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张信哲《做你的男人》 Jeff Chang - Be Your Man

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , , , on May 31, 2007 | 18 Comments »

This Friday I’m going to do something rather stupid: I’m going to sing on a stage for the first time in more than four years, in Chinese. It’s actually just outtakes for a talent contest at school, so it’s hardly important. Anyway, the song is Be Your Man (做你的男人) by Jeff Chang (张信哲) and to [...]

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Hur ser ett kinesiskt tangentbord ut?

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , on February 19, 2007 | No Comments »

Min mammas kollega Johan Öjeheim har gått och funderat på hur ett kinesiskt tangentbord ser ut. Är det 30 meter långt? Har det 30 000 tangenter? Har kinesiska datoranvändare jättelånga fingrar? Nej, tråkigt nog ser tangentborden här ut precis som i Sverige. Skulle det finnas en tangent för alla de vanligaste tecknena skulle det behövas runt [...]

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童话

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2006 | 3 Comments »

I really like this song by 王光良 (Wáng Guāngliáng). The first time I heard it was in Sweden. The second time was outside a market here in Beijing. I recognized it and asked someone what it was called. I thought he said 红花 (hóng huā) but when I came home I couldn’t find a song [...]

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Tangdynastin och Li Ruihuan

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , on September 17, 2006 | No Comments »

Sorry, this is about a Chinese version of a Swedish song and is therefore written in Swedish and Chinese.
Eftersom jag har tråkigt idag sitter jag vid datorn och lyssnar på Doktor Kosmos. Sista spåret på EP:n Jimi Tenor och Kennet Johnsson är en kinesisk version av låten med samma namn. Den kinesiska titeln är 唐朝和李瑞环, [...]

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一封家书

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , on September 15, 2006 | 2 Comments »

In class today we listened to a song called 一封家书 (A Letter Home) by 李春波 (Li Chunbo). It’s from 1993 and is quite well known (in China). Because I’m bored and because I think the song says something about Chinese culture, I’ll try translating the lyrics. Our teacher already did part of the job, of [...]

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Chinese fonts and input in Ubuntu

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , , on September 12, 2006 | 1 Comment »

To whom it may concern. If you install Ubuntu Dapper (for other distributions, see comments below) with another language than Chinese as the main one, getting Chinese fonts and input to work is unforunately non-trivial. Not all steps can be done via a friendly, graphical interface.
First, install the Chinese language support files. You can do [...]

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Journey to the East, Part 1

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , on May 15, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Today was the last lesson of my evening classes in Mandarin which I have been taking this semester. We drank green tea and repeated some of what we’ve learned. Our teacher presented me with a Chinese calendar as a top of class reward, which I was very happy to receive. The short speech I gave [...]

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