Monday, December 29, 2008

Ponyo on the Cliff

Po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko
Po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko
Po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko
Po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko
Po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko

Original trailer


Live performance


Something like a mtv

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Do What I Say - Arsenal & Teenage Cancer Trust

Arsenal Football Club Launches 'Be a Gooner. Be A Giver.' Campaign for Teenage Cancer Trust

Gunners aim to raise £300,000 to help increase support for teenagers and young adults with cancer.

Arsenal Football Club today (21 August 2008) announces Teenage Cancer Trust as its nominated charity for the forthcoming football season.

Through the 'Be A Gooner. Be A Giver.' campaign, the Gunners will aim to raise £300,000 enabling Teenage Cancer Trust to increase its support for teenagers and young adults with cancer in the London area by building a unit within a brand new Day Care Centre at University College Hospital, London.

Arsenal is the first to commit to funding part of Teenage Cancer Trust's unit in the Day Care Centre. The Club hopes that other organisations will follow their lead, helping the charity to raise a further £1.2million to complete the development of their unit.

The money raised by Arsenal through innovative fundraising initiatives by players, staff and supporters will fund an Education Zone for teenage and young adult cancer patients in Teenage Cancer Trust's unit in the Centre which is due to open in 2012. The Centre will be the first of its kind in Europe and Teenage Cancer Trust's unit will help thousands of teenagers and young people with cancer and their families across London and the South East.

The Education Zone will be a dedicated space where those being treated can keep up with their studies and also learn more about their cancer. The zone will include computers and laptops with wireless access, enabling them to contact their school, keep in touch with their friends and even join in with lessons via webcam.

The partnership will be officially launched at University College Hospital London this afternoon where Arsène Wenger and Arsenal players, accompanied by Arsenal Ladies and England Captain, Faye White will be shown around Teenage Cancer Trust's existing unit by Teenage Cancer Trust Patron and dedicated Gooner, Roger Daltrey CBE. Here, they will be introduced to young people who are being treated on the specialist cancer ward for teenage cancer patients.

Speaking ahead of the launch Arsenal Manager, Arsène Wenger, said: "The team and I met some patients from Teenage Cancer Trust's unit at Emirates Stadium earlier this month.Their strength and courage in fighting this disease is remarkable. We understand the importance of these units which give young people a sense of normality in their lives whilst being treated for cancer. We look forward to kicking off the 'Be a Gooner. Be a Giver.' campaign together today." Roger Daltrey CBE, lead singer of The Who, Patron of Teenage Cancer Trust and dedicated Gooner added: "I'm so proud that Arsenal, a life-long obsession of mine, will be supporting Teenage Cancer Trust, a cause I have been championing for many years. I can't think of a better partnership.
"Arsenal Football Club has shown more commitment to teenagers than any other club in the Premier League, with young players who have set a standard of football way higher than their years. I know that both Arsenal FC and all of us, the fans, will really get behind Teenage Cancer Trust and help make a difference for thousands of young cancer patients."

Simon Davies, CEO of Teenage Cancer Trust said, "We're incredibly excited about working with Arsenal - their support will be of great benefit to the many young cancer patients who will be treated at the new day care centre in London each year. We know that, for patients of this age, being able to stay in touch with friends and to continue with education while being treated is extremely important when it comes to psychological wellbeing and future choices."

Sir Robert Naylor, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) Chief Executive, said: "UCLH is delighted to have had the support of Teenage Cancer Trust for many years to develop the UK's leading centre providing the very best care to young patients during their stay in hospital. We are delighted that Teenage Cancer Trust, together with the help of Arsenal FC, has agreed to extend this commitment to our proposed world class cancer centre which will provide day care for teenagers in a home-from-home environment."

Arsenal will be raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust's ambitious and innovative project throughout the season through a range of initiatives. As well as encouraging fans to donate and take part in events and challenges, the Club will dedicate its game against Liverpool to the charity and hold its annual end of season fundraising ball in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. A dedicated website has been created so that supporters can follow the partnership at www.beagoonerbeagiver.org.

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Arsenal players star in this 90 second charity ad for the Club's Charity of the Season 2008/09, Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT). The ad sees nine of the first team star appear in funny scenarios doing whatever the teenagers want them to do. The advert was created and shot by the agency, Brothers and Sisters and includes a voiceover by British comedian and Arsenal fan Matt Lucas.The film will appear on www.beagoonerbeagiver.org from 15 December in the run-up to the dedicated matchday and aims to encourage supporters to join in and donate through the site.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Can you RUN It?

Good website to test whether your computer can play certain computer games or not.
Avoid the money lost and frustration that you may encounter when you realised the game you bought cannot be played.

The site will test the minimum and also the recommended requirements and assess whether your computer can play or not.

Do drop by there and have a look.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Life Transformers 心晴大动员

Last Monday, it is the last epsiode of Life Transformers 心晴大动员.

Well, basically 10 familes are chosen by the production team to help them change their life by sprucing up their homes and assisting them in whatever they can. They will have only 1 day to clean up the house, make changes etc as it will affect their living and sleeping conditions for the day. Or simply, it cannot drag too long as the the volunteers too have their own lives to live and they have spent 2 days on helping.

It has certainly open up many people's eyes that there are people who live in extreme conditions despite being under a roof.

While we should carry on the good work started by them, perhaps we should at how the public services are helping them. As we have a lack of volunteers and social workers, I do not expect the government, town councils etc to be able to help all but just the 9 families shown are perhaps the extreme and why are they not picked up by the social services?

Do we need to have such a show to really open up the relevant eyes? Perhaps, after the show is being shown, buzzers are then being pressed to help those who fell in the extreme ends?

Nonetheless, I hope those families featured on the show will be able to keep up their spirits and hopefully with the improvement of their homes, their lives will only start to get better.

Some information on the show.

Life Transformers 心晴大动员


Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 , Christopher Lee 李铭顺

Programme Objective

-To promote the need to show Care, Share and Love to those in need by offering all forms of help and assistance.

-To reveal the less-fortunate groups in the communities, especially those living in poverty and poor living conditions and the less educated. The programme creates chances / platforms to help the needy in various ways other than financial aids.