Make your own Purikura photos

Ah... I remember the days when I was semi-obsessed with everything Japanese.
Anime, jap fashion style and learning japanese; though it didn't last very long.

Anyway, I'm sure most people my generation know of purikura (プリクラ) a.ka. Japanese photo booth stickers!



















picture source: wikipedia


Everyone looks good in purikuras because of the soft lighting which blurs out any blemishes, scars, etc.
:D

Anyho, I stumbled across this uber cute website called Puri Cute [click me] which allows you to upload your own photos and create your own without entering those expensive photo booths!!

A lot of the add-ons are actually animated but I was only allowed to save a jpeg instead of a gif one.
BOO.


















Definitely an awesome time-killer!

~ ♥

Grey Storm

Am so excited! Can't wait for my first pair of coloured contacts to arrive.

Am getting the colour and pattern "grey storm" from Clearly Colors (comfort curve)

 I hear that European made coloured-contacts aren't as natural looking as Asian made ones?
Am planning to get Korean-made coloured contacts too.


I know I'm supposed to be saving.....

MEH.


I'm also going to enjoy my life!! :D

Maru and his antics

I am officially obsessed with this cat.

I first spotted this cat on cuteoverload.com and am hooked since.

Its a Scottish Fold and is called Maru; pronounced as "Meh-ru" which
basically means 'Round' in Japanese. How apt!

With a set of inquisitive eyes, and a playful nature,
this cat won me over in this video.

I have never ever seen a cat do that before!

I prefer dogs over cats but if all cats are as cute as Maru,
then I wouldn't mind getting one!

Maru is really curious but intelligent. At first, it may seem like a silly cat as it sticks its head into paper bags (with a hole in the other end), bubble wrap and the like.

However, it begins to walk around the house in a routine manner and taking its time looking at its surroundings through the bags, which suggests its intelligence.

If you're interested, you can follow Maru and its antics through its owner's blog at http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com. Although it's predominantly in Japanese, there are English translations in the blog entries.. or rather Engrish translations.

There's an archive of blog entries in the top left corner of the blog and you can scroll through past entries at the bottom of the blog. And best of all, it's updated fairly regularly ;)

Isn't Maru just too cute?

World's Longest Poop?

Josh warned me before showing me this article.

Well, I still felt quite grossed out. So if you're eating and/or weak in the stomach, then maybe you should think twice about reading it as it does contain pictures of the 26ft long poop; the girl pooping out the poop and girl smiling with her excrement.


http://www.poormojo.org/pmjadaily/archives/006472.php



It's old news but it's still news to me.

There's still a bit of debate on whether it's true or not (Apparently she's an artist).

Either way, she's nuts!

When Love Story meets Viva la Vida

If you love 'Viva la Vida' by Coldplay and 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift, then you should check this out! :D





AWESOMOUS!

Euro 2008

Woohoo! Spain won!

MMmmMM... Fernando Torres.
You are such a beautiful boy.

Where's Wally?

If you were a child of the great 90's then you should know this game!

I need your help! I can't spot him at all! Can you??

double-click the pic to enlarge it, boys and girls

----Edit----

This is for the benefit of Sharon who doesn't know what Wally looks like.
Despite the fact that he's the man in the postcard on the top left corner -_-

Sunshine Buddy

Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls,

I present to you...

Nohonhons are solar powered toys from Japan.
The extreme stress levels of working people in Japan, inspired the creation of nohonhons. They were designed to calm their owners by swaying slowly from side to side.

In fact, it's almost hypnotic.

Ever since I saw a canary-yellow nohonhon swaying in a mate's house, I wanted it.

BADLY.

I began hunting on e-bay but they are so freaking expensive.
>=(

So I forgot about it.

But Twinno Yenny must have sensed my burning desire all the way from Korea.

AND SHE POSTED ME ONE!

WOO HOOO! You is awesomous, Yen!

Now, Toby has been with me for quite a while now.
And it wasn't my idea to name him Toby.

J suggested the name Toby and I went along with it.

But it hit me one day.

What if Toby was a girl?

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With a pink flower on its bald head!

With a blue ribbon! (and the flower is now a decoration!)

So, should Toby be a girl or a boy?
HmmMM?

Am i ...

... the only girl who is unfazed by this?

Japanese creates see through-frog

One word: EW.

Not exactly see-through but *shudders*
I've lost my appetite -.-

The whole article is at the end of this blog entry but I'm sure not of you wouldn't be bothered to read it.
Basically, they've mated two frogs with recessive genes that cause paleness (much like albinos in a way) to give offsprings which are then mated with one another to give SUPER pale froggies.

This is so that they can study the internal structures of the drog without dissecting them :)
But these little frog's grandfroggies would die right after birth due to too many defects in them resulting from all the recessive genes :(
Sounds like playing God, you say?
Exactly. And this is what I'm capable of doing with my degree.

That's why I'm leaning towards plants instead. At least they don't look at you with sad eyes when you're about to kill them.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/these-seethrough-frogs-cut-out-dissection/2007/09/27/1190486472914.html
September 27, 2007 - 5:29PM

Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing see-through frogs, letting them observe organs, blood vessels and eggs under the skin without performing dissections.

"You can see through the skin how organs grow, how cancer starts and develops," said the lead researcher Masayuki Sumida, professor at the Institute for Amphibian Biology of state-run Hiroshima University.
"You can watch organs of the same frog over its entire life as you don't have to dissect it. The researcher can also observe how toxins affect bones, livers and other organs at lower costs," he said.
Dissections have become increasingly controversial in much of the world, particularly in schools where animal rights activists have pressed for humane alternatives such as using computer simulations.
Sumida said his team, which announced the research last week at an academic conference, had created the first transparent four-legged creature, although some small fish are also see-through.
The researchers produced the creature from rare mutants of the Japanese brown frog, or Rena japonica, whose backs are usually ochre or brown.

Two kinds of recessive genes have been known to cause the frog to be pale.
Sumida's team crossed two frogs with recessive genes through artificial insemination and the offspring looked normal due to the presence of more powerful genes. But crossing the offspring led to a frog whose skin is transparent from the tadpole stage.

"You can see dramatic changes of organs when tadpoles mutate into frogs," said Sumida, whose team is seeking a patent.

Such frogs could theoretically exist in the wild but it is "virtually impossible" they would naturally inherit so many recessive genes, Sumida said.

The transparent frogs can also reproduce, with their offspring inheriting their parents' traits, but their grandchildren die shortly after birth.
"As they have two sets of recessive genes, something wrong must kick in and kill them," Sumida said.

While the researchers relied on artificial insemination, they said that genetic engineering could also produce transparent and even illuminating frogs.

Sumida said researchers could also inject into the transparent frogs an illuminating protein attached to a gene, which would light up the gene once it manifests -- for example, showing at what stage cancer starts.

Sumida said it would be unrealistic to apply the same method to mammals such as mice as their skin structure is different.

AFP

The Impossible Quiz

This game is so totally addictive!!
I've been playing for the past few days and I was stuck on question 42 for a bit but fortunately me brain still works so I got through that. *mini dance*

I've gotten to question 66 . . I really want to see what happens in the end.


http://notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequiz.php#


If you get through all of that, congratulations. . . and also there's also a sequeal to it ;)

Guess what's in my pants

Omo~!! I laughed so hard at this! xD

It's about this dude from some TV show who went around asking ladies to guess what was in his pants. If they were able to, they'd win $500.

Friends forever

So our new bin has finally arrived!!

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And her name is Sulo.

Everyone.. meet Sulo.

For a while, we were garbage bin-less . . .
but a neighbour of ours was kind enough to lend us their extra bin.

And yes, it has a name too.

Zulu.

Ahh.. Zulu has been a wonderful and patient substitute. She has never ever once complained. Not even after we left her in the rain for a couple of days.

Now that Solu has arrived, Zulu will no longer feel lonely :')

In the land where taboo thrives

I stumbled onto this rather interesting article today.


Sex education in Brunei a no-no

Apparently in the last two years, a total of 95 babies were born out of wedlock.
And the youngest teen mom is found to be a 13-year old. original context

NYAH!! 13 years old?! I was still enjoying Cartoon Network at that age .___.



First of all, my jaw dropped when I saw a heading like that in some community forum. It's pretty unusual to see any news about Brunei, let alone be it such a topic.


So some people have proposed sex education to be carried out in schools to teach safe sex.
However, the Government is afraid that it would seem like they're encouraging pre-martial sex instead.
Oh woe-is-them.


"I find it sad that in Brunei, we still delude ourselves in thinking that Bruneians don’t do these things. That only married couples have sex. We find it hard to accept that sex among teenagers are commonplace. " (Jack blog)

I agree wholeheartedly, Jacky boy.


Being in denial doesn't solve anything.
You can close your eyes and ears all you want, it's not as if babies will stop popping out when you do so.
Besides making sex sound so taboo only makes it more enticing and fuels curiousity.



On the other hand, we Bruneians an endangered species anyway.

bubblewrap.

So Uncle Yenny went off to Korea to teach english to kiddies..



^HAHA! I stole this off her site.

I somewhat envy her.


I mean, she just graduated the end of last year before turning 20 (So technically she graduated at the age of 19) and so she's taking a year off to go to Korea and teach English-suu!

Sounds like fun huh??


I'd like to do that but two things come to mind.

1. $$$
   No money, no talk.
   


2. Teaching kids English must be like pulling teeth, especially if they're pulling yours.
   Can you imagine little kiddies running around, screaming their heads off and causing havoc with every step they take?
   *shudders*

But then.. think about the amount of k-pop celebrity stalking she could do~
NYahhhh~



She says she'll kidnap Yunho and bubblewrap him then send him through mail for me.
Yay! xD

Good luck Yenners.

I hope Korean kids are angelic.
<__<

Speaking of Korea, I bought this the other day.
Korean ice cream! ^O^




But why do they need to say it's 'white vanilla'
I wasn't aware that vanilla come in any other colour but white.

o__O

Endless Story

Reira starring Yuna Ito - Endless Story

[Download]

If you haven't changed your mind
soba ni ite hoshii yo Tonight
。・☆。・☆・。。・☆。・☆・。
If you haven't changed your mind
I want you to be by my side Tonight


tsuyogaru koto ni tsukareta no osanasugita no
Everytime I think about you babyima nara ieru I miss you
It is hard to say I'm sorry
。・☆。・☆・。。・☆。・☆・。
I was tired of acting strong I was too young
Everytime I think about you baby Now I can tell you that I miss you
It is hard to say I'm sorry


* tatoeba dareka no tame ja naku anata no tame ni
utaitai kono uta wo
owaranai story tsudzuku kono kagayaki ni
Always tsutaetai zutto eien ni
。・☆。・☆・。。・☆。・☆・。
For instance, I want to sing this song not for someone else, but for you
The endless story continues into this radiance
I always want to tell you always, forever

Memories of our time together
kesanaide kono mama don't go away
。・☆。・☆・。。・☆。・☆・。
Memories of our time together
don't disappear, they stay like this, they don't go away

atatakaku tokedashite tashikameru no
yasashisa no shizuku kono mune ni hirogatteku
setsunai hodo ni I'm missin' you
kasaneta te hanasanaide
。・☆。・☆・。。・☆。・☆・。
Beginning to melt warmly & make certain,
the drops of kindness spread on my chest
I'm missin' you so much that I'm sad
Don't let go of my hand upon yours

tatoeba kanau nara mou ichido anata no tame ni
utaitai kono uta wo
owaranai story taema nai itoshisa de
tell me why oshiete yo zutto eien ni
。・☆。・☆・。。・☆。・☆・。
For instance, if the wish comes true,
I want to sing this song for you again
The endless story with an endless love
tell me why tell me always & forever

Till the fat lady sings

Having the internet is bliss. They gave us a 4-port modem while we wait for the wireless one to arrive.

Anyway, I just came across a news article in some Science & Technology site.
Yes, nerd alert.
*cough*

Anyway, they've found it.
The gene that increases one's susceptibility to obesity.

=O

It reminded me of an old documentary that I've watched... and at the time, they were still searching for the gene (FTO gene).

I recall this massive lady going, "I would feel better if this gene does exist. If it's in our genes, it's not our fault that we're fat."

So basically it's comforting news for her.

Homer Simpson will be happy to hear that too!!

He looks ecstatic =D

Just remember the gene just increases the chances of you getting fat, it doesn't mean it WILL make you super-sized.

Imagine someone stuffing his face with donuts while watching telly going, "Nope, it's not my fault that I don't exercise and live to eat."

More about the Fat Gene : http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=109788

Is this a joke?? TiSP Google

I'm not sure if any of you've heard of this yet but...

"Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines."

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*eye twitch*

Very hygienic indeed.

Well, if your toilet becomes clogged, you know why.

for more info - http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

The Evil Lamp

Why couldn't I have gotten a magic lamp with a genie who'll grant me every wish?

Instead I got this.

Looks pretty cool eh?

Sleek and shiny.

And who am I to argue?
But the only problem is that it didn't come with a bulb and guess what? .. the store that I bought it from doesn't sell bulbs that the lamp uses!!

Curses!

So I got a standard one. I mean, it can't do me any harm could it?
As long as it's 40watt, I'm sure it'll work.

Wrong.

The thing turned smoking within a minute and the fuse blew.

So I decided to take it out.
and the cowardly thing broke!
Well, the bulb broke but the base was still in there.

Me being rather stupid and frustrated stuck my hand in to remove it.
And I cut myself .___.
It wasn't really that bad.
It just pierced my skin into my flesh right under the fingernail of my index finger.
Okay, it did hurt a lot.

I tried getting rid of it by wearing a glove but it was jammed in real tight!! >=(
I was getting really frustrated and decided to borrow a plier from someone
But no one has a pair of pliers!! >=(

I just left it there so it just sat there on my table...
you know, it was almost as if it was laughing at me!!

^Look at it mocking me!! >=(

So I went and bought pliers and after almost half an hour of twisting and turning it finally came out!! YAY~~!!

But I still haven't found any store that sells the right bulb *sulk*

For those who are wondering where I got the comic of the genie from, check out this cute little site :)

http://www.nataliedee.com/nd-archives/ndarchive-oct05.php



Check out another one of her works. I'm pretty sure she just used 'Paint' or something equivalent but they look so good!!