…probably not available in the Guinness Book of World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Or Chicks with Picks, as Spin Magazine calls them.
Move over Jimmy Page. Enter centrestage Steph Paynes.
add in veteran New York-area musicians Helen Destroy on drums, Lisa Brigantino on bass, mandolin and keyboards and Sarah McLellan on vocals, they’re ready to rock.
via tectonic.co.za’s article.
Quote:
“Open source would be easier [to hack], it’s less work.”
open source software:
proprietary software:
Q: Why choose badminton or squash?
A: It’s twice as difficult as tennis (see bottom of this), but the money is nowhere near big enough.
Justine Henin-Hardenne won USD457,500 as the losing finalist of 2006’s Australian Open. For those who didnt know, it’s a tennis tournament. That’s a freakin’ RM1.7 million! And she didn’t even finish the best of 3 set match, retiring against Amelie Mauresmo.
And I am not even talking about the men’s tournament!
I mean, I make it to a final of a tennis Grand Slam, win or lose I can retire already!
If you think that’s impossible, think Michael Chang’s only Grand Slam triumph - the 1989 French Open.
In stark contrast, the world’s most prestigious badminton title, the All England offered less than RM40,000 to the men’s singles champion in 2006.
And the world’s most prestigious squash tournament, the British Open offered less than RM30,000 to the men’s champion.
Gosh, I think my sports list for my kids would look like this already:
As Liewcf.com wrote, Aussie Darren Rowse did it within 20 months.
Some things I’ve learnt just by observing:
Darren shares the secrets on how he did it, for USD280…
So, forget Irfan Khairi’s RM40 book (”Secrets of Internet Millionaires Revealed”) or Sen Ze’s RM68 book “How to Use the Internet to Earn a Massive, Passive Income in Your Pajamas!“??
Numbers are average unique visitors per day as of today.
South East Asian blogs in English/Malay.
discovered by chance:
Read some about, but not quite there yet:
…so that your grip is stronger than anybody else?
I won’t even mention some of the crazy things on offer.
Creepiest site I have ever seen so far.
Other sites try to shock you. But this one seems dead serious about creating shocking modifications to the human body.
It has to be seen to be believed.
Some of the “products” are well….obscene to say the least, in idea, name and product.
Regarding recent debates on Christianity, perhaps the only thing that can challenge the U.S. debate over intelligent design versus evolution in enormity and possible repercussions is the question of whether Jesus was mere myth.
An Italian court is tackling Jesus - and whether the Roman Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that he existed 2,000 years ago.
What makes it even more interesting is the perpetrator, devoted atheist Luigi Cascioli was once a trainee priest, but “drifted away from the Church and has spent much of his life as a committed atheist and anti-religion campaigner. ”
He even wrote a book “The Fable of Christ” and has a website.
Update 27 Jan
The chorus has been going around in my head all day long, at work and while driving. And an insider joke chorus lyrics have been developing in my head as I drove home earlier:
when I left SMK Tamparuli
twenty years ago seems like yesterday
as they say, life goes on, the show must go on
Bongkihoi and Ganang in memory
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I hardly ever listen to Chinese music, cantopop or otherwise. To me, most of them sound almost alike, especially those from Hong Kong/Taiwan.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got an ear for a good melody. I equally like the music of Metallica (and sometimes “worse”) and people like Westlife. Now, the mere mention of the latter might get me killed by fans of the former, but that’s just the way it is…
And I like classic songs by Teresa Teng and Sam Hui, and the best songs by Taiwanese and HK artists (although most of the time I can’t tell which is which) are not bad either.
The most recent Chinese song that I liked is “Dang Ni Gu Dan Ni Hui Xiang Qi Shui” by Zhang Dong Liang.
Due to me never ever listening to Chinese channels, nor watch Chinese movies (the last one I watched disappointed me to bits - “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) or have friends who are cantopop fanatics, I get to know top Chinese songs in strange ways.
“Dang Ni Gu Dan Ni Hui Xiang Qi Shui” was embedded in as a ringtone when I purchased my handphone.
“Tong Hua” was played by the DJ when I was waiting for my next karaoke song. I didnt understand any of the lyrics, but was instantly smitten by the melody. Later we asked the DJ to play it again, and I asked for the song name and the artist.
“Tong Hua” was just like “Dang Ni…”, Westlife’s “swear it again” and the Backstreet Boys’ “as long as you love me” - gigantic hook - I knew it was gonna be a big hit.
And I was almost a year too late. Apparently he’s been around for years and was in a group which later split up.
I’ve never even heard of Guang Liang aka Michael Wong before tonight! And he’s even Malaysian and got numerous awards internationally, meaning he’s probably on par with the so-called Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong’s cantopop.
So here goes (online):
….and yes DJ, that “terlampau panjang” joke is hilarious =)
The world is experiencing an incredible surge in rubber prices.
It’s indeed good news for rubber smallholders in Thailand, Indonesia and of course Malaysia, who together produces 90% of the world’s natural rubber.
Check out the daily rubber price list update by the Malaysian Rubber Board (Lembaga Getah Malaysia). Compare prices on different dates. The difference is phenomenal, the growth breathtaking. International rubber price updates (including KL prices) are available at an Indian-based website.
This has never happened before, at least not in the last 40 years.
What a big contrast to the crisis of 1974, where smallholders in Baling, Kedah demonstrated against falling prices.
Consider this price difference from a few years ago to today:
Rubber smallholders used to be able to earn, daily, RM50 to RM80, now can get up to RM200 per shift (2 shifts per day). That means, weekly (Mon-Fri only): RM1600, and monthly: >RM6000.
Shift 1: 7-11am, can produce up to 50 kg
Shift 2: afternoon
And all these on smallholdings: 2 acre rubber plantations
Why the increase?
- China’s expanding economy
- increase in crude oil prices drove synthetic rubber prices up
No wonder my my cousin and her husband have “offered” to work on our 7-acre rubber plantation, which have stood neglected ever since the Great Fire of 1998 (El Nino).
Perhaps it’s a good idea to join them on weekends, and what better time than the coming long holidays to have a feel of what it’s like to be close to a rubber tree, mosquitoes etc after a long hiatus?
tips via hafizismail.com
