Makankosappo

I grew up watching Dragon Ball Z. So naturally I was elated at this next craze known as Makankosappo. Started by a group of Japanese school girls, it mimics a supernatural fighting attack popularised by the show.

Japan

USA

See it in action in Mexico here http://bit.ly/142RV2q

Love, Noeline
xox

Public Pottering

It's the new planking/owling/brooming/Gangnam Style/Harlem Shake. Introducing the next big thing in all things viral: Public Pottering. Get on it.

Follow the Facebook page for Public Pottering here.

Love, Noeline

xox

Public, it's the new private.

It's funny how different social media channels can call for different - if not completely opposite levels of humility.

It was probably a sad day when even self-exhibitionists went with the crowd and put their Facebook profiles on private. But these egoists are resilient creatures. They found other ways of thriving.

They began posting risque thumbnails of themselves wearing close to nothing (it's just a bikini for God's sake, the fact that it shows more skin than my everyday underwear is completely beside the point). Next, they put on their humility-hat and began posting status updates complaining about all the creepy guys poking them, sending them messages and trying to add them. Have pity on me, for life is hard being this good looking.

But if you really want to see some guy's six pack, or some girl's cleavage photo-bombing her duckface - and if you want to enjoy these things in somewhat higher definition than what the Facebook thumbnail allows - chances are it's on Instagram for all to see. They will never ask how you found them or who the hell you think you are. Just keep showing them a little #instalove and they'll keep posting, so you can keep stalking. They call it 'following' now.


Keeping it real.

Noeline X

So many harlem shakes, not enough time

Everyone makes mistakes, traveling makes you more prone to them.

Picture this:

- Getting an email from the hostel you thought you made a booking for for the next month saying "Tell us about your stay"
- Realising you bought non-refundable tickets online to a children's concert in a bull ring, not an actual bull fight.
- Buying an expensive return ticket when you were only going one-way.
- Rushing to the bus station and making it just in time. There's two in town and turns out you're at the wrong one. Sobbing to the ticket-man who charges a fraction of the normal ticket price. A trip that was meant to take 2 hours ends up taking 6 because it just so happened the next bus going to the same place stopped at every god damn "pueblo" on the way.
- Accidentally locking you and your friends out of your hotel room. Reception is closed for another two hours. The bus that leaves for the restaurant for dinner with the rest of the tour group leaves in 1 hour. Oh, and we were all in our bikinis.
- Going to the bus station and looking out for the bus company you bought tickets for, only to miss it because you should have been looking out for a subsidiary of that company all along. Asking a bus driver where we could buy tickets, only to be let on another bus without having to pay. It's empty and no one else gets on. It's just you, the bus driver and your two other girlfriends. Wondering whether you've just been kidnapped for two hours before landing in Pamplona safe and sound for the Running of the Bulls.
- Not purchasing your train ticket online thinking you could just buy it at the window. They sell out and you end up having to spend an extra night in Barcelona, losing a night in San Sebastian - and having to buy a first class ticket because that's all that was available for the day after.

For the sake of making my friends and I feel better, do share your own stories if you have any!

Love, Noeline
xox

The Shy Piece

Have you ever noticed 'the shy piece?' It's the last piece of food that most people are too shy or too polite to take. It occurs when a collective group of people all believe somebody else probably wants it more than they do, or that someone else has already called mental 'dibs' on it. In severe circumstances, this poor piece of food winds up cold to the point of being unappetizing.

I laugh a little inside every time I see one. I might even start a photo collection of them.

A shy piece of salt and pepper squid from my work Christmas party.

Love, Noeline
xox

Draw the rest of the fucking head

I don't know why but I find this really hilarious.

Yellow Ranger, Black Ranger

Toyskie: Do you like guys with yellow cars?
Me: No, I think it's slightly feminising.
Toyskie: What? Since when is yellow a feminine colour?
Me: Since forever.
Toyskie: Since the yellow ranger?
Me: She was asian, remember?
Toyskie: And the black ranger was black. Coincidence?

How to get to...

1) Go to Google maps.
2) Click on "Get Directions."
3) Type China as the start location.
4) Type Japan as the end location.
5) Scroll to direction #42.
6) Laugh, and repost.

Does my bum look big in this?

Ladies I've found our protein equivalent! Dime Curves is "guaranteed to give you a curvaceous, full, and prominent butt."

LOL.



Love, Noeline
xox

Never Say No To Panda

I absolutely LOVELOVELOVE these ads for Egyptian Panda Cheese. Gets me every time.







Love, Noeline
xox

Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future. - Ashleigh Brilliant

Today I was unsuspectingly rolling spring rolls when my mum told me that growing up, she used the same paste (a concoction of corn flour and water) for conventional purposes. And there I was assuming that Adam and Eve stuck leaves on their privates with a Bostik Glu Stik. Nonetheless, it inspired the search for vintage ads and marvel at how far we've come.


I don't even know how to comprehend this... a NASA space control thing? Check out the joy stick!


Tell your Telex operator it's a type writer.


The computer looks more like a microwave, or television. And look at the floppy disk drives!


My house phone is smaller than this.


Coke: giving back the kilojoules you just burnt.



The solution to a sexually liberated girlfriend.


I didn't get this ad until I noticed that the razor blade was an actual blade blade.


After Maybelline came Adobe Photoshop.


And I thought the Ab-King Pro was ridiculous!


Just when you thought scrunchees were social suicide.


You wish.

By the time we have kids, what's the bet they'll be scoring iPods in their happy meals? And while they've got some weird music cranking in their headphones that we can't even begin to conceive of - we'll be pressing them with our sufferings of what it was like back in our day.

My favourite ad of all time