9 posts tagged “culture”

Show us a photo of a place you love.

 

One of my most, probably the most favorite place I love to be, is in my shower.

I take a shower everyday, and more recently every night, it's the one place I can collect all my thoughts, the one place no one will bother me, the one place I can just be alone, I've always had this thing for water, it's soothing and calming, especially when your sitting under the rays of water, not so much standing, I feel like if there wasn't such a thing as a water bill, or water poisoning, I could probably stay in my shower....forever.

When I used to have horrible cramps and I was on the pill I'd always take a shower or a bath because the water was like a giant heating pad, it just has a way of taking away whatever bad feeling im feeling.

**edit** I guess you can only get water poisoning by, consuming too much liquids. 

 

 

Book: Show us a book you've read more than once.

Show us a picture of where you'd like to live and tell us why you want to live there. 
Submitted by Warhead.  

 

I update too much,
I know, lack of life does that to you,

This show is called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.

He basically travels all over the world and trys things

you'd probably never in your life try.
It's on the Travel Channel Mondays at 9PM.

I plan on watching it regularly,

Once I <3 New York is over.

I'm posting the first episode here but you can find others on You Tube. 

If your interested.

 

 

 

 

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A Tissue dispensing robot created by

InterRobot Inc. A company that creates and rents out robots.

In Western Japan.

When the Mospeng-kun detects someone nearby it will

offer a greeting and actually hands you a pack of tissues.

The rental fee starts at 100,000 yen 

The equivelant to $835 for 5 days.

 

TRANSLATION - In a restaurant in Japan. A goldfish tank can be found underneath a fryer.
Yep. Insane right? wrong.
Apparently since oil floats on water.
The oil being 163 degrees. All the fish has to do is to stay away from the surface.
Not just that but the particles that fall into the tank

can be eaten by the fish, preventing waste.
Which I can't imagine is ..very healthy for the fish. But they are still living somehow!

 

 Talk about totally useless knowledge.

Watch how much it takes him to get the thing in the bottle,

You'll never have to use this -_-.
But its interesting to see how easy it is to get out.

 

Psychic cop or just coincidence?

 

 A pair of otters holding hands

I don't think you can get much cuter than that.

 

 

This article is insane. Obsessive fans are crazy. I don't even know who this guy is, but this article is crazy.

Ultimate Fangirl with her crazy parents..

Leaving a twelve page letter to daughter's idol Andy Lau, Yang Qingji ended his 68 years long life in Hong Kong on March 26 after his daughter attends an activity with her idol Andy Lau.

Yang Li-juan (R) finally got the chance to meet Hong Kong star Andy Lau. [Xmnext.com]

Yang's daughter Yang Lijuan is a 28-year-old girl from northwestern China's Gansu province. After the first time she dreamed of Andy 13 years ago, she became a huge fan of him. Since then, she quitted school and spent all the time thinking of her idol. All she wants is to meet Andy Lau and tell him how she loves him.

To support daughter's dream, Yang Qingji and his wife spent up every penny of their savings. They sold the only house they had in Lanzhou City. Yang even decided to sell one of his kidneys to a local hospital, but he was refused because it's illegal. However, they never had chance to meet or talk to Andy. Several days ago, the family entered Hong Kong for the third time. With the help of Andy's fans club, Yang Lijuan finally had an opportunity to attend Andy's birthday activity with hundreds of his fans on March 25. To her disappointment, she only got few minutes to take picture with Andy instead of having a conversation with him. Her life long dream did not come true.

Being unacceptable to this result, Yang Qingji wrote a letter blaming Andy's coldness to his daughter and drowned himself in despair after daughter and wife fell in sleep. In his letter, he thought it was Andy's responsibility to arrange a private meet with his daughter, even for five minutes.

Yang Lijuan and her mother were in deep sorrow after Yang's death. Yang Lijuan showed her regret of loving Andy Lau for so many years to reporters. But she still insisted that Andy should meet her again, otherwise her father's death was meaningless. She took Andy as the root cause of her father's death. Although critics think the deficiency of courage to face the reality after fulfilling years' dream is the real reason of the tragedy.

Andy Lau responds through his agency on March 28 that he has fulfilled Miss Yang's hope of meeting on the birthday activity. Feeling astonished and disappointed, he hopes Miss Yang can go back to hometown and start her own life. He refuses to meet her any more.

Leaving father's dead body in Hong Kong, Yang Lijuan and her mother went back to Lanzhou on March 28 without making it clear what to do next.

In response to the reports, Andy Lau called Yang Li Juan to stop her overdone act. "I hate those unfilial people who are selfish and show little respect and concern for their parents, and I will not care the fans who hope to see me through unhealthy means

Video: Show us a documentary or film based on a true story that really moved you.

 

Like I said,
Great movie, based on a true story.

Book: Show us a great biography or memoir.

 

I was never a huge fan of biographys, but this one stood out for some reason. When I went to pick it up. It's a great book and really sad.

 She isn't a movie star or a singer. She's simply a woman writing her childhood story.

The book is about a girl who is thought to be bad luck in her family because her mother died after her birth. So she is treated pretty much like the lowest scum on the face of the earth. You can see on the cover that shes pretty young so the biography just goes through her childhood and the trials she has to go through in that position. Being ignored, Having to deal with her new incredibly mean stepmother, constantly trying to get her fathers attention, basically neglect. It's seriously, a good book.
When I got it I couldn't put it down =).