Searching for Utopia

Tsunami on July 17: What lies beyond?

• I was just browsing the internet when I found this hilarious post. Check out that nozzle in the picture below.

Some of you may wonder what is it good for—you can find it next to the toilet in many places in Asia. Why do they need it there instead of toilet paper? It might be difficult to understand and very impractical, but Asians seem to stick with it even nowadays when they are already familiar with the concept of using toilet papers. Why, you cried. The’d ask back, you do wash your hands after using the toilet paper, don’t you? Of course, you returned. If you think the toilet paper is not clean enough for your hands, they said, why would it be for your rear?

• I think PETA’s campaigners can sometimes do the things which common people like us always wanted to do—but couldn’t; like hitting Paris Hilton with flour bombs ; Or showing Beyonce how her expensive fur coat was made. But there are also times when they are nothing more than a bunch of people wanted to strip in public for what they claimed as good cause with names like Traci Bingham, Jodie Marsh, Dennis Rodman and of course, Pamela Anderson . “We’d better bare skin than wearing skin”, they said. Um, whatever! I don’t know if stripping is really the best way to stop people from torturing animals, but those campaigners have some fans. This girl is one of them. Here she was doing what she’s best at: stripping! The target was the KFC on Kiraly utca. Too bad she was busted before finishing her quest yesterday. I’d suggest her to protest against the tax hike next time. Click here for more pictures.

• Budapest hasn’t been busier than the day when US president George W. Bush visited the town last month. The government had made sure that the world’s most famous president would be safe here by having security checks everywhere, including in the sewers, I heard. Dozens or perhaps hundreds of tourists and other visitors being kicked out of their deluxe rooms at the Le Meridien Budapest where Mr. Bush stayed. Trams stopped working and the passengers were told to get off in the morning. Why, because they were setting barricade for Mr. Bush around the parliament. On his not so impressive speech, Mr. Bush drew a direct link between Hungary’s quashed anti-communist rebels of 1956 and Iraq’s struggling leaders of 2006. “We’ve learned from your example, and we resolve that when people stand up for their freedom, America will stand with them”, he said. What’s that saying again: “If you don’t have anything nice to say,…stfu?!” Of course the saying is not for you, kind readers. If you are still curious about what happened exactly, click here.