To keep its promise to fans, Taiwanese rock band Mayday held an online concert on Sunday, the last day of May. The surprise show, titled “Live in the Sky,” which took place at the Taipei Municipal Stadium, was broadcast globally on YouTube, Facebook and Line, with singers Jam Hsiao, Li Ronghao and Mao Buyi serving as surprise guests.
Established in 1999, Mayday is celebrating the 21st anniversary of its debut this year. Originally, the band promised at a 2006 concert to stage a show every May, and has kept its promise since then, except in 2015 due to the lack of a venue. “Who says there won’t be May Dating in 2020?” frontman Ashin wrote online last week, stressing that the gig would be available “in every city, every time zone.”
Earlier this year, in January, Mayday was lauded for donating 5 million Chinese yuan (about US$0.7 million) to the Wuhan Charity Federation for coronavirus relief efforts. The band will resume touring in August, starting in Singapore.
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(Eddy Chang, Taipei Times)
為遵守對歌迷的承諾，台灣搖滾天團五月天於上週日，也就是五月最後一天舉辦線上演唱會。這場名為「Live in the Sky」驚喜演唱會，是在台北田徑場開唱，透過YouTube、Facebook、Line全球轉播。神秘嘉賓為歌手蕭敬騰、李榮浩、毛不易。
五月天於一九九九年正式成軍，今年將歡慶出道二十一週年慶。該團最初在二○○六年一場演唱會上，答應在每年五月開唱，除了二○一五年因缺乏場地外，一直遵守承諾。主唱阿信於上週在網路上寫道︰「誰說2020沒有五月之約？」並強調「每個城市、每個時區」要同步赴約。
五月天稍早在一月時，因捐贈五百萬人民幣（約七十萬美元）給武漢市慈善總會，以救助疫情大受好評，該團預計自八月起從新加坡重啟巡演。
(台北時報張聖恩)
Retired teacher Sunny Hsu majored in advertising design and he is a former director of general affairs of National Keelung Commercial and Industrial Vocational Senior High School. His mother is in her 80s and suffered a brain injury that prevents her from expressing her thoughts clearly, so in 2018 he decided to go back to his hometown Penghu County to look after her, returning to Keelung for one week of each month to visit his wife and daughter. Being a keen photographer, when Hsu is staying in Penghu he often hops on a bus and goes around taking photos of
Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? (1/5) 你有什麼新年目標嗎？（一） A: The Lunar New Year is almost upon us. B: Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? A: New Year’s resolutions? So you make resolutions at the start of every year? B: Yep. I feel this makes life full of promise, and it also instills a sense of responsibility. A: 農曆新年就快要到了。 B: 你有什麼新年目標嗎？ A: 新年目標？原來你每年還會設定目標喔？ B: 對啊，這樣會感覺人生充滿了希望，也可以培養責任感！ （Translated by Edward Jones, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩） Audio recordings for Speak Up! dialogues will be suspended until further notice due to the pandemic.
With more and more people keeping pets in Taiwan, a pet school has catered to the market by introducing Lunar New Year dishes for “furry friends,” such as eight-flavored sticky rice, “Buddha jumps over the wall” soup, “happy tiger buns” — to celebrate the Year of the Tiger — and edible “lucky bags,” which all look like food to die for. The owner of the school said that dishes designed for furry companions cannot include seasoning such as salt, sugar or soy sauce. Instead, it is better to retain the original taste of the food and avoid using ingredients not
A: What are the most common New Year’s resolutions that people make? B: According to one piece of research, the top New Year’s resolution that people made last year was to get more exercise. A: What were the second and third most popular resolutions? B: The second was to lose weight, and the third was to save more money. A: 大家最常設定哪些新年目標呢？ B: 根據一份調查，在去年最常見的目標，第一名是希望多運動！ A: 那第二、三名呢？ B: 第二名是減重，第三名則是多存點錢。 （Translated by Edward Jones, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩）
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