60 years after formation

and the world still can't spell it properly.


Source.

Its not the first time, and it will not be the last time.

The final nail in the coffin for the Sarawak River Tambangs

Source: The Borneo Post, 29 December 2012

I need to ride one before they become little more than a footnote in history.

Twitter Gems, part 45

(TL: Taking a picture with my Dana-san for Christmas)

(NB: Dana-san literary means "lord of the house", but is used by women informally to refer to their husbands)

Oh god KitaEri, what are you doing to Hidaka Rina?!

Told you the mathematical function puns were coming

Source: SBS Pop"Asia", 16 December 2012

And they called me mad when I said that SM Entertainment is a evil plot to take over the world. Is is not enough that The Big Bang Theory has gone from comedy for geeks to comedy for the proletarian masses who find the laugh track funny?

On the bright side, SBS Pop"Asia" has gone from being 95% K-pop to 70% K-pop by chucking in obscure Indonesian/Malaysian/Vietnamese acts in between putting in Show Luo and Rannie Yang. And even than it isn't so much of diversity as the fact that both of them are Tourism Australia's ambassadors to the Asian market.

In the same way that J-pop is so much more than Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Asia is far more than just what SM Entertainment liberally doles out to SBS to fill the airwaves.

The whole world is rigged to make you marry

Don't believe me? Explain these 2 articles a day apart:

16 Dec 2012: Singapore offers love vouchers to promote dating

17 Dec 2012: Thousands set for South Korea’s ‘battle of the singles’

Need more proof? Look no further than S6 E11 of The Big Bang Theory.