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… 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 ...
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
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 ...
Gemma Howorth, 27 is probably the world’s top hand model. Her hands are featured in many magazines, including advertising campaigns for Escada, Rimmel and Fairy Liquid, beauty editorials in Vogue and Tatler, puts make up on Supermodels for Max Factor and prepares food for Sainsbury’s. She was 15 she was scouted by a top London ...
First made the airwaves around January 2010, it was an instant hit. This song seems to be everywhere now. During the office annual dinner, this song was sung thrice by different people. Apparently the album which contains the song was officially launched in June 2010, and has sold more than 1,000 copies less than a ...
The BBC reported on 8th November 2011 that a spot check inside a Mexican prison in Acapulco found that it amazingly had the following: - 19 prostitutes (not registered as inmates) & 6 female inmates living in the male-only part of the jail - 160 plasma TVs - 63 DVD players - 34 sound systems ...
The BBC reported on 8th November 2011 that Anna Grodzka, 57 used to be a man named Krzysztof, before having surgery to become a she in Thailand in 2010. She became Poland’s first transsexual Member of Parliament, and indeed the first ever transsexual MP in the history of Europe. At the time of writing she ...
Updated 22 November 2011 For the 2012 Olympics qualification, Malaysia is currently in the 3rd round, i.e. final 12 teams fighting for 3 automatic places and 1 playoff-decided place. The teams are divided into 3 groups of 4 teams each and play on a home-and-away format. Malaysia is the last South East Asian team left ...
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 ...
The Star reported today that the state Road Transport Department (Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan) has started taking in tenders for car plate numbers SAB1H to SAB9999H. Among the lot is probably the best ever car plate number for Sabah: SAB 4H. Unsurprisingly, it’s the registration number that’s most people are scrambling for. That, despite the negative ...
The Korowai (a.k.a Kolufo) are a people of southeastern Papua (western part of New Guinea island). Consisting about 3,000 individuals, they were isolated until 1970. They have been reported to practice ritual cannibalism up to the present day, although this might not be true of clansmen who’ve had frequent contact with outsiders. The TV show ...
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 ...
I installed a new aircon blower to replace the broken original some time back and somehow it did not seem to blow the same amount of air, but the shop insisted that there’s nothing wrong with it. At another car aircon specialist, I finally discovered the problem: somehow the blower fan was swapped with another ...
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 ...



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