Disneysea Kawaii Japanese Kids Pictures

Saw some usually Kawaii but unusually friendly japanese kids when me and mom went to Tokyo Disneysea. I promised that i'd post the pictures for them to look at here, so here they are!
Initially wanted to send them the pics through email but the language barrier was too great (a common hazzard in japan) i just gave them my blog's address. In any case the impression i get is that none of them has an email address in the first place. Btw, you guys made my day! Hope to see you all again someday somewhere somehow!

By Cylon! Where have i been!

Okay, haven't been updating for a long long time. Some will come soon, watch this space, lots to say.

P.S: to the Japanese kids i met at Disneysea, if you've been checking and didn't see any photos, Gomenasai! It's coming right up neh, by today!

First paper over.

Jurisprudence paper is over. Four more to go. Next one is HRM on 20th, 9 days to prepare, it'll be alright. 3 hours is honestly not enough to cover jurisprudence, so much for me to say and argue about yet so little time! Only managed to answer 3 out of 4 required, damn my time-management skill is really bad. But i'm confident that i'll pass.

Moving on to another subject. I find suicide intriguing, i mean suicide the phenomenon, it's not like i'm contemplating committing suicide or anything. I was first scientifically introduced to the topic through my sociology class, Emile Durkheim the researcher that one's supposed to be familiar with in relation to the subject of suicide. Recently, i read an article citing that 2 groups of South Koreans, 5 and 3 persons respectively, committed group suicide. Then i read the comments from fellow netizens, one caught my attention: "It wasn't their choice to be born. Why should they be forced to stay? It's kind of mean to bring someone to this world, without their say, and then tell them they cannot leave. Just another form of kidnapping. - 'Dan' " And i thought, wow he's right.

Another mind-broadening moment. That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

Group Suicide Article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_suicide#mwpphu-container

Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Engulfing Europe, Affecting World.

The Eyjafjallajoekull volcano erupted on 14th April, spewing out huge amounts of ash out to the sky, engulfing across Europe covering as far as Russia, Spain, Italy and Ukraine.

This affects sky travelling to and from Europe, stranding lots and lots of passengers of cancelled flights in airports.

The flights were cancelled because the ash is a combination of sand, rocks and glass, which obviously is dangerous to planes that tries to brave the sky.

Not only stranding passengers at airports and causing logistics problems for food and accomodation, this natural disaster also cause an overwhelming demand and thus clogging up sea and land travelling, delaying an already packed football fixture schedule on a world cup year. World leaders are also unable to attend the Polish President's and the other victims' funeral, less business from tourism at other countries.

There's also been talk that this eruption could possibly cause another economic crisis, especially in Europe. Reportedly, Airlines are losing $200 million per day because of this(17000 out of 22000 flights cancelled!). And with estimations that the ash clouds will not shift till late next week, meaning the air-travel ban wouldn't be lifted until then in some areas, there's fear that many Airlines will require government bailouts.

There are some incredible pictures related to this story, check it out.
Eyjafjallajoekull Eruption Pictures: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8627244.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8625813.stm

Something about this car...

I swear that the avian population of Singapore has some vendetta against our car. Of all the cars in any given parking lot, they just have to take a shite on ours. And yes i DO check the other cars.
Is it because it looks good? Ugly? Smells good? What???!!!
Tell me oh my flight-capable cousins!
Because as much as you do it because it brings good luck, i can't buy 4D because of religion! So i question your wisdom oh my chirpy friends.
Oh well, it's not just 4D that requires luck. Hopefully my general well being is now blessed by the good fowl excrement.
Well i guess it's ok since it's been raining a lot lately and so it's washed away. Nature giveth and nature taketh.
That's all for this post. Goodbye~~~

Polish Political Pyre

My mouth literally dropped after reading this article. The Polish President, Army Chief of Staff, National Bank President are among the casualties of a jetplane crash. 3 key top-level government officials gone in one fell swoop. This would make such a good foundation for a conspiracy-thriller movie.

The article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_plane_crash

4/4/2010 & 7/4/2010

StPol & Tox hm 0400.

Alice.

Saw Alice in Wonderland in 3-D 2 sundays back with Mr.Blue and Mr.Greene. The movie was ok, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Witch was very entertaining hahaha. Off with his head! Anne Hathaway as the White Witch was over-the-top comical, what's with the exagerrated gestures man. One thing though, the 3-D for this movie is not so clear, found out that actually the movie wasn't shot with a 3-D camera, instead they converted it into 3-D after the shoot. That explains the blurriness at certain parts even with the 3-D glasses. Even i noticed it and it's my first 3-D movie.

The first leg of the Champions League Quarter-Finals between Manchester United and Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena finished with the scoreline of 2-1, with Bayern Munich winning the match. Even though it's a loss, Manchester United have the very important away-goal so that's a good advantage to have on the next leg at Old Trafford. Wayne Rooney got injured though, i hope he's not going to be out for too long, he's the one who got the away goal for Man Utd and this season he's the main man for getting goals. 34 now for this season!

That's all for now, goodbye~~~

26/03/2010

Code AMD, Third of the Year. Mine-7D.

25/03/2010

Tox, hm 1050, crane.

March Madness.

Yesterday i was inspired to walk home from City Hall. Total Distance covered according to streetdirectory.com is 6.70 km. Took me about 1 1/4 hours.

I learnt some lessons though:
1.To not do it out of the blue ever again, i must've looked like some lunatic with my sweat-drenched star wars baggy shirt, jeans and schoolbag.
2.To always keep my toenails short, when i got back home there was blood on my socks. The constant abrasion from my toenails caused my feet to bleed. Hmmm so that's what caused the ant-bites feel on my feet.
3.Always have a water bottle handy.
4.Wear comfortable shoes.

Felt good when i reached home though, going to train till i'm able to jog there continuously after exams are over.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

The Deja Vu of Munich.

I'm a big fan of football (soccer, that is). Just love it. Of all the teams in the world i'm a die-hard fan of AC Milan; in England i support Manchester United; used to support Bayern Munich in Germany because i worshipped Oliver Kahn after the 2002 World Cup. But i'm missing the point of this post.

I'm typing this post right after watching a football match between Frankfurt vs Bayern Munich. Which Bayern lost 2-1. But before typing anything further, a little history. In the Champions League final of 1999 a legendary match occured, Manchester United met Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou (home stadium of FC Barcelona, which has a maximum seating capacity of 98000). On the 6th minute Mario Basler scored for Bayern, looked comfortable throughout the match, limited Man Utd to few chances. But what made this match legendary is that in the final few minutes, of extra time(!), Manchester scored 2 and won the match 2-1 (completing the treble of trophies, etc etc). Back to today Bayern have just lost a match 2-1, again at the last few minutes of normal time though (87th min. and 89th min.) Deja Vu? It definitely was for me.

Coincidentally, Manchester United and Bayern Munich are set to meet again in the Champions League but for a quarter-finals tie this time, just a few days before the Frankfurt game. Did that game show that the ghost of Manchester United are still haunting Bayern Munich perhaps? Is it really a coincidence that a few days after the quarter-finals draw was made, Bayern Munich lost their first game in 19 games in a fashion so unbelievably similar to THAT game nearly 11 years ago? Is this an omen that there'll be another Bayern Munich Deja Vu come April? I really hope so.

Manchester United for the win! Goodbye~~~

The curious case of life.

Saw an interesting movie just now, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Very deep movie, i'm such a sucker for deep movies. Call me boring, ahahaha. But still, isn't it interesting to realize that everything comes full circle. That even if you get younger instead of older everyday, to live your life the wrong way around, at the end of the day you'll encounter the same old problems that any human being would encounter. Another thing that we should realize is that to grow old is actually to grow young again. So to people that fear getting older, take heart! Getting old is the road to getting young. So i guess the human obsession is not getting old but looking old.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

Jelly of Life.

The pursuit of immortality has perplexed many a great minds, corrupted even more, destroyed still even more. And yet thousands of years of civilized human existence later, no answer has been found to the quest of eternal life. How is it then that an animal that does not have a central nervous, digestive or circulatory systems among other things achieve it. Oh did i mention that it has no brain either? To know more, read the article.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

Article: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/26/the-world-s-only-immortal-animal.html

Convinience over safety?

Was driving along nicoll highway, then i noticed this older and bigger gentleman trying to cross to the busstop opposite suntec city. There's an overhead bridge to get yourself over to the bus stop! The existence of this bridge is because pedestrians shouldn't cross the road, it is perpetually busy! But still this 'brave' gentleman crossed through the road anyway. The even weirder thing is that he needed to cross two roads to get to the busstop, so not only is he crossing from the more dangerous way but also the longer way. Come on people, stairs won't kill you. Well actually anything can kill you, but still isn't it the better option than jaywalking through a highway? So it may be longer, but use it anyway because everything has it's purpose of existence so we should make use of it especially if it may just safe our lives, right?

That's all for now, goodbye~~~

19-03-2010

Code AMD, Second of the Year.

Long time no write.

Been awhile since i last posted. Many things happened in between. First, Mr.Godzilla visited for a few days, as usual we went around to shop for his two obsessions, Armani Exchange and Jewellery. He didn't really buy anything this time round which is a bit of a miracle. Then at night we went to eat some reallllllllllllly good black pepper crab along with Mr.Jewellery and Miss.Singtel. That was some good stuff.

After that my cousin visited for a few days to attend a course on his field, he's an ophthalmologist, that's mambo jambo lingo for eye specialist. One thing that's similar between Mr.Ophthopuss and me is that we're both really into movies, books, games, collecting toys, geeky stuff like that. So while he was here, i brought him to walk around in orchard for a bit and then, onto toy paradise at Plaza Singapura. He managed to suppress the urge to buy something though! Some strong willpower there! He did though buy the whole Nightmare on Elm's Street series. Other than that went to Sentosa to check out the casino and Universal Studios, too bad it's still closed by then, we would've had so much fun.

Bought a 1TB External HD at the IT Fair, as well as..... finally! My very own SLR Camera! Yay! Canon 450D! Not the latest but should be good enough for a newbie like me, gonna test around before upgrading later on. Was tempted to buy PS3 but.... let's leave it till next time for now. One gripe that i really have to say about the IT Fair though, what's up with the closing of every single parking spots of Suntec City man, that's so retarded. Why the fish would you close it all when it's not full in the first place! If full then fine i understand, but when i saw the number 160-something space still available! Let's not go there... In the end i parked at Esplanade, sheesh. Oh well a bit of an exercise won't kill me, i'm still mad about the idiocy of it all though. Stupid of me too for not turning up earlier but hey i thought since it's still just thursday the crowd won't be so crazy. Obviously i was wrong. I got what i needed, in and out in less than an hour, so overall i'm very happy.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

An American Rant. A Moronic Chinese.

Wasn't supposed to post anything for this week, but i couldn't resist after seeing this comment post from an article which i shall dub 'Moronic chinese dude'. The comment itself does not really link explicitly, so to know more about the 'Moronic chinese dude' article, click the link below.

FYI TSA = Transport Security Administration. Enjoy:

By 'Elizabeth B'
"The real terrorists are the TSA. Take my word for it, after being sexually assaulted at Charlotte/Douglas in April,2009 en route home through Phoenix. The excessive and brutal treatment of airline passengers physically violates innocent people with examinations reserved for those arrested for violent crimes. Physical invasion is, not only unconstutional (if there exists one in the first place) and ungodly humiliating. It is serving as a deterrent to people bent on air travel through physical assault, sexual violation, and mental stress and humiliation. No matter how many incentives the airlines offer, it cannot restrict the federal government on it's imposition of this type of cruelty upon the American traveller. This type of treatment, the government hopes, will make Americans think twice before even wanting to travel. The term 'staycation' was coined to interest Americans in staying close to home as an 'alternative' to freedom of movement and travel. The government has invested alot in monitoring and controlling how, when and where Americans travel. This is not what our forefathers fought for, nor the illusion of outside 'terrorism' as a psychological means to control the general public. Imagery has long been used to control societies in order to create boundaries based upon fear. Fear-based propaganda was created on September 11, 2001 in order to rob the American people of their most basic rights. TSA is the control arm of the government in order to police this action. Because Osama bin Laden, in my opinion, does not exist, at least in the practical sense. He is a shadowy creation held up as an 'evil' icon in order to keep the 'threat' fresh and plausible. With Osama remaining in the background, there persist the myth of impending 'terrorism' against the country through this imagery and a concocted fabrication of his 'existence'. It fuels the 'threat' and makes these restrictions neccessary in order to perpetrate these controls. The American public continues to be held hostage to this control.

Never before have our rights been severly challenged. World War II was a bona fide example of how an established world conflict could have jeopardized our rights. The American public continued to rightfully enjoy the freedoms entrusted by the constitution, despite a war on two fronts. Stateside civilians travelled widely and freely, despite the German and Japanese threats. Restrictions were confined to the European and Asian theatres, yet Americans on American soil still moved about with greater mobility than of today, and the government did nothing to prevent this. With the exception of the Japanese internment camps established on the west coast, the majority of Americans could go anywhere they wished without physical assault or interference by the US government. In fact, at the time the American people lived by a tight code of mutual respect. Today, the US government hardly respects the American public; Washington has a deep contempt of the population and it shows with great regularity. From physical invasion to sexual assault, the ability of free travel by American citizens has become a thing of the past. It is through the strongarm TSA that this contempt and disrespect of the American people shows through. As if this is not enough, comes the legalized pornography called 'Full Body Scans'. In Great Britain, this violates their child protection laws.

British newspapers have released photo imagery of these pictures for the public to see. The images show quite clearly human genatalia with such detail that it violates their child pornography laws. The United States cannot resist flexing their muscles only within the boundaries of the 50; they must inflict this deliberate invasion upon other nations as well. With all such 'safety' measures in place, i wonder how many people will continue to buy into this 'threat'? How many will continue to subject themselves to this type of rape?"

Note: on "cannot resist flexing their muscles only within the boundaries of the 50", the writer meant the 50 states of USA.

I'm awed with this particular netizen, the post was so well-written and eloquent. I wonder who he/she really is.

Moronic chinese dude: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20100309/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_newark_airport_evacuation_suspect#mwpphu-container

We will be rocked.

Today, an earthquake of scale 8.8 hit Chile, 1 1/2 months after the earthquake at Haiti struck. The Haiti earthquake which killed more than 200,000 people was only 7.0 on the richter scale! I thought that this year has been particularly disastorous, with only 2 months going, 2 devastating earthquakes struck. But in reality, earthquakes are actually quite common, i just found out that from 1st Jan - 26th Feb, a total of 67 earthquakes were recorded, that's not counting the tremors of each instance afterwards, for example the Haiti earthquake 15 more instances of quakes of varying scales were felt after the initial one.

After this latest earthquake in Chile, a tsunami warning has been raised for areas from Hawaii to the Phillippines to New Zealand. A total of 53 nations were given tsunami warning. Interestingly, the largest earthquake ever recorded happened around the same area in Chile, and it was in the scale of 9.5!!

After all this, now i realize that i really don't know too much about earthquakes. Initially i wanted to type about doomsday and what's happening to the world due to our excesses and such. A bit of treehugging. But in actuality, i'm ignorant! Must find out more when i have time.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

What you want? What you need?

Saw an episode of 'Superhuman' on BBC Knowledge. The episode talked about bodypart replacement. I'm not going to talk about the medical/technical side of it, i'm not knowledgable enough anyway. What intrigued me is some of the meaningful quotes in the episode.

First "What you want may not be what you need." The risk of getting a biological transplant is that the patient has to consume many drugs for the rest of their lives to repress the immune system. The immune's system purpose is to defend us from alien substances in our body regardless whether it is harming us or not. So because of this, the immune system would attack the transplant's cells because obviously it is someone else's cell structure and hence our immune system rejects it. In short, it's risky, and so what that particular patient said is that if a person have a good social life, good work relationship and a supportive family, don't do it just to make yourself feel and look good.

Another one is "I'm a see-food person, i see food and i eat it." Hahaha, for your information this guy has got heart problems and is waiting for a heart transplant in hospital. So jokes aside, don't do what he does and eat moderately and healthily to have a better quality of life.

And finally, "It's frightening to think that my life depends on another person's death." To get a heart transplant, the donor obviously has to be dead. This shows regardless of what really happened on any particular situation a certain level of guilt will always be felt by the beneficiary (unless of course he's morally inept). So before doing anything rash which you may think noble and will benefit others by being selfless, think it through first and think whether they'd really be grateful or be burdened by it.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

Bit of an update.

3 days since i last posted. Been busy so yeah. 2 days ago met up with the usual gang, the Warlords, Mr.Misanthropist, Miss Mango and Miss Sleepy. The occasion was to celebrate Mr.Sengoku's birthday, though the real day is the day after but everyone could only made it on tuesday. We ate japanese food, still a bit sick so the only one who didn't eat spicy ramen is me. Had prawn noodle for lunch anyway so i wanted rice. Miss Mango, Mr.Misanthropist and Mr.Shanks ate 4-Chilli-level. Only Mr.Shanks struggled a bit. Mr.Sengoku and Miss Sleepy ordered the 2-Chilli-level and the Admiral visibly suffered. His sweat's no joke, poor thing. Had dessert before we went to watch "Percy Jackson and the lightning thief". Miss.Sleepyhead didn't join us though, had to leave so that she can wake up for work. The movie was a typical one, but well-made. Then went home!

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~ and Happy 25th Birthday Admiral Sengoku!

Boggled mind filled with theoretical thoughts.

Finally finished reading Hart, a day late to the misson's objective. Regardless a valid excuse or not, i've been sick. Next mission would be to practice economics as much as i can as well as finish reading international relations study guide. Hopefully i can regurgitate what i've read successfully in a written essay and a bigger hope is that i've understood the terms and theories and arguments correctly. Things like law backed by threats, coercive orders, duty imposing and power conferring rules, primary rules, secondary rules, rule of recognition, change and adjudication, validity, internal and external points of view and statements.

Man, can't type anything random or interesting right now after all that. I fear that i'd forget and lose what i just read. Though deep down you and i both know that it is futile and that it's going to happen and at some point i'll have to read it again to remember. Where got time to read so many things la like that!

On that sobering and depressing note, that's all for now. Goodbye~~~

Tigerish pussycats.

There was a Tiger special on NGC (that's National Geographic Channel), and they were showing this documentary called Living with Tigers about two researchers Dave Salmoni (how can anyone forget that name!) and John Varty trying to reintroduce two Asian Tigers into the wild but in Africa. So what they did is essentially what a mother tiger would do, that is teach the two young tigers how to hunt for themselves and survive in the wild. First, they got them to get used to the new surroundings, then teach them on hunting guinea fowls, then on to gazelles, then wildebeests.

The funny thing is, when they introduced ostriches into the enclosure, the tigers got so scared and traumatised! They hid in the bushes without doing anything for a week! Apparently they got scared because of the feathers of the ostriches which confused the tigers on their actual size and so deterred them, and also because the ostriches are big and stands on two feet. What they normally hunt and eat had all been four legged creatures. But in the end though the researchers got them to be comfortable around ostriches and hunt them too. Interesting eh?

Speaking of Tiger, no it's not gonna get any better, so just play annd talk golf and talk about nothing else Mr.Woods. What you do is your business and if you don't want to make it anybody else's business don't talk about it. If you wanna clear your conscience then do it by getting your wife's forgiveness and not anybody else's. Whether you say anything or not, they're still going to criticize you so why bother.

On a personal note, my One Piece collection welcomes new additions. 22 new additions that is. Got a message from the shop that the One Piece Skypeia Anychara i ordered arrived and i duly went and collected! Plus got myselves bleach gashopons. Now i have the full collection of all 13 captains (ex or otherwise) of the Seiritei. Kurotsuchi Mayuri finally attained. Also, my flu's getting better. The runny nose and bad coughs subsided, but it's still there. Should be ok soon.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

The beginning of the creation of a man-made universe?

Ok, i admit, i'm a sci-fi geek. Nothing wrong with that right? Anyway, i was (again) reading random news as usual around yahoo and i came across this article of scientists who's trying to recreate the "Big Bang" in a laboratory setting, they used the Relativistic Ion Heavy Collider or RIHC (remember this invention?). Without getting too technical, the amazing thing is that they managed to reach a temperature of 4 TRILLION degrees celcius. Youch. I don't think the term "Smokin' " is enough to explain how hot that is.

The achievements of scientists in their quest to explain the creation of the universe scientifically, ie. with proof, ie. reproducibality, recently has been astronomical. The very first Hadron Collider was first completed in 1971, and it's operational till 1984. Now the most recent upgraded version is the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), which some may remember started it's experiments on September '08 (although the LHC's completed on April '07), and some may also remember that 9 days later it's operations are halted due to a fault between two superconducting bending magnets. For more read the wiki on LHC.

Anyway, with these inventions and the success of the experiments and the continuous upgrades of the colliders, i wonder if it's not long until scientists successfully reproduced a "Big Bang" and thus create a man-made universe. How exciting is that! A man-made universe means man-made planets, meaning man-made lifeforms which we would then be able to control from start to finish and not do the known irreversible mistakes that we have done on our current world. Granted, as humans we will continue to make mistakes but at the very least we won't be doing the big ones again, ie. global warming, over-exploiting resources that would cause imbalances in our eco-system and endanger our own long-term survival. Especially for our future generations. Another life-long argument would also be put to an end, hint-hint, evangelicals know what i mean, righto? Let's leave that for another time.

That's all for now, goodbye~~~ Go science!

News article: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100217/tts-us-science-physics-972e412.html
LHC Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

A branding problem.

Ever heard of "1000 years of good work, ruined in a second" ? I'm sure you have. Obama's been sweet-talking China ever since he's president. But of course he just had to waste all that effort by selling weapons to Taiwan as well as meeting with the Dalai Lama. Anyway, this post is going to be me ranting a bit. About what you ask? About fools that doesn't feel embarassed doing embarassing stuff but embarassing others. The ranting's brought about by this particularly embarassing news (for Indonesians that is). A guy lost all his money at the casino and then he stole at the airport, the guy's of course an Indonesian as you might've guessed. Read the article for more details.

The Indonesian population as a whole are going to get so much stick just because of this one moron. In any case, besides ranting about the moron, couldn't the press be a little more delicate by reporting it like 'Tourist' instead of 'Indonesian' or something? Sigh, i myself know i'm being unreasonable in saying that. People are gonna remember this and brand us all in the same league as this goon. Same goes for what's been happening with Toyota, they'll be forever remembered by this one humongous mistake and receive bad press for a long long time to come. People won't trust them and they'll lose tons of money. All that years and years of reliability forgotten. They probably won't recover from this flub ever.

Know why there's so much negativity in the world? Because it's so much easier to remember than positive stuff that's why.So remember people, be positive! I can say the same way to myself, who knows maybe people won't actually find out about this news except me. Yeah right...

That's all for tonight, goodbye~~~

Article: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038033/1/.html

Two rhinofed-s a day keeps the flu away?

Past few days have been really hot and humid, even at night. But can't use the AC for long because of my flu. Yes, i fell sick, again... What's new eh? Probably got it from mom, who was sick before. There was a slight lag though, 'cos she recovered already a few days before i got it. So she might be innocent after all. Anyway, started taking rhinofed since yesterday, hopefully i'll get better real soon.

Was browsing some articles and i found two especially interesting ones. First, an obama statue was made and placed at a Jakarta park. But now it's been removed because a lot of people were complaining that we (Indonesians that is, which i am) should be honouring our heroes more than Obama. I agree, since he's not Indonesian anyhow. Plus it's not as if he's done anything for the better of Indonesians, which by the way is not his responsibility, he's got enough problems as is in US of A. The statue(of obama when he was 10) was relocated to the school that he attended when he was in Indonesia.

The second one is from Switzerland, which if you were paying attention during Social Studies when you were in secondary school, practices a direct democracy system. An initiative requires 100,000 signatures while a referendum require 50,000 (read the article on what the differences are if you don't remember your social studies). The important point of this second article is that an initiative was brought out, with 144,000 votes, so that animals are able to be represented by a lawyer for animal abuse cases. Read the article for more.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~

Article 1: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100215/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_obama_statue
Article 2: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1963933,00.html?xid=yahoo-feat

Clownish comedy.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! The year of the tiger is upon us, which means that i've been in this world for two full constellation years! Also Happy Valentine's day to those fortunate enough to have significant others. Moving on...

Was browsing channels earlier, and on Parkinson (a british chat show) one of the show's guests remarked that his being in the comic business for 54 years owe to his philosophy of "Not putting off things till tommorrow. Do it today and if you like it, do it again tommorrow." He further said that "People only retire to start doing things that they enjoy, and i see no reason why i should retire being a comedian when i'm bloody enjoying it." At the point of interview he's 80 and even though i just saw the episode i can't remember his name! Didn't manage to catch the guestlist during the end credits.

Anyway i'm gonna try my best and apply this philosophy myself in my bid to become a better person and achieve and do more this year. Which is my new year's resolution, this will be my year! Been a chronic underachiever for far too long...

Oh before i forget, Mr.Underscore's daughter is born, don't know when but Congratulations anyway!!! Heard this news from Mr.Shanks and he also told me that her name, wooops almost wrote it down just now. All names of the people i know shall remain as an alias!

That's all for now, goodbye~~~

New Week, Old Friends.

Been out a lot more than usual lately. Met with Mr.Godzilla who arrived from melbourne, accompanied him for most of the 2 days that he's here, doing his usual manic shopping of bling-blings and AX. Good to see him though, ate lots of good and sinful food with his cousin, as well as with Mr.SooKee and Mr.Klinsmann on the second day.

The following evening went to eat a simple dinner of Long John's Silver with Mr.Shanks and Mr.Misanthropist. Was shocked out of my skin when some immature-twats rang the Long John's bell. Had my revenge afterwards though! Ahhhh immaturity is so illuminating and revenge oh so sweet. Mr.Misanthropist gave us some pineapple tarts for the Lunar New Year, felt bad because i didn't bring anything for him or Mr.Shanks...

Following that, went to play futsal at Kallang Cage from midnight till nearly 3 am! This session is to makeup for this week's lack of the usual sunday futsal. Was satisfying because my form's good this time. Saw many people that's been missing for quite a long time, Mr.Zidane-alike to name a few. After all that went to have late supper at Tampines 201 for a chat. Reached home at about 430am.

That's all for now, quite a boring post i think, goodbye~~

Crispy sickprone anyone?

Past two days has been especially hot hot hot HOT. Went to the Airshow on Saturday and played Futsal on Sunday with the sun blazing full blast, well at least the wind's favourable, but still.... Nose went red and all... The day before, went to catch a movie with the usual gang, had dinner at Bark's Cafe and lo and behold Ms.Candy was there. Been awhile since i last saw her, way back at Mr.Underscore's wedding, nice to see her.

The airshow was good, lots of planes on the ground for the crowd to see. Tons of companies were exhibiting stuff too inside, representing a wide range of nations. Singapore, US of A, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Israel, Russia to name a few. Many flags were flying up on the mast. Mom was so excited on that day looking at all the planes and stuff. The only thing that got me going though was the flight show, Singapore showed one of their jets plus their apache helicopter, America showed their Thunderbolt, Italy showed their Masters. One thing that dissappointed mom and myself a bit was that it's quite... regular, nothing exciting. We were lamenting the fact that there wasn't a part where like a group of 6 jets will do a flyby maybe, and the dissappointment of the F-11's no show. Oh well, next one in Singapore is at February 2012, hopefully there'll be more on show on that one.

Still a bit sick, hence the lack of posts since 3rd Feb. Got to pick what i eat because of it, tounge's still delicate. The time i take to eat is also very long because of this, mom never ate faster than me before, she is now... Thankfully the headaches are gone. That's all for tonight, goodbye~~~

The bigger picture.

Heard this quote today, "Without the science, you won't see the bigger picture." Meaning if you're making personal judgements without finding out what others think of the same subject, your judgements will always be flawed, no matter whether at the end of the day your feeling proved to be right. Good thing i keep asking for other's opinions then eh? Though there's always the problem of the anything dudes, ahem you know who you are.

That's all for now, goodbye~~

Don't think less of craftsmen please.

Ok so i bought a table, one item of my wishlist if you noticed, an IKEA Muddus Fold Table - Black. So i got home, set the box down on the floor, opened it with the intent of assembling the whole thing myself. Half an hour later............. found that i can't do it myself. Needed someone to hold the frames up steady while i screw the nails onto them. THEN, after struggling for another half hour, found that i put one part to the wrong side, so i gotta take it apart and re-do it. GRRRR. THEN, after finished assembling the thing happily, realized that those things sticking out of one side of the frame are meant to support the foldable part of the table AND i put it on the wrong side! SO! With that bombshell i say heck it. SIGH. I'll probably disassemble the darned thing again tommorrow morning and reassemble it again.

Anyway, point is, please don't think less of people craftmanship field and building and what not. It's not as easy as it looks. For those who cry "But after doing it over and over and over again for years and years it's easy!" Well doesn't the same apply to everything? So while i'm at the topic of thinking less of people doing what we perceive as 'less' tasks. With hightlighting the word 'perceive'. I'll focus on domestic helpers (the politically correct term), otherwise known as Maids. I've noticed a lot more cases on newspapers of employers abusing their maids for whatever reason. Whether it's by pinching them till they're blue black all over, searing them with ironers, banging their heads to a table, kicking them, these examples are just from reported cases. Of course there's the more subtle and cunning mental torture way, which is more difficult to proof and punish.

Listen people, just because you're educated and have important jobs, does not mean that you can do whatever you please on people less fortunate. As i state before what they do, we may perceive as 'less' but it's still a skill. For example, domestic helpers need to find out what you prefer to eat and what you can't eat and adjust accordingly. Say you don't like noodles, how would you feel if she makes mee goreng every single meal? It's a learning process that takes time too you know adjusting to what their employers require them to do, just like any degrees/diplomas out there. So be kind to everyone, regardless of what they do and appreciate what they do to help improve the quality of their lives and in extension your lives as well.

That's all for tonight. Goodbye~~

BN(Blogger's Note): Not all domestic helpers are from indonesia/phillipines. And definitely not all indonesians/filipinos are domestic helpers.

V - not for Vendetta

Watched this new show called V, well not new because it's a remake of an older show with the same name. It's really cool. Anyway, i'm not going to focus too much one what's happening on the show, what happened, who died, who're the actors/actresses, the plot-twists. What got me thinking though is the basic idea of the show, that is an alien life form suddenly appeared in a planet and they would like to be friends and setup 'diplomatic relations' with the home planet.

Let's twist this around a little bit and imagine, imagine yourself the leader of Earth's own spaceship that now has the capability of travelling across the vast galaxy, your mission is to lead your crew and find another planet that has a lifeform on it and 'get friendly' with them as soon as possible. How would you go about in achieving this? Considering that you and your ship suddenly appeared out of the blue, how would you think the aliens (well we are the aliens on that planet, so let's refer to them from now on as Citizens) feel, won't they feel somewhere along the line WTF? Don't you think the Citizens would be scared, curious, untrusting, cautious among other things all at the same time.

Let's not go overboard and imagine all the different scenarios that could happen, especially the evil twisted ones that always happen in a show/movie. Think with the assumption that we don't have any ulterior motives whether it's because Earth is so overcrowded that we're seeking a new habitable planet to live in that's similar to Earth or our resources are depleted or inter-galaxy conquest, none of that! We're just making friends.

This has all happened before on Earth, an example would be the United States' gunboat diplomacy on Japan during 1850s when they're demanding Japan to open up their country to western trade and diplomatic relations (at that time Japan's policy of isolationism has been going on for 200 years). But since we're trying to setup a peaceful diplomatic relations with the Citizens as quickly as possible, such threatening gestures and tactics would bring about the wrong idea. So again how would you gain the trust of the citizens that we're all merely trying to be friends and nothing more?

That's all for now. Goodbye~~

For more info on V: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(2009_TV_series)
and on Japan's isolationism's end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu

More Sugar = Better Judgement ?

So i read an article just now from yahoo, there was a study conducted by two psychology researchers on the effect of sugar on a person's impusivity. The study found that a person which drank sweetened soda are less likely to choose a reward that is smaller but will be given 'tommorrow', instead choosing a larger reward that will be given after a certain period. Interesting isn't it? Well, those feeling that they've been impulsive and rash in making decisions, and getting into trouble because of it.... Now you know what to do to help yourself, consume some sugary goodness. Till next time, goodbye~~
Here's the link for those interested to know more: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100130/tts-health-psychology-food-c1b2fc3.html

First Post.

I've decided to restart blogging. This is my first post since september 2006 i think, so i'm starting afresh. So firstly, i don't think i'm going to treat this blog like a diary which explains my daily happenings. If i do that, it's going to be rather empty. I'm not much of a social being, i'm contend staying home and do my reading, and entertain myself with the many forms of entertainment that a person could enjoy in this day and age in the safety and comfort of their own homes. So explaining the things i did on that day will be short and repetitive, what i will try to do is to share what i saw and thought on that day, hopefully it will be interesting enough to keep people that read my blogs (if there's any) engaged in mind. That's all for now. Goodbye~~