UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

historic photo taken Sept 2004 by Dr. Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum:

26 feet (8 m) long

original:
NYTimes.com and AP, and even /..

Who?

Ouch…

Bagaimana jika Brazil dijemput untuk membuat perlawanan persahabatan dengan:
- Presta
- Papar Sports Centre, yang membariskan bekas pemain terkemuka Sabah bla bnla bla
- SK Rangalau Baru all-stars
- Gunosukod pangaits
- Kosan Tuaran
- Likas FC

of course, we know about Real Madrid….

but this surely looks too good to be true, again dubbed the greatest since 1982:

My 1st XI

1 Dida (AC Milan)
2 Cafu (AC Milan)
3 Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid)
4 Lucio (Bayern Munich)
5 Roque Junior (Bayer Leverkusen)
6 Kaka (AC Milan),
7 Gilberto Silva (Arsenal)
8 Ronaldinho (Barcelona)
9 Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
10 Adriano (Inter Milan)
11 Robinho (Santos)

special sentimental appearance: Rivaldo

out of the following full squad:

Goalkeepers: Dida (AC Milan), Julio Cesar (Internazionale), Gomes (PSV)

Defenders: Cafu (AC Milan), Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid), Cicinho (Sao Paulo), Gustavo Nery (Corinthians), Gilberto (Hertha Berlin), Lucio (Bayern Munich), Juan (Bayer Leverkusen), Roque Jr. (Bayer Leverkusen), Luisao (Benfica)

Midfielders: Renato (Sevilla), Emerson (Juventus), Juninho Pernambucano (Lyon), Alex (Fenerbahce), Ze Roberto (Bayern Munich), Kaka (AC Milan), Gilberto Silva (Arsenal), Ricardinho (Santos), Ronaldinho Gaucho (Barcelona), Julio Baptista (Real Madrid)

Forwards: Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Adriano (Inter Milan), Robinho (Santos), Ricardo Oliveira (Real Betis)

David Lu, former gangster, murderer, sentenced to 38 years imprisonment, now a Christian preacher.

An expert in tae kwon do and boxing, a member of what is still Taiwan’s largest organised crime syndicate, the Bamboo Union. His job was working as the gang’s debt collector - threatening force to get people to pay back money they owed from gambling.

It was during his second term in jail that he converted to Christianity. At the time he was receiving letters from a Christian girl, the sister of a man he had recruited into the gang. The turning point came with the sudden death of a prison inmate who had become a mentor figure to David. It forced him to reassess his life - and turn to God.

When he was finally released from jail in 1979 - cleared of two charges of kidnapping and robbery - he entered a seminary, where he was joined by the Christian girl who had written to him in prison.

The two fell in love and later married.

His remarkable story of bad boy-turned-good was described in his autobiography, The Sword and The Sheath, and inspired many in Taiwan.

Source
The BBC

source: thestar.com.my

This is.

Source: snopes.com

Jonathan Kent’s BBC interview with “Ah Hing”, an underworld kingpin in north Malaysia.

Includes insightful, even chilling lines such as:

“If someone betrays me personally… I will get a few gang members together and beat him up until he’s paralysed or he’s a vegetable, but if the matter is really big then they’ll be brought before my tai ko for a trial.”

“We do find girls [prostitutes] who refuse to work, and we will keep them in solitary confinement and give them a bad time until they tell me they want to work,” he said.

“If I want to operate on a particular street and ask a politician to ask the authorities not to disturb me, the politician might say: ‘It’s impossible to have zero arrests, so you can operate on certain hours and we will patrol after those hours’ - so it’s a win-win situation.”

“If my tai ko asks us to deal with someone, even if we kill that person, we won’t be worried, because if the police arrest us, my tai ko will get me out. Last time I was taken in the front door of the [police] lock-up, and right away I walk out of the back door.”

Source: Screenshots

The Star, 21 Sep 2005

First, Karamjit Singh.

Now, FAM withdraw prize money from Malaysia Cup, due to ban on tobacco advertising. Lost RM22 million just like that! Only got RM8 million in sponsorship money. So as team manager/coach do you convince your players to play their hearts out, knowing the team wont get a single cent from FAM even if they lift the Cup?

As if that’s not enough, two-time SEA Games gold medallist Malik Tobias has gone AWOL. The decathlon champion at the 1999 and 2003 Games in Brunei and Vietnam respectively, has not been training since bagging the bronze medal in the Hong Kong Open in July.

The 24-year-old Malik has not qualified for SEA Games. And the Malaysian Open, which begins tomorrow at the City Stadium in Penang, is the last chance for the Malacca athlete to earn a place in the Malaysian team to Manila.

National chief coach Hanapiah Nasir said: �I am puzzled over why he has stopped attending training. I have been unsuccessful in the many times that I have tried to contact him.

�I have asked national athletes, who are studying with him at the UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia), to convey my message to him too. I am disappointed with his attitude. He should inform us if he is not interested in training.�