Summary of October 2007 article.
Lifestyle, discovery and offbeat
Philippines’ Cebu Pacific Air pulls off one of the best PR stunts of the year with their dancing flight attendants, and with a male FA encore.
TV commercials… Japan’s Natural Beauty Basic and Ito Yokado; Korea’s Ariul cosmetics and Mychew candies; and a couple of cool tourism campaign videos for Incredible India and the Pulse of Seoul.
There are host of new world records… the oldest women tennis match; the longest cat (pic); the most expensive phone number; the largest sushi mosaic; the shortest man; and Ferrari opens the world’s largest indoor theme park in UAE.
Others… cute rabbits in cups; China’s Liu Xiaobo awarded Nobel Peace; SPAO wallpapers; Japanese school girl breakdance; Malaysians have most online friends; China’s cargo container apartment; and Wikileaks’ controversial Iraq War Logs.
Otaku, showbiz and entertainment
ANA’s pokemon jets (pic) are oh so adorable. Other otaku news… Lucky Star turns chemistry reference book; Namco Bandai is releasing AKB1/48, a dating sim featuring AKB48 which will perform at Singapore’s Anime Festival Asia.
Chinese entertainment… S.H.E’s Selina suffers burn injuries (get well soon); Reign of Assassins and Shaolin trailers; Faye Wong on Bazaar magazine; S.H.E Hebe Tien’s solo album To Hebe Mv collection; and how about some retro with Jeff Chang’s 90’s hit?
Japanese entertainment… K-pop group SNSD is continuing their invasion with Japanese version of Gee; fellow Korean girl group 4minute joins the battle with First; bizarre movie trailer for Alien vs Ninja; Ayumi Hamasaki has smashed best selling record; and Utada & Fukada dating lol?
Korean entertainment… red carpet 1 & 2 at PIFF and Daejong; mixed gender group Co-ed (pic) making debut with Too Late; Hollywood trailer for The Warrior’s Way, starring Jang Dong-gun; and Ha Ji-won does Lara Croft in Secret Garden; group of 20 sings Let’s Go; SNSD returns as retro spies with Hoot; Psy’s Right Now MV ft. Seo Woo; miss A and Kim Bum for Edwin; and SHINee’s Jonghyun & actress Shin Se-kyung caught dating.
Asian-American music… Far East Movement became the first AA artiste(s) to top the Billboard 100. While Clara Chung is taking her baby steps with debut album The Art In My Heart; check out her Offbeat music video.
Girls pics… 4minute on Ceci with some doggies; Keiko Kitagawa is double cover girl; Lee Hyori posed for TopGirl; f(x) on Vogue Girl; AKB48 on Vogue Nippon and Bomb magazine; 2ne1 for Bean Pole; SNSD Japanese Gee pics; Eugene on High Cut; and finally some sexy Korean F1 race queens.
That’s it for the October 2010 recap. Total posts: 65.
