Kim Jang Hoon performed on June 28th at the West Coast Festival, a concert to help volunteers, workers and victims of an oil spill last year. While performing; however, the young artist collapsed right on stage. People rushed to his aid and he was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment where he woke up on the way.

His fall was due to the exhaustion from being overworked in preparation for this concert. He only had an hour of sleep the day before. The concert continued on with other performances by No Brain and Super Junior who later visited Kim Jang Hoon in the hospital.

If only people love to sleep just as much as I do. Every other week it’s another Kpop star being rushed to the hospital for being overworked. If they work so hard, why aren’t they better? 

The Hong Kong Pop Duo Twins
will disband after seven years of annoying the crap out of our everyone
(well, not everyone… the tweenyboppers and teenyboppers who love Hello Kitty love them too). The two members, perky Charlene Choi and not so innocent Gillian Chung have not made a public appearance together ever since the latter got involved in the infamous Edison Chen photo scandal. 

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If you haven’t heard or seen this teal haired pop diva, then you’re missing out. Hatsune Miku is a product of a speech synthesizer software called Vocaloid. The software allows a user to synthesize music by typing the lyrics and melody. My geeky senses are tingling.

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Here’s another link to the 72 Hour Shootout microsite, where I posted some photos from Team Pork Bun:

Stills from “The Savage Lotus”

As promised I ran around the internet searching for some of the most heartbreaking music videos and guess what? All of them are Korean! Haha I tried to expand my search to Japanese and Chinese but I had no luck because none of the ones I did find came close to these. However, I found that a lot of Japanese songs have really sad lyrics.

So here it is, 8 of the saddest music videos I’ve ever seen. It was really hard watching all of them.

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Things like this need to stop:

“AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN)—Police officers have halted a nationwide Asian prostitution ring based in Austin. Neighbors living in the Balcones Woods Apartments in Northwest Austin said they were stunned to hear women were suspected of being sold for sex in one of the apartments.

…What Prine did not know is that Carl Clark, 56, and his wife, Yuzhi Jia, 44, were suspected of running a prostitution ring that exploited Asian women from an apartment. “They were getting Asian females from different parts of the United States every month and recruiting girls to perform services,” said police Detective James Mason. Police were first tipped off a year ago by suspicious neighbors at the Balcones Ranch Apartments, where police said they believe Clark and his wife operated before moving to Balcones Woods.

Officers said they are not sure how many women Clark and Jia sold for sex. “Once these girls get here, they receive some money, but not a lot,” Mason said. “They feel trapped within their apartment and can’t get out.”

Tags: asian, austin, carl clark, james mason, prostitution, texas, united states, yuzhi jia

Tonight was the second episode of the season and the challenge for this week was Video Star Challenge. The videos were picked for each crew and it seemed like each video went with each crew’s style. Some challenge. But the performances were strong overall. Honestly, I like it this way better. It’s more entertaining.

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And so it begins. The search for the most sophisticated, athletic,
talented and stylish man in Hong Kong is well under way. 12 semi
finalists have been selected to compete for the title of ”2008 Mr. Hong Kong” and these homosexuals
metrosexuals will undergo two months of intensive grooming lessons
before they are put in front of a live audience of screaming cougars and gay men to strut their stuff and show Hong Kong what real men are all about.

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Hi everyone, for those who haven’t visited the AA Film Lab button at the top of the ningin site, I recently was in Manhattan live blogging and following a 72 Hour Shootout Team for the weekend.  I followed Team SOHCAHTOA, comprised of many people but led by suitemates Brian Foo, Calvin Sun, and Teriha Yaegashi.

Here is a combined blog of the weekend

Here is the first post of the weekend, on Friday

Here is a short post interview with the team

Hey, everyone, I’ve been really busy talking to some of the great people involved in the 72 Hour Shootout. Below are links to my before-and-after blogs, with pics. Coming soon…interviews with the judges.

A Special Situation at the Shootout

ConstipAsian’s aftershoot thoughts and photos