(post
 :title "2010 Youku Niuren Competition"
 :date (string->date* "2010-06-24 00:00")
 :tags '("music" "show" "youku")

 (wide-img "niuren2010.jpg"
           "At the Shanghai venue of Niuren 2010")

 (p [In an SMS two days before the Shanghai event of this year’s
     Niuren competition, my friend at Youku asked me if I would want
     to perform a song on the stage.  After some initial hesitation I
     eventually agreed to playing the guitar while singing.
     Originally, I wanted to perform 坏人 but at the venue I realized
     that this particular song is not quite as popular as 秋天不回来.])

 (p [Not very well prepared I got on the stage as the third performer
     that afternoon.  I unexplicably managed to spoil the guitar
     intro, but still nobody seemed to really mind.  It felt good not
     to feel the pressuring perfectionism flaring up inside of me
     again.])

 (p [With this precautionary tale in mind, go ahead and ,(ref
     "http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTgzNDE0OTU2.html" "watch the clip
     on youku")!  If you prefer to watch a version that I’m okay with,
     then ,(ref "/posts/2009-11-02-qtbhl.html" "check out the older
     video").])

 (p [,(strong [Update (June 29, 2010)]): There is a ,(ref
     "http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg1MjkyODAw.html" "short clip on
     youku") that aired on TV to advertise the competition.  The clip
     was featured on the start page of youku and thus reached quite a
     large number of people.]))