28 March 2015

Xiao Pingguo (Little Apple): China's Response to "Gangnam Style"

So Summer 2012 saw social media drive up Psy's "Gangnam Style" to number 1 on YouTube.  In 2014, Chopsticks Brothers (a Mainland Chinese band) experienced a similar phenom with their catchy single "Xiao Pingguo" (Little Apple).

Below is the Korean take on "Xiao Pingguo."  The girl group is called T-ARA.  Classic K-pop style with the sleek, stylized dancing.  There're so many things wrong with K-pop.  But somehow it does catch and retain our attention.  Maybe it's the girls' mesmerizing beauty...

24 March 2015

asians are too cute!


Her name is Joyce Chu, a Chinese-Malaysian. Just so cute!  She has since become an Internet sensation in Malaysia and Singapore.

23 March 2015

BREAKING NEWS: SINGAPORE'S LEE KWAN YEW DEAD @ 91 -- SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS?



THE TINY CITY-STATE OF SINGAPORE LOST ITS LARGER-THAN-LIFE LEADER TODAY.  MR. LEE KWAN YEW TURNED SINGAPORE FROM A SMELLY PORT TOWN INTO THE MOST ULTRA-MODERN AND SLEEK CITY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN.  THIS FEAT WAS MADE EVEN MORE REMARKABLE BECAUSE IT WAS ACHIEVED IN A PERIOD OF LESS THAN 30 YEARS.

OF COURSE, MR. LEE ALSO HAD A DARK SIDE. IN HIS EARLY YEARS, HE RUTHLESSLY IMPRISONED THOUSANDS OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS.  MANY OTHERS WENT INTO EXILE.  IN HIS LATER YEARS, HE RESORTED TO BANKRUPTING HIS FOES BY ORDERING THEM TO PAY OUTRAGEOUS FINES FOR PUTATIVE LIBEL AND SLANDER AGAINST HIM AND HIS CRONIES...A TRICK NOT GONE UNNOTICED BY OTHER SCOUNDRELS IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AROUND THE WORLD.  MR. LEE ALSO ENJOYED SEEING PEOPLE HANGED IN THE GALLOWS.  IN THIS REGARD, HE WAS EVERY BIT A VICTORIAN MAN...