#c: taiwan

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[7698]

[mila-carat]

I was watching this Chinese variety show just to see Ricky and Zhang Hao but then I saw one of the hosts was Zhang Zhenyuan and now I want to cry… 😭💔

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a spot of kitten-flirting at interval! until interrupted by the chaperone. :(

Mukeni Nel and Amy Everett as Carbuckety and Jemima, Ellie Nunan as Jennyanydots, and Emily Casey as Cassandra, 2022 Taiwan tour (X).

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No. 22 - China Airlines

China Airlines, not to be confused with China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, China United Airlines, Air China Inner Mongolia, China Eastern Yunnan Airlines, Grand China Air, China Express Airlines, China Flying Dragon Aviation, China West Air, China Cargo Airlines, China Postal Airlines, China Southern Cargo, China Air Cargo, China General Aviation, China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), China Northern Airlines, China Northern Swan Airlines, China Northwest Airlines, China Southwest Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines, China Xinjiang Airlines, China Yunnan Airlines, Great China Airlines, People's Aviation Company of China (CAAC), or China's flag carrier Air China, is the flag carrier of Taiwan.

It's funny. I always thought I loved this livery.

I remember a conversation I had with my mother at the airport in...oh, it must have been 2018. I remember saying "all these planes are so bland I can barely tell them apart - I wish more of them did something interesting or tried to be pretty, like China Airlines".

Back then I wasn't the person I am now. I didn't look at nearly as many pictures of airplanes, and not nearly as closely. Attempting to seriously review a livery actually makes me realize things I never did before. I didn't know I liked the SAS livery before I looked at it critically. And I didn't know that...I don't think I like the China Airlines livery very much.

It makes me sad. It feels a little like growing up to learn that Guinness World Records mean nothing. But I don't blame my past self for thinking so highly of them. This is a situation where the high concept is fantastic and it doesn't fall apart until you look closer.

I think the main thing CAL has going for it is the color scheme, which is gorgeous. There aren't really other lavender planes out there and I think the plum blossom motif is very pretty. It's very easily recognizable and very aesthetically pleasing. It's not going for cool or for sleek, it's going for pretty, and that is, strangely enough, an untapped market.

And that's what I liked about it. That's what I still like about it. So it kills me when I say the implementation is very disappointing.

First off, Detached Tail Syndrome. This would have been so easy to remedy because the lavender is already a gradient. Gradients are maybe the easiest thing to ever extend off a tail, especially with a pastel color into a white body.

I feel like just having one blossom on the tail is a missed opportunity as well. A cluster of flowers across the back of the fuselage, growing over it like ivy...I can see it in my mind's eye, but China Airlines apparently can't.

I like the bit of blue, but I do sort of dislike how it's implemented.

It looks like she's got a bandage wrapped around her nose. I don't at all dislike the sweeping lines, but only having two of them and only at the very front feels strange. Could there not be a handful of ribbon-like lines splitting out from one point to cover a larger part of the fuselage?

And did the background have to be white? Could it not be a barely-off-white lavender, a faint powder pink, anything more dynamic? There is so much you can do with gradients, so much CAL chooses not to do. They take these fantastic colors, this start of a design, and chicken out before it actually covers the fuselage.

Look how bad it looks on a longer plane. Look how much it fades into nothingness. The blue is just vivid enough to be visible, feeling out-of-place on a stretched-out white expanse. The lavender underbelly is difficult to notice unless you're looking for it because it just looks like the shadow on the lowest part of the plane. The tail is on its own. Did you have to fly this plane between coats of paint? This can't really be the final design, can it? This wasn't even the worst example of this I found! There are longer and weirder looking planes out there and the livery looks even worse on them!

Okay. My opinion has been voiced. I have some notes about what can be done better, and both of them are going to be delivered using other China Airlines liveries.

First, this China Airlines Cargo (not to be confused with China Cargo Airlines, which is Chinese) 747. This is hypothetically the same livery, but the shape of the 747's nose makes the blue occupy more of the fuselage, and that instantly makes it so much better. Maybe make some of those lines peek out at the tail end and/or over the wings and you've got yourself a livery there. Give the plane a ribbon hat! Anything. Literally anything.

Second, this 'fusion' livery. China Airlines has a line of liveries which include aspects of Boeing and Airbus's default manufacturer liveries (let me know if you'd like to see me cover either those on their own).

To begin with, it's sad the degree to which this overpowers the actual CAL branding. But second, isn't this such an improvement? If you took the Boeing branding off you could mistake it for CAL's colors, and the lavender neatly cuts through the top of the fuselage instead of staying on the tail. The waves of the blue keep the elegant feeling of the blossoms while keeping the rest of the livery interesting. This looks better than the regular CAL livery and it's literally someone else's livery.

The Airbus livery looks better too, and that's even though I don't like the carbon fiber tails on their own, but make them CAL colors and add a big logo to the blank part of the fuselage and you've got something at least interesting! (Also, she looks so fishlike with this tail. Big fan.)

Now, I don't believe CAL needs that much detail to make a good livery. I think it would only take a couple more details, another element or two and you'd have something nice. It might even be good enough that my past self's statements would be earned.

And one last thing. One very obvious thing that I can't believe they missed.

All those blossoms and you don't even put one behind her ear? For shame, China Airlines.

Grade: C-

[pookietsunoda]

“憂愁” --小安 （iu-chhiû) Melancholy* 

Verse： I'm sleepless again, still thinking about you It seems like you're beside me I'd rather not know you, Let this matter between the two of us completely fade away Remembering that time You held my hand, said you'd never forget It's that never forgetting that lets you stay in my heart We see each other every day, I hurt because of you

Chorus: if not for you, how could I be so melancholy* Not only looked down on by others, but sleepless because of you If not for you, I would have let it pass long ago Because you're not worth the baijiu I drink I can't figure it out, I'm in love with you

*(or sorrowful or troubled, idk the most direct translation)

Note: I don't speak Hokkien so this is largely based off another netizen's translation of the lyrics into Mandarin which I've since lost. It's a banger song though. MV and original lyrics below the cut. If you're a native speaker please lmk if something is inaccurate!

《忧愁》Iu-tshiû 小安 Sió-an (陈信安Tân Sìn-an)

又阁困袂去 iū-koh khùn buē-khì 犹原阁想着你 iu-guân koh siūnn-tio̍h lí 亲像你伫我的身边 tshin-tshiūnn lí tī guá ê sin-pinn

情愿毋捌你 tsîng-guān m̄-bat lí 予两人的代志 hōo nn̄g-lâng ê tāi-tsì 随一切渐渐的过去 suî it-tshè tsiām-tsiām ê kuè-khì

想着当初时 siūnn-tio̍h tong-tshoo-sî 你牵着我的手 lí khan-tio̍h guá ê tshiú 讲永远袂放袂记 kóng íng-uán buē pàng-buē-kì

就是放袂去 tiō-sī pàng buē khì 来予你留伫阮的心 lâi hōo-lí l��u tī gún ê sim 每日相见 muí-ji̍t siong-kìnn 为你伤害自己 uī lí siong-hāi tsū-kí

若毋为着你 nā m̄ uī-tio̍h lí 我哪会遮尔忧愁 guá ná ē tsiah-nī iu-tshiû 来予人看袂起 lâi hōo-lâng khuànn-buē-khí 来为你困袂去 lâi uī lí khùn buē-khì

若毋是因为你 nā-m̄-sī in-uī lí 我早就放咧予去 guá tsá tiō pàng leh hōo khì 因为你毋值我 in-uī lí m̄-ta̍t guá 将烧酒啉落去 tsiong sio-tsiú lim--lueh-khì

我想袂开 guá siūnn buē-khui 我爱着你 guá ài-tio̍h lí

[hua-fei-hua]

at church reading the hymn lyrics like "hey i learned that word from genshin!" and "hey i learned that word from genshin!" and "hey i learned that word from translating song lyrics so that i could write genshin fic!" and "hey i learned that word from genshin!" and finally "omg i learned that word from the king's avatar"

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[wanghedi]

The taiwanese accent is sooo fucking cute it’s ridiculous grown men talking and swearing and they dont even sound aggressive the accent is so fucking baby girl

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sad cloud part 1

when you just need to let it out.

please watch when your in a good placeas sum of the dramas and moviesis hard to watchand deal with difficult theme.

1 .viki dramas and movies  

2. Netflix original dramas and movies 

3.  viki take of dramas and movie sometimes without warning and you might not see them depending on where you live  so   enjoy while you can and I'm going to keep them on the list if they do get removie because sometimes they put them back on.

1. Love in the Air 

2. My Dear Donovan 

3. HIStory3: Make Our Days Count 

4. HIStory3: Trapped 

5. The Last Goodbye to Mama 

6. Goodbye My Princess: Director's Cut 

7. Queen Dugu 

8. To Love 

9. Maid's Revenge 

10. My Amazing Boyfriend Season 2 

11. The Starry Night, the Starry Sea 

12. Because of Love 

13. The Forbidden Flower 

14. The Untamed 

15. One and Only 

16. Forever and Ever 

17. Meet Yourself 

18. Stay with Me 

19. New Life Begins 

20. Love Like the Galaxy: Part 1 

21. Doom at Your Service 

22. If You Wish Upon Me 

23. Color Rush 

24. Color Rush Season 2 

25. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes 

26. Healer 

27. The Beauty Inside 

28. Jealousy Incarnate 

29. The Last Empress 

30. Radio Romance 

31. Padam Padam 

32. The Light in Your Eyes 

33. Flower of Evil 

34. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo 

35. The Eighth Sense 

36. Happiness                     

37. Tale of the Nine-Tailed 

38. Goblin 

39. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon 

41. Utsukushii Kare 

         42. Utsukushii Kare Season 2 

43. My Beautiful Man: Eternal 

44. Hoshi Furu Yoru ni 

45. Sachiiro no One Room 

        46. Life: Love on the Line (Director's Cut)

        47. Kojinsa Arimasu 

48. The Yearbook 

49. A Tale of Thousand Stars 

50. Until We Meet Again 

51. Once Again 

52. TharnType 

53. TharnType Season 2: 7 Years of Love 

54. Eien no Kinou 

55. Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu 

56. Once Again 

57. Hello Monster 

58. Love Affairs in the Afternoon 

59. Come and Hug Me 

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around C-LAB, Taipei (臺灣當代文化實驗場)

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[rubberbandballqueen]

hmm i have like, 500-600 taiwan dollars leftover in a tin from the last time i visited relatives... i wonder what would happen if i just handed it to my little cousins like. "yep. here is gift. have fun."

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A couple of clips of Hayden Baum as Tugger, in the 2022 Taiwan tour! To the best of my knowledge he only got to cover this role once, on 25 March 2022.

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my head be spinning trying to understand the Taiwanese accent fr