May 22nd, 2007 by
chowbow
Our current place has hardwood floors. The kitchen is open. We can’t fill all the storage space. Every room gets natural light — saying a lot for Taipei. We front onto a community park. We pay below-market rent for living one block from a major shopping area and three blocks from a subway station. The neighbors don’t make noise, though some future dead man loads recyclables onto a truck around 2 a.m. once or twice a week. My commute takes 15 minutes by bicycle. A cleaning woman hired by the whole apartment building deals with everyone’s trash, sparing us the task of chasing pass-through garbage trucks through the neighborhood at 10 p.m.
So our guests look north from our flat to an alley past the community park and behind some other buildings. They laugh. Your patch, they say, belongs to Taipei’s historic red-light district.
It’s true. We’ve seen red lights as well as Japanese-language signs that read “massage” or “for a rest, NT480 (about US$14).” A guy standing in the street once asked me if I was looking for ladies. I’ve never seen anyone come or go from the places. Much of the Japanese clientele have left Taipei and many of the whores have retired, I hear. Still, our guests can’t resist the comment.
And there was a GAY KISS scene on Korean TV..and this is in a comedy show too!!! Its when the hunk gets drunk cos he fell in love with a woman and u see the sad face on his gay hyeong…awwww…then he force-kiss his hyeong cos he mistakens him for the girl…they zoomed in on the kiss and you could see that the two actors kissed lip on lip for real….OMG!!!! They could have faked it using ‘angle shots’ but they insisted on the real kiss…
You could tell that the korean media and audiences had changed in their perception of homosexuality as they didn’t even think for once that showing a gay story WITH a gay kiss scene would create some kind of backlash, if anything, roommate proved extremely popular.
They also portrayed the gay romance in a very sensitive way and realistically portrayed the pain a gay man goes thru when he falls for a straight man…and further, the host later said she at first thought what kind of romance can happen between two grown men but later was touched by the story thus in a way promoting an acceptance from audiences too….
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May 20th, 2007 by
chowbow
The two rising norwegian stars Mira Craig and Pia Tjelta are just becomming very popular in Norway. The Mira Craig is a musician/singer and Pia Tjelta is an actor. They are both very talented and will undoubtly do great in the future. Music and acting is an art form that are higly appreciated by the norwegian audience. Pia Tjelta is starring in a movie that will be released very soon and that movie will do great and get many people to the cinema to watch it. Mira Craig is releasing a new album very soon and the album will for sure make it to the top 10 list in Norway.
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May 13th, 2007 by
chowbow
There are of course food recipes from all over the world on the net and wether you are chicken crazed, a cake junkie, a chocolate man, a cheese fan or a crock pot head you will easily find something that fit your taste. Another good thing you discover starting cook with recipes is that it is easy to cook good food, belive it or not, it is actually easy to make anything you want to eat. A course can look very difficult to make, but when you see the recipe you understand that all you need is the time to cook and the ingredientd. Actually, time is often not an issue, I was thinking of cooking as very time consuming, but now, when I have started I see that it is not time consuming to cooka good meal, its just fun and very relaxing, its just a good way to spend the time. Simple like that. Sites like Recipeseasy.com has a good collection of recipes for you to pick from. So go on, good luck, pick a recipe on random and surprize yourself.
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May 13th, 2007 by
chowbow
brukte biler is a site that gives you just that. Its a new site that gives you news on brukte biler in norwegian. We all know how difficult it is to get them so here are a valuable resource. People may also look for billig-flybilletter for their travels. Traveling is getting cheaper and cheaper and to get billig-flybilletter is easy. Do not forget to vist forsikring before you are traveling, you do not want to leave home without forsikring, I promise you. And while you are away, take the address to this new site “sms-ringetoner” with you. It will become handy. billig-reiser is another new site wheree you get your tips and hint for the journey.
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May 13th, 2007 by
chowbow
Are you going to l?n ? Then you should think twice. At least if you are going to use a smsl?n. Do you really need a smsl?n ? That is very expenceive and not for everybody. A normal l?n would be better and much cheaper too. Shop around as much as you can and do not go for the first and best offer. Not every loan is a l?n that would fit you. There are many sites on the web where you can loan money these days. Check uot the links in this article to get more information. One such site is “l?n p? internettet”. If you need big money or small money, this is just the place where you can get the greatest advices. The first advice regarding this loan business would be not to get a sms l?n. So take care and spend your money well.
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