不杀人也不眨眼
In the Blink of His
Eye? Never!
6
Aril 2007
A 17-year old Chinese fella
called Ma Shaodong (马绍东) can keep his eyes
open for 24 hours without blinking, according
to himself. During one hour interview with
Chengshi Wanbao journalist, he indeed did not
blink, not for once, according to the
journalist and two other witnesses.
Non-blinker Ma
Shaodong
But he isn’t a natural born
non-blinker, according to himself again. When
he was nine, he watched TV cartoon show Three
Kingdom’s Romance, and was romantically
attracted to an archery training method
developed by Zhang Fei (张飞). In Zhang’s quest
for being the best bow-man in the land, he
trained himself to stare at a given object
without blinking so as to enable him
performing highly focused precision shooting.
Ma Shaodong probably did not
seek to be the best archery master, but he
aspired, like most little boys and little
girls, to be able to do something unusual. It
is known that people blink about 15 times per
minute, and being able to not to blink for
hours straight is certainly something very
unusual, so the little boy decided to give it
a go. After three years diligent practice, by
the age of eleven, he accomplished his goal
and could withhold blinking for the entire
waking time until he sleeps.
For this, he becomes a legend
and is nicknamed Zhang Fei Reborn (张飞再世) and Fish Eye Boy (鱼眼少年). Boys and girls would travel
from near and far to his school just to see
he blink-not.
His blink-not kung fu not just
brings him fame, but proves to be quite
useful in his daily life, for instance, when
he needed to impress his desk mate – a
lovely girl called Xiaomei. Xiaomei shared a
desk with him, and when she watched their
teacher working on the blackboard, she was
fascinated with the teacher’s flowing
running hand and wished to learn the way of
doing it. But the teacher wrote so swiftly
and she was never able to follow the rapid
hand movements - in the blink of her eye a
character had already been done. And that was
the time when Ma Shaodong’s fish-eye kung
fu came handy.
But not all the things come
with his kung fu skill is favourable.
Computer video gaming parlours in his county,
for example, prohibite him from entering
their premises. In his never blinking eyes,
no movements of the animated action figures
slip from his attention, therefore he can not
be fooled by the visual tricks. With a chip
cost only twenty cents, he would be able to
occupy a machine for half a day – imagine
what a fool the gaming parlour owners must
have felt like.
Now a master of non-blinker,
Ma Shaodong seems to have forgotten how to
blink all together; and if he forces himself
to do so, he would fell dizzy. While he keeps
to be admired by his peers, so much to his
delight, he is continuously shunned by gaming
parlours, very much to his chagrin. Life
never means to be perfect, doesn't it?
(Original
Chinese report and photo on 城市晚报by 郑伟)
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