Apparently it’s taboo for a female to practise mask-changing, or bian lian, the 300-year old Chinese dramatic art, but Candy Chong, 19 of Cheras (above) is unperturbed. She’s probably the only female in Malaysia, or even perhaps the world, who’s a master at it and performing as a pro. To date, she has performed more than 50 times.
But what is bian lian? Performers of bian lian are able to change masks in quickly, in the blink of an eye in fact, right before their audiences.
Check this video of Singaporean magician Alex performing bian lian (after the jump):
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Lionel Messi (Messi-ah / Messidona) is better than Diego Maradona? Has he scored a goal better than the Goal of the Century on 18th April 2007? Can even Cristiano Ronaldo or Ronaldinho at their very best do this?
On 18th April 2007, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi scored 2 goals during a Copa del Rey semifinal against Getafe CF. The first goal was very similar to Diego Maradona’s goal against England at the Quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup, also known as the Goal of the Century. Messi ran about the same distance (60 metres), beat the same number of players (6, including the goalkeeper), scored from a very similar position, and ran towards the corner flag just as Maradona did in Mexico 21 years before.
Maradona’s feat was so monumental that a statue of him immortalizing the moment was erected outside the stadium. England striker at the 1986 World Cup, Gary Lineker, who scored the English goal of that match said “[it was] probably the one and only time in my whole career I felt like applauding the opposition scoring a goal.”
Of course the speed of the game has progressed: Messi dribbled much faster than Maradona did.
If Maradona’s goal is Goal of the Century, what then should Messi’s goal be called?
And the video below is spot-on: Maradona’s goal played side-by-side with Messi’s (after the jump):
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The Star reported on 21st April 2007 that a 73-year old man living alone at a double storey link house in Taman Cempaka, Ipoh developed a strange hobby in 2003 - collecting old furniture, clothes, broken flower and cooking pots, plastic ware, bicycles, newspapers, rotten fruit, rusting refrigerators and other junk and storing them in and around his house.
4 years later, 40 Ipoh City Council workers came to his house with a 3-ton lorry. In one hour, they filled it with rubbish from the driveway and garden. 3-ton lorry filled to the brim, and they have not even entered the house yet!
The house itself was locked, but piles of smelly, rotting garbage can be seen.
The man had been staying in the house for the past 10 years, and apparently his wife and son moved out 3 years back.
On another note, where golf galaxy is the single best place to look for golf equipment, it is also undoubtedly the best place to buy basketball as well as baseball equipment. All the baseball buffs can relax now.
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As followup to my previous post on the same subject.
The Star reported on 20th April that Ta Sam, 67, is a highly sexed Cambodian in Svay Rieng province whose previous 2 wives divorced him due to his insatiable appetite in bed.
10 days after his latest divorce, he could contain himself no longer. In middle of the night, he picked out one of his young cows in the shed near his house. Stripping down to his birthday suit, he mounted her, only to receive fatal kicks from the heifer to his head and genital area. His grandson heard the commotion, checked it out and discovered his grandad naked and dead on the shed floor.
Ta Sam has now earned the dubious title of the world’s only cow rapist who died when his intended victim fought back.
Police decided not take any action against the bovine because after all, it acted in self defence.
The term “school shooting” is a term popularised in the US and refers to mass killing sprees and encompasses all educational institutions, including primary, secondary/high school and tertiary/college/university levels of education. This post is concerned with acts done by either student(s) or member(s) of staff.
Possibly the world’s worst school shooting ever happened at Bath Consolidated School, a primary school in Michigan, USA on 18th May 1927. It claimed 45 lives and injured 58.
The perpetrator was school board member Andrew Kehoe.
He was angry because he had to pay tax to fund construction of the school building, which caused him financial problems which he expected to cause the closure of his farm. The anger was white-hot, for he killed his wife first then set his farm buildings on fire. He then set off explosives which destroyed part of the school buildings and killed many people inside it. For his final act, he drove to the school, stopped the car, then exploded a bomb inside his shrapnel-filled vehicle. That killed himself, the school superintendent, and some others.
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It’s the Zimmers. The what? Yes, it’s true. While the combined age of the Rolling Stones’ members is only 240+, this 40 member band have a combined age of more than 3,000 years.
According to their website, they were formed earlier this year. Their average age is 78. They are not only the oldest and unlikeliest active rock band in the world i.e. performing in concerts, but are also surely one of the most celebrated, for they have recorded their debut album at none other than the Abbey Road Studios, under U2 producer Michael Hedges.
Their first single, an appropriately selected cover of The Who’s “My generation” is slated for released this 14th May (video link below). Other songs in the album would include The Prodigy’s “Firestarter”, The Beatles “When I’m (one hundred and)64″ and what else but Jermain Stewart’s “We Don’t have to take our clothes off (to have a good time)”.
Some pics of the band:
And what good is it recording at Abbey Road if you don’t take a pic like this:
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Several newsreports (see source) reported in April 2006 that a 45-year old Singaporean man was found guilty of raping 5 of his underage daughters, aged 12 to 15, resulting in 2 of them becoming pregnant, and was sentenced to 32 years jail and 24 strokes of the rotan. In fact, he pleaded guilty to a total of 39 charges of rape and attempted aggravated rape.
In at least one case, he terminated the pregnancies to avoid being the father of his own grandchild.
What makes the case outstanding is that he already has 10 wives (6 via “nikah muta’ah”) and 64 children (some newsreports say 66).
What can be worse than that? Well, High Court Judge Tay Wong Kwang added that “the mothers of the girls had somehow been persuaded by the accused that what he was doing was right“. That means that the girls also lost the one and only possible escape route in the house.
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With the slogan “Keep your head. Remove theirs,” The Zombie Preparedness Initiative website describes itself as a “knowledge base provided by a community of citizens concerned about the impending zombie invasion and the iminant (sic) disaster that is sure to follow. We are not claiming to be experts on anything, we are merely doing what we can to gather knowledge and share the aquired information with the public. By doing this, we hope to help people prepare for the very real threat that we shall face when zombies show up and governments have not taken the time to prepare. We are working to do what we can to help people find others in their area that are interested in fighting against the zombies so that when the time comes there can be safe locations all around the world.”
It even has a DIY section on how to make weapons to battle it out against zombies. One weapon is called the Trash Kannon, with very detailed instructions on how to construct it. According to the site, the Trash Kannon is “a weapon designed to be powerful against undead and living foes to varying degrees whilst being easily created from materials scavenged from around the typical human city. Under perfect conditions, it can fire through a line of approximately 10-11 undead bodies, or 5-6 living bodies, due to differing activity (I do not advise attempting to find an accurate number prior to the actual dystopia). It can be used as a trap, by creating a simple firing mechanism keyed to activate under certain conditions, which will vary depending on the situation and location.”
Simply amazing.
www.zombieinitiative.org
The Archive of Misheard Lyrics’s domain is named after what probably is the world’s most commonly misheard lyric, “kiss this guy” instead of the actual “kiss the sky” in Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.”
Each lyric there has a Funny / Not Funny voting option, meaning the least funny ones will eventually get kicked off while the funniest ones rise to the top.
At the time of writing this post, the funniest misheard lyric is Smash Mouth’s “all star”, where “She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an “L” on her forehead.” was misheard as “She was looking kinda dumb with her finger in her bum and the shape of a elf on her forehead.”
Looking through the list, I think my favourite is Bryan Adams’ “summer of 69″, where “Got my first real six string, bought it at the five-and-dime. Played it till my fingers bled. It was the summer of 69.” was misheard as “Got my first real sex dream, I was 5 at the time. Played it till my fingers bled. It was the summer of 69. ”
www.kissthisguy.com
Yang Lijuan with Andy Lau
Most fathers want the best for the children and would do whatever is in their capacity to please their kids, but a 68-year-old man from Lanzhou, China has upped the ante so radically.
Yang Lijuan, 28 is his daughter. She is obsessed with Hong Kong pop star Andy Lau.
Now, most fathers would dismiss that as a youthful fad and at most, would probably bring her to his concerts.
But, she’s been obsessed with him for 13 years. So obsessed that she dropped out of school and didn’t do any work except being a “full time obsessor”.
And this man is no ordinary father.
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