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As a young woman, Betty Jenkins received a gift from her mother that was meant to attract the attention of young men. But as Jenkins, who is now 94, tells her niece, the attention she got wasn't the kind she was expecting.

"I was very skinny, and I didn't have any curves. I guess my mother got kind of worried, because she didn't think I had enough boyfriends," Jenkins said.

The gift was an inflatable bra that was designed to enhance its wearer's figure. A straw-like tube was used to inflate pads in the cups.

"I was real excited, so I blew and blew to about [size] 32," Jenkins said.

But things didn't go smoothly during a plane trip in South America. The plane was flying near the Andes Mountains when Jenkins began to feel pressure and sensed there was a problem.

It turned out the cabin was not pressurized, and the bra was expanding.

"As the thing got bigger, I tried to stand up," Jenkins said, "and I couldn't see my feet."

The instructions said that the bra's pads could be inflated up to a size 48.

"I thought, 'What would happen if it goes beyond 48?'" Jenkins recalled.

"I found out what happened," she said. "It blew out."

Only one of the cups burst, Jenkins said. But the noise was loud enough to seize the attention of everyone on the plane.

"The co-pilot came into the cabin with a gun, wondering what had happened. The men all pointed to me."

Jenkins then tried to explain in Spanish what she could hardly explain in English, "that part of your anatomy just blew up."

The plane made an emergency landing, and Jenkins was handed over to the police. She was ordered to strip, as the officers looked for what they assumed could only be a bomb.

After she showed the officers the hole in her bra, Jenkins was allowed back on the plane and her trip continued.

"A month later, I got a bill from the airline for $400," Jenkins said, "for an unscheduled stop."

Her mother enjoyed the story so much that she kept the broken bra. Her mother died in 1967. As for the bra, Jenkins says she no longer has it.

I don’t know if these are posted in rank order or not, but they are the most common things kids tend to stick up their noses

1. Crayons
2. Beads
3. French fries
4. Fingers
5. Marbles
6. Spaghetti
7. Tissue
8. Cheerios
9. Small toys
10. Beans and peas

When I was 5, I had a contest with my neighbors to see who could get the most macaroni up our nose. I won the contest and couldn’t get it all out.I had to go to the emergency room to get it all removed. Not sure how many I did get up there…but I won anyways!

Tired of running out of battery for your iPhone? What you can do is to get a backup battery charger like this one, the iPhoneck Backup Battery for iPhone. It is capable of charging 60% of your iPhone’s battery life when you connect them together. And its design just matches with your iPhone. The iPhoneck Backup Battery is available for RM 115.00 or SG$ 48.00

Nikon has released the Nikon D700. That’s true, it is similar to D300 but with ‘full frame’ viewfinder and a slightly slower shutter (five frames per second up to eight frames per second with the MB-D10 battery grip). The D700 features Image Sensor cleaning (’sensor shake’), more flexible ‘hard button’ programming, virtual horizon in Live View and different DX mode indication on the focusing screen. Unique part will be its built-in flash, it is the first professional DSLR to feature it. It is available for RM9,825-RM9,999 for the body only. Check out more details after the break.

Nikon D700 Key Features:
- 12.1 megapixel full-frame sensor (8.45µm pixel pitch)
- Image Sensor Cleaning (vibration)
- ISO 200 - 6400 (with boost up to ISO 25600 and down to ISO 100)
- Also supports DX lenses, viewfinder automatically masks (5.1 megapixels with DX lens)
- 14-bit A/D conversion, 12 channel readout
- Same ultra-fast startup and shutter lag as D3
- Nikon EXPEED image processor (Capture NX processing and NR algorithms, lower power)
- New Kevlar / carbon fibre composite shutter with 150,000 exposure durability
- Multi-CAM3500FX Auto Focus sensor (51-point, 15 cross-type, more vertical coverage)
- Auto-focus tracking by color (using information from 1005-pixel AE sensor)
- 95% coverage, 0.72x magnification viewfinder
- Auto-focus calibration (fine-tuning), fixed body or up to 20 separate lens settings
- Scene Recognition System (uses AE sensor, AF sensor)
- Picture Control image parameter presets
- 5 frames per second continuous with auto-focus tracking
- Optional MB-D10 Battery Pack (same as D300), increases burst rate to 8 fps
- UDMA compatible single CF card slot
- 3.0″ 922,000 pixel LCD monitor
- Live View with either phase detect (mirror up/down) or contrast detect Auto Focus
- Virtual horizon indicates if camera is level (like an aircraft cockpit display)
- HDMI HD video output
- ‘Active D-Lighting’ (adjusts metering as well as applying D-Lighting curve)
- Detailed ‘Control Panel’ type display on LCD monitor, changes color in darkness
- Magnesium alloy body with connections and buttons sealed against moisture
- Improved Info display on main screen

So maybe you're not Miss or Mr Popularity in real life. But faking it in the cyber world is a little easier, thanks to social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster.

Here are a few tips

1. Start by signing up at one or even all of the websites.

2. Customize your page so it looks like you have lost of things to say. This gives people more things to comments about. Facebook lets you add applications like games, quizzes and even a graffiti wall, which encourage interactions with your friends.

3. Then start adding some people to your friends list (you can start with people you actually know) then go through their friends list to see who else they have added. See somemore you've only met once or twice? That could count as a friend, so start adding friends to your list!

4. when you've got your list build up, don't forget to leave messages , comments and post items on your friends' page. That way, you'll be building up your presence and other people will notice you too. This will get people to come and visit your page, and leave messages while they're there. Online popularity isn't just about the number of firneds you have - it's also about staying in touch and the amount of interaction going on between you and a person.