This Chinese mother’s ability to block out her son is nothing short of jaw-dropping.

Related Post: You Can’t Touch this English!

This, from the BBC:

Mr Rudd will focus on education, environment and the economy
Australia’s Prime Minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, has announced the make-up of his new Labor government.
He appointed Julia Gillard as deputy PM and education minister, and a former rock star, Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett, as environment minister.
Penny Wong becomes the country’s first Asian-born minister, [...]

I just got home from the Muddy Basin Rambler’s CD party.

It was pretty fun. I met up with old friends, like Eli “the fraud”, Michael “blogs at the speed of thought” Turton, Angelica “the battlepanda“, Wayne, and Franc. Other bloggers, I hadn’t met before, such as Robert “the red” and Patrick Cowsill were [...]

I love it when other teachers put up videos of their students. This school is obviously quite a bit different than mine is, but the kids sure are cute.

Here’s the final performance. The costumes sure were involved, but they didn’t have real hammer pants like I’d never admit to having wanted when I [...]

I don’t even know what to make of this. Some guy who sells cell phones for a living showed up on Britain’s got Talent, saying he wants to be an opera singer. The audition didn’t go at all like I thought it would:

Update: Paul Potts has won the semi-final!

真的 sung by 張韶涵
Hover your mouse over the lyrics for pinyin and English translations.

真的
詞~深白色
我努力的仰著臉孔
試著讓眼淚不往下流 別往下流
不安的感覺到什麼
在我生活中不再相同 很不相同
想要說 卻還沈默 伸出手 無法觸碰
天空突然一片突然 原來你是真的已經離開我
在我不熟悉的世界 過新的生活
閉上眼 讓淚水滑落
此刻你真的已經永遠離開我
在另外一個
沒有我的世界
自由的走
．．．
我努力的仰著臉孔
試著讓眼淚不往下流 別往下流
不安的感覺到什麼
在我生活中不再相同 很不相同
想要說 卻還沈默 伸出手 無法觸碰
天空突然一片突然 原來你是真的已經離開我
在我不熟悉的世界 過新的生活
閉上眼 讓淚水滑落
此刻你真的已經永遠離開我
在另外一個
沒有我的世界
自由的走
天空突然一片突然 原來你是真的已經離開我
在我不熟悉的世界 過新的生活
閉上眼 讓淚水滑落
此刻你真的已經永遠離開我
在另外一個
沒有我的世界
自由的走

I went to KFC with a buddy today. Their new 古早味雞肉捲’s not too bad, BTW. Anyway, we heard the new Chinese cover of Madonna’s Material Girl, 拜金女郎. The Chinese version’s catchier, somehow. .. especially the part where it goes “yīnwèi wŏ zhīīīīīīīīīdào zhè shìjiè luànqībāzāo!” Today, I heard the song at [...]

The backdorm boys have released another video, and here it is. Tian took his copy down, so I linked to a different one.
In this video, the 後舍男生 (The Backdorm Boys) cover a song called 不得不愛, or “Irresistible Love”. I’ve been hearing it quite a bit on the radio recently, especially when riding [...]

Back when I was in college, my friends who didn’t like the Backstreet Boys always (basically all of the guys) called them the “Backdoor Boys”. Well, here’s a mockery of them gone too far… Allow me to introduce 后舍男生 (hòu shè nán shēng) or, the “Backdorm Boys”. Be sure to notice the poor [...]