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Divorce Settlement - Cut the house in two

Tuesday 14 October 2008 @ 4:04 pm

Looks like in a divorce settlement a Cambodian couple want everything to be divided into half - even the house. The guy found some of his relatives and saws to cut the wooden house in half. The ex-wife is reported to be living in the standing half of the house they once shared.

The 42-year-old Cambodian man, Moeun Sarim, found himself not getting along well with his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy, in their 18-year wedlock.

Vat said that the divorce was prompted by her husband’s jealousy about her alleged relationship with a policeman in the village. She denied having an extramarital affair. (source)




Grandma gave birth to triplet

Thursday 26 June 2008 @ 5:54 pm

This is not a scientific achievement as was in this case when a grandmother gave birth to her own grandchild.

An Australian grandmother has given birth to naturally conceived triplets. Janelle Perry, a week short of turning 47 years, gave brith to three boys by caesarian section at Mater Mothers’ Hospital in the east coast city of Brisbane on 19th June 2008.

Newcomers Cooper, Kyle and Jordan join the five more brothers and sisters including four children in their 20s from an earlier marriage and a four-year-old daughter, Rebecca, with her husband Robert.

“Rebecca kept telling me in November, ‘You’ve got three babies in your tummy, Mummy — one for me, one for Dad and one for you’,” Perry said.

“I thought, ‘No way’ and told her, ‘There’s no babies in there’. Then, in December, I found out I was pregnant.”

David Molloy from the Queensland Fertility group said the chance of having identical triplets at the age of 46 was “probably the same as winning Gold Lotto.” (Yahoo news)




Do the Screensavers save your screen these days?

Tuesday 24 June 2008 @ 1:07 pm

Gone are the days when screensavers save your monitors when old CRTs are replaced by flat panel screens. In an effort to save environment an Australian company, Telstra, has decided to remove all animated logo screesavers from the company laptops and computers and replaced with a black, power-saving screensaver.

By removing 36,000 screensavers, they claim to cut 646 tons of CO2, which would be like removing 140 cars from Australian roads for one full year. (source)

Well, it sure is another simple method to make your PC greener if you haven’t already done so.




Monkey god chairs a technology and managemnt school

Tuesday 10 June 2008 @ 5:31 pm

Do you do business in the name of god? I used to hear a businessperson considers clients as a God. But this school is teaching something else to its students!

A god that too a monkey god is named a chairman in a ‘Techonology and Management’ school in India.

Hanuman, the popular god known for his strength and valor, has been named official chairman of the recently opened Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in northern India, a school official said Saturday.

The position comes with an incense-filled office, a desk and a laptop computer. Four chairs will be placed facing the empty seat reserved for the chairman and all visitors must enter the office barefoot, said Vivek Kangdi, the school’s vice chairman. (yahoo)

The god run school, Sardar Bhagat Singh College, is located in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, awards bachelor’s degrees in engineering and management.

I don’t know how technology, engineering, and management go together with mythology. I hope the school knows it better in its one year of existence.




143-page love letter — to an imaginary lover

Friday 6 June 2008 @ 6:57 pm

A bachelor, Harish Kondakkuli (30), of South India has written a 143-page long love letter. The problem is he is not in love so he had to write it to an imaginary lover to enter the Guinness Book of Records.

The letter, in Kannada (local language), begins with ‘Preethiya Abhisarika’ (Dear Abhisarika) and ends with ‘Mathe ninna nireeksheyalli kanasu marida huduga’ (Awaiting you…).

Harish, an employee of BSNL, claims he penned his ‘masterpiece’ in leisure to popularize letter writing. He started writing on Valentine’s Day this year and stopped on May 25.

“I used to write one or two pages daily after 7 pm. I am used to writing as I had written stories when I was in college and later wrote to several newspapers and magazines,’’ said Harish.

Since the common code word of lovers is 143 (I Love You), this love letter contains 143 pages, its length is 143 feet (papers are in 12X10 size). The total lines are 4,136 and total words 33,100.

Whether he enters Guinness or not, this eligible bachelor is hoping this love letter will find him a bride.




Got the look?

Wednesday 4 June 2008 @ 6:27 pm

These ladies are competing in a TV show “She’s Got The Look”. You won’t believe, all of them are 35 or older.

Looking at these ladies I feel like humming the Roxette song “She’s got the look”

Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer, she’s a juvenile scam.
Never was a quitter, tasty like a raindrop,
she’s got the look.

Heavenly bound cause heaven’s got a number when she’s spinning me around,
kissing is a colour. Her loving is a wild dog,
she’s got the look.

She’s got the look.
She’s got the look.
What in the world can make a brown-eyed girl turn blue.
When everything I’ll ever do I’ll do for you
and I go: la la la la la she’s got the look.

Fire in the ice naked to the t-bone is a lover’s disguise.
Banging on the head drum, shaking like a mad bull,
she’s got the look.

Swaying to the band, moving like a hammer she’s a miracle man.
Loving is the ocean, kissing is the wet sand,
she’s got the look.

And she goes: na na na na na na na na.




28 yr. old twin sue for mix-up

Sunday 1 June 2008 @ 9:33 pm

A Spanish twin, separated from her family for 28 years, discovered that she was living with the wrong mother because of a mix-up at the maternity hospital.

She discovered her identical twin sister in 2001when she was mistaken for someone else in a shop. The sisters confirmed that they were born in 1973 on the same day in the same hospital. The DNA test also showed that they were identical twins.

The woman is suing the Canary Island health services for 3 million euros ($4.7 million) for emotional trauma, El Pais newspaper reported. “I wish I’d never found out about it,” her lawyer quoted her as saying. (yahoo news)

It is told that her sister was brought up alongside another girl, believing they were twins. Looks like another suing is on the way from the assumed twin sister.




19 years old mayor of Oklahoma town

Thursday 29 May 2008 @ 1:43 am

A University of Oklahoma freshman trounced 70 year-old Hershel McBride to become the mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, making it the first city in the nation to be governed by a self-admitted gamer. Like most of the teenagers John Tyler Hammons, 19, digs rock music, fast cars, video games and rock ‘n’ roll.

Hammons is moving out of a dorm and back in with his parents as he prepares to be sworn in next week as mayor of this 38,000-person eastern Oklahoma city Muskogee.

“Politics stop at the door,” Hammons said. “If someone wants to talk politics, I will literally leave the office and leave the building if I have to. In this office, it needs to be Muskogee-oriented.”

He is aiming to become the governor of Oklahoma one day. (News and photo)




Mp3 player behind student’s death?

Wednesday 21 May 2008 @ 10:33 am

A 23-year-old student killed when a helicopter crash-landed on him in the middle of the street and the blame goes to the technology.

Isaiah Otieno, from Kenya, was crossing a street in a quiet Cranbrook, B.C. neighbourhood last week when a helicopter struggling to stay airborne suddenly dropped on top of him. It is reported that Otiena was wearing ear or headphones and may not have heard the downward spiralling chopper.

This was not a sole incident of accidents of people listening music on street. (Canada press)

Is banning mp3 players in street a solution?




Mac Notebook Theft: Happy Ending

Monday 12 May 2008 @ 12:53 pm

In what appears like a sci-fi movie scene a woman could catch her laptop thieves with the help of a webcam and remote access software.

It is reported that the victim logged on to her computerremotely using the Back to My Mac program and discovered that someone was shopping online with her computer. She activated the Webcam and waited for the guys to appear in front of the monitor. When the suspected thieves appear infront of the laptop she took photos of them and turned them over to the White Plains Police Department.

Police arrested to two men, Edmon Shahikian of Katonah and Ian Frias of the Bronx. Police said they retrieved about $5,000 worth of electronics, including two laptops, two flat-screen televisions, two iPods, gaming equipment, and DVDs taken from the victim’s home. (news source)

The laptop owner played spy on the thief and was able to assemble a full profile of information on the stolen laptop user as he signed into a hookup sites, read his Gmail messages and shopped in eBay. She discovered his birth date, mother’s maiden name, email address, Comcast IP address, and were able to use Photo Booth to take a snapshot that was clear enough to read the lettering of his tattoos.




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