Auto giant General Motors is joining forces with Segway to create a two-seated Segway concept car… (or scooter?)
Fun and offbeat snippets from various sources…
Bird uses bait to catch fish like human [Youtube]
India seeks rupee status symbol [BBC]
Japan – Solar powered cell phone [Crunchgear]
Japan – 18-year-old Daichi’s beatbox [Youtube]
Nature phenomenon… snow bales (pic) [Dailymail]
Seriously? 50 things every 18-year-old should know [Rightwingnews]
Somalia – A Somali pirate on why he became a sea bandit [BBC]
Taiwan – Besides playing Beethoven, garbage trucks teach English too [Filination]
Chinese-Tibetan artist Alan Dawa Dolma (known as alan in Japan) became the first singer from China to top the Japanese Oricon sales chart, albeit for just a day on April 13th, with her 9th Japanese single “River of Eternity”.
The title track is the theme song for Chinese movie “Red Cliff 2″, premiered in Japan on April 10th. Official music video below…
The single peaked at 3rd spot on Oricon weekly chart, also a new record for mainland Chinese artist, previously held by Faye Wong (9th spot) with “Eyes on Me” in 1999.
The 28th Hong Kong Film Awards, presented Sunday (Apr 19) at HKG Cultural Centre…
Korean actress for Harper’s Bazaar magazine (Korea), photographed by Cho Seihun…
Music video of “I Love You”, an English song by Taiwanese singer Joanna Wang from her debut album “Start From Here”, released in early 2008. It’s a cover of David Tao’s mandarin song, “Love is Simple”…
Joanna’s unique voice has been a revolution to Chinese music market; the album was quite a hit and if not mistaken, among the top five best selling albums of the year in both Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Despite the success, the singer has in a few occasions mentioned that she’s not a fan of the album, because it was not showing her true self.
Her subsequent album, “Joanna & Wang Ruo Lin”, which was released in January 2009 is supposedly showing more of her capability not just as a singer, but also a songwriter with her own ideas; will share something about in future.
Fun and offbeat snippets from various sources…
Body – How scratching can stop an itch [BBC]
Health – Girl born from 22-yr-old frozen sperm [Times]
Hmmm – Keyboard handbags, literally (pic) [Bookofjoe]
Japan – Catching an upskirt photographer [Japanprobe]
Japan – Tokyo is world’s best food city [Foodandwine]
Medina – Fart interrupts city council meeting [Youtube]
Poland – Zoo criticised for buying a ‘gay’ elephant for $11 million [Reuters]
Weird – Doctors found a two-inch fir tree growing inside a man’s lung [NatGeo]