After firing over 20 maids in just three years, HK star Jacky Cheung must be one tough man to please — and the Philippine government agrees.
While Jacky Cheung (张学友, Cheung Hok Yau) may hold a title as one of the four “Cantopop Heavenly Kings”, he’s earned another nickname: Jacky “the Terminator” Cheung.
That’s the nickname [...]
You can forget about your dad’s classic piggy bank because Facebank is here.
The Banpresto Facebank is a fun little innovation in moneybox technology. Yeah, leave it up to a Japanese designer to find a way to make coin storage cool again.
How does it work? Simply feed it your coins and watch it eat.
Facebook? How [...]
Believe it or not, this isn’t actually a photo from the inter-Korean summit…that’s next month. But, awww it looks like Kim Jong Il and Roh Moo-hyun are really getting along.
The AP photo caption says:
South Korean students wearing masks of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il perform during [...]
“Udedamashii” is a Japanese arcade game that will break your arm for only 100 yen. Wow, what a sweet deal!
An arm wrestling arcade machine broke a man’s arm as he played it. The man, a 25 year-old Korean is not alone since the machine also fractured the arms of a Japanese guy and a [...]
Take one of Korea’s top ballad groups, one of their biggest hits, and let an up-and-coming indie band put their own spin on it and what do get? Two cool songs that are very different yet the same.
Huge stars and ballad trio SG Wannabe’s (SG워너비) hit 2005 single and similarly-titled album Saldaga (살다가) reigned [...]
Now it doesn’t get much better than this, that is, when it comes to fun, cool, party music bouncing with happiness. Super Kidd (슈퍼키드) is a Korean indie rock band. The 6-member party rock band can be characterized by their uniquely happy and comedic songs and performances [...]
The English language has an interesting place in Japanese society. Roman characters show up all over the place — in the form of English words or romanized Japanese. English is prevelent in Japanese music as well. Whether it’s in lyrics, song titles, or band names [...]
I don’t understand a lot of things about other cultures. And one of these things that I don’t understand is humor. I have never understood British humor, and I don’t know if anyone has. I don’t understand whow our humor here in the the States is funny either.
Apparently there [...]
Like many college kids, I went back to my hometown to my parent’s house for the Christmas break. Sadly though, I forgot to bring home my watch with me. Without it I am a lost soul.
After a couple of days of stumbling through time without any idea of time whatsoever, I found [...]
In an effort to fight growing obesity problems, two Japanese bureaucrats have stepped up to the plate. Noritoshi Ishida and Keizo Takemi, both Vice Health, Labor and Welfare Ministers have launched a blog project to keep track of their weight loss efforts.
The men, both 55 years-old plan to exercise more frequently and eat and [...]
