The Tsukuba Gakuensai (School Festival) 2008 was conducted on the 11th til the 13th of October. Gakuensai literally means school festival. It is where various student groups and organizations participate in a university-wide festivity, which usually involves selling local and international products alongside various cultural presentations and modern day musical concerts by local and invited groups, guests and performers alike. Gakuensai is held at universities all over Japan. Read the rest of this entry »

Good Looking Models? I think I got some of them in store now, but definitely not the human type or gadgets that you have been dreaming of. Read the rest of this entry »

So who is Joe The Plumber? Joe The Plumber is an ordinary tradesman who has worked 12-hour shifts for years and is now intending to acquire his own plumbing business. Read the rest of this entry »

A new Antichrist movie is now under production/filming and will be out next year (2009). The drama-horror movie is being directed by Lars von Trier while the story is written by Anders Thomas Jensen. Read the rest of this entry »

Drinking Alcohol Even In Small Amounts Shrinks The Brain? — While most drinking people have been arguing and defending that alcohol is beneficial to the heart, another side of the coin was flipped by Carol Ann Paul through a study when she was at the Boston University School of Public Health. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »