Now this is pretty cool..
1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice!
This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! just a teaser.
I think they’ve got something going on there, get the prisoners working together.
The she-male thing is a bit scary though.
I love me some Smirnoff black, neat, straight from the freezer – shame mine is almost finished.
It’s one of the smoothest drinks around – I always keep a bottle in my freezer. It’s always ready to pop me a shot and get me going before I head out for a wild night.
S for Smirnoff
I don’t mix this Vodka, that would be sacrilege, I’ve been drinking this stuff since 1999 back in London. Smirnoff blue and red are reserved for mixing, preferably with red bull – if not then orange juice or tonic water.
Sadly this bottle is getting a bit low, time to pick up another one I think.
I’m not big into flavoured Vodka (you can call me a purist), but good news for those that are…Smirnoff is launching a new flavour of Vodka at the Santuary on 25th Jul 2007.
This post is in conjunction with the launch of its SMIRNOFF® line of new flavoured vodkas @ Sanctuary, The Curve on 25th July 2007. For more information about SMIRNOFF® products, please visit the website, https://www.smirnoff.com/
Located in the serene and scenic Lake Gardens, close to the Orchid Garden and the Tun Abdul Razak Memorial, the Bird Park is one of the largest covered bird park in the world, sprawling 8 acres of verdant valley terrain. Here, for the first time in Malaysia, bird lovers can have a field day watching more than 3000 birds perching and winging about freely-in a totally natural and beautifully landscaped enviroment.
It’s around the area of Jalan Parlimen, if you can reach Jalan Parlimen there’s good signage all the way to the bird park. The Butterfly Park is nearby too.
It’s open daily from 9am until 6.30pm – it’s not that cheap at around RM30 per person, but it’s a great place to practice wild life photography.
The first thing you’ll see when you get there is monkeys, not birds.
You might remember this one and it’s swinging nipples.
Cheeky Monkey looks like he’s about to steal something.
Some say its a form of Body dysmorphic disorder or BDD, these guys always think they are too small, not buffed enough, not big enough…they turn to steroids and other stuff like Synthol (Site Enhancement Oil) just to make them look bigger.
Site Enhancement Oil (SEO) or Synthol is a liquid substance, usually a mixture of oils, used by a few bodybuilders to increase the apparent size of some muscles. The effects of SEO are purely and solely cosmetic. It is injected either under the skin or between the muscle fibers.
You can find some more freaked up people using Synthol here.
Weird stuff, stay away from Steroids, lest you might get bitch tits, roid rage and balls the size of peanuts.
In the case of Gregg Valentino, the freak….he has the biggest arms in the world and they are damn ugly, this guy has napoleon syndrome AKA short man syndrome.
Quite possible the most hated man in body-building.
Valentino was featured in “The Man Whose Arms Exploded”, a TLC documentary highlighting the use and abuse of steroids. In the documentary he recalls his misuse of steroids, namely not taking precautions necessary to prevent infection. Consequently he eventually came down with a very serious infection of his right biceps. After failed attempts to drain the hematoma himself, using the same needles he used to inject his steroids, and “filling two glasses with blood and pus” he sought emergency medical treatment. Ultimately his arm was saved, at the cost of a significant reduction in the size and shape of the biceps.
There’s a very interesting interview with Gregg at T-nation here:
The Most Hated Man in Bodybuilding
You can watch the whole “The Man Whose Arms Exploded” here in 5 parts (approx 45 minutes), it’s truly fascinating:
Part 1
This is what you’ve been waiting for isn’t it?
A treat for you all on Friday!
The final and last set from Kharu – you can look forwards to some from Krystal soon as I’ve gotten these out of the way.
It was pretty tough shooting this last set as the clock was ticking closer to midday (the worst time for photography) so the light was getting pretty harsh, I tried my best to use the shadows and play with the light, I’m reasonably happy with the results!
Summer Rain
Cool Down
Heavenly Rain
A while back I asked for open questions on this blog and got some interesting ones, I’ll start out with the most frequently asked questions.
The most common of course is “Why ShaolinTiger? – Where did the name come from” and other similar questions of how did I choose it, do I like martial arts and so on.
I chose this name when I first joined the monkeys and tubes that make up the Interwebnets back in 1996 when I went to University in Liverpool.
Before that I didn’t own a computer, didn’t need a nickname and knew virtually nothing about the net. When I first got to uni they were still using Windows 3.11 and Yahoo! was king of search (makes me feel kinda old)..
And I’d heard about this thing called Internet Chat, so I chucked it into Yahoo! and out came mIRC, so I downloaded it and connected to DALnet #chatzone…that’s the start of a whole other story.
Anyway, the point is to chat you need a nick, preferably a cool one…so I knocked my head trying to think up something.
At the time I was studying Kung Fu at the local univeristy club, Hung Gar Kuen to be exact – yes the same style from the family of Wong Fei Hung.
It’s known as a style based on Tiger and Crane forms – Character Taming the Tiger Fist and Tiger Crane Paired Form Fist.
It also has some stuff on 5 elements and iron wire fist, it’s a style very much based on stance. My sifu was second generation Shaolin and spent 2 years just doing horse stance before he even did any basic moves. Sadly in the Western World such slow learning wouldn’t stick so things were rapidly accelerated.
I used to really enjoy sparring hard and the blood rushing to your head as the adrenaline kicks in.
Hung Gar was good, and was my second favourite training experience after Wing Chun.
I’ve always meant to talk more about martial arts..but I never have, is anyone even interested?
So back to my nick….. ShaolinCrane didn’t sound very cool, so I went for ShaolinTiger seen as though I was studying Shaolin Kung-Fu and it was Tiger and Crane style.
And that was that…let’s not talk about the Yahoo! e-mail address I ended up with as shaolintiger was taken even back then in 1996.
This is nuts.
People mistake her for a pitbull with a pinhead, but Wendy the whippet is one rare breed.
So rare that the Central Saanich dog recently graced the New York Times. She also had several of her photos shown on The Today Show, all because of a rare genetic mutation that has led to her being the Incredible Hulk of dogs.
Wendy is a 27-kilogram rippling mass of muscle. Forget the so-called six-pack stomach: Wendy has a 24-pack. And the muscles around her neck are so thick, they look like a lion’s ruff.
You can read about Big Wendy here.
Interestingly, whippets with the homozygous deletion also had an unusual body shape, with a broader head, pronounced overbite, and shorter legs. These whippets have also been called “bully whippets” by the breeding community due to their size, but not their temperament.
Apparently it’s a genetic mutation (Myostatin) and this is known as a bully whippet – you can read more on Wiki here.
And then check out this stacked cow.
It’s so wrong for a cow to be muscular.
“Children of Men” envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen into chaos on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The world’s youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence and warring nationalistic sects, “Children of Men” follows an unlikely champion of Earth’s survival: Theo (Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who is forced to face his own demons and protect the planet’s last remaining hope
Wow, I can’t believe I missed this one. Picked it up after some of the Ocean’s 13 crew mentioning that Clive Owen was the man and everyone should see Children of Men.
I can’t say I’ve even heard of this movie before that…and I have no idea why.
I was somewhat expecting a depressing drama kind of thing…but this, this is a stunning film, definitely the best post-apocalyptic rendition of London, rather than the mini-USA rendered in V for Vendetta. It’s banged straight in at #125 on IMDB’s Top 250 Movies!
It somewhat loosely based on a 1992 novel of the same name by P.D. James, I haven’t read the book so I can’t really judge on that part.
Clive Owen is really good as Theo and he is at his drunken, ruffled, depressed best he holds the movie all through along with relative newcomer Claire-Hope Ashitey as Kee.
It certainly is a fast paced thriller, it slows down at time for some character development and introduction of gems like Michael Caine’s pot smoking hippy friend and the old-flame Julianne Moore.
The film doesn’t let you go with the bombing at the beginning all the way through the twists and turns to the epic 30 minute battle at the end. It has many facets aswell as a socio-political commentary, it echoes some modern events, but does so subtly enough that it does distract from the main story. It also has some nice references to pink floyd, the current immigration problems in various countries (especially UK), homeland security and a few others.
The soundtrack is something else aswell, totally nuts.
Film wise, it’s beautiful shot with some extremely long continuous takes adding to the tension and most of the film was shot in natural light giving it an extremely realistic feel. It reminds me in some ways of 28 days later – the sequel of which I missed due to the fact they decided to only show it at 3pm.
It’s so un-Hollywood as well, like the scene with the blood on the camera, Hollywood would have cleaned that shit off.
I’m really glad to see people still can make good, moving films…
I suggest everyone go see this, NOW.
I give it a resounding 9.5/10.
A few more from the Kharu set I processed last night, bikini set is coming soon don’t worry 😛
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