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**Start This Week Laughing...

After 6 months marrying an 85 yr old man, an 80 yr old woman visited the doctor who told her she is an all-time medical miracle, as she is pregnant. Not feeling pleased at being pregnant at her age, medical record or not, she called her husband 'You rotten idiot, you got me pregnant!' There was a pause, then her husband asked finally 'Who is on the line please?'

**Victorian News Clips...

Past Victorian, Ramli Ibrahim, officiating a KLOFFE's function -

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TWIN TOWERS, KUALA LUMPUR - Tallest building on this planet, located in Malaysia. Captured by our very own Victorian, Fong Tuck Choy. If you want the exposure, speed, etc you will have to ask him.

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Two documentaries I saw recently stuck in my mind as examples of the human spirit. Terrible experiences by two persons, but best exemplify the human spirit for survival.

One is a about a woman who got lost in the Brazilian jungle for about ten days. She made her way to a river, where it was teeming with crocodiles, piranhas, and stingrays. She was a biologist and knew that it was safer to follow the river and not go back into the jungle. In the river, the danger is not from the crocodiles or piranhas, but stingrays. She walked with a stick to poke about in front to detect stingrays, while the crocodiles just dived about her whilst she kept still.

Her shoulder had a gaping wound, with maggots feeding into it as days went past. She was so weak when she saw a boat she thought she was hallucinating. She took 3 hours to climb a seven foot muddy incline and found a hut beyond. For days, she sheltered in that hut, and tried to hunt and feed on frogs, which she caught but was finally so weak from the efforts it was a struggle to put the frog into her mouth, just a few inches from her mouth. Finally, she was found by the owner of the hut who returned.

The other person is a pilot who was shot down and taken prisoner. Together with others captured, he was handcuffed and leg-cuffed day and night. They plotted and one day escaped. In the ruckus, like in a movie, he shot five guards and escaped with another prisoner. They never saw the other seven who also escaped ever again. The two of them went barefoot into the jungle and struggled for ten days. It was the monsoon and they were covered with mud and blood. Leeches covered their bodies, thiry to forty of them in bandwidths and patches.They hugged each other for warmth. One day, they saw a boy staring at them and they knelt down and greeted him and others who came running. A man ran forward with a machete and swung at one of them, then with the next swing beheaded him. The narrator got up and ran after him, and the villagers all ran away. Just moments before, the narrator and his now dead friend were so weak they were practically reduced to crawling. The narrator managed to run away after that.

Some days later, he heard an airplane and waved what was left of his clothes, and was rescued.

It looks dry on paper, but one should see both these narrators as they told their stories, particularly the narrator who saw his friend killed. For years after that, he could not sleep in a bed, but his colleagues put him in the cockpit of a plane with pillows, where he could feel safe.

The point of this article is the human spirit that is indomitable in the face of apparent insurmountable odds.