UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

Popularity: 1% [?]

Popularity: 1% [?]

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 /..

Popularity: 1% [?]

Who?

Ouch…

Popularity: 5% [?]

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)

Popularity: 2% [?]

David Lu, 51, was a former gangster and murderer in Taiwan who was sentenced to 38 years imprisonment.

Against all the odds, he is now a Christian preacher / pastor.

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, 14 June 2005

Popularity: 14% [?]

source: thestar.com.my

Popularity: 5% [?]

This is.

Source: snopes.com

Popularity: 1% [?]

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

Popularity: 1% [?]

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.?

Popularity: 1% [?]

Mini Microsoft blog: virtual watercooler for MS Employees

Most outstanding of the 2000+ blogs MS employees keep

mostly damning comments on his employer, so adamantly keeps identity secret. hint: a married man, soft spoken, easy laugh.

covered by business week thru /.

a major topic at ms now is corp reorganisation

Popularity: 2% [?]

How can Malaysia’s top rally driver fall this low? Fined for not being able to compete for lack of funds? The hefty (by Malaysian standards, is more than a year’s salary for most people) fine will make him even worse off!

And whatever happened to PERT?

Paul Tan pretty summed it up way back in June.

————————————
The Star: Tuesday September 20, 2005

Karamjit gets slapped with a RM45,000 fine

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian rally driver Karamjit Singh has certainly fallen on tough times since the Petronas EON Racing Team (PERT) were disbanded last year.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has slapped a 10,000 Euro (RM45,000) fine on him for missing the Rally of Britain last weekend.

The 43-year-old Karamjit was to compete in the production car category but was forced out because of the lack of funds.

?I was told of their (FIA) decision on Sunday,? said Karamjit, who had competed in the three earlier rounds of the World Championships (WRC) ? in New Zealand, Cyprus and Turkey.

?I have committed myself to take part in six rounds. The rally in Britain was the fourth round but I could not raise any sponsorship money.

?The competition rules clearly state the penalty for skipping a round. This is the first time that I have been fined for missing a race and I do not know my situation for the remaining two rounds (in Japan and Australia).?

Karamjit said that he would appeal through the Automobile Association of Malaysia (AAM) to get FIA to reduce the amount of the fine.

?I don’t understand why it is so hard to get sponsorship money for motor rallying here. If things remain the same and if overseas teams are interested in me, I will certainly consider it,? said Karamjit, who now supports himself by doing car demonstration shows.

He missed the chance to defend the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championships (APRC) title earlier this year.

In the past, together with the now retired co-driver Allen Oh, they won the APRC overall title three times.

The duo also took the WRC production car title in their debut year in 2002 and they achievement won the National Sportsman of the Year Award.

Popularity: 3% [?]

yes, it’s referring to that 1998 song “tubthumping”. they sold lots of records, but 6 months later all their records have been dumped at flea markets.

required reading for anyone wanting to make it big in the music industry in the present climate.

Popularity: 1% [?]

/. article.

Popularity: 1% [?]

i just put these here to do a collection once i got the time to do it, if ever…

- MNH: “sila” menjadi “sial” which led to a “diplomatic row” [90's]
- ID: apa pandangan anda terhadap mulut celupar? [circa 1997?]
- KCK and SM exchange
- JG “tumbuk skrin”
- “it’s stupid to have two firewalls”
- BV: “where the hell”
- MJ to VCL: “i’m sorry to say that as a senior officer…”

Popularity: 1% [?]

1 create a killer product. bet your life on it – or get VCs, or immerse yourself deep in debt

2 offer it for FREE to everybody (or some parts free, premium on more functionality): I suppose this can never be done on “brick and mortar” type business like real estate, restauranting, oil, agri etc etc

3 once you reach a certain number of users, say 2 million, wait with expectation, for windfall’s coming soon..

That’s what Skype just did.

I remember Hotmail did the same strategy with Microsoft

so, it’s possible to create 2 killer products in your lifetime – the guys who created Skype also earlier created Kazaa. even the hotmail guy’s 2nd project after striking big was a flop.

Popularity: 3% [?]

USD300 billion (>RM1,000 billion) in assets, including so much gold bars that you need 25,000 10-tonne lorries to carry them all???!!!

Account codenamed Cactus Dahlia?

Sounds like a good title for a Hollywood thriller.

If what the yet-another-guy-who-claims-to-be-a-spokesman-for-the-Sulu-Sultanate said is true, the Sulu Royal House is the richest family in the world, even more than Brunei and Saudi Arabian royalty combined!

And I thought the RM75 billion claim is astronomical.

Contender for quote of the year 2005 by former YS AO:
“Just pay us RM75 billion, and the whole Sabah claim issue will be forgotten…”

ref:
Daily Express, 12th Sept 2005

Popularity: 1% [?]

[some severely outdated]

tv3′s karam singh walia reports from kl that the smoke and haze blanketing the country was caused by Rafidah Aziz’z arse on fire. (rcd 11 aug 05)

8 qualities to be a perfect husband: Brave, Intelligent, Gentle, Polite, Energetic, Non-alcoholic, Industrious and Self Organized. In short, BIG PENIS. (rcd 27 jul 05)

Popularity: 1% [?]

Pic courtesy of tribuneindia.com:

Penangite Andrea Veronica Fonseka was 19 and working as a presenter/assistant producer when she was crowned Miss Malaysia 2004, beating actress and presenter Pushpa Narayan, 26, and Estelle Looi Mei Lin, 24.

Apparently:
- she’s either 5’9″ or 5’10″ with a reported weight ranging from 54 to 67 kg!
- she’s got Chinese, Filipino, Portugese, Sri Lankan and Spanish blood.
- her dad is Datuk Dr CGA Fonseka, apparently an ex-Deputy Director-General of Health (now retired), a dog enthusiast, being a canine competition judge and a past president of Malaysian Kennel Association. The family even owned the “Best Dog in Malaysia 1998″, Portia.
- her mom, Datin Josephine Fonseka (Josephine Lena Wong Jaw Len) was Miss Malaysia 1970 and even qualified for the semifinals of Miss Universe pageant. In that competition she was the second Asian to be in the top 15. Jun Shimada of Japan finished fourth. Josephine was also Miss Japan Expo ’70.
- she’s a bright girl, scoring 3A’s in her A-Levels at Taylor’s college

Unsurprisingly, Andrea did not even make the semis.

I suppose it was a case of “nice face, shame about the body”…

Pics of how she looked like in the swimsuit episode of Miss Universe 2004 held in Quito is available at missosology.org and santabanta.com.

There’s another version of this in an email flying around, where the purported “worst interview” actually did not take place, and the comment about her body being “like a p*g” is actually nonexistent.

However, this combo pic taken from that email is worth showing here, comparing the “declining qualities” of Miss Malaysia’s “bodiliciousness” over the years:

Tell me what you think when her pic in swimsuit is put next to Miss Australia, Ms Hawkins.

Popularity: 11% [?]