Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Attack of the Outlanders/外星人全面進攻


美國劇作家協會長達三個月的大罷工結束後,美國影藝學院主辦的奧斯卡金像獎,總算得以在最後關頭順利登場。(不過,時尚雜誌「浮華世界」在之前勞資談判情勢尚未明朗時,便已破天荒宣布今年取消其最負盛名的會後派對....)

當天揭曉的得獎名單裡,非主流與獨立製片風光全場,是大獲全勝的一年;而萬眾矚目的演技獎項,則全被「外星人」拿走....

最佳男主角『Daniel Day-Lewis』與女配角『Tilda Swinton』均為功力早受各方肯定的英國演員;來自西班牙的男配角『Javier Bardem』曾擒獲兩屆威尼斯影帝;而新科影后『Marion Cotillard』當了多年花瓶後,終於在《玫瑰人生》以演活了法國傳奇「香頌天后」『Edith Piaf』戲劇化的一生,向世人證明她的不凡演技,成為繼1960年來,第2位法國籍、但是第1位以法語片在奧斯卡封后的女星!

還好有柯恩兄弟所執導的《No Country for Old Men》(險路勿近)一舉囊括最佳影片、導演、改編劇本等主要大獎,替美國人爭回一口氣。否則好不容易才熬過劇作家罷工風波的美國人,應該會覺得一整個顏面無光吧?呵~

喔,對了,這次原創電影歌曲的入圍者,5首有3首來自迪士尼出品的《Enchanted》(曼哈頓奇緣),雖然第一首《Happy Working Song》,女主角 Amy Adams 親自上陣的獨唱演出實在設計得太單薄,其他兩首則呈現了如電影中的熱鬧場景及畫面;而《August Rush》(把愛找回來)的主題曲亦請來唱詩班共同擔綱。

不若近年偶爾只邀請非原唱者上台唱唱就結束,這次讓泰咪又重溫十幾年前迪士尼動畫全盛時期,總是期待欣賞入圍歌曲與電影結合之精彩演出的美好回憶啊~
(說穿了泰咪只是從小就中了迪士尼的毒、被迪士尼洗腦了吧!哈哈~)

第八十屆奧斯卡金像獎得獎名單如下:

最佳影片:「險路勿近」。

最佳導演:「險路勿近」柯恩兄弟。

最佳男主角:「黑金企業」丹尼爾戴路易斯。

最佳女主角:「玫瑰人生」瑪莉詠柯蒂亞。

最佳男配角:「險路勿近」哈維爾巴登。

最佳女配角:「全面反擊」蒂妲史雲頓。

最佳原著劇本:「鴻孕當頭」。

最佳改編劇本:「險路勿近」。

最佳攝影:「黑金企業」。

最佳剪輯:「神鬼認證:最後通牒」。

最佳音效剪輯:「神鬼認證:最後通牒」。

最佳音效:「神鬼認證:最後通牒」。

最佳服裝設計:「伊莉莎白:輝煌年代」。

最佳藝術指導:「瘋狂理髮師」。

最佳視覺效果:「黃金羅盤」。

最佳化妝:「玫瑰人生」。

最佳電影配樂:「贖罪」。

最佳電影歌曲:「Once」的「Falling Slowly」。

最佳動畫片:「料理鼠王」。

最佳外語片:「The Counterfeiters」(奧地利)。

最佳紀錄片:「Taxi To The Dark Side」。

最佳短篇紀錄片:「Freeheld」。

最佳實景短片:「The Mozart Of Pickpockets」。

最佳動畫短片:「Peter & The Wolf」。


After the 3-months strike held by the Writer Guild of America has finally over, the 80th Annual Academy Awards took place as usual. (But the most famous, "Vanity Fair" AfterParty had been called off for the first time in history...)

It's the year of independent films, they got the most awards; and the acting category were all taken by the "Outlanders"....

Best Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis & Supporting Actress, Tilda Swinton are from UK, their always-proficient-performance had already been well-known.

Spanish actor, Javier Bardem, who got the Best Supporting Actor, had been a 2-time Best Actor winner of Venice Film Festival.

And the brand new movie queen, Marion Cotillard, whose characters in films were always easy to be forgot. This time she totally turned into the legendary French singer, Edith Piaf in 《La Vie En Rose》, to prove the whole world her extraordinary performance. She has become the 2nd French since 1960, and the 1st-ever actree who played in French language film and won this category in Oscar history!

Fortunately, the Coen brothers'《No Country for Old Men》has won Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture of the Year for Americans, at least to balance the full collapse in the acting category.... ha~


Winners of the 80th Oscar were :

Best Picture of the Year
'No Country for Old Men'

Best Director
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 'No Country for Old Men'

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, 'There Will Be Blood'

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, 'La Vie en Rose'

Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, 'No Country for Old Men'

Supporting Actress
Tilda Swinton, 'Michael Clayton'

Original Screenplay
Diablo Cody, 'Juno'

Adapted Screenplay
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 'No Country for Old Men'

Cinematography
Robert Elswit,
'There Will Be Blood'

Film Editing
Christopher Rouse, 'The Bourne Ultimatum'

Sound Editing
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
'The Bourne Ultimatum'

Sound Mixing
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis,
'The Bourne Ultimatum'

Film Editing
Christopher Rouse, 'The Bourne Ultimatum'

Visual Effects
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood,
'The Golden Compass'

Costume Design
Alexandra Byrne, 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'

Makeup
Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald, 'La Vie en Rose'

Art Direction
Art Direction: Dante Ferretti,
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo,
'Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street'

Original Song
'Falling Slowly' from 'Once,'
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

Original Score
Dario Marianelli, 'Atonement'

Foreign Film
'The Counterfeiters', (Austria)

Animated Feature
'Ratatouille'

Animated Short Film
'Peter & the Wolf'

Honorary Award
Robert F. Boyle,
In recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction

Live Action Short Film
'Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)'

Documentary Feature
'Taxi to the Dark Side'

Documentary (short subject)
'Freeheld'

Sunday, February 24, 2008

四個臭皮匠

第一次中途補胎的經驗,發生在往興達港的半路上.....
First time of tire repairing on the midway.....



還好介中(的萬用補胎包)也參與了昨天的行程,否則破在前不著村後不著店的海邊,不曉得要牽車走多遠呢!

喔!對了,大家的「兒時記憶」也是能順利完成第一次補胎的重要線索啦!哈哈~


Luckily we had Eric ('s repairing pack) with us. Otherwise, stuck @ the seaside where no houses around at all, only God knew how far we had to WALK!!

By the way, everyone's "childhood memories" were also the important keys to made it successfully done! ha~

Gift Pack


在新光三越超市看到它,泰咪當然不會放過囉!
Saw this @ Mitsukoshi's supermarket, how could Tammy refuse it?!

原以為不過是模範生點心餅的組合罷了,沒想到裡面還有小禮物耶~
Thought it was just the combination of different snacks.... Hey, some gifts were inside!




雖然只是小朋友的玩意兒,預期外的小驚喜還是很令泰咪高興呢!喲齁~
Though it was just some stuff for kids, unanticipated little surprise still made Tammy pleased! Yaho~~

Friday, February 22, 2008

Seeing Is Believing


總算親眼見識到中國人「卓越、超群」的服務了!

據說是目前中國到台灣最快也最貴的快遞,果然讓泰咪留下深刻的印象啊~


事件主角就是照片中前面那兩個盒子,一個嚴重扭曲變形、一個則是都壓破了!還好內容物安然無恙... 呼~


最上面那個咧?由台灣寄出、我們親愛的中華郵政綠色天使送達泰咪手中。

果然和下面那兩個差很多吧!!!


Eventually, Tammy got to see the excellent, remarkable service from China with my own eyes!

Some say it's the best and the most expensive express service of delivery from China to Taiwan. Well, it really gave Tammy a deeply impression~~

The principal of this incident were the front two cartons in the pix. One was pressed & broken, another one was seriously distorted! Fortunately the stuff inside weren't damaged~

What about that one on the top? Sent from Taiwan, delivered by the "Green Angel*" of Taiwan Post, and arrived in perfect condition.

WHAT A BIG DIFFERENCE!!!


**Green Angel : Taiwan's postman, the name comes from the color of their uniform.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Sweet Revenge/甜蜜的復仇

中午看到這則新聞:TOSHIBA 宣布放棄繼續發展 HD DVD!

華納兄弟原本是好萊塢中,同時發行 HD & Blu-ray 兩種規格的最大片商,其 DVD 銷量約佔全美總銷量 18~20%。但今年一月初,華納宣布自今年六月開始,旗下電影將只以 Blu-ray 格式發行,不再出版 HD DVD,此舉等於是賞了 HD DVD 一記重拳啊~~

目前的高解析度 DVD 市場中,新力、20世紀福斯及迪士尼都只發行 Blu-ray DVD,加上下半年以後的華納,四家好萊塢大片商的加持將讓 Blu-ray 如虎添翼;而主要片商到時將只剩派拉蒙、環球、夢工場等出版 HD DVD,以及和 TOSHIBA 合作發展 HD DVD 的 Microsoft.....

規格統一之路應該就在不遠的未來了,觀望多時的消費者總算不必再猶豫囉~

β,恭喜你甜蜜復仇成功啦!!!

(....其實泰咪家在20幾年前的 VHS vs. Beta 大戰中,也曾經投靠錯陣營哩..... XD)


Saw this news at noon : TOSHIBA announced they are going to stop the development of HD DVD!

Warner Bros. had been the largest media company releasing videos in both HD DVD & Blu-ray formats. It is also Hollywood's biggest seller of DVDs, representing 18 to 20 percent of sales in the United States. However, they announced in early January this year that it will begin offering its high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format. This announcement was nearly a deadly strike to HD DVD!!

Currently, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Disney release their high-definition videos exclusively for Blu-ray, which is owned by Sony. Plus Warner Bros., these four major film studios will let Blu-ray make a big progress in sales, while Paramount, Universal Pictures and Dreamworks release for HD DVD -- which WAS backed by TOSHIBA and Microsoft.

Finally this Blu-ray vs. HD DVD fight looks going to be over in the near future. Consumers who are afraid to choose the wrong side won't have to hesitate anymore.

Little
β, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SWEET REVENGE!

(.... actually, Tammy's dad had picked the wrong side at VHS vs. Beta fight back to 20years ago.... XD)


Super Big Fridge/超級大冰箱

呀~~ 為什麼這麼冷啊~~~ 是泰咪變得更怕冷了嗎??? >_<

泰咪家因為方位及週遭建物的關係吧,夏天像火爐、冬天則是個大冰箱。光是一街之隔的北門路,整個氣溫和風勢就和泰咪家這一帶有天壤之別呀~~~


這一波寒流從春節前開始發威,整個台灣籠罩在寒冷之中已經兩星期,泰咪家這個大冰箱的溫度也持續下降.....

泰咪房間的溫度一直徘徊在12~15℃間超過一星期了欸~~~ 直到這兩天才提高了幾度,但白天時室內依舊比室外冷啊~~~
每天都是手冰腳冷,超難過的啦!!

處在國外冰天雪地的滑雪場裡,凍雖凍,卻不像台灣這種冷到骨子裡的感覺。台灣的潮溼氣候、鋼筋水泥造的房子、加上沒有暖氣設備,一旦連續冷個幾天下來,那種一整天都處在低溫中的感覺真是要人命吶~~~

比起那些溫帶國家,台灣的冬天似乎更難熬啊.....

God! Why is it so cold~~~ Is that Tammy can't stand the cold weather more than before??? >_<


Due to the locality and other neighboring buildings, Tammy's house is like the stove in the summer, and a super big fridge in the winter!!

This cold current started before Chinese New Year. Whole Taiwan has been shrouded in cold for almost 2 weeks, and the temperature of our super big fridge keeps going down.....

Tammy's room temperature was always between only 12~15 degree Celsius for over 1 week, and just turn 1~2 degrees higher in the daytime these two days. It really feels uncomfortable that your hands and feet are always cold everyday!!

Though it's pretty freezing being at the foreign ski reosrts, Taiwan's winter makes you feel much colder in your heart of hearts. The humidity, buildings are most made of concrete and steel, and usually no heaters. Once it turns cold for days, being in the low temperature for whole day, you will probably feel the cold air is killing you!!

Compare with those countries located at Temperate or Frigid Zone, Taiwan's winter seems like a longer suffering.....

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

This is Why



這就是為什麼不算動漫迷的泰咪會喜歡阿愣的原因了

這個商標讓在 amazon 上有購物習慣的泰咪很有親切感呀~~

唯一較遺憾的一點,當初就是看阿愣和泰咪曾拿過的美國amazon紙盒顏色幾乎一模一樣,....怎麼日本amazon的顏色反而和阿愣不像了啊???..... U_U

This is why a non-comic-fan Tammy is obsessed with this figure, DANBOARD.

The trademark let me feel warmly 'cause I shop on amazon sometims~~

The only thing Tammy feel a little pity is, DANBOARD is almost same color as the US amazon carton that I'd had, how come the color of JP amazon carton is lighter???..... U_U

Monday, February 11, 2008

At the last day.../就在最後一天...

是的,就在春節假期的最後一天,我感冒了....

其實昨晚吃過晚餐回家後應該就中鏢了,只是泰咪一直以為是吃太飽不舒服,一個晚上睡得也不好,早上起來肚子還是脹脹的


中午和泰咪爸媽去大岡山拜拜吃齋飯,才幾口就吃不下,回家後從下午一直昏睡到晚上.....


如果稍微上吐或下瀉,把腸胃裡的東西清掉,應該會覺得好一點吧!


問題是,到目前為止完全沒有這兩項的徵兆,這才叫人難受啊~~~ >_<


Yes, just one day before the end of the CNY holiday, I got the flu....

In fact, I probably got it after the dinner last night, I thought I was just too full. I didn't sleep well last night, and still felt flatus this morning.

Tammy & parents went to worship God & had lunch at Da Gan Shan this noon, just a few bites I didn't feel eating anymore. After coming back home, I slept till night.....

It might feel better if I had lightly puke or diarrhoea to clean up my stomach. However, the problem is, I don't feel any of these so far, and that's why I'm still suffering from the gas in my tummy..... >_<

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

For Sale/售...


售五樓透天厝
市中心精華地段
鬧中取靜

家具家電全附

連櫥櫃裡的衣服、冰箱裡的食物都附!!!


很像吧?

其實是泰咪家附近接到登革熱消毒通知

前天 (星期一) 要來噴藥啦~



泰咪和爸媽三人
,星期日晚上連夜把家裡能包能蓋的全都遮起來
都快過年了才收到通知
,不得不放下手邊的工作以因應消毒作業
消毒完成後等於又重來一次大掃除!


本來比別人早放兩天的春節假期

就這麼完全沒悠閒到的渡過....



5-stories house for sale.
Excellent location at downtown.
Enjoy the quiet living environment while being at the most convenient section.
Furnitures & electric appliances are all set.
Even the clothing in closets & food in the fridge are included!!

Looks like it's really for sale, isn't it?

Actually, we got the notice that someone who affected Dengue Fever is near this area, and application of larvicides would be executed on Monday (2 days ago).

Tammy & parents tried to cover the most surfaces we could on Sunday night. Since this notice came just a few days before Chinese New Year, we had no choice but to leave other CNY preparation works aside and deal with that spraying thing. And after the spray, we had to redo all the housecleaning again!!

It was 2 days more than other people's CNY holiday, but ended up in having 2 days of extra busy works....