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A funny and pretty cool Hungarian film about a kid that returns to Communist Hungary in the 50’s after having spent time in Rock ‘n Roll USA…. To find out more, check out “Made in Hungaria”

The frames worn by the great Rock ‘n Roll icon Fenyő Miki (Tamás Szabó Kimmel) are a pair of Tosca frames made in Hungary in 2003

No, I’m not making that promise again
Nothing can change my mind
Nothing at all
’cause love has a way of comin’ undone
’till I’m all alone with my heart
And here I’ll stay

And I always thought I’d see you again
Oh how it hurts, every time you’ve crossed my heart since then
Gonna give it all it takes
To hold what might have been,
But I always thought I’d see you again

Now there’s no reason to run for the phone
No need to hold my breath
Hopin’ it’s you
Each time I see someone we used to know
Or go some place we used to go
It’s not the same

’cause I always thought I’d see you again
‘oh how it hurts every time
You’ve crossed my heart since then
Gonna give up all it takes
To hold what might have been

cause I always thought I’d see you again

Love doesn’t come when you need love
It’s not always there when you fall
Try as you may, you got nothin’ to say
Nothing at all

I always thought I’d see you again
Oh how it hurts every time
You’ve crossed my heart again
Gotta give it all it takes
To hold what might have been
Cause I always thought I’d see you again
Cause I always thought I’d see you again
Again
Again

I Always Thought I’d See You Again: Tiffany

I finally put this song on my mp3 player. I can’t find it on CD anywhere that I have looked, so I am happy to have it on mp3.  It’s kind of a sad song, but lately I have been kind of sad. It is just crazy. I didn’t get any sleep last night at all. I was watching a Jane Austen movie : Persuasion. I relate more personally to this as far as the relationships part. Even though I relate more to Elizabeth of Pride and Prejudice over all. But Now I can relate to Anne. She still has feelings for Wentworth and she is trying to be true to herself. Family aside she is finally sure that her feelings are that of a woman in love. Finally that scheming Socialite  needs to be smacked across the head with something like a bat. I find myself cheering for Anne as though I am at a baseball game and she is trying to get to home plate and she is caught between the catcher: Wentworth’s unknown feelings and possible rejection, and the the third basemen: her family’s persuasion/friends persuasion and other obstacles that could pull her apart from Wentworth forever. I keep thinking if she could only slide home “safe in Wentworth’s heart again, everything will be all better.  I am now reading the book.

But aside from that I felt like crying all day. and so I could only watch part of Persuasion… Before trying to watch the movie though. I was reading a manhwa (like a manga only in the Korean stylization) called He’s Dedicated to Roses, by Hwang Mi-ri.  It is a good story. I love reading all genres of books and it is going into my favorites list. I rarely find a manhwa that I like this much. But I suppose like any good book that becomes one of my favorites, I have to search through a ton of stories that, though I enjoy them, I rarely want to read more than once, until I find one or two that are some of the best that I have read. However there is a downside. I stayed up until 5am, and I cried through part of it. But it has a good ending to it. So apart form my grandmother getting up three or four times last night, trying to turn off the computer screen only to find me still reading, it was sort of uneventful. I am in a lonely/sad mood for some reason I don’t know why  though…. Gonna find a show to watch or something. Maybe kimi ni todoke has been updated.

Much love and hugs,  And HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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Damn I need this, I might actually replace me Mac so I can have this. I love the quote on their site

“We are all at the mercy of our wild monkey minds. Incessantly swinging from branch to branch.”

Beautiful.

A full MINUTE of kitties at the end of this one… after Stephen’s sexual predator bullshit.

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Forty-eight relics from the Nguyen dynasty era donated by private collectors to the Hue Royal Fine Arts Museum are on display at the former royal capital’s An Dinh Palace.

Worship bronze statues  from the Nguyen dynasty era are on the display  (Photo: TTO)

The objects on show at the exhibition, organised by the museum, are mostly made of silver, brass, precious stones, porcelain, silk, wood and paper.

Among them are a pair of ivory tusks donated by a Vietnamese expatriate living in France, a tea set gifted by Doan Phuoc Thuan, a collector in the central coastal province of Phu Yen, and a collection of King Minh Mang’s poems written on paper donated by Frenchman Andre de Crozet.

A set of three life-size brass statues of Jesus’s mother Mary, donated by a Hue-based company, is among the most valuable relics on show.

At the time of the exhibition’s opening, Nguyen Huu Hoang donated a porcelain basin and plate, Le Gia donated a land register, and a group of collectors presented a pair of vermilion-lacquered gilded wood panels.

The exhibition will go on until the end of the year.

The Hue Royal Fine Arts Museum, run by the Hue Historical Relic Preservation Centre, houses a large collection of relics from the time of Vietnam’s last imperial dynasty, which ruled from 1820 to 1945.

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MANILA, Nov 25, 2009 (AFP) – Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Wednesday vowed justice would be served after an election-linked massacre that claimed at least 46 lives was blamed on a political ally.

“The president is really very angry about this incident,” presidential spokesman Cerge Remonde said on the ABS CBN television network.

“The president is very clear that those people responsible, regardless of who they are, should be brought before the bar of justice.”

Police earlier said the top suspect in Monday’s killings was Andal Ampatuan Jnr, a member of Arroyo’s ruling coalition and the son of a powerful regional politician who has helped secure votes for the president in previous elections.

Photojournalists light candles during a indignation rally in Quezon City, suburban of Manila on November 24, 2009, denouncing in strongest possible terms the massacre (AFP photo)

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Two bombs within minutes of each other exploded at a restaurant early Wednesday in Iraq’s shrine city of Karbala, wounding at least 26 people, police and medical officials said.

An Iraqi soldier stands guard along a highway near Karbala. (AFP Photo)

The first bomb targeted diners inside the restaurant in the heart of the city, located 110 kilometres (69 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, around 9:00 am (0600 GMT), causing several injuries, police said.

However, a second bomb minutes later, after an ambulance and medics had arrived to help the wounded, caused most of the casualties.

A senior health official for Karbala province told AFP that at least 26 people had been wounded in the attacks.

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China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula — severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country’s worst food safety crises.

In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a child cries as he waits for ultrasonic scan to detect for problems related to consuming tainted milk formula at a hospital, in Shijiazhuang, northern China’s Hebei province. (AFP Photo)

The men were the only people put to death in a scheme to boost profits by lacing milk powder with the industrial chemical melamine; 19 other people were convicted and received lesser sentences. At least six children died after drinking the adulterated formula, and more than 300,000 were sickened.

Beijing has responded swiftly and comprehensively to eliminate problems in its food production chain that have spawned protests at home and threatened its export-reliant economy. The milk powder contamination struck a nerve with the public because so many children were affected, but was only one in a series of product recalls and embarrassing disclosures of lax public health safeguards.

Melamine, which is used to make plastics and fertilizers, has also been found added to pet food, eggs and fish feed, although not in levels considered dangerous to humans. The chemical, which like protein is high in nitrogen, fooled inspectors. It can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.

China has tightened regulations and increased inspections on producers and exporters in cooperation with U.S. officials, who have noted a drop in the number of product recalls on Chinese exports.

But Beijing continues to struggle to regulate small and illegally run operations, often blamed for introducing chemicals and additives into the food chain. The country has 450,000 registered food production and processing enterprises, but many — about 350,000 — employ just 10 people or fewer. The U.N. said in a report last year that the small enterprises present many of China’s greatest food safety challenges.

Zhang Yujun, the farmer, was executed for endangering public safety, and Geng Jinping for producing and selling toxic food, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

Much of the phony protein powder that Zhang and Geng produced and sold ended up at the defunct Sanlu Group Co., at the time one of China’s biggest dairies.

Xinhua said an announcement of the execution had been issued by the Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, although a court clerk who answered the phone Tuesday said he was unable to confirm the sentences had been carried out. Most executions in China are performed by firing squad.

Of the others tried and sentenced in January in the scandal, Sanlu’s general manager, Tian Wenhua, was given a life sentence after pleading guilty to charges of producing and selling fake or substandard products.

Three other former Sanlu executives were given between five years and 15 years in prison.

There was outrage after news spread of the doctored milk in September 2008, both because of the extent of the contamination and allegations that the government prevented the news from breaking until after the Olympic Games in Beijing.

The cover-up accusations were never publicly investigated, and authorities have since harassed and detained activist parents pushing lawsuits demanding higher compensation and the punishment of government officials. Families were offered a one-time payout — ranging from of 2,000 yuan ($293) to 200,000 yuan ($29,000), depending on the severity of the case — to not pursue lawsuits.

Tuesday’s executions brought some comfort to Li Xinquan, who lost one of her 8-month-old twin daughters who was fed with melamine-tainted formula from Sanlu. Li has campaigned to force authorities to admit negligence and provide fair compensation.

“They deserved it. This is the punishment they have received from the government,” said Li, whose other daughter survived because she was breast fed.

Another parent, Wang Zhenping, also voiced satisfaction with the executions, reflecting strong support for the death penalty in China, which executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.

Wang, who said his 2-year-old son appeared to have recovered from melamine poisoning, rejected the compensation offer and said he was growing weary of the struggle.

“I feel like it doesn’t really matter now,” he said.

U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission Chairman Inez Tenenbaum said last month that Beijing has made progress in increasing product safety.

The numbers of consumer recalls of toys imported from China had fallen from more than 80 in fiscal 2008 to about 40 in fiscal 2009, Tenenbaum said.

“Chinese suppliers and U.S. importers are now on notice from both governments that it is a mistake to depend on good intentions and a few final inspections to ensure compliance with safety requirements,” she told a conference in Beijing.

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This will definitely conjure up some feelings. A lot has happened and this puts it into prospective, but, they needed to elaborate more on Michael Jackson’s death. At any rate, great video.

I saw this on yahoo the other day and was really intrigued by it.  Who would have guess an otaku would actually marry a girl from a video game?

wait…let me re-say it again….

Who would’ve guess that people would actually accept this as an official “marriage”?

I have to say I’m also pretty obsess with 2D girls, since well… You have to admit how much cuter and hotter they can be than real women (3D girls), but to actually marry a 2D girl?

I admit some where during life I probably wrote something like “OMG I love *insert a hot anime girl name* so much! I want to marry her!!’ online, but to actually go through with it? never cross my mind.

Anyway, I guess as a fello otaku all I can say I wish Sal9000-kun and Nene Anegasaki will be together forever.

The Thai Culinary and Culture Delight Week will be held in Hanoi from December 1 to 6 to celebrate the Thai National Day, which falls on December 4.

On the occasion, two Thai chefs Aek Charttrakul and. Chutchanok Boonchai will introduce dishes cooked with especially hand-picked spices and herbs

The week will bring about specialities of some typical Thai dishes like Pla-Moo-Yang (Spicy and sour grilled pork salad), Lab-Hed (Spicy fresh mushroom salad), Tom-Yam-Kung (Spicy shrimp soup), Khao-Soy-Kai-Nua (Egg noodles with chicken or beef curry), Kang-Phed-Ped-Yang (Roast duck curry) and Pueak-Kang-Buad (Taro in coconut milk).

Thai cuisine is known for its balance of five fundamental flavours in each dish or the overall meal – hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty and bitter (optional). Although popularly considered as a single cuisine, Thai food is really better described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, North-eastern (or Isan), Central and Southern. Southern curries, for example, tend to contain coconut milk and fresh turmeric, while north-eastern dishes often include lime juice. Thai food is known for its enthusiastic use of fresh (rather than dried) herbs and spices as well as fish sauce.

Not only having a chance to taste specialities of Thai food, visitors will enjoy traditional charming performances by Thai dancers during the week. 

Thai dance is the main dramatic art form of Thailand. Thai dance, like many forms of traditional Asian dance, can be divided into two major categories that correspond roughly to the high art (classical dance) and low art (folk dance) distinction.

People can discover different tastes of Thai snacks or enjoy dinner buffet at Hanoi Melia Hotel during the week.

The event is jointly organised by the Royal Thai Embassy and the Hanoi Melia Hotel.

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A long-awaited public inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war opens Tuesday, with former civil servants first to appear in hearings set to climax with Tony Blair taking the stand.

One-time top officials from the foreign and defence ministries will outline Britain’s policy towards Baghdad in the early 2000s as a five-member committee begins investigating what lessons can be learned from the US-led war.

Inquiry chairman John Chilcot, a former civil servant, said he was confident of producing a “full and insightful” account of the decision-making that led Britain to join the 2003 invasion against strong opposition at home and abroad.

File photo of John Chilcot, the Chairman of the Iraq Inquiry, outlining the terms of reference for the inquiry.

An appearance by former prime minister Blair, who took Britain into the conflict, is likely to be the highlight of the inquiry, although he and other Labour government figures are not due to give evidence until next year.

Chilcot has said that nobody is on trial in the inquiry, held at a conference centre near parliament in central London, but has also vowed not to shy away from any criticism if the findings warrant it.

He and his fellow committee members have already met with families of some of the 179 British troops who died during the six-year conflict, who raised issues about whether they were properly equipped and trained.

The inquiry will also be looking into the justification for the war, principally the claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. These weapons were never found.

In addition, anti-war campaigners — who will protest outside the inquiry Tuesday — want a ruling on the legality of the conflict, which was carried out without explicit approval by the United Nations Security Council.

The first few weeks are intended to establish “a reliable account” of the main features of British involvement in Iraq between 2001 and 2009, when the war ended with the withdrawal of all but a handful of British troops in July.

Among the first witnesses to be called Tuesday is Peter Ricketts, who chaired the government’s top intelligence committee between 2000 and 2001 before taking a senior post at the Foreign Office (FCO) in 2001-03.

William Patey, head of the FCO’s Middle East Department in 1999-02; Simon Webb, head of operational policy at the Ministry of Defence in 1999-2001 and MoD policy advisor in 2001-04; and Michael Wood, FCO legal advisor in 1999-06, will also give evidence.

There have already been two official probes into elements surrounding the run-up to the invasion, but ministers had refused to hold a full inquiry until after the military deployment had ended.

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