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Raw cell phone video captured on 131108. Three white tigers mauled a Malaysian to death in Singapore's zoo on Thursday after the man jumped into their enclosure, a zoo official said.

Forwarded via email :

Fish skin is made from PE(plastic) tube,meat is made of some kind of jelly or gelatin. It has fishy smell. Boiled with hot water for sometime and the PE bursts, exposing fish meat. This fish has no bone and the color would not change after cooking a long time. These fish are also sold in flour-coated form.

Made In China Ikan Bilis.

Finger art.

Sushi art.

Forwarded email from Dad. I'm not sure how true this is.

The first 3 digits of barcode 690, 691, 692 is made in CHINA.

471 is Made in Taiwan.

Barcodes and country names

00-09 USA & Canada
30-37 France
43-44 Germany
59 Japan
50 UK
76 Swiss
471 Taiwan
690-692 China
888 Singapore

After 6 beers

After 2 glasses of wine

After 2 bottles of wine - shared of course

After too many margaritas

After 3 Kamikazes

After 7 rum & cokes

After 1 large purple haze

After 3 martinis

After 1 bottle of tequila

The NEW Daylight Robbery

Courtesy of Mark Wong.

Jessie forwarded me an interesting email today. Is this really possible?

Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney was transformed into the Cappuccino Coast. Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards' centre,in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales. One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away.

Tom Woods, 12, emerges from the clouds of foam after deciding that surfing was not an option.

It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades. Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents which cause the water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are carried below the surface by the current towards the shore. As a wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam. The foam "surfs" towards shore until the wave "crashes", tossing the foam into the air.

The foam was so thick it came all the way up to the surf club. "It's the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender," explained a marine expert. "The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes." In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances which form into bubbles. As for 12-year-old beachgoer Tom Woods, who has been surfing since he was two, riding a wave was out of the question. "Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping about in that stuff," he said. "It was quite cool to touch and it was really weird. It was like clouds of air - you could hardly feel it."

Children play among all the foam which was been whipped up by cyclonic conditions.

Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs car wash systems. Bill's company installed a car wash system in Frederick, Md. Now, understand that these are complete systems, including the money changer and money taking machines.

The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week.

He went as far as to accuse Bill's employees of having a key to the boxes and ripping him off. Bill just couldn't believe that his people would do that, so they setup a camera to catch the thief in action. Well, they did catch him on film!

That's a bird sitting on the change slot of the machine.

The bird had to go down into the machine, and back up inside to get to the money!

That's three quarters he has in his beak! Another amazing thing is that it was not just one bird -- there were several working together. Once they identified the thieves, they found over $4000 in quarters on the roof of the car wash and more under a nearby tree.

Dad went back to Penang for a couple of days. Here's what he calls, The Best Chef In Penang.

Dad forwarded me this email. Now that petrol prices are getting very unpredictable, I hope these tips will help you get the best value for your gas.

Someone who has been in petroleum pipeline business for about 31 years and is currently working for the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline in San Jose, CA wrote the following information:

We deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period from the pipe line; one day it's diesel, the next day it's jet fuel and gasoline. We have 34 storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons. Here are some tricks to help you get your money's worth.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money.

So far I've only tried tip no. 4.  It'll give you tremendous satisfaction (probably all in the mind) just standing there waiting and waiting for the tank to fill up. 

Jessie sent me a photo of Butterfly Man...

Fantastic pet to own!

Fantastic comic strip from Kontraband.com ! Had me laughing like crazy.

Left, bad cop. Right, good cop. Middle... fat cop. 

Dad sent me a forwarded email regarding the Traffic Police's latest speed trap. The Dustbin Speed Trap. Virtually undetectable. Fake or not, decide for yourself.

I think I'll just stop by the side and shove the entire dustbin into my car. The camera alone is already worth a lot of money.

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Timothy has something interesting :

Hey Chris, the camera is real but don't think they use it here in SG. Look at the 3rd pic, the car and road doesn't look local. :) 

DHL - 1 , Vios - 0

Nasi Briyani... anyone?

And they don't drink goat's milk. They drink Pepsi (see if you can spot it). 

Waikian just sent me this MTV link. The description is just "Ma Po Chinese Dude Singing Rap". Go watch it, it's funny.

Shanghai's Traffic Police latest toy.

My girl just forwarded me an email with lots of weird inventions (I really don't know where she gets them). If you want the whole thing, just leave your email address in the comments box, be nice and she'll forward it to you while she's at work :D

My favourites ...

Careful not to bring the wrong one home.

Ok, I'm straight. :D 

The power of Photoshop.

F400 Mercedes Carving Concept Car.

Wow. Absolutely slick!