Price of Passion

What price for passion?

What are you willing to do or how much are you willing to pay to enact your passionate dream in a car on stilts?

In Amsterdam, it appears, some people are willing to ink their most intimate and not to mention, perhaps even naughty, passionate ideas, on paper to an Italian artist for a chance to enact such romantic acts in the comfort of a converted hatchback, an Opel Kadett.

Money wise, the thrill in the car - which features a double bed and is plcaed on to 13 foot high poles, costs nothing as couples get a free overnight stay in exchange for explaining their intimate ideas to the artist, Federico D'Orazio, who claims that this was created to provide a place for 'real love'.

Read more about it here:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-09-22T175345Z

And while we are at it, would you reveal your intimate ideas in exchange for something like this or others?

Amazing Nature

Have you ever wondered how mother nature never fails to amaze and amuse us just when we thought everything that there is to be discovered on this blue planet of ours have already been done and dusted?

Read the recent discoveries made by scientists from Conservation International in the Indonesian archipelago.

Pictures definately are worth a million words when we look at the very best of mother nature's gift to us here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5350666.stm?ls

Are we not lucky and truly blessed to have all these beautiful creatures sharing this living space with us?

I guess the large than life question now is for how long will these blessings be around, protected?

Only time will tell.

Islam-ic Swim Suits Have Arrived

Read the headline carefully. I was indeed surprised when I read the article about this issue at Reuter's Oddly Enough.

I mean, I must say that I can't agree more with the author's opening line - we live in a world today where flashing more skin and sporting skimpy bathing suits are the 'in' thing.

And in the midst of all these, we have a variety. One that would (most) probably solve the woes of pious Muslims worldwide. Now, isn't that what you call creative thinking?

Read the story here:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-08-31T134618Z_01_L28839747_RTRUKOC_0_US-TURKEY-SWIMSUITS.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2

and here:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-08-31T134618Z_01_L28839747_RTRUKOC_0_US-TURKEY-SWIMSUITS.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1