Oolong the pancake bunny

Here's one the cutest things I've seen recently: a bunny rabbit who has been trained to balance objects on its head. It's name is Oolong and he belonged to a Japanese photographer.
I came across Oolong's website when I was searching for information and photos of this curious food stuff being sold at a cart near the UPLB gate. I only knew that it was something Japanese thus it took some time before I finally figured out that the little pancake thingies were similar to what are known as obanyaki. (I also eventually recalled that something similar was being sold in the Jollybean stands in Singapore.) As there wasn't much information nor photos about obanyaki, this led me to read about similar Japanese food stuff like dorayaki. So it was in the brief Wikipedia entry about dorayaki that I first read about Oolong the bunny rabbit. And as usual, I got curious about this Internet Phenomenon like so many other web surfers before me and had to find out more about the cute bunny. Apparently Oolong became very famous because of one of his images became the basis of a popular image macro with the annotation

I finally found Oolong's photo journal website where so many photos of Oolong's cute "head performances" were posted by his owner almost daily. It was sad though to read that Oolong had passed away way back in January 2003. But from what people have said in their blogs about the passing of Oolong, the bunny rabbit it seems was well loved by many in the Internet community. And so to add to the many tributes to the beloved bunny here's my humble contribution: a wallpaper I made.
P.S.
By coincidence, Oolong was the subject of one of the recent Facts of the Day over at Mental Floss.