#TongYao #童瑶 #ZhangXincheng #张新成 #WeWillGrowOldTogether #爱情回想 - review

I finally got around to doing this one too.  This approximately 10 minute short film was released as part of a series of short films by #VogueFilm China near the end of 2021.  Titled We Will Grow Old Together, it's scripted and directed by Wen Ye. 

It's a nice short film.  It won't be winning any awards but then it wasn't made for that.  If you're a fan of either star or if you like films and/or short films, you won't be wasting ten minutes of your time to watch this.  Happily Vogue China has made this available on their YouTube channel and they have provided English subtitles too.  So now you have no excuse not to watch it. :)

#TongYao #童瑶 #TheNewYearEveofOldLee #过年好 - Film - short review

The New Year's Eve of Old Lee - 过年好

I finally got around to watching this in part to see if it's any good and in part to check out Tong Yao's cameo in this film.  It's not bad but it's also not great.  It's merely a relatively generic story about an elderly man, Mr. Lee, who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease.  His daughter Yang Duo just found out about it and returns immediately with her daughter Julie in tow to celebrate the Spring Festival.  Several simmering grievances surface during this short visit leading to several tense moment but given that this is a Lunar New Year film, you can expect a happy ending.  Which means, in a film like this, the journey is more important than the conclusion.

#GiorgioArmani #Crossroads Podcast - #TongYao #童瑶 - translation

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I started work on this translation last year but didn't have time to finish it.  I think this would be a good time to finish this since #心居 #LifeIsALongQuietRiver has just started release. 🙂

In April of 2021, Giorgio Armani announced that Tong Yao would be one of the ambassadors for the Giorgio Armani campaign called Crossroads.  They had interviewed 14 "amazing women" and asked them to "reflect on the journey that led them to where they are today." (quoted from the Giorgio Amani FB post). 

(For capsule reviews and links to interviews & other reviews of Tong Yao's work, please CLICK ME)

Confirmed #微暗之火 #TongYao #童瑶 #StevenZhang #张新成

We can pretty much confirm that both Tong Yao and Steven Zhang did indeed work on 微暗之火 (weianzhihuo).  Some websites translate the title as #PaleFire but I'm not sure if that's official yet.

Until today, I wasn't certain that I could confirm this even though I did see flowers and a poster congratulating Steven Zhang on wrapping work on the series several days ago.  I was inclined to believe that it was confirmed.  However, because it was an illustration and I didn't know if I could trust the source 100% and because Steven Zhang himself didn't clearly indicate what series he wrapped work on on his Weibo, I didn't want to jump the gun.

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The only thing I knew for sure was that he definitely worked with Tong Yao on something and that he acknowledged on his Weibo that he had wrapped work on it.

Life Is A Long Quiet River #心居 - trailer, synopsis, preview

#LifeIsALongQuietRiver #心居 #TongYao #童瑶 #HaiQing #海清 #ZhangSongwen #张颂文 #FengShaofeng #冯绍峰 

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I thought that I would write up a little something on this series since it's going to be released very soon.  Most international audiences should be able to view this on iQiyi.

This series boasts a strong cast with award winning and/or well regarded actors like Tong Yao, Hai Qing, Zhang Songwen and Feng Shaofeng.  The director Teng Huatao is also an experienced award winning director who also helmed two older series that I found quite interesting.  I'm hopeful that this will be a quality series about women, life and family in our current world.

Documentary (极境所在) ~ behind-the-scenes of 属于我们的黑夜 The Night Belongs to Us

#TongYao #童瑶 #BoHanxiong #薄汉雄 #TheNightBelongsToUs #属于我们的黑夜 #FIRST #TrainingCamp

(For capsule reviews and links to other reviews of Tong Yao's work, please CLICK ME)

NOTE: Edited 22nd June 2022 to reflect the name change of the official English title from Night Night to The Night Belongs to Us.

At first, I thought that I would just do a short write-up of some bits but I ended up translating most of the interview in this video.  😅 

I think the reason why the production company Bobosnap called this a documentary rather than just a regular behind-the-scenes video is because they proposed a “thesis question” so to speak and are attempting to answer it. They are trying to answer this question by documenting Tong Yao as she participates in the making of the short film The Night Belongs to Us.

AULA K2 - one handed gaming keyboard

#AULA #AULAK2 #GamingKeybooard #Unboxing #Review

 

Am taking a break from writing long reviews / comments about Asian dramas and have decided to do a quick and short review of the AULA K2 gaming keyboard.  Although this is a gaming keyboard, I actually got this for a different purpose since I don't PC game much at all.  The only PC game I own is Civilization VI which I got for free from a game giveaway but I don't actually play it on the PC, I actually play that on my Nintendo Switch.  My two desktops and my Surface Pro 7 are all meant for work and I don't game on them, not even Minesweeper. 😅

I own a Surface Pro 7 with the Surface Pen and sometimes I like to use it like a cheap version of the Cintiq but when I lay it almost flat on the kickstand, the Surface Pro Type Cover gets in the way.  However, I can't really remove it because I want to use keyboard hotkeys in Photoshop and other programmes.  So I started looking for cheap solutions.  Some people recommended using a programmable keyboard or a number keypad and software like HID Macros and someone else recommended a programmable one handed gaming keyboard in the video below.

The 1byone single hand keyboard that I could not find. :(