well that's the wonderful new teaser poster for Revenge of the Sith. nice.

did you ever know they've got Teaser Trailer that comes out before the actual Trailer. and then also Teaser Poster before the actual Poster. wow. i can't wait to see this.

The eagerly awaited teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith premieres worldwide next week on starwars.com Hyperspace. In the early afternoon of Thursday, November 4 (US time), the trailer will be available for high quality download only to members of starwars.com Hyperspace, in partnership with AOL. Make sure you're signed up today, and be the first to see completed moving images from the final Star Wars film.

To fully experience this first look at Revenge of the Sith, you'll have to head to movie theaters starting Friday, November 5. In the US and Canada, the trailer will appear in front of The Incredibles, the latest film from Pixar.

If you haven't seen it by then, the trailer will be posted on starwars.com for everyone to see starting Monday, November 8.

i wonder who writes all those Jedi teachings. all of them are just so cool.

Episode 1. so long ago... this poster really shows the class and the history which Star Wars has behind it.

look at the chair-site

me wants this chair. this chair good. me gonna have this chair!

can i then entice those who are brought up on religion, to forsake it?
is there a reverse term for evangelism and such?

it is like teaching those who have grown up on crutches, that they can walk by themselves, that they will not fall.
it is like telling those who have grown up in cars, that they should try walking, even if it is slower, there is much to experience.

no religion, doesn't mean no direction.
no wealth, doesn't mean no happiness.
not being blessed by a straightforward and comfortable life, doesn't mean that the life is less meaningful, and death less painful.

did u watch AVP(alien vs predator)? did you wonder why did the humans worship the shrine-thingy which the predators built? it does not matter right now that the humans were lower beings created to fuel the alien growth, that the aliens were more challenging creatures created for a baptism of fire, that earth was just a recreational outpost.
all it mattered were that the humans worshiped the predator shrine. and sacrificed to it. why.
and the story seemed so ridiculous at that time. as any other sci-fi story, movie.
but is it really that ridiculous?

Aztecs, Egyptians and all the old civilisations worshipped the darnest things. the Sun, the Moon, etc. They were justified, in their minds, in their knowledge, in their technical skills. and yet barely a few thousand human years later, they are but mere fools in their silly fantasies. Let us not be quick to condemn their ideas and thoughts. just like they invented the weapons, the wheels, the machines; just like they evolved, stood and spoke; just like all the marvels of human accomplishment; religion was also evolved from their minds. religion, faith, worship, all centered around the unbelievable, the unexplainable, the unattainable. it was born of simple simple matters like solar eclipses and weather. it progressed as we learnt more and more about the Earth, the Sky, the Universe. it remains pointing to the incredulous, and it now points mainly to the amazing existence and creation of the Universe. the richness of religion grew. just like gossip, like rumours, like stories. after thousands and thousands of years, a simple amazing thing merged with other amazing thing. they were linked, accumulated, filled up. the book grew and grew. there were more and more. it became this mammoth that was so huge it was now unbelievable by itself, from the sum of it's parts. it was so big, so exhaustive, that it's unity lent it strength, that it could not be broken down. 'how can all these be untrue'.

and yet it was built of the same fundamentals, the same reasons, the same processes. no matter how big the glacier, bring it into the sun and it will melt. if you care not to move it, but instead revere it in the mountains, the snow will only accumulate and add layers and layers onto it's thick hide, impenetrable and indestructible.

believe them when they say there is a deity on the moon, there is a god in the sun, believe them as you believe your own. trust their faith as you trust yours.

There is a saying, which I know a lot a lot of people have heard before, but have they understood it?

"Integrity is when you do something that is right, when no one is watching."

of course, very well said.
(stil on religion theme) most religions and faiths inculcate good moral values in their followers.
and it is a widespread trend, whereby various kinds of good behaviour are rewarded.

I should think that good morals, values and behaviour, are good by their own definition and have nothing whatsoever to do with any religion or faith. They should be practised independently without any dependence on faith. Do good, without linking it to doing good because of divine being(s) influence. Get it?

1) people who know divine being(s) do not exist
2) people who believe divine being(s) do not exist
3) people who cannot form a conclusive opinion on the existence.
4) people who believe divine being(s) exist
5) people who know divine being(s) exist

1.The lack of logic of atheism and agnostism should be of equal importance as compared to the lack of logic of any religion.

2.It is as much an offence to proclaim the existence and action of divine beings just as it is a taken offence to proclaim the lack of existence and action of any divine beings.

3.It is a right not to be suffer second-hand religion just as it is a right not to suffer second-hand smoke.

spectacular background picture

am extremely unhappy today.
so be it.

i haven't blogged for some time. driving away visitors i guess. here's the update of the week. hasn't really been uneventful. but i didn't have time. and it has ended as badly as it could. *resigned sigh*
as a note, it did start badly already. last weekend my .mother. just complained about me not learning driving, or rather not being proactive enough about it. the endless nag about me having so much free time now and not doing anything about it and i'll be busier when i start studying. i shall leave out all curses from this post. as far as possible.
let's start with the good things.

Monday was topo day. morning good ol' sgt roy had to bring us to the rifle range in nee soon camp. and he amazingly walked the wrong way. it was practically unbelievable. he lost his way in camp. and there was a road sign. and it was the start of the topo day. but given his character, it's understandable, for those who know him. he's just so 'eccentric', oddball, hallucinatory. quite poor thing actually, to suffer from dunno what problem. well he shows classic medical problem behaviour. poor guy.
morning at Lim Chu Kang cemetary was quite ok. easy to find the checkpts since there are roads. but some checkpts were labelled wrongly or put at wrong places. typical of their lousy planning and work. nevertheless we even managed to find it at the wrong spot due to overzealous searching. was alright.
afternoon at Lower Mandai was an outright disaster. groups of 8 ventured into the 'jungle'. our group actually planned to do the night checkpts at the same time. so we went to find the 1st one, but we cudn't find, but we decided to forget it coz lots of day checkpts were changed, so maybe the night one will be changed too. so we did the closest day checkpt first. went into the jungle, tried to walk straight. found a lot of other unit checkpts. nvr saw ours at all. thought maybe we counted wrongly. decided to go on abit further to check. bumped into another group in the forest. wow. ok. so we were too far off. but there were at correct location, coz amazingly they sneaked a GPS set in. but they couldn't find their pt too, sadly. discovered our nxt 2 checkpts were the same, so decided to go on together. 1st pt lost for both grps. so we went on, our group feeling alot more secure now that we've got a GPS to rely on. went on went on. went thru weird terrain, unwalkable terrain. hovered back and forth a muddy stream. GPS showed within 10m of location. couldn't see anything at all. irritating. searched, couldn't find. was unnice terrain. slow movement meant time was almost up. supposed to find 3 checkpts, only at 2nd one. after a long time and a lot of frustration, gave up. decided to go back empty handed. tried to go back to main road, bumped into another group. also didn't find anything. wow. 3 groups out of nine. what a crowd. so we went back together, sian-ed. decided to just go hide somewhere in the night and not search, since even day is so hopeless.. got back to start pt, saw a few more grps back already. dun think they found anything either. lala. 2 grps stil out there, trying to get back, empty too. haha. see, madness. aft dinner, 2wo anuar decided to cancel the night topo, prob coz nobody found anything in the day. and it's totally dark at night. tho it would be fun to move arnd at night. so we went back. haiyah.

Wed-Thurs morning is field camp. KK will be so jealous when he reads this.
Wed morning went out to lentor. set up 2 BCS + admin tents. thereafter sat arnd and waited for our 2wo anuar to arrive. sat arnd, talked, ate all sorts of junk food, twisties, peanuts, junk. everything cept combat rations. haha. til 11.30. then they said we could cook if we wanted. so made alot of noodles, cup noodles. samuel had bread, nutella, tuna spread w biscuits. a reservist brought cherry tomatoes. madness again. i slept frm 12.30-1, got woken up, slept frm 1-1.30. then anuar came at 2. and briefed a long story as usual. supposed to do 4 missions in afternoon, 3 if we do well. so we did. at the 2nd one, roy led one team the wrong way again, so typical of him, everyone was complaining. haha. gd thing i wasn't with them. after 2nd mission, it started to rain heavily, thunderstorm. we sheltered under a under-expressway-tunnel nearby. so everyone sat at the sides of the road. it was dark and stormy outside. the rain was a thick wall. it was dark dark and echoey inside, even tho the tunnel's quite short. anuar got the vehicles to come over. felt like one of those end-of-the-world moments with everyone trapped in a cut-off tunnel. cool. so we stayed there till 7pm. rain stopped then. and we went back to start pt. the tents were rather skewed. anuar said pack up and go back since it's still lightningish and it's all wet and we can't do anything. so we went back! haha. what a field camp. we were so ecstatic the field camp is so screwed. and it rained at the right time. too early and we'll have to stay in wet ground. too late and we'll be caught while sleeping. great timing. so we went back, bathed, slept in our beds. =p and the reservists went home that night. next morning we came back. but without the tents. to do just 2 more missions. all the night activities gone. amazingly slack.

thurs morning. very very hot. sadly i was the object of anuar's demonstration which meant alot of unwanted attention was directed to my work, irritatingly. tired. but nvm.
afternoon they found out we lost one map, ontop of our lost oximeter.
lost map resulted in our course debrief being pushed back from fri afternoon to sat morning. and alot of unpleasant feelings and talk. not found in the end.

saturday i spent almost 2 hrs waiting to book my final theory at ssdc. blah.
went changi village to eat with jx. believed my mother knew i lied abt who i went out with. sadly. but i am so sick of everything. sian.
pineapple rice + beef kway teow + goreng pisang + chendol + ice qing teng. why's all the food there so nice, and cheap.

sunday. woke at 10. and almost immediately got into the quarrel with my mother. sigh. it's been some time since it's been this bad. but it's not the first time. but it's still been some time. it's never been good since JC. downhill rot. so how.
and so she accuses me of lying and lying. wonder who she hears from this time. or maybe she saw my stuff. or maybe from all the clues. or maybe maybe. what's her problem. why i do lie, because i have to, because she's unreasonable. but what's so bad about me, and what i do. i don't drink, smoke, club, pub, steal, rob, drug, riot.
ain't everything that i do, wrong? so irritating. like i'm wasting my NS time. like i'm slacking away and not doing work and not finding work to do and not making use of my time and not making money and everything. and i probably disgraces her with my pathetic life, and pathetic attitude. and she can't show off that she's got a great child, and i'm not a doctor, and i'm not doign work and i'm not planning work, and i'm not driving yet. and whatever. like i'm so free during the evenings, and during the weekend, and i'm always not doing anything. and watching about a movie a month or two is excessive, and going orchard is frowned on. and i should spend all my time exercising, swimming, working.
and like i'm not trying hard enough to learn driving and wasting my time. and i'm so gonna be damn busy during uni. and what i do is a waste of time. and she doesn't see any purpose in investing any more money in me. and i should go pay for everything myself, including all my education. and i'm not repaying her. and im not being a nice person.
and i just said i'm not so interested in learning driving. and she goes on about me learning is just to acomodate her, and now tells me not to learn coz with that attitude i'll kill someone on the road.

not a very new situation now. she didn't approve of gfs since the time of Orcs. communication has reached an impasse since the time of Elves. i never talked. they never talked. we go our own ways. i do not talk about myself, for character reasons, not for recipient reasons. in so many ways i've given up on home. given up totally, yet still tolerates and tries. i've made up my mind so many times to get out of here, to run away. and so many times i have not seen the point in life. i am sufficiently vexed with my home, with my future, with my desires, with my lack of interest, with my lost six sense for survival. i gave up, on the world, on myself, on life.
i hate it all. i am not going to have children, because the world is a sucky place.
do not love and ask to be love.
this is the 3rd terrible weekend at home. i'll rather be in camp. i'll rather be at work. i'll rather be anywhere else. hate loathe fear going home. but nobody can understand because i tell nobody.
there are no curses because no curses are needed. there are no vulgarities because no vulgarities can even compare up to my mood. i cried alot today because i had to. i cried because i didn't want things to be this way, i didn't make things this way. and it's just so unfair and unfortunate that my life has to be this way while others can have such nice relatives, such nice families, such nice lives. i hate the way i try so hard in life, for what, for what. there's once i thought of doing medicine, why, as an easy way out of life, as an escape from problems, as a clear path down the road. medicine, is generally thought of as a unattainable dream to 99% of the pple out there. so what if i can think this way.

i would be happier living on the streets, unanswerable to anybody, untied to anybody cept who i choose. it can never happen, it's too late. i want to die before i grow old.

i could say, i'm not happy, let's go eat some nice food. but that's not me, and that's a lie.
i could say, i'm not happy, let's go get drunk. it'll be a lie too.
i could say, i'm not happy, and nothing else will make me happy until the problem is over. and that's the curse of my pessimism. i would rather be a hobbit and not a wizard, if u can understand what i mean.

this blog is still titled 'Chronicles of Those who have not Time left', and 'Ender's Game'
i still do not have time left. and the unseen watchmaker sets a death toll which i cannot forsee. i only know there is a limit, soon. Ender's life, ender who was too smart, who did too much, who lost the world.

9 nov 04, tues, 7.30pm.
Sir James Galway and Jeanne Galway, with the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

i have no idea why, but this is probably the first time i've read an entire isaac asimov book, understood it and enjoyed it. years ago when i tried, i could never understand what is this werid author writing about. it never made sense. the language didn't get across.
finally i understand the 3 laws of robotics. and yet the silliness of some of the short stories demonstrate why 3 simple laws are insufficient.
[to draw on this, you can figure out why newton's 3 laws of motion can give just as much trouble to our world. and that's why with 3 laws, you can make things really complicated. God didn't have that much work to do actually. the viewer who marvels at the end product, doesn't always understand how simple the process can be. the viewer who is unable to replicate the end product, is also extremely reluctant to admit that the process is simple, for fear of implying his lack of ability. sour grapes.]

gDesklets provides an advanced architecture for desktop applets -- tiny displays sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.

'Name him not!' said Gandalf, and for a moment it seemed that a cloud of pain passed over his face. 'Long time I fell,' he said at last, slowly, as if thinking back with difficulty. 'Long I fell, and he fell withe me. His fire was about me. I was burned. THen we plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart.'

roughly about page 124 of The Two Towers.

just sent more pictures to my photoblog silverbromide 3 NTUC photos and a couple of linux screenshots i got off the web. the screenshots are just so nice... sigh. i want.

it was a horrid evening. even the icecream didn't help much. it was also surprising that i wasn't hungry despite eating very little for dinner.