2. At the Nobel Literature prize ceremony, applause rise when Mo Yan, the winner showed up. The first words of his prize speech is like this,"My Chinese name is Shut Up'. The audience were silenced immediately.
Mo Yan, 2012 Nobel Literature Prize
Ok, this are two joke about 2012 Nobel Literature prize winner mo yan, whose Chinese name in English is Shut Up or no words to tell.
STOCKHOLM - Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 is awarded to Chinese writer Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary," said Englund at a press conference.
Mo Yan, a pseudonym for Guan Moye, was born in 1955 and grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in eastern China. His parents were farmers.
"In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth. This is apparent in his novel Hong gaoliang jiazu (1987, in English Red Sorghum 1993)," said the academy in a statement of Mo's biography.
Red Sorghum ( Hong gao liang ), Mo Yan's master work
Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition, the academy commented in the biographical statement. Being the Nobel prize winner( prizes that are admitted by the government), Mo Yan has already fulfilled many Chinese people's dreams of several generations. Although the nobel prize is often involved in politics purpose, but we still congratulate him for being the first Chinese Nobel prize winner.
Two Korean videos are top popular last month all over the world, one is the PSY's Gangnam Style with more than 400 millions clicks on youtube.com. The other one is My way-Drummer Steals The Show.
Forget about the attractive female singer. All eyes are on the drummer since 1:10, that's where the drummer kicks in. You may think think that the drummer is over-acting and stolen the show, or he is on-rhythm and lost himself in the music. Whatever it is, they are popular now!
Just enjoy this video....You are welcome.
Appendix: Lyrics of My Way by Frank Sinatra
And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend I’ll say it clear
I’ll state my case of which I’m certain
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I’ve lived a life that’s full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
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Regrets I’ve had a few
But then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
Yes there were times I’m sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all
And I stood tall and did it my way
I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried
I’ve had my fill, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say not in a shy way
Oh no, oh no, not me
I did it my way
For what is a man what has he got
If not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way
