On China products bar code — I got a forwarded email today tipping that since the advent of Melamine chemical that is seemingly plaguing China products especially dairy/milk, some China companies opted not to write on where their products came from or where they were produced. In the email, it is said that you can identify if a product came from China or not by referring to barcode number 690-692. This number is actually taken from the 13-digit European Article Number (EAN) found on packaging. Read the rest of this entry »

Watch Guinness World Records 2008 Online Live — I once had a book of The Guinness World Records (1999) and during that time online videos uploading is still in the initial stage. Now that it is on the heights, you can watch almost everything you could ever wish.

While Guinness World Record Breakers are lobbying their most beloved skills, talents and expertise, I had a seemingly very singled out observation (perhaps?) - where are the Filipino wonders like Buko King and the rest? Or he does hold the World Record but I am just too lazy to dig it from the web. Read the rest of this entry »

But seriously not in for a monkey business, there is this pair of monkey waiters in a Japan Tavern Kayabukiya, somewhere in the north region. Yat-chan and Fuku-chan were employed to serve the restaurant’s customers. Read the rest of this entry »

After passing several tests in order to be declared as goddess, 3-year-old girl Matani Shakya in Katmandu Nepal was declared by priests as the new Nepalese “Kumari” or Nepalese Living Goddess. Until young Shakya reaches puberty, she will be living in an ancient palatial temple in the heart of the Nepali capital, worshiped by Hindus and Buddhists as an incarnation of the powerful Hindu deity named Taleju. Read the rest of this entry »

The Google Labs came up with this new Gmail Feature for the drunken e-mailers - Google Gmail Goggles. Do you have this attitude of sending desperate emails or perhaps those that you will regret after you gain back your most conscious side of self after heavy drinking? If you do then maybe you need these Mail Goggles. Read the rest of this entry »

For the Filipino fellows out there, just in case you were clueless or this one slipped your mind calendars, the Top 10 Philippine Funniest Blogs for 2008 has just been decided and the 10 lucky winners were announced already. Congratulations to the winners and here is a finely done complimentary announcement video by Umleo23. Read the rest of this entry »

With our car uncooperative last night, plus other things that prevented us from coming to the once a year All Japan Fireworks Display Competition (The Tsuchiura Hanabi) in Tsuchiura City, all we could do was go to my research laboratory by the 10th floor and watch the event happening from afar. Read the rest of this entry »

The O.J. Simpson Murder Case has been one of the highly publicized U.S. criminal trials wherein former American football player and actor O. J. Simpson was brought to a grand trial for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. For this time being, the OJ Simpson Verdict was “acquitted”. Read the rest of this entry »