CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.

Most of us have experienced cars driving past us down the street disrupting an entire neighborhood with its bass. The culprits are mostly youngsters showing off their car sound systems, unaware that they are actually putting the sensitive structures of their inner ears at high risks of permanent hearing damage, a condition known as Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). NIHL is ...

Public Bank Berhad has been ridiculed online after a video of its extravagant 45th anniversary celebrations started circulating on YouTube this week. The bank, which celebrated the milestone on July 23, honoured its 81-year-old chairman, Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. Teh Hong Piow, according him a cabaret-style welcome as the crowd sang ‘Man of honour, a living legend’ as he ...

A new biography book, “I am Maru,” is set for release on August 23, 2011. You may be wondering what the big deal is. Well, for starters, Maru is a cat. The book, published by Harper Collins, has been compiled by his human companion, mugumogu, and provides cute insights into the life of this internet feline celebrity. The original version, ...

We always find it cute when little kids do grown-up things, like doing Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk or singing a catchy rap song. But preaching? A  preacher firing up a crowd of worshippers is nothing unusual, but it is highly unusual in the case of Kanon Tipton. It’s because he is only four years old. Dubbed the “pint-sized preacher” and “world’s ...

A Chinese man proposed to his girlfriend in a most unusual manner at a shopping square in the city of Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province recently. Pang Kun roped in 48 of his friends and they gathered at Aofan Square in Qingdao dressed as carrots.  The group performed a dance to the theme song of Jiangsu TV dating show ...

Move over, planking. Make way for the new trend – horsemanning, or fake beheading, a popular way of taking pictures in the 1920s. Horsemanning, an emerging posing meme begotten by planking, became viral this week, taking the Internet by storm. Horsemanning (misspelt as horsemaning) gets its name and theme from The Headless Horsemen, the evil character from “The Legend of ...

Father John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy: Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes and my mind both blinked. ...

Meet Natsumi Hayashi, the photographer from Tokyo, Japan who has been dubbed ‘Tokyo’s Levitating Girl’ for her creative photos in which she appears to be levitating. Natsumi Hayashi Equipped with her Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Natsumi photographs herself levitating around Tokyo. The uniqueness of her photos is her natural expression and pose, making it seem like she is really ...

Top fashion magazine French Vogue has stirred up a lot of controversy, condemnation and outrage by publishing provocative pictures of a 10-year-old model Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau in its January issue co-edited by designer Tom Ford. The shots show Ms Blondeau in heavy make-up, revealing outfits and provocative poses. One image shows her reclining in a gold dress, the slashed v-neck ...

I just read about the breast-touching festival and I really find it so laughable that in our modern world, such superstitions still exist. The seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar, known as the Hungry Ghost month, began on July 31 this year. During the Hungry Ghost month, many superstitious Chinese believe ghosts return to the human realm as the ...