March 25, 2009
Dreamhost moving my account to new server

Heads up that my site will be down sometime in the next 72 hours (or so). Hopefully it'll be faster on the new server, and nothing will break.

Posted by whykay at 01:08 AM
March 22, 2009
Rice krispie and sweets sushi

I know it's candy in American terms, as you'll see from the article, but it's super cool, right?

This is probably more popular than the sushi cake which I think looks yummy. People who don't like fish (you know who your are), or younger kids, you might think otherwise. ( u )

Posted by whykay at 11:57 PM
March 21, 2009
Interesting Hidden Japanese season on BBC4

Just caught The wonderful world of Albert-Kahn, it's all about his amazing collection photographs (colour) taken over a century ago. He's wealthy and sent photographers with the latest camera equipment to capture images from 40 countries, and tonight I watched a documentary about his photos of Japan from 1908. Very impressive.

Seems like BBC4 has a Japanese season, and well worth to catch it. They have some great shorts like the Japanese word for baldness is barcode head, or the Japanese word for legs that turn to jelly after walking up long flights of stairs is called laughing knees. Pity that we cannot view it on their site, if you are not in UK, that is. See Japanese Word of the Day.

More info:

* BBC 4 Hidden Japan

Posted by whykay at 10:08 PM
March 14, 2009
Chinese cinema still strong

The film industry in China is still gaining momentum, and the lure of Hong Kong film producers to Mainland has been ramping up. Although foreign film studios from Hollywood, for example, are having problems with restrictions such as China's policy on having quotas on foreign movies released with exception to foreign-Chinese produced films.

Read more...

Posted by whykay at 01:13 PM
March 05, 2009
Tae Kwon Do grannies in S. Korea

Yowsers, these grannies are well fit. Tile breaking and everything, something you wouldn't thing your granny would do!

Check it out:- http://tinyurl.com/dfjtac

Posted by whykay at 06:11 PM