Hip-hop: Dancing Hips and Hot Music
Interesting StuffHip-hoppers are in with their distinctive walk, baggy pants, fake clinking jewellery, and incomprehensible slang. Keith Cowboy from the band Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five first coined the term ‘hip-hop’. He repeated the words ‘hip-hop’ in a sing-song and marching rhythm to make fun of a friend who enlisted in the army. The tern stuck and hip-hop music was born.

Jessica Alba hip hop in the “Honey”
Continue reading Hip-hop: Dancing Hips and Hot Music » » »




Pak Teh is a traditional honey hunter who scales the tropical Tualang tree with heights up to70 metres in Pedu Lake in northern Malaysia. His respect for nature and traditional rituals or beliefs of the honey gathering process makes him a hero of an unusual kind. Because Pak Teh and his grandchildren adhere strictly to the cultural practices inherited for generations, the bees keep returning to the Pedu Lake to nest and produce their sweet nectar.
There needs to be a delicate balance between pride in one’s culture and acceptance of other beliefs and lifestyles at the same time. This is easier said than done. When one culture dictates norms that transgress on another’s beliefs, finding a common ground seems impossible and hostility becomes inevitable. When a culture which practices polygamy comes head to head with a monogamous society that is also struggling with AIDS, the differences seem insurmountable.