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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