Li Ching-Yuen died in 1933.
There’s no problem here really. It is, after all, the circle of life.
The problem is: he was born in 1677! YES!! It is said that he lived for 256 years!
This is a picture of him was taken in 1927, when he was only 250 years old!
According to Li, the secret of longevity consists of four main practices:
- Keep a quiet heart
- sit like a tortoise
- walk sprightly like a pigeon
- sleep like a dog
After he returned home, he died a year later, some say of natural causes, others claim that he told friends that “I have done all I have to do in this world. I will now go home.”, and then allowed his spirit to depart.
WOW!
On Reuters Oddly Enough, I read and watched this:
Istanbul’s Club Fox on the Marmaris coast the belly dancer’s hips gyrate and tassels swirl to the music but the stomach is a little hairier than usual — it’s a man’s.
Male belly dancers are thrilling audiences in Turkey and other European capitals, drawing on a tradition dating back to Ottoman times when men in the Sultan’s palaces were entertained by young male dancers as the women lived separately in harems.
Here’s the youtube link to the male belly dancer … and …. umm, wait a second here! What was that again? The Ottomans brought male dancers to entertain them while their women lived separately in harems?
How sick is that?
No wonder they were referred to it as The sick man of Europe.
It all makes perfect sense now. 
1- Come up with a fancy name like: Aquafina, Arwa or Pure Life.
2- Come up with a fancy tag line: like ’Pure Water - Perfect Taste’.
3- Buy empty plastic bottles.
4- Fill the plastic bottlers with water, not mountain or groundwater (although you have to claim it is), but your public municipality water.
5- Sell it to naïve consumers who don’t really possess any tasting abilities.
Well that’s about it really. Easy, eh? Yes it is, and that’s exactly what Pepsi, Coca Cola, Nestle and other companies have been doing for the past God-knows-how-long.
Pepsi recently admitted that its high-selling product ’Aquafina’ is nothing but tap water, but, in a move to rectify its claims that it’s ’Pure Water - Perfect Taste’, the company announced that it will change the label on the bottle so it would say “The Aquafina in this bottle is purified water that originates from a public water source“, while Coca Cola have no intentions of changing the label on its bottles.
- Pepsi’s sales of Aquafina, in the U.S. ALONE, reached $ 2.17 billion in 2006.
- Coca Cola’s water sales in the U.S. ALONE totaled approximately $ 1.89 billion in 2006.
- In North American ALONE, Nestle’s Pure Life reported sales of $ 3,57 billion in 2006.
That said, let’s all say Evian backwards together!
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