This is just a quick note to let everybody know that there will be some down time for our server between 9 and 10 AM US eastern standard time on Tuesday the 18th, due to a server upgrade. The expected down time will only be 10 minutes, but it could be as much as half an hour.
Update: The server upgrade is now complete!
Representing Korean company, LG Electronics at one trade show and…
…wearing the Toyota colors at another
For those of you who may have wanted to see a photo of her where she’s not smiling, this was as close as I could find.
More bikini photos of Kanny here
Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (born September 20, 1964) is a multi award-winning Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England, she has over 80 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983.Biography
Maggie Cheung traces her ancestry to Shanghai, China, and then fled from the Communists when the concession was returned to the Communists and moved to Hong Kong a couple of generations ago. Subsequently, her family, merchant-class, emigrated from the Crown Colony of Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. Maggie Cheung spent part of her childhood and adolescence in the United Kingdom. Upon her return to Hong Kong in 1983, at the age of 19 Cheung entered the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant contest. She won second place. She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.
Prior to 1988, Maggie’s screen appearance was often limited to eye candy roles. One of Cheung’s notable movie roles then is that of “May”, the girlfriend of police detective “Kevin” Chan Ka Kui in Jackie Chan’s Police Story movies (however, she did not reprise the role in Police Story 4: First Strike or New Police Story). Maggie frequently cited her performance in the movie As Tears Go By (1988), her first of many collaborations with film director Wong Kar-Wai, as the piece that truly began her serious acting career. Maggie Cheung is famous for being a talented multi-lingual actress. In Centre Stage, she performed in Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease. In Clean, she performed in fluent British-accented English, Parisian French, Cantonese and a smattering of Mandarin. Unlike most traditional actors in Hong Kong who are Cantonese monolingual, she is a polyglot as a result of her cosmopolitan upbringing.
Audiences outside Asia have become increasingly familiar with her work, including her roles in Centre Stage (as Ruan Lingyu), In the Mood for Love, Irma Vep, 2046, Hero, and, most recently, Clean.
She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998 but divorced him in 2001. Their relationship remained amicable, however, as in 2004 Cheung made her award-winning movie Clean with him. As part of her portrayal of the drug-addicted aspiring singer Emily Wang in Clean, Maggie Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star.
On 7 February 2007, The New York Times rated Maggie Cheung as one of the 22 Great Performers in 2006 for her Cannes winning role Emily in Clean.
After 25 years of making movies, Cheung is deciding to retire from acting and pursue a career as a film composer. She allows that there might be room for an occasional comedic role, but she would like to paint and compose music, after fulfilling her acting potential.
(Source: wikipedia)
Some links:
Maggie Cheung @ wikipedia.org
Maggie Cheung @ asiancuties.blogter.hu
Maggie Cheung @ imdb.com
Maggie Cheung @ images.google.com
Maggie Cheung @ flickr.com
Maggie Cheung @ YouTube.com
Dim sum is the name for a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes served alongside Chinese tea. It can include dishes based on meat, seafood, vegetables, as well as desserts and fruit. The various items are usually served in a small steamer basket or on a small plate. Yum cha (literally “tea drinking”) is the actual term used to describe the dining session, especially in contemporary Cantonese.
Dim Sum Links
Dim Sum Video on YouTube
Link to better quality version of Dim Sum video
Dim Sum info on Wikipedia
Aiko Tanaka on MySpace
Helen Su on MySpace
I could not find a lot of biographical information, so you will just have to enjoy the photos I selected. And if that is not enough, there are plenty of links to other galleries.Some facts:
Name: Nina Minami
Birthday: 1985/12/30
Country: Ibaraki, Japan
Height: 156cm
Burt: 91cm
Waist: 60cm
Hip: 88cm
Foot: 24cm
Some galleries:
Nina Minami @ scanlover.com
Nina Minami @ astrumas.com
Nina Minami @ shareapic.net
Nina Minami @ outie.net
Nina Minami @ myasianidols.com
Nina Minami @ vngallery.blogspot.com
Nina Minami @ flickr.com
Guidebooks and weary travelers hefting backpacks down Khaosan Road have long sung the praises of this stopping point as a layover on the way to paradise.The road, and indeed much of the adjacent area in Bangalamphu district of Bangkok, have long catered to budget-conscious backpacking travelers that arrive en masse. Yet as time and development relentlessly drive forward, the backpackers are finding themselves in a changing environment. Full story here.