Bangkok Roadside Personals
Lonely Swede looks for love through graffiti art, along Bangkok’s Rachadapisek Road.
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Archive for Odd/Amazing
Queuing For A Discount Of 10 Cents!
This over-half-mile long queue outside a Shell Petrol Pump along Changi Road was for a 10 cents discount in the price of petrol.
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Simeulue, Indonesia’s Miracle Island
Amidst the news of death and devastation caused by last Sunday’s earthquake, there are a few miracles too. Once such story is that of the Simeulue island (known in the surfing community for its world class waves), which despite being just 25 miles from the epicentre, was miraculously almost untouched.
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World’s Cleverest Woman, but unemployed for 2 years!
Daniela Simidchieva, has an IQ of 200, 5 Master degrees (in Economics, Education, Sociology, as well as Electrical and Industrial engineering), but has never been employed for more than 250 Bugarian Levs (approx. US$166) a month!
World’s Worst Job
Being a sewer (wastewater) diver is possibly the worst job in the world. Came across this post whilst reading Jeff’s blog.
..Divers have to periodically head in to the Mexico City sewer system to keep various pieces of equipment in working order. The Washington Post has a neat story about the four men who keep the crap flowing (literally)..
[Photo from the article on The Washington Post.
A blogger with a lot of guts
It takes a lot of guts to actually sit (and pose for photos) on the edge of a cliff with a 600+ metres (almost vertical) drop.. That’s exactly what Gerður did, when she visited Preikestolen earlier this month.
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I Won 4 Million Euros!
I received an email from one Daniel Jones stating that I have won 4 Million Euros Read the rest of this entry »
How to survive a fall from 33,000 feet?
On 26th January 1972, JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight attendant, Vesna Vulovi?, survived a 33,000 feet (10,160m) fall … without a parachute!
Today is 9th August, 2004. So why am I talking about this now?
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Nigerian “killer” phone numbers
I just read a BBC article that reports of that “rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain “killer numbers” then one will die immediately.“