International Services 6th Edition

International Services Belated 6yth Edition--I am sorry I am late!

Pen-Twisting Master
Students like to twist their pen just to kill time. But the art of pen-twisting has been mastered, again, by the Japanese people, who held a national pen-twisting contest.

An 8th grader who participated in the contest said he discovered a website that teaches pen-twisting on his cell-phone two years ago, and since then devoted himself into the world of pen-twisting. His killer skill is twisting a pen by moving merely his index finger.

Unfortunately, he didn’t win the prize because it was too cold the day of the game and his fingers were not at their best.

Harmless Scale: 七刀刀 (for this is pretty cool and I wanna learn it too!)

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080406/8/wrho.html

Mr. Soybean Curd
Some street vendors do care about appearance. A street soybean curd vendor in Pindong, Taiwan, dresses like a star every day, with awesome sunglasses, trying to impress his customers. He is now very popular among other vendors in the market. Tourists even take pictures of him all the time.

To make sure that customers don’t get bored, he has nine suits ready and dresses differently from Monday thorough Sunday. His name spread faster than his soybean curd. Many tourists come here to see him, not for the soybean curd. You can take as many pictures as you want, but remember to pay for the soybean curd!

Harmless Scale: 七刀刀 (I miss soybean curd!!)

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080411/69/x3ms.html

Be Aware: Cursing Parrots
A parrot in the UK named Barney not only loves to curse; he also loves teaching his fellow parrots how to curse. With golden and blue feathers, Barney is a seven-year-old macaw that has cursed before a female mayor, a priest, and two police officers.

His fellow parrots, Sam and Charlie were polite, and clueless when they started living with Barney, but ended up two crazy cursers after living with him a few months. Now the three of them often curse each other for no reason.

Parrot experts say that parrots are only repeating what they heard without knowing exactly what they are saying. They speak to draw attention from their masters. But this is a more special case because Sam and Charlie are not imitating a human being’s sound, but a parrot’s sound.

Harmless Scale: 七刀刀刀刀 (Damn you all!)

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080408/1/wwj0.html

The weather is quite flaky here in Northern California!

Don't know why.

Might be because of that climate change thing?

Anyways, I'll see you next week!

Thanks for watching!