Korean pop star Rain has finally met up with American comedian Stephen Colbert on May 5 to settle their score via a ‘dance battle’…
Fun and humour
Chinese student calling BBC a “lier”
This patriotic Chinese student is among thousands of Chinese students and expats who took part in a silent protest in London on April 19 against BBC and other British news organization for their biased reports on Tibetan unrest.
I am not really sure how biased BBC was, but this Chinese patriot probably needs to spend more time learning his English. Image via Chinadaily…
English lesson of The Day…
Lier: A person who lies down (horizontally, i.e. lies on bed, lies on floor)
Liar: A person who tells lies (not telling the truth)
I make a lot of English grammatical mistakes too, so it’s probably not proper for me to tease this fella. But it’s just funny… imagine you are on international news and the first thing people notice is some bizarre typo.
The Singapore Flyer
The Singapore Flyer, the world’s largest observation wheel, was officially opened on yesterday (April 15) by Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long.
Located at Marina Bay, the Singapore Flyer comprises a 150-metre-diameter wheel and a total height of 165 metres (equivalent to ~ 42 stories high), which is about 30m taller than the famous London Eye and 5m taller than the previous record holder, The Star of Nanchang in Jiangxi, China.
World’s smallest website
Guimp.com, measures at only 18×18 pixels, is arguably the world’s smallest website.
There are a few sites that are smaller than Guimp, but when it comes to functionality, Guimp rules… the website even has games like pacman, pong, asteroids etc. and a gallery of pixel arts.
Kanamara Matsuri aka Festival of the Steel Phallus
The Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り; literally the Festival of the Steel Phallus) is an annual fertility festival held in Kawasaki Daishi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The event is held on every spring, and this year’s main festivity was on April 6.
The festival was once popular among sex workers praying for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It’s also mentioned as divine protections for business prosperity and the clan’s prosperity, easy delivery, marriage, and married couple harmony, etc. Today, the festival is used to raise money for HIV research. [Wiki]
Basically it’s a festival where you can see penis everywhere… on the mikoshi (portable Shinto shrine), pictures, foods, candies and merchandises. It might sound gross for some people, but the festival is on my wish list as one of the must go event in my life… seems fun for me.
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