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A SELFIE IS A TYPE OF SELF-TAKEN PHOTOGRAPH. We take it with a hand-held digital camera or hand phone cameras. In the latest development, it may be taken with a foot-held handphone camera!
The Oxford Dictionary has named selfie the word of the year, narrowly beating out twerk.
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WHY NOT? He’s not going to get another crash, is he?
Cabby crashes into pillar at Fernvale block void deck, then takes selfies with wreck http://bit.ly/1B4BQVU
Stomper Jarrett saw cabby taking selfies with his wrecked taxi after the vehicle crashed into a pillar at the void deck of a HDB block in Fernvale on Saturday (Dec 21).
The Stomper said the cabby had headed to fast into a bend there, and ended up crashing into the pillar at the drop-off point of the block. No one was injured during the accident.
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DEATH BY SELFIE!
Tourist Dies Taking Bridge Selfie
Polish student Sylwia Rajchel, 23, fell off bridge during ‘dream vacation’ to Spain
This was the bridge where she fell.
The Puente de Triana bridge in Seville, Spain.
(Shutterstock)
(Newser) – Vacationing in Spain was “a dream come true” for 23-year-old Sylwia Rajchel, says her mother. But that dream turned into a nightmare early today when the Polish medical student posed to take a selfie on the Puente de Triana bridge in Seville, lost her footing, and fell 15 feet to her death, reports Central European News via the New York Post. Rajchel went into cardiac arrest and died later at a hospital…
http://www.newser.com/story/198244/tourist-dies-taking-bridge-selfie.html
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Polish woman falls to death while attempting to take selfie http://bit.ly/1oqmN7x
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Taking selfies while driving an offence | http://shar.es/1maOfj
The police are aware of the selfie shots taken by the brothers that have gone viral but investigations showed that the accident was not Muhammad Yusriman’s fault.
“Preliminary investigations showed that the accident was caused by a trailer driver who lost control of his vehicle. As for the selfies taken by the Proton Saga occupants, we are unable to tell for now on when it was taken. We are investigating the trailer driver and will record statements from all the surviving victims to conclude what happened,” he said.
Taking selfies while driving an offence
Last updated on 6 October 2014 – 08:48pm
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1190360
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Fatal selfie on highway? | http://shar.es/1mnq5r
Fatal selfie on highway?
Last updated on 6 October 2014 – 09:29am
IPOH: The passengers of the vehicle involved in the deadly crash on Km256 of the North-South Expressway, after the Menora Tunnel, near here on Saturday morning, were believed to be taking a selfie with a monopod moments before the accident happened.
The alleged selfie act has gone viral on social media.
The front passenger seeming to take a selfie. Syed Azahar Syed Osman / SUNPIX
Meanwhile, a Bernama report stated that in the incident, a family trip home to celebrate Aidiladha ended in tragedy when a mother and her daughter were killed in the crash.
Norhayati Wook, 50, and Siti Yuslianis Roslan, 20, a student of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin died at the scene from severe head injuries while three other siblings suffered minor injuries.
Muhammad Yusriman, 23, who was driving the Proton Saga BLM, when met at Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital here, could not stop muttering sadly: “I’m sorry mom” as he felt guilty over the incident.
He claimed that a trailer, which had been hit by another trailer from behind, crashed into the rear of the car he was driving.
“There was a loud sound. I think the trailer driver failed to brake in time. My siblings were screaming and glasses were smashed,” he told reporters.
He said members of the public helped them out of the car.
“We were on the way from Bukit Sentosa, Rawang to Lenggong as my mother and father are from there,” he said.
He and his brother Muhammad Yusrizal, 25, suffered minor injuries while their younger sister Siti Yusliana, 12, suffered cuts on her heels.
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1189566
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BE REWARDED FOR YOUR SELFIE!
Maybank Take a tiger selfie & #m2uappselfie #humanisingbanking to win RM500! Details https://www.facebook.com/Maybank/photos/a.168159803216857.41178.168151513217686/841463899219774/?type=1 … (FB)
Maybank
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Step 1: Snap a selfie with a tiger* in it.
Step 2: Tell us in not more than 10 words, “Happy 54th Anniversary Maybank…”
Step 3: Include these two hashtags #m2uappselfie #humanisingbanking in your caption (this is not part of the word count)Upload to your Twitter/Instagram account OR post the photo to the Maybank Facebook page timeline at https://www.fb.com/maybank. Remember to set your post privacy settings to ‘Public’!You can view and send invite of your entry here http://maybk.co/529308
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DID YOU GET A SELFIE WITH THIS GROUPER? Post it on Facebook!
Star
Sunday August 17, 2014 MYT 7:00:36 AM
People flocking restaurant for selfies with 152kg grouper
Catch of the day: Workers scaling the huge grouper to be served at the restaurant in Alor Setar.
ALOR SETAR: This isn’t a fishy tale at all. Countless people flocked to a seafood restaurant here to take selfies with a 152kg grouper, which had become a “star attraction” after it was purchased from a fish wholesaler at a price tag of RM9,120.
The 2.1m fish was so heavy that it took four people to hang it up for viewing at the Hai Jing Seafood Restaurant in Jalan Mahdali here.
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Commonly known as loong tan or kerapu harimau, fish wholesaler Ng Kong Yoong, 37, said this was the biggest catch he came across since he started business three years ago in Kuala Kedah.
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Ng later sold it to the restaurant for RM9,120.
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If words appeared on your skin pic.twitter.com/IJxQd9XyMf
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9GAG
http://9gag.com/gag/a1A9Lnv?ref=fbp
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Najib is obsessed with selfies mann 
pic.twitter.com/Puhr0JpYel
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Collection of Najib‘s selfies. I wanna see his selfie with Rosmah eh. Hahaha pic.twitter.com/Y284oVDZiB
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More Selfies: fake and real
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http://theunspinners.blogspot.com/2014/04/anwar-bengkek-najib-selfie-dengan-obama.html
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http://www.bet.com/news/politics/2014/04/28/obama-doesn-t-do-selfies-with-just-anybody.html
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‘YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT!’ See Obama’s latest ‘embarrassing’ selfie [photo]
YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT!’ See Obama’s latest … – Twitchy
2 days ago – Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) April 27, 2014. Malaysian PM –> “@NajibRazak: My selfie with President Obama …
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TIME
Obama Refuses to Take Selfie With Young Girl, but Takes One With Malaysia’s PM
Society’s selfie obsession rages on
Well, here’s more proof that the selfie epidemic is still running rampant.
President Barack Obama landed in Malaysia on Saturday, and by Sunday, he’d already taken a selfie with the nation’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak.
Najib tweeted the photo:
It’s kind of awkward, right? Well, what makes it even more awkward is the fact that just days before, during his visit to Seoul, Obama totally denied a 13-year-old girl a selfie of her own.
After the President spoke to U.S. troops in South Korea, he spotted the girl holding a sign that read, “Mr. President May I Have a Selfie With You?” He did not fulfill her request, so this selfie with Najib is some major salt in her emotional wounds.
http://time.com/78357/obama-selfie-malaysian-prime-minister/
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abc news
13-Year-Old Girl Gets a Presidential Selfie Snub From Obama
How sad is this?
In anticipation of President Obama’s visit to the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan in Seoul, South Korea, today, 13-year-old Mika Taylor and her friends stood holding a bright orange sign with large block letters. The message was unmistakable: “MR. PRESIDENT MAY I HAVE A SELFIE WITH YOU?”
But the girl did not get her wish.
Obama worked his way down the rope line finally arriving where Taylor was standing with her sign. But the president took a pass, saying if he did it for her, he’d have to do it for everyone.
“Just take a picture of me as I’m going by,” Obama told her, according to TV pooler Bret Hovell of CBS News who overheard the conversation.
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Malaysiakini
11:00AM Apr 29, 2014
Selfie diplomacy backfires at home and abroad
Judging from reactions both at home and abroad, selfie diplomacy, a trick Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak just learnt and has been eager to flaunt, may be fast reaching its use-by date.
Even United States president Barack Obama has been viewed dimly for his penchant to take selfies, with his latest he took with Najib lambasted by media and observers in the US.
Najib’s awkward selfie complete with a duck face (a term to refer to the slight pouting of the lips to enhance cuteness), last Sunday with Obama may have gotten a lot of eyeballs. But along with it, came the large swell of ridicule that had been kept at bay since Najib started experimenting with this youth culture phenomenon.
Judging from the memes that have been circulating online, Malaysian netizens who had held back at Najib’s selfies with Singapore’ Lee Hsien Loong, Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan and Indonesia’s Susilo Bambang Yudhuyono, seemed unable to help it this time around.
In some ways, the Obama-Najib power selfie may have just been asking for it.
In the gaping space between Najib and Obama in the much-circulated selfie, netizens have now added a cheeky looking Anwar Ibrahim, the PKR de facto leader who made quite a scene over not being invited to meet Obama.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/261332
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ONE MOMENT, THEY WERE POSING FOR A SELFIE. THE NEXT, A BOMB EXPLODED!
The Huffington Post
Beirut Bombing ‘Selfie’ Teen Mohammad al-Chaar Dies From His Injuries (GRAPHIC PICTURE)
The Huffington Post UK | Posted: 28/12/2013 16:17 GMT | Updated: 28/12/2013 16:21 GMT
A teenager seen posing for a group “selfie” in front of a car moments before it exploded in the capital Beirut has died of his injuries.
Following Friday’s bombing in the heart of Beirut, 16-year-old Mohammad al-Chaar was seen lying on the pavement, his head bloodied, before he was taken to hospital with severe injuries.
Huffington Post UK
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OPEN CULTURE
See The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839
in History, Photography | November 23rd, 2013
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On November 19, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The term, whose first recorded use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap posted a picture of himself on an internet forum and called it a “selfie”. While devices for taking photos of oneself have been available for many years prior to the proliferation of the smartphones responsible for this phenomenon, the history of the selfie dates back to the origins of photography itself.
As the Public Domain Review notes, the first recorded instance of the selfie harkens back to what may have been the first photographic portrait. In 1839, a young Philadelphia chemist named Robert Cornelius stepped out of his family’s store and took a photograph of himself:
He took the image by removing the lens cap and then running [into the] frame where he sat for a minute before covering up the lens again. On the back he wrote “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”
http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/the-first-selfie-in-history-1839.html
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Star
Saturday December 21, 2013 MYT 8:10:43 AM
Leaders join selfie craze
Commonwealth club: Lee taking a selfie with Najib during CHOGM in Sri Lanka and posted on his Twitter account.
KUALA LUMPUR: Once relegated as something done by young girls, the selfie phenomenon is quickly catching on with society at large as even political figures are now seen doing it.
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One of the most recently talked-about selfies featured US president Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron flanking Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who was holding her smartphone up, during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.
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1968: Blogger’s first selfie, taken with a Yashica camera put on a stand.
Selfie taken in front of a mirror in a hotel in Hong Kong, 2011.
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Loose Ends
Taking Our Selfies Seriously
By DANIEL MENAKER
Published: November 23, 2013
“Selfie” is the newly crowned champion word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. It means a photograph taken of oneself by oneself but usually not for oneself — rather for the whole world — on a cellphone camera.
Many “selfies” look like their subjects are singing an aria or welcoming a guest or hailing a cab, because of the necessarily outstretched arm that precedes the hand that precedes the finger that clicks the picture, often after a previous, poorly aimed picture of one’s feet or something more embarrassing. Delete.
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Soon enough “selfies” will be history and we’ll be on to something more absurd. In fact, it must already be happening: People asking other people to take pictures of them taking pictures of themselves and posting the Möbius-like result as — what? I’m sure there will be a word for it tomorrow.
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Hopey (Nathan Hope), “It was not a word I coined. It’s something that was just common slang at the time, used to describe a picture of yourself. Fairly simple.”
Lexicon Valley
Nov. 22 2013 1:39 PM
No, a Drunken Australian Man Did Not Coin the Word Selfie
….what made the selfie news especially juicy was Oxford’s identification of the earliest known example of the word, in a 2002 science forum post on the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In a discussion about dissolvable stitches, a poster calling himself “Hopey” recounted:
Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.
The post was accompanied by Hopey’s out-of-focus selfie displaying his stitched-up lip.
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Soon there were entire articles devoted to Hopey—such as The Telegraph‘s “Australian man ‘invented the selfie after drunken night out’“—complete with the gruesome close-up of his lip and the dissolvable stitches.
In Australia, Hopey quickly became a celebrity. Since his post appeared on the ABC’s website, it’s not surprising that ABC News was the one that tracked the man down and revealed his identity. His name, it turns out, is Nathan Hope—naturally, “Hopey” was formed by the same hypocoristic method that turned self-portrait into selfie.
Hope expressed genuine puzzlement that his long-forgotten forum post, complete with misspellings, had become international news, along with the photo of his busted-up lip. And he dispelled the idea that he was somehow responsible for the word. “It was not a word I coined. It’s something that was just common slang at the time, used to describe a picture of yourself. Fairly simple.”
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Here is a selfie.
Blogger and grandson, taken in the car.
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