Eton College Boy's Choir

Last night our family and a lot of the teachers of our school went to go see the Eton College Boy's Choir preform. They were really very good. I am not sure how old they all were, but there was a large range. Their voices were really good, but I found some points that sort of disappointing me.

1. Not all of them looked at the choir director
2. Not all of them dropped their mouths while singing
3. They fidgeted a lot
4. They had to have the music in front of them

I know it is probably not fair for me to say that, but it is true. Plus I have had them hammered into me the past few weeks. On Picasa I have uploaded some picture and videos.

A Monster in Paris

This picture that I have put on my Picasa website is just to prove that almost all Chinese movies are pirated. As you can tell from the title, the name of the movie is A Monster in Paris. This is basically a story of a giant singing flea. As one person put it, "If you put Phantom of the Opera and the giant bug from Mimic together, what do you get? A Monster in Paris." Yes, that tells you a little about the plot. My main point is the cover.
The synopsis on the back goes like this. "Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and a skilled production team conjure an entertainment for the ages..." Now, this is where it got confusing for me and my dad. I thought: Gene Kelly? What his he doing in an animated children's show? Did he do the choreography or what? We didn't get it. After watching the whole movie and the credits, there was no sign of Gene Kelly. So I turned to the Internet. I searched up "Gene Kelly and A Monster in Paris". Of course, nothing came up. It either talked about A Monster in Paris, or it talked about Gene Kelly's An American in Paris. It was then that I finished reading the synopsis. "Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and alluring (but engaged) perfune-shop clerk (Leslie Caron in her beguiling screen debut). Dazzling dance sequences are spun around songs by the Gershwins. And the closing ballet - combining the George Gershwin title piece, Impressionist set stylings and Kelly's inimitable talent for telling a story in dance - lifts this winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture (plus an honorary Oscar to Kelly), into the ether of timelessness." It was then that it began to click.
The people who had made to cover had put on the wrong synopsis! Instead of A Monster in Paris, they had put An American in Paris. Which I personally thought was, and is, very funny. This could only have happened if it was a Chinese person who didn't know English and they just searched up on the web a summary of A Monster in Paris, and not being able to read English, they put on the An American in Paris synopsis instead. This just goes to show how Chinese movies are almost always pirated.

Includes pictures on Picasa.