I just have to post this! It's a pretty cool tv spot introducing CCTV. There's also one other movie opening title that kind of used this fluid ink, but I don't remember where the video is now...

CCTV Ink TV Commercial - Directed by Niko Tziopanos from Troublemakers.tv on Vimeo.

Type oriented chocolate packaging. I would love to buy them just for the packaging...



Simplifying first-aid kit

LoL XD This is so very true!! I spend more time worrying, thinking and planning about my projects than the actual time doing the project!!


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Ok. So, Tim Burton is making "Alice in the Wonderland" film with a few twist of his own. The cast will include Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, and Helena Bonham Carter. I saw the movie stills and I'm pretty much intrigued and amused at the same time. It's very quirky in a "Tim Burton" style kind of way and the colors are reminiscence of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The interesting thing that Tim is trying out though is he's going to digitally manipulate certain actor/actress features in order to create the quirky wonderland inhabitants. Helena's character, the Red Queen is going to have a large head. The movie is going to be out by March 2010, still another year to go! It seems that in almost every Tim Burton's movie, there's Johnny and also Helena. Johnny has been in almost every other Tim Burton's movie, it's something like Tony Leung has also been in every other Wong Kai War's movie XD LoL

Photos taken from Yahoo.com



(Alice, Mad Hatter, White Queen, Red Queen)

Ok, fangirl-ing mode on. Ever since Atashinchi no Danshi, Mukai Osamu has been my recent obsession and shall be added to my Ikemen List :p He especially looks really good wearing a vest and his legs looks so long. I've noticed him when I watched Seigi no Mikata, but it was AtaDan that made me go "kyaa~"


(photo courtesy of asianmediawiki)

Classical Music + Comedy = Awesomeness!! I was actually reminded of Nodame Cantabile's "S-Oke" for a bit there.



I don't know how many times they've practiced for this skit! Seriously, if I'm in the orchestra, I might be just annoyed...XD LoL

Photo courtesy of Herbivoracious

What is this?
A. Tuna
B. Salmon

None of both! It's actually a grapefruit! At first glance I thought it's either salmon or some kind of fish meat, but grapefruit? That certainly surprised me~

The "Great Firewall of China" is in action again. Just a day before the Tiananmen anniversary-- Youtube, Flickr, Blogspot, even Twitter is reported to have been blocked before the day. I'm guessing the block will probably last another day or two. I remember few years back when I was still in Shanghai, I was so frustrated that Google was blocked for a couple of days because of the annual political meeting (or something like that). I remember having a research paper due the next day and I can't really do the research because of the block! At times, I'm just really baffled by their "protective" policy-- you can't really control information anymore in these day and age. There's always a workaround the ban. It's really getting to a point of being ridiculous.

On a lighter note, I'm currently on a CSI marathon! Warrick died and Grisham left! They will be missed! There's some episodes from season 9 that were really nicely done-- the one with Nick and several case throughout the year. Grisham's departure was handled nicely too. It's nice to have that transition between him and Ray Langston. The way they worked together in a case and how he offered Ray the job makes the viewer accept Ray much better.

Moving on to Asian dramas, I'm currently following several Japanese and Taiwanese dramas. Here's my opinion of them so far.

My Queen (敗犬女王 / Bai Quan Nu Wang): This series is pretty good until the 11-12th episodes. After those, it really gets so draggy and just spiraling downwards. The story is about San Wu Xuang, a 33 years old single career minded women who's appears to be strong but yet inside she's actually a hopeless romantic who can't forget her ex-fiancee. By chance, she met a 25 year old guy who ended up to be her neighbor and become her co-worker later. So, hints of romance started and they have chemistry. But of course, she can't forget her ex, who later showed up and he somehow still love her. So, yeah, the triangle love ensues. The first 11-ish episodes had a good story and plot line. It wasn't until they kind of threw in the unforgettable ex-fiancee that they went spiraling downwards. The beginning of that arch was quite alright, but as they progress on, the love triangle gets draggy and even after that was resolved, they still have a few more episodes focusing on the couple. After the love triangle was resolved, I care less about what happen. I watched the last few episodes in fast-forward just to know what happen. They should have just make the plot more compact and cut down to 13-14 episodes.

Black & White (痞子英雄 / Pi Zi Ying Xiong): I think this might be the first Taiwanese drama that I watched beyond 13 eps and haven't fast-forwarded any of the episodes. It's still airing right now and I'm anxious to see how the story will unfold. Zai-zai plays a rogue cop called Chen Zai Tian and he's partnered with a very straight and honest cop, Ying Xiong. The two opposites character will have to work with each other through a series of cases that's somehow related to each other and solve certain conspiracy-mysteries. There's also some plot twists along the way and I think that what makes it really interesting. This is probably the closest that Taiwan gets to HK police action movie/series. The actions and explosion were pretty nicely done. What really kept this series together is the small cases that interconnected with each other leading to a big case. The mysteries of what is that conspiracy and who's the insider involved were the ones that kept me coming back for more. Overall, this is a really good action/thriller drama to watch.


Meitantei no Okite (名探偵の掟): A really funny drama done in parody style poking fun at the drama/detective genre. The story follows Tenkaichi Daigoro, the "famous detective" and how he solve his cases. The 3 main characters (including Tenkaichi) are all self-aware of their roles and that's partly what makes it so funny. They have a "room" that's serves as a "backstage" to the story where they would explain things and discuss the "cliche" of detective stories XD I'm a fan of detective/mystery stories which makes this series really appeal to me. Even the music was really similar to the ones that Detective Conan used. I think this is probably one of my favorite Jdramas this season (the other one being Atashitachi no Danshi :P )


Atashinchi no Danshi(アタシんちの男子): 1 girl + 6 guys= reverse-harem shoujo type of drama XD LoL The story follows Chisato, a homeless girl who agreed to marry the CEO of a toy company just 1 month before his death. After his death, she's "forced" to live with his six problematic sons as their mother. You can probably guessed where the story is going with this. The plot was actually pretty common (having read numerous of shoujo manga that have similar type of plot line), but it was the way they shot the drama that makes it so fun to watch. It was really manga-ish and comical that it's entertaining. The quirky characters and sound effects makes it even funnier. Having 6 good looking guys on the show helps too :p and you know that more than one of the guys will inevitably fall for the girl! I think this drama is somewhere along the lines of HanaKimi...

This is a really cute summer special Kleenex tissue packaging done by Hiroko Sanders for Target Stores (via The Dieline blog) I want one of these~!! I probably wouldn't open and use it though...

I just change to another template~ I'm having too much fun with these blogger templates and knowing how to read html and css kind of help...I guess I could just make my own, but I'm just too lazy to :p

On another note, I just found out that a new Sherlock Holmes movie is coming out! I think it's probably the first Sherlock movie in years! So, I'm quite excited about it though I've got some complains when I watched the trailers. That's not the Holmes and Watson that I know! Well, first off, it seems to me that Jude Law is more fitting to play Holmes than Watson, and Robert Dawney Jr. is a little bit too rogue for Holmes! The cast have said that it's more of a "reinvention" and a fresh look at the classic. But still, the Sherlock fan in me still want to see a more faithful adaptation. Oh, well, this looks really promising though.

I was searching for phone themes, but somehow come across this:

I've seen people did an all type maps, but not in this way. I think it's pretty cool. Now, if it use Helvetica, it would be perfect :p

Procrastinating by looking at design blogs...and come across this:

http://www.publiccollectors.org/FoodSongs.htm

It's really amusing...I thing I might be stuck there listening to the different type of songs about burgers, peanut butter, gravy, potato, chicken if I'm not actually trying to DO my assignment...

I'm experimenting Blogger Templates...It looks pretty cool, but I might need to make some adjustment.

It seemed that I've completely abandoned this blog for almost..hmm let me see, 1 year and a half? I guess it's time for me to revive this blog again! So, there you go, after a hiatus of 1 and half year, I'm back! I'm not sure how often I'll post since I'm not actually updating my xanga blog too...perhaps I should start updating that too? Anyway, here's a funny video clip that I just laughed my way through it when watching:

Worst Music Video Ever


Ok, I have to admit, maybe the music wasn't so bad (it actually reminded me of Jewish folk songs melody).....at least it wasn't as distracting as those background dancers. Seriously, they need to go away! At one point I was going, "whaaa??" "whyy???" It's so distracting but it was so funny at the same time.