I'm back, and I brought along a couple of things:

• some new clothing
• pineapple cake snack omiyage (not too many pieces though, I'm afraid)
• jetlag
• SICKNESS

The latter is especially horrible. What a time to have a cold! Also, while away I completely lost all track of time and didn't realize there's only 1 and a half weeks of school left! But as such ( Read more... )

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So here is the Mandarin/Taiwanese/Hakka rap act mentioned earlier:

Kou Chou Ching - "Black Heart (MoShang's Soft Centre Remix)"

Guess the Taiwanese verses? They're spoken by the second MC -- the one who sounds pissed.

I'm telling you, this is strangely awesome. And the even cooler aspect is that the remixer, MoShang, is a South African-born ( Read more... )

I'm currently listening to this remixed song through Anji Bee's Chillcast podcast show by some Taiwanese hip-hop group who rap in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka. And lemme just tell you, it's the most bizarre thing ever -- especially the Taiwanese... But it's, like, some kind of awesome, holy shitz ( Read more... )