Posts Tagged ‘Media & Entertainment’

Malaysian TV Translation Standards

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Show: The Unit
Scene: Jonas (Snake Doctor) was tied up and a terrorist was looking over him
Dialog as I remember it:
Terrorist: (drinking something hot)
Jonas: Can I have some water please?
Terrorist: (looking at Jonas, then walked over to him, splashed the hot drink on Jonas)
Terrorist: Sorry, I missed
And the Malay translation for the last line was…
Maaf, saya [...]

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Zee Avi

Monday, June 15th, 2009

A friend posted a link in Facebook to Zee’s video on YouTube, and I started to look for her songs. I really love her music and voice, as there is a certain old feeling to it, not quite the same but I can relate her to Norah Jones. And I commented on that Facebook link: [...]

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SpongeBob SquarePants

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

I have been working from home for almost a month now, and to cope with loneliness from the lack of company and with the noise produced by the work next door I always have my TV turned on while working. I used to hear about SpongeBob and I know what he is but never bothered [...]

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Memoirs of A Geisha

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I watched the movie Memoirs of A Geisha last Saturday. As always, I was quite reluctant to watch it at first. This is due to the fact that the main characters of Sayuri and Mameha are played by Chinese instead of Japanese (Sayuri - Zhang Ziyi, Mameha - Michelle Yeoh). I have nothing again Chinese [...]

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Movies!

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Narnia II - Prince Caspian is in the making. I was skeptical about Narnia until I really watched it. It was good. At least now I have an alternative to Harry Potter (which is going to have only one last instalment after The Goblet of Fire).
The next big screen instalment from the books of CS [...]

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