UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

UPDATE 6th November 2011

She’s done it – Nicol David, 28 is officially the greatest female squash player in history. She totally demolished old foe and world no.2 Jenny Duncalf of England 11-2, 11-5, 11-0 in just 28 minutes to become the world champion for an unprecedented 6th time.

Jenny played well and committed very few errors but she could not do much against Nicol at her very best, and wilted in the third set.

After the match, Jenny commented:

She was ridiculously good today… it’s a bit of an anti-climax really. She never let me get into the match, her length was incredible, she was in front of me the whole time, and when you have Nicol in front of you, you are in big trouble. I wanted to stay on there as long as possible, but she had other ideas…

As for Nicol, she said:

This is my best performance ever. I didn’t expect anything but I wanted it so badly, I didn’t want anybody to put their hands on that trophy but me. I can’t remember anything from my match, because I was so focused. Just that I saw the ball early, that I felt strong, and that I didn’t want to give Jenny anything. I stuck to have I had to do, hunt every ball down, and committed fully to each and every shot.

In Malaysia, a world title is huge, we are not a nation with great sport victories, so I just hope I can repay all what Malaysia has done for me, and which has carried me this far. The record is just a bonus for me, I don’t do things for records, just for the feeling I get when I’m out there on the court, for that challenge I get from the other players.

With 6 titles in 7 years, Nicol’s now on par with the legendary Jahangir Khan’s achievement of 6 world crowns, and 2 less than the incomparable Jansher Khan’s 8.

This means Malaysia has an individual which is not only “cemerlang, gemilang, terbilang” but has achieved the most difficult: “tersohor” or “teragung”, or “the greatest of all time” in a truly global sport.

Now her only targets seem to be to eclipse Jansher Khan’s record, hence making her the greatest squash player who ever lived, male or female.

However, she may never be Olympic champion because it’s still not included in the Olympic programme even until 2016, of which she said:

My World Open titles mean the world to me, but I would gladly trade the six of them for just one Olympic Medal…

While Lee Chong Wei is still struggling to win his 1st world crown, Nicol has already assured her sporting immortality; it remains to be seen whether Nicol’s achievement results in a huge boost for the sport in Malaysia.

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UPDATE 24th September 2010

That’s it: Nicol David is now arguably the greatest female squash player who ever lived.

On 22nd September 2010, she won her FIFTH World Open title when she demolished Egypt’s 4th seeded world no. 6 Omneya Abdel Kawy 11-5, 11-8, 11-6 in just 30 minutes.

That means she has equalled Sarah Fitz-Gerald’s number of world titles.

Nicol has been ranked the world number 1 for more than 4 years.

If she wins World Open 2011, immortality is assured.

Having said that, of course there’ll always be that Heather McKay question.

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UPDATE 18th May 2009 (2+ years later)

She is already one of the all-time greats of the sport, and quite possibly is already the greatest sportsperson, man / woman, Malaysia has ever produced. Look at these achievements:

World Open: with 3 titles, she’s 4th on the all time list. Sarah Fitz-Gerald is at the top with 5 titles, well within Nicol’s sight.

British Open: with 3 titles, she’s joint 7th on the all time list. Heather McKay is at the top with an incredible 16 titles!

Hence, one could say very well say that based on the joint number of titles won in the abovementioned 2 tournaments, the two most prestigious squash tournaments in the world, Nicol is probably the THIRD greatest female squash player of all time, who, at 3-3, is only behind Susan Devoy (4-8) and Michelle Martin (3-6).

The first Asian woman to be ranked world no.1

Became the youngest world champion in 2005, at age 22.

And all that achieved on the relatively small frame of 5′ 4″ and 50 kilograms!

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[Pic from The New Straits Times]

At 23 years of age, already she’s the greatest ever Malaysian athlete.

Who else comes close?

• She’s world no.1 in a global sport at senior level.
• She’s probably the first Malaysian ever to win a world title.
• She’s the first Malaysian ever to win her chosen sport’s most important titles in the same year (World Open and British Open)
• She’s the first Malaysian ever to successfully defend a world title at senior level (more…)

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No relation to Bubba Sparxxx I suppose.

Probably no woman has ever had more sex, with more men, in 24 hours than she did: 919 men to be exact. That means one man every 2 minutes, non stop, for one WHOLE DAY!!

A renowned American porn star, Ms Sparxxx achieved this feat on 16th October 2004, when she was 28, during Eroticon 2004. Eroticon is an annual porn festival in Warsaw, Poland. It became the world’s premier gangbanging event when Gangbang in the US fizzled out. Eroticon started in 2001 and is now in its 6th year.

The event in which she participated in and broke the record is officially known as the Third Annual World Gangbang Championship, which is one of the main events at Eroticon.

Did I say Warsaw? Yes, THE Warsaw, and THE Poland. Made you think about the previous Pope doesnt it.

She achieved the record in a gangbang competition, which is held live as a 3-woman competition. Objective of competition is to see which women can have sex with the most number of men in 24 hours. Her challengers were the previous record holder, Polish porn star Marianna Rokita and a Brazilian named Patricia.

The previous record by Ms Rokita was set in 2003, when she had sex with “only” 759 men in a day.

Ms Sparxxx’s real name is unknown, although I think it’s safe to say that her parents and extended family would prefer that be kept secret.

She’s married. I don’t know what kind of person he is, but for sure he’s not your regular type of guy. Here in Malaysia, a guy would kill someone who he sees taking his wife out to dinner out of jealousy. And what if that same guy finds out that his wife had 900 men in a day? I shudder to think of the consequences.

Some trivia about the contest:

• All the guys needed to pass an STD screening.
• Championship started at 9 am, finished at almost 9pm. That means it’s not really 24 hours, but a mere 12 hours. Incredible.
• The rules say that each sexual contact has to take more then 30 and the most 60 seconds.
• Ms Sparxxx lead right from the start but Patricia stayed very close. Difference between them never amounted to more than 5 sexual encounters. The old record was broken at 6:16 pm, when the jury recognized the 760th man, who had sex contact with Lisa. Two minutes later Patricia broke the old record too with her 760th partner.
• The contest finally ended at 8:47 pm, with the final score at 919 for Lisa and Patricia at 898. I cannot imagine what it must have felt like down there for them at that point. It must be so bad that even the thought of breaking the magical 1,000 mark was abandoned.
• Each sexual contact was carefully watched, rated and counted by referees.
• 6 cameras were used to record the event..

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• culturekiosque.com

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To compare, the following is the music video of “White Wedding”, one of his most well known songs:

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As reported by New Straits Times, 12th November 2006:

Sudar Marto of Kampung Duyong, Melaka, 105 married Ely Maryulianti Rahmat, 22 in September.

That’s a staggering 83-year age difference.

That is 12 years more than Che Mat Nor Musa and Wook Kundor’s 71-year age gap, although in this case, the groom is the older person.

Sudar, a businessman, has a 69-year-old wife who is bedridden, six sons, 19 grandchildren and two great grandchildren while Ely is a maid from Pekan Baru, Indonesia.

“We love each other very much and both our families did not object to the wedding,” said Sudar at their home in Kampung Permatang Duyong.

However, it was not love at first sight for them.

“I had known Ely for over a year before I realised that we were meant for each other,” said the smitten Sudar.

“She was working at my foster son’s house and we met quite often. I was attracted to her jovial yet gentle and soft-spoken nature. We got along very well together and I really missed her when we were not together.”

Recalling the afternoon in February when he proposed to her, Sudar said: “It happened at my foster son’s house. She was wearing a blue baju kurung and taking a break from her chores. I popped the question over tea and to my pleasant surprise, she immediately accepted my hand in marriage.”

That means she fancied him too and had already been thinking about getting hitched to him!

Sudar, however, admitted having butterflies in his stomach before he proposed.

If even a man of his worldly experience feels nervous, what more the rest of us?

“It did not come easy as I felt insecure at first because of the age gap. But I had a feeling that she loved me.”

At the time, rumours had begun circulating that he and Ely were spending a lot of time together.

So what drives a girl to agree to marry a man old enough to be her great-great-great grandfather?

Ely, who was quiet and shy when interviewed, said: “I did not marry him for his wealth. I love him and I want to care for him and his wife. The age difference is not a problem as it is the state of mind that matters.”

“I may be old in numbers but I am still young here,” Sudar said as he rested his palm on his chest.

Yes, that’s obvious, but how about lower down?

Sudar said he is a much happier man since he married Ely. “She is very mature and we understand each other very well. She is also very caring and entertaining.”

Ely’s chatty nature has not only won Sudar’s heart but also that of his first wife, Fatemah Mat.

Fatemah considered it Sudar’s good fortune to marry a young wife as she is no longer able to look into his needs.

“If I had been in good health I would not have allowed him to marry again. This union also benefits me as Ely takes good care of me.”

For a man his age, Sudar has excellent memory, hearing and eyesight. The secret to good health, Sudar said, is to eat the right food and be happy.

Sudar, who is a strict vegetarian, avoids cold drinks and takes a lot of traditional food supplements like tongkat ali, ubi jaga and mempoyang (juice from the boiled roots of plants) to keep his blood and body warm.

Sudar also spends his free time at his “mini zoo” at the back of his house where he rears goats, turkeys, geese, chickens and birds.

And to the big question about having children, Sudar said: “If it is fated, who are we to forego?”

Now, that’s a challenge to all of us younger guys.

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The fact that the son builds stars by rolling a big ball of junk around around does not, apparently, detract from the plotline or even make the idea of a story here unfeasible. Rolling around the world rolling up everyday objects in to a large ball of katamari results in a pile of junk large enough to make a star. The developers even decided to expand the story in the PSP game Me and My Katamari. The King and the Prince decide to go on holiday to a tropical island to take a break from all their star constructing.

However, as can be expected when dealing with the King of All Cosmos, everything goes wrong (how did this guy actually become King?) and his son has to go about rectifying things by building custom planets for the islands inhabitants, such as a tortoise and an ant. Arguments ensue, but eventually the 5cm wonder child is sent off the Sunflower Continent as that’s the best place to build planets from… Apparently. That’s without counting We Love Katamari, which has a self-referential plotline dealing with how the King reponds to his new-found fame on Earth.

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The North and South Yungas Roads in Bolivia make the road to my village look like a three lane highway.

This is a must-watch video about the road on the BBC’s Top Gear programme:

Starting high in the rarefied air of the Bolivian Andes, the steep and bumpy La Paz to Coroico road plunges down almost 3,600 meters on its spectacular 64-km path to the lush, sub-tropical Yungas and the sleepy town of Coroico. The narrow – occasionally very narrow – track hugs the walls of the sheer valley as it snakes its way beneath waterfalls and rocky overhangs. A fatal accident every fortnight is not uncommon on the Coroico road. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank dubbed the La Paz-to-Coroico route “the world’s most dangerous road.”

It was built in the 1930s by prisoners of war.

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