Courtesy of Style.com, I’ve discovered that Miuccia Prada’s hired all the elves who steal socks and underwear to be her models.
You could also look like a sweaty man in a playground.
Courtesy of Style.com, I’ve discovered that Miuccia Prada’s hired all the elves who steal socks and underwear to be her models.
You could also look like a sweaty man in a playground.
Paris Hilton’s fiance‘s name is Paris? How fucking bizarre. Seriously, what are the odds?
“As he was hitting me, I kept telling him, no I didn’t receive training. I was crying and finally I told him I did receive the training. My hands were tied behind my back and my knees were on the ground and my head was bleeding. I was in a lot of pain. … At that point, with all my suffering, if he had asked me if I was Osama bin Laden, I would have said yes.” — Gitmo Prisoners Told Panel About Abuse (via Sploid)
Will work for belly rubs. Heehee.
I evidently was a poor excuse for a child — I never reached the nag quotient that ensured me the gift of a remote control car from the parentals.
There’s this thing in the Sunday Times (the UK one), The intellectual’s guide to fashion. This week it’s babies:
There are currently more than six billion humans on earth, a figure that is increasing by 80m every year. In the time it took you to read that sentence, the world’s population increased by 13 people — unless you are Wayne Rooney, in which case, it was probably about 100 people.
Meow! It goes on to say that having babies is pretty much passe, go get a man-purse instead. Eh.
Hey, it sounds like tourists aren’t splashing the cash on Singaporean tourist attractions:
“It’s not too bad, a good place for shopping and eating, really cheap and you can try all kinds of food,” said one tourist about Singapore.
“There’s a lot to buy and eat,” said another.
“What attracts me most is the shopping.”
So, while shopping and eating are good (The Great Singapore Sale, Singapore Food Festival), we should despair because
Singapore’s uniqueness is not something that can be seen immediately. It has a lot of races and cultures, so its uniqueness is that all of them are living together on this small island, creating a really unusual culture.
Singapore’s culture is very unique, okay? So much so we have a whole tourism campaign / slogan built around it.
Lee Chor Lin said: “Perhaps there is more to buy and eat, and there is less focus on promoting the historical side of Singapore so tourists think that’s all there is to us. Singaporeans are the best ambassadors, because when foreigners come here they will ask their Singaporean friends what to do. So it will have a positive impact if Singaporeans introduce some of our museums to them.”
Uh, when you demolish and rebuild the ‘historical’ side of Singapore, it’s not very likely that people will come to see reproductions. I mean, even the bird park has a replica tree trunk (WTF is up with that). Also, the History Museum sucks ass. The Wax Museum, on the other hand, is super cool. I spent enough time during primary school excursions going to these places to speak with juvenile authority.
It’s probably fitting that I’ve started to read The Road to Serfdom. First, there’s a hue and cry (and riots, let’s not forget) over a Japanese history textbook, and a deafening silence from the Chinese about their education system’s interpretation of history. Now, Russia has pulled a textbook that examines dark chapters in its past (and provides critiques of Stalin and Putin) and replaced it with one that is better for “a feeling of pride for one’s history and one’s country.”