Memoirs of a “GEISHA?”
Dear Fans,
I am looking for a wallpaper from the 2005 Movie Memoirs of a Geisha when suddenly I thought I’d like to watch the movie. I haven’t watched it yet so I took the liberty of looking for it in a China-based movie hosting site. Surely I found several versions of the movie including a very strange one. I’m not sure if it’s a spoof or something and I’m also unsure which country it was shot though the “Geisha” character looks similar to that Yakult commercial.
Here’s the link to the preview of the movie. Click it at you own risk.
Confused,
Kotsengkuba
Commiserate
Dear Kotsengkuba,
To express grief and condolences to the families who have lost their loved once due to the recent 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit Sichuan Province, websites from the Chinese portals have changed their pages’ colors to grayscale. Sina, CCTV and the rest of the websites would now be browsed in grayscale. Movie hosting sites like 56.com and TOM365 were not only in grayscale but the movies are also not accessible. I believe it would be a three-day observance which started Monday (5/19) at 2:28PM (GMT +8) – exactly a week after the tragedy.
On that exact time, the whole China has spent three hours of silence following the commiseration of the fatal earthquake.
Sending condolences to the Chinese community,
Your Alter-ego
Who just called?
Dear Kotsengkuba,
Sometimes, when you’re looking for a job, you’re full attention is almost always focused on the phone (be it landline or mobile phone). You just don’t want to miss a call from a prospect employer or some sorts. Same thing if you’re on a business, you just can’t left a prospect client to just slip away without even a single conversation. Then you’ll find some missed calls registered on your phone but you never knew from who it was. “Who Just Called?” you ask yourself but the answers is of not available.
Concerned,
Your alter-ego
Offline with Jessica Zafra
Dear [Insert your name here],
We lost our internet connection at home during the weekends. Until this morning, before I left the office, there’s still no connection. I remember when we moved in to this new apartment, we also didn’t have internet connection for two days and during those two days I was almost able to finished reading Twisted Travels by Jessica Zafra. And why I wasn’t able to finish the book? Because when it came to the second to the last part where she wrote about her travel in Prague, she began to embed photos on the pages. I’m not sure why but when it comes to reading JZ, I expect not to see pictures. Probably because she has some dislike for taking pictures during her travels and seeing one makes me wonder why one existed.
Anyway, I still love Jessica Zafras style in writing. Merely reading her works somehow makes you feel exactly how she felt things at that very moment. Try reading one of her Twisted Series and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
I have finished reading The 500 People You Meet in Hell but I wasn’t exactly overjoyed. I’ll blog the details later.
Yours,
Kotsengkuba
Is Online Gambling Legal?
Dear Kotsengkuba,
Even if it couldn’t possibly kill the usual “offline” casinos, online casinos has sprouted like mushrooms all over the internet which could only mean that their popularity in western countries are getting high? However, with this current increase in online gambling sites, an uninformed and unsuspecting online gambler could easily get lost with the massive number of online casinos. With this event, gambling gurus have massively formed online casino review sites to provide the internet gamblers an easier way in choosing how to spend their money in gambling. But is online gambling legal?
In 2006, a great debate was formed when a bill was submitted in the US Senate. The bill was supposed to ban Internet Gambling and similar online gambling sites. Quoted from the omniquoted Wikipedia: The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act (IGPA) was a 1999 bill in the US Senate to ban Internet gambling. Passage of the bill was defeated, in large part, by the lobbying efforts of Jack Abramoff. The bill was supported by Christian conservative groups such as Focus on the Family, Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition.
Curious but not confused,
Your Alter-ego
