The Scandal continues...

Accompanied by several bodyguards, Edison Chen was brought to court yesterday in British Columbia and admitted the identities of the celebrities who took part in his sex photos, as if seeing them from 433 different photos from every possible angle weren't evidence enough.

While Edison has stowed himself an ocean away from the Hong Kong paps, fondly called "gau zai dui" or "doggie teams", the "victims" are still around the area: Poor gillian (from the Emperor Group's extremely popular duo Twins) is still struggling to make a comeback... I read somewhere that Bobo Chan still has a chance to marry into her rich boyfriend's family... Cecilia Cheung is rumoured to have baby #2 on the way with singer/actor Nicholas Tse... and I have no idea whatever happened to Rachel Ngan (or what movie she's been in for that matter).

Apparently, in 2006 Edison took his Mac desktop to get fixed at elite multimedia , having believed the photos were safely deleted from the hard disk. Little did he know, the data can be retrieved from the trashbin, no passwords necessary. Thus started the photos' leakage, no, FLOOD into our mailboxes. There was a moment I felt like I was amongst pre-teens again, collecting AO rated YES! cards and trading them (my peers, not I!).

It's been more than a year since the scandal first erupted, it no longer deserves front page headlines! Move on, already! (Though I *am* interested to know where the law will stand on the issue in April when the alleged computer repair boy is due in court).

Ping Pong (and fake eggs) are uniquely Chinese

Those in Macau who've been laying off eggs due to recent suspicions of fake poultry eggs from China can now banish their fears. The Macau government submitted the suspiciously "bouncy" eggs to laboratory testing and concluded they do not contain any harmful compounds, or differ from normal eggs in nutrient levels.

Officials conducted a test where normal eggs were placed in subzero temperatures, then shaken for 3 hours, before being cooked, and found their consistency to be as bouncy as ping pong balls -- exactly like the allegedly fake eggs. This backed the theory that the eggs likely changed texture due to the sudden post mid-autumn drop in temperature, along with shaky conditions during transport from Hubei to Macau.

False alarm this time around maybe, but there have been enough fake food horror stories emerging from the Mainland to keep me loyal to Aussie dairy products only! I'd rather be overly paro than have kidney stones, or worse, babies with bloated heads!