Showing posts with label hero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hero. Show all posts
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And My Last Name is ....

I just don't know what to say ...



Russian businessman becomes Jackiechan

A businessman from Nizhny Novgorod, who is apt to fight corruption in his spare time, has decided to toughen himself up by changing his last name. Thus an ordinary entrepreneur from a provincial Russian city, Sergey Voronkov, turned into Sergey Jackiechan.

In fact, Jackie Chan is Sergey’s favorite actor, so he decided to use a derivative of the actor’s name. The idea dawned upon the Nizhny Novgorod resident when he was passing a local registry office. He says he suddenly wanted to change something in his life. He recalled the folk wisdom about what you call the ship, thus it will sail, and went in to apply for name change. He did not expect an immediate welcome of the civil service, but just in case he thought up a beautiful legend.

He explained that they had found a remote relative in Georgia, who turned out to be a Georgian prince. The Georgian prince told him that if he became Jackiechan, he would bestow his castle upon him.

His daughters have kept the old name: the younger is still really young and the older cannot bring herself to make such a drastic change in her life. His wife also left the old name Voronkova, although reacted to her spouse’s decision with humor and respect. Now Sergei dreams of a son who will become a hereditary Jackiechan Jr.

His colleagues and friends reacted to the new name in various ways. Some of them supported him, while others called Sergei’s behavior foolhardy. The newfound hero’s neighbour believes that it is necessary to glorify the name of the ancestors and not to imitate movie stars.

Sergei believes, however, that his life will drastically change with the new name, especially that he has so much in common with the real Jackie: both are cheerful, energetic, and equally hate injustice.

In the Russian Registry Office, Jackiechan filed also another application for a new travel passport. Once the document is ready, our superhero is planning to go to get acquainted with the world-famous namesake.


SOURCE: NEWSBCM.COM There is a video clip of the news report on the link as well.
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Yang Guan Silver Tribute Charity Night

Recently there was a charity entertainment night held in Singapore. Amongst the guests was Yang Guang. You may remember him from the recent charity concert 'Let The World Be Filled With Love". I didn't realise that he is not only a talented singer but is known for his imitations of other well known singers.


#3 – Disability is no barrier to success – Yang Guang

He is known to have a knack for imitating the likes of established singers like Wakin Chau, Jonathan Lee, Jackie Chan and Hong Kong entertainment stalwart Eric Tsang. Meet Yang Guang, the visually handicapped singer from China.

Yang lapped up the applause of the crowd as he imitated all of these artistes, after performing a piece entitled ‘My Sun’, with 8-year-old flautist Nikolai Song.

But the 32-year-old winner of talent show Star Boulevard had a life that was less than sunny. After losing his grandparents and father on successive trips to the Chinese capital of Beijing, Yang’s only kin was his mother. During his 10-minute appearance, he paid tribute to her, with an original song. His heart-wrenching rendition of the song included lyrics like “When you grow old, I want to see the sunset with you.”

Imparting values of filial piety, the blind tenor drew rapturous applause from the crowd in the auditorium.


SOURCE: THEURBANWIRE.COM

Here is the video of his performance. If you just want to skip to his rendition of "Sincere Hero" it starts at 6 mins.



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Jackie - a Chinese Hero?

 

In the run up to the 60th anniversary celebrations for the founding of the PRC Chinese citizens have a chance to choose "heroes and role models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of the People's Republic of China'' as well as the top ``100 people who have moved China since its founding''

Making it onto the list of people who have moved the nation is none other than our beloved Jackie.

This article talks about the only Canadian on the list as well as mentioning Jackie.