Andre

My Michael Jackson Memorial service coverage by using Twitter, sorted by oldest (first in order) tweet on top:

• Why does all the TV coverage from the US always looks so shitty in quality? Blurry and worse.. YouTube looks better than a US live coverage.
• ATV was mentioning Twitter & Internet in general, some impressive numbers.. Would have been good opportunity to introduce their own account.
• I believe the last and only time the world stood still, glued to the TV waiting for something to happen was when man set foot onto the moon.
• I guess the next similar event might be something like Madonna, moon again or Mars. Expert guesses suggest the world stands still right now.
• It is actually an excellent test to see how the media and the Internet in particular holds up to the challenge as mankind becomes connected.
• I wonder what % of the MJ Memorial followers' mass is actually the part which follows the event because of its mass, thus enlarging it more.
• In the age of combined TV and Internet coverage, I think the last Pope did not do too bad in the ratings when it comes to death ceremonies..
• As usual when tragedy struck, people are more famous afterwards. With many unpublished tracks, reworks, MJ'll be richer than ever, in death.
• RT @TechCurious: ... wow look at all the hot spots from the MJ streaming worldwide on this Akamai map! http://tinyurl.com/ytwysn
• RT @olgs: RT @william_ma: We are WITNESSING history! This could be the event we go back and say geographic limited broadcasting TV is DEAD!
• I am really looking forward for "the day after the Michael Jackson Memorial" statistics, reports and analytics of the event and its traffic.
• A couple of funny but also good harsh lines so far. I expect any moment now the Pope on stage declaring MJ a saint for bringing world peace.
• I was close with my "saint" tweet: that US Congress lady declared him a national hero with that bill, even if very unlikely it doesn't pass.
• TVB Pearl was the only station to go with the live coverage through to the end. Glad I kept switching between ATV and all TVBs all evening..
• Funny & interesting to read how US President Obama got shoved aside by the current global Michael Jackson "mania": http://tinyurl.com/mb4kbt
• Zooming live over Los Angeles in one of the news helicopters. They got a great camera onboard, feels like I stand on the street by myself :)
• Reading MJ's Memorial created a lot but not as much as expected online traffic. I doubt the result counted by 1 agency. What about restream?

Poor people of Tung Chung: sweating away in the hot summer temperatures, they are too far on the outskirts of Hong Kong and their place is too young (not taking into account the tiny fishing village it once was) as a town to have a public swimming pool; the nearest public one would be in Tsing Yi. Locals have resorted to play in the CityGate Outlets' shopping mall fountain and (most) children come fully prepared with the right swim gear.

To seemingly taunt them even more, each time the Tung Chung population decides to visit the city by MTR, they will pass an Olympic swimming pool mock-up in the Central MTR station:

However, a public pool project is under way for Tung Chung so in just a few years time - eternity for a child - cooling off options won't be limited to in- and outdoor shopping mall activities anymore (poor parents).

I had a chance opportunity to watch the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight in a Philippines shopping mall theatre. Happy about this and excited to see what everyone's talking about, the afternoon turned into a nightmare to the point of ruining the movie experience. I shall never set foot into a local cinema again, given I was assured there's nothing unusual about all that I experienced.

In short, throughout the movie I had to endure:

• Most of the audience were children aged anywhere from 5-10, having a blast like it would be their own McDonald's birthday party (forget about any movie rating whatsoever);
• People chatting like at a bar on a weekend evening;
• People coming and going like in a train station;
• Mobile phone lights like in a disco (surprisingly no ringtones though);
• The couple next to me was exclusively playing for the first 2/3 of the movie with their mobile phone and then left, not looking once at the big screen;
• People standing up for no reason;
• It was a lot colder than even the freezing Hong Kong theatres with occasional wind blows matching a typhoon.

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I just came across a music video of David Hasselhoff featuring KITT, his trusty car from the American television series Knight Rider. "The Hoff" (Hasselhoff) himself is both beloved and hated, and now his partner in fighting for justice - his car - has puzzled me even more. Originally an American car, the one used in the video clip is an Aussie (clip made in Australia). I think it is rather strange to do such an obvious mistake no matter how cheap it was to use a local car and that the video was mainly used in Australia and the UK: the featured car is right hand driven whereas the original one from the US was a left hand driven.
For all those who never saw Knight Rider, I am sure you nevertheless know very well who "The  Hoff" is: actor and executive producer of Baywatch, according to The Guinness Book of World Records the most watched TV show in the world of all time.

Music video "Jump in My Car" - do try this at home

I recently came across someone's review of a zombie movie which summarizes almost all zombie/monster movies ever produced. They all have at least some, if not all, of these features in common:

• Intelligent zombies (conflicts with purists' views)
• College setting
• (Mainly if not only) teens dying all over
• Massive rave
• Drug use
• Tits
• Fart and oral sex gags
• Russians (or other non-local/-US villains)
• Donuts