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Oh Africa! Pepsi’s football commercial

Yein Jee — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:24:50 +0000

TV commercial for Pepsi featuring a few worldclass football players, i.e. Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, Ricardo Kaká, Frank Lampard, Andrei Arshavin, Didier Drogba, and also singer Akon with his cameo and song Oh Africa…

The FIFA World Cup will be held in South Africa this year, hence the theme. Sentimental wise it would be nice if there’s an Asian face in the commercial, but I guess there’s no Asian players who are ‘world-class’ enough to feature in the ad.

Oh Africa! Pepsi’s football commercial from YeinJee's Asian Blog

North-South Korea qualified for 2010 World Cup

Yein Jee — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:08:36 +0000

Both North Korea and South Korea have qualified from the Asian groupings to play in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

It will be the first time in history that both nations are participating in the same tournament.

North Korea will be making only their 2nd appearance; their first was a fairy tale journey in 1966 in which they defeated European giant Italy en route to the quarter finals, a result that stunned the footballing world.

South Korea on the other hand is the most successful Asian team in World Cup history and will be making their 8th appearance in 2010. Their best result was 4th place in 2002 when they were joint host (with Japan) for the event.

The Koreans met in the qualifying stage in which the southern counterpart has the upper hand with a win and a draw. The northern boys are unlikely to get their revenge in 2010 though, as chances are pretty slim for them to meet each other.

North-South Korea qualified for 2010 World Cup from YeinJee's Asian Blog

Edison Chen sexier than Takeshi Kaneshiro?

Yein Jee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:30:31 +0000

[Updated Dec 17] E! Entertainment recently released its “25 Sexiest Men of the World” 2008 list, in which Canadian-Chinese star Edison Chen somehow ranked higher (15th) than Chinese-Japanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro (20th).

Dingdong Dantes

Well, Edison might be sexier than Takeshi in E!’s point of views (I guess the sex pics might help a bit), but the sexiest Asian title goes to Dingdong Dantes (3th) from the Philippines instead.

Bollywood actor John Abraham is the other Asian celebrity that made the list, and he too was ranked higher than the two Chinese stars at 10th.

This E! sexiest men list is a bit unique as the chosen celebs covered a wide range of different nationalities and ethnicity as compared to most other sexiest/hottest lists which are dominated by Hollywood stars. Arguable… but nice try.

Here are the top 25 sexiest men of the world according to E!…

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Beijing Olympics roundup (4)

Yein Jee — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:33 +0000

Some random stuff about Beijing Olympics…

Bush is happy

US president George W Bush visited the US women’s beach volleyball team on August 9 during their training session. It was a happy visit obviously…

Hmmmm… (Image from Chinanews)

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Beijing Olympics roundup (4) from YeinJee's Asian Blog

Charlene Wittstock in cute panda gown

Yein Jee — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:40:39 +0000

Prince Albert of Monaco’s girlfriend Charlene Wittstock stole the show at a charity ball last weekend with her cute panda-decorated gown.

Charlene Wittstock in her ‘panda’ gown (Image via Eastday)

The South African Olympic swimmer was co-hosting (with Prince Albert) a fundraising event for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) which uses the panda as its logo.

Charlene Wittstock in cute panda gown from YeinJee's Asian Blog