A sushi wedding cake, some hot chillies, a few bulls running, a knighted penguin and a crime fighting turtle…
Sushi wedding cake
The 6th annual World Cosplay Summit was held in Nagoya, Japan last weekend.
WSC is getting bigger every year with thousands of cosplayers from around the world joining the party; it’s becoming so popular that the Japanese government is officially endorsing it.
A cosplay contest was held in conjunction with the event since 2004. 14 teams from 13 countries participated in the 2008 contest; two teams from Japan and one each from Brazil, China, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and USA.
The Brazilians won the contest this year.
Thousands of German policewomen will receive what media have labelled “bullet-proof bras”. The bras are not actually bullet-proof, but are meant to better protect policewomen who wear bullet-proof vest.
There was a slight safety risk for women wearing normal bras with metal parts underneath a bullet-proof vest. If the vest is hit by a projectile, this can have an impact on the metal bit in the bra underneath and cause injuries.
The bullet-proof bras are made of white cotton and featuring the word “Polizei” (Police) along the seam, with no metal parts and look like sports bras. [Reuters]
Another day to go before the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics. Some random news and information about Olympics and happenings in Beijing…
The game has started
The women’s soccer tournament of the Beijing Olympics kicked off at 17:00 Beijing time on Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony. It’s common for soccer (and some other team sports) to start the games earlier.
Krypteria is a German band, with a Korean vocalist, and sings primarily in English. Sounds odd enough lol? They branded themselves as a metal+gothic rock band; not the type of music that I normally favour, but they have a few softer songs that I like…
I first learned about Krypteria listening to Victoriam Speramus; I like how they merged opera and rock in their music…