S'pore mum wants to be a porn star

A Singaporean mum who won Miss Erotica title in New Zealand has stated that she wants to be a porn star.

Ms Audrey Tan, 27, became the first Asian to be voted in August as the most popular sex siren for her work as a nude model in New Zealand.

The single mother of two children - aged four and eight - beat eight other contestants in a contest organised by adult-theme events organiser Erotica Lifestyles Expo.

But as far as her mother in Singapore knows, Ms Tan is working in a university in New Zealand, reported The New Paper.

All she wants is punishment

BANGLADESH - After doctors in Bangladesh and India have failed to restore Rumana Manzur's eyesight, the Dhaka University teacher now has just one option open: waiting for a miracle.

"I don't know what will happen with my eyes. Now everything depends on Allah," a crying Rumana said yesterday.

She was talking to journalists at capital's LabAid Hospital, where she was readmitted on Monday after her return from India. She demanded punishment of her assaulter husband Hasan Sayeed Sumon.

An assistant professor of International Relations Department at DU, Rumana sustained severe injuries as Sumon pushed his fingers into her eyes at their Dhanmondi residence in the city on June 5.

After initial treatment at LabAid, she was taken to Sankara Nethralaya, an eye hospital in Chennai in India, on June 14. Later she was shifted to Arvind Eye Centre in Pondicherry.

Ophthalmologists there confirmed that her left eye has gone blind permanently while the retina of the other one is not responding to her brain.

"Only some miracles can bring back the vision of my daughter," her father Manzur Hossain said quoting Indian doctors.

Recalling the torture by her husband, Rumana broke down into tears.

"He assaulted me before my five-year-old daughter and left the room leaving me in a pool of blood.

"My daughter was crying. I could not see anything at that moment. My head was hit against some furniture when I tried to get out of the room with my daughter," she said.

Also a postgraduate student at the University of British Columbia in Canada, she said Sumon started torturing her within days after their marriage. But she forgave him time and again thinking of their only daughter, Anusheh.

"Please, press for his punishment."

Asked about the allegation of a romantic relation with an Iranian man during her stay in Canada, she said: "Please don't believe such fabricated allegation. Ask those I stayed with in Dhaka and Canada. Nobody can make such allegation."

Earlier, her friends at the university in Canada and the Bangladeshi community there said the accusation of infidelity is "nonsense," and is an attempt to damage her reputation.

Rumana's lawyer Elina Khan, who was present at the press briefing, fears that one of Sumon's lawyer uncles might influence the case against Sumon.

Police arrested him on June 15.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed him on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed for an attempt to murder Rumana. He was earlier remanded for three days in two phases.

Bahauddin Faruki, sub-inspector of Detective Branch, in his remand prayer said Sumon needs to be quizzed before Rumana.

Also yesterday, 45 academics, writers, lawyers, human rights activists and media personalities in a statement expressed concern that Rumana is being subjected to character assassination by a section of the media and some individuals on social media.

They condemned any attempt to justify the cruel attack on Rumana.

Meanwhile, DU teachers of international relations department in a press release demanded shifting of the case against Sumon to a Speedy Trial Tribunal.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury visited Rumana at LabAid.

Nahid ensured the family members that her assaulter will be brought to justice.

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Alice Pyne, 15, Writes ‘Bucket List’ of Things She Wants to Do – Before She Dies of Cancer

An inspirational teenage girl has created a ‘bucket list’ after being told that she has terminal cancer.

15-year-old cancer sufferer Alice Pyne with her pet Labrador Mabel

Alice Pyne, 15, suffers from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and has created a website to update followers about her progress. The teenager, who lives with younger sister Milly and parents Vicky and Simon, has a list of wishes which range from meeting Take That to staying in a caravan.

Her family is working towards helping her achieve all her goals before cancer claims her life.

The courageous youngster speaks frankly about her illness on her blog www.alicepyne.blogspot.com and has over 1,000 followers, including This Morning presenter Philip Schofield.

ALICE’S TO DO LIST SO FAR

To swim with sharks

To make everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor

To go to Kenya (I can’t travel there now but I wanted to)

To enter Mabel in a regional Labrador show

To have a photo shoot with Milly, Clarissa, Sammie and Megs

To have a private cinema party for me and my BFFs

To design an Emma Bridgewater Mug to sell for charity

To stay in a caravan

To have a purple Apple iPad but I’m not really allowed to put that on here and mum is trying to borrow one

To be a dolphin trainer (I can’t do this one either now)

To meet Take That

To go to Cadbury World and eat loads of chocolate

To have a nice picture taken with Mabel

To stay in the chocolate room at Alton Towers

To have my hair done if they can do anything with it

To have a back massage

To go whale watching

Alice was diagnosed with cancer just over three years ago and has undergone extensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.

She also received a stem cell transplant where her own treated cells were used, but treatment was not effective.

Last year more than 1,000 people signed up to see if they could donate bone marrow to Alice, along with help from the Anthony Nolan Trust, but in October a scan showed there were no more curative treatment options.

Brave Alice – who lists her occupation as a ‘full-time cancer fighter’ says on her blog: ‘I’m 15 and I have terminal cancer. I’ve created a bucket list because there are so many things I still want to do in my life … some are possible, some will remain a dream.

‘My blog is to document this precious time with my family and friends, doing the things I want to do. You only have one life … live it!’

‘It’s a bit funny me doing a blog because mum has always done these sort of things and I’ve never really being interested before.

‘Most of you know that my scan at Alder Hey wasn’t very good and that the cancer is now spreading through my body.

‘It’s a pain because there’s so much stuff that I still want to do.

‘I guess that my particular cancer is made of strong stuff (which is hard because I know I gave it my all and I’m strong and determined too).

‘Anyway, mum always tells me that life is what we make of it and so I’m going to make the best of what I have and because there were so many things I still wanted to do, mum suggested that I turn my ideas into a bucket list.

I’ve not quite finished it yet, as I keep remembering other bits, so I might add things to it as I go along.

‘I’m not expecting to do everything on it. Some of the things are just not going to happen because I can’t even leave the country now (I’m too much of a risk), but they’re on there, because they were on my ‘to do’ list at some point.

‘So, I thought it would be fun to have my list online and to tick things off and do a little update on everything I do.

‘If anyone has suggestions, please let mum or dad know because they don’t know how to do all of it yet. They’re working on it!

One of Alice’s main goals is to encourage people to sign up to the bone marrow register.

On her blog she dispels the myth that it hurts to have the procedure done.

She said: ‘I read on someone’s post that it is really painful.  Well, mostly bone marrow is taken as cells via a needle and I have had it done.

‘I was 13 when I had my first transplant and because they used my own cells, I had to have them taken out (they call it harvested) and then stored and put back in some months later after more chemo.

‘I’m not just saying this, but it really didn’t hurt at all.  I had a tiny bruise from the needles and that was about it. I was a bit tired too but I’m always tired so that may not have been the cells.’

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