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Audio recording at UMS, video by yours truly.

“A kiss is not a kiss, in India.”

Richard Gere went to New Delhi early April to attend a HIV/AIDS awareness summit.

He was invited onstage by Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, 32.

What happened next was unexpected. After swooping her into his arms, a dip was followed by multiple kisses on her cheeks. Gere claimed that it was a clumsy attempt at mimicking a scene from the 2004 film “shall we dance”.

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But the reaction to that was amazing.

First,  some outraged Hindu groups deemed the act as an insult to Indian culture and an outrage to Shetty’s modesty. Effigies of not just Gere but also Shetty were burned in several major cities.

Later, some people filed legal complaints against the two. Indeed, after viewing the video footage, Judge Dinesh Gupta  of a Jaipur court agreed that it was “highly sexually erotic” and “transgressed all limits of vulgarity.” An arrest warrant on Gere was issued, and if found guilty of public obscenity, he could be jailed 3 months. Gere had already left India by then.

Shetty was also ordered to see the judge on 5th May to explain “why she did not resist Gere’s advances.”

Gere himself said that”this recent media storm has taken me by complete surprise.”

Shetty has defended the actor: “I understand this is his culture, not ours. But this was not such a big thing or so obscene for people to overreact in such manner.”

Source: it’s all over the Net!

From the looks of it, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim is not a natural orator. Of course it was a slip of the tongue, but in political circles, it sure will be exploited to the full by your opponents.

A little bit about him: he is the treasurer general of Keadilan: has an MBA from University of Queensland. He was CEO of PNB for 15 years from 1979. His moment in the corporate limelight occured in 1981 for the dawn raid on the LSE, resulting in PNB getting 51% share in Guthrie in 1 hours plus. He later became the CEO of Guthrie for 8 years from 1995, after which he left the corporate world and entered politics thru Keadilan. Despite being in the opposition, he still maintains top positions in organisation like Sirim (director), ISIS (fellow), Islamic Development Bank (adviser) and National Productivity Council (member).

V Ganason, 40 would-be rapist

The limousine driver is facing 8 charges for what he did on two 21-yr old female UKM students on 3rd April at 9.45am in a bus in Kajang, Selangor. He stripped and threatened them with a knife and curry powder, which he claimed was acid.

Chong Lean Hin, 43 bra thief

The labourer stole 2 bras worth RM10 belonging to 2 sisters in Penang at 1.45am on 28th January. He was caught with the bras partially tucked inside his pants. Jailed 3 months.

The Star reported on April 26, 2007 that:
- Cho Seung-Hui practiced shooting at 2 local firing ranges.
- took 9 minutes to kill the 30+ people at Norris Hall.
- fired at least 170 bullets

- police reached floor he’s on 8 minutes after receiving the first 911 call

That means, on average, he fired a shot every 3 seconds.

source

That dubious honour belongs to Dr Gang Lu PhD, 28 of China who had recently received his doctorate in physics from the University of Iowa. On 1st November 1991 he used a revolver (he was also carrying another pistol) to shoot dead 5 people, then killed himself.

Just before 4 p.m., Lu shot and killed his professor, Christoph Goertz, 47; Linhua Shan, 27; department chair Dwight Nicholson, 44; and Robert A. Smith, 45, an associate professor in the department and Lu’s co-advisor. Shan, like Lu, was from China & had also recently received his PhD in the same subject.

Then, he walked 3 blocks to the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, where he shot and killed T. Anne Cleary, 56, an associate vice president and professor of education. He then shot himself.

According to the university, Lu was angry and jealous that his doctoral dissertation had not received a prestigious academic award. Instead, it was compatriot Linhua Shan who got it, the 1991 D.C. Spriestersbach award for outstanding doctoral dissertation. His dissertation concerned an explanation of the structure of Saturn’s ring system. He was also a member of the theoretical space physics team in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Linhua Shan was not yet 27 when he died

sources

• wikipedia
• uiowa.edu

Testfreaks.com is a review website which will launch within a couple of months and should be on the bookmark of savvy buyers who’d like to do their homework before committing to a purchase.

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Testfreaks.com comes to your rescue here. It collects the best reviews from the pros, blogs, forums. There are many categories, including camcorders, cell phones, digital cameras, mp3 players, TVs, home entertainment, personal computers and laptops / notebooks. It goes further than that: it drills down to more details, for example for camcorders, it goes right down to batteries type of media used and brand of camcorder. Hence, if you’d like to find out how a particular model from a particular brand storing movies on hard disks movies fared in the reviews, you’d be in luck.

Hmm… I wonder if they would even review a home theater carpet?