A dish of fresh rice wraps is neatly folded on a light blue plate. The Banh Cuons are topped with a mixture of sautéed ground meat, chopped green onions, and fried shallots, adding a touch of color and texture. The plate is set on a wooden table.

My wife tried a new recipe yesterday: Banh Cuon. It is tasty :-)

 

Looks like I’m in a sentimental mood today, listening to the reunion of Elayne and her mother right now and it makes me sad and tearful at the same time. No tears but to them.

/wot

Finally finding the time to watch this film. I like it so far, although is is hard to follow with the fast paced subtitles it uses. The story reminds me a bit of Lés Mis. But it is also clearly visible a propaganda piece.

The YouTube video thumbnail features a black-and-white image of a woman with long hair, looking upwards with an expression of surprise or fear. At the top, the text reads “CHINESE FILM CLASSICS.” Below the woman is the title “The White-Haired Girl” in red, followed by the Chinese characters “白毛女.” In the bottom left corner, there’s a circular emblem with a stylized design.

ABOUT THE FILM: The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) is a seminal work of New China cinema. A musical film adapted from a stage production, which in turn was claimed to have been adapted from a popular folk legend, The White-Haired Girl is an ideologically-freighted story of liberation and rejuvenation. A fresh young country girl is subjected to inhuman suffering by a despicable landlord, before being rescued when the communist Eighth-Route Army liberates her village and sees justice done. Xi’er’s new lease on life became symbolic of the rebirth of China, whose modern history was divided into two distinct periods by the slogan: “The old society forced humans to become ghosts / The new society turns ghosts into humans.”

⤑ The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) with English subtitles.

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Oh, a new season of Ted Lasso? Not sure this will work, but of course I will want to watch it OO

 

It is always funny when you think about an improvement to a tool you created and find out that there is a library doing most of the work for you :-).

/coding

Back from my holiday, and I hope that I will be a bit more active this week. Spent the first week of my summer holiday in bed to regenerate and then directly went away. Now I hope that I don’t spent today in bed again.

 

Yesterday I found out that there is a book called “V.”, it looks that I got another entry to my TBR.

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@V_ LOL. I read a (not very good) book one time where the author didn’t seem to want to say ‘walked’ so the character ambled or glided or shuffled etc. ????

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@Miraz oh dear such writing is so hard to read. And it just takes you out of a story. Although I do understand why it happens. It feels so wrong to constantly use the same word when writing dialogue.

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@V_ Ah yes, but we need the ordinary to be always there in order that the more rare special stands out. ????

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