The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice

This song is just amazing!
Today I happen to heard it from radio and then I wonder where I used to listen to it.
Yes, it's in a film starred by Judy Law, Julia Roberts, etc.

Such a sad song makes me fascinate and listen it again and again!

Irish singer - Damien Rice. Now I remember him...

Comments Again about the Episode Hosted by Bobby Chen and Patty Hou with Rene Liu as a Guest

I watched a selection of “Kidnap”(连环结，又名綁架) starred by Rene Liu(劉若英) and Lin Jianxin(林嘉欣), and part of “Happy Birthday”(生日快樂) starred by Rene Liu and Gu Tianle(古天樂), prompting me to search for an episode of a talk show hosted by Patty Hou(侯佩岑) and Bobby Chen(陳昇) with Rene Liu as a guest. I was moved by the show, which I have watched months ago and written down some comments about it.

I have to say that this episode is a piece of works with staggering complicated implications and has even a richer context to analyze than the two movies that I mentioned above, although Rene's acting is absolutely outstanding on the movies. Why do I say so? Here come some points I hold.

First, Rene, a famous Taiwanese actress who has won more than hundreds of acting awards in Taiwan, in Mainland China and even in Asia, expose the “real herself” without any disguise from the very beginning, a situation described by some Internet comments as “totally break down”, because her master declined to accept her offering of brand new album. The guest instantly wept and consequently the inexperienced hostess suddenly did not know how to handle the accidence, resulting in the entire program out of control. Thanks to her inexperience, the audience got the luck to see the real sentiments of the guest and the host, who acted as if he was also one of the guests of that day. In fact, I would say there was no host or hostess in this particular episode. Rene and Bobby Chen just took advantage of this show to communicate their respective attitude and feelings which might not have any proper opportunity to express in other occasions.

Second, although movies tend to be designed to move the audience and to be schemed many climatic plots, sometimes a real life story could be more touching and more intricate than them. For example, after Rene asked Bobby to sing a song called "The Kite”, whose lyrics similized a person with liberal and unrestrained personality as a kite, He by his own picked a second song to sing for her, whose lyrics immersed in a tone of sorrow, wisdom, and open mind used a man's perspective to tell a woman who was going to take a train by herself in the platform of a train station that the time has changed and a woman should have her own dream to pursue. Each word of the lyrics sang by Bobby was fully fit with the thoughts which he want to express. The lyrics seemed to tailor for this moment, while actually they were written by him many years ago.

Finally, I noticed even these days, many fans are still writing their comments about this episode which was produced many years ago. People could easily find this material on various video sharing websites such as Youtube, Tudou (土豆網), and other similar Chinese sites. The popularity has proven not only the popularity of Rene Liu, but also the formidable Internet distributing effects on an event or a program. No matter how long ago a word, a comment or a piece of works was generated, once it was put on the Internet, the impact is going to exist almost perpetually without the limits of space and time.

Tulips in Beijing Botanical Garden

Beijing Botanical Garden
Originally uploaded by taigerwan.

The Beijing Botanical Garden located in northwestern part of Beijing downtown. It is actually close to Xiang Shan. I did not expect any picturesque scenery there when I accepted the invitation from Oliver. I just want to have some opportunity to talk with him and relax my mind after several days staying home.

Nevertheless, I was amazed by the fantastic tulips there. Those flowers are just so intact and colorful that I am under the illusion that they are fakes.

My Favorite Host Cai Kang Yong (蔡康永)

I have adored Cai Kang Yong for, I guess, more than ten years. We may like some artists when we begin to know them, but afterwards we lose the feelings toward them. Sometimes there are some reasons we can analyze, while sometimes it just happened without any justifiable explanations. Both Zhou Xu (周迅) and Andy Lao (劉德華), for example, are the latter case for me. However, I didn’t mitigate my appreciation for Cai Kang Yong as time goes by.

The rationale may be his unique attitude of life and bizarre thoughts toward things that we have taken for granted since childhood. In his most famous talk show (真情指數), which always invited successful and influential celebrities to have one by one interview, he tried to take out the masks of some religion leaders, expose the true thoughts of those movie stars and singers who disguise themselves to grab more popularity in the market, and manifest the hypocritical faces of those politicians. In his another program (兩代電力公司) aimed at generation gap, he had the nerve to ask the adolescents an immoral presuming question – if the death of their parents in the air flight accidents could compensate them a great amount of money, would they choose to get the wealth regardless of the lives of their parents? Surprisingly, most of the adolescents chose to get the compensation from the insure companies. For Tsai, he thought that every body might have some immature, odd thoughts in their adolescence and it would be better to talk about it so that the parents and the children could get more chances to discuss about those developing thoughts. These above-mentioned TV programs somehow have been closed.

Admittedly, it is another talk show called The Advent of Kang Xi (康熙來了), a name combined one word of his name and another hostess, the small S, that makes he and small S to become well-known both in Taiwan and in China. This show is purely an entertaining program that bears no any educational purposes, making it suitable for stressful people living in the busy and fast-changing society. I was amazed how popular this program turned out to be in mainland China. One can buy the cheap DVDs of the program, of course they are pirated products, from every DVD vendors, or download each episode of the programs by Internet. Besides, recently I found that I can also satisfy my appetites for the program via Youtube and 6room, a video sharing website imitated from Youtube.

Yesterday, I found that Cai Kang Yong also begun writing his blog on Sina website and the click count easily reached more than 1 millions clicks in about half month. It is a brilliant idea to take advantage of Internet to reach his audience not only because he is good at writing – he have published several books – but also because there is very low possibility for him to host any programs in China with many TV programs regulations on the style, contents, etc. In addition, I learned that he will direct a movie with the investment of Chinese capital. I am looking forward to his works. His heyday will certainly continue for many years.

Related Info:

• 蔡康永新浪部落格 (Blog in Sina of Cai KangYong)

Falling In Love with Someone You Can't Admit to

The entire interview was full of puns, because there were many words these two could not express directly. When Bobby talked to the hostess, actually he was trying to reveal his idea to Rene. When Rene asked Robby to sing the song, The Kit, and when Robby selected other two songs to sing in the program, the lyrics were what one of them tried to imply to the other. The two had not seen each other for many years until they met each other in the program. Besides, they both knew that they won't have many chances to talk with each other after this show. That's why they try to seize the opportunity to communicate. We should thank for the inexperienced hostess so that we can watch this authentic situation in this episode!

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Rene Liu And Bobby Chen

I don't know what have happened on me today!

I think I must be crazy now...

Feeling deeply depressed from the evening, I begun surfing on the Internet after dinner. At the first, I just clicked on some entertainment news and got interested in " The New Age of Marriage", a new drama starred by Rene Liu (劉若英) and Guo Xiaodong(郭小冬). This TV drama has won a high reputation in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and many other cities. I have become interested in the lead actor Guo Xiaodong since a few weeks ago I saw him posted for a fashion Magazine. His smile was so innocent and charming. However, I was more interested in Rene Liu. She was fascinated by her look and songs when she mad her début more than a decade ago. "Crazy for Love", her first song, is still one of my favorite songs. Furthermore, she is one of the Taiwanese stars who win a great success in mainland China. I hope she could go on to build her own influence in China market just because of my personal reason.

All my insanity began from a blog describing the relationship between she and Bobby Chen(陳昇). Although I know that Rene is Bobby's apprentice, I don't really have any impression on their other relationship. I was shocked by what the content reveals, not only because I have no idea that they have ever developed a sad and difficult love story, but also because both of them are my most favorite stars. Or I should say one of them is, but the other used to be. Bobby has appeared to be older, and fatter than what he looked like before when I was in the college. But the most important is I don't feel touched by his songs now. I don't think this is my problem. I think most of the genius would deplete his or her talent some day.

I still adore Rene very much. After discovering this story happening between my two favorites, I can't help searching for more news about them on the Internet. And I found that a lot of comments about the episode of "Pink Protein"(桃色蛋白質), a popular Taiwanese variety show in mainland China, which Bobby hosted with another hostess in that episode and interviewed with Rene. All the comments said that specific episode was totally out of control because the hostess, Patty Hou (侯佩岑), was inexperienced. Because Bobby refused to accept the CD of her new album, Rene broke down and wept not too long after the program begun. I read all the comments I could find for many hours, and also tried to get a free source of that program. All the free download sites require me to register or to download some software first so that I can get access to it. I was quite annoyed by all the trouble procedures. I tried some of the Chinese website but eventually gave up. I found one uncompleted part of the episode on the Video features in Sina. This inspired me to give it a try on YouTube.com. And guess what! I do find all I want on YouTube. This is amazing! I don't have to install anything, and I can find one episode of a Taiwanese TV show on YouTube!

I watched the episode again and again, and searched for all the comments about this episode. And I did it all the night, until 6 o'clock in the morning! I can't believe what I have done! Such a crazy, childish and silly thing!

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