This week’s pin challenge should you choose to accept: Quicktype! If you can remember from the MLG Ladder, Quicktype is a game that tests your typing skills by requiring you to quickly type moving words before they expire. More »

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Who doesn’t love SNSD? (If you’re a Wonderful, don’t answer that.) There is, after all, 9 amazingly cute and sexy girls in that super band. How great would it be to spend Valentine’s Day with all 9 of them? Absolutely amazing right?? Well, good luck with that. If it doesn’t work out, why don’t you try to win a free copy of their latest Oh! album. Oh!, we’ll throw in the poster too. More »

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I know many of you already do, but this February, we want more people to fall in love with us. Why wouldn’t you love us? We make you happy, we make you laugh, we’re always here for you, and most importantly we get you expensive gifts. We also like long walks on the beach and the Avatar movie. So we really want to make this February - especially this Valentine’s day - special for you so that you’ll always remember and cherish it. Life is so short. Let’s make the most of it together! More »

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BANG! You hear that? That was what January sounded like when it started. A lot of great stuff happened this month! On the editorial side, January featured an interview with comedian Steve Byrne, The New Year’s Resolution Special and Japan Film Royale! with Rekuru. We also launched HTCYou a new community for HTC and Android enthusiasts. Let’s not forget about Mixr League Gaming, Ningin’s triumphant win over Wirebot and BlitzKuTek, the kick off of the MLG Ladder, Battle of the Sexes and the recent Mixr bloggers vs. Mixr users matches. More »

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Oh! What a week we’ve had here. Oh! I don’t even know where to begin. Oh! Wait, now I remember. We turned Japanese this week with Rekuru and our Japanese Film Royale special. The general consensus this week is that we’re all pretty much in love with Japanese film. Speaking of love –you’ll soon be falling in love with us next month. Be patient, it’ll be good on many levels. More »

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Yet another exciting week has passed us! Of the most notable things to happen was the epic kick off of Mixr League Gaming Season I’s first round. This season is quite epic with not two, but four teams involved! So far it’s looking like Team Ningin may take a backseat for this round. Personally, as team captain, this has me stressed. Usually when I’m stressed, laughter is my best remedy. Speaking of laughter, we were able to interview an expert on laughter — comedian Steve Byrne! More »

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Ahhhh yes, love is once again in the air, your beau has sent you more chocolates than (s)he’ll ever find out you didn’t eat and that mysterious brown mold collection from Valentine’s Day isn’t getting any smaller. In the spirit of the infamous White Day - and just in case you were living under a rock - let us take an enlightening journey to the other V-Days of East Asia. More »

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I know this was supposed to be announced earlier, but there’s a lot of stuff going on right now. Plus it took us some time to weed out duplicate entries and things like that. Anyway congrats to the following Ningin users: More »

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It’s almost time for the most romantic time of the year: Valentine’s Day. Some of us will either treat or be treated to a most relaxing and pleasurable day. And some of us will spend it alone—wondering what in the heck happened to that arrow that cupid was supposed to hit us with?! During this special time of the year, there are many famous people who also celebrate it, and it makes me wonder what it would be like to spend Valentine’s Day with one of my favorite Asian stars… According to media experts (and myself, too!), here are some of the top ideal Valentine’s Day lovers. More »

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There are so many different interpretations of the word “aphrodisiac.” Its basic definition is of something consumed to intensify sexual desires or arousal. However, when you search for Asian aphrodisiacs, the food doesn’t look all that appetizing. Let’s take for example the South Korean hagfish. These disgusting bottom-feeding, phallic creatures of the deep are also known as slime eels because once the animal is stressed, it secretes a slimy, white, foul smelling substance. However, once the goopy creatures are salted, broiled in sesame oil and served with panchan, they are considered Viagra. More »

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I’m actually against Valentine’s Day, going as far as to call it “Crappytine’s Day”. But I figure I’ll stop being a curmudgeon just for the next fifteen minutes as I write this entry. I’m even going to be generous and put up more than one song (it’s a “special” occasion), so tadah! Hope you all enjoy this week’s selections. Happy Crappytine’s Valentine’s Day! More »

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Hey, thanks to everyone who spent time to send the Wonder Girls a message for Valentine’s Day. Also, thanks to the people who said nice things about Ningin. All of these gestures are really appreciated.

As I said previously, we really enjoy being the bridge that connects Asian pop stars with their fans. It’s something we hope to be doing a lot more of in the future. More »

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Valentine’s Day is quickly creeping towards us. Ningin plans to do a special V-Day event with blog articles related to this magic and commercially created day of love. Besides articles, we were trying to think of what else we can do. After the invasion of the Wonderfuls (nickname for fans of the Wonder Girls) these past few days, we got our idea. More »

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Don’t know what to do for the world’s most romantic (and fake) holiday? Celebrate it with Ghana Miso, the chocolate ramen!

Ghana Miso is the newest style of ramen noodles on the block. Brought to you by Musashi Menya (Japan’s number one ramen noodle dining restaurant) and Lotte (the makers of Ghana Milk Chocolate), this ramen noodle dish will be available now till February 15th for the Valentines season. More »

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