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Tuesday, July 20

I was busy embracing my Chinese roots and watching a great 超級偶像 - that's Taiwan Super Idol to you - on MioTV - and trust me, it's really good! It's more professional and has better singers than our local music competitions on telly - when I heard this song: 我們都寂寞.

Just in case you don't speak Mandarin, that's 'We're all lonely'.

And it really speaks to me, because I feel, the truth is that we're all lonely.

The song paints a bleak picture of getting off work in the city, with people and cabs rushing by, your friends too busy and you unloved. You don't want to go home, and end up meeting someone and getting married. It's an emotionless marriage, and you reflect: it's sad to be unloved, yet being in love is not a big deal. You hate yourself, you don't really know what you want... isn't that lonely?

Here's a clip:

The thing about 超級偶像 is that the contestants are really made to practice really hard and do different genres of music, so that they really get better. My only grouse is that most can't sing English right. But there you go, I still prefer them.

Here's my favourite cutie, mock-cute-dancing to Gee:

Yes, he's Korean. Cute eh!

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