Word of the day -- IT girl

First of all, what is an IT girll?

As for Wikipedia referred, "An It girl or It-girl is an attractive young woman who receives intense media coverage unrelated or disproportional to personal achievements. The reign of an "It girl" is usually temporary; some of the rising It girls will either become fully-fledged celebrities or their popularity will fade. The term "It boy", much less frequently used, is the male equivalent. This term is unrelated to the abbreviation IT."

For one of the noted fashion icon, Alexa Chung, a host slash a model, who kept receiving high reputation for her unique feminine style as "cool and edgy". Some coverage would be found to compare Alexa with other noted English model, Agyness Deyn, and both become top idols among teenagers. 

photo shots:

A brief intro for her 'high street style' profile

And now, take a look at her talkshow, guested Tyra. 

More videos from her deemed current boyfriend, vocal of from 'Arctic Monkey' 

If you are impressed by it so much as I do, feel free to leave some further comments that I would love to appreciate and share with. 


*postscript: on the day after my blogging, i've seen it very incidentally in the Taipei Times Style whole page reported Alexa Chung. Here is the link: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/12/01/2003489839 like it or not?

well, that sounds fair.

賈斯汀隆表示，大多數男生都不喜歡看浪漫愛情電影，因為女朋友都會抱怨男朋友不像劇中男主角那麼浪漫。他說，「其實，很多男生想說的是，你們女生也沒有幾個有女主角一半漂亮！又怎麼能苛求我們男生！」

loooooooooooooops!!!

12:00 wake up/grading papers/mailing professor

13:00 chatroom tutoring/talking nonstop/grading papers nonstop

17:00 leaving chatroom/heading for office/copying/pick up papers x 160

18:00 dinner by myself/equipped with staples/stapling nonstop

18:30 german tutoring/passing out papers/receive papers

20:00 hook on braces again.

am i an idiot???!!!

嗯?!這個人做了the exact same thing as我要做的論文啊!搞屁啊?!

Wine, history, landscape: origin branding in Western Australia

Abel Duarte Alonso, Jeremy Northcote. British Food Journal. Bradford: 2009. Vol. 111, Iss. 11; pg. 1248

Abstract (Summary)

Wine is an integral part of so-called Old World nations, amalgamating with the local history and landscape, and providing a powerful origin branding. To date, however, these dimensions have been discussed to a very limited extent in emerging New World wine regions, where the lack of a traditional heritage of wine making presents special challenges in terms of origin branding. The focus of most previous research has been on the viewpoints of consumers, not those of producers. This study seeks to explore these dimensions among small wine growers. Using a qualitative approach, 42 interviews with winery operators from several emerging Western Australian wine regions were conducted. In the absence of historical wine pioneers and traditions, winery operators in emerging wine-producing regions use alternative means for origin branding that emphasise heritage and landscape characteristics centring on the wider rural idyll. These associations serve to forge a vintage identity for their industry, which essentially masks its youth for their region. In view of the more than 200 small wineries operating in Western Australia the number of respondents in the study may not allow for making generalisations of the state's wine industry. The current growth in the number of wineries in the regions studied and the increasingly acknowledged quality of their wine product may help towards the establishment of their history and identity, thus contributing to origin branding over time. The study explores the importance of history and landscape among winery operators in promoting their wineries and their wine products in the context of emerging wine regions, an area for the most part ignored in contemporary research.

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聞香下馬

匹乓一下

那我可能真的只把最後的in western Australia 改成 in France 這樣吧哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈= = 

nite!

Was sprechen Sie?

what's wrong today!!!

i've always kept things in mind,

for some reasons that i dont quite like taking notes.

not just cos i've been proud of my 'phenomenal' good memories,

it's just that sometimes it's been too much nerve-wracking to remember every single piece in lives.

but something unexpected just right there happened!!

i dont even know if it's right or not,

but what i trust in is that i dont have much lazy days left!!

it's just so not me!!!

but there've been so many notes i could bear in mind for so long.

that i dont think i would forget,

since the 'stange philosopher' first open enough to get a real human contact, why dont we give each other chances?

just like relationships so to say.

rambling cate, pointlessly, still tons of non-finished papers to grade.

we'll see.

HOHA:居然就這樣了嗎?

不真實 虛幻 無根浮萍 有人研究王力宏 有人愛看"切NO V"

小明星不預期奇遇記 不預期大聊記 但本人的確比電視上好看 一點點

永遠改不完的德文考卷 很想對學生講:你以為字寫亂一點老師就看不到你寫錯嗎?

一語成讖 但的確在預料之中 說不理我就不理我 還真有你的

我最討厭星期三 一想到就頭皮發麻 神經糾結 情緒降落攝氏三萬六千度

我喜歡跟好朋友聊天逛街 喜歡亂灑錢 然後買回虛榮心

明天又是星期三 直白如我可能一句話也說不出來

然後在監視攝影機面前落淚

孰人知曉?

槁木死灰:難道沒有別的辦法嗎?

不要在意就不會失望

不要喜歡就不會討厭

不要行動就不會後悔

不要懷疑就不會思考

不要執行就不會成長

藏頭詩:不喜歡負面思考偏偏全部都是不不不

餓死抬頭就來首曉萱姐的歌吧

時常出現國文老師的神情與主婦的長嘆和公務人員的嘴臉怨婦的法令紋

就要記得清晰 清新 清心

才會福全

花博的成功說明了什麼呢?大家來搶答!

民粹 人云亦云 為反而反 廢話一堆的路人很多

Something More Than "Dismay" and "Regrets"

I am writing to spread the info through a precise inspection on the incident. If it's wrong, correct me, or add up more precise details. If my friends could be available to use English, feel free, for it is the one and only way to step out. Here I am calling people who wish to do something more than "endure" it just as the government "suggested". Nonsense opinions and crap talks, fuck off.

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A disheartening news triggered by enormous injustice, insults and humiliation overwhelmed everyone in Taiwan yesterday. Obviously the WTF could not convince us by giving enough evidence; instead, they respond the press in extreme imprudence: "It's about 'personal privacy' that I cannot tell." And they even refuse to translate the question from the press penal. Likewise, many extremely "unexpected" and "unacceptable" sayings keep coming along, with overwhelmingly twisted and distorted "self-claimed facts", which tripled the "mysteries" behind the manipulation. To trace back the origin of the incident, plenty of "not officially spoken" issues should have been clarified through digging in details in precise inspection. Following are several arguments that has been misleading covered up the truths though some "illsional tricks".

1.Before the match, it is certain that the electronic socks has been approved in the pre-bout inspection, and also, the electronic socks is the exact kind of equipment authorized by WTF. (later on, as Taiwanese press asked them about this issue, they rejected to answer it by saying "it's a personal privacy." Also another rejection to ask the pre-bout inspector to meet them.)

2.As several reports mentioned the sensors, one of them is from BBC news, and the other one is from the Chinese official website of Asian Olympic Game.

• "The World Taekwondo Federation defended its decision, saying the extra sensors had been removed from Ms Yang's socks before the match, but had been fixed back on."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11775465

• 2. On the official websites of Asian Olympics:

http://sports.people.com.cn/BIG5/198868/202242/13243895.html

However, at the very first beginning of the equipment check, the judge doubted the "sensors" of the socks, asked Yang to remove it immediately. (which the video shows "as clear as possible.")

Chinese version:

• 1:45 Both sides started testing the sensors by kicking
• 2:10 The bald judge got the direction and asked Yang to remove the 2 sensors

• 2:28 Yang is accompanied by the bald judge to remove the sensors off the stage
• 2:46 We could clearly see her couch Liu has removed the sensors and dropped it off under the chair
• 3:06 Game started.
• 5:44 The suit guy with the glasses saw Yang's legs
• 6:28 The suit guy asked the bald guy to take the 2 sensors

It's is totally not the truth as the World Taekwondo Federation claimed on BBC news, and definitely not the cases as the Chinese described. There is no doubt extremely insulting movement they've done to pass out the wrong info throughout the world.

English version:

3.As the rules of WTF, if the equipment is not qualified, the judge could ask them to change; the judge could pause the game, wait for players to change the equipment. If this effects the game, the played could be given a warning. "IF THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, DEDUCT 1 POINT FOR PUNISHMENT."

It is absolutely ridiculous to drop out Yang from the game throughout the history. Not to mention Yang has been leading the game by 9:0.

4.Every equipment has been passed by checking 3 times with the signatures on it.

5.After the match, the manufacture of the electronic socks (1 of the 5 manufactures in the world) said "it is nothing wrong with the equipment, and it is definitely recognized by the WTF" to confirm the validity of the socks.

Although as a "vague country" for decades, Taiwan has still struggled towards a brighter future, hoping for one day we could be seriously looked upon. Although we are not rich enough and powerful enough to compete with them, we believe that "soft powers" could be cultivated by training ourselves in sports, art, and other ways. Although we do not do well on everything, we know how to "respect".

As soon as I heard our government claimed that we should "endure" it, I soon realize, "Is it hard to explain why we always stand in a lower position among other countries? I don't think so."