How certain facts can be twisted...

by yours truly or just about anybody. So do not believe everything you read in the internet!

I have used some hard facts on China for this purpose...

There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nations combined.

Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second...

which explains why...

In the past 15 years, China has moved from 14th place to 2nd place in the world in published scientific research articles;
China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire globe;
At the end of March 2011, China accumulated US$3.04 trillion in foreign currency reserves - the largest stockpile on the entire globe;

To put in perspective...

China has 19% of the world’s population, but consumes:
... 53% of the world's cement;
... 48% of the world's iron ore;
... 47% of the world's coal;
... and the majority of just about every major commodity.

In 2010, China produced 11 times more steel than the United States;
Set new world record: China made and sold 18 million vehicles in 2010;
China currently has the world’s fastest train and the world’s largest high-speed rail network;
China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power; and
China currently controls more than 90% of the total global supply of rare earth elements.

There seems to be some co-relation between pigs and brain gain, but if you believe in re-incarnation, China is the worst place for pigs. Smoking cigarettes as glorified by Marlborough Man and Camel helped USA to be number one nation, now China is smoking more than ever to take over the status from them!

Note: please don't twist this further and then blame me for misinformation!

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Being faithful to one car...

is already difficult, to have driven it for 45 years and clocked close to 3,000,000 miles is definitely a world record. Many vintage car owners have much older cars than him but kept in the garage most of the time and taken for rides occasionally. We have a 1961 and a 1966 Sunbeam Alpine which are off the road for a number of years. To just claim ownership without the mileage is like the joke about the Indian who was to celebrate 50th wedding anniversary by announcing to guests at a function in London, which had him as a guest speaker about his long marriage, that he will be bringing home his wife from Mumbai since he left her there 25 years ago!

(Simon Templer aka The Saint would have been proud of him)

'Irv Gordon from East Patchogue, New York, and his 1966 Volvo P1800, have completed over 2.9 million miles together. If you're after an arbitrary comparison to offer some perspective, that's around six round-trips to the moon, or over 116 circumnavigations of Earth.

By 1998 Gordon and his Volvo had made it into the Guinness Book of World Records at 1.69 million miles, more than anyone else in a single-owner non-commercial vehicle, and by 2002 they'd reached 2 million miles. It also means Irv is in the enviable position of breaking records with every mile he drives.

Three million miles is easily within reach, and Gordon expects to hit that target in the next couple of years. "In honor of the P1800's 50th anniversary, I'd like to reaffirm my goal of reaching three million miles within the next two years" explains Gordon...'

Source:

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/the-first-car-to-3-million-miles-.html

Compare and contrast with this:

http://kosongcafe.blogspot.com/2011/04/oldest-living-owner-of-car-from-new.html

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Some wise cracks

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement. - Mark Twain

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.' - Eleanor Roosevelt

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech...Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

I have never hated a man enough to give back his diamonds. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Money can't buy you happiness ... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' - Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP. - Joe Namath

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty ...But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. - Phyllis Diller

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible. - George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. - Rodney Dangerfield

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere - Billy Crystal

I don't feel old... I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. - Bob Hope

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. - W.C. Fields

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. - Alex Levine

And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good spit it out.

Wise cracks were by famous people, if I said them, the cracks no longer become wise. - Kosong

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Obama is a 'dick'?

We all know that, but then again, when said on national television live, it could be embarrassing and needed an apology...

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=15051:obamas-a-d**k&Itemid=4

After all, he is also a man...

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These are unambiguous...

yet both Indian Malaysians seem to have troubles with our powers-that-be...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama present Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage to Malaysia 's Ambiga Sreenevasan (Malaysian Bar Council) at the State Department in Washington , DC (AFP)

A good word about Dr. Jeyakumar...

"YB Dr. Michael Jeyakumar is known to me when he was a junior officer at Sarawak General Hospital, where I was Acting Medical Superintendent (1983-1987).

Even then he was most outstanding as a Government Officer of uncommon social responsibility, providing patient service unflinchingly regardless of heavy workloads. Indeed he showed his concern for patients well beyond his immediate patient care responsibilities at SGH.

I recall that as a junior Medical Officer at SGH, he actively canvassed for :

1. The safety and comfort of patients on long boat journeys, while on referral from Kapit district hospital to Sibu Hospital;

2. Injured workers timely entitlements under the Workers Compensation Scheme; especially timely and more just awards by Medical Boards to injured workers ;

3. The legislatively prescribed responsibilities of SOCSO in the rehabilitation of permanently disabled workers, and weakness of SOCSO therof.

4. The occupational safety of mostly Dayak logging workers in Sarawak, or rather, lack thereof.

This is all the more remarkable as he comes from a comfortable upper middle class family in Penang.

I was disappointed in myself for having failed in my effort to recommend him for "Perkhidmatan Cemerlang" award.

Nonetheless, he was a personal inspiration to me, and he will always be such.

I have no doubt that it is a highest level of humanity which made him not just a physician, but an uncommon one. He has dedicated the last 3-4 decades of his life as much to his Dayak patients in Sarawak as to the Indian Plantation workers, both groups being the marginalised of the marginalised in Malaysian society.

His humanity finds expression in his leadership of Malaysian Socialists.

While I may not agree with all the elements of his socialist programs, my heart is with him as he earns political political persecution upon himself, instead of recognition from the powers that be.

Dr. Francis H. H. Ngu

Kuching."

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