CNN Geography fail

Source: here and here.

Caning

The Borneo Post, 9 February 2011 (mirror)

Maybe its just me, but my first reaction to this piece of front page news was “What’s wrong with caning?”

Missing quote in The Star

Was brought to my attention a rather peculiar incident with the 3 February 2011 edition of The Star’s Business supplement.

See the front page:

At the top right it has a quote attributed to MAHB’s Senior GM as saying:

Except that the quote only appears only on the front page. It directs their readers to page 6 for the full story, but when one flips the pages to the said place, all one see’s is this:

Nary in sight any reference to MAHB or KLIA at all. Even if you flipped through the other pages, there is no article quoting anyone from MAHB.

 

Even The Star’s own website doesn’t seem to have the quote either:

Source

So it begs the question, where did it come from?

Apples and Blackberries

Remember a time when Apples and Blackberries were just fruits?


Source.

References:
-Blackberries: the fruit
-Frozen: cold vs not functioning
-Orange: A telco in the UK
-Black spots: Blemishes on a fruit, or a area with no mobile phone coverage

Things I get when I (am forced to) read about the Asian entertainment industry

One observation of living in Malaysia is that the entertainment news tends to have the goings of both the Western and Eastern entertainment industry next to each other. I usually have little time for these rags. (Through I’m force to read them on the bus back because that is what mX is all about anyway).

However, a recent article caught my eye:

Hang on, a “virtual boyfriend”?!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for Love Plus, and not a big fan of marriages. And when I read it the article piped my interest, my utter lack of comprehension Re. SNSD notwithstanding. For a while, I celebrated the coming of age of 2D marriages. Maybe a wonderful life may be possible.

The Borneo Post, 9 February 2011

Thankfully, we now have Wikipedia to bring us down to earth:

In February 2010, Yong Hwa was paired up with Seohyun of Girls' Generation as an imaginary wedded couple for the popular MBC variety show We Got Married.

I could never understand most Asian Variety (Entertainment) shows. Its not just the language barrier. Most people find them entertaining and funny. (How else can the producers keep churning them out one after the other?) I fail to see any humour in most of them and I’ve read law reports that are more interesting.

So, back to the drawing board I suppose eh?

Oh dear

Since when did Microsoft Word actually have a limit on the number of spelling errors it can display when one is word processing?

I suppose its a little problematic when the document has a whole lot of Asian names.

The internet has run out of IP addresses

Yes yes, we're out of IP addresses, so the mainstream media loves to say. But this is still awesome:



Mind you, this was 3 years ago.

Kurogane reacts to 45 seconds of K-on! in the English language

Source via here.

Sato Satomi need not worry about her job security, but I thought it wasn’t half bad.

Its not going to win any awards, and I wouldn’t go so far as to call it the best English dub I’ve heard (there are gems), but I felt it was a very good attempt.

Casting Tainaka Ritsu with (somewhat of) a British accent is surprisingly a turn on.