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50 memorable things for Singaporean teenagers. Sit, enjoy and think back about the past… Were you one of these?

Things You May Not Know (1-30)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40 percent of McDonalds profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Websters 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dogs heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisas lips.
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. Thats the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was œflutterby!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cant sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents dont repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they dont know youre there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
19. Adolf Hitlers mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodiles jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The œpound (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average persons left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in œmt.
28. Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan œfinger lickin good comes out as œeat your fingers off.
30. A c0ckroach can live for 10 days without a head.

Things You May Not Know (31-60)
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying œyes in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
49. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
50. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
54. œI am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command œgo hang Yourself.
56. Like fingerprints, everyones tongue print is different.
57. œBookkeeper is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
59. The sentence œthe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every Letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Found in JB pirated discs bust: Database of S’pore buyers. List of names, phone numbers, addresses in shop’s PC to be turned over to police here

A RAID by the Malaysian authorities on a shop in Johor Baru has turned up a list of its Singapore customers, which will be given to the police here.

Recently I found out about Ping.sg by accident.

I realized that it has the potential and hence, I registered my blog and my development blog with it. I think it is so much better than Tomorrow.sg.

Celebrated my birthday with my polytechnic classmates last Thursday at Glass House Fish & Co. Wanted to eat Tao’s Restaurant at Paradize center at first, but last minuted I decided that it was a bit expensive, $28.80++ for a 7 course set dinner, whereas Fish & Co the most will be about $24 without any ++. We waited for like 30 minutes for our seat, it is crowded and they do not want to open up the 2nd level. And there are like 4 birthdays going on there, because the live band sang the birthday song 4 times while we are there. The ambiance was so noisy due to the live band and the loud music that we cannot even hear each other properly. I think next time we will avoid going to the glass house at night for Fish & Co. It is the worst experience I have with them.

Prison Break Season 2 ended last night, I was a late comer, I only started watching Prison Break last month and I manage to finish 2 seasons (44 episodes) within a month. There will be a Prison Break Season 3, but I have no idea when they going to end it. I find Prison Break better than Heroes because of its unexpected twist and every episode is very exciting. Heroes will start airing again on 23rd April 2007.

Birthday Celebration With Family (23rd March 2007)
Celebrated my birthday with my family at Vivo City at Dian Xiao Er one day in advance because my parents, grandparents, and my uncle will be going to Vietnam for a business meeting.

My birthday cake was an ice cream cake from Ben & Jerry and they ran out of dry ice and expect me to take home an ice cream cake box that is wrapped in aluminum foil. Even my place is near Vivo City, the cake will melt before I get home. Poor service.

It is now slightly pass midnight and I am officially 23 years old =D

OMGWTFBBQ, Resident Evil: Extinction Trailer is out. I have been so looking forward to this after a disappointing Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Hopefully this one will be good.

This epsiode should be the last of the Resident Evil movie sequel.

Been so busy for the past 2 weeks, end of semester is coming and hence a lot of assignments is due. Been doing my CS2261 EJB at Starbucks while LiXiang does her drawing. Now I know where to find power outlet seats in certain Starbucks. LOL.

Caught Music & Lyrics at GV VivoCity, at first I thought the show was quite boring, but after watching the show, I must say that the show is good, simple and clean love story and to add on, the soundtrack is excellent. If you watch this movie, you need to get the soundtrack, it comes hand in hand.