Category: Entertainment

The Last Waltz – La Dernière Valse

One of my friends once said if you found a TV ad that you don’t understand what the fuzz all about … then it’s probably an ad of a new housing estate or apartment. All these ads are full of beautiful cars, scenery, women and men – i.e. nothing really matter with the housing estate. Another trick they used to do is to have someone sing a very beautiful song in the ad.

Recently there is another such hard-to-understand TV ad. Again there is a very good song in the ad with a very familiar tune, but this time it is a French song. So what’s that song ? Let’s do some Internet searches.

I first went to Google and search the name of the new housing estate – “XXXXX”. Quite some results popped up and it seems many are asking the same question from one popular forum. So I searched again in Google but skipping all the links from that forum site – “XXXXX -site:YYY.com”. Soon I found the answer, as someone in one music forum know the answer – the song is The Last Waltz. Ah … that’s why the tune is so familiar, it’s the famous song by Engelbert Humperdinck.

So what’s next ? I searched again in Google – “Last Waltz French version”. Yes … that’s it – the result returns “La Dernière Valse by Petula Clark”. So “The Last Waltz” in French is “La Dernière Valse” and sang by one French singer Petula Clark. There is even a site with a part of the song as well. And you can buy her CD in Amazon.com.

Of course, the next stop is Youtube, and then I found the whole song / video by the famous Japanese singer Lisa Ono (sorry for the extra click, as the video is set to view only in Youtube, but not in other places).

Lastly, the original song by Engelbert Humperdinck, 40 years ago. Enjoy !!

Movie Script Database

The Cable TV replayed the movie Scent of a Womantoday and you know, any Al Pacino fan will love this film. I particular like his lines here …

Did you ever have the feelin’
that you wanted to go
And still had the feelin’
that you wanted to stay

And if you’re a fan of movies and scripts, you shall bookmark this site – script-o-rama.com, you can get all your favorite lines from your favorite stars.

Electric Dreams

1984 is always a special year … it’s the year I left the school, the year Apple introduced the Macintosh and the year with a lot of great movies … “Electric Dreams” was one of them. Only in the ’80s could they make a movie about a computer that falls in love with it’s owner’s girlfriend. And as usual, I love the soundtrack a lot.

Another good music video you don’t wanna miss …

From Mii to You

The Nintendo Wii is so popular nowadays that business books and magazines start studying the “Wii phenomena” … like how Nintendo devise its Blue Ocean Strategy, for example:

  • How Wii create uncontested market space,
  • How Wii make the competitor (read PS3) irrelevant, and
  • How Wii create and capture new demand
  • Etc. etc.

But I think one that clearly indicates its popularity is the fact that Mii pictures (you need to create a “Mii” before you play the Wii Sport game) are everywhere, it’s used wildly as blog pictures and forum avatars. In fact, you can create one with a Flash tool, even you don’t have a Wii. Try it.