Halloween is primarily a western festival, but more and more young Asians are getting into the bandwagon these days, particularly those who live in big cities… seems like every pubs and night clubs in KL are having a Halloween party of some sort.
I’ve never been interested with Halloween celebrations though; it just doesn’t click for me. Anyway, Happy Halloween, and happy holiday to some of you folks…
Tae-yeon from Korean pop group SNSD performing Can You Hear Me (들리나요) live at M!Countdown, with fellow member Seoyeon playing the piano…
CYHM is a theme song for TV drama Beethoven Virus; it’s Taeyeon second solo following If, also for a drama OST.
[video via gianbok@Youtube]
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Steve Winter from US won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 award with a picture of an elusive snow leopard on a night time prowl. The image was captured during a 13-month quest to snap the perfect photo of the endangered species in its hostile habitat high in the mountains of India’s Hemis National Park [more on BBC]
The competition, now in its 44th year, is run by BBC Wildlife magazine and London’s Natural History Museum. An exhibition of the best images from the 2008 competition opens to visitors of the Natural History Museum, London, on October 31.
Manuel Uribe Garza, formerly the world’s fattest man, has got married to her girlfriend who helped him lose more than 250kg over the past two years. The couple held their wedding ceremony in Monterrey, northern Mexico, on Sunday (Oct 26)…
Manuel tipped the scales at 560kg in 2006 and was named the world’s heaviest man by Guinness World Records. The 43-year-old has lost more than 250kg since then by following the Zone diet; he aims to further lower his weight to 120kg.
342 video game fans joined forces in London last Saturday (Oct 25) to set a new world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as video games characters.
The Japanese must have no idea about the existent of the world record yet… they could easily smash the record by in one of their gamers/comics/anime festivals.
Coffee gets hotter in America. Drive-through coffee stands with bikini clad baristas are making waves in some American cities for the past year or two…
The concept is going to get some backslash for sure. Belfare, Washington, is the first township barring these sexpresso’s stands from business… I guess it’s just a matter of time before other places following their suit.
It’s probably not a problem if one or two coffee stands are getting sexier, but it’s obviously inappropriate when it’s becoming a trend. Imagine having a sexpresso stand at every corner of the streets… that would be like heaven kinda disturbing.
I have to be honest though… if I’m in US, I won’t mind at all to visit one of these coffee stands; and I could become a regular customer if their coffee doesn’t sux. Sex sells… and it almost never failed.
Hong Kong actress Gigi Lai announced on Monday (Oct 20) her retirement from entertainment world after 23 years into the show business.
The 37-year-old actress made the announcement during a promotion event for her latest (and probably last) TV series “The Gems of Life”.
Gigi stated that she wants to spend more time on family matters, presumably to take care of her brother who was badly injured in a car accident in May 2007.
There are rumours that another reason behind her decision is to prepare for her marriage with a low profile millionaire; she denied about it though.
Gigi has starred in more than 50 movies and drama series over the years. Her career first peaked in mid-90s with the “Young and Dangerous” movies, but then gone downwards for a few years before making a successful return into drama acting in 2004 and remains popular since then.
To be frank, I’m not really going to miss her acting… wishing her all the best anyway.
Korean pop star Kim Jong-kook is making his comeback after completing his two-year military service in May 2008. He released his 5th album yesterday (Oct 22), titled “Here I am”… should be interesting to see if he still got what it takes to excel in showbiz.
Below is the English subbed music video for the first promotional track, “Today more than Yesterday”. The video is cute; the song was not really appealing at first, but quite nice after listening to it for a few times…
