Gaki N Me If you love to talk about the world, love Asian idols, this is the place.

Welcome to this gakinme blog which has been moved from WRETCH blog of the same name in its entirety, comments and photos and all. This blog is about me, my interest in film, drama, Asian male actors, social and political issues in Asia, predominantly dumping on China , and my paranoia as an Asian mom raising American born Vietnamese Chinese in the US. This blog also houses many articles that I have translated for my Asian entertainment forum la creme d'asie which I closed to make time for my other new interests. But as I maintain a keen interest in entertainment, I will continue to post links, articles, news of interest.

To read all the topics of a particular category, say, Junichi Okada, click on his category in the navigational bar. Then on the top under the banner is LIST MODE, click on that you will see the entire list of articles to choose from.

To comment, which I hope you would, since there are not 1000 comment limit as in WRETCH, click on comment and then the Chinese characters (開放留言).  It will give you a popup box to comment. You only need to fill in the red items.



Happy reading!

Sandra

Note: Please go back to WRETCH blog for updates for now. I have a couple more people telling me they couldn't access this blog.

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Welcome to this pixnet blog which is a transfer from my WRETCH blog.  This blog is about my views on Asian entertainment, my paranoia as an Asian mom in the US and general commentaries on Asia, predominantly China dumping (haha). This blog will house many articles that I have translated for my forum la creme d'asie which I have closed in June to make way for new interests.  

To read listings of articles of say, Junichi Okada, click on his category and then under the banner click on LIST MODE. The entire list of articles would be displayed efficiently.

To comment, which I hope you all would, click on comment and then click on the Chinese characters (開放留言). You just need to fill the the red items.


Happy surfing!

Sandra

Geewhiz, this is really bad news for Rain. There is a band in the US called Rain and therefore they are putting an injunction to stop Rain from using his English name in the US tour. Rain has postponed his concerts for the moment because the case would be heard only on June 14. This is really bad. Source

Posted May 30, 2007:
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This is a general news thread of Kimura Takuya.

Article: June 10, 2007
Source: http://news.sina.com.tw/ents/infotimes/tw/2007-06-09/095612546530.shtml

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Thank you to millionxstars at my forum for giving me permission to repost all her translations at this blog. It is a rare chance we get English translations of this program consistently and amidst her busy schedule, millionxstars, with her devotion to Kimura, has translated many for my forum. Thank you again!

KIMURA TAKUYA'S WUS 0CTOBER 6, 2006
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Thank you to millionxstars at my forum for giving me permission to repost all her translations at this blog. It is a rare chance we get English translations of this program consistently and amidst her busy schedule, millionxstars, with her devotion to Kimura, has translated many for my forum. Thank you again!

KIMURA TAKUYA'S WUS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
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Thank you to millionxstars at my forum for giving me permission to repost all her translations at this blog. It is a rare chance we get English translations of this program consistently and amidst her busy schedule, millionxstars, with her devotion to Kimura, has translated many for my forum. Thank you again!

KIMURA TAKUYA'S WUS AUGUST 4, 2006
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Thank you to millionxstars at my forum for giving me permission to repost all her translations at this blog. It is a rare chance we get English translations of this program consistently and amidst her busy schedule, millionxstars, with her devotion to Kimura, has translated many for my forum. Thank you again!

KIMURA TAKUYA'S WUS July 7, 2006


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Ha, retaliation from the Chinese! They have just rejected certain shipments of raisins, health capsules including bee pollen and bacteria-figihting supplements due to contaminants from the US, and last month they rejected France's Evian water because of concern about high bacteria levels.

China Rejects Health Supplements And Raisins From Two U.S. Companies

China Rejects Food Imports From the U.S.

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Today, China has sentenced a former head of Chian's State Food and Drug Administration for taking bribes and gifts to death.  This is probably a response to the recent food contamination cases in China. In 2003, they executed a vice provincial governor of Anhui for the same thing. But that would not do anything to alleviate the poor regulation of the food industry.  Recently 19 government officals were punished because they allowed a smeltery to continue to pollute the environment. 34% of the kids in Xinsi have lead levels above 700 micrograms per liter of blood.  According to the World Health Organization, anything above 100 micrograms in children could cause permanent neurological damage, reduced IQ. About 34%!!! of children across China have levels exceeding WHO limit!!! Man, what is China trying to do? Kill its own people?

China Confronts Crisis Over Food Safety

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Ah! I'm in a good mood again. I don't know how the day passes by so quickly.  I spent an hour pulling weeds up and usually it's an annoying task for me but these days, I'm so relaxed that I don't even need to plug earphones in and drown myself as I blunt and blacken my fingers.  And I even have the leisure to illustrate some news articles - something I always wanted to try my hand at - social commentary in pictures. So happy.  If I had known life is so relaxing without the forum, I would have dumped it 3 years earlier...hahaha....but then, I wouldn't have known Kimura, nor Goro, Jang Dong Gun, nor Kinki Kids...and ultimately, Junichi Okada. HA! 

Anyway, my husband is talking about converting our 100 feet by 200ft sloping backyard into terraces of 3 levels and grow trees so that he wouldn't have to mow the lawn every week.  I'm all for it.  But I want a zen garden.  I've already given my husband a desktop zen garden like this one.

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Here is more to the project.

Article: June 8, 2007

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I can't believe this. CYF's 20 mins scenes have been reduced to 10 mins only in China. They took the opening scenes of CYF because of violence and the part of him reciting Li Bai's poem  "Guan Shan Yue" (The Moon Shining over the Mountain on the Border) tells of the lonely life of an expat. Hypocrites!  Have you seen the TV drama Shanghai Bund by Huang Xiao Ming. It has gangster violence!!! 

Hong Kong Star's 'Pirates' Scenes Slashed

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Chow Yun Fat's the charming villain
By Jeanine Tan in Los Angeles, TODAY | Posted: 25 May 2007 1217 hrs

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I can't believe this. The USDA found melanie in shrimp feed that the US exports to Panama, Venzuela, Belize, Suriname, Costa Rica, Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Gambia, Lebanon and CANADA!!! You could read the article here or here. The same binding material that China used for pet food. now I will avoid shrimps at all costs.  By the way, do you know that shrimps are also called the cockroaches of the sea? Did I just spoil your appetite? haha...Here's a little drawing I made.

Tonight  I am seriously looping Tsuyoshi Domoto's Si album here again.  I still don't have the courage to listen to his Neo African Rainbow album because it is so funky but I think through some Junichi translations today....and so on and so forth.....anyway, I'll translate something for Tsuyoshi tomorrow.