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There were two total lunar eclipses in 2011, the first on 15th June. The best view was definitely the one in December. From Kota Kinabalu What you could see if you were on the moon during the eclipse [from a painting by Lucien Rudaux] Lunar eclipse from moon This seems to be the best viewing ... 
Leon Reid, 32 of London is a career criminal: an expert at breaking into houses – successfully burgling 70, and never had to force his way in. He was finally caught via DNA evidence. Before he started his 5 year sentence he wrote a checklist on how NOT to be burgled, and handed it over ...
It never ceases to amaze me that from a primary school in a rural area in Sabah I somehow ended up at a prestigious public school in the United Kingdom in the space of 6 years. SK Rangalau Baru (nearer Tamparuli than Kiulu); apparently this satellite image was taken in 2003: Felsted School, Essex: A ...
The Star reported on 3rd June 2011 that for defaming magazine publisher BluInc Media back on 25th January, social activist and PKR VP Nurul Izzah Anwar’s PolSec Fahmi Fadzil had had to do 100 apology tweets over 3 days. If not, he would’ve been hauled to court. That’s probably a first, not just in Malaysia, ...
My brother was invited to an all-expenses paid weekend to watch the FIA Formula One World Championship’s Petronas Malaysia Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit last weekend. He said he’ll be at the grandstand, for he’s in possession of a RM2,000 ticket. It seemed to be a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon, sipping ...
Probably everybody with a handphone in Sabah, and even beyond, got the following SMS yesterday: Msg fr fren: pls ask as many to pray for Sabah n Kota Kinabalu. Just now along the coast of Putatan, all the siput surfaced. It’s the animals reaction to the coming disaster. This siput always hide beneath the sand. ...
I wrote earlier that when it comes to celebrities, the marriage of Rudolph Valentino & Jean Acker on 6th November 1919 should be the shortest – it reportedly lasted a mere 6 hours. Well, how about the rest of us? It was reported in a Saudi Arabian newspaper in 2003 that a man divorced his ... 
On 16th January 2012, Ngidi Msungubana, 25 was bitten to death by a shark while surfing at Second Beach in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape province, South Africa (Eastern Cape). The beach faces the Indian Ocean. It has been called “the world’s deadliest” due to this being the sixth death since 2007 due to sharks ... 
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922), who has been described as one of the most influential people in history. He was awarded the first US patent for the telephone on 7th March 1876. 3 days later came the famous first phone call, when, from his Boston lab, he uttered “Mr. ...
Pekeliling yang paling ditunggu-tunggu oleh warga perkhidmatan awam Malaysia, iaitu Pelaksanaan Saraan Baru Perkhidmatan Awam (SBPA) bagi Pegawai Perkhidmatan Persekutuan telah dikeluarkan secara rasmi hari ini melalui Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bilangan 11 tahun 2011, berkuatkuasa 1 Januari 2012. Jika anda tidak dapat memuat-turun (download) pekeliling tersebut melalui laman …
Jenna O’Grady Donley, 25, of Sydney had completed her 7-year study in veterinary science at the University of Sydney, and was due to graduate with first-class honours next week. Off her Fa …
Destined to be the most popular Sabahan song of 2011. First heard early August 2011. As of the time of writing, a video of the song uploaded to youtube on 17th August 2011 has garnered more than 100,000 views
Dominique Boivin (born 1952) is a French dance choreographer. His partner is a five-ton excavator – his body gets in touch with the ground, now this is truly dirty dancing. The machine’s movements are preprogrammed to move in time to classical music. Hence this is a truly bizarre man-machine dance duet. He’s been promoting the ...
On 15th September 2011, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, in his Malaysia Day speech, announced that several draconian laws including the ISA are to be repealed under major civil liberty reforms. So you could guess what would be the country’s newspaper headlines the next day. Sabah’s top newspaper, Daily Express, also got in ... 
On 1st November 2006 it was reported that Jackson Pollock’s “No.5, 1948″ was sold for USD140 million. Inflation-adjusted to March 2011′s it’s worth USD155.3 million (about half a billion ringgit). It was reportedly sold by media mogul David Geffen to Mexican financier David Martinez. So two Davids doing good business here. The price exceeds the ...
The moment Bo Tiza Disimon was announced as the 2011 Unduk Ngadau [starts 0:35]: Invariably the reaction’s cool, demure and very Huminodun-like. Compare that with the following: The moment Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana was announced as Miss Universe 1999 [starts 2:14]: The moment Riyo Mori of Japan was announced as Miss Universe 2007 [starts 1:00]: ...
Delifrance Sandwich World Cup claims to be the premier sandwich-making competition of the world. In its latest edition on Valentine’s Day 2012 held at the Paris School of Bakery and Pastry in France, the winner is Malaysian chef Darren Chin, 32, a graduate of Le Cordon Blue Paris culinary school. His entry was a pork ... 
Guerrillero Heroico (Heroic Guerrilla Fighter) is a photograph of the the charismatic and controversial Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, then 31 years old, wearing his black beret. It was snapped by Alberto Korda (1928-2001) on 5th March 1960 in Havana, Cuba during a memorial service for victims of the freighter La Coubre’s explosion at Havana’s port; ... 
…or scariest runway. Paro Airport is the only international airport in Bhutan, located 6 km away from Paro town, in a deep valley on the bank of the Paro river at an elevation of 2,200 m. It is surrounded by Himalayan peaks as high as 5,500m. It is probably the world’s most difficult airport to ...
Pekeliling yang paling ditunggu-tunggu oleh warga perkhidmatan awam Malaysia, iaitu Pelaksanaan Saraan Baru Perkhidmatan Awam (SBPA) bagi Pegawai Perkhidmatan Persekutuan telah dikeluarkan secara rasmi hari ini melalui Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bilangan 11 tahun 2011, berkuatkuasa 1 Januari 2012. Jika anda tidak dapat memuat-turun (download) pekeliling tersebut melalui laman …
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