it was called leading sports station in the universe in the past years .... Ha .....

Suffered by mlb.tv blockout?

It is always annoying that mlb.tv has the block-out policy once the games are broadcast by nationwide channel, especially my favorite Yankees, Redsox or off-season games are often in this category.

For the guys like me without TV at home, here is the solution. The P2P technology provides the forwarding TV show from the current channel. MyP2P is an website which put all sports games available in all kinds of P2P services together, even CPBL .... Ha. Also, the P2P services are also arranged for the easy download. With this service, we probably will not miss any interesting games easily again.

楊宗緯 Songs

楊宗緯 has not been a real singer, but his songs spread more widely than anyone else. I like him since my first listening to his singing in 康熙來了.

Later I follow his performance strictly in 超級星光大道. Here is the list of his songs.

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The next generation of Computer

This guy, Jeff Han, I believe he will dominate the world for a few years like Windows, Google or youtube today. The first time I see his presentation of his innovation of multi-touch sensing computer, I was really amazed by his work. After his presentation, I can only say if there is any product from his research with affordable price, I will go buy one right away.... :-D

Here is his presentation

How to see MLB.TV full screen in Mac

After 2006, mlb.tv only supports windows media player format. It makes a lot of Mac users suffer in watching mlb.tv. In order to workaround this, two little programs are required to download, Flip4Mac and QuickTime FS. After downloading and installing, here are the instruction to see the mlb.tv in full screen.

1. Go to the mlb.tv and now you can see the game in the default small screen.
   
2. Use right button to adjust setting to "Launch Quicktime player" (I do not remember the exact word in the setting menu).
3. Shut out your firefox (browser), and reopen it to mlb.tv.
4. This time the quicktime player should launch in a new window rather than playing in the browser.
5. Run QuickTime FS. In its window menu, press Quicktime FS, and then go Full screen.
   

Note: for the QuickTime FS, there also have the widget for download and it is even easier to use.