Friday

A small piece of good news to share with you guys. this morning, i
received a letter by NYP, stating that i've managed to get a merit
for my diploma. and together with the letter was the transcript of
my academic modules. glad that i've managed to obtain it. and the
letter also struck upon me as a reminder that i have not indicate
my acceptance for the NUS offer. reckon i will have to do so one of
these days.

alright, i will leave you guys with another story.

till then.

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The meaning of love

Once upon a time, there was an Island where all the feelings lived:

Happiness, Sorrow, Knowledge etc, including Love.
One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink.

So all repaired their own boats and left.
Love was the only one who stayed.
Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment.
When the island was almost sinking, Love decides to ask for help.

Richness was passing by in a great boat.
Love said "Richness, can you take me with you?"
Richness answered, "No, I can't.
There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat.
There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was passing by in a beautiful vessel,
"Vanity, please help me!"
"I can't help you Love.
You are all wet and might damage my boat", Vanity answered.

Sorrow was close by so Love asked for help,
"Sorrow, let me go with you."
But Sorrow said,
"Oh.....Love, I am so sad that I need to be myself!" "

Happiness passed by Love too,
but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you."
It was an elder.
Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgets to ask the
elder her name.

When they arrived on a dry land, the Love asked Knowledge,
another elder, "Who helped me?" "It was Time," Knowledge answered.

Time?" asked Love "But why did Time help me? Knowledge smiled with
deep wisdom and answered, "Because only time is capable of
understanding how great love is."


Love is a wonderful feeling and most of us are either in love or
secretly admire somebody. But there is one thing about love. It
needs time to grow, to mature and to last forever. Time teaches us
many things about the other person. Just think of your parents,
your siblings. You know that they have faults yet you love them.
This is the kind of unconditional love you must be able to give to
that somebody special in your life.

The main requisite for love is that one must be ready for it. Most
of us feel that once we are in college, we must have boyfriend/
girlfriend or there is something wrong with us. But this isn't
love; it's toeing the line. This is also the main reason why many
of us fall in and out of love frequently.

Love requires one to be strong and resilient because there will
always be heartaches and one must be ready for them all, this one
must be emotionally mature. Moreover, getting attracted to a good
looking guy/gal and then looking out for a better looking one is
just fooling around and never be mistaken for love.

Over time, you begin understanding each other for what you really
are not the fancy dresses and costly gifts, but the real person.
The person who will accept you with all your faults and weaknesses
truly loves you. This understanding takes time. Love is a wonderful
emotion but, like good wine, it needs to mature. It must weather
many a storm before it becomes strong enough to last a lifetime and
more.

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You will never walk alone

alright for the start, hail the new king of Europe: Liverpool FC.

well, i believed by now most soccer die hards should have either
seen the big match or saw the news about the newly proclaimed
king of europe, Liverpool. i saw the match, and i have to say,
AC Milan, they deserved their lost. why? simple, conceding 3 goals
in 15mins isn't championship quality. any tom dick or harry, who
knows about soccer, will tell you that, defence is the best form
of attack. and yea, credits to Liverpool, their patience paid off.

after the end of the first half, i reckon most Liverpool fanatics,
must have either switched off their tvs, or tearing their hair off.
3 goals up after 45mins for AC Milan, its as good as doing a 3
pointer to beat the buzzer for basketball, hole in one for golf, 8
ball in pocket for pool, powerful spike down the baseline for
volleyball, or doing a double kill in gunboud. simply means, match
point, game set.

but nope, all's not lost yet, Liverpool played against all odds on
the second half and after Steven Gerrard scored the first for
Liverpool, i thought they could only gain some pride back. and i
was saying that if they managed to get 2 more goals, i'll wager my
gb accounts on the line and quit gb for good. and yeah, you all know
it, me and my foul mouth. they did scored 2 more to level the match,
brings it to extra time and eventually the penalties.

prior to this match, i had a bet with someone, and well, i was
iterally forced to take Liverpool as the winner. honestly, i wasn't
having any good thoughts about Liverpool bringing home the Champions
League trophy back to England. and of cos they drew at full time, so
the bet was brought forward to the penalties. the moment Sergio
Serginho blast the first spot kick for AC Milan, i was pretty sure
that AC Milan has lost it. a very bad lost indeed. right from 3 goals
up, to drawing the match, and of cos, lost 2-3 on penalties.

a point to note about the penalties though, sorry Liverpool fans,
but strictly speaking, Jerzy Dudek cheated his way to saving the 2nd
shot by Andrea Pirlo. cmon, goalkeeper shouldn't be allowed to move
before the spot kick is taken. the replay showed clearly that Dudek
was way off his line before Pirlo had contact with the ball. Cheat!

anyway, the referee's decision is final. even AC Milan will to
appeal or anything, i think they only have themselves to blame for
the lost. and its very unlikely UEFA will overrule any referees'
decisions. imagine asking Liverpool for a rematch, after they were
already celebrating like nobody's business.

and for the Liverpool fans, tentatively, UEFA has not make their
final decision about allowing Liverpool to defend their Champions
League title, due to the fact that they finished 5th in the English
Premier League. Only top 4 will be in the qualifiers. But of cos,
they were arguing about the fact that, Real Madrid defended the
trophy despite finishing fifth in the 2000-2001 season, because the
Spanish football federation decided to hand them Real Zaragoza's
place which was 4th in the Spanish league.

alright, that's all about the newly crowned king of Europe, me
myself, wasn't that glad about the result, was expecting a Milan
win before the game. but nonetheless, Liverpool won and yup, i've
won my bet. and because of the odds against them during the game,
i've won myself 2 treats. i'm waiting.. ;)

till then.

Back to blogging

i realised the last post which i really wrote about some thoughts
was way back in 4th May. the rest are just some interesting reads
or some facts and quotes. so i reckon its time to do some updating
about myself and hopefully leave you guys with some food for
thoughts again.

seriously, i have lost much of my calendar sense. which means that
i'm living everyday like as if its a particular day. may it be
always sunday or everyday is public holiday to me. just like i only
realised today is public holiday. so, for the below comments, i'll
just write down what i had in mind. or what i had done for the past
2-3 weeks.

alright, for a start, everything still pretty much the same. sleep
later and later, as you guys can see, the time of this post. i bet
most of ya are already in lalaland. so i've been like playing gb
almost everyday. and i've got my wand rank. for the benefits of
those who don't know what i meant, i'll put it simple for you guys.
it simply means, i've have been playing games earning around 5-17
points per game, each game lasting from 1-15 mins and till date,
i've accumulated 32,500 points now. i reckon you guys should be
pretty ok with Maths, so i'll leave you guys to count the number
of games i have been in and the time spent.

and prior to the fact that i sleep late, i woke up late too. around
3-5pm for most days. i know, its very unhealthy, i'm wasting time
for the games, i'm missing half of the day.. but i think time for
me now is pretty sufficient. in fact too much to spare? yeah, will
be hunting for jobs soon. cos i've got like 3mths more to go before
my NS? anyway, i hope they will just ring me up within these few
days, and called me up for early enlistment. i know some of you
will be cursing at me for which you all wanted to have sept enlistment.
well, its just like that, i'm sure the long hailing of cabs when you
need it urgently and cabs stopping down for you when you aren't even
interested, sums up everything.

last thurs, i managed to catch Star Wars III with my friends. well,
i'm not really a Star Wars follower, but i was having neutral mind
about it, so i went for it as well. ok, for a start, the 1st thing
i wish to comment was that the vehicles flying in space is pretty..
fake? anyway, its just some stupid thoughts i had about it. nonetheless,
the movie was pretty intriguing, and i was spot on that the good guy,
was the bad guy master. (pardon me for not remembering names of them)
and i learnt that skywalker the famous name was, the Black XXX.
(sorry i don't how to spell it.) another thing which interest me was
the way Yoda phase his sentences. he will go something like.. "teach
you, i will." "leave, we shall." "hungry, i am.".. not sure if you guys
notice it, or i'm just a little bit making a mountain out of a mole.
and of cos, like what i said to my friend before the start of the show,
i was hoping to hear, "May the force be with you." and true enough,
skywalker and his master, 0-XXX said that to each other in a scene.
at the end of the show, i'm pretty much interested to get on hand the
Star Wars episode IV,V and VI. but i heard they are shown long time ago?
hope i do have a chance to watch them.

we had some chats as well on that day, and as usual, i'll be sharing
those facts i had in my brain, and of cos, some of the unpleasant past
i had. after the chats, i'm thinking about one particular thing. its
something about promise. i made promises in the past, and i
remembered most of them. i don't know if i'm a silly guy, a naive guy,
or what-so-ever but till now, i still kept the thinking that, whatever
i have promised to do for someone, i'll make sure i keep my words.

my friends were arguing with me that certain promises are meant to be
broken at some time or later. for the fact that, situations in the
future might not allow me to fulfill those promises. i might be
hurting someone else just to keep that so-called uncompleted promises.
and by then, for those people whom i've been keeping at the back of my
mind, might just have forgotten about the promises i made for them.

its a good point to note though. but at the current moment of time,
i'm still keeping those promises i made. at times, now and then, i may
have said certain things to you, which you might just be thinking that
i'm not serious about it, but if i do keep it as an uncompleted promises,
be sure that i'll get back to you once i've fulfill them for you.

it may sound just as silly and stupid as it is, but the simple reason
for me to do all these is that, i do hope that my friends around me are
sincere. even though you might be richer, more pleasant looking, more
smart, etc but i hope you guys are truthful to me and it doesn't mean
giving me the best of what you had, but just show me that i'm not just
a doormat to you.

as for what are just those promises i have made, they are pretty much
not easy to accomplish. of cos, money is the root of all evil. and its
the key for me to complete the promises. i won't be stating them here,
just a point to note, i hope i can complete them. if i don't, i'm sorry,
i hope i have tried my best, before i disappoint any of you.

another interesting topic we had for discussion was, why do 2 person
has to be in a love relationship in the 1st place? is the difference
between a couple and 2 opposite sex good friends merely the 3 things
(Kiss, hold, hug)? this quote was given to me last year by a gal. well,
i managed to defend the true meaning of couples with my own way of
interpretation, but nonetheless, i think its just that simple; love is
blind. there are no reasons and definitely not a single explanation to
it. nevertheless, its a food for thought though, cos my friends can't
really make their own arguments to it. hope you do have yours to argue
about.

for now, i can only remember the thurs outing i had. best day since my
long holidays, pretty enjoyed it. just hanging ard with no worries but
endless topics to chat about. hope there's more in the future.

another thing which i found out was that, there's no yamaha yzf R1 for
the 2005 series. the closest was the yamaha m1 2004. i'm refering to
the d.i.y. models of motonbikes just in case you guys aren't sure what
i'm talking about. but nonetheless, i was thinking of getting back the
same old r1 which i've got back then. its the old yzf r1. think its the
2001 series. ya, if you're observant enough, the korean clip on my blog
now, shows the model. take a closer look at the scene where the guy packs
his stuff before the operations. was thinking of getting it again to make
a nicer one. doing it jus plain white, with no paints to it. i'll see how
it goes.

i just saw a discussion show in the tv earlier, and they were discussing
about depression. i've got some symptons of what they had discussed.
but i'm glad to say that, i'm still in control of myself. haven't reach
that stage of complete out-of-control, whereby death is only thing i'm
seeking for.

alright, that's all i have now. i hope the next post will be a slightly
joyful one. perhaps something like i found my true love? yeah, keep
dreaming i suppose.

till then.

Witty Quotes

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- Anonymous

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
- Anonymous

The more you know, the less you need to show.
- Anonymous

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
- Anonymous

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
- Anonymous

If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Appius Claudius

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein

If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.
- Andy McIntyre

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S Truman

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
- Samuel Johnson

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
- Winston Churchill

Did you know?

Did you know that many kings were mad?

Caligula of Rome had his father, mother and two brothers killed to
become emperor. Nero had his mother and first wife killed. These two
emperors were hated so much by the people that all references to them
were deleted from official Roman documentation.

The first French king, Clovis II, went mad after steeling the arm of
a martyr. His great-grandson, Childeric III was known as "the idiot".
The mother of Louis IX complained that he was "not sound of mind".
And his younger son, Robert of Clermont went mad after being hit on
the head with a sledge hammer.

Charles VI, called Charles the mad, ruled France from 1380 to 1415.
At stages, he believed that he was made of glass and inserted iron
rods into his clothing to prevent him from breaking.

The Habsburg Kings of Spain descended from Queen Juana The Mad of
Castile, who was mentally unstable. Her ancestors increased her
inheritance by inbreeding. These incestuous marriages resulted in the
mentally and physically handicapped King Carlos II of Spain, who had
an enormous, misshapen head, and a chin exaggerated to almost
caricature-like proportions rendering him unable to chew and barely
able to speak.

Several British kings went mad as a result of a blood disorder that
causes gout and mental derangement. The most famous was Mad George
III, who ruled England in the 18th Century. George was afflicted with
porphyria, a maddening disease which disrupted his reign as early as
1765. Several attacks strained his grip on reality and debilitated
him in the last years of his reign. He died blind, deaf and mad at
Windsor Castle on 29 January 29 1820. In those years, the British
Princess Caroline Mathilda married, at age 15, the deranged Christian
VII of Denmark.

The United States briefly enjoyed the services of a monarch, Emperor
Norton I, who proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and
Protector of Mexico in 1859. He had all his "state proclamations"
published in San Francisco's newspapers and wrote letters that were
seriously considered by Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria.

Heart Determines..

"It's okay to kiss a fool,
it's okay to let a fool kiss you,
but never ever let a kiss fool you."

"It's still best to wait for the one you want,
than to settle with the one available."

"Best to wait for the one you love,
than to settle for the one who's available."

"Life is short to waste on the wrong person..."

"It's better to meet the person who will truly loves you,
than meet someone now who promises to love you,
but sooner or later leave you forever..."

"Never try to impress someone to make him/her fall in love with you,
if you do, you will be expected to keep the standard for the rest of your life."

Did you know?

The festival of love used to be celebrated on February 15th

Valentine's Day originates from the ancient Roman fertility festival
of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on 15 February in honour of the
gods Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary founders of Rome,
Romulus and Remus. During the festival, young men would draw the
names of women from a box, and each couple would be paired until next
year's celebration. Often they would fall in love and marry.

At around 270AD Rome was facing battles and civil uprising. The men
were not keen to join the army. Emperor Claudius II believed that the
men did not want to leave their loved ones and summarily cancelled all
marriages and engagements. Two priests, Valentine and Marius, disobeyed
the decree and secretly performed marriage ceremonies. Valentine was
caught on 14 February and dragged to jail. Later in the day he was
clubbed to death and beheaded. It is said that, before his execution,
Valentine himself had fallen in love with the jailer's daughter. He
signed his final note to her, "From your Valentine."

Valentine's Day
In 391AD, Emperor Theodosius I declared Christianity as the official
religion of the Rome. The fertility festival was celebrated until 496AD
when Pope Gelasius replaced it with a similar celebration. For patron
saint of the celebration, he chose the "lovers" saint, St Valentine.
He also moved the date of the celebration from the 15 February to the
date of St Valentine's death, 14 February. Through the centuries,
Valentines Day became to be remembered more as the festival of love
instead of a religious day. In 1969 it was dropped from the Roman
Catholic calendar as a designated feast day.

Cupid
Cupid has always played a role in the celebrations of love. Those
whose hearts are pierced by his arrows fall deeply in love. In Greek
mythology he was known as Eros, the young son of Aphrodite, the
goddess of love and beauty. To the Romans, he was Cupid, son of Venus.
But where there’s love, there often is jealousy. Venus was jealous of
the beauty of Psyche, a mere mortal, and ordered Cupid to punish her
(for being so beautiful). Instead, Cupid fell deeply in love and took
her as his wife.

As a mortal Psyche was forbidden to look at him. Eventually, her
sisters convinced her to look at the handsome Cupid. As punishment,
Venus demanded that she perform three difficult tasks, the last of
which caused Psyche's death. Cupid found her lifeless on the ground
and removed the eternal sleep from her body. The gods, moved by their
love, then granted Psyche immortality.

The symbol of Cupid became part of Valentines Day only recently. Cupid
is still around shooting his arrows. Psyche represents the struggles of
the human soul.

Did you know?

A fresh egg will sink in water, but a stale one won't

Can't remember if an egg is fresh or hard boiled? Just spin the
egg. If it wobbles, it's raw. If it spins easily, it's hard boiled.
A fresh egg will sink in water, a stale one will float.

Eggs contain all the essential protein, minerals and vitamins,
except Vitamin C. But egg yolks are one of few foods that naturally
contain Vitamin D.

The colour of the egg shell is not related to quality, nutrients,
flavour, or cooking characteristics. White shelled eggs are produced
by hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Brown shelled eggs
are produced by hens with red feathers and red ear lobes. Bown egg
layers usually are slightly larger and require more food, thus brown
eggs usually cost more than white eggs.

China produces most eggs, at about 160 billion per year. In the US,
about 260 million hens produce more than 65 billion eggs per year.
A hen can lay about 250 eggs per year.

Did you know?

The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced

Cans were opened with a hammer and chisel before the advent of
can openers. The tin cannister, or can, was invented in 1810 by
a Londoner, Peter Durand. The year before, French confectioner,
Nicolas Appert, had introduced the method of canning food (as it
became known) by sealing the food tightly inside a glass bottle
or jar and then heating it. He could not explain why the food
stayed fresh but his bright idea won him the 12,000-francs prize
that Napoleon offered in 1795 for preserving food. Durand supplied
the Royal Navy with canned heat-preserved food while Appert would
help Napoleon's army march on its stomach.

Tin canning was not widely adopted until 1846, when a method was
invented to increase can production from 6 in an hour to 60. Still,
there were no can openers yet and the products labels would read:
"cut around on the top near to outer edge with a chisel and hammer."

The can opener was invented in 1858 by American Ezra Warnet. There
also is a claim that Englishman Robert Yeates invented the can
opener in 1855. But the can opener did not become popular until,
ten years later, it was given away for free with canned beef.

The well-known wheel-style opener was invented in 1925. Beer in
a can was launched in 1935. The easy-open can lid was invented by
Ermal Cleon Fraze in 1959.

Since 1972, some 64 million tons of aluminum cans (about 3 trillion
cans) have been produced. Placed end-to-end, they could stretch to
the moon about a thousand times. Still, cans represent less than
1% of solid waste material - about one quarter of all cans are
recycled. Worldwide, some 9 million cans are recycled every hour.
Which is good news, considering that it takes a can about 200
years to degrade if you bury it. It takes paper about a month to
bio-degrade, a woolen sock about a year, and plastic hundreds of
years.

Reads

Was doing some random browsing over the net and i stumbled upon
some weird laws.. take a look at them at the bottom..

decided to make do the soundblox i created few days back.. its
simply not working with the fact that i do not have a paid web
hosting server to upload the songs..

given more time and space, i'm doing lesser and lesser stuff..
seems like my mind will be going to a still state pretty soon.
or call it brain-dead.. need to get a life real soon..

till then.

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During the 6th Century, it was customary to congratulate people
who sneezed because it was thought that they were expelling evil
from their bodies. During the great plague of Europe, the Pope
passed a law to say "God bless you" to one who sneezed.

There still are some weird laws on the books.

1. In Washington state, it is against the law to boast that
one's parents are rich.

2. In Maryland, it's illegal to play Randy Newman's "Short People"
on the radio.

3. In Alabama it is illegal to play Dominoes on Sunday.

4. In Minneapolis, double-parkers can be put on a chain gang.

5. An old statute in Kentucky states that men who push their wives
out of bed for inflicting their cold toes on them can be fined
or jailed for a week.

6. A 100-year-old law in Willowdale, Oregon makes it illegal to
swear during sex.

7. An odd law in Minnesota makes it illegal to hang male and
female underwear on the same washing line.

8. In Melbourne, Australia it is illegal for men to parade in
strapless dresses - but they are allowed to cross-dress in
anything with sleeves.

9. An old law in Russia allows a police officer to "beat a peeping
tom soundly."

10. In Texas, two categories of men are exempt from peeping tom
charges: men over 50 and men with only one eye.

11. In Normal, Oklahoma you could be sent to prison for "making an
ugly face at a dog."

12. And if you're in Hawaii and laughing at these odd laws, stop!
In Hawaii it is forbidden to laugh after 10pm.

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Soundblox

Check out my new JukeBox on the left navigation.. Saw this
interesting player while browsing some blogs.. Managed to
add this to my own blog.. Enjoy the songs.. Will be updating
more songs as i go along..

till then.