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Ken Lee video

Yein Jee — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:42:44 +0000

Move aside American Idol… here comes the Bulgarian Idol…

Roflmao… [Hat tip to Jon]

[Update] The Music Idol show actually invited her, Valentina Hasan, as special guest at one of their episodes…

Valentina Hasan back with her Ken Lee phenomenon…

With the popularity of her videos on Youtube etc, Valentina might very well be more famous than the eventual winner of the competition.

Summer, the horse with longest tail

Yein Jee — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:55:14 +0000

Summer, an 11-year-old horse, as seen during the 11th annual EquiFest of Kansas on Feb 29 (2008), holds the Guinness World of Records for the longest tail on a horse (3.81 metres)…

Summer and her caretaker (Image via Eastday)

Rambo’s kill count

Yein Jee — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:34:34 +0000

Unlike James Bond, Rambo don’t have sex… too busy killing perhaps (Hat tip to Geekstir)

2 smallest dogs in the world

Yein Jee — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:46:05 +0000

I was a bit confused when I read about Brandy, the smallest dog in the world, as I thought that the title should belong to Boo Boo instead.

Brandy… just about the height of a Cola can (Image courtesy of Thesun)

Fact is, both dogs are recognised by Guinness World Records as the smallest dog in the world… the different is that Brandy is the smallest in term of length, while Boo Boo the smallest in term of height.

Dolphin plays bubble

Yein Jee — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:12:36 +0000

Cute video, from Sea World, Orlando…

Dolphin playing bubble ring (Hat tip to Mfrost and Neatorama)

The Smurfs celebrating 50th birthday

Yein Jee — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:31:34 +0000

The Smurfs are celebrating their 50th birthday in 2008 with a year-long party across Europe.

Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced Smurfs (originally Les Schtroumpfs in French) to the world in a series of comic strips, making their first appearance in the Belgian comics-magazine Le Journal de Spirou on October 23, 1958.

English-speakers perhaps know them best through the 1980s animated television series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Smurfs.

Happy smurfing birthday.

[More about Smurfs on Wiki and Smurf's official website]

Bill Gates last day at Microsoft

Yein Jee — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:31:08 +0000

Bill Gates has showed a video of what his last day working full-time at Microsoft might look like at his keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Watch the video on Gizmodo.

Here comes the trophy

Yein Jee — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:21:50 +0000

You don’t want this to happen when you become a champion…

I like the face of the man in tie

Got these from a chain mail without much detail. I am pretty sure that he is Russian tennis star Marat Safin… no clue at all about the event though.

Sheep pig is back to Britain

Yein Jee — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:31:45 +0000

The Lincolnshire Curly Coat pig, often called the sheep-pig, is a breed which became extinct in Britain 37 years ago… but they are back, thanks to Tony York, a British farmer dedicated to reintroduce the breed.

A sheep? A Pig? A sheep pig!

Tony discovered that British farmers had exported many Curly Coats during the early 20th century to Hungary, where their coat helped them survive harsh winters. There they were cross-bred with the Mangalitza, a similar breed, creating the ‘Lincolista’.

He found the sub-breed thriving in Austria, and brought 17 of the animals back to his Pigs Paradise farm near Stonehenge, Wiltshire, driving a trailer 2,400 miles across Europe to ensure they had regular food and water stops.

Tony has named one of his pigs Boris Johnson, after the Tory MP and London mayoral candidate.

The British Pig Association has agreed to register his acquisitions as direct descendants of the Lincolnshire Curly Coat, securing the link with UK farming heritage. [Dailymail]

Word of the Year… w00t

Yein Jee — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:00:03 +0000

“W00t”, a hybrid word of letters and numbers used by gamers and netizens is chosen as Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2007 via an online poll.

According to Merriam-Webster, the word is used for expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay”.

I don’t use this quite often, but w00t often reminds me of the old steam-powered-train horn… like w00t w00t. I normally used it as a sign of approval for what others are saying in some online discussion boards.

Here comes another bubble

Yein Jee — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:57:13 +0000

An interesting music video teasing the current trend in internet world, where billions of dollars are pilled into startup companies that have no proven track record besides some optimistic forecast.

Won’t you blog about this song?… Yes, I just did

The song is not really great… but what a piece of viral marketing gem by the Richterscales.

Europe is a country?

Yein Jee — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:16:18 +0000

Former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler on TV show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” last week and stunned the audiences with some dumb moment.

She was asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European country?”

Video – Europe is a country and everyone speaks French???

Well, there is nothing wrong if we don’t know where is Budapest; my first guess was Romania and I got it wrong as well (the correct answer is Hungary)… Kellie’s responses beat me though.

Regardless, Kellie managed to raise at least US$25,000 for charity by appearing on the show… it doesn’t matter if she is dumb or not, she is probably doing better than most of us in contributing to the society. Thumbs up for that.

Panda playing snow

Yein Jee — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:18:55 +0000

A cute video of baby giant pandas playing in snow…

Acrobatic mobula rays

Yein Jee — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:00:32 +0000

Spectacular picture of mobula rays leaping out of the ocean; taken in the Sea of Cortez at the southern end of the Gulf of Mexico.

Leaping mobula rays (More pics at Telegraph; hat tip to Neatorama)

Man vs Dog – who can drink faster?

Yein Jee — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:00:01 +0000

A man competing against his pet dog in a drinking competition on German TV show… can a man drink (drink like a dog to be precise) a bowl of water faster than a dog?

Video – man vs. dog (Hat tip to Abroath)

Btw, I think I saw Celine Dion.

Happy Thanksgiving

Yein Jee — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:08:11 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to people who are celebrating it. For those who are not familiar with Thanksgiving… it is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks for the things that one has at the conclusion of the harvest season.

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. [Wiki]

Pikachu balloon at Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, NY (Image courtesy of Xinhuanet)