It’s this time of the year that the naked mile usually held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The
Naked Mile is a tradition at the University of Michigan where
graduating Seniors run through campus naked the evening of the last day
of classes. It started in 1986 and finally was banned in 2004.
"Who will fix the world?" Ben, my four-year-old son, asked while I was trying to explain what global warming and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth are about.
If circumcision does not have ties to any religion, how difficult is it to convince men to get circumcised?
There are many reasons why people love tennis. 19-year old Ana Ivanovic is one of them.
"This is an excellent resource for families. Merits two thumbs up…[Finally] movie ratings that actually work" - Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial
Kids-in-mind provides pretty
comprehensive information about a film’s content so that we can decide,
based on our own value system, whether a movie is appropriate for our
kids.
Some people just never learn, myself included.
Last Sunday we went to Genting Highlands
(my parents were visiting us) knowing that it would be terribly crowded
because of the Easter Holiday weekend. As if that wasn’t enough, we
decided to take the cable car.
Deputy Tourism Minister Datuk Donald Lim said dirty toilets are the
most common complaint foreign tourists have about Malaysia - I read in
the Sun newspaper. It’s not a surprise. Even he didn’t deny that the
condition of many public toilets leaves much room for improvements.
In one of his posts, Indonesia an oil-rich country?,
Philips, interestingly started the post with his opinion on Playboy
Indonesia magazine, cited an interview from Warta Ekonomi about
Indonesia’s oil reserve - that it will last only for the next 20-25
years.
I find it amazing that it is so expensive to make a call to Indonesia
from Malaysia. It’s even more expensive than a call to the U.S. –
which takes about 10 more times to travel to (20-hour vs. 2-hour
flying). It’s MYR 1.80 (~USD 0.50) for a minute to Indonesia, while it
costs only half of that to call the U.S. (Telekom Malaysia’s (TM) rate)
"My research shows that if you don’t have sex for a month you probably
won’t have it for a year," said Kunio Kitamura, director of the Japan
Family Planning Association, in conjunction to concerns over Japan’s declining birthrate. (an identical article from Guardian titled "no sex please, we’re Japanese".)
