Updates!

Sorry for the hiatus but I've been pretty swamped with work and last week was a funny work week. Monday - work, Tuesday - no work (Deepavali), Wednesday - work, Thursday - no work (Hari Raya), Friday - work, and the weekend prior to that was spent at my sister's place helping her to sew some cushion covers for her house.

Spent most of Thursday relaxing at home watching vcds and tv. Lately I've been hooked on watching Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese shows. One of the local stations here shows a Japanese series on Monday and Tuesday evenings (right now its a series called "Trick 3") and on Wednesday to Friday evenings it's a Taiwanese series (right now something called "A Prince Turns Into A Frog"). In the later part of the evening on Mondays and Tuesday they show a Korean series. The Japanese and Korean shows are usually dubbed into Chinese but all the shows will have English subtitles - hence the reason why I can watch them hehehe. Grown to love a couple of them and have been trying to get copies of the series on DVD or VCD but if and when I do find them, they only seem to come with Chinese subtitles (even the Taiwanese one!!).

I've been searching the Internet for a solution to my problem and I've now figured out a way of adding an English subtitle to the show (provided I have the right software, a copy of the movie file and a copy of the subtitle files). Getting the software is not a problem and it's all freeware (I love freeware), as for the movie files, I can either try and borrow the vcds from someone or a rental store or worse case buy them so that's not a major problem either. The main problem is trying to find the subtitle files. I've managed to get one complete set of English subtitles for one Japanese series I'm interested in (haven't seen it but it stars a Japanese actor I like), and subtitles for the first episode of the Taiwanese series I'm currently watching.

Other than watching these series I've also been watching Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Thai movies. These are easy enough cos they tend to come with English subtitles. Trying to get hold of "Spirited Away" - Cor, I think you've watched that right? - vcd only comes with Chinese subtitles but the dvd comes with English so I'll try and get that. Saw it at one store going for like S$30, another for S$20 and HMV has it for S$15, so will have to go back to HMV to get it, unless of course I can get the English subtitle files then I'll borrow the vcd from my friend Julie and dub it myself hehehehe.

When I've not been watching all this stuff I've been busy with work. A little free today cos my boss is down with the flu so I'm trying to do my "subtitle research" done hahaha. Oh and have gotten into listening to Japanese and Chinese music but normally of stuff I've actually heard before hahaha.

Ok enough of that - can you imagine it's taken me 34 years of living in Asia and being half Asian to actually start becoming more Asian hahahahaha - better go and improve on my Chinese :)
Ventelated by MeiBao @ 4:53 PM