Actor Lee Min-ho and singer Son Dam-bi were named the best male and female commercial film models in a Korean broadcast and advertising festival in June.
Hi-Mart CF, featuring Cha Tae-hyun, Park Bo-young and Wang Suk-hyun from movie “Speed Scandal”, won the netizen popularity award.
Lee Min-ho – Truegen
Seems like the MTV Asia Awards will be back to Malaysia again in 2009, according to Korean pop mogul JYP that is.
No official confirmation has been made by MTV Asia yet, but JYP lets his words slipped with his recent Tweet…
“Sorry cuz of the Jonas Brothers tour we can’t go to da MTV asian awards in Malaysia. But I’m sending 2pm so don’t b too sad!”
The ‘we’ is referring to JYP’s favourite employees, the Wonder Girls, who are busy working as opening act for Jonas Brothers’ tour in USA; and as replacement his company is sending boy band 2PM to the award ceremony instead.
Funny thing is the public didn’t know that MAA will be held in Malaysia again, or if it would be held at all in 2009… and we certainly didn’t know that the Wonder Girls were scheduled to come at the first place.
Undated photo of Japanese idol Yui Aragaki in Yukata, a traditional Japanese bathrobe which is a popular fashion during summer festivals…
Aragaki was voted the best looking female celeb in Yukata in a recent Oricon poll; Hiroshi Tamaki tops the male chart but I couldn’t care much lol [pic via G2slp]
Dined at the New Restaurant Ipoh Chicken Rice in Sri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur last weekend. It’s a branch of a famous restaurant (in Gasing, PJ) which has been operating since 1977; this one was opened a couple of years ago.
Roasted pigs in costumes were paraded on the feast of St. John the Baptist in the hundred year old practise in the Philippines. Festival goers also got to sample the roasted suckling pigs (lechón), a famous Filipino delicacy, for free…
Steven Purugganan is an 11-year-old Filipino-American who holds the world record for all five categories (three individuals, two teams) of sport stacking.
Below is a video of Purugganan breaking the then Cycle record during the 2008 World Championships in Denver, USA… [his latest world record is 5.93s]
[credits to raydavid1965@youtube for the upload]
Entertainment snippets from other sources…
China – Zhou Xun splits with boyfriend [Stareast]
Japan – Arashi celebrates 10th anniversary [TG]
Japan – Aya Ueto on Tiara magazine (pic) [RCA]
Korea – Top 10 K-movies of all time, pt1 [Popseoul]
Taiwan – Korean pop group Super Junior at Golden Melody Awards in Taipei [K-popped]
Thailand – K-pop TVXQ’s Bangkok gig [K-popped]
USA – K-pop Wonder Girls perform at Jonas Brothers’ concert [Youtube]
USA – Cameron Diaz gets star on Hollywood walk of fame [Youtube]
Sony is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Walkman. The first model of the personal stereo-audio cassette player, TPS-L2 (pic), was introduced in Japan on July 1, 1979.
The Walkman brand was synonymous with portable personal audio devices until the emergence of iPod in 2001.
People who grew up in the 80s (like me) would have fond memories with the Walkman… most of you here are probably not from that era though.
