Translating Subtitles and Screenwriting

I broke my promise to post at least once a day the last few days because I took on an emergency freelance case translating subtitles for a Taiwanese film trying to make a film festival deadline. It was a brutal grind, a 110-minute film with around 14,000 Chinese characters to translate within basically a 24-hour
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Quick and easy snacking options in Hong Kong

Most of my visits to Hong Kong are way too short, which runs contrary to my intentions to eat way too much. The alternative is that I just find a lot of places lots of different snacks that are cheap, quick and easy. Here are some of my recommendations. Tim Ho Wan (添好運) You really
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Oscars Adventure 2014

It’s been a while since I posted and I’m still kinda tired (with you know, stuff), but it’s time to recap my Oscars adventures for 2014. Like last year, I served as a consultant to one of the subtitling teams for the TV stations in Taiwan, which is a long day but always tons of
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R.I.P Corey Haim (sob)

[Update: the coroner has finally released a report clarifying that Corey Haim did not die of a drug overdose as initially suspected. Haim's official cause of death is pneumonia complicated by an enlarged heart and narrowed blood vessels.] Tragic. One of my favourite dudes from the late 80s and early 90s, Corey Haim, passed away
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