YeinJee's Asian Journal

Korean teenage pop group Wonder Girls was caught in a car accident in early Friday morning.

Wonder Girls

The accident occurred around 1.20am (Sep 14) when the girls were on their way back to Seoul after a performance in Pusan. The girls suffered minor injuries, but the driver of the other vehicle (taxi) involved in the accident is unfortunately dead.

Contradict to the more glamorous and luxurious Western celebrities, Asian celebrities often have to work on a hectic schedule and a tight budget. Travelling at night is inevitable, and the drivers are often required to speed or might have overworked… thus the road accident rates involving Asian celebrities are quite high.

Making sushi has never been so easy… Japanese toy manufacturer Bandai Namco has introduced an automatic sushi roller. The roller is meant to be a toy for 6-12 years old girls, but I guess it serves no harm for people who are looking for a fast sushi snack.

You don’t need to understand Japanese to see how it works
(Image courtesy of Bandainamco, via Tokyomango)

Hello Kitty optical mouse (Hat tip to Japundit)

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Daniel Wu is an American born Chinese actor that is famous in Hong Kong and Asia.

Picture of Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu Profile

Name: Wu Yanzu, Daniel
Chinese name: 吴彦祖 (吳彥祖)
DOB: September 30, 1974
Birth place: San Francisco, California, USA
Height: 183cm
Profession: Actor, director and model

(Also known as Daniel Ng, Wu Yan Zu, Ng Yin Zou, Ng Yin Jo, Ng Yin Jo, Ng Yin Cho, Ng Yin Chou)

Daniel Wu Biography

Daniel Wu is a Chinese martial art practitioner since his youth; he moved to Hong Kong in 1997 after graduated from University of Oregon (architecture), and started his entertainment career in modelling.

Daniel made his acting debut in 1998 in “Young and Dangerous: The Prequel” as supporting cast. He starred in a few more movies before making his breakthrough as the leading actor for “Purple Storm” in 1999. Purple Storm won some awards in various film festivals, and people started to notice Daniel’s acting besides his look.

Daniel continued to star in dozens of movies, but his next breakthrough came years later in 2004, with his performances in “One Nite in Mongkok” and “New Police Story”. He won the prestigious Golden Horse award (best supporting actor) with the later movie.

With the Golden Horse success, Daniel managed to land more roles in high profile movies, like “The Banquet”, “Protégé” and “Blood Brothers” etc.

Daniel forms a boyband, ‘Alive’ in 2005. His attention however, is not about the music, but to direct a mockumentary about Hong Kong music industry, using Alive as the centre of the plots.

His directing debut, “The Heavenly Kings” was released in April 2006. The movie is not a huge box office success, but Daniel claimed the best new director award the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2007.

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The fashion and styling of Korean artist Honey Lee has gone all wrong here. Honey will feature in the October issue of Vogue magazine (Korea version)… they aren’t serious about using this photo ain’t so?

Miss Korea 2006, Honey Lee in a bad day (Image courtesy of Donga)

Cosmetics can turn a simple girl into stunning beauty… I guess it can work in the direct opposite as well.

A unique, cool but non practical watch… the LED’s in Geomesh light up in various patterns to tell the time, with the horizontal and vertical lights to indicate hours & minutes.

The left watch: each vertical green line indicates an hour, yellow horizontal line for 5 minutes each, and red horizontal line for a minute each… thus 9.29; the right watch is single coloured, but it’s the position of the line that matters… (Image courtesy of Tokyoflash, via Technabob)

The price of the watch is ¥13,900 (~ USD121). I don’t think I would want to go through the headache just to read the time though.

The ‘Great Singapore Duck Race’ has make a comeback this year, which could very well be the last duck race in Singapore because the Singapore River will be developed into a reservoir as part of the Marina barrage project.

Quack Quack…

The Great Singapore Duck Race is a charity event started in 1998 and held annually until 2003. The public adopted the ducks at S$10 each, and all the ducks would be dumped into Singapore River for the ‘race’. The sponsor of the winning duck would take home S$10,000.

The 2007 race managed to raise S$850,000 for charity causes. The Great Singapore Duck Race holds the world record for racing the largest number of ducks, set in 2002 with more than 123,000 ducks in the water.