Petition

Here is what the letter says:

To: CNN and Situation Room

We are truly stunned and shocked by a recent racist and hatred remark on the Chinese people by your news commentator Jack Cafferty. In Situation Room aired on April 9th, Cafferty charged the Chinese people with a highly despicable assault by saying, “They (Chinese) are basically the same bunch goons and thugs they have been in the past fifty years.” (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/09/sitroom.03.html)

It’s not common to witness such a blatant discrimination against an ethnic group of people with such a derogatory connotation in a national TV program. We believe his remark clearly exposed his hatred and bigotry against Chinese people as a whole. Without doubt, many people feel hurt, especially, the Chinese people, by this shameless assault.

Cafferty’s hatred speech has been recorded and uploaded to Youtube. So far the click rate is approaching ten thousand. People from around the world have left comments condemning his vile remark.

As a leading organization of legal immigrants mainly comprised of people from China, we strongly condemn Jack Cafferty’s racist remarks and urge CNN to take immediate action against him. We also demand an official apology from CNN to all Chinese people. We would reserve our right to take further actions on this matter.

Click here to sign.

I stopped watching CNN after I realized the media was just one facet of the government (see: fourth estate), but really, this level of unprofessionalism surprises me.

Sevenses

P.S. Thanks Jess for giving me more examples of public figures making a fool of themselves by jumping onto the bandwagon.

Gratuitous JGS

Video slideshow of Jang Geun Suk and Kim Ri Na (whom we all affectionately remember as Eun Hye) doing photo promos of … some random product.

Sevenses

Well said, Joan

A rational voice in the media about the Tibet issue, finally!

Joan Chen wrote in the Washington Post’s online issue:

In a resolution criticizing China, Chris Daly, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, said that demonstrating against the torch relay would “provide the people of San Francisco with a lifetime opportunity to help 1.3 billion Chinese people gain more freedom and rights.” To his credit, Mayor Gavin Newsom did not sign Daly’s resolution.

This statement could not be further from reality. For one thing, the Chinese are a proud people. They want freedom and greater rights, but they know they must fight for them from within. They know that no one can grant them freedom and rights from afar. The stigma of Western imperialism and the Opium Wars also remains a strong reminder of the past, and Chinese people do not want their domestic policies to be dictated by outside powers. They also do not want the United States to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Games. The U.S. boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow and the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles accomplished nothing. A U.S. boycott of the opening ceremonies in Beijing would be counterproductive for relations between the two countries.

For decades, anti-China human rights groups in Washington have spent millions of dollars denouncing China. To many Chinese, it seems that this lobby is the only voice that’s acceptable or newsworthy in the U.S. media and to the U.S. government. But times are changing. We need to be open-minded and farsighted. We need to make more friends than enemies. Remember what a little ping-pong game did for Sino-U.S. relations in the 1970s? Let’s celebrate the Olympics for what the Games are meant to be — a bridge for friendship, not a playground for politics.

For the complete article, go here.

Isn’t that more logical and to the point (not to mention less hysterical)? Snaps for Joan.

Sevenses

The spam file

Hmm. So I’ve had 246 spam comments on this blog, with the larger majority of them being car insurance spam.

I’ve also had several pingbacks, but notably one of the them was from a purported Avril Lavigne site, however, as I have no AL posts, it decided to link to my post on Death Note instead.

Okaaaaaaaay.

And since I just got my first ‘free porn’ spam comment today, I figure this is a milestone for the blog, yes?

I can has spam about pron? Check.

Five months, and going strong! (December 2007 doesn’t count. I wasn’t posting at all.)

Love,

Sevenses

Some Jang Geun Suk Pictures

This post is entirely dedicated to how cute JGS is. So… skip if you like, but I think you’ll stop at one point and paw your screen.

All credits to soompi and the people who made them.

Come on. Isn’t that cute?

The Dork Factor. It kills.

You know, this was taken at a Hong Kong photoshoot a few days ago. He looks exactly the same as he did a few years ago. I want to know what potions he’s drinking. Or if there’s a portrait in some attic somewhere.

Everyone! On count of three - one, two, three: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!

That’s it for today’s episode of fangirling. I figured you guys would want something light after all that fuss about Tibet.

Love,

Sevenses

P.S. Apparently Song Yuri bought Kang Ji Hwan a shi-tzu puppy for his birthday. Aww. And then he named it ‘Yinok’. More aww.

Quirks and Oddities

Did you know that in the Canadian Criminal Code, ’alarming Her Majesty’ is included with other serious criminal offences such as treason, sedition, piracy and murder?

That must be one heck of an alarm.

Stumbled across that while working on a case file thing - but I’ve found some other sites detailing the incongruency of laws around the world, particularly in North America.

1. Strange Laws of the US, sorted by state.
2. Strange Laws around the world, sorted by continent.
3. And this tidbit from Australia really takes the cake.

Go have a look and let me know if your stomach hurts from laughing really hard too.

Enjoy!

Sevenses

Tibet ramblings

Having found myself getting involved in myriad debates and emails and discussions about this storm of controversy and mainly condemnation of China, I figured I might as well as unite everything I’ve been saying - it could fill reams of pages, but I’ll try to keep this one short. (Lol, and coherent.)

A month ago, nothing much was happening on this front… and the US economy continued its flailings, Obama and Clinton were busy throwing mud at each other, McCain was doing his thing, Harper added to the amount of carbon dioxide and other noxious gases spewing out of Canada, Dion went on being useless, Putin goes on with his agenda, and so on …

And then Tibetan teens and other angry people throw rocks and attack the Han Chinese, and bam! The media explodes all over how Oppressed The People Are.

The problem is that as long as people hear what they want to, they won’t stop. Especially if they’re not too smart and easily led (read: more than half the world’s population, unfortunately.)

What I’m getting worried about is the backlash from self-righteous ‘westerners’ who think they’ve got something to say to every Chinese person, now that they are confirmed in their superiority… this will give every supremacist bigot another reason to pick on Chinese people. (As evidenced by a very loud, very rude and very dim person on the bus this morning. Up yours, jerk.)

My biggest issue is the utmost hypocrisy the media is indulging in - by presenting themselves as the most impartial, unbiased human rights lovers ever, they somehow carefully ignore the other side of the story - and the other side isn’t a small minority, it’s a rather large country with some very vocal and (increasingly) angry people.

Tibetan protesters assert their independence by snatching the Olympic torch - they get kudos. Chinese people who try to protect a paraplegic girl who had the torch in hand? Arrested or labeled as violent oppressing Communists. Go media. I wave my flag at you. (Unfortunately my flag says ‘fuck you’.)

Death Note vids

ZOMG, SLAYED BY LE CUTE.

(Thanks to iurgnotmis for putting me on the trail~)

Cartoons of Death Note characters

1. Braindead - Deathnote, the alternate intro… lols aplenty.

2. I don’t like your girlfriend - Misa, Raito, and mysterious Avril Lavigne wannabe.

3. L gets an idea - L, Ryuk, Raito, masses of panicking people.

4. Death Note the show - ahah. Go fanservice, and snark. All major characters make an appearance.

5. Overdose - L is uh… high?

6. Always Second - musings on Mello and Near.

7. Financially Unwell - The ending is ROFL.

8. Raito’s presentation - The name says it all.

9. Matsuda’s rant - very well thought-out presentation in cartoon form!

10. Valentine’s Day - Matt and Mello talking about The Other Vday.

There’s more, they’re all awesome. Go and check out takeforever at youtube. Enjoy!

Sevenses

Doremifasolatido trailer, subbed

It’s a bit fuzzy, but you at least now you can understand what’s going on, right? Give thanks to sheena0627, who put it together!

And two more trailers, with song clips. Tuchee11 over at soompi put them up.

Teaser one

Teaser two

Jang Geun Suk sings in these!

And a cast interview in English. Ignore the audio, or the subtitles, because they’re not together.

It looks terribly teen angst, but as I’m in it for the eyecandy, whatever goes. Though I did check the plot of the original fic/story to make sure JGS didn’t get screwed over, again.

Sevenses

 

Doremifasolatido Soundtrack

Doremifasolatido OST

Song list - click on link to .. uh, download?

Complete OST. [MU]

Song translations full credit to flyingcrispi, who came to my rescue during a time of need. I am in your debt.

1. Intro [zShare]
2. 도레미파솔라시도 (Movie ver.) - 정준일 / Doremifasolatido (Movie Ver.) - Jeong Jun Il [zShare]
3. 기다리는 시간 - 정준일 / Waiting for the Time - Jeong Jun Il [zShare]
4. 햇살 가득히 - 정준일 / Full of Sunshine - Jeong Jun Il [zShare]
5. 용가리 Song - 정준일 / Dragon Boy Song - Jeong Jun Il [zShare]
6. 희원과 정원/ Heewon and Jungwon [zshare]
7. 사랑해서… 미안해 I / I love you… I’m sorry I [zShare]
8. 희원의 갈등 그리고… / Heewon’s Dilemma… [zShare]
9. 기다리는 시간 (piano ver.) / Waiting for the Time (piano ver.) [zShare]
10. 사랑해서… 미안해Ⅱ/ I love you… I’m sorry II [zShare]
11. Episode 1 - ROTS(황호진) [zShare]
12. 도레미파솔라시도 (Original ver.) / Doremifasolatido (Original ver.) [zShare]

The songs are the official versions, and don’t have Jang Geun Suk singing (why?? I know his voice isn’t perfect, but I’d like his version), though I’m trying to find the ones that he’s sung in.

Here’s the official MV for Full of Sunshine

Love,

Sevenses