The Overnightscape Underground

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Snake Bite #4

23:25 – ~20 minute snippets on one topic for easy listenin’. Skip one and you won’t skip nothin’. This episode: Business ideas, working solo or as a small company and starting a business as an Asian – the Asian problem!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse. Image from Public Domain.

Released November 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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Stories from Chinese School

01:26:59 – Starting Chinese school, texts and patterns of learning, poem recitals (‘Climbing a Mountain’, ‘Calendar’), using English to write down word pronounciations (vs use of bopomofo), stories such as 畫蛇添足 (draw snake add legs), 草船借箭 (To Borrow Arrows with Thatched Boats), memorised poems (‘Before the bed there is a bright moon’, ‘Returning Home’), some Chinese songs (incl. Chinese version of a popular song from 1989, a Chinese opening theme for a TBV drama), and more.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licxence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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A lifetime of coaching

01:05:42 – Topics for this episode: The tiger mother, extracurricular activities and missed opportunities, being a disappointment, after school activities and non-activities, KUMON coaching college, Chinese tutors and how they mark, North Shore Coaching College, the OC class (Opportunity Class class?), the selective schools’ test and scholarship test for private schools, the SWOT Shop and almost being kicked out, report cards and being terrified, attitudes to receiving results, North Shore coaching for the HSC (Higher School Certificate), Asian family attitudes to sons, learning from the elder’s child’s experience, The Joy Luck club, home schooling and taking your own path.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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Intoxication through sleep (or lack thereof). (English Podcast)

01:15:43 – This week’s topics: all nighters, failures in audio recording in public spaces, sleep deprivation and alcohol intoxication, microslipping, troublesome eLearning course defects, Sydney CBD, microphones and Australian dollar parity, the SONY ICD-PX440 sound recorder, surgical facemasks, Chinese names vs Western names, Avatar and its Chinese influences and portrayals, Cyril’s Deli and taking advice, Almond milk with not much almond or milk plus more milks, first CDs and concerts, online purchases (from Button Fox Crafts and Amiami), live unboxing.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released August 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Note: I really have no idea why it’s so quiet, and I couldn’t find a way to fix it. I apologise for the volume.
Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀)

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日常澳洲 (Chinese Edition)

34:58 – 金個星期的主題: (English Intro) podcasting in public, being a female podcaster. (Chinese podcast/中文) å’ŒSMASH!工作,  The Overnightscapeçš„Frank, Polly Pockets, Black Star Pastry, Red Roosterå’ŒTech2Go在悉尼機, Audio Technica JUICY 聽筒, 韓國人聽Anaconda, 韓國人／中國人／日本人分, Toxic (Brittney Spears)的二次創作: Henry Chow, 電視.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia on July 27, 2015. Licenced under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse. Cover of Love You by The Free Design (1970): Clara Tse. 播客和唱歌: 謝家欣

Released in July 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. 謝謝你聽我個播客 (´∀｀) English version is different, but located here!

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Scatterbrained, with singing. (English Edition)

1:10:13 – This week’s topics: volunteer work for SMASH!, what Frank said on The Overnightscape, Polly Pockets, Black Star Pastry, Red Rooster and Tech2Go at Sydney Domestic Airport, Audio Technica JUICY earphones, looking Japanese, Koreans react to Anaconda, Asians and the cold (and the hot), telling Asians apart, Henry Chow parody of Toxic (Brittney Spears), television, Little Grey Rabbit, terrible singing (Scarborough Fair, Greensleeves, Edelweiss, Please Kind Sir, May It Be, Amadeus, Love You [by The Free Design (1970), from Drumstick advertisement (2007)]).

Recorded in Sydney, Australia on July 26, 2015. Licenced under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse. Terrible singing: Clara Tse.

Released in July 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) Chinese version is here!

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Hoihoi-san endorsed. (English Edition)

1:19:48 – This week’s topics: the need for perfectionism, introversion draining vs getting used to talking, plastic model construction, Ichigeki Sacchu! Hoihoi-san, masculine/feminine name impressions, Bing Lee on Chinese radio, radio stations in Australia, irritating songs, radio dramas and Cold Case, how The Borderline (警界線) irks me, JStarsVS+ and Zoom from the Need for Speed soundtrack and other music, the Confederate Flag, Glitch, misuse of Cantonese, Hong Kong style milk tea.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia on July 19, 2015. Licenced under: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse. Terrible singing & HoiHoi-san Illustration: Clara Tse.

Released in July 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) Apologies for audio quality. The Cantonese-Chinese version of this podcast is unavailable at this time.