May 14, 2008
a few weeks ago i was interviewed by one of the chinese language papers(the china times) about my camera collection. it wasn’t something i had pursued. the boss of one of the photo labs i go to said a reporter wanted to talk to someone with an unusual camera collection. so he gave me the reporters number and the interview was set up.
peter came along for the interview to help with translation as my chinese is nowhere near good enough to handle this sort of thing. on monday the interview was published and while it’s sort of fun being in the paper there are so many mistakes in the article that it might as well not even be me. my age is off by nearly 10 years(i guess i should be flattered by this), the school i went to is wrong, etc. some things that are said to happen never did.
i knew there would probably be some mistakes in it, but it’s almost like i’m a completely different person. crazy.
the article is up on their blog. here is a very bad google translation of the page. as a result of this, a tv station wants to interview me this weekend. hopefully that’ll go better. though i don’t really relish the idea of being on tv. so much for my low profile.
May 14, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I dunno, man. Milk it for what it’s worth!
May 14, 2008 at 10:13 pm
That has to be the worst translation ever!
May 14, 2008 at 11:07 pm
heh, thanks ted!
isn’t the translation bad? i usually use babel fish, but i don’t think i can permalink to such a thing. considering how many errors are in it it’s probably not such a big deal.
May 17, 2008 at 10:18 am
You can’t beat any publicity … but that translation! :^O I like this line: “he has quietly become the domestic and foreign institutions” I would hate to think what might have happened if you had loudly become the domestic and foreign institutions!
May 17, 2008 at 11:12 am
ha ha. yeah, that translation has a lot of problems…
May 17, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Congratulations on your crazy Internet photo red explosion! I do still get a kick out of reading bad computerized translations, but since it’s about you, I’m glad I can read the original. =)
Hey — I’m heading back to Taiwan in 2 weeks. Just myself, just for the summer. I’ll be in Taipei most of the time, with one or two excursions to Puli to see my gramps and aunties. Do you suppose there’s any chance that I’ll get to see you and P.? Do you guys need anything from the States??
May 17, 2008 at 8:31 pm
thanks! today was the tv interview, but he was possibly even less prepared than the newspaper reporter. i’d be surprised if any of it gets aired on tv. i don’t really care either way.
i’m very happy we’ll both be on the same island again! i’ll let you know if there’s anything we want in a few days. i’m not sure if we’ll be heading up to taipei during the summer, but it’d be quite easy for us to come up and meet you in puli while you are down visiting relatives(if you can get away for a bit during those visits).
June 6, 2008 at 11:03 am
Hello
Is there a place to buy cameras in Kaohsiung? I am here for a few days and have not found any shops that sell this