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Saturday, February 20, 2010

The Medallion, Chinese New Year 15 Day Celebration, and Facebook:

Hi! The post is doing to be a little bit different. Basically I'm going to talk about The Medallion, Chinese New Year 15 Day Celebration, and Facebook:
The Medallion: The Medallion is a 2003 film directed by Gordan Chan, starring Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, and Claire Forlani.

This movie is alright in my opinion, but nothing compared to Jackie's earlier work. Here is the Official Movie Trailer for this movie:

The trailer is great, the movie... not so good. The action scenes are the best of the movie, mainly because the Action Choreographer is Sammo Hung. SammoHung.jpg

Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan are my two favourite Action Choreographers!

This fast- paced comedy-action film is waaaayy too short! It was 90 minutes. It didn't really have a plot. I was talking to Teagan basically the whole time I was watching it! :) This movie has obvious CGI, green screens, and wires. It kinda suits it because this is a FANTASY! The whole movie speaks English, in case you were wondering. If I did a Top 10 WORST jackie chan movies , this would be on it, but I LOVE all Jackie Chan movies, so yeah. Basically It's not as bad as everyone says it is, Sometimes its fun and okay, but sometimes its an embarrassment in other spots. Jackie Chan has done better films, in my opinion. I think The Tuxedo is funnier, but The Medallion is better. The Tuxedo is another not-so-good Jackie Chan 2002 film.
Now I'm going to talk about the 15 day celebration:

At the first day, like New Years Day, nobody eats meat so they can have a long and happy life!
At the second day, everyone prays and its dog's birthday! So everyone is nice to dogs.
The third and fourth days, sons in laws respect mother in laws.
At the fifth day, no one visits families because it brings both groups bad luck if they do.
Sixth day, they visit everyone and pray more.
The seventh day, which is today: ITS EVERYBODY'S BIRTHDAY! So we all eat together! :)
Eighth day, family reunion - eat together and stuff.
Ninth day is to make offerings to the Jade Emperor
10, 11, and 12 day you just each good stuff, invite relatives and stuff. After so much good food, (This is dessert, rice balls or something like that) at the thirteen day, you clean the system by eating simple foods like Rice Congee and veggies.Chinese rice congee.jpg Theres so many different kinds of congee! Chicken, Salmon, Plain, etc!

14th day is to prepare for Lantern Festival, which happens at the 15th day!

This is made out of Lantern :File:2008 taiwan lantern festival-1.JPG
File:ShijiazhuangLanternFestval.jpg


More lantern pictures:

haha you get the idea?

Now I'm going to talk about Facebook!
Facebook is a social network site where you can update status, Facebook chat, Applications, etc.

Many people say its a popularity contest - Oooh i have 328 friends... I have 478 friends, i only have 180 friends... :( I HAVE 1126 FRIENDS! see, you get the example!

Actually I only have 170 friends on facebook :(

Facebook is very addicting. It's like a drug, it cures boredom, but the side effect is... Addictiveness!

Basically for when I go on Facebook, I check out my News Feed, and then I talk to ppl on Facebook Chat:

I talk to Ashley, Dan, Teagan, Dalan, Caleb, and many more. But those are the main ones.
World Record - The world record for talking online, I found out, is 104 hours and 12 minutes somewhere in Australia! I guess Teagan and I didn't break the world record :(
But still, eight hours is a long time! :) :D
So anyways, that all I'm going to write on this post, maybe Tomorrow, I will write about Today, and maybe I will write something later on the day!

BYE!!!!!



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