Undressed

A man in Puchong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, had through the MCA Public Services and Complaints Department, appealed to his former girlfriend to stop circulating his nude pictures. The 44-year-old man had been living with the 42-year-old woman for three years and had decided to work oversea for a month because of financial problems. The woman however, thought it was an excuse to leave her. She reportedly had saved images of the man in the nude while both were communicating through the Internet using the webcam. In a case like this, have you for a moment, wondered if the woman had in any instances or circumstances, undressed herself too? In undressing others, aren't we undressing ourselves?

Double Death

Just a day or two ago, my colleagues were talking about two double deaths that had occured years back in our little town of Taiping. It seemed that a husband and wife had passed away within hours from each other and in another case, a husband had passed away and when the funeral was over and done with, the wife died. Life is perhaps full of coincidences. Just this morning, a colleague burst into the staffroom saying that the king was dead. I thought it was the king as in the king that rules or sits over a country but hey, it was Michael Jackson, the Strange One who was once rumoured to have been murdered and buried in the garden in Graceland. This time round, Michael Jackson is definitely dead. The write-ups about him in the Net and in the papers are extremely kind unlike those times when he was accused of playing around with young boys. People are rather kind and sympathetic to dead people, I suppose but that aside, there really are co-incidences in life. Farrah Fawcett, one of the original Charlie's angels had passed away too of cancer. There is a double death in Hollywood and in all cases of death, Hollywood or not, there is pain and suffering...

Remembering Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett...

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Transparency

No, the transparency that I meant here is not as in the transparency in law often hyped by the local media. And it is no wonder- lack of transparency often breeds corruption which brings devastating impact on people. But let, Transparency International, the global civil society organization do the job in bringing the people of the world together against corruption. Meanwhile, just hear this: A see-through glass or crystal frog , Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum is among the 15 species of creatures and plants found in Nangaritza Protected Forest in Ecuador. You could just see the guts of this frog -literally! In this world, there is some transparency yet!


Have fun viewing some of these transparent creatures....

This piece of Meat!

Jean Piaget, the Swiss philosopher and natural scientist, well known for his work studying children gave the world Piaget's Four levels of development. Children from age 2 to 7 are in the preoperational stage where magical thinking predominates. Magical thinking, I suppose, do not just confine to children. Something in this world ought to be as magical to both the kids and the adults. Just like this piece of meat! Have fun!

Easy Money

Perhaps, you have received e-mails or SMS about a stash of bank notes hidden somewhere which you could have if you'd only pay some processing fees. Perhaps, you have been offered at attractive prices, special chemical which would wash off the black dye that had been used to dye genuine US notes. The money purportedly belonging to former Nigerian dictator General Abacha are said to have been dyed to avoid their detection by Customs officers. When easy money is offered to you, take note! It could be the work of conmen. The local paper just reported about The Black Money scam or The Nigerian 419 scam. Easy money doesn't really come easy! Don't say you have not be warned!

Great Miracles

I watched the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille's motion picture about the life of an adopted Egyptian prince who became the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves, The Ten Commandments, in DVD many years back and now what remained etched in my mind was Charlton Heston, playing the lead role of Moses, parting the Red Sea which won an Oscar for Special Effects. Today, when a friend sent me photos of a freezing sea, I wonder what if Moses had freezed the Red Sea instead. Perhaps, then, the Hebrew slaves would not have to go all the way down to walk on the mushy seabed which probably would have fishes and crustaceans wriggling and gasping for air there! But come to think about it,maybe that probably isn't a good idea. Freezing the sea would not be as spectacular as parting the sea. Great miracles must look impossible! If the sea had been freezed instead of being parted, nobody'd probably notice. Don't you think the miracle of snow falling each winter, turning the world a glorious white has gone unnoticed since time memorial?

Frozen Sea!

Riddles!

What are these? You'd love these Riddles in the Sand as these famous Nazca lines are called. The Nazca lines are giant ground drawings etched across 30 miles of gravel-covered desert near Peru's southern coast. I remember reading about these lines in the 70s in Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods?- a book that underestimates the abilities of ancient peoples and attributes their works to visiting extraterrestrials. Erich of course attributes theNazca lines not to the Incas but to the extraterrestrials whom he says probably made the lines using aircrafts. If you were to see the antics of an 18-year-old who secretly painted a 60ft drawing on the roof of his parents' £1million mansion in Berkshire, England, you'd probably believe and agree with Erich that man indeed is incapable of producing the Nazca lines. As people say, making an impression counts and you'd know what I mean if you were to see the work of the 18 year old...Can you identify which are the Nazca lines and which is this modern man's handiwork?

Which of the following is not a Nazca line? You don't need the diagram above to help you!

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Monster Mystery

An unidentified creature was allegedly washed ashore dead on a beach near Montauk, a hamlet in New York in July 2008. The creature was said to be big, bloated, beaked, and rather gross-looking and caused quite a stir, with CNN and Fox News covering the story and it became a hot topic for discussion in the Internet. An unidentified woman claimed that the animal was just the size of a cat and there were also speculation that the creature was just a turtle without its shell or some kind of mutant from an experiment. Cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman came up with the name, Montauk Monster for the creature and the name stuck. Presently, another strange creature has been reported to have been washed up on a Long Island beach and there has been talk about the Montauk Monster again. An unidentified creature will always been considered a monster!

Nude Photos

Elizabeth Wong the Malaysian assemblyman for Bukit Lanjan was in the limelight for some revealing photos early this year. Nude photos of her were said to have been taken without her knowledge when she was sleeping in her own bedroom and when the photos appeared in the Internet, she had offered to resign as exco member and assemblyman for Bukit Lanjan. The Selangor state government had however rejected her resignation letter and now that she is working again, a new set of revealing photos had reportedly reappeared in the Internet. City deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm I Datuk Abdul Samah Mat had said police were not aware of the new pictures and would not pursue the matter until a fresh police report is lodged. Talking about revealing photos, I suppose they can make or break a person. The calendar photo of the late Marilyn Monroe, the famous American film star, stretching out in the buff on a red velvet taken by Tom Kelly probably made both photographer and star famous and Playboy boss, Hugh Hefner fabulously rich. Nude photos attract the masses, I suppose and posted here are some which may attract many and which I find rather suggestive, especially the ones featuring toe-sucking or finger-sucking models. The one where the cute baby takes a bite of a piece of biscuit is not as obnoxious as the last snapshot. The former does not show too much flesh unlike the latter which though has most part of the body well covered, nevertheless become rather offensive what with the private part dangling like the sword of Damocles . However, if you were to be hypnotized by the model's huge innocent-looking eyes which stare rather hungrily at you, you may be led to think of the biscuit as a tard too hard and longer too than the usual biscuit, and then the photo may start to bring about a different kind of connotation. In this way then, any photo may make or break a person . If you have a mind, your mind will have to decide.

Nude photos just for you!

A Traveller's Tale: All's Well!

All's Well That Ends Well is not just a proverb or a play by William Shakespeare. For all you know, it could be a Hong Kong movie. On Sunday, that was a day after our escapade to Kuala Sepetang, Mau Wei, Hoi Thien, Eng Lai and I went to Taiping Sentral to catch a movie. Mau Wei had insisted on watching the Hong Kong movie starring Sandra Ng and Louis Koo Tin Lok, All's Well Ends Well 2009 and so, we settled for this silly comedy. There used to be a Hong Kong movie, All's Well Ends Well 1992 staring Stephen Chow, Maggie Cheung and the late Leslie Cheung and All's Well Ends Well 1997 starring Stephen Chow again, Raymond Wong and Francis Ng and the movies, I suppose were hits with the young crowds. The latest movie must have brought back sweet memories and for ten dollars, that'd probably be worth it. And to add to that, Hoi Thien had treated us to some claypot rice at a coffee shop in town... All's well really ended well!




Mau Wei, Hoi Thien and Eng Lai having claypot rice...

A side dish of bean sprouts...

Clay pot rice...

Time to go!