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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 … 
… or rock stars parents wouldn’t mind to be role models for their kids. Bruce Dickinson (born 1958) is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Joining the band in 1981 to replace Paul Di’Anno, he gained worldwide fame, becoming one of the most acclaimed heavy metal vocalists in ... 
Spotted end of July 2011 at Kepayan Ridge, Kota Kinabalu 
Quite recently my 2 kitchen windows had been rather popular with sparrows to sit on and poop. I noticed that they’d sit on top of the windows’ frames. So I stuck some solar powered “strawmen̶ 1; (actually cartoon characters people normally put in cars) on the inside of the windows, in the hope that they’d scare ...
Also reportedly the first Sabah political party to have their own online radio station. Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) is launching Radio SabahTV on 9th July 2011. Atama is a DJ there. According to their media statement, it contains, amongst others, video clips, talk shows & discussions on current issues. There will be live radio broadcasts ...
Here is my list of The Most Beautiful Kadazan / Dusun Women Alive (MBKWA). Currently there are 5 in the list. Obviously there are many more of them, but IMHO these are the most outstanding examples of the Kadus Beauty. It remains to be seen whether a contestant at the 2011 Unduk Ngadau would be ... 
Towards late February, my son told me that he has to do a model house, to be sent latest by the end of that week. Then he showed me the school textbook, which shows how to do it. We then did a simple one, but he said it’s not good enough, and that a classmate ... 
It was reported by the Daily Mail on 29th January 2012 that Crystal Warren, 42, a retail manager from Brighton, UK said that she has slept with more than 1,000 men. She’s not a prostitute, but rather she’s addicted to sex, which she blames on her parents’ divorce when she was 5. Now I am ...
While performing at a Jewish orthodox synagogue in Slovakia, violinist Lukas Kmit was interrupted by a mobile phone ringing, that very familiar Nokia jingle. After pausing and giving the guilty party an annoyed glare, Kmit did the unexpected: continuing his performance with an on-the-spot improvisation of that ringtone, earning him applause from the appreciative crowd. ...
Updated 20 Jan 2012, based on The Star Online posted 5.38pm The Star revealed that the winner is a retiree in his 70s, who worked out the winning combination by “diligently studying all the numbers that had been drawn before to find out the trend, then creating number combinations to bet on.” So there’s a ...
Back in 1990, Barack Obama, then 28, was elected the first black president of Harvard Law Review. In an interview with the New York Times that year, he said he planned to spend up to 3 years working in law and then go into politics or community work. In 1991, he presented a Black History ...
Some banknotes in my collection – I believe all of these are still available for purchase online at very reasonable prices. Libya’s 1 dinar banknote, issued in the 1980s, with Muammar Gaddafi on the obverse. Apart from this, the other banknote featuring Gaddafi is the 50 dinar bill. After the 2011 revolution with overthrew him, ... 
The Daily Mail (UK) reported on the 30th November 2011 that the worst Christmas tree in Britain was planted in the middle of the hamlet of Dunsdale, Cleveland, in the north-east. It had been in a sorry state in its pot since a year ago but was somehow still planted by the local council as ... 
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 ... 
TIME is allowed to be sold openly in Malaysia. But if the authorities deem that a photo is too risque, the following will happen: Of course the uncensored version is easily seen by merely typing “time october 2010″ on google image search. 
Sometime in September 2011. The bunting did not even bother to mention the month of September, it simply assumes that the reader would understand that “30″ means “30 September” and not “30 October”, thus saving precious space while keeping the letters big so as to be easily visible.
Joey has worked for a hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, USA for 3 years when he decided that he’s had enough and wanted to quit. So he delivered his resignation letter accompanied by a 19-piece carnival band, which promptly started playing when he handed over the letter to his stunned boss. He recorded the entire ...
According to Jim Murray’s 2012 Whisky Bible, the World Whisky of the Year is Old Pulteney, a 21-year-old single malt distilled in Scotland. Jim Murray is a leading whisky expert. The whisky scored 97.5%, a record-equalling score. It’s matured in American oak casks and bottled at Pulteney distillery, Wick, Caithness, Scotland. Murray tried more than ... 
…or “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”. The Voynich manuscript could very well be the most unreadable book in the world. Created in the early 15th century in possibly northern Italy, it was discovered in 1912 inside a library in Rome. It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid M. Voynich, who purchased it in 1912. ...
It was reported in October 2011 that a Ford Focus, a family car was subjected to a 120mph (192 kmh) crash test into a solid concrete wall. The usual crash test speed is a mere 40mph, but the car show Fifth Gear upped the ante 3 times over. A winch catapulted the car forward, smashing ...
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