BBC: Shark 'kills swimming kangaroo'

This is old, but it was just so awesome I just had to put it up. From BBC: Shark 'kills swimming kangaroo':

A kangaroo met an unlikely death after it bounded into the surf in southern Australia and was mauled by a shark, according to eyewitnesses.

Daniel Hurst, who says he saw the incident while out walking his dogs, was accused of being drunk or on drugs after he told the story to friends.

But the emergence of a second witness and the discovery of mangled kangaroo remains appear to confirm his story.

Experts say kangaroos will take to the sea only if they are ill or in danger.

Mr Hurst said he was walking along Torquay beach in Victoria when he saw the marsupial behind scrubland next to the dunes.

"It just headed down towards the water and in it went," he told Australia's ABC News.

"There's a bit of a rip in that area so... the kangaroo could have been dragged out, but I could still see its head, and that's when the shark leapt out of the water on its side.

"The kangaroo disappeared after that. I stayed around for a while, just very interested, and hoping the shark jumped again, but it never eventuated."

Ha. Awesome. It's like a bad slasher movie. And of course the South Australian man is immediately accused of being on drugs or drunk. It just makes sense.

When Books Go Wrong

I've always been very skeptical about miracle cures. My mom and sisters, on the other hand, believe it everytime someone says, "It's great! It really works!". Nevermind the advent of the Internet (and the consequential introduction of Google, that lovely tool) that provides information at your fingertips and allows you to check out the research done for yourself.

So obviously, when The Secret suddenly became the most talked about book there is, I didn't believe it. I tried reading a little bit, and I watched a little bit of the DVD, and I came to the conclusion that, "Holy crap. I can't believe people are buying this. It's ridiculous!"

The main tenet of the book is that, if you focus on what you want, you'll get it. That begs the question then of the more than 25,000 people who die of starvation every day (Source: United Nations). Are they just not focusing their minds on getting food?

Nevermind that. I'm glad at least that some Malaysians have common sense and agree with me. I've always believed that Malaysia is a country of intellectual extremes - you're either ridiculously close-minded or open-minded and intelligent (like me. Ehem.)

Suffice to say that I agree with K.W. Wong in "snide comments" regarding The Secret. Seriously, people. Come off it.

What I'm talking about: The Star: No secret here.

I'm putting on weight and I don't care

Because I'm off to the jungle for 5-weeks in exactly 10 days.

My Carbon Footprint

As calculated by carbonfootprint, my carbon footprint is 13.258 tonnes of CO2 per annum. It's deplorable. Here's my report:


What's your carbon footprint?

It's not Malaysia

From BBC: Swedish theme park ride collapses:

Dozens of fun-seekers have been injured after a theme park ride collapsed in the city of Gothenburg, in western Sweden.

Officials said around 20 people were seriously hurt in the accident, which happened at the Liseberg theme park.

Several people were thrown out of the swinging Rainbow ride in Tuesday evening's accident, police said.

See, if something like this happened in Malaysia, people would go, "Ya of course la... what do you expect?" The lack of support that Malaysians have for Malaysia just appalls me. It's like Malaysians have to work three times as hard as foreigners for other Malaysians to accept their success. You should be ashamed of yourselves.