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Sorry, not much time to post what I've been doing lately but I wanted to share some more Christine-in-the-news happenings~ we sang at a press conference the other day and this is the piece done in the news on us ~
http://www.ctitv.com.tw/news_video_c13v22036.html

And this is a recording of the whole song me and my friends did at the press conference. It was a little bit high *wince at the high notes* but still fun!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBSHEH7ItKk
:D Enjoy !!

Lots of Concerts!!!

My favorite thing to do in Taiwan (apart from karaoke-ing with friends :) :) ) is going to see concerts!! Although many of these end up being in Taipei, which costs me $100 American dollars round trip to get to (on the super fast high speed rail) I still end up going very often because I love concerts that much!!

If you remember, this a picture of the first concert I went to Taiwan  this year ~ one Taiwanese band (this one) and two Japanese bands~ they were ok :) It took place at the Wall in the art district in Kaohsiung.

This is a picture of Da Zuiba at the Charity Love Concert, for the orphans and old people's home. Me and my friend Patrick went to this one. Da Zuiba is a really cute hip hop group. Their name means "Big Mouth" This one was in Taipei at a place called Legacy. 

Me and Ashley and Liz went to see Wang Leehom at the Dream Mall in Kaohsiung ~ but he only sang one song, "I Need Someone At My Side" It was still cool to meet him :) His poster is now on my wall! 

Here is some new stuff! A couple weekends ago, there was a festival in Kaohsiung at the Lotus Pond, the 10,000 Years Festival. Several popstars performed, and it was pretty cool. We also saw the Kaohsiung mayor there. The group that is picture is of is Da Zuiba again (I guess I really like them, I've seen them twice already this year). They are exciting cause they dance and sing. 

Then, the same weekend, I found out that there was to be a huge concert in Taipei to mark the opening of the Flora Expo that is being held there this year. I saw it on the internet at 4, was on a train to Taipei by 5, and got there at 6:30 in time for the 7 oclock concert!!! It was definitely worth it!! This is a picture of Wu Bai, a famous rockstar here. He's old but still kicking ~ his songs were pretty rockin' 

You can just see the ridiculous amount of people at this. Thankfully, as each artist performed, people left, so we got closer and closer to the stage. I met my Taiwanese friend Amy here and we hung out in the crowd :) 

Next was Yuzhou Ren, or Universe People, a really cool band who plays funky music. They were so sweet! They are now probably my favorite band, and I'm going to sing one of their songs as a duet with one of my friends at this press concert for the Kaohsiung Ministry of Education next week. Heeeeeeee. 

This is a picture of Wu Yue Tian being interviewed. They are like the most popular artist in Taiwan ~ a really cool band who sing some Taiwanese songs and some Mandarin. They are getting oldish too but are still rockin as well. I really like their songs !! In English, their name means Mayday. They have really funny names, like one means "weird animal" or "monster" 

This is a picture of Magic Power, a kind of hip hop/rock band. They kept the audience pretty excited, and were fun to listen to, even though they weren't as good as the other bands (in my opinion). 

This is Guo Jing, a female popstar. 

And this is a picture of Lin Zhiling, who is Taiwan's most famous model. She is beautiful and very tall~ but after this she sang a song and it was soooo bad. She got ripped for it in the papers for days afterwards hahah. 

This is Tank, another of my favorite popstars. He wrote some of the songs from a few of my favorite idol dramas. I think he's had a drop in popularity lately~ but I still think he's a good songwriter. 

And this is SHE, the most famous girl group in Asia (probably, there might be some Korean groups more famous, but I don't really care about them haha). They were really good! I especially like Ella (the one farthest to the right) who is the star of some of my favorite dramas, including the one that Tank wrote songs for. Too bad this picture is really bad. And also that one of the other ones now has 3rd degree burns all over half of her body and is in the hospital screaming for people to put her out of her misery ~~ :( Sad

On a happier note, I had lots of fun karaokeing this weekend, and we also had a Halloween party/birthday party for my friend Maia, which was all way fun. Yay!! I miss everyoneeeee~ Love you!!