Who would have thought that we could be famous just by crying our eyes out? American bloke Parker set up the site after 400,000 people watched clips of his missus sobbing on Youtube. A dog who smiles whenever his owner is around has become an Internet superstar, as apparently more than 300,000 people have [...]

Two weeks had past so quickly I woke up today in Perth already. It felt like it was only yesterday I was stuck in traffic jam in Jakarta, desperately wanting to pee, in a taxi that smells like feet, helplessly looking at my watch, worrying I would be late for my appointment.
Two weeks had past [...]

Two months a go, when I was enjoying my (another) holiday, I bumped into Bart in Cazbar at lunch time. The last time I saw him was probably in our wedding, as he had relocated to Bali and we moved to Scotland, so it was a nice surprise to see him again. He told me [...]

Maybe because it’s summer, sunny and hot and it’s Christmas and there’s supposed to be cold and snow. Certainly because Walker’s shortbreads are sold everywhere but I know nothing compares to granny mck’s homemade ones: straight from the oven full of real butter, and made by love. Or maybe I am just still in culture [...]

I read in disbelief when Catherine Brown, the food write, revealed her discovery that haggis, a very unique Scottish dish, in fact, appeared first in an English cookbook 171 years before Robert Burns even mentioned it.
I was still in shocked when Allan Brown in his article “History Behind Scottish Myths”, on Sunday, August 9th, listed [...]

“If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.”
The above notice, alongside with a container of pens, are put by the open Bible at an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. The exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community [...]

From The Telegraph.
Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti imagines the later years of superheroes, with hilarious results. His brilliant cartoons have been collected into a book, available here.
Now, can you guess who they are?

Here is the selection of the best verbal slip-ups made by telly stars when they’ve been suffering from foot-in-mouth disease (article is taken from the Sun).
Racing commentator Ted Walsh: “This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.”
US golf commentator: “One of the reasons Arnie is playing so well is that, [...]

~Ever wondered where the fabled unicorn came from? Or maybe the phoenix? Did hobbits actually exist?~
There are probably more than a hundred TV channels here in UK and we do need to read a TV guide to determine what to watch or what to record every night. I hardly see Sky3 but for some reason [...]

I just purchased two tickets for Nickeback concert in Glasgow next May, and am very excited since it would be the first live concert that I watch. To say that it was the first as real first isn’t true, because when I was working in Fox Studio complex in Sydney, the Channel [V] often hosted [...]

You might not realise that Donald Trump is half Scottish. But it is the only reason why he insists on building the golf resort in Scotland, surrounding his mansion (which is called ‘The Donald’ by his ex wife Ivanka) in Balmedie, north of Aberdeen. Trump was reportedly considered more than 200 sites in Europe before [...]

It’s been a painful week, basically: mentally, physically, spiritually. Practically avoided 3 dimensional human being and ignored phone calls and texts and only did a one way communication through faceboook, which isn’t really communication but over-sharing tool. Funny that we could decide not to tell anything while at the same time reveal everything. Decided to [...]

You might have heard the phenomenally successful travel book, 100 Things To Do Before You Die. The book was an instant bestseller and inspired a publishing industry all of its own with others of “100 Things” spin-offs and and even the movie The Bucket List.
I have been meaning to read it, but there was always [...]

Here’s a question. Why do most of the chick-lit novels have their main characters working either as an author, a journalist, or as an editor in book publishing industry? Remember Candace Bushnell’s Carrie Bradshaw (a columnist), or Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones (an editor) or Sophie Kinsella’s Becky Bloomwood (a journalist), and of course, Lauren [...]

Maybe Sharon Stone thinks she could be another Susan Sarandon. Maybe she thinks she is intelligent enough to write her own script. Maybe she just doesn’t realize how powerful China and its market is.

clipped from film.guardian.co.uk
Sharon Stone is facing a ban on the showing of her films in China after suggesting the recent earthquake [...]