Down-sizing

An KY a parttime dancer living in the United States was discovered by popular Vietnamese entertainer Thuy Nga during the latterrsquos American tour last winter While visiting a milk tea cafe where Ky happened to be working the Vietnamese comedian and television personality noticed the young girlrsquos incredibly tiny waist and decided to do a video about it She showcased the young womanrsquos tiny waist and also asked her a few questions about how she managed to get her waist circumference down to just 46 centimeters and how she maintains the extreme hourglass figure Apparently the parttime dancer had always coveted a wasplike silhouette with a tiny waist that emphasised her hips and chest and she was willing to put in the work to achieve itAt 18 when she decided to make the change she weighed over 50 kg with a waist circumference of more than 60 cm but today she weighs a measly 37 kg To reduce her waist circumference the 26yearold An Ky went from eating three meals a day to just one and sometimes even one meal every two days Moreover she stopped eating starchy foods two years ago and also wears a tight corset around her waist every day only taking it off during the nightAsked whether she was worried about the health impact of her diet An Ky said that she eats lots of vegetables chicken breast and fruits so she never feels weak The one problem she complained about was the necessary adjustments she needs to make when buying new pants Because of her tiny waist the pants need to be tightened too and that can sometimes be ldquomore expensive than the pants themselvesrdquoTaking in the trash75yearold spent the last decade filling his house with junk for their son who refused to leave the house to find a jobSBS a South Korean national television network recently reported the story of Choi a 75yearold man from Gwangju who over the last decade turned his twostorey house into a dump full of garbage gathered from the city streets and trash cans Convinced that one manrsquos garbage is another manrsquos treasure the pensioner filled up his entire house with junk before doing the same with the balconies and even the yard Choi his 70yearold wife and their son had been living in the trashfilled house for over a decade They slept in a small room because the rest of the place including the hallways were filled with junk The couplersquos son who was reportedly in his 40s just sat in the house all day doing absolutely nothing and decided to live off his parentsrsquo pension Choi said his son was the reason he spent the last decade collecting all the junkMethane from swamps provides fuel for bikeAn engineering studentrsquos ingenious new vehicle features a modified Honda GX160 motorcycle engine with a hole into the airbox through which it receives methane Inventor Gijs Schalkx then hooks a balloon filled with methane to the hole which acts as the fuel tankBEEing high on caffeineIn a new study published in Current Biology researchers found that caffeinated bees are better equipped to find target crops One group of bees was given a caffeinated reward while another group received a noncaffeinated version Bees primed with caffeine made more initial visits to the flowers emitting the target odour compared to the other bee groupsIs it an alien angel or shapeshifterNew viral footage of some strange aerial phenomenon has grabbed a lot of eyeballs A UFOmdashfor lack of a better termmdashwas spotted by an air traveller against a clear blue sky YouTuber Neal ldquoGrimreefarrdquo Evans whose channel regularly publishes sightings of UFOs and other ldquobizarrerdquo phenomena soon picked up on the new footageApps help couples stay apart and connectedJapanese couples are using apps like Line or Skype to keep in touch for hours even all through the night A couple who used the app said that they leave it open during the night so they can ldquowake up togetherrdquo This way they feel they are together even though one lives in Tokyo and the other in Ibaraki PrefectureTexas man wakes up feeling sweet 16 againA 36yearold hearing specialist Daniel Porter from Texas woke up recently thinking he was still 16 and in high school He also failed to recognise his wife His wife had to calm him down and explain that they had been married for a whileNot so dead after allA tree growing out of a pristine white salt island in the heart of the Dead Sea is the sight yoursquore treated to near the beach of Ein Bokek With a salt concentration over 10 times that of the ocean the Dead Sea is incapable of sustaining any plant or animal life and yet therersquos a tree growing there on an island made of salt Pic DuncaN Oil FacebookThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever