Malaysian completes "upside down" drawing in 20 seconds

Have you ever seen the "upside down" drawing technique!!! If not, here's your chance. Zhou Yali, 56, an artist from Malaysia mastered the unique technique after 10 years of study and research. He can now complete a simple upside down drawing within 20 seconds.
Normally, the drawing will face the drawer when he or she is drawing. However, using his "upside down" drawing method, Zhou can draw artworks that face away from him even while he is working on them.

Zhou started to be interested in drawing at the age of 30. Since then, he began to draw at least two hours a day. At times, he even spent the whole day drawing at home. However, he grew bored with the common drawing techniques 10 years ago. In order to challenge himself and come up with a more creative approach to drawing, he began working on an "upside down" drawing technique.

Zhou is going to open a class to pass on the technique. However, he emphasized that he is going to carefully select the students because learning the technique of "upside down" drawing requires great patience.

Tom Sietas holds breath underwater for 15 minutes and two seconds

Twelve-times world records holder Tom Sietas, 30, a German man has held his breath underwater for 15 minutes and two seconds, breaking his own world record (14 minutes and 25 seconds) on a television show.

According to Reuters reports, his feat was helped by a pre-stunt inhalation of 20 minutes of pure oxygen and a five-hour fast.

Mr Sietas has lungs that are 20 percent larger than average for his size, lung expert Dr. Marc Spero told Reuters. He also manages to stay very still, which reduces the need for oxygen.

Daredevils who achieve glacier surfing for the first time

Hawaii tow-in surfing team Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala have just returned from Alaska where they became the first - and possibly last - surfers to successfully ride glacier- generated tsunami waves of up to 25 feet. Their tsunami surfing experience took place at Child's Glacier on the Copper River, in South-Central Alaska, located near the town of Cordova, Alaska.

Super creative houses

Japanese Human Art

This Japaneses perform a great act for a TV Show called Kasou Taishou. It's amazing and very creative. There are so many like this one. Check out the Ping Pong and the Baseball Game

Wang Fu-gui's 2,008-Meter-Long Calligraphy

Calligrapher Wang Fugui shows his 2,008-meter-long calligraphy work at a stadium in Beijing Aug. 5, 2007. The calligraphy enthusiastists spent three years to finish recording the history of the Olympic Games, champion list, and nearly 200 poems on these super long paper rolls, expressing his blessings to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Uygur Girls Press Grape Juice With feet to Make Wine

Two Uygur girls were pressing grape juice with their feet to make wine at the Grape Valley in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Nowadays, mechanical wine press has been widely used to take the place of this traditional technology. In the past, the girls who press grapes must wash their feet carefully, and they were even not allowed to step on anything unclean during the days of work.Why to make a wine.

Malaysia's First Astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, an 34-year-old orthopaedic doctor and a trainee lecturer in medicine with the National University of Malaysia, was chosen as the first Malaysia's astronaut (angkasawan in Malay) in September 2006, with army dentist Faiz Khaleed, 26, the back-up astronaut. Currently, Muszaphar Shukor together with his national patriot Khaleed is being trained in Russian space center. The pictures shows he is trying on a space suit at the Star Corporation space outfitter outside Moscow August 7, 2007.

A Little Message From An Interestingly Endowed Girl

A girl's webcam message ends with her showing... Well, not exactly what you might expect.

A man Writing with tongue

A Chinese man is attracting the crowds by writing with his agile tongue on the sidewalk of Xinmin street. Zhang Yongyang, 24, of Xi'an city, develop his new skills when he discovered his ability to touch his nose with his tongue. I thought, since my tongue is very agile, why not let it write characters the way hands do? I want to develop my own special calligraphy

Largest merger of galaxies discovered

Four massive galaxies are colliding in the largest galactic merger ever seen, new observations reveal. The smash-up is shedding light on how the biggest galaxies in the universe form – and why many of them stopped giving birth to stars billions of years ago.

Astronomers classify mergers according to the relative sizes of the galaxies involved. Minor mergers unite galaxies of vastly different size – marrying a 'dwarf' galaxy with one the size of the Milky Way, for example – while major mergers join those of roughly equal size.

Now, researchers led by Kenneth Rines of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, have found the largest major merger ever seen. It involves a quartet of galaxies at the centre of a galactic cluster known as CL0958+4702, which lies about 5 billion light years from Earth.

Three of the merging galaxies are the size of the Milky Way, while the other is about three times as massive. "This is the largest major merger in terms of total stellar mass," Rines told New Scientist, adding that the next runner-up is the merger of two Milky Way-sized bodies known as the Antenna Galaxies.

Sumo competition the youngsters wrestling to earn top place

They may be normal-sized young lads, but these boys have aspirations to be the biggest - literally - and the best.

They may not have the bulk of their adult counterpatrs, but they are attending a Sumo-wrestling competition in Tokyo to earn promotion to a higher rank.

The keen youngsters are among 300 Japanese wrestlers taking part in the annual competition, which is popular with sporting fans across the country.

The Japanese consider Sumo a modern martial art, even though the sport has a history spanning back several centuries.

The competitors attempt to heave each other out of the ring and the first boy to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet loses the bout, which typically lasts less than a minute.

New way to keep cool in hot weather

Several fashionable "beauties" try to keep cool during extremely hot weather (exceeded 30 degree Celsius) by drifting on sheepskin raft along the Yellow River in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu province

Jellyfish clouds spotted in skies above Lutterworth, Leicestershire

Rare clouds in the shape of jellyfish have caused a sensation after being spotted in skies above Lutterworth, Leicestershire for the first time in a decade. The unusual clouds known as Altocumulus Castellanus have not been seen in Britain for 10 years.

Their presence indicates stormy weather may soon close in. The rare clouds' unique "jellyfish" shape forms when a rush of moist air comes from the Gulf Stream and gets trapped between layers of dry air. It is thought these probably developed as a result of recent tropical storms in the Atlantic.

Tiger gives birth to twin cubs one yellow and one white

This photo shows the newborn twin tigers with two entirely different colours - one yellow and one white in the Tianjin zoo, China. The tiger cubs are respectively called "Jin Liang" and "Yinshuai". The furry feline's mother Meimei was a mixed blood tiger - and it seems each of her offspring has unusually inherited each of her different colours.
The yellow cub has the hue of a common Bengali tiger - but the animal genetics would normally make the birth of his white brother virtually impossible. The twins were born on May 31s.

Chinese bball superstar, Yao Ming shooting wedding photos

Chinese famous basketball star Yao Ming and his fiancée Ye Li, 1.90m tall, a national basketball team player from Shanghai were spotted shooting wedding photo at Taihu Yuan Resort, in Lin'an Zhejiang province. The rumor of spotting the Chinese bball superstar was later confirmed by tourist and local residents, and a "padlock of love" (picture below) carved with their name found in Taihu.

Lamb born with seven legs in New Zealand

The lamb was born six days ago Two of the extra legs hang useless behind the lamb's forelegs. The animal has three hind legs, one of them with two hoofs. It walks using its two forelegs and three hind legs

The lamb was born last Friday on the farm of Dave and Di Callaghan. MrCallaghan said he was surprised to find the seven-legged creature, born with a twin, walking round in the paddock with its mother and normal twin sibling. "I have never seen anything like that," he said

Although the six-day old bleats like a healthy animal, its abnormalities mean it is unlikely to survive.

Veterinarian Steve Williams at the Canterbury Vets clinic in the rural town of Methven said he believed an error during embryo formation had resulted in the lamb being born polydactyl — with many legs — a condition that occurs once in several million sheep.

He said the lamb was also hermaphrodite and missing a portion of its bowel so was unable to pass faeces and would have to be destroyed.

"To keep it alive is probably inhumane really," Mr Williams told the Ashburton Guardian newspaper.

There was no word on whether any of the legs would find their way onto a dinner plate.

Awesome Ford Mustang make from 5,000 beer cans

Amazing beer cans car!!! A Ford Mustang made entirely from empty beer cans was created by Jack Kirby, an art and design student recently. He used 5,000 empty beer cans to build the awesome beer can car when he realised that Budweiser was giving away his dream car, a 1965 Ford Mustang. To have a chance of winning a real Ford Mustang

Sania Mirza reach final of the Stanford Classic

India's Sania Mirza plays a return during her singles match against Russia's Nadia Petrova at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, June 28, 2007. Mirza upset eighth seed Sybille Bammer 6-2 5-7 6-3 to reach the final of the Stanford Classic on Saturday

Gold Plated Turtle

Some pet shops in Wuhan painted the back of red-eared turtle to the golden color with a special paint. The golden pattern was reportedly able to last for very long. Its price of around RMB 120 is nearly 9 times more expensive than an ordinary turtle.

You think fat is ugly?

Smile Trainer teaches you how to smile

A pretty cool Japanese gadget designed specifically for those prefer to pull a long face. Called the "Beauty Smile Trainer", it's basically a curved plastic bar that, held in the mouth to make your smile wider and more amicable than the one you already have. It's even endorsed by a cosmetic dentist (the woman on the top left.) In addition to improving your smile, the product promises to reduce facial sagging, making your countenance more firm and petite.

Growing an ear in the arm

Giant prehistoric tusks Researchers in northern Greece

Researchers in northern Greece have found two massive tusks of a prehistoric mastodon that roamed Europe more than 2 million years ago -- tusks that could be the largest of their kind ever found.
The remains of the mastodon, which was similar to the woolly mammoth but had straighter tusks as well as different teeth and eating habits, were found in an area about 250 miles north of Athens.One of the tusks measured 16-feet-4-inches long and the other was more than 15 feet long, the research team said. They were found with the animal's upper and lower jaws -- still bearing teeth -- and leg bones, said Evangelia Tsoukala, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Thessaloniki, who led the team that excavated the site.

The tusks were discovered in October by an excavation machine operator working at a sand quarry, but it took months for the scientific investigation to be organized.

Kim Jong-Il's Stuntwoman Injured by Swords during Performance

Japanese magician Princess Tenko, who has once been gifted a rare dog by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, was seriously injured when metal swords trapped her in a box during a performance in the central Japanese city of Sabae recently.

During "the spike illusion in the face of death" show, the doll-looking magician was supposed to escape from the box on the moment it was spiked with 10 fake metal swords, but instead they trapped her inside and broke her right cheek and ribs.

A little boy died in Brazil after eating MENTOS and drinking Coca-Cola / PEPSI together.

A little boy died in Brazil after eating MENTOS and drinking Coca-Cola / PEPSI together. One year before the same accident happened with another boy in Brazil. Please check the experiment that has been done by mixing Coka-Cola (or Coka-Cola Light) with MENTOS. So be careful with your self eating MENTOS (POLO's) and drinking COCA-COLA or PEPSI together. PLZ PASS THIS INFORMATION TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE SPECIALLY TO THE CHILDREN'S. BECAUSE IN OUR COUNTRY MENTOS AND COCA-COLA BOTH ARE VERY POPULAR TO THE CHILDREN.

Octopus helps unearth 900-year-old ancient pottery

South Korean archaeologists have discovered a sunken vessel packed with ancient pottery, in an exploration prompted by an octopus which attached its suckers to a plate.

The 12th-century wooden vessel was found buried in mud flats off Taean, southwest of Seoul, the National Maritime Museum said.

More than 2,000 pieces of 12th-century bowls, plates and other types of pottery were heaped inside the 7.7 meter (25-foot) vessel, it said.



The exploration began in early June after shards of celadon pieces were found attached to the suckers of several webfoot octopuses which a fisherman had netted.

The museum has since retrieved about 540 pieces, which were scattered around the vessel. Several shipwrecks filled with relics including ancient pottery have been found along the west coast, where many kilns were established in the Koryo era.

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