The New Snow White - Spoof Version

Hi, guys. Welcome to Channel 【E】, this is the new spoof version of snow white created by our ISYS100 team. The following video is the ‘Trailer' of our new creation, we hope you enjoy  it. 

Story outline

Once upon a time, there was an evil queen who is beautiful but also very vain.The Queen possesses a imirror on ipad that answers any question, to whom she often asks: "Mirror mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?" The mirror, it responds: "Queen, you are full fair, it is true, but Snow White is fairer than you."The Queen becomes jealous and orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the woods to be killed. However, the huntsman failed the mission.

The queen decided to do it by herself. She pretended to be a sales person and selling a poisoned apple juice to Snow White. The Snow White had the juice and passed out. When she awaks, her beauty is ruined, forever. The prince was shocked when he looking at Snow White's face and punched her face......

The New Snow White - Spoof Version

Tibet

The Tibet Autonomous Region is located in the southwestern border of the People's Republic of China, which is the southwest of the Tibetan Plateau, between east longitude 78 ° 25 'to 99 ° 06' and north latitude 26 ° 44 'to 36 ° 32'. Tibet is famous for its magnificent natural scenery. She is vast in territory with spectacular landforms and rich in resources.

Tibet is a distant and mysterious place in the minds of many people. They eager to go sightseeing, but fear plateau hypoxia and road risk. In fact, Tibet becomes Chinese domestic unique tourist destination with her amazing natural scenery, the unique characteristics of religious and honest folk customs. As an ordinary tourist please don't be fear to the plateau environment because what you arrive are all the beautiful environment and the more densely populated places therefore the transportation is becoming more convenient.

 

The Potala Palace is commonly known as the second “Mount Putuo”, which is a grand scale castle-style building standing in the Redhill where the northwest of Tibetan capital of Lhasa urban. Initially the construction of the Potala Palace is to celebrate the marriage of Songtsen and Princess Wen Cheng. After the reconstruction of the 17th century, the Potala Palace became the Winter Palace accommodation of the Dalai Lamas and the Tibetan theocracy Center. The whole palace built on mountains with distinctive Tibetan style and magnificent momentum. The Potala Palace is also collected countless treasures and called a palace of art.

Jokhang Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery which is located in Lhasa's old city center. It was built in the Tang Dynasty 21 year (647 years), Zao Songtsan built to commemorate Foot Statue Princess came into Tibet. Then the Jokhang Temple experienced several generation of repairs and additions, it became the formation of huge buildings. The Jokhang Temple history dating back more than 1350, it is a national key cultural relics protection units and has a supreme position in Tibetan Buddhism.

2K13

Today we are going to have a look at the new basketball games, NBA 2K13, which was released on October 10, 2012. NBA 2K13 was executive produced by Jay Z. The sound track of the game would be perfect and high quality. Also, Justin Bieber is in the game.

The NBA 2K13 cover athletes are Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose instead of Michael Jordan for the last two years. There are many new features in the game. First of all, signature skills are introduced. The skills would increase the abilities of player when activated. Also, a shoe creator is introduced which means users could create their own shoes. The new LS control is introduced which allows users to perform different kinds of dribbling.

I would say 2K13 is really good and IGN gave a mark of 9.1 for it. The biggest problem currently is PC users in Oceanic would not able to enter the game and a message says “wrong disc inserted” would pop up.

I have contacted the SecuROM, they provided a temporary solution for it. And we may able to exchange a working disc after October 15. Hope you enjoy it and the below is the link from SecuROM.

https://support.securom.com/pop_nba2k13.html

PetPet station：Zebra finch

 My sister wants a pet so badly, considering she cant take a good care of her goldfishes, it is not possible to buy a kitty which she loves the most. So my dad decides to buy a birdy for her. I dont know how my sister finds out the information about Zebra finch.Zebra finches are fun and easy to have in your home.  They are a pleasure to view and their soft chirping is soothing.  Whether you want only one pair to keep you company or you want to be a breeder with many birds, Zebras are a joy.

Zebra Finches originate from Australia. Zebras live in open grasslands with some bushes and trees.  They live in dry areas over most of Australia.  They live in groups and eat mostly grass seeds.  They build their nests in bushes out of grass, straw, feathers and anything else they can find.  They lay 3-6 eggs and both parents participate in raising the young.  The currently accepted taxonomic nomenclature for the Zebra is "Taeniopygia guttata castanotis".

Zebra finches live to be 4-8 years of age.  I have heard of birds living to 10 and 12 years old, but I think this is rare.

Males: The normal male bird has a gray upper body and wings.  The belly is white.  The beak and legs are a red-orange color.  On each side of the head is a cheek patch.  There is a 'tear drop' mark under the eye.  This is a brown/tan/fawn color commonly called orange.  The flanks/sides of the bird just below the wings, is a chestnut (orange) colored area with white dots.  The chest is black and white stripped like a zebra, hence the name zebra finch.  A truly beautiful bird!

Females: The female also has a gray upper body and wings with a white belly.  The beak and legs are the same red-orange color but not as deep color, lighter.  She has a black 'tear drop' mark under the eye.  The most noticable differences between males and females are the cheek patches and the chest striping.

The white Zebra finch is rare as the normally Zebra finch is generally gray. My sister bought 2 Zebra finch. One male named Anthony and one female named ChiChi. Both birdy are very shy and do not tend to close to human being. It was diffcult for me to take photos but i managed to do that eventually.

If you like Zebra finch like my sister, i highly recommended that you buy these from north paramatma or western sydey, because the price for Zebra finch are varies depending where the shop located. My sister bought for 10 bucks each from the shop located at north paramatma as our location shop(Hornsby) charges for $40-50 each.

(as my dad told my sister, as she gets birds now, she cant go elsewhere for more than one day, as the birds are not like goldfishes, Birds need feed regularly. guess what my sister said, she told me it is now my responsibility to take care of these birds when they were away, ><. thats not fair !!!)

The Cherry Festival

Young is the Cherry Capital of Australia.

The vibrant and progressive town of Young, located on the south west slopes of New South Wales, is gearing up to host the 63rd National Cherry Festival this December. This year the festival will also be helping to celebrate "Australian Year of the Farmer".

The three day celebration will include quirky and colourful festivities including the National Cherry Festival Street Parade, Cherry Festival Carnival, cherry pie eating championships, animal nursery, shearing competition, cherry pip spitting competition, live music, celtic tattoo spectacular, Hilltops Wine Expo, Young and Region Farmers Market, fringe events and much more.

The first cherry trees were planted at Young in 1847 by Edward Taylor and in 1878 Nicole Jasprizza started conducting grafting experiments to produce a "good cherry".

By the 1890's Flourens, Napoleons, Bigarroux and Marguerite had all been developed and Mr Jasprizza kept grafting old varieties until he had 7,000 old cherry trees, 3,000 young ones and 5,000 in the nursery stage.

At first cherries were sold locally but when the railway opened, Young's early cherries captured the Sydney market. By 1908 15,000 cases were being consigned annually and the 50 pickers for the season, picked until 4pm daily when they packed to catch the evening train for Sydney where the cherries were sold the following morning.

Horror Movie

If you are the fun of the horror movies, then the Paranormal Activity should sound familiar to you. Paranormal activity is a symbol of the new type horror movies, Oren Peli –the director of Paranormal Activity use the simplest scenes that discover the deeply  fear  inside our hearts.

 

Ask yourself, what makes you feel most terrified from the horror movies? Is the answer will be something that never happened to you? The answer will be absolutely no.  The stuff makes you terrified in the horror movie will be something related to your real world life, in another way, you may found the story inside the horror movie could happen to you, or the scene of the horror movie is similar like yours living envrioment. That’s how people realized that Paranormal Activity is the scariest.
 

Paranormal Activity did not show the bloody or creepy stuff, but it could awake the original fear of everyone. That’s the reason why Paranormal Activity 1 only cost $150,000 to produce, but earned nearly $108 million at the U.S. box office and $194 million worldwide .Paranormal Activity 1 ‘s main shoot area was a simplest house, Katie and her boyfriend Micah just moved into that house. Katie claims that an “evil” presence has haunted her since childhood and believes that it has followed her to their new home. Each night , Micah mounts a Sony HDR-fx1 on a tripod in their bedroom to record any paranormal activity that might occur while they sleep. That’s how the story goes.

Now is the time for the paranormal activity,try to watch that by yourself!

Dominoes, the art of toppling

I think everyone has saw videos of dominoes before. It is really interesting to see the toppling of domino pieces.

Let’s first talk about the brief history of dominoes. It is said that the dominoes came from a casino game in ancient China. The card was made of bones. After spread to Italy, some people started to stand the pieces and that is the origin of modern dominoes.

We are not going to talk about the card game of dominoes, but the domino toppling. And the word domino effect came from this activity.

First of all, let’s have a look at one of them.

I should say it is not only a way of entertainment, but also the work of art. That is the work with great concentration and persistence. Most of the work would take days to build up. Another interesting thing is people are playing human mattress dominoes as well. The new record with the most people involved is the one in Shanghai, China with 1001 people.

Here is the video.

I hope you enjoy it and if you are interested in the dominoes, you can try to build your own work. 

Mahjong Game!!!!!!

Today, I really want to introduce a traditional Chinese game ---Mah-jong to everyone! In China, Mahjong is a very famous and interesting game that suitable for everyone! It’s commonly played by 4 people. It’s easy to know how to play it ,but it will be hard to be a good player.

The video I show it's the best evidence of how popular of mahjong!

Every time, I go back to my hometown to spend the Spring Festival. We definitely will play Mahjong, it’s like the traditional of my family, I believed there are so many families like mine!

Let’s introduce how to play it!

The game is played with a set of 136 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols, although some regional variations use a different number of tiles. In most variations use a different number of tiles. In most variations, each player begins by receiving thirteen tiles. In turn players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand using the fourteenth drawn tile to four groups and a pair.

 

Nowadays, not only Chinese play Mahjong, but also the foreigner people find it is a very interesting game to play.

I highly introduce everyone who interested in Mahjong to spend some time to look this website .
http://www.blackdragoncafe.com/journal/2008/12/18/how-to-play-sichuan-style-mahjong/comment-page-1/

The Canberra Flower Show

The annual Canberra Flower Show (Floriade) kicked off soon. Canberra flower show began in 1988, and Canberra was built to celebrate the bicentenary of Australia founding City Diamond Jubilee from concept originated Large Flower Festival Flower Show and local decennial the world renowned Keukenhof. The annual flower show held in Commonwealth Park. Flower Show is not only a local event, but also attracts people and flower lovers from other parts of Australia and around the world come to watch the show. Only for last year, nearly 38 million visitors came to Canberra and brought considerable benefits to local tourism and retail.

In this Australia's biggest flower festival, countless flowers bloom to make the spring of Canberra lively. In September and October, the Commonwealth Park flowers bed scented like a huge canvas flower pattern painted over and added infinite color into this season for the open green space and local Botanical Gardens in Canberra. At the same time you can also enjoy the flowers blooming bucket Korea, getting around the bustling bazaars and food stalls, and participate in workshops, exhibitions and live concerts. Learn gardening, watching movies in the flowers under the floodlights, or walk along the path of the Flower Festival (Floriade Trail) are also good ideas to enjoy the festival. 

Brand new Sydney Aquarium - Sea Life

If your family is looking for a great fun for the long weekend, why not bring your kids to the relaunched Sydney Aquarium. Sydney Aquarium has rebranded as Sea Life Sydney Aquarium after a $10m investment from the Merlin Entertainments Group. The brand new Sydney Aquarium can now come face-to-fin with the world's largest variety of sharks and rays.

With more than 70 exhibits of 700 species and 13,000 animals in 8 million litres of water, it is one of the world's largest aquariums.SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium is also home to Australia's best-known marine animals, including the platypus, little penguins and dugongs.More than 300 animals were moved to temporary homes during the refurbishment.

 There are 14 newly themed areas, including the Tropical Bay of Rays, Discovery Rockpool, Mangrove Swamps, South Coast Shipwreck, Dugong Island and the new Shark Walk.Shark Valley is dominated by a 20-metre blue whale skeleton among the ruins of an ancient Lost City temple.

What make event better is that you can now enjoy save up to 30% off standard walk-up prices for single visit tickets and make HUGE savings with combo passes! If you are the exiting annual pass holders, you are entitled to save over 50% off the renew memership price.

If you are interested, please visit the following link to find out the great price for the

Sea Life Sydney Aquarium at http://www.sydneyaquarium.com.au/tickets/ .

As part of the adoption project, you can adopt an Animal at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium and help save Australia's threatened species and habitats.

Your donation of just $50 in support of the Sydney Aquarium Conservation Fund* (SACF) will be used to fund projects which protect and restore the population of threatened marine and freshwater species and their habitats. Visit this link to find out more : http://www.sydneyaquarium.com.au/protect/adopt-an-animal/. 

(photos credited to SMH and sydney aquarium website)

Channel E wish you have a beautiful and enjoyable holiday. See you next time.

Time for Gangnam Style

There is a MV that has 200,000,000 viewers in 2 weeks (now it has been viewed for over 300,000,000 times) and different versions are made by people from different countries. It is Gangnam Style by PSY from South Korea. On September 20, 2012, this video became the most liked video.

Let’s have a look at the video first.

Actually, not everyone likes this video, but we need to ask why it is so prevalent. First of all, we should know the background of the song. Gangnam is a district in Seoul which is similar to Beverly Hills in California. We can find many elements that belong to “higher” or “rich” classes, for example, horses, luxury cars and boats. That is the music video reflects the real world facts.

Ok, it is enough for the background; let’s talk about the most interesting part of the video which is the dance steps. The famous steps would be the steps like riding a horse. I should say it is easy to learn and it looks funny. That should be the reason why more and more people imitated the steps. I am not the musician so i could not judge the quality of the song, but I would say the melody would be easy to remember.
Now, let’s have a look at some more "Gangnam Style" videos.

Obama style

Gangnam Style for wedding

If you want more videos, just search "Gangnam Style" in YouTube. And I wish to hear your opinion about this video.

the power of music

The power of music—the voice Australia!!!

Oh my God!!!!!!!! Karise Eden has finally won the Voice!!!!!!!!!

19-year-old Eden show her unbelievable vocals in the Voice‘s stage! At the end of the show, she has shown us that she has more to offer than just her amazing voice. I wish her the best, and I know the journey just begun for her to carve out her own success in the music world.

Let‘s watch the first song that Karise Eden show us ~

Do you believe that, Karise just song the first sentence of the ‘It’s a man’s world’, Keith, Seal, Joel and Delta all turn back and they want her!!!!

Now, Karise become a popular singer in Australia after her won the first season of the voice Australia. She subsequently signed with Universal Music Australia and released her debut single "you won't let me". It‘s a good opportunity for her to start her journey.

Let us review how Eden become the final winner of the Voice

Eden was born on 11 July 1992 in Gosford Hospital in Gosford, NSW. She was raised in Wyoming. Eden's childhood was deeply affected by her family dysfunctions and issues of self-esteem.

Eden first began singing in public at age of 13; She recalled that her uncle Frank taught her everything about music. “When he first started teaching me how to play, I was playing traditional folk and bluegrass- now I play the double bass and I'm learning the banjo". Eden was also taught how to play guitar. She cites Janis Joplin. Axl Rose, Bon Jovi and Amy Winehouse as her musical inspiration.

It's very lucky for eden to have the stage of the Voice!! Eden auditioned for the first season of the Australian reality television talent show-The Voice. She appeared on the show and singing James Brown's "It's a man's world". All four coaches opted to take Eden as one of their finalists, she eventually chose Seal as her coach and mentor!!!!!!

Eden progressed through to the battle rounds, where she was paired against contestant Paula, singing Amy's "Black and black". As result , Seal chose Eden as the winner of the battle and she progressed through to the live Shows!

Throughout the Live shows round, the coaches and audiences were impressed with Eden's performance of Rebecca Ferguson's "nothing's real but love".

During the first part of the grand final, Eden sang on original song titled “I was your girl", which she co- wrote with her adopted sister, and cover of Lorraine Ellison's "stay with me baby".

Eden was announced the winner of this season during the second part of the grand final. After she was announced the winner, Eden performed her single song" you won't let me "  for the first time. She was award a prize of $100,000, a Ford Focus car and a recording contract with Universal Music Australia.

Now a new star rise!!!!!

Hunter Valley

The Hunter Valley is located in the east coast of Australia, New South Wales, where a beautiful environment, with four distinct seasons and pleasant weather. The Hunter Vally is Australia's oldest grapes area, and also provides a natural big cellar of champagne in Australia. Here produced Australian and even the world's most famous champagne and wine.

Hunter Valley has more than 120 wineries,  first-class wines produced here are very popular in both local and foreign, including the crisp Hunter Semillon and the ripe Hunter Valley Syrah. Class wines complemented with superb cuisine and unique style boutique accommodation is absolutely perfect short vocation.

Hunter Valley has became famous wine-producing regions in the early 19th century, now there are more than 70 wineries, about 60 restaurants, more than 130 large and small hotels and parks, playgrounds, ancient cultural buildings, arts and crafts, grape garden, hot air ballooning, golf courses and other kinds of food and beverage, entertainment venues and facilities, it has become a favorite tourist paradise in Sydney and international visitors.

More than 80 wineries in the Hunter Valley held wine tasting competition every year, and they will take the best brewed wine to participate.  The game is presided by an authoritative judging panelto test and rate the wine in items such as color, purity, fragrant, sweet and sour as well as taste. 

Hunter Valley's wine are not only grabbed liquor grand prize in Australia several times, but also snatched the trophy in the international competition with many famous European wineries participating. Hunter Valley's wine is not only good quality, the price is also much cheaper than Sydney city's similar wine.

Jade World Carnival 2012

The most anticipated annual event in the Chinese community, the Jade World Carnival 2012 (Organised by TVBA and Kogarah City Council) was held on Saturday, 22nd September. Many local vendors were honoured to be a part of this great event. The overwhelming response was encouraging, as Jade World Carnival was the first public event that the local promoters have ever participated.

The once a year event is always attended by famous Chinese drama series actor or actresses all the way from Hong Kong to have a little chat, sing a few songs and also to play some famous TVB games with the audiences. For this year, Kenny Wong & Shirley Yeuong were down here in Kogarah, Sydney.

 Many local vendor participated in this carnival to promote their productes or services.

The host and lucky Mascot of tvb - tvbuddy

There is an isolated stage for TVBA stars and other performer to show up their talent and giving out fabulous gifts for the audience who participated. To be eligible to enter the stage, you must be the TVBA VIP members. I was so lucky to enter the VIP area without being the VIP member of TVBA. Why? Simply because I knew the manager of Shirley and she allows me to enter, how nice she was.

The weather was nice, the performances were amazing. My idol Shirley looks as pretty as usual, her voice as sweet as how she looks like. When she came to the stage, the audience called her name in Cantonese loudly and excited. Can you believe it this is her 5^th time to visit Sydney as TVBA special guest. I bet she must be so popular. I was again lucky enough to take a photo with her. I really hope I will meet her again. 

 audiences were so happy to see Shriley on the stage

 Shirley took a photo with tvbuddy

 Shirley gave out the tvba gift to audiences.