Seriously, can anyone explain to me why he's not at the coronation?

... oh, who am I kidding? This is bloody hilarious!

The Last Airbender - in which a boy uses his extraordinary powers bring harmony to a waring world - won worst film, worst director and worst screenplay for Shyamalan and worst supporting actor (for Jackson Rathbone).

It also won a special award for "worst eye-gouging misuse of 3D".

I am sometimes really curious what goes on in some people's minds, on how they justify their behavior or if they are aware that they are being douchbags ( Read more... )

Spring Festival is more or less over, and our holiday in Thailand is coming to an end. The snorkeling was amazing this year and I got to play with my new camera. My old one died last winter and could not be repaired. The on I bought to replace it is waterproof up to 10 feet/ 3m. I am rather pleased with the picture quality, considering that it is ( Read more... )

There seems to be a fad in recent news complaining aka fear mongering  about (insert country here) to be the next superpower, or to be overtaking (insert your country) in a subject of choice, be it education, economical growth and any number of other things. It is always portrait as a threat ( Read more... )

I worked a couple of days at Winter Camp (Because Wu Min made big sad puppy eyes at me, telling me they're short a teacher). At the end there is supposed to be a performance for the parents, you know the kind where eight year olds sing and dance that parents tape and torture their friends, colleagues and family with.

To get them to practice, and as ( Read more... )

Some of the city bus lines are privately owned. I usually take the bus to work. Usually this works out fine...

But for when the privately owned buses randomly decide not to come to work today and you are left standing in the cold (-20C) with no other option but to take a cab. If there is one.

Mothfucking dammit. It happened both ways.

They found, forgotten in an archive, photos that were taken 1860 in Japan by the photographer of a German delegation.

The text is only in German, but the pics are worth looking at no matter what.

Click me!

What do you think makes up a First World living standard? I am not talking about movie stars but what would you consider an average person to have access to/ own?

Feel free to add things in the comments, I only get 30 options per poll. There is no real order to the tickies.

By 'free' I mean paid for by taxes, not charity.

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Found this芳草莲檬CD on googleMusic, and it is made from awesome :D

That link wont work unless you are in China, but I think this one may.

Current favorites: 太阳饼, 废物晒太阳 and 他和她不想出门
Ignore the English songs, they are not that great. The rest is, though. Not Cantopop either.