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Alphaville
On French TV tonight ? a choice of viewing. Star Wars, Aliens 3, a few American cop shows and this ? Alphaville a « bizarre » science fiction classic by Jean Luc Godard. Follow the links for a sample, almost as strange as the Truffaut adaptation of Farenheit 451. Roughly the same period ?...
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Don't stop believing in Sumo champ Akebono
A giant American from the world of Sumo wrestling is shaking things up in Japan - not just with his weight but by his singing.Hawaiian born former grand Champion of Sumo 'Akebono' has been shocking Japanese TV audiences by performing musical routines on TV. Singing and dancing may seem fairly natural pastimes to us but they are taboo behaviour for Sumo Grand Champions who are revered almost as deities in this the most conservative of Japanese sports.Akebono became the ...
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An Example of UK Customer Service
HopAlong actually took the time to type out a transcript of a customer service call with Sky TV. Just reading this frustrates me and makes me absolutely LIVID! I wouldn't stand for it, but then again UK customer service makes American customer service reps look like saints.Started getting letters from Sky a month or so ago about 1 of our boxes not being connected to a working telephone line. This happened around a year ago and an engineer came out and sorted it, apparently. Anyway, I called...
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Rolls, movie and Super Sunday.
Joan was in the baking mood today so she made these caramel/cinnamon rolls in the afternoon. We were going to go out for a little while but discovered there was a concert on TV of Czes'aw Niemen, followed by one of our favorite movies, An American Rhapsody. It's a true story about a Hungarian family in the 50's who escape from Russian dominated Hungary to the U.S. but leave their youngest daughter with the grandmother in Hungary. The grandmother then gives the young girl to a couple in the...
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Random Humor
This is the toilet paper they use in our high school. The brand' "M'???? ????." As anyone who knows Russian can translate for you, the "?????? ????" (myagkii znak) is this character in the Russian alphabet: "?", ?s opposed to this character, "?," the "??????? ????" (tvyordii znak). They're not letters; instead they influence how you pronounce the letters before and after them. Here's where the humor comes in. You just know that some bored geek at the toilet paper factory wet his pants (luckily...
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Brrrrr ?..
For the past week or so it has been rather cold here in Loja. Those of you in the northern hemisphere - where it is the middle of winter and freezing - probably wouldn't think so, but for those of us who are used to temperatures that reach about 80 to 90 degrees F (~26 to 32 deg C) consistently, every day, it has been feeling pretty cold lately. It is hard to say what the actual temperatures have been here ? there are no weather reports on TV, and the internet forecasts don't seem to be very...
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French language boost from TV5 Monde
ONE simple way of boosting your French language skills is to watch the news at least once a day. I've found it to be a great way to pick up phrases and vocabulary that will help you in day to day life, but TV5 Monde take things on a step or two. A section of their website offers short news clips from the past seven days and varying degrees of challenging questions, from a beginner level, to an intermediate stage and an advanced level for real linguists. You can watch the individual news...
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Miley Mairi: Praying for her Visit to Japan ??????????????
Miley Cyrus with her hit song, ?Party in the USA,? is immensely popular in Japan, so much so that even I recently downloaded it to my cell phone, always the fashion victim, that's me. What made me aware of her existence was the one-time-only event held at Shibuya Parco PART1 on January 31st, and shown on nearly every channel on TV. I love the free shrine amulets they gave out to the first 500 visitors (as seen on TV), but can't find a photo online. The news article below, loosely...
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Start the clock on my 15 minutes of fame
Turns out I have readers in high places! Two weeks ago, I was contacted by someone who works for TV Brussel. He has been reading this blog, and thought I sounded interesting enough to be on television - at least for two minutes.Which is how Brussels International, a weekly show on TV Brussel, ended up doing a short segment about me this past Sunday, January 31. It's focused on my ?expat experience' and this blog - how great is that'You can view it here.I think it's kind of funny that the...
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TBS Would Like to Hear From You
TBS correspondent in Australia, Hiroki Iijima, is covering the GEOS school closures and would like to hear from you. Help him out. Contact him at: 0419 432 758 (mobile phone in Australia) or email hiroki [at] mcmstv.com.au. ShareThis
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