TV Tidbits
There's a station here that spends hours showing you how to play certain video games. The funny thing is, most of them are just your basic kung-fu punch ups.
And speaking of TV, do they advertise Heineken in the states? It's one of the few imported beers here, and they have been playing an ad with Jennifer Anniston (1 "n" or 2?). She can't reach the 2 Heinekens left on the top shelf, so she pulls her look-I'm cute-help-me look for this guy, who sees the 2 beer, gets them, and leaves with them. I'm not a celebrity watcher, but that commercial is funny mainly because we all know who she is.
During the day there are at least 8 stations that show stock market prices. In the evenings, those same stations are filled with people pointing at charts commenting on the minute-by-minute and long-term changes those stocks are having. Late at night, they are filled with old men talking about the charts.
Channel V, the Asian video channel, shows videos from all over the world, but particularly Japan, Korea, and China. There's a current hit by a Taiwanese kid. The video is of him performing his song in a middle school auditorium. Every Taiwanese auditorium has a picture of Sun Yat-sen and the Taiwan (Republic of China) flag. Channel V is based in Hong Kong, so the Taiwan flag is blurred out through the whole video. Sun Yat-sen on the other hand, is spared, as he is still considered cool in Communist China, for ending the Empire and beginning new China.