Have Fun with Some Hilarious Comics

Time for our comic strip session update. We always wonder how cartoonists and comic artists always come with unimaginable ideas. We hope these cartoons are even funnier than the last comic post. Click on the pictures to enlarge. Enjoy and have fun!

The Usual Suspect

Partner Exchange

Dynamite

Hachiko, Man Should Learn From Him

After watched a good movie recently, I decided to add one more category to this Just Have Fun blog, that is movie section, that will discuss about funny, inspirational, or heart-moving films. Now, the movie that inspired me was the western version of Hachiko, that starred by Richard Gere and Joan Allen.

The Story:

An American adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Sadly his master departs one day, passes away and never returns to the station.

Hachiko faithfully returns to the same spot at the station the very next day, and every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits, Hachiko touches the lives of many who work near and commute through the town square. He teaches the local people love, compassion and above all unyielding loyalty.


Based on A True Story

In 1924, Hachikō was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. During his owner's life Hachikō saw him out from the front door and greeted him at the end of the day at the nearby Shibuya Station.

The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return on the usual train one evening. The professor had suffered a heart attack at the university that day. He died and never returned to the train station where his friend was waiting. Hachikō was loyal and every day for the next nine years he waited sitting there amongst the towns folk.

Hachikō was given away after his master's death, but he routinely escaped, showing up again and again at his old home. Eventually, Hachikō apparently realized that Professor Ueno no longer lived at the house. So he went to look for his master at the train station where he had accompanied him so many times before. Each day, Hachikō waited for Professor Ueno to return. And each day he did not see his friend among the commuters at the station.

Professor Ueno's former student returned frequently to visit the dog and over the years published several articles about Hachikō's remarkable loyalty. In 1932 one of these articles, published in Tokyo's largest newspaper, threw the dog into the national spotlight. Hachikō became a national sensation. His faithfulness to his master's memory impressed the people of Japan as a spirit of family loyalty all should strive to achieve. Teachers and parents used Hachikō's vigil as an example for children to follow. A well-known Japanese artist rendered a sculpture of the dog, and throughout the country a new awareness of the Akita breed grew.

Hachikō died on the steps that he waited for his master outside the station on March 8, 1935.

Eventually, Hachiko's legendary faithfulness became a national symbol of loyalty.

The Real Hachiko and his bronze statue in front of Shibuya Station

Still Believe in True Love?

Ever been in love before? Or being cheated by someone you love? Don't worry, that happens almost to everyone, like these pictures below showed. Funny and hilarious, but can be true. Always watch your back! Have fun!

Optimize Your Brain

It's been a while since I last updated my brain teaser category. Now, I want to write a little about brain training activity and where you can test your IQ.

Have you read Dan Brown's newest novel, The Lost Symbol? There are some interesting stuffs you might be noticed, including Albrecht Durer's painting, Melancolia (1514). In that painting, there are 4x4 square contains numbers where if you add all the numbers vertically, horizontally, even diagonally you'll get the same sum of 34.

You know what's better than that? It's the 8th Degree Magic Square that composed by one of the America's founding father, Benjamin Franklin. It works almost the same as Durer's square, with 8x8 size. Those magic squares are a harder game than Sudoku, I think.




Now you might think how come those men can be so genius? Well, brain is working like any other muscles in your body. To get it works sharper, faster, and better, you need to do a brain exercises, the same like you do fitness to train your muscles.

It's time to introduce you to brainmetrix.com, an educational website dedicated to brain training programs. It's fun and free! You can find a lot of brain activities there, such as memory test, chess game, math problems, IQ test, and other ways to boost your mind and stimulate you to think harder. Try it!

The Reason Behind Albert Einstein's Tongue

Albert Einstein is known as one of the most genius person in the history of mankind. But he's also known as a funny, kind and a warmhearted man. The most famous hilarious moment of Einstein would be when he stuck out his tongue when a photographer took his picture.

This event happened on Einstein's 72nd birthday on March 14, 1951, when he sat on the back of his car with his wife and his friend, Dr Frank Aydelotte. Photographer Arthur Sasse was trying to persuade him to smile for the camera, but having smiled for photographers many times that day, Einstein stuck out his tongue instead.

This photo became one of the most popular photos ever taken of Einstein and it is well recognized in popular culture, often used in merchandise depicting Einstein in a lighthearted sense.