South Korea's national dish, kimchi, has been cleared for launch on the country's first space expedition.
It is not clear whether he intends to share his special foods with his fellow astronauts on the space station. | ||
definitely been craving the korean food this week.....two non korean countries....two korean meals.....definitely hit the spot....
kimchi mandoo....
question to random readers....if u've never met me....or don't really hang out with me....but casually peruse this site every so often...do you now feel like u recognize the staple friends/family that appear here? hahaha....
CHECK OUT THAT NEW RING!
Grace: hows the rock star girlfriend?! well you better hurry,if you're going to be a rockstar you have to do it now. because once you hit 30...no more...you should....i think we (all your millions of friends! :)) all want you to be a rockstar....make a demo give it to your girlfriend... take pictures...no seriously....you want to be a rock star...or paris hilton
mirror honestly whichever comes first....i mean..even the back street boys have aj..the "bad boy"...i'll fake rehab...and i'm going to make a sextape....maybe being disowned temporarily is a good thing for me....
people in the world
Alexander: u know...rather than be a chinese popstar...i'd rather be a korean gasoo...and big in china
vietnamese
my long lost sister but had no luck...like fieval
going to make out...but something stopped us...and now we realize that we're brother and sister
Grace: it's perfect...you're going to be rockstar!....but seriously.... if anyone can do it you can
dramas or the comedy ones...where they make the over drawn funny
faces... scrunched up faces...big eyes..messed up mouth...u know there's like 5 reactions SHOCK MOUTH OPEN....SHOCK IN PAIN>..SQUITY EYES...the "HUH" look...the "gangster smoking squatting looking up
look"....and the girl looking in the mirror doing make up look
don't have any korean friends anymore?!
her
etc...
stop making excuses...
times ticking...
im serious
to
people....hahahah....do you want me to google it....you look happier....but now its time to channel that happiness into focussing
on building up what you want to do in life....like being a rockstar....you need to create opportunities...practice....put songs together...get panda to play stuff....or give it to people...ALEX!! you can do it....practice it, sing it, record it....ask your really blunt friends to criticize
it
by the end of this month....i want you to pick a song you want to
record
Chen said on Thursday that he would step away from the Hong
Kong entertainment industry, in his first public appearance
since a nude picture scandal broke in January.
"I've decided to step away from the Hong Kong entertainment
industry," Chen told reporters, while apologizing to Hong Kong
for the scandal which has drawn blanket media coverage over
several weeks.
He said in a brief statement he would fulfill existing
commitments before stepping down "indefinitely."
(Reporting by James Pomfret; Editing by Anne Marie
Roantree)
after hearing that he apologized for not being a good role model for young teens, i immediately stood up in protest...after this scandal he has definitely rushed to the top of my "beacon of guiding light" lists....shieeet.....
HaoGe (郝歌) or Uwechue Emmanuel is a main land Chinese pop singer
originally from Liberia, Africa. his singing career in China began when
he took part in The 7 day 'Star Boulevard' singing competition on
China's CCTV, winning second prize, and in the process becoming a new
star in China. A graduate of the University of Liberia, he is a
spaceflight engineer by profession. After his win, Hao Ge signed up
with Hua Yi Xing Fang Music Company, and performed with other big name
stars like Liu Huan, Sun Nan , and Na Ying. He has been asked to sing
in the Beijing Olympics, Summer 2008. Here are some of his
performence...
and this found it's way to my backpack this morning....
when you crave peanut butter and jelly....this is what you get....
put on some weight karrot!
I knew it! I knew someone someday would realize that the one place
where you need to relax to music most is the loo. Thank god the people
over at LOLZ LLC shared my sentiments and must I say their Air Poo
simply rocks. With a built-in docking system for your MacBook Air
you’ll never feel the need to rush things while you’re doing your
daily deed to get back to your work ASAP since the Air Poo’s built-in
802.11 wireless router gives you full net strength while you’re in
the seat. What’s even better is that you can also store and charge
your laptop with the tank-based docking station when you’re not using
the loo. Other appealing features of the Air Poo include a dock for
your iPod/iPhone that charge your player and phone and plays your
favorite tunes with the help of really cool built-in surround sound
speakers so you don’t have hold back any sounds of your own in there.
And what sets this poonovative invention from other pod-playing
pretenders is its customized heater-laced seat and multi-touch flusher
which lets you chose from a low-force one-finger single-tap flushing
option for when you just have to go number one and a two-finger
double-tap when you have to fight force with equal force! Really, do
any of you guys need more invitation to spend more time on the seat now?
Uh-oh.
Washington wants a stimulus package to rejuvenate the slowing U.S.
economy. Usually such programs are full of nice-sounding but wasteful
spending initiatives, as well as tax breaks that have a weak, one-shot
impact on the economy. President Bush should therefore offer a deal:
strong, pro-growth measures as the price for signing off on the usual
unproductive stuff. But the White House has panicked and will go for
things that won't solve the problems plaguing us. The President
should recover his nerve and verve. Otherwise, he will blast away a
positive economic legacy.
The most potent, constructive medicine would be for the Bush
Administration to stop its Jimmy Carter-like weakening of the dollar. A
feeble dollar means inflation--witness what's happened to commodity
prices over the last four years, the most prominent being oil, which
has almost quadrupled in price. This ain't a case of supply and demand.
Four years ago an ounce of gold would buy you roughly 12 barrels of
oil; an ounce today would get you roughly 10 barrels--that's hardly a
300% real price increase. A weak dollar also brings about
economic distortions, such as the (now disastrous) subprime mortgage
orgy. President Bush should announce that we will defend the dollar and
make it stronger. The Fed should announce that it will let the federal
funds interest rate float, at the same time removing some of the excess
money it created in 2004--05.
The bottom line: No strong economy has a weak currency.
An additional and powerful shot in the arm would be to make
permanent--and, indeed, deepen--the tax cuts on dividends and interest
that expire in 2010. Reduce the levy on dividends and capital gains
from 15% to 10% and you'd see a sharp boost in equity markets, as well
as in consumer and business confidence. Business capital outlays would
boom, as would entrepreneurial startups.
Former Bush economic adviser Larry Lindsey recently came up with a good idea in the Wall Street Journal to
unclog the tightening credit arteries: Allow manufacturers and
retailers to open up their own in-house banks or financial institutions
that could borrow and lend money. These entities could make loans to
customers that now frightened banks are increasingly loath to make.
Unfortunately, approval for this type of entity has been paralyzed by
the fight over Wal-Mart's attempt to open such a bank. Unions and banks opposed it, and the proposal has languished.
Congressional Democrats instinctively oppose things that actually
facilitate progress. They'll howl that all of these proposals are a
giveaway to the rich. So in exchange for the good stuff, give them some
of their pet projects in return; for example, one-time rebates of the
kind George Bush issued in 2001 and Gerald Ford in 1975.
The Democrats will want some other programs, such as temporary aid
to states for housing assistance. These things are well worth the price
for the short- and long-term power of tax-rate reduction, sound
currency and unclogged credit arteries.
Pernicious Pretension
Why is there an almost universal dogma that governments can play
significantly positive roles in economic activity, that they can
fine-tune economic activity and prevent excesses and cushion downturns?
It's a colossal conceit, and one that does immeasurable harm.
Economies are not like engines that can be mechanically manipulated to
run better. To hear all the chatter about tax rebates, for example,
you'd think they were the equivalent of recharging your car's dead
battery.
In fact, it's usually government actions that cause
destructive economic troubles and excesses. The Great Depression, for
instance, is always cited as prima facie proof as to why we need active
government involvement. To the contrary, government blundering brought
on the disaster, starting with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1929--30,
which began a devastating trade war that, in turn, dried up
international trade and flows of global capital. That horrible error
was compounded in the U.S. by Herbert Hoover's massive tax increase to
balance the budget in 1932. Hoover thought a balanced budget would
revive confidence. Instead, the deficit ballooned, as the high taxes
deepened the slump. Compounding Hoover's errors, Franklin Roosevelt
retarded recovery through major tax increases and destructive
regulatory meddling. For the first and only time in our history a
recovery didn't surpass the peak of the previous economic expansion.
The horrific inflation that racked the U.S. and most of the world in
the 1970s and early 1980s was clearly the result of excess money
creation by the Federal Reserve, abetted by other central banks.
President Richard Nixon cut the U.S. dollar from gold in 1971, and
central banks floundered.
Today the weak dollar is roiling financial markets and hurting our economy.
As for the cures for economic contractions, government spending
isn't one of them. Franklin Roosevelt repeatedly "primed the pump" with
government spending and job-creation programs in the 1930s--to little
avail.
Japan repeatedly enacted stimulus packages during its 15-year
quasi-recession, from the late 1980s to the early part of the new
millennium--futilely.
If government spending was the way to wealth, the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War.
What governments can do is create environments in which
entrepreneurial activity can flourish--a sane legal system with
property rights, low taxes, sound money and minimal barriers to doing
business. But rebates and "emergency" spending measures, or the Fed
playing with interest rates to encourage or discourage economic
activity? Bah, humbug.
Reagan Would Applaud
Rudy Giuliani unveiled a tax cut/tax simplification proposal
recently that is the most sweeping and exciting since the days of
Ronald Reagan. The personal income tax rate would be cut sig-
nificantly. The corporate tax rate would be whacked from 35% to 25%,
and the capital gains levy would be reduced by a third to 10%. Capital
gains would also be indexed for inflation--no more paying taxes on
phony gains. There would be tax-free savings vehicles for individuals;
the Alternative Minimum Tax would be indexed for inflation and
ultimately eliminated; and the death tax would be buried once and for
all. An eye-opening feature is Giuliani's one-page income tax form. If
you wished, you could literally fill out your income tax return in less
than 20 minutes.
While not a pure flat tax, this is an enormous step in that direction.
Giuliani recognizes that our tax on business profits is now the
second highest in the developed world and that encouraging risk taking
by reducing the capital gains tax burden will quicken innovation. He
also knows that tax simplification will free an incalculable amount of
brain power for use in more productive pursuits.
Can Giuliani get this done with the Democrats likely to control one
or both houses in Congress? His record as Mayor of New York City offers
real encouragement that he could achieve a significant chunk of it.
Even though Democrats controlled the New York City Council by a 45-to-6
margin, Giuliani was able not only to keep spending below the rate of
inflation and reduce the size of the city bureaucracy but also to cut
taxes 23 different times, including the city's income tax rates by 23%
(which led to income tax receipts going up nearly 50%). As did Ronald
Reagan, Rudy knows how to rally public opinion and to negotiate and
horse-trade with his political adversaries.
really gotta get playin with the big boys, gotta get into the big time dirty products...stop messin around with the small time micro managed conservative petrochemical mindset of the asian world cuz "if you do it right and you fully leverage along the company, the payout sways the right way"...the irony is that the asian conservative thinking will also be what will weather the storm against this huge recent western collapse. however, i don't care. i'm just gonna keep biting off more than i can chew....
Averaging four hours of sleep for five nights builds the same level of
cognitive impairment as being awake for 24 hours -- the equivalent of
legal drunkenness, says Charles Czeisler, a professor of sleep medicine
at Harvard Medical School. Having one beer in that condition, he notes,
has the impact of a six pack.
Jan 26 2008
i dont remember any of these pics....
Feb 16 2008
every writer, economist, philospher....seemingly sees the same thing.....
"2016.....america's standing in the world remains in steady decline...."
"....from thailand to indonesia to korea, no country - friend of america's or not - wants political tension to upset economic growth"
tauhu telur
"its really true....if you look at someones pics long enough....u really do miss them..."
by 6am....
"i wanna ---- your **LLs"
hahha....u fill in the blank.....get creative please...
soundbyte from 12.30 meeting
"much easier to forgive than to get permission"
these days, every so often i'll look at the calendar and shriek "omg it's xmas already", "omg it's chinese new year already"...
im literally living week to week planning ahead only for the next weeks travel. i barely get the chance to really settle down and do chores (not that i really want to, need to, nor have designed my apt to chore necessity)....i'm not complaining, im just merely stating that because of this lifestyle, 9 months has sped by. 9 months since i left new york. even at the height of my wanderlust in 2004, the longest i've stayed away from home was 10 months. the mentality then was different, the light at the end of that chapter of traveling always gleamed a return ticket home, however this time, there is no definitive return set in stone, only my typical whimsical "yea im coming back in xmas" kind of lies.....my sis just wrote me an email....
never see you again.. not in another couple of years!!! TERRIBLEEEEEEe
<HUGGGSSSS
been a while since i've been on a ship....so on a nice breezy day, we went for a visit.
this thing is cocohan....is HUGE....and intricate...going to be sitting in tianjin....
floating rigs....jeezus.....
kurts puppies in sembawang.....lab, retriever mix....
this one is a real big loaf...
there was a cat too, but i dont like cats....
the black n white houses out there are amazing.....only for rent...reminds me of the barn conversions...
indoor kitchen....
outdoor kitchen....
