Having travelled a couple of places in my lifetime, it no longer surprises me to see people carrying stuff with their heads. In fact, people of the South East Asian region still do carry things with their heads as a norm. Like this.

It is very common to see women carrying stuff on their heads if you visit any South East Asian country.

And I thought to myself : Only people in this region know how to carry things well with their heads. Of course, we see Indians and Africans doing the same too and it really doesn’t surprises me really much.

Until I saw this clip.

What didn’t strike me was that Bangladeshis CAN do this too. And boy they can do it REALLY WELL. Watch this video and you’ll know what I mean:

My perceptions changed. Asians or Africans are no match for these Bangladeshis.

If my calculations didn’t fail me, that guy actually managed to stack 22 bricks on his freakin’ head. A brick weighs around 2kgs on average. Which means that guy will carry 44kgs on his head every round. Notice he took turns with another guy. And after that he could still balance himself on that boat and walk across the water on that thin, narrow plank.

My God.

Sigh. Imagine after a few years working like this, will he end up from this :

Normal neck length.

To this ???

Not so normal neck length.

Moral of the Story : We are still very lucky to be living in Malaysia.