Annular Solar Eclipse

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大年初一

First touch around 4.34pm

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Chinese New Year

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GONG XI FA CAI

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White Gold Benz

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Registered at Abu Dhabi

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... most probably to much of MONEY

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Married WITHOUT Permission

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Pervez Chachar and his wife Humera Kambo sit in a makeshift room in police headquarters in Pakistan city of Karachi . They have been living in there for the past four months.

Their crime ?

They fell in love and married without their families' permission

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Plane vs. Geese

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US Airways taking off from La Guardia Airport, NY

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All 155 on board safely landed Hudson River

lost power in both engines, after striking a wall of geese

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Punch !!!

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Mind Flex

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Mind Flex - by Mattel , you control the action through hand, eye, and mind coordination.
The game features an obstacle course that you will use your brainwave activity to control. The game relies on NeuroSky's Technology and sensors that reside in the headset apparatus.

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One sensor is in the headset itself, against your forehead; two more clip onto your earlobes. The sensors measure theta-wave activity in your brain ; the waves are directly related to your level of focus and concentration. The sensors register the theta-wave activity, translate that activity into a signal, and transmit it as a radio frequency to the Mind Flex.

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The more theta-wave activity there is, the faster the little fan in the unit will spin. The speed the fan spins at, and therefore moves the ball, is based on how hard you concentrate. The faster the fan spins, the higher the ball goes along the Z axis. Turn a dial and move the ball along the X and Y axis.

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Obamobile

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George the Lobster

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Nicknamed " George the Lobster "

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.Estimated 140-year-old lobster

9 kgs

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Caught in the Atlantic Ocean. Sold for $100 (£66) to City Crab and Seafood , New York ; however they agreed to a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to let the lobster return to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Bra for Man

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Men's Premium Brassiere

is bouncing off the shelves at Japanese online retailer Rakuten

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Available in A85 and A90 sizes (33 to 35 inches)

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Rakuten is offering 3 colors : black, white & pink .

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What are you missing ?

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A MAN sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule. A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and continued to walk. A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work. The one who paid the most attention was a three-year-old boy. His mother tagged him along, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.In the 45 minutes the musician played, only six people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk at their normal pace. He collected US$32 (RM112). When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth US$3.5mil RM12.25mil). Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theatre in Boston and the seats average US$100 (RM350).

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This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organised by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour : Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognise the talent in an unexpected context? One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

by BENEDICT LEE

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Yukio Shige

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Tojinbo cliff , JAPAN

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YUKIO SHIGE

The retired policemean was walking alone along the 1.4km cliff daily,

since 2004 - the best known suicide spots.

His private mission to prevent people leaping, by persuading someone to stay alive.

When he spots a person standing on the edge of the cliff,

he talks to them gently and brings them back to his cafe,

where he serves them warm rice cake.

Reports say he have prevented 167 people from leaping.......

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Mouse - 40th Birthday

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M.O.U.S.E

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The computer mouse was the creation of Doug Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute in California, who needed a simple way of controlling their computers. The result was a carved wooden block mounted on wheels, with a long cable trailing out the back. One researcher nicknamed it a mouse, and the moniker stuck.

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The mouse made its debut at a presentation in San Francisco in 1968 to show off a working network computer system. The mouse was developed by Xerox during the 1970s, and the first commercial product was released in 1981 with the launch of the Xerox Star computer system.

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Mirror ... Mirror On The Wall

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360 degree mirror

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The gadget is made up of seven individual mirrored panels that wrap right around the body giving a perfect view. One main mirror is fixed to the wall and the others are attached to two extendable arms on either side. Each of the six inch arms have a concertina mechanism which helps them to bend around the person who stands in the middle. When the arms are opened out, the seven panels, which are four inches high, display every single angle of their head - including the very back. It means that its user can use both hands to style their hair while still being able to see how it looks all the way around. The mirror can them be folded back up like an accordion and into the main panel for storage. The 360 Mirror lights up and can be screwed to the wall or stuck on bathroom tiles with suction pads. It can be bought for RM 90 , distributing by Old Fashioned Values, based in Kansas City, US.


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Happy Lunar Birthday

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十二月 初九

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to myself ...........

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Express Wau Derailed

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KM208 Krambit-Kuala Lipis

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East coast-bound train to Tumpat

About 600 passengers had a narrow escape when the

locomotive and three carriages were derailed by a landslide - 4.30am

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Whale Shark Penang

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Teluk Bahang - PENANG.

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Rhincodon typus

7 m long - 2 tonnes

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Four fishermen had a surprise when an unexpected visitor swam into their nets,

near Pulau Kendi, 10 nautical miles off the coast of Teluk Bahang.
They had informed the state Department of Fisheries and would surrender the fish.
The whale shark is a filter feeding shark ;

slow-moving creature ;

playful character and poses no harm to humans

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AGAIN !!! Black-and-White Twins

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Frimley, southern England

1 in a million

Lauren - white ; Hayleigh - black

born in 2001

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Leah - white ; Miya - black
born on Nov 2008
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Black papa Dean Durrant

White mama Alison Spooner

Jumbo Hostel

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Arlanda - Stockholm , SWEDEN

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Former Pan Am jumbo jet - left inactive at Arlanda, Stockholm's main airport,

after its last owner went bankrupt !!.

Rescued by a Swedish entrepreneur, Oscar Dios - looking to expand his hostel business

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25 rooms ready for the scheduled opening on January 15
Rate from SEK300 ( RM135 )

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When you exit Arlanda Airport on the highway toward Stockholm, you'll see a Boeing 747 on your left ,

sits idle and lonely on a grass-covered mound just outside the airport perimeter

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Gaint Spider - Mechanical

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LONDON

15 metres high

37-tonnes

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Built by French company La Machine

Launch on Sept 2008

It has 50 axes of movement so all of it moves as you would expect an insect to move
The spider is made out of steel and poplar wood

It operated by 12 people strapped to its frame

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