Acclaimed Malaysian director-screenwriter Yasmin Ahmad died on late Saturday at the age of 51 from a stroke she suffered on Thursday.
A great storyteller whom I personally admired, and a wonderful filmmaker adored by people regardless of races or religions. Rest in peace.
Sharing one of her last works, “Funeral”, a heart-warming TV commercial for Singapore’s Ministry of Community Development…
A bizarre traditional ritual in India where babies are thrown from a height of 50 feet onto a cloth sheet held below for the sake of good health…
Devotees say no babies were injured during the ritual, which is practised annually by Muslims and Hindus in a village in western India’s Solapur district for 500 years.
Speechless.
[video via eltelbarker@Youtube]
Korean pop stars Son Dambi and After School work together in Amoled, a commercial music video for Samsung’s latest mobile phone model. Wallpapers after the MV; click image for full size (1280×1024)…
Japanese actress Aya Ueto in áo dài, an iconic traditional Vietnamese dress for a photoshoot in Vietnam. I think the pics are released by Image.tv [Jp/NSFW] in April 2009 as part of her “Treasure of Asia” collection; looks great ain’t so?
Popular Chinese actress Li Bingbing’s photoshoot for Chinese edition of InStyle magazine; presumably for the August 2009 issue.
Images are a bit overly touched imo, but nice pics nonetheless…
Entertainment snippets from other sources…
France – Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun at Chanel Haute Couture show in Paris [K-popped]
HKG – Kelly Chen gave birth to baby boy [Stareast]
Korea – Yoon Eun-hye is Vogue Girl (pic) [Stareast]
Korea – Im Ji-hye in Hanbok [Reallycuteasians]
Korea – Movie premiere of “Haeundae” [K-popped]
Korea – Rain plays soccer with Man Utd [K-popped]
Korea – SS501 appointed Goodwill Ambassador of Korean airport [Koreanclick]
Malaysia – HKG star Gillian Chung in Kuala Lumpur for promo event [Cri]
English subbed music video of “Abracadabra” by Korean pop group Brown Eyed Girls, from their latest album “Sound G” which was released on Monday (July 20). Suggestive scenes, watch at your own discretion…
Korean pop group Wonder Girls performs the English version of their hit song “Nobody” at The Wendy Williams Show on Monday (July 21), which was apparently the girls’ American TV debut…
To be frank I’m not sure who Wendy Williams is, but it’s a national TV show… can’t be bad in terms of exposure. Check the official clip on Wendy’s blog if the video above is not working [video via chanesechic@Youtube]
