Serendipity
In the news today
While doing some research on an article, I came across some utterly useless, bizarre, gross, humorous, and interesting news bits. These stories just prove to us that oftentimes, real life is stranger than fiction.
BEIJING - A Chinese university has set up a special 'anger management' room for students to let off steam, apparently to avoid students taking to the streets in protest or taking their own lives.
Southwest Jiaotong University, in Chengdu in southwestern Sichuan province, has fitted a room out with sandbags lining the walls waiting to be pummeled by students venting their frustrations. Since it opened, students have flocked to the room and hundreds more have booked it, presumably in anticipation of upcoming bouts of fury. Ning Weiwei, a professor of psychology at the college, said the room was a good way for students to deal with failing to find a job or being jilted by a mate.
'We want to help students let out their intense animosity or hostility without storing up such hatred,' he said.
We should really take it from the Chinese. Why don't we have 'anger management' rooms in the workplace too? Especially in offices that have toxic and power-tripping bosses? Employees can probably put photos of their bosses on the sandbags and pummel to their heart's content.
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INDIA - A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it.
The patient recovering from a post-surgery infection shrieked for help as the ants attacked, but nurses told her it was normal to feel pain from the infection. The following day, the patient's family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.
'It's not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients. We have set up a committee to investigate the unfortunate incident,' hospital superintendent A. Adhikary said.
Investigate and what? Arrest the 'culprits' that nibbled on the patient's eye? I wonder how they'll do that unless they have ant-sized handcuffs too...
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NEW YORK, USA -- A new survey of American men may be a letdown for American women.
According to a survey of men's sexual habits conducted by 'Men's Fitness' magazine, nearly 52 percent of guys describe their performance in bed as only 'adequate.'
It gets worse...
-- 15 percent of men admit they're 'below average' in bed.
-- 16 percent say they're terrible at 'meeting their partners' emotional needs.'
-- 12 percent of American men masturbate at least once a day.
-- 5 percent do it two times a day or more.
So for those planning to go to America to marry them American citizens -- think again. Your future husbands might be in that 52 percent.
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CALIFORNIA, USA -- A woman said she still plans to marry the man who shot her in the groin and then held her hostage in his family's garage for six days.
Tina Marie Stebbins revealed her intentions in a letter released Monday as her boyfriend, Christian Leroy Lindblad, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting her in June 2002.
'I love Christian today as deeply as I loved him before this awful thing happened to us,' Stebbins wrote in a victim impact statement. 'We are soul mates.'
She added: 'I want to tell you all that I have forgiven Christian. And I pray that Christian has forgiven me for failing him when he needed me most.'
Ah! Love truly is blind, forgiving, and stupid.
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ILOILO - A female wannabe model almost fell head first while she was doing the ramp for a Manila-based designer a few days ago.
After tripping twice on stage (her head became too heavy after it ballooned from having supermodel delusions), the word 'karma' was heard being shouted by someone from the audience. The trying hard wannabe apparently caught the ire of some fashion people who all wanted to clobber the living daylights out of her. It seems that Miss TH was trying to compete with another model who was supposedly the 'star' of the show.
The show was almost ruined because of an eyesore who thought she was the main attraction and not the designer's fabulous creations.
My comment? Don't quit your day job, girl.