Katie Couric spoke Chinese

Last night I watched the online broadcast of the "CBS evening news with Katie Couric."  At the very end, Katie said "ming2 tian1 jian4, wan3 an1" with the English subtitle "See you tomorrow, good night" at the bottom of the screen.  I was surprised!  Well, her tone was funny, but totally understood :-)

Katie Couric speaking Chinese is definitely not an improvisation.  Yesterday's evening news program highlighted who's visit of America~~~who? HU....President Hu!  And, the last report yesterday was about Chinese language learning in American elementary classroom.  So I guess Katie Couric just followed the flow, and lightened the audience a little bit. :-)

Katie Couric speaking Chinese is quite unexpected, though.  As an audience of China's most watched prime-time news program for some twenty years, I speak from the gut, that the anchors of CCTV's "Xin wen lian bo" will never ever say "See you tomorrow, good night" in English, even if one day all alive and dead presidents of United States together visit China!

British Actors

Recently I have been watching "Yes Minister" recommended by one of my friends who just graduated from Oxford.  It's a British series of political comedy aired during the early 1980s.  Well, I have a pitiful small vocabulary of praise something.  So, the expression I will use to describe this show is "I had a crush on IT."  (You know what I mean by this misuse! ^_^)  Oh, I just love it!!!

I guess I have a special fondness for some British actors for no reasons.  Jeremy Britt's version of Sherlock Holmes, Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy......They drove me crazy!  By looking at "Yes Minister", I got to know other two British actors, Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne.  How can they be sooooooooo funny and charming?  But sadly, they all passed away in the 1990s.