Asian investors are outraged after a US court last week said home-sellers no longer have to reveal that their houses were the locations of “shocking or terrible deeds”, such as murders, suicides, massacres, people watching Glee, people eating bacon sundaes, etc. As a result, people from this side of the world may end up buying US homes cursed with bad feng shui or awful karma without realizing it.
“The only option is for the Asian buyer to try to resell the house by turning the ghastly deed into a selling point,” said a reader named Tiny, who follows investment property in the US. In celebrity-obsessed America, this may work. I Googled the famous haunted house in Amityville, Long Island, and found it was last listed for US$1.15 million — while the unhaunted home used for The Amityville Horror movie was 10 percent cheaper. “Be a part of history. Buy a house where mass murderers did their thing! And they probably watched Glee regularly.”
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In his latest bizarre act, Kim Jong-un last week sent 1 kilogram of candy to every child in North Korea. How did he avoid raising expectations? Was it tree bark flavor?
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A young woman in Sanya, China, posted a message on the internet saying: “My cop boyfriend is using his police car to take me out to dinner and hot springs, how cool is that?” It came complete with pictures of herself in the squad car. The media said the post had “got the cop into big trouble” but with a girlfriend that stupid, I reckon he was already in big trouble.
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Who’d have thought that the most touching love story this month would come from a Bangladeshi zoo? A man loaned his parrot to a zoo, where it mated with a female parrot and had three chicks. Five years later, the owner used a court order to get the bird back. Left alone at the zoo, the devastated female parrot went on hunger strike. As she lay close to death, the courts reversed their decision and the world rejoiced. I can hardly type for the tears in my eyes. Actually, any report in Asia about animals in which the animal doesn’t get killed in the end moves me.
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A huge aquarium burst in a Shanghai shopping mall, showering passers-by with live sharks. This is the sort of thing that gives women a bad name. Husband: “How come your expensive new designer outfit is damaged?” Wife: “I was in a shopping mall today when these sharks flew out of nowhere…”
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Watchdogs are setting up cameras in civil service offices in Kolkata, India, to “ensure staff reach their offices by 10:30 a.m.”, the Times of India said. By 10:30 a.m. I’ve been at my desk for three-and-a-half hours! There’s something terribly wrong with the work ethic there. I wonder if there are any vacancies?
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A reader named Kanyu Wong said her tour group had survived eating the killer spicy soup from Wuhan, China, mentioned in this column last week. The secret? “You dunk every single piece of meat from the soup into water before eating it,” she said.
The writer is a journalist and columnist.
source : the jakarta post
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In his latest bizarre act, Kim Jong-un last week sent 1 kilogram of candy to every child in North Korea. How did he avoid raising expectations? Was it tree bark flavor?
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A young woman in Sanya, China, posted a message on the internet saying: “My cop boyfriend is using his police car to take me out to dinner and hot springs, how cool is that?” It came complete with pictures of herself in the squad car. The media said the post had “got the cop into big trouble” but with a girlfriend that stupid, I reckon he was already in big trouble.
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Who’d have thought that the most touching love story this month would come from a Bangladeshi zoo? A man loaned his parrot to a zoo, where it mated with a female parrot and had three chicks. Five years later, the owner used a court order to get the bird back. Left alone at the zoo, the devastated female parrot went on hunger strike. As she lay close to death, the courts reversed their decision and the world rejoiced. I can hardly type for the tears in my eyes. Actually, any report in Asia about animals in which the animal doesn’t get killed in the end moves me.
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A huge aquarium burst in a Shanghai shopping mall, showering passers-by with live sharks. This is the sort of thing that gives women a bad name. Husband: “How come your expensive new designer outfit is damaged?” Wife: “I was in a shopping mall today when these sharks flew out of nowhere…”
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Watchdogs are setting up cameras in civil service offices in Kolkata, India, to “ensure staff reach their offices by 10:30 a.m.”, the Times of India said. By 10:30 a.m. I’ve been at my desk for three-and-a-half hours! There’s something terribly wrong with the work ethic there. I wonder if there are any vacancies?
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A reader named Kanyu Wong said her tour group had survived eating the killer spicy soup from Wuhan, China, mentioned in this column last week. The secret? “You dunk every single piece of meat from the soup into water before eating it,” she said.
The writer is a journalist and columnist.
source : the jakarta post
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