Tribe in China claims herbs that can change sex of baby during pregnancy

The Dong (侗) people is one of the 56 official ethnic groups of China. One of Dong tribe that is staying in a village Guizhou have a special way of contraceptive, each family pledge to conceives only 2 Children in their life time. Then, there is a secret remedy that pastes only from mother to daughter, which claims to be able to change the sex of the baby while they are still inside the womb. Secret revealed only before death. (Link)

For 50 years or so every family in the village have had two children each, one boy and one girl, only.

Ron 40 - 龙 40 - 凤花, 手足

I thought this is the finale, but the story intensifies.... make it something like a damn good literature book, or a long novel.

Singapore jolly stick girl

When I was young, I used to draw stick figures, I make them fought and creates heroic story out of them. Today, I came across The Bitter Stickgirl and suddenly realized how much I had missed my childhood. This is a good blog with a young at heart philosophy. Take a look and enjoy the stick art. (Link)

A good hangout for Singapore working class

The author of my link blog – Summer Raindrops, Mr Pencil did a site – WorkingTribe, for Singapore working class; it aims to provide you and me a space to vent frustrations we encounter at our work place, Office politic, unreasonable bosses, smelly colleagues etc. So, come on! At least now you can write it out and not worry about your working friend poke you from the back. (Link)

One thing hor! Please don’t post any message that contains racist nature, like you can say “my stupid old virgin boss”; please don’t say “that idiot black old fart”, ok?

World smallest pinhead house sold at 20 thousand pounds

The miniature villa is build by Willard Wigan, famous micro sculptures artist in England. He takes 7 weeks at 15 hours per day to finished the micro villa. The windows is made of diamond chips and the paint job of the house is done using the hair from legs of dead spider. (Link)

Girl with rare dyslexia condition overcame with simple color solution.

Gemma Williams was diagnosed with a special, rare kind of dyslexia. From the age of three, she needs to read whatever word upside down. She suffered from this “little” inconvenience from 14 years until an unexpected solution was presented to her. By writing word on an orange color paper, or by placing an orange transparency over the writing she wanted to read, she can now reads normally. (Link)

Singapore mass genocide exercise

Off course I am kidding, the gahmen only kills 500 over old and useless chicken in an drill to prevent the outspread of H5N1 bird flu virus. I know, I know, if the news is known by some strong buhddists or animal activists, they may say the gahmen is cruel.

Hey! What? Killing chicken, even millions is still far better than banning bona-fide religious groups.

Shel Silverstein and his books revisit

Remembered I blog about Shel Silverstein and his great books for children during July? Now he has this site that is even niftier. The site features his 10 over books with stupendous flash presentation. You don’t have to buy the books anymore, all you need is a computer and off course, broadband. Or else go buy his books, not cheap but worth it.

Go, In order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you need to have children’s heart, pure and ready for acceptance. (Link)

Video and comments: Supergun technology for future military.

Video and comments
Metal Storm Ltd is on the verge of developing a working prototype of this weapon. I also heard that China is eyeing this piece of tech, where they have monitor and try to acquire the scientist - J. Mike O'Dwyer, for the past decade. (Link) to the Wiki entry.

The weapon is like super version of shot gun, robotcop era one. 16'000 rounds per second, no jam! Wicked!

PC game that helps open up nuclear facility for tourism in Iran

Assault on Iran, Pt. 3: Payback in Iraq, developed by Kuma Reality Games, simulated an realistic attack scenario by US Marine on a key Iranian Nuclear installment, sparks a conversation. Later Iran opens up the place for tourists to see, an expression of good will. (Link)

First time in history hor! A game did something like that; need to check out the game.

Reverend Billy and the Church of stop shopping

What is the latest message form the Almighty? That shopping is a sin and we should all stop doing it. The Church of stop shopping is a recent sprout in New York; they believe that Consumerism is overwhelming our lives. Media also said that the sermon was often funny and entertaining. (Link)

They have already stage several protest against Consumerism.

Church in Auckland display sign “beware of the God”

I believe the Church is trying to reform and rebuke many of the misconceptions about Jesus, which they claim; He was not a Narnian lion. Other than that, the Anglican Church seems to have some ideas and wish to connect them to the World. (Link)