Babes in Man Terrain

Women are breaking gender barriers in the traditionally "Man's Job".

 bull riding

Paige Stout, born 1994 in Texas. She is one of the few female stock contractors in Professional Bull Riders history.

 paige stout

Born in Helena Montana USA, Mesa Pate 21, is also a female stock contractor making waves in the man's arena.

       mesa pate

Nurhafizah Abu Sujad is the Singapore national soccer team’s physiotherapist. Studied at University of Sydney, the 31 year old is married with 2 children.

nurhafizah sujad

photo by Jai AK 

Maria Esther Landa 36, from Lima, Peru is one of her country's few female welders. She began learning to weld at age 18 and 10 years later with her elder sister Elvira, founded Santa Maria Industries.

maria landa

And in Canada there is The Welder Chic owned by Theresa Siochowicz 38 and Heather Greenway 28.

Theresa Siochowicz  / Heather Greenway

Lisa Mirtsopoulos and Melissa Marco work as giant dump truck drivers in Australia mining industry. The number of such woman drivers are growing.

Tina Chong is a former Guinness Beauty Queen in Malaysia. Durian plantation is generally man business. She planted her 18 acre durian orchard in the early 1990s which now has 700 trees mostly of the king of durians, Musang King.

a former Guinness Beauty Queen

a former Guinness Beauty Queen

a former Guinness Beauty Queen

Nuisance or Music

Many have been woken up from deep peaceful sleep by the calls of the Asian Koel.

As early as 3 in the morning.

female KOEL

Koel is derived from the Tamil Kuyil which describe the sound of its call.

male KOEL

But to some, it's a lovely sound of nature.

Bone of Contention

The phenomenal explosive growth of keeping pet dogs is common causes of friction between neighbors. 

The reason ? Barking dogs.

In bursting at the seam Singapore, neighbourliness is gone with the wind.

Smart Crows and Dogs

University of Washington scientists carried out an experiment to explore whether crows can identify the face of someone who is a danger to them.

In the experiment the researchers donned rubber masks of cavemen to trap and then release the crows. Thereafter researchers walked along the college paths wearing the same caveman masks to observe how the flock of crows react.




They cawed and screeched, angrily flapped their wings and flicked their tail to warn of the danger. The researchers wore masks of Dick Cheney which elicited no response.




Dogs too displayed intelligence when they sense the appearance of dog catchers.



Dog catchers would park the van a distance from the vicinity and sneak up on the strays, as described in a poem by Cheryl Li.

The sound of tyres, an engine's hum
The dog catcher's van - they've come !
Run! Hide !
But alas, caught from the side

The Humble Ass

Thanks to Andrew Zimmern, attention was drawn to donkey milk, not many people this part of the world appreciate or heard of the benefits.

Cosmetics have been created using donkey milk as the main ingredient.

Well, historians are sure that Cleopatra fill the bath tub with the milk for the radiant skin women would die for.

And yes, donkey milk has been described as liquid viagra in Santiago Chile.



Nutritionists describe donkey milk as having a lower content of fat than cow milk and as being the closest to human milk; therefore, it is richer in vitamins, proteins and many other nutritious minerals and compounds.

Maria Esther de Capovilla from Ecuador died at 116 years of age and appears to have owed much of her longevity to donkey milk. Donkey milk factories would love to use this as sales booster but according to Olivier Denys from Belgium's only donkey milk farm, "donkey milk is very good for your health, for the digestion and intestine, but we hadn't heard that it extended lifetimes." How's that for honesty.



The donkey is mentioned in the Bible 142 times and in the Quran four times. It is now well known that Joseph and Mary came to Bethlehem with a donkey as transportation. And there is this ancient saying: Do not "covet" your neighbor's wife or donkey.