40-yr-old has best body!
The Peninsula On-line, 12/9/2006 3:29:52 ::: AGNS
DOHA—Hong Kong’s Chan Yun To, the reigning Asian 75kg bodybuilding champion, easily outclassed his competitors to win the gold medal [in the 15th Asian Games]….
Chan finished with a score of 10 in this evening’s final to win the top prize, ahead of Japan’s Yoshihiro Yano [age 42], who earned silver …
…at the age of 40, Chan showed his body is still in top form with his muscle definition and body symmetry far surpassing his opponents.…more…
At first this sounds odd—a 40 year old and a 42 year old taking the gold and silver in bodybuilding, respectively.
But actually, a bodybuilder’s biggest challenge is keeping the motivation going. The life of self-discipline to realize goals but that can be tough. On the other hand, these bodybuilders have results they can see late into life, unlike many sports where being 23 years old means retirement. I once met the four-gold-medal Olympics sprinter, Jesse Owens, at a Chicago promotion for PUMA shoes—He loved to repeat his sage advice about getting too wrapped up in sports: “A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
Thousands in Japan claim same address
earthtimes.org: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:48:01 GMT , OSAKA, Japan–Japanese authorities are trying to figure out how 3,300 people could all claim a 500-square-foot lot in Osaka as their legal residence. The lot, located in a residential area of the city, has a five-story building on it that contains a day laborer support office …
Let’s do the math.
Ignoring the space needed for walls, elevators, etc…
Five floors of 500 square feet comes to a total 2,500 square feet to be shared by 3,300 people which equals 1.32 people per square foot or 14.2 people per square meter.
Yes, folks…Despite the false impression given to the outside world, Japan has plenty of homeless people. The-rest-of-the-story is that homeless people in Osaka just used this one address to get their residents’ card, which they need to applying for a job or to collect from the national pension system that they paid into for 40 years or their working life.
In Japan, homeless people and day laborers are constantly harassed for “you have no address” and “you have no residential card” which prevents them from applying for a real jobs or receiving any social benefits.
Mari – diary: December 06, 2006
A Maid cafe opened in Canada. That sign is written in Chinese… The maids are very pretty…
A Japanese Maid Cafe…in Canada…with Taiwanese and Japanese maids serving Chinese bubble-tea to anime-addled, yellow-fever, white customers.
The owner of the cafe is a Hong Kong Chinese and the place serves HK/Western fusion drinks and food for cosplay/fetish impaired, otaku wannabes.
Oh, my brain hurts from the homogenization.
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