In Guangdong, a two year old girl was stuck down and pulled under a van, which then ran over her legs as it kept going. A count of 18 pedestrians passed her by without offering assistance, and over the course of 7 minutes, she was ran over again, before a scavenger woman picked her up off the road and went looking for the mother. (- Ming Pao ( Read more... )

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I can't wait till the religious fascist fraction in Iran GTFO, it's a grand tragedy and a fucking waste at this point. Did you know, it's an actually a Persian wedding custom for the bride and groom to feed each other honey, with their hands? According to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis at least. It's such a damn waste to see so many gorgeous ( Read more... )

1. Thatcher Dead, not the milk-snatcher, but the cat of John Baird...
But Soudas was apparently less enamoured with the cat in question, and was said to have quipped: "If the cat wasn't dead, I'd have killed it by now."Since Harper is a huge lover of cats, I wonder who he's going to side with in the Soudas-Baird grudge that is so On now? I should ( Read more... )

I'm completely different from my parents, I was born in Hong Kong, but I grew up here. I speak very fluent English and Cantonese, but not Mandarin. I can read traditional Chinese, but not the simple version used in Mainland ( Read more... )

1. Cleaning Day: It's Cleaning Day in the Chinese Calendar, so I cleaned, I dusted my bookcase which through a miracle paralleling immaculate birth, has collected DUST BUNNIES since I've cleaned it last month. A thin layer is understandable, but DUST BUNNIES? In a month? Somehow dust got into my hair even though I'm a head taller than my ( Read more... )

...this was at the end of my copy of The Zombie Survival Guide...its inclusion does temper with the sense of realism the blank journal pages provide, but I'm intrigue and touched by the narrative of Dr.Kwang lingshu;

Their first priority was the meeting hall. The patients were carried out on stretchers, their limbs shackled, their mouths gaggled ( Read more... )

For those of you with Spike TV, they are doing a Kung-Fu week, and tomorrow at 7pm they will be showing Enter the Dragon, a Bruce Lee movie.

Rotten Library the archive of unpleasant / politically incorrect / societally 'impolite', has this to say on the subject of Bruce Lee;
It's a sad, but true fact. You will never, ever, EVER be as cool as Bruce ( Read more... )

Just read about this movie in today's issue of Ming Pao, columns section. It's a movie about Tuya, a reserved but hardy and pragmatic woman in inner Mongolia. Tuya and her disabled husband, Bater, agrees to divorce, so she can find a new able husband to take care of both Bater and their two children. As women both beautiful and capable like Tuya ( Read more... )

...am reminded of this by Sheelzebub's post, Would You Die For Cheap Toys?

Published on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by The Independent/UK
We Shop Until Chinese Workers DropShe Was Expected To Work 360 Days a Year From 7.30am to 9.30pm With Only a Half-Hour Break ( Read more... )