Random Musings - Day #25

Chinese New Year is nearly upon us. That will be tomorrow the new year will see in the year of the ox. Some countries observe the day as a holiday. There is a calendar guide available which determines when subsequent new years take place. Not it is rarely on the same date every year. This used to be good UK guide. In London, most of the events will take place on the following weekend, as mentioned by the London Chinatown Chinese Association.

Independence Days. Every country has got one. Whether they have holidays for them is another thing. Here's is list from about.com.

Global/National Days. Well there are some weird and wonderful holidays in the calendar particularly from America including brownielocks and holidays.net. Even the UK have weird holidays

Back in 1998, People magazine had an online poll of the "50 most beautiful people". Except the online community had other ideas. Someone kept emails and news of the goings-on. There was an online campaign to Hank the angry dwarf off the Howard Stern show to #1 on the list. This started when someone entered Hank as a write-in candidate and really took off when websites such as this one. The end result was Hank came out on top. Not only that top 10 had a weird feel about as both Ric Flair (#2) and John Linnell from They might be giants (#9) appear after a big push from their respective online fanbase. Here's MTV review of it.

Here is a cute video of the Monkey playing the guitar! And here's the original flat eric in action. Here's one of the Levis Ad. Even Justin Timberlake wants Flat Eric back in this mash-up. Talking of Justin Timberlake, finally the full skit is back!

Lady Gaga is #1 for a third week in the UK Charts holding off Kid Cudi and the Crooners for a second week, whilst Tinchy Stryder with "Take me back" is at #3.

Legendary boxing and greyhound racing commentator Reg Gutteridge died yesterday.

Tiswas. A then-unknown Chinese star appeared on Tiswas.
Best moment on Tiswas was Sir Trevor McDonald surprised Lenny Henry as he was impersonating him as Trevor McDoughnut.

Random Musings - Day #1

I'm going to try and post something every day. Even if it's random mindless crap.
Anyhow if you want to learn to dance have a look at the youtube videos from
BigMilan. I was impressed how he broke it down for the running man and the Melbourne shuffle. Funky. Some new dance moves added to my arsenal!
A really funny video i stumbled onto was Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live as one of Beyonce's dancers in the parody of the video for "Single Ladies" and there's even a response from Beyonce about it who remarked how does JT keep his legs so smooth...

I was very dubious of the train companies who stated over Christmas period that they would offer a Saturday service on their trains during the week. However, there was no reduction at all in prices, so we are paying weekday/peak fares for a Saturday service... hmm, that sounds like a rip. Then I was told about a Croydon MP complaining not having an extra day or two for Christmas Day (no service) and Boxing Day (limited service) included on his 7-day travelcard.