#patrick yau

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"Runaway" - Ladytron x The Longest Nite (1998, dir. Patrick Yau/Johnnie To)

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By • Olalekan Fagbade BREAKING: Senate President Akpabio reshuffles committees leadership [see list] The President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has reshuffled the leadership of some of the Senate Committees, naming Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Local Content. Akpabio said this at plenary on Tuesday also naming Sen. Jimoh Ibrahim (APC-Ondo); as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs. “Sen. Patrick Ndubueze (APC-Imo) Chairman, Senate Committee on Steel Development; Sen. Shuaibu Lau (PDP-Taraba) Chairman, Committee on Tourism, Sen. Binos Yaroe (PDP-Adamawa) Chairman, Committee on State and Local Government Affairs. “The Chairman, Senate Committee on National Atomic and Nuclear Energy is Sen. Sahabi Yau (APC-Zamfara); the Chairman, Senate Committee on Youth and Community Engagement, Sen. Yemi Adaramodu (APC-Ekiti)and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Sport Development; is Sen. Kawu Sumaila (NNPP Kano). “The Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs is Sen. Olajide Ipinsagba (APC-Ondo), while the Chairman, Senate Committee on Art, Culture and Creative Economy, is Sen. Ogoshi Onawo (PDP-Nasarawa State) “The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream is Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah (APC-Anambra); while the Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, is Sen. Sampson Ekong (PDP-Ekong)”. Akpabio said that the action was for effectiveness.(NAN)

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Secrets of the three kingdoms

Year : 2018 | Country : CN | Nb of episodes: 54

My rate: 6/10

Synopsis :

When the twin sons of an emperor and a concubine are separated, one grows up to become emperor and one lives secretly as a commoner.

Twin brothers Liu Ping and Liu Xie (Ma Tian Yu)grow up very differently but end up back together in adulthood with only each other to lean on. Liu Xie is raised by his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dong, and becomes Emperor Xian while Liu Ping is secretly taken out of the palace and grows up as a commoner with Sima Yi (Elvis Han).

When fighting breaks out among different factions, Emperor Xian loses control of the kingdom to the powerful warlord Cao Cao (Tse Kwan Ho). When Emperor Xian learns about the existence of his twin brother, he summons him to the palace.

Can Liu Ping, with the help of Sima Yi, Empress Fu Shou (Regina Wan) and other Han loyalists, help the emperor save the Eastern Han Dynasty?

“Secret of the Three Kingdoms” is a 2018 Chinese drama series directed by Patrick Yau. It is based on the novel San Guo Ji Mi by Ma Bo Yong.

Main cast :

Ma Tian yu as Liu Xie/Liu Ping

Wan Qian as Fu Shou

Elvis Han as Sima Yi/ Zhong Da

Dong Jie as Tang Ying

Tan Jian Ci as Cao Pi

My thoughts on this drama :

For a historical drama, I believe this is the most serious one I have ever watched. Ma Tian Yu playing two characters (twins) is a big plus, as it added some realism and confusion within the plot. I belive the costumes are also pretty accurate for the era this story is set up in.

It is a long, plot-heavy story so be warned. Romance is not the main part of this show, we are in a political war in this drama, with deep intrigues and dark themes all over.

A Favorite ?

NO

[immanentyouth]

Lau Ching-wan hiding inside his turtleneck in Expect the Unexpected, reblog if you agree.

[cosimosalvadori]

The Longest Nite / Johnnie To, Patrick Yau (1998)

[romdocitizen]

Top: Carlito’s Way (1993) dir. Brian De Palma

Bottom: The Odd One Dies (1997) dir. Johnnie To & Patrick Yau

[chinesemovieposter]

暗花（1998）

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Replacement Killers 1998

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: Fifth senior official quits Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK, April 27, 2021

HKFP: Broadcaster RTHK axes contract of reporter known for grilling Hong Kong officials, May 3, 2021

[fromthe-point]

West Valley City, Utah – The Utah Grizzlies have announced the signings of forward Patrick McGrath and defenseman Connor Yau for the 2019-2020 season.

McGrath, 26, has extensive professional experience, having played in 94 AHL games over the past 5 seasons with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. McGrath also has 137 games of ECHL experience with the Wheeling Nailers from 2014-2016. He was 6th with 246 penalty minutes for the Nailers in the 2014-2015 season.

Yau, 24, played for Dartmouth College from 2016-2019. Yau was an alternate captain in his senior season in 2018-19, where he appeared in all 34 games. Last year he led Dartmouth in plus-minus (+10) as well as leading the team with 6 power play assists.

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List of books I read this year

The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

The Vanishing Season by Dot Hutchison

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Nana by Émile Zola

Poesía completa by Alejandra Pizarnik

Hija de la fortuna by Isabel Allende

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney

The Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien

The Likeness by Tana French

The Gathering by Anne Enright

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Plague by Albert Camus

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Dale

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong by Yau Ching

The Black Phone by Joe Hill

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing by Nigel Collett

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir of Murder, Survival and Transformation by Charity Lee

Santa by Federico Gamboa

Farewell My Concubine by Lilian Lee

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Temprada de huracanes by Fernanda Melchor

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber

The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Posion for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by Rainer Maria Rilke

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[yesdramas]

Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities 镜·双城 (2022) dir. Patrick Yau

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The Odd One Dies (1997)

兩個只能活一個 The Odd One Dies (1997)  directed by Johnnie To, Patrick Yau

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I liv in the American Gardens Building on West 81st Streit on the 11th floor. My nam is Patrick Bateman. I’m 27 years old. 

I believ in taking car of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigoraus exercis rautin.In the morning, if my faiss is a littl puffy, I’ll put on an aiss pack whayl doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thausand now. After I remov the aiss pack I use a deip por cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the faiss an exfoliating gel scrub. 

Then I apply an herb-mint’ facial masqu which I leav on for 10 minutes whayl I prepar the rest of my rautin.I always use an after shav lotion with littl or no alcohol, becaus alcohol dries yaur faiss aut and makes yau look older. Then moistchurizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moistchurizing protectiv lotion.

Ther is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Som kind of abstraction. But ther is no real me. Only an entity. Something illusory.

And thaugh I can hid my cold gaz, and yau can shak my hand and feil flesh gripping yaurs, and mayb yau can even sens aur lifestyles are probably comparabl, I simply am not ther.

[romdocitizen]

The Odd One Dies (1997) dir. Johnnie To & Patrick Yau, cinematography by Cheng Siu-keung

[13melekradyo]

Güncel modern kompozisyon kayıtlarından bir seçki // A selection of recent modern composition recordings. Download.

01 – Kjartan Sveinsson – The Last Farm 5 02 – Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett – Phantom Tunnel 03 – Snorri Hallgrímsson – Flow 04 – Bruno Bavota – Apartment Song #4 05 – Patrick Hamilton – Indecisive 06 – John Hayes – Eights 07 – Derek Yau – May (excerpt) 08 – Vaghy – Abandoned Forest 09 – Michael Vincent Waller – A Song (excerpt) 10 – Klara Lewis – Ingrid (excerpt) 11 – Daniel Davies – One Hundred Years 12 – Max Richter – All Human Beings