YeinJee's Asian Journal

Winners of the 20th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards…

Song of the Year: Jay Chou, “Fragrant of Rice”

Best album: Eason Chan, “Don’t Want to Let Go”
Best Mandarin male singer: Jay Chou, “Capricorn”
Best Mandarin female singer: Sandee Chan, “If There’s One Important Thing”
Best band: Mayday, “Poems of Post-Adolescence”

Best producer: Purdur, “Nanwan Sisters”
Best composer: Crowd Lu, “100 Types of Lives”
Best lyricist: Wu Yu-Hsuan, “Inside the Tram”
Best music video: Jay Chou, “Mr Magic”

Best performing group: Nanwan Sisters, “Nanwan Sisters”
Best newcomer: Crowd Lu, “100 Types of Lives”

[incomplete list, only the pop categories are listed; via Cfensi]

Fila fashion’s BIGBANG Collection, featuring Korean pop group Big Bang…

Heritage

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Korean music video of Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) by pop group SNSD; title song for their new mini-album [video via Kmusic93@Youtube]…

I like the song, it’s not particularly catchy, but it’s likeable. The choreography is a bit awkward though; trying a bit too hard on flashing their nice legs, but couldn’t make it any more appealing… they would look sexier just by some simple posing.

Regardless, I can see the fanboys drooling for it; and the lyrics are obviously targeting the young male species. It’s going to hit a huge summer hit.

Girls’ Generation series

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Korean pop group Wonder Girls has released the English version of their hit song “Nobody” in preparation for their American debut.

The girls will perform as opening act in the next two months for Jonas Brothers tour and is scheduled to release their first English album later on…

Gosh, they should just sing in Korean, which sounds so much better. One or two of them did well, but overall the English is crappy; and there’s a few notes that are seriously off, probably due to their uneasiness with the language as well.

Seriously, just let them sing in Korean in Jonas’ concert… let the girls show what they’ve got instead of pushing too hard with their English. If the studio recording isn’t half good, imagine what will happen when it’s live.

Both North Korea and South Korea have qualified from the Asian groupings to play in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

It will be the first time in history that both nations are participating in the same tournament.

North Korea will be making only their 2nd appearance; their first was a fairy tale journey in 1966 in which they defeated European giant Italy en route to the quarter finals, a result that stunned the footballing world.

South Korea on the other hand is the most successful Asian team in World Cup history and will be making their 8th appearance in 2010. Their best result was 4th place in 2002 when they were joint host (with Japan) for the event.

The Koreans met in the qualifying stage in which the southern counterpart has the upper hand with a win and a draw. The northern boys are unlikely to get their revenge in 2010 though, as chances are pretty slim for them to meet each other.

Dinner a couple of weeks ago at K10 claypot chicken rice restaurant in Bercham, Ipoh. K10 is one of the Malaysia’s most famous restaurants specialises in claypot chicken rice, a simple yet tasty Cantonese delicacy.

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Offbeat snippets from other sources…

China – Man have 100 needles in body [Vinaminh]

China – Pretty girls’ saliva for sale [Stareastasia]

Japanese anime teaches kids to poo [Benzbabbles]

Korea – The Obama Story in comic [Publisherweekly]

Taiwan – Man steals for free prison meal [Reuters]

Thailand – Elephant painted like pandas [Dailymail]

UK – Olympic hopeful discovered while catching bus [Neatorama]

US – Vintage photos of female officers in US Navy in WWII (pic) [Wickedreport]

Pop legend Michael Jackson died on Thursday. He collapsed at his home in LA and pronounced dead at 2:26 pm local time. He died of cardiac arrest, with suspicion of overdosed on his prescription in some news reports.

I grew up listening to his songs, and despite all the controversies surrounding his life, Michael will always be the King of Pop in my heart… he will be sorely missed.

Rest in peace Michael.