Everytime when there’s news of incoming twins, triplets, quadraplets, you name it, people shreak! scream! faint! and rejoice! Feelings are mixed. Happy and worried as they might not turn out as they thought they would be. Not everytwin are like dee and char you know? Therefore, we are very lucky =)

the bush twins

You know what people say about ‘finding their half’? Well, my half is char, that is for sure! biologically proven! Twins, we have our own ups and downs. Not everything is fine about being a twin. But of course, the good side of being a twin is very obvious and noticable so majority thinks it is a good thing to have a twin. Maybe. Maybe not. But one thing is for sure, we are each other insurance! No kidding! Whenever i need a liver or a kidney, just ask char. Insurance for life!

Basically this post is about tributes of the twins around the world eventhough we are not dead yet. Ha ha! Here are some photos of some famous twins (beware of semi nude photos)

ugly twins from the matrix.

the olsen twins. not a fan of them XD but hey! i wish i could dress like them!

fred and george from HP. don’t they look charming and inno here? reminds me of us.

And a funny photo of an old pair of twins!

OK those are the happy twins with good luck and fortune trailing with them. Unlike these 2 pair of twins. These are conjoined twins and i’m pretty sure you might know this pair. The Bunker borthers a.k.a Chang and Eng!

Here is their story:
Born on May 11, 1811 in a tiny village along the Mekong river, the brothers were xiphopagus twins, joined by only a small band of cartilage at the sternum. Their livers were fused but were each independently complete. Through practice they were able to stretch the tissue that connected them and stand side-by-side rather than facing one another. This gave the illusion that they were joined at the side, and even today conjoined twins are frequently depicted as joined side-by-side by a sliver of tissue. Separation of Chang and Eng would have been extremely easy, even with 19th century medical technology. Ironically, the boys were three-quarters Chinese and known in their native village as ‘The Chinese Twins’.
At age 17, the boys were brought back to America by the showman Abel Coffin, whose associate had initially discovered them in 1824 while they were swimming. In America they toured with P.T. Barnum until their retirement in 1839. They adopted the last name Bunker in 1844, their original Siamese last names having been lost when they joined showbusiness. While in North Carolina, Chang and Eng began to date Adelaide and Sarah Ann (or Sally) Yates, respectively. They were scheduled to marry but locals disapproved strongly of the brothers’ courtship of the girls and even threatened them. Fearing for their lives, the brothers arranged for a separation surgery, begging to be separated even if it meant killing them both. However, the sisters intervened just before the operation and married the twins in a quick double-wedding ceremony. One couple purchased a farm adjacent to the brothers’ original property and the brothers built separate houses and raised tobacco. From then on, they spent alternating nights with their wives in their own houses and together fathered 22 children (10 were Chang’s, 12 were Eng’s). However, several of the children died in infancy or early childhood.

In 1874 Chang, the stronger and more stubborn of the twins and a heavy drinker, contracted pneumonia, which was worsened by the carriage trip in the rain between the two farms. He died rather suddenly during the night of January 17. Eng awoke to find his brother dead, and he called for his wife and children to attend to him. According to some stories, the family sent for a doctor to perform an emergency separation, but Eng had died by the time the doctor arrived. By other accounts, Eng refused to be separated from his dead brother. He died three hours later.

The twins’ fused liver - the only organ the twins shared - is still preserved in formalin at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is exhibited alongside a plaster death-cast of the twins.

I found a pair of sumo twins too!

i wonder how do they wrestle?

Coming up! my friends! Not many actually. Don’t know why.

lester and leslie

xavian and xavier

Not too long ago i made this Twins Society in Friendster, now i have 30+ members! How cool! mainly from msia and philipina! but it is not active. but still, twins! so many. tata for now.