Popular Korean actress Song Hye-kyo will be starring in the new movie directed by international renowned director John Woo. The announcement was made on May 20 in Cannes where the 61st Cannes Film Festival is currently being held.
The movie, titled “1949″, is scheduled to start filming by end of the year in China, Japan and Taiwan. Song Hye-kyo will star alongside Taiwanese actor Chang Chen in the movie, which would be about an epic love during the turbulence time in Shanghai.
“Bad Boy” music video from rising Korean pop singer Son Dam-bi, featuring Park Gae-hee (rapper). The song was released in the same title album in April 2008 and is quite a hit in Korea at the moment.
A catchy techno song, and Son Dam-bi looks pretty too… reminds me of popular actress Ha Ji-won somehow. I don’t really like the dance choreography though; it doesn’t fit the music beat well.
A Saudi woman wants a divorce because her husband tried to sneak one look at her face after 30 years of marriage.
The 50-year-old woman followed the tradition of her native village near the south-western city of Khamis Mushayt and kept her features veiled at all times.
After keeping his urge of curiosity for 30 years, the husband somehow decided to try lifting his wife’s veil as she slept to take a look at her face, and it proved as a costly mistake as his outraged wife woke up during his sneak peek and is now demanding a divorce.
The woman said that her husband apologised and promised never to do it again, but she insisted she wanted a divorce. This is not the first example of Saudi husbands with wives forever shrouded in mystery.
Don’t mistaken this as an Islamic practice though, it’s just a very old tradition practised by a tiny minority of women in remote areas of Gulf countries, and an odd one obviously.
Photographer Ken Ohyama has a nice Flickr photo set of highway interchanges in Japan. It’s interesting how these urban development pieces could be made into work-of-art through the camera lenses. [Hat tip to Pinktentacle]
Taroko National Park was supposed to be one of the highlights during my Taiwan tour, but it turned out to be a huge disappointment.
Most of the scenic spots could only be fully viewed via foot trekking… and we didn’t have the luxury to do so due to time constraint. Well, that’s the downside for travelling via an organised tour.
The Eternal Spring Shrine
Chinese bloggers are fuming with debates on whether some natural phenomenons were showing signs that an earthquake was going to strike China on May 12.
One of the most talk-about phenomenons is the toad migrations which were spotted at a few places across China… I have shared one of the toad migration stories earlier before I knew about the quake.
While the story I shared happened in Jiangsu, a few thousand kilometres away from the quake zone… a similar mass migration also happened at a village in Mianzhu on May 10, one of the places that are affected by the earthquake.
Did the toads sense something coming, or was it merely coincidence and common natural behaviour like some scientists claimed? I am not sure… there are plenty of rooms for speculations obviously.
The freaky thing is that some of the villagers actually expressed their concerns that the toad migration might be an omen that something disastrous might be coming… unfortunately their concerns came true.
The death toll of the quake has risen to 34,000 at the moment. Again, do help in whatever way you can… every bit counts.
Nan Tian Temple (Nantiangong) in Suao is one of the most famous temples in Taiwan with its 200kg pure gold Mazu figurine as well as another Mazu figurine carved from a piece of huge jade.
490 Ferrari sport cars have set a new Guinness World Record at the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka, Japan, on May 11, for the largest parade of Ferrari cars.
The Italian cars were required to parade for two miles while keeping the distance between each car for no more than two car-lengths apart to set the record.
The previous record was 385 at the Silverstone circuit, UK, in June 2007.
