Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Most Bizarre Festivals of Asia

Sure, you could visit Asia for the rich history or the exotic food, but if you really want to experience Asian culture first hand you have to check out some festivals. Every year there are amazingly strange and fun festivals all throughout Asia that you have to see to believe. From the Monkey Buffet in Bangkok to the Festival of the Steel Phallus in Kawasaki, here are 10 of the most bizarre festivals of Asia.

Phuket Vegetarian Festival – Phuket, Thailand

 If you think the Phuket Vegetarian Festival sounds bland, you might just be missing out on the most flavorful event the world has ever known. What sounds like a humble Taoist tradition to abstain from eating meat, also happens to feature amazing performances like fire walking and unbelievable displays of face piercing.


Konaki Sumo – Japan
If you thought a bunch of rotund men in diapers pushing each other out of a ring was weird, wait until you hear about Konaki Sumo, or the Crying Sumo Festival. More than 200 unsuspecting babies are handed off to Sumo Wrestling students who face off to see who’s baby cries first. It’s not as cruel as it sounds… it’s to wish for good health of the children since it’s thought that babies who cry often grow up to be strong.


Holi Festival – India
Holi festival, a popular Hindu spring festival, is also known as the Festival of Colors since it is celebrated by people throwing colored powered and water at each other. The Holi celebration starts with bonfires which represent the burning of Holika, part of a story about good overcoming evil in the Hindu religion. However the really fun part of Holi is the following day, Dhuleti where Indian people young and old from all walks of life come together to sing, dance and smear each other with color.


Boryeong Mud Festival – South Korea
The Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea is a recent tradition started in 1998 as a way to promote the skincare benefits of the mineral rich mud found in Boryeong. The event draws tourists from all over the world, many of whom could care less about the skin care benefits and just want to have a week of sticky fun. During the week people can participate in events like mud wrestling, mud sliding and photo contests. When you’re ready to clean up you can pick up some of Boryeoungs famous mud products like mudpacks, mud shampoo, mud soap and mud sun block.

Songkran Festival – Thailand
If the Mud Fest left you feeling icky, you’ll find the Songkran Festival in Thailand quite refreshing. Taking place during April, Thailand’s hottest month, Songkran is the essentially world’s biggest water fight. Friends and strangers splash each other with hoses, water balloons and even water guns. Originally the sprinkling of water was more ceremonial, but it’s since become a wet and wild celebration that lasts 3-10 days, depending on what part of Thailand you’re in.

Festival of the Hungry Ghosts – China
Yue Lan or Festival of the Hungry Ghosts marks the day when Chinese people believe that a door to the underworld is opened allowing restless spirits to wander the earth. To appease the spirits people burn fake money and paper representations of items like cars or houses as a way to pass these comforts on to the other world. During the 2-3 days of the festival streets are lit up with paper lanterns and incense to keep ghosts at bay, and in some areas fireworks are displayed for the spirits.

Kanamara Matsuri – Kawasaki, Japan
Even the most open minded tourists would blush at seeing the people of Kawasaki parade through the streets carrying giant penis statues while folks, young and old, suck on penis and vagina shaped candy. Kanamara Matsuri, or Festival of the Steel Phallus, is a Shinto festival that takes place on the first Sunday in April every year in Kawasaki, Japan. The festival is based on an old legend about a sharp toothed demon that hid inside the vagina of a young girl. The demon was defeated by a black smith who created a steel penis that broke its teeth. The festival is meant to promote sexual health. Traditionally Geishas would attend the festival and pray for protection against STDs, and in modern times the festival raises money for HIV research.

Parade of the God of Medicine – Taiwan
More than 160 temples in Taiwan celebrate the God of Medicine with a Parade, but the place to be is the Temple of Ching Tzu in Hseuhchia. Dancers, priests and musicians travel the streets with floats featuring legendary figures like the Medicine God, headed by a group called the Centipedes. Worshippers throw themselves on the ground in front of the Centipedes to be trampled in hopes that they will exorcises evil spirits.


Hadaka Matsuri – Japan
If the Festival of the Steel Phallus didn’t scare you off, then you won’t even bat an eye at the Naked Man Festival. Another Shinto tradition from Japan, thousands of men gather for the Hadaka Matsuri wearing traditional Japanese loin cloths called fundoshi. Among them, one man is completely naked and it’s considered lucky to touch him as he is said to absorb your bad luck and evil deeds.


Monkey Buffet Festival – Lopburi Province, Thailand
No, we’re not monkeying around. There really is a monkey festival just for monkeys every year in Thailand. On the last Sunday in November at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, north of Bagkok, thousands of pounds of fruit is gathered for a huge buffet just for monkeys. The macaque monkeys are surprisingly mild mannered (although mischievous) and hang out with tourists and photographers while they eat fruit and throw back soft drinks.

Healthy Banana Smoothie Recipe

This is my recovery drink after a workout - a super yummy healthy banana smoothie ! I don't like drinking the heavy protein shakes or Gatorade. I am all for natural, simple nutrition so I make my own recovery drinks !
To make one big glass of smoothie , you'll need :

1 Medium Banana Frozen
1/2 Cup Milk (1% or skim)
1 tsp Flax Seed Powder
2 Walnuts

Whip it up in a blender and there you have your delicious simple smoothie !

I peel the banana , slice them and freeze a bunch of ripe ones in a Ziploc bag. Roughly I cut each banana into ten pieces so I just pull out ten chunks for one smoothie. Alternatively you can use a regular banana and ice. The flax seed powder and walnuts make the smoothie creamy delicious ! For added creamy texture you can also use vanilla yogurt.

The best part - all this deliciousness is without any added extra sugars ! Any sweetness is from the banana !

I used caloriecount.com to figure the calories out

Love,
Indian Girl

Covergirl Outlast Lip Stain : Swatches & Review

Get this. Get at least one of these ASAP.

Speaking of ASAP ...are you one the A-sap kind or are you the A. S. A. P kind ?
I am more of a A.S.A.P kind.
Just thought I'd throw in there...

The CG Outlast Lip stains ($7.50) are CG's gift to girls with pigmented lips. More so if they are unevenly pigmented. Just run the pen over your clean dry lips and you've got yourself some even coloring ! BAM... just like that.

The story doesn't end there. Not with just one BAM !

2 to 3 hours later they fade and become even more natural and pretty. Sometimes I don't wait - I apply the stain and then press my lips against a piece of tissue for the sexy stain ! This stays put for 6 to 8 hours at least !

Of the four shades I tried,
410 - Bit Of Blossom is the most pigmented, a deep fuchsia.
445 - Cinnamon Smile is true to its name, a rich brown.
415 - Teasing blush is a shade in the raisin family and
420 - Sassy Mauve is a nude sombre mauve.


However I've got a piece of advice for ya. DO NOT apply the lips stain over lip gloss or chap stick. It ruins the product. We'll get back to that chap stick later. For now just remember the words - clean, dry lips.

You'll notice my last (415) swatch is a little wonky because I ran it over lip gloss.

Not not ran it over like an accident.
Or wait may be it is ran it over like an accident coz that's what it was - An accident.
An accident you can learn from.

A little something more - they are very pretty as long as you keep em on your lips. The moment you take it out - lips feel dry. This is when you wanna pull that chap stick out.
See, I told you I'd get back to the chap stick !

In Other News


Happy St. Paddy's Day ! Whatchu doing today ? I've got another green eye makeup look coming up with NYX eye shadows. Hang in there...its coming !

And I am returning the new camera. This time I'm gonna for a Canon. Oops I almost typed Conan !

Love,
Indian Girl

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This is another Priya, I will call her Priya II. You can see the Hot Collection of Photos of Telugu Spicy Girl: Priya I, girl with nice cleavage in separate hubpages.
Telugu Film Industry is getting crowded with girls from across India to do item roles or item dances. Here is another entry of Telugu Spicy Girl in the name of Priya II.
The famous items numbers were done by Silk Smitha. Though she has done several character roles, but she was famous for her glamour roles and dance numbers. She has done some bold peroformances and become ultimate symbole of sensuality in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu movies industry. She has done over 200 film in all these south Indian language movies.
But current item girls are there in the Industry for just couple of movies and they disappear. This is because there are hordes of them coming into industry and apart from that even the heroines are doing item numbers these days.

Tamil Actress Busty Suja sexy Photo gallery

Tamil actress Suja picture

Big busty Suja, an upcoming Tamil actress, is a real sex bombshell oozing glamour in every way she can. Suja is well endowed with shapely assets that makes her fans go crazy to see more of her exposure. Suja has acted in many Tamil and south Indian films as a glamour doll in item songs in masala movies. Even though fans want to see her in a blue film, I highly doubt she will ever act or participate in any Tamil actress Blue film made underground. In fact, she is extra careful in avoiding any blue film scandal. She is a good person and hope the film industry does not corrupt her.

Thick babe Suja
Thick babe Suja



Hope you are enjoying the sexy pictures of Actress Suja  Tamil actress Suja is a good dancer and has shown some great movements in multiple kuthu songs in movies. for example, watch one of her earlier dance number in a Tamil film called "mayavi, starring Surya and Jyothika. The first song in the movie features suja in an item song for a few minutes and you can see how she moves her assets to the beat of the song. Suja was slim and moderately sized during the time of Mayavi. Recently, she has put on weight on the right places. Suja is busty with some great boobs and a round shapely tight ass. She can still move fast and dance well. For instance, see the item song in "Thozha". By the way, Premji scored the music for the "Rendupakkam" song which is a great song with fast beats. Are you really reading this? I really like to know who reads this crap. Please post in the comments section below if you are reading this non sense.
Well, I do not think Suja will expose generously and act in a filthy way like some other item girls do or even act in a blue film. She is a good dancer and will expose some of her fleshy skin for crazy fans like us and that is all we will get a sexy and glamourous photo gallery of Tamil actress Suja. Make sure you post your comments in the comments section in the section below. She has given many interviews which are entertaining. Check 'em out.
Cleavage show suja
Cleavage show suja
Suja's Navel
Suja's Navel
Sexy armpit show suja
Sexy armpit show suja
Curvy breasts of suja
Curvy breasts of suja
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