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Entries for July, 2009

World Travel: Turkish steam bath, Istanbul, Turkey

Turkish baths are the luxury enjoyments for Istanbulians. The typical setting for a Turkish bath is in the 100°F heat. The Romans built the city’s first public bathing facility. This marble retreat rose in the 16th century, a design of the architect Sinan, who created hundreds of glorious structures for the Ottomans. In the Turkish [...]

Amazing Honda Accord advertisement video: 605 failed shots before success

This is an amazing commercial video produced by Honda. I have watched it for many times and loved it every time I saw it. It’s certainly brilliant. Many articles in newspapers have claimed that this video was actually real, and involved no computer graphics. 606 attempts apparently to get it right. However, many didn’t believe [...]

Interesting license plate numbers in China

A common license plate number in China consists of a province code, a city code and a 5-digit number. In recent years, certain license plates have become the symbols of either financial or political status. So when you walk on street and see a car with the privileged plate number, you know someone important is [...]

Incredible fruit and vegetable art

Do you know ordinary veggies and fruits can be used not only for food but also for creating wonderful artworks? We all saw those carved veggies and fruits that used by some restaurants to decorate their dishes, but converting veggies and fruits merely into painting-alike landscape art pieces is indeed a creative and unique art [...]

Spam is prohibited in social media, but every social media user is a spammer

I have been thinking how the social media could become an important part of internet. I have also been wondering what “spam” this fashion term really means. How about linking social media with spam? I am sure most of you would say no…no. Indeed, spam is something you don’t to touch in the social media….explicitly. [...]

Travel notes: busy subways in Japan

The once-was famous personal space in Japan certainly doesn’t apply in the crowded and busy subways that run throughout the country. The worry about being late may strike fear in each individual there. It’s a fact that being a few minutes late in Japan can break a code of respect, which is a situation that [...]

What’s behind closure of Russia’s largest market?

Cherkizovsky of Moscow, Russia, Europe’s largest market and a cash cow that generated millions of dollars a year, was shut down couple weeks ago. According Moscow government, Cherkizovsky‘s closure was due to the fact that it’s a chaotic, filthy hub for knockoff and smuggled goods. Apparently, it’s not that simple. Other factors appear to be [...]

Fun from streets: the worst places you could stop a car

You probably see  everyday how people do weird things with the cars they drive. But have you seen cars are stopped in these places? It really takes some skill to stop a car with one side landing on a piece of rock and without causing much damage. I really don’t know how she moved that [...]