Puteri’s World

Did you read about the Oregon man who took off into the air on his lawn chair with large helium-filled balloons tied to his chair? And can you believe that this was not his first trip on his lawn chair?!

I don’t know if the first time I read about a man flying off into the air on his lawn chair tied large balloons was this man, Kent Couch, or not. But I sure was amused when I read about it!

Doug told me that that was one of his dreams when he was a kid. Taking off into the air powered by balloons! I guess he had no idea where to get that many helium-filled balloons at that time, eh! I don’t doubt he would have gone on that flight if he had known where and had the money to get them!

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singaporean professor who nicked bras and panties has pleaded guilty to stealing women’s underwear from a university dormitory, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.

The 39-year old man — an associate professor in a Chinese university — was charged for taking women’s underwear from a university hostel’s clothes-line last December, the Straits Times reported.

The Singaporean professor, who teaches in China, was in the city-state for his leave when he committed the crime. He was caught by a dormitory security guard who found female undergarments in his haversack.

Full story here.

This is just too funny! No, I do not mean that this professor’s psychiatric disorder is funny. I think that it is creepy that someone, especially someone as learned as this professor, has a fetish for underwear. Creepy!

Reminds of a best friend who has lost some underwear while they were being hung on the clothes line. To this day she still doesn’t know who had stolen her underwear.

Earlier I read how a Singaporean professor, Professor Choon Fong Shih will be the Founding President of KAUST, the new world-class, graduate-level scientific research university now under development in Saudi Arabia.

I am sure Singaporeans are proud of the fact that of all the people considered, Professor Choon Fong Shih was selected. And I am also sure Singaporeans are also embarrassed that the other professor was caught and charged for stealing girls’ underwear!

After his first assault at a marathon last year banker Brian Jones was shocked to discover the sharp pain in his chest was not cardiovascular, but bleeding nipples.

“When I took my shirt off at the end it was white — apart from two particular parts of it,” he told Reuters in an interview after completing his second Tokyo Marathon at the weekend.

“It looked like I had been shot by a sniper. This year I bought some Vaseline. It worked, although I had nasty chafing elsewhere.”

Full story here.

This news story about the Tokyo Marathon was one of the most amusing stories I have read today.

A marathon is no walk in the park, and I expected runners to put up with leg cramps, damaged knees or ankles, and even heart attacks. I did not, however, expect sore nipples, and other parts of the bodies getting chafed as well while running the marathon.

At least one runner, Brian Jones, discovered that Vaseline works for his nipples. Wonder why he did not apply Vaseline around his underwear as well? Maybe he will do it on his next marathon.

Wonder if the women marathoners had the same problem with their nipples? I wonder if their sports bra does a better job at preventing the chafing?

LONDON (Reuters) - The abduction of a dog stood out among 135 reports of UFO incidents received by the Ministry of Defence last year.
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But the report from Wales of the dog abduction grabs attention.

“The witness saw spaceships and then said that one of them abducted his dog, car and tent when he and some friends were out camping,” reads the report received on Jan 3 this year.

Full story here.

Wow. An alien abduction of a dog.

I was just telling Doug the other day that I would like to see more TV programs about UFOs. Sure enough there was something on the History channel about UFOs.

I recently read about the UFO sightings in Texas and I was intrigued.

If it was only one person who saw the UFO, I mean, we can be doubtful about whether or not that person actually saw anything! But when several people saw something, now that’s different. I cannot imagine mass delusion especially when different people saw the UFO at different locations.

Or am I just too eager to believe in the existence of UFOs?

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s religious police have banned red roses ahead of Valentine’s Day, forcing couples in the conservative Muslim nation to think of new ways to show their love.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has ordered florists and gift shop owners in the capital Riyadh to remove any items coloured scarlet, which is widely seen as symbolising love, newspapers said.

“They visited us last night,” the Saudi Gazette quoted an unidentified florist as saying.

Full story here.

This is just too funny!

Without fail, this kind of news around Valentine’s Day gives me such a kick! Similar news in the past have come out of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and even Malaysia my home country!

In Malaysia, the morality police would raid hotel rooms to catch Muslim unmarried couples on Valentine’s Day. Of course there will be the usual warnings about not celebrating Valentine. It is not a Muslim practice, bla bla bla.

It is a Christian practice, so they say, even though it is not a holiday that the Christian church celebrates.

In this news story, the florists will have their businesses sabotaged because roses are banned ahead of Valentine’s Day.

What the *$%@&!

VIENNA, Austria - Austria’s Supreme Court has ruled today that a chimpanzee cannot be declared a person.

An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person in hopes of gaining guardianship of the animal. The shelter where Matthew has lived for 25 years is going bankrupt, threatening to leave him homeless.

Donors have offered to help support him, but under Austrian law, only a person can receive personal gifts.

Full story here.

My first reaction when I first heard the story on the radio today, was “What is going on in Austria?” Some people want a monkey declared a human?

The people in the animal rights group have good intentions, that is, to help the chimpanzee, but declaring it a human is not the way to go about it. They would be better off fixing the law regarding animal guardianship, like a reader of the news story suggested,  rather then seek to declare a chimpanzee a human.

That chimp can only be declared a human once it has evolved into a human being. Isn’t that how humans got to be where they are now as evolutionists claim? So that chimp just has to wait its turn.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Watch dogs are a pretty common first line of security for U.S. homes and businesses. Watch bird not so much. But that didn’t stop Merlin, a seven-year-old blue-and-gold macaw who scared off a burglar at a Massachusetts pet store this week.

Intruders smashed the front window of Pet Palace in Leominster, about 45 miles west of Boston, and as they entered the store the bird began to shout, said store manager Lori Oltman on Thursday.

“When he hears someone come into the building, or the puppies get riled up or whatever, he’ll start calling for Rhonda, who is the woman who used to own him,” Oltman said. “He was screaming for Rhonda and they weren’t aware that it was a bird and not a person. And so they took flight rather quickly.”

Full story here.

Haha. This has got to be one of the funniest stories I have read this week! It makes me want to go out and get a macaw myself. I will teach it to call out my name, and say words like “Make my day, punk!” And not to just repeat the words, but to say it in a menacing way! Haha, I can just imagine how scared an intruder will be hear such words!

I don’t have a pet, except for two small fish in a tank, but a bird would make a nice pet. My family used to have a mynah that my brother taught to say a few words. It couldn’t say a lot of words, but a friend did have 2 mynahs that could say a lot of words. I used to be amused at the things the birds said every time I visited my friend.

There was even a family that had a mynah that could recognize visitors and greet them by name. Unfortunately that bird met an untimely end because it recognized the person who broke into his master’s home. The burglar killed the bird to save his own skin.

That’s just evil.