not related.

Starhub's new 25,000kbps cable internet plan is atrocious. within a few months, 1,500 became 3,000 became 6,500 became 25,000kbps. what's going on. $110 a month with a free laptop. sigh.


Florida state blocks 13yo girl 3months pregnant girl from having abortion because Florida's department of children and families, which is taking care of the girl, went to the courts saying the girl is too young and immature to make an informed medical decision, despite a Florida state law which specifically does not require a minor to seek parental consent before an abortion.
1. what is the judge doing
2. 13yo pregnancy.

BBC link

"One woman received a cheque of just two rupees (less than five US cents) for damage to her coconut crops."

"Daniel Yunus of Malacca in the Car Nicobar islands has received only 41 rupees (just under one US dollar) for what the government said was compensation for damage to 200 areca nut trees and 300 banana trees."



lol

anyone else sees the utter insanity of what NKF has just did?

$20mil, going by $5 per call(during the recent fund raiser), = 4mil calls = 1 call per singaporean.

these #(&%$#($(#&%(# people, who spent a month harrassing the entire populace, whining about their noble commitments, wringing the conscience of the innocent, have just realised that they have S$20mil in expendable funds. which conveniently their dialysis patients don't seem to have the absolute need for, and which might be useful to cancer patients.

why dont they bloody rename themselves as robin hood foundation. or Beggars Private Limited.

if they want money to give to cancer patients, why cant they just bloody say so.

i shall not illustrate my point further, i am agitated enough as i am with stupid idiots. i hate alot of people in the world, who are either too smart, or too stupid, or too immoral/amoral. i dont appreciate this current effort at all.

1.NYGH making popiah. ridiculously silly thing.

2.Airbus A380 flying.

ok i just thought of a funky thing this morning. please correct the unrealistic parts, if possible. the idea here, is that this behemoth(goodness is this spelling correct, i havent seen this word in ages) of a plane is going to carry more than 500 passengers, and is basically just a crude fat thing. so planes are getting bigger and bigger and bigger. and there are more and more and more planes. do you think, that all these high speed, high mass transportation devices (trains included) are making an impact on Earth's momentum??? HMM...

so let's see, the majority of humans live in the mid section of the Earth, latitude wise. ok, so we have many many many planes flying in the air, around and around the middle. so we've got a portion of the Earth's mass 'rotating' at a greater distance from the core. so will the Earth like flatten out? you know, like the gravitational pull between objects kinda thing. er...

and then you know US and Europe kinda like launching rockets and missles and spacecraft. do those things like push Earth in the other direction? I hope they don't push us out of orbit too soon.

3.i cant rem what

4.im glad i din watch chelsea vs liverpool 0-0

5.i cant rem what too. but i know there was something.

6.i had a dream with jx in it two nights before, and i wanted to tell her, and i rememebered for 1 day, but today is the 2nd day, and i woke up realising i forgot a dream that was from the previous night. do you understand? is that weird or what.

7.why wont it rain at my place.

8.in other news, in the maple world. Maplesea is progressively loading up, to 14 channels now, and on to 4th Closed-beta signup. MapleGlobalEast is dying... lala... "Please click here to go to nearest town, and you just lost all your experience"


P.S. yay i remember one of the things now! Botanical Garden's Shaw Foundation Stage is open again. and it looks much improved. and and SSO is playing this sunday at 5pm. includes Pyotr Illyich's 1812 Overture. incidently why 1812 when he lived from 1840 to 1893.

P.P.S. my brain is dying.. i need ECC DDR-RAM. 1 pentabtye of it. 1 petabyte then, since someone complains that 1 pentabyte = 5 bytes.
"1 petabyte is 2 to the 50th power (1,125,899,906,842,624) bytes. A petabyte is equal to 1,024 terabytes." there are actually places in the world that uses storage measureable in petabytes, so it's very realistic.

ya know what, i was looking at my screenie of sleepywuff on the right, and i realised i really missed bullying dark stone golems. i mean, after reaching the level where they're really easy to kill, ya know... and it also means i'll never have my Asianic Bow, drat. and no one will ever sell it to me, coz no one gonna play, and it was scarce in the first place. but i can't imagine playing so much to get back to level 50. sigh.

both pics still from www.deviantart.com

*smile*

so the two latest train crashes were in japan and sri lanka. but i've always been amazed by the utter pathetic state of India's railroads. and I wonder how come they never run out of trains to crash. India has a railroad accident every other day, or more frequently. trains...

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.

did i mention i was bored?
no, you don't wanna know, that's ok.
period.

for those people putting up with me. bear with it, it might not be much longer.

i didn't know you couldn't push start an automatic transmission car that has a flat battery

so now they're gonna allow chinese dictionaries into PSLE exams... *faints*
and in 2007 they're gonna allow those PDA kind where u can enter hanyu pinyin and get chinese characters... *double faints*
whatever did i study chinese for


and this guy does A level maths at primary 6 and gets an 'A'. maths freak. he did O level maths at pri 3 and got a B.

look at this. ohman. please click on it to view the large picture. you Must see the full picture. gotten from www.deviantart.com

by the way, the background is a camera zoom lens. one of those long protruding things on expensive cameras. so you see how small the spider is.

this is one of the reasons why I want a $1-2k Digital SLR camera.

isn't that just absolutely delightfully lovely. you gotta view this full screen, and go "wow"

How long has it been since there's been such proper coverage of parliament debates. The media should do this all the time.

Anyway, here's the opening paragraph of the speech by MP Loh Meng See of Jalan Besar GRC. A strongly anti-casino and beautifully written speech. I kowtow to him. The rest of the speech is rather good too, but too long to copy out from the papers. Anyway this paragraph is the gem.

"I respect the decision as I have been taught to submit to those in authority who have been empowered and who will be held accountable for the decisions they made. We will render to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."

i half-woke up this morning, somehow shirfed my arms to above my head, then fell back asleep. when i woke up again, i realised my arms were numb. ok so move my right hand back down, and it was like half-dead. then looks for my left arm, hmm, cannot move it. ! then uses my right arm to bring my left arm down too. goodness it feels totally like a rubber glove. all limp and senseless and amputated. then while i was trying to appreciate how disastrous the situation is, blood started flowing back into my left arm. as in, i could feel a flow of warm rejuvenating liquid coming down the inside of my left arm. it is most exhilirating to be able to feel the blood moving. and within a few seconds the entire arm was back to life.

but, yar, i shall not try it again, not intentionallly.

i absolutely can't believe that someone would bid 600k for a Luk+3, Wdef 28 Dark Pilfer. but well, it's good meso. which bumps me above 10mil. so there. ..

3M's wonderful advertisement. And there's real money on top.

Sing a Rainbow song from Australian Tourism Board advertisement. links to download the song and the video.

Song
video

Red and yellow and pink and green
Purple and orange and blue
I can sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow too.

Listen with your eyes,
Listen with your ears,
and sing everything you see,
I can sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow,
sing along with me.

borrowed magazine from library. long article on effects and pervasiveness of caffeine in the modern world. i shall just put out some points.

--Caffeine's effects from peak for up to an hour after it hits the bloodstream.

--Studies suggest that extroverted people are less sensitive to caffeine's effects than introverts. (hmmm)

--Pain relievers fortified with caffeine have proven more effective than the analgesics used alone.

--The robusta coffee beans used in less expensive brands contain almost twice as much caffeine as the arabica beans favored by coffee connoisseurs

--it is the only habit-forming psychoactive drug we routinely server to our children (in all those sodas and chocolate bars). In fact, most babies in the developed world enter the universe with traces of caffeine in their bodies

--frequent small amounts of caffeine maintain alertness better than the classic morning jolt from a big cup of coffee

--military studies of subjects who hadn't slept for 48 hrs showed that 600mg of caffeine improved alertness and mood as much as 20mg of amphetamine.

--absorbed directly through membranes in the mouth (caffeine chewing gum), chewed caffeine goes to work three times faster than caffeine in drinks or pills.

--caffeine blocks the hypnotic effect of adenosine and keeps us from falling asleep

--when users accustomed to a daily average of 650mg of caffeine went without their usual fix, visual and auditory activity in the brain was low. giving them 250mg of caffeine boosted activity-but only up to levels equal to those of infrequent users who'd had no caffeine.

--going without caffeine for a day and a half increases blood flow int he brain, which may explain why people get headaches when they first give up.

--caffeine is so acrid that it's usd as a standard for "bitter" in training professional food-tasters.

--the caffeine extracted from coffee beans to make decaf is sold to drug and soft drink manufacturers.

--caffeine is being developed as a pesticide for slugs and snails

--a university student in Wales committed suicide in 2002 when he deliberately swallowed caffeine pills equivalent to 100 cups of coffee.

--black tea, green tea and oolong tea are all made from the same plant; the differences in taste and colour come from their processing

--dark chocolate packs 3 times the caffeine of milk chocolate, but you'd have to eat more than half a pound to get the caffeine in one 12-ounce cup of coffee (200mg).

--one of the newest products to which the stimuland has been added : "coffee tights" are panty hose wih caffeine woven into their threads to supposedly help shrink thighs.

--vietnam is the second largest producer of coffee worldwide, but it's largely a nation of tea drinkers.

--cigarette smoking nearly doubles the rate at which the body metabolizes caffeine.

some exerpts from the book of the above title, which is of the same title as the movie, and which contains essentially the same storyline. these are the bits of stuff that separate the 3 sections of the book. i find it intriguing, and perhaps somewhat pertaining to other stuff.

the themes of dark vs light. that dark creates light, that creates dark. the impossibility of separating both. the entwined existence. the seeming unfair triumph of dark over light. somewhere, not here, there was a line "evil always triumps over good, because evil can do/think of things which good cannot."
but there was also once when i was thinking how evil murders itself, and good propogates. just like how the Jedi flood the galaxy, and the Sith remain just two people, even after taking over the Republic.

brings back memories of when i used to think more on Ideas.

the brightest light casts the deepest shadows.....
:

PART ONE

The dark is generous.
Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our sercret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others.
The dark protects us from what we dare not know.
Its second gift is comforting illusions: the case of gentle dreams in night's embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in day's harsh light. BU the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that the dark is temporary: that every night brings a new days. Because it is day that is temporary.
Day is the illusion.
Its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self.
With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.


PART TWO

The dark is generous, and it is ppatient.
It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt.
The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout.
The rains will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark side is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light.
The dark's patience is infinite.
Eventually, even stars burn out.


PART THREE

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins.
It always wins because it is everywhere.
It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire, it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet.
The brightest light casts the darkest shadows.

hmm. it's about the same as ever. tho the signups closed pretty quickly, within one afternoon. but it still lags, tsk. and im not really going to play all over again. lousy thing. so boring to play low level. yawnz. hope they transfer accounts over though.

what's wrong with that bloody, idiotic, stupid, company. why must they like destroy everything and go start mapleSEA. and then AsiaSoft is sucky as well, cant even register without their server crashing, stupid fools. Closed Beta registration open for limited time, and then their server crashes on and off. pathetic.
now i won't get my asianic bow. haizz...

If you raise a glass
To love you passed
Raise a glass to me
Cause I'm lonely as a sailor
Ship Wrecked, stuck in Ship Wrecked Cemetery.

Raise a glass to me, stuck in the Ship Wrecked Cemetery

* Jaffa, Israel

link

ohyar the great Integrated Resort debate. not the casino debate, as PM Lee corrected the Media, but well the casiNO is a big crux of it. so now we have TWO casinos / IRs. well, that's news. i mean, well the green light was expected, but TWO! the religious groups must be fainting. ah well, i suppose i shall revel in the news that the casinos will fund museums and theatres, and theme parks and resorts. that's useful to me. perhaps it can also subsidise more of the expensive arty-farty shows. it's a good way to rob the Silly of their money. taxes from the rich, gambling money from the fools and foreigners. im fine with that.

as long as they dont award the project to the operator of Genting. i'm not happy with singapore money flowing towards malaysia. bleh.

amused the Mr Wong Kan Seng kept repeating that he wasn't happy with having a casino. with PM Lee, and Lim Hng Kiang both saying that the proposals were fantastically mind-boggling, im dying to see what the concepts look like. bigger than the zoo and bird park combined, indeed.

Adobe has announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at $3.4 billion. Graphics software giant, Adobe, will acquire the web and application development software company Macromedia at the close of fourth quarter 2005. A press release issued today said the two companies will provide customers with a 'more powerful set of solutions for creating, managing and delivering compelling content'. Bruce Chizen will continue as chief executive officer (CEO) and Shantanu Narayen will remain president and chief operating officer. Stephen Elop, president and CEO of Macromedia, will join Adobe as president of worldwide field operations. (09:10 GMT)

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hello.

it's been awhile. since the last post. was sorta missing for abit. if u know u know, if u don't, never the mind. slight depressive episode. put the blog back up so that i could post. haven't yet thought of any idea for a new blog. wait till i have inspiration i guess. this layout shall have to do for another while. it's the longest in use so far.

i forgot what i wanted to blog about, by the way. anyway, shall try to list then.

1. am overjoyed the Asianic Bow prices have been dropping. sounds like it's within affordable levels. shall looking forward to trying to buy one within 2 weeks. if anyone is even selling. just 2 more levels to go before i can rest.

2. rather shocked that josh has destroyed his wrist. and that mine is aching from the endless keyboard use. shall try my best to stop playing. but how. nothing else to keep me occupied.

3. i was repulsed by the NKF show. it totally reeks of "SCAM" to me. as in, the method they use to garner more calls. some of it is just so despicable. i mean, for a respected charity show that has been running for so many years, why do they have to resort to this. they just have to say what their requirement is, what their target is, and people will help out, dont make it sound like a grand lucky draw and dont appeal to the wrong reasons. there's no need to.

4. it's 1.25am and im hungry

5. im an INTJ on the myers-briggs test, and i like myself very much. and i like it even better that i am one of the smaller percentage groups. and Gandalf the Grey is also INTJ, which pleases me even more.

6. i am not liking the blog layout, but it's better than the templates.

7. i want a Canon EOS 350D camera.

8. i like what LKY said recently. im glad he prefers high culture to pop culture. coz else there won't be an Esplanade. but we would have had F1. and stupid casino gamblers. im so glad he can publicly say that gambling is totally silly. i also like very much, the 13 page paper written by the gambler convict. i like his idea of fleecing the foreigners and restricting locals. anyway the verdict is coming out today. i suppose they'll start hacking away at sentosa or marina soon. my condolences towards the bus operators to Genting, and the weekend cruises, and the short tour groups, and other entertainment outlets, and the gambling addcits. and i also put my name towards the online petition against casino.

9. and i pissed off a guy at bishan some days back. the entire story, is very long. but very satisfying.

10. Orson Scott Card has released a new book Shadow of the Giants. which i din know about. and is also planning to write more Ender books. it might be nice, but it won't ever mean much to the original series.

11. Happy birthday. 38th?

can u imagine eggs having chloramphenicol and doxycycline inside them. ugh. what the heck is that bloody egg farm doing. i only remember chloramphenricol being in eye drops and doxycyline in antibiotic capsules.

should mass defame them.

i DIED! at dsg. at 99.9%! what the freak. just 0.1% more and i had to die!. ah the heck.
spent more than an hr getting back.
and i got an Blue Ice Queen Skirt in the process. methinks that's the reason why i had to die. ah well, 75k more, ok lar.
so i'm lvl 56 now! yay, so happy. played like 90% in two days. which is rather fast for me already.

ah shall sleep.

i am most upset about the raising of ticket prices for movies. by shaw, cathay, gv. good thing im not fanatical about movies. good for rich freaks who buy DVDs, movie pirates, and so sad for big screen fans. poor matthew. (even though we do get quite cheap movies to watch, compared to other developed countries far far away)

intrigued by the singapore leaders' bit of words towards the pope. s.r.nathan's text was excruciatingly formal, insanely so. impressive bit, i loved it. lee hsien long's one was more normal. haha. but the formal bit was really cool.

Condolences to the Pope, and associated peoples. if China can give a diplomatic note for the Pope's health, i can too.

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SuperBug. hm. VRE. i wonder how SGH discovered the bug. they seem to have done a half clampdown on their hospital. like a max security prison now. 15 pple and only 1 infected, 14 carriers. carrier! superbug carrier. wonders why they dont get infected. the hospital lab must be working overtime these days. i hate bugs that resist super antibiotics, they seem like viruses to me. super bacteria is terrible. super viruses would be insanity.

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STARS WARS & STAR TREK
amused by the recent rush for Ep3 toys at Toys R Us. how come i didn't know about it, hehe. i'm so glad star wars is coming again, finally. i hope it will be a more pleasant experience than Ep2. so sad that the series is ending. no more movies to look forward to. no more LOTR, no more Star Wars, just normal shallow drama. and the regular comedies by Pixar and Dreamworks. hopefuly ILM (industrial light and magic) finds some nice work to do.

newspaper quotes.
"After thousands of fans wrote Jedi - the mythical religion established in the movies - as their religion in a 2001 census, the British census authorities included "Jedi Knight" on the list of religions."
i would love to put that too!

"After 400, 000 fans wrote in to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1976 to ask them to name the first United States space shuttle Enterprise, it complied."
so cool. i always wondered about the uncanny resemblance.

"Captain Han Solo of the Milennium Falcon romances Princess Leia, the only female visitor on his ship."
"Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise romances every female visitor on his ship."

=]

sigh, out of the blue things start scrolling downwards jerkily for no reason. couldn't figure out why. now i can't scroll with my mouse. feels so irritating. lala...

red chaos robe... hm...