南拳媽媽

I happened on 南拳媽媽 recently because of 南拳媽媽's Lara's collaboration with Jay Chau on his snake song.

From the looks of it, they've been around for a few years with 5 albums.  I'll have to look into getting some in the future.  But I was able to check out their videos on YouTube and Lara's collab with Jay.  Very strong group.

I am finding more and more that I like in the Taiwan pop music scene.  I've sorta given up on the American music scene.  I buy 3 taiwan CDs vs 1 american nowadays.  To bad my chinese will never good enough to get in on the Karaoke stuff.

Here's a recent song from 南拳媽媽, 下雨天 (rainy day) and Lara in Jay's snake song.

Dual blogging

I've been blogging since late 2006 on Xanga.  I've found Xanga difficult to use and I wanted an autodraft option.  I am giving blogger.com a try.

I blog mostly about Taiwan music, movies, and television idol dramas.   But I also include random stuff that happens to me on a day to day basis.  But in general, its a view on pop culture in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore with an Chinese American flavor.  I do comment on Asian American culture as well, but sparingly.

In the future, I will be slowly moving all my post from xanga over here.  I currently have 102 post over there, so I'll fill in the days here with post from my xanga side.

Thanks for tuning in.  It's your time wasted.

XM Radio

Originally posted on xanga.

I got XM Radio as a 3 month subscription trial when I pick up my sweet 2008 Honda Odyssey back in June. They ran a $4.99 per month special, 3 months only, that I jump on. So, in essence, I have XM radio for roughly $15 for 6 months. Not bad. I really liked the the trance and 80s heavy metal channels.

But, 2 days ago, on 11/12, they merge or did a new lineup change in conjunction with their Sirius radio merge.

Well, half my programmed stations disappeared and other random ones appeared. Just crazy, imagine my disdain as I am trying to figure this out as I am driving! Driving! Most stations have DJs and I don't recall any of them mentioning this. I do not frequent the XM Radio website. I did not give them my email when I signed up. But no snail mail later?

Nothing! I will not be continuing my subscription once its up in December. I wonder how that works, will it just disappear?

The price has got to come down for me to even consider it in the future. I don't even have cable/dish.

High School Days

Originally posted on xanga.

So, recently, a new phenomenon has been happening to me on Facebook. Getting back in touch with people that I went to High School with.

So, I looked at the rest of the people listed as part of my class.

What the heck, I don't know most of the 50+ people currently listed there. I go look for my yearbook. Can't find it. On a recent trip back to my parents, I find it.

I look at my yearbook and I don't know any of these people too. What's going on. Is my memory that bad?

My class was roughly 550+ and I can't remember more than like 20 of them.

So sad.

愛的發聲練習 - My So-Called Love - Upcoming

Originally posted on xanga.



I am looking forward to the new Taiwan movie 愛的發聲練習 being released on 11/21. I probably won't get to see until much later. It stars 大S, 彭于晏 and 張孝全.

Check out the trailer and the recent appearance on 康熙来了 on 11/10 to promote it.