YuNa Kim: 5th Most Paid Female Athlete

Forbes.com has placed YuNa Kim as the 5th most paid female athlete in the world.

The 19 year old South Korean female Olympic skater, gold medalist and holder of the world renowned (and record) 228.56 combined total points in the 2010 Winter Olympics is reported to have earned 9.7 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS (That’s 9,700,000 U.S. Dollars, folks.) from sponsors such as Hyundai, Nike, Samsung Electronics and Kookmin Bank.

I wish her the best for now and for the upcoming events in the future.
Oh, and marry me?

The other highly paid athletes are:
No. 4: Danica Patrick (Age 28) Sport: Racing
Income: $12 million

No. 3: Venus Williams (Age 30) Sport: Tennis
Income: $15.4 million

No. 2: Serena Williams (Age 28) Sport: Tennis
Income: $20.2 million

No. 1: Maria Sharapova (Age 23) Sport: Tennis
Income: $24.5 million

World’s Most Expensive Home

The world’s first billion-dollar home, and the most expensive home in the world.

Nita Ambani was enjoying her rich life in New York, as a tourist. She was interested in the interior of the spa she was at, and that began a chain of events which eventually led to the building of the world’s first billion-dollar home. Her husband is Mukesh Ambani, the current #7 richest person in the world (5th at the time).

Quoting from Forbes, the building is a “27-story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai with a cost nearing $2 billion” and that “no two floors are alike in either plans or materials used.” (Wood on one floor, metal on the other, etc.. are there even enough materials for this?)

Can you imagine? Your home being a 27-story building. TWO BILLION DOLLARS. IN MUMBAI (Though I’d rather have it in a U.S. city… can’t imagine how much more it would’ve cost if they planned on building it in the U.S.). They even named the building, and it goes by “Antilla.”

The Antilla starts off with a 6-floor parking lot which make up the base of the building. The lobby contains NINE elevators and “down dual stairways with silver-covered railings is a large ballroom with 80% of its ceiling covered in crystal chandeliers.” The building also has a health level, a movie theater, lounges, storage floors, etc, and a helipad to top it all off. If I were to live there, I would be one happy Korean guy… as long as I don’t get raped by property tax.

Well, you’ve been waiting for it, this is what the building looks like (and all credits go to Forbes):

It's awesome.

The Most Expensive Cupcakes I’ve Ever Had

As I walked out of my room, I saw a box on the kitchen table. It was a very plain looking, white colored box. I opened it and saw cupcakes. Just four left out of six.

Now, a little thing about me; I don’t like pastries. So I nonchalantly grabbed a bowl of rice and started eating my everyday meal.

After the dinner, I look at the box again. I could’ve used some kind of dessert because the gogi (meat) and rice didn’t fill me up.

The cupcakes were all cut up into four pieces. Four cupcakes, four pieces of each cupcake. Two chocolatey cupcakes and two “regular-looking” cupcakes. They all had a ton of frosting.

I took out a fork (yes, Koreans not only use chopsticks, we also have forks for these kind of occasions) and took a bite of the chocolate cupcake with fudge frosting. I have to say, the cupcake was delicious. I’ll take another step and say it was the best cupcake I’ve ever had. As a matter of fact, every single one of those cupcakes tasted better than any other cupcake I’ve tasted in my life.

I take a look at the box and read, “Magnolia Bakery,” and I’m thinking, “I’ve never heard of this place in my life, but it tastes so goooood~.” After trying out each of the cupcakes, I ask my mom where the cupcakes came from.

She told me that my sister went to the city (NYC) today and bought them. At $3 per cupcake.

When I heard the price of the cupcakes, one thing came in my mind. “WTF?”

I would personally NEVER, EVER pay $3 for a cupcake (let alone buy 6), but I have to hand it to the Magnolia Bakery; they were very good. Now this is just my own opinion, and you don’t have to try their cupcakes out because I said they were the best cupcakes I’ve ever had. After all, I’m just one Korean guy.

Magnolia Bakery - Just look at the line! I hear it's supposedly PACKED ALL THE TIME!