YeinJee's Asian Journal » Zhang Hui Mei http://yeinjee.com Popular blog on Asian culture, lifestyle, entertainment, food, travel, otaku, trends, traditions, pictures, videos, and offbeat stuff. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Beijing Olympics theme songs collection http://yeinjee.com/2008/beijing-olympic-theme-songs-collection/ http://yeinjee.com/2008/beijing-olympic-theme-songs-collection/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:12:02 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/?p=2202 Besides “You and Me” the official theme song, there are a dozen of two other theme songs that are endorsed by the Beijing Games organiser. I have shared “Beijing Welcomes You” and “Olympics in Beijing” previously; here are a few more that’s worth mentioning…

Sun Nan & Zhang Hui Mei – Forever Friends

“Forever Friends” (永远的朋友), composed by Italian composer Giorgio Moroder and Chinese pianist Kong Xiangdong. The English lyrics are helped by Michael Kunze, while Chinese lyrics by Huang Xiaosheng.

This is my favourite candidate for the official theme song. Moroder, having wrote the popular “Hand in Hand” (theme song for Seoul Olympics 1988), certainly understand what makes a good theme song. It might not be the nicest song among all, but I think it’s the best that fits the occasion.

Sharing here is the Chinese version sang by Chinese singer Sun Nan and Taiwanese star Zhang Hui Mei; the English version is sang by Sun Nan and Hong Kong singer Coco Lee…

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]]> http://yeinjee.com/2008/beijing-olympic-theme-songs-collection/feed/ 5 Fundraising concert raised HK$35mil for quake victims http://yeinjee.com/2008/fundraising-concert-raised-hk35mil-for-quake-victims/ http://yeinjee.com/2008/fundraising-concert-raised-hk35mil-for-quake-victims/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:48:47 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/?p=366 Over 500 Chinese artists joined hands in a fundraising concert on June 1 in Hong Kong and managed to collect close to HK$35 millions (~ USD4.5mil) for the Chinese quake victims.

The 8-hour-marathon-concert was initiated by Hong Kong pop star Andy Lau as part of the “Artistes 512″ fund raising campaign, and was participated by artists from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including big names like Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Leon Lai, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung, Jay Chou, A-mei, Kelly Chen, Sammi Cheng, Lin Chi Ling, Sun Nan and Ritchie Ren etc.

Artiste 512 fund raising concert
Hundreds of artists took part in the concert (Image from Xinhuanet)

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Sharing with you here a few videos about Taiwan culture and lifestyle.

First, a promotional vid featuring pop star Jolin Tsai and veteran director Woo Nian Jen for the Welcome 2 Taiwan tourism campaign…

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