Hana Kimi wanted ad
Jul20

Hana Kimi wanted ad

Are you good looking? Do you look like a guy even if you’re a girl? Or even if you’re a guy do you look like a pretty girl? Are you often being mistaken as a high school student? Or are you a high school student? Then the “Hana Kimi Ouji” contest is just for you! Photo from Wiki-D-addicts Sanspo.com reports that this is part of a promotional effort for the Fuji TV J drama, “Hanazakari no Kimitachi...

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The Japanese “balsa”
Jul19

The Japanese “balsa”

Three brave (to the point of loony?) Japanese women from Niigata prefecture have successfully crossed the 60 km width of Sado Straits from Sado to Honshu. So what’s sugoi about this? They did it by paddling in an old fashioned wooden tub each. Just to commemorate a local tale of a woman named Omitsu who paddled her way from Sado to Kashiwazaki to see her lover. Photo from Mainichi Daily News More of the story from Mainichi Daily...

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Happyslip’s boypren

Happyslip is driving me crazy!!! I’ve been watching it for weeks now every time I go online. I mean, it’s not exactly outrageously funny but I still find it addicting nevertheless. Find out who the boypren is: And the song used in the vid, “Save Me” by Josh Verdes (whom I suspect is a Happyslip cousin) is so good! I keep on going to Josh’s MySpace account just to listen to it.

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Open call for Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 3

All budding writers out there, this may be one interesting bit of news for you: Open call for Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 3 Dean Alfar is now accepting submissions of short fiction pieces for consideration for the anthology Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol.3. Speculative fiction is the literature of wonder that spans the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror and magic realism or falls into the cracks in-between. 1. Only...

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Even Homer can speak Nihongo

… at least in this “commercial.” I know… I just can’t wait for the Simpsons’ movie coming July 25 here in the Philippines. O tanoshimi ni!

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