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Trivia: By number, what is the world’s No. 1 tyre manufacturer?

If you answered LEGO, you’re right on. Every year, LEGO’s manufacturing plant in Denmark produces 306 million tiny rubber tyres that decorated children all over the world, be it present or past.

Besides computers, LEGO played a substantial part in my childhood. I would beg my mother for a set every now and then, though often denied as LEGO sets are usually very expensive. I also got a (back then, quite out of my reach) LEGO aquanauts (I think) set as a gift for submitting a story in the monthly kids’ magazine, Kuntum. I think it’s in August 1996 edition.

Without further ado, the full story is here, and the purty pictures slidshow is here, in case you just want to browse through the pretties.

Eating is one of my favorite pastime. Now, this might surprise many who knew me, especially those who have met me in person. I don’t carry the physique of someone who indulge in gluttony every now and then, quite the opposite. It’s just that I like to spend more time eating less food.

On my way from work one fine Wednesday, I passed by a pasar malam. I haven’t been to one in months, so I pulled over. I got myself some food for dinner, and for the purpose of our discussion, 5 boiled corn on the cob for RM3.

While most people would rather eat it straight from the cob, I on the other hand find the resultant mess left on the cob quite disgusting.

So, i’d snap the cob in two and begin plucking 2 rows of corn from the center with my fingers and feed it into my mouth. Although this makes a very slow eating, but the juices are still intact and can be savoured to the very last. Delicious. After i’m done with the plucking, I’d pry the rest with my thumb into a bowl to be eaten later if there’s any, or straight into my mouth. As more of the corn could be plucked at once, this makes for a faster plucking. Repeat for the other half of the cob.

The result: clean and visually pleasant cob with no wasted kernels, no corn membranes still stuck to the cob (or in between your teeth.) A pleasurable corn-eating experience!