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[ red_a02 ] Shuzhen – The first episode was a lot of fun, cos it had an interesting cocktail of sexual tension and smooth fight choreography. This episode is like the awkward aftermath...
27 Aquarius 13 18:13
[ vermilion_2 ] YAPX – I understand that most of your stories are dialogue-based and heavy on retorts and counter-retorts. This one felt unnecessarily circular. It starts with a cool premise: a killer/villain/vigilante uses Lent to swear off something that should be second nature to him (I suppose), and then talks about a story. The link between the two (giving up killing & the story) isn’t a 100% fit. Maybe instead of “let me tell you a story”, it could be “hey, you see I even passed a guy up for death today!” or equivalent. Something to drag Lorelei into the banter and the premise. // That’s my only complaint. I’m not a big fan of dialogue-based stories, but I can make a exception for this.
14 Aquarius 13 08:03
[ 130204 ] YAPX – Good pace, good characters, great dialogue. The thing I like best is a combination of the three: how you build up their pseudo-relationship through all that back-and-forth exchange. Somehow, you craft a unique, strange relationship: from any one point in the story, both of them are manipulative, victimised and hypocrites - though not all at once. // On word choices, I felt you could change the word “janitor” (“cleaner” or “uncle” would’ve given a different, but more acute local flavour to it). Mostly because, it’s connotes an added level of difference through: class. Whether or not you intended it, by portraying the “janitor” and “student” you bring out the fact that he’s stuck there socially in all sense of the word. It made the part where he says he reads books during weekends completely out-of-context and weird. // Also, there’s too much “sliding” in and out of the room. Not sure if that’s intentional repetition, or just a lack of other words. // I thought that the girl’s own background is pretty compelling. Even after everything, I can’t tell if she’s speaking the truth. Because I’m all for unreliable narrators and characters, I can still find her well-thought out. But other readers might lose patience or wonder at her sudden change of heart at the final moment.
04 Aquarius 13 08:48
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Beijing 2008 Olympics – Girls Kissing ♠ 20 Le♌ 2k8, Woden’s Day ♣ |  |
More Olympic goodness.
(NBC)
Yao Ming holds the torch as he runs through the Tiananmen Gate during the 2008 Beijing Olympics torch relay.
(REUTERS)
Giovanna Trillini of Italy and Nam Hyunhee of South Korea compete in the semifinals of the women’s individual foil fencing event at the Fencing Hall on Day 3 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 11, 2008.
(Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images)
Drummers at the Swimming Competitions
On a historic evening, Li Jiawei emerged into the mixed zone at the stadium with her face curled into a never-ending smile. She spoke to the cameras, into tape recorders, for minutes on end, but always she touched her medal. Fiddled with it, rubbed and clutched it.
I asked her to show it to me, and she did. The medal was beautiful, it was heavy, it was silver, and now it is Singaporean.
Does anyone else notice that Li Jiawei says “for Singapore” in almost every quote? And coach Liu Guodong says “China” in almost every quote?
Olympic Stuff
♠ The Telegraph, 15 August, 2008 – Fake Children
♠ The Washington Post, 17 August, 2008 – Why China Loves the US
♠ NDTV, 17 August, 2008 – Michael Phelps is a Mutant
♠ The Washington Post, 18 August, 2008 – Near Win > Near Loss
♠ The Telegraph, 20 August, 2008 – Ian Thorpe happy to have been proved wrong by Michael Phelps
Olympic Stories – Berlin 1936, The Medal of Friendship
♠ The Straits Times, 8 July, 2008 – Friendship: Shuhei Nishida Sueo Oe
♠ Medal of Friendship Donated to Waseda University
Olympic Stories – Berlin 1936, Jesse Owens and Luz Long
♠ ESPN – Owens pierced a myth
♠ Wikipedia – Luz Long (take note of the picture with Luz Long giving the Nazi salute)
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