An age-old lie

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age - Lucille Ball

Fine arts

Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every 6 months.

Depicts 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror.

Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every 30 seconds.

Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.

Bicycle Designs 2000

10 powerful women

Forbes’ 2008 list of the top 10 most powerful women in the world:

1. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

2. Sheila Bair, chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, USA

3. Indra Nooyi, chief executive, PepsiCo, USA

4. Angela Braly, chief executive, WellPoint, USA

5. Cynthia Carroll, chief executive, Anglo American, Britain

6. Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive, Kraft Foods, USA

7. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, USA

8. Ho Ching, chief executive, Temasek Holdings, Singapore

9. Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive, Areva, France

10. Anne Mulcahy, chief executive, Xerox, USA

Nobody...

In a few hours' time, the people of Permatang Pauh constituency will cast their votes for a new MP. It'll take a brave man (or woman) to bet against Anwar being elected.

Winning or losing, depending on which side of the fence you are on, comes with a price to pay. The fear of losing reveals all human weakness and character flaws, even for the fence-sitters.

Let's face it, Malaysia's will never be the society that we all can be proud of calling "home" if some of the politicians and lawmakers wouldn't know how to stop making a fool out of you and me by parading their own uglinesses to the rest of the world. Period.