Category: Elsewhere round Asia and the globe……..

That is so depressing about being a Korean star? Seoul – An actress in the popular Korean drama, Boys Over Flowers, was found dead last Saturday in an apparent suicide, fuelling talk that the serial is jinxed. Jang Ja Yeon, 26, played Sunny, one of a trio of mean girls

The woman below missed a flight to Los Angeles on Cathay Pacific. Watch how she freaks out: Cathay Pacific said the incident occurred earlier this month, and the video appeared to have been loaded onto YouTube late last week. By Monday, the “woman going insane after missing her flight video”

And by the way its located in the Sea of JAPAN! Don’t try telling that to this bunch of Texans. Wonder how many Texans drive by in their F-150 ‘s and wonder , ” Is that somewhere down by Waco?” Although, there is something more than a little ironic about

And by the way its located in the Sea of JAPAN! Don’t try telling that to this bunch of Texans. Wonder how many Texans drive by in their F-150 ‘s and wonder , ” Is that somewhere down by Waco?” Although, there is something more than a little ironic about

Ai Iijima, who was an AIDS activist and former television personality was found dead in her condo in Shibuya yesterday. The body of the 36-year-old, who retired in March last year from a lucrative career as a television personality, was found lying in the lounge of her condominium in downtown

Because you could end up being entertained by this.

To get you in the mood for the next Cold War. Since it was made readily apparent that both Presidential candidates favor Georgian and Ukranian membership in NATO……. Which will, in turn, royally piss the Russians off……… And in order for NATO’s Article V to have any real deterrent value-some

To discuss politics….or even to blog for that matter. This weekend began for me with waking up in palatial Skippy-estates, fully secure in the knowledge that I would be : a) Installing a new shower head-since the S.O. wants one of the ones like she had in Japan with the

Amid all the news about how much pigs love lipstick, something very different occured on Sept 7, 2008. The Peace Boat sailed from Yokohama. Now back when I was in the land of the Rising Sun, where life was beautiful and the trains ran on time-I used to see posters