8.22.2008

New TV shows this fall

This fall. Almost all the old shows we know like Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, Eli Stone, Pushing Daisie, Desperate Housewives, Samantha Who?, Ugly Betty, 30 Rock, Chuck, Heroes, Life, My Name is Earl, Bones, House, Dexter, Californication etc. are coming back after a chaotic writers strike season. And there are some very interesting new shows fashionably with movie casts have been promoted since a month that we all can't wait to see: "The Mentalist" with the charming Simon Baker, "Eleventh Hour" with Rufus Sewell, "Gary Unmarried" with Jay Mohr, the very promising supernature thriller with Bill Pullman, Christopher Gorham etc. "Harper's Island", The UK TV version of "Crusoe" with Sam Neill, the comedy "Kath & Kim" with Selma Blair, the war thriller "Kings", "Fringe" with Dawson's Creek's Joshua Jackson, "Raising the Bar" with the NYPD Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and "Starter Wife" with Will & Grace's Debra Messing etc.
But while we're all staring at the Olympic Games' very selected and not live prime time monopole transmission. Weeds, Psych, and the high quality 100% canadian made police thriller "Flashpoint" are making our summer very refreshing.


"Flashpoint" is entirely shot in Toronto where the city gives all it has got to make it's new name in Hollywood.
The show is fairly well written and smartly directed, sharply filmed and gladly casted with less known canadian actors which the production can spend much more budget to produce a quality show shot with Panavision, color enhanced movie like TV must see.
Each episode starts from the critique moment the so called "flashpoint" then flashback to few hours earlier, with mainly 2 story lines, one from the Strategic Response Unit, the SRU side which is inspired by Toronto's Emergency task Force team, and the other one from the criminal or the social victims side.
The SRU geared up like swat, arrived in 3 big black SUVs, and the guy who played the photographer in "Just Shoot Me" will talk the disturbed attacker through or the snipers will push the trigger shoot the unstable public threat on the keyword "Scorpio".
I like specially Hugh Dillon's new promising face which reminded me Bruce Willis and Jason Statham. And the little flirt tension between the cliche good looking young man David Paetkau from the Final Destination 2 and the smart and only female sniper Felicity's Amy Jo Johnson. And Amy Jo Johnson and Hugh Dillon also produce and use their music as soundtrack often make beautiful closure to each tense episode.
"Flashpoint" music guide here, episode guide here.
My favorite episode: Ep. 3: The Element of Surprise

8.20.2008

Xavier Wei 魏禎宏 畫展

哥哥的同學, 我在巴黎的朋友, 每次辦畫展都是台灣留法學生同樂會的魏禎宏(寶寶), 在高雄與蔣勳教授聯展, 請大家有機會到高雄都要去瞧瞧喔!


「身體美學-人物 油畫」蔣勳、魏禎宏、柳依蘭、鄭淑汝、呂浩元

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8.18.2008

DIY Non-Toxic cleaner


We have found this very simple cleaning product this weekend to allow us to go green even when we clean.

The spray bottle contented 3 different uses microfiber cloths(I'm a big fan of these cloths invention!!), and there are some excellent DIY cleaner formulas printed on the bottle, to clean your house with a non-toxic cleaner just like in the old time.

We've tried and found them all work fine and as efficient as a regular cleaning product, and we do feel much safer and more eco. A very child, pets and skin friendly cleaning system.

DIY cleaner to use with the spray bottle:

General
2 tablespoons baking soda with 16 oz. warm water.

Window
1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar with 16 oz. warm water.

Disinfect
10-20 drops of tea tree oil with 16 oz. warm water.

Floor
1/2 teaspoon liquid soap
1/2 teaspoon borax
Lemon juice or white vinegar
with 16 oz. warm water.

Perfume Fabric
5 drops scented oil with 8 oz. water.

Product from Casabella

8.11.2008

IKEA 2009 Catalog is here!!


IKEA? My hubby's day job. The job everyone thought our apartment is a IKEA paradise, just released the new 2009 catalog to attract us all to visit the near by IKEA store asap.

As always. My hubby delivers the catalog into my hands directly from his office one week before the public distribution. And as usual. One of my favorite things to do when I read the IKEA catalog is to looking for the cat members inside of the catalog. But this year. I'm very disappointed. I've go through the entire catalog and find no cat at all but 2 fluffy dogs running on page 126 and page 246. I then right the way text to my man to demonstrate my anger. He replies: "This is very disturbing indeed. We should boycott until next year." :D

Anyhow. The online US english catalog is here

And here are some items I like:


Smile's latest projects :D

Hehe... I just got a feed back from chicken that I haven't renew my blog since a long time. And gosh! It is so true that I haven't renew my trade mark blog since last month's French Bastille day!!! O_O"
Aie! Aie! Aie! Sorry. Sorry. I guess I just became one of those lazy bloggers who lost the interest of blogging?
Or this blogging this is not that fashionable any more since we have all these economic and environment crises or our attention has been blowed away by the red hot Olympic games?

Yes. Yes. I can always pick whatever excuse to make me sounds busy and guiltless. And No. Actually ever since I've got back in New York. I've been taking time to get back to my life rhythm after crazily traveling around the past 6 months. And of course I've been working on my Chinese dishes book since a year, plus some little help from time to time to my hubby's indie musicians' touring management. Some friends was in town, and we're still working little by little on our apartment remodeling etc.

And beside all that. I just started an online T-shirt sell in Taiwan and also started another blog, an extension of my unpublished Chinese dishes book with lot more details about all the dishes that can't really fit in the pocket size version.

: ) Yes. Now I'm talking.

"MakeIt" The T-shirt store in Taiwan just launched and a friend of mine "TheCarol" (Taiwan's twitter queen) works for them. And since I've some spare drawings lying around in my hard disk. I decided to join the website and start my own store for a try. And when I have a little bit more time. I'll try to put them available for buyer outside of Taiwan on my cafepress store.



As for the extension of my Chinese dishes book "Eat Chinese Food" is posting one by one as blog for now. And once I've much more posts and readers, I'll update it into a website where you can check all the dishes by style, kind and taste before you heading to a Chinese restaurant.



And of course. When my book finally released. Don't forget to support the indie author like me, pick one copy online or in a bookstore for yourself or your friends. :D