Once a professor asked his fellow art students to write an essay on the topic courage.

A student wrote one sentence and hand it up in ten seconds, and behold, he got an A grade. Guess what he wrote?

Just imagine those students slogging away with hundred of words, words, more words that i ever could.

During many action movies, the main actor will usually climb the wall, hang over a cliff, and never feel the strain in the muscle. However it's highly convincing they got a stunt man to take over, or they simply stand in front of a green background waiting for the computer graphic engineers to perform high definition editing.

There's this Japanese reality television programme, that requires the participants to go through their specially designed obstacle course. It was featured like a game, where they had many different levels to reach and complete within a certain time limit.

Definitely not like a first person shooter game, where you can hold a gun and all the ammunition, then run around the whole De_Dust map without fatigue hitting on you.

Makoto Nagano was the only participant who completed all the level, despite being  34 years old, only 162cm and weighting 62kg, he's the 20th century Ninja/Prince of Persia.

Click here to watch his jaw dropping performance, maybe you can even write in to consult him on what he does in the gym.

How i wish life can be like a fairy tale, but i'm about to sunder beneath the cruel reality.

Currently i have one water analysis lab report, one packed bed and fluidized bed labsheet, one engineering material labsheet coming up, one environmental technology prototype project, one heat and mass tutorial, two analysis of chemical process tutorials, three occupational and safety tutorials, one NP open house slot to help out with, one analysis of chemical process common test two in one week's time, one heat and mass common test two in two week's time, one HYSIS test in two week's time and etc.

Sunrise to sunrise, i wake up feeling lethargic and begin dragging my feet to school. No complaints really, because i enjoy the current life as compared to wasting it away.

Anyway, what should you do when someone gauche causes you to frown?

I've forgave him countless time despite he even making a fool out of Jesus, and today he choose to play the family game. Everyone can joke, but it's important that we learn to be sensitive and tactful right? It all boils down to someone's character towards the end i guess.  

Allow me to practice what i've listened during sermon and picture where he stand in my circle.

What's the point of arguing with someone? What's the point of yelling at the top of your voice at someone? What's the point of being petty? What's the point of fighting? What's the point of having a point in this society? Appalled by the fact, i suggest we forgive, and then try to forget although it's so tough.

Enough of my pule and deepest apologies for not updating my blog as often anymore. I've learnt to priorities very well recently, and work shall come first now you know.

If you need to take some time off to cool down/relax/cure the pain/cry, i strongly encourage you to turn green immediately and be like Shrek.

Click here to watch Shrek the Third HD trailer via Apple.

Don't you miss the beautiful dawn?

A kiwi is a type of bird that doesn't fly.

A kiwi is any of the species of small flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the genus Apteryx (the only genus in family Apterygidae). At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites. Several kiwi species are endangered. The kiwi is also a national symbol for New Zealand.

Being a bird that doesn't fly is like being a lonely man/woman, emo man/woman, mugger man/woman and being like me rah.The video i am about to show you is the animation about a sad kiwi that goes around hanging trees horizontally on a cliff, so that it can mimic a flying experience before it crashes and die.

Click here to view the sad kiwi with small little hands via Youtube.

I wish I could Bubble Wrap my heart incase I fall and break apart.

I always sucked at those games that requires housefly catching speed skills. Hence usually i will just step up to the machine with a hubristic face, giving my friends that kind of pugilistic world's 杀气(Kill Air). When the instructions for which key to smack on come rolling down like a snowball, that's when the connection between my brain and hand disconnect.

Never mind since it's already going to be so screwed up, might as well press randomly, maybe still can get some points.

That's exactly how i play Street Fighter and similar games in the arcade when i am small. When the ah beng with the same kind of pugilistic world's 杀气(Kill Air) insert the token beside me, i know this time siao liao. In the end my random pressing wasn't on par with his air combos, my favorite chun li was simply floating in the air. $#*& waste my 50 cent, cannot buy Mcdonald ice cream already rah.

You’ve seen Japanese singer Utada Hikaru trash mere mortals in Tetris DS and perhaps the A-Team take on Dance Dance Revolution like you’ve never seen before. All the buzz lately revolves around Guitar Hero 2 (now into its awesome sequel) and like everything else, there’ no shortage of crazy superhumans showing off their “no-life” skillz via Youtube. This guy manages to add a lot of “bad” attitude and combines it with tons of flair.
Via Kevin

This chinese guy totally kick ass with his housefly catching speed skills, not a single mistake made really. It was rather disturbing for me because the guitar seems a little small for him, his facial expression seems to be like mine when i am having constipation, and he actually smash the guitar towards the end, pure rock. For those noob guitarist out there maybe we can start purchasing Guitar Hero, it's time to kick some butt.

Click here to view the rocker 123 video.

In this fast game society, everybody demands everything to be -em (easy mode). Therefore it is very important to learn the skills of communicating with one another with the shortest amount of time. It's definitely not reciting what you need to say like there's no tomorrow or like a tongue twister, all it takes it using the simple acronyms. For example when you are gaming and someone blocked your way and caused your death. In order to inflict guilt and project anger in the shortest amount of time, you just have to type in caps WTF!? NOOB!

The immensely talented cartoonist Goopymart has posted a Flickr set of illustrations of Net-talk, such as "O RLY", "PWND", and others. They're brilliant and very funny. Link 

Personally, i think the illustrations are very well done, and my favorite is the WTF? and the NOOB! one. You can actually click on the images to have a larger view or save them into your computer, just remember to credit them accordingly.

 Not Safe For Work - Used when the publisher warns you that the stuff you are about to view during work time might get you into trouble.

 Oh My $#&ing God - Used when you are really really really shocked.

 Laugh Out Loud - Used to exclaim how humorous the topic is.

 Zoh My God - Used when reaching for the left Shift key on a keyboard in an effort to quickly exclaim an "OMG", many times the user will actually press the Z key and send the "ZOMG" at the crucial moment without cleanup.

 Oh Really?  - Used when someone exclaims something that is a total nonsense.

 Rolling On Floor Laughing and Laughing My Ass Off! - Used to project that the topic is so funny that you are about to die.

 What The $#^&? - Used when something happened unexpectedly in a fierce manner.

 Woot! - Used to make a noise you make when something really cool is going happen.

 Newbie - Used to tell someone who is new to something, beginner to something off.

 Pawned, also known as owned - Used to illustrate the point that you just got defeated very badly.

 The - I have no idea really.

 For The WIN!

 Read the $#%^ing manual - Used when someone asked a really dumb question that can be easily found in the net/manual.

 Okay thanks bye - Used when you are leaving after someone just helped you or offered you a piece of information.

Via BoingBoing

Do you know what makes a woman's eyes dilates most? The first thought that came into my mind was diamond, but sadly that's not the answer. Doesn't a woman start to drool when they step into Tiffany and Co. No offense, i know woman ain't that shallow minded.

Here's the answer for you to know. A woman eyes dilates the most when they see a baby, followed by chocolate and etc. If you're a man, and you're wondering where do you stand in the list. I am very sorry to inform you, man is not on the long list. All those supercilious macho man, your muscles do you no good actually, so start packing them into your cupboard.

The pupil may dilate if a person sees something (or someone) of interest or is aroused, thus making eye contact much more intense than it already is. Studies have shown that humans (especially females) are judged as more attractive if their pupils are wide open and more dilated than is normal.

I have a video of a adorable baby laughing hysterically none stop, ladies please go try and see if your eyes do dilates. Click here to watch it (:

Having to feel hypnagogic after one long school day is extremely normal. With tutorials, projects, labsheets, and personal problems can be rather aggravating for me. Instead of plunging into my warm bed for an hour or two of relieve, here i am hooked on this game like a drug addict. Please pardon me if you find the MarvinSpectrum game rather boring, it can actually be rather entertaining for deprive people like me. It was totally mind blowing for me, when the colour starts changing right after another action you have done, reminds me of O2 Jam you know.

Test your reflexes with the highly addicting MarvinSpectrum, a game that tests your frantic use of the up and down arrows. You've got jumping! Leaping! Running! Diving! And all sorts of fun stuff with which to put your cat-like responses to the test. Warning: it gets really hard, really fast. Courtesy of Armourgames.

Click here to try Marvin Spectrum The Game.

 A BLACK mother with a white husband has given birth to twin girls of different colours in a million-to-one medical miracle.

The chances of getting twins are already so slim, so what are the probability of getting different skin colour twins? All the mathematician starts punching your calculator now.

In what is believed to be an Australian first, mum Natasha Knight, 35, of Jamaican-English heritage, and father Michael Singerl, 34, of German heritage, conceived the girls, one black and one white, naturally.

The couple also has a five-year-old daughter Taylah, who is blue-eyed with blonde hair and a light olive complexion. The twins, Alicia and Jasmin, were born in Queensland's Caboolture Hospital in May. Experts say the chance of twins being born with such different physical characteristics is about a million to one.

Ms Knight said she was shocked when she saw how different her daughters were. "When they were born you could see there was a colour difference straight away. We couldn't believe it,'' she said. "Alicia's eyes were brown and her hair was dark. Jasmin's eyes were blue and her hair was white - you could hardly see her hair or her eyebrows. "We were joking when I was pregnant about what if one baby looked like me and one looked like Michael. We joked about one light one, one dark one, so it was amazing when it actually happened.''

Ms Knight said some people stop and stare when she's out with them."When we go out people stop and ask if they are twins. Other people will look but not say anything. Maybe they think I am babysitting one of them,'' she said. "Someone even asked me if I was sure there wasn't a mix-up at the hospital. But there was no mix-up - they are my girls and they are both so beautiful. "It will be interesting when they go to school, and they will probably wonder why they look so different from each other. I guess the easiest way to explain it will be to say one took after mum, one took after dad.''

Genetics experts say that in most cases a mixed-race woman's eggs will be a mixture of genes for both black and white skin. However, much more rarely, the eggs may contain genes for predominantly one skin colour. In this case, Ms Knight has released two such eggs - one with predominantly dark pigmentation genes and one with predominantly fair genes. Non-identical twins are conceived when two eggs are fertilised by two sperm at the same time, which has odds in itself of about one hundred to one.
Via News.au

In any case, you are getting the "million to one" odds story here. All i heard or seen of is this particular friend of mine, who is a indian chinese. Obviously he has a indian daddy, and a chinese mummy, the other siblings has the same skin colour too. He's definitely an exemplary type of mix, to a certain extent actually. When it comes to relationship with the opposite sex, i think he needs extra guidance.

I am definitely not going to write a biography of my friend, but touch on the topic of genes. What define the colour of your skin, and the upsetting issue is that skin colour still matters now in some countries.

What is going on here? OK, let's go back to the drawing board here: the brown-skinned twins are brown-skinned because they received functional melanin producing alleles from their mothers, in additional to the non-functional alleles from their white fathers, the white-skinned twins are white-skinned because they received non-functional alleles from their mothers, who are biracial and so carry both European and African derived copies. These genes tend to be additive and independent (i.e., not much dominance and interactivity). The alleles are probably adding up and subtracting a particular quanta of effect.

To simplify the math, let's assume there are 4 loci which result in the skin color variation between these twins and between Africans and Europeans. Humans are diploid, we have two copies, alleles, of each gene. In a simplified model dark-skinned sub-Saharan Africans would be fixed for functional alleles on all the loci, so you'd have 4 pairs "on." Light-skinned Europeans would be "off" on all the loci, so you'd have 4 pairs "off." Genetically, a mixed-race individual, an F1 hybrid, who is half-black and half-white would have alternating alleles on each locus because they would receive a functional allele from their African parent and a nonfunctional one from their European parent, so, you expect their skin color to be between their parental values if you assume additivity and independence of the average effect of the loci (this is close enough to reality). Now, if this mixed-race individual mates with someone who is European, what happens? In this case, the European father is going to automatically contribute a nonfunctional allele on every locus. In other words, for each locus the children are guaranteed one nonfunctional allele. This means that the variation will be all on the mixed-race mother, and the math here is very simple: you know she has an "on" and an "off" copy because one of her parents was African and the other European, so on each locus there is a 1 out of 2 chance for either allelic variant.

So, you have: (1/2 chance of "on" allele)^{4 loci} = 6.25% chance that all loci will be "on"
So, you have: (1/2 chance of "off" allele)^{4 loci} = 6.25% chance that all loci will be "off"

That means that in this pairing there is a 1 out of 16 chance that any given child will be as white as the father or as brown as the mother, with the expectation being in the middle. What are the chances of this particular outcome: one white twin, and one "black" twin?

Via Scienceblog

If you still do not understand what the heck was that whole chunk of ants. Please do not panic, because Mr Cai here only understood bits and pieces of it. These hot stuff are indeed a cerebral, and it shall help you to increase your knowledge okay.

During my IS module Starting A Business, i've been taught that a product definitely needs a certain extent of publicity through the many channels. In short, it is the advertisements that you and me see every where we go. Like at the bus stop, in the lift, in the train, on the television, on a certain website, magazines, toilets and many more more places.

Speaking of the toilet, those doodles on the toilet walls are clearly not proper form of advertisements okay. In a way i got to admit they are, there's some pictures, some numbers for some sort of information or services la huh. Don't be surprise to see your name on the wall someday, you know people can be really bored when they are having a constipation.

Without proper publicity for your product/service, it definitely will not increase the amount of people knowing about product, therefore you can prepare to pack up and go home. I'm actually rather happy with the creative advertisements i get to see all around Singapore. Of course there are many that cannot make it, like the ones you see in the lazy afternoon on channel eight or five, simply like the iGallop horse riding machine one.

There's a pretty website that compiled and displayed creative advertisements around the world. Click here to access it. I've listed down some of the advertisements that caught my eye below, enjoy.

1. An advertisement by Jung von Matt/Alster for watchmaker IWC. Bus straps have been fashioned from images of IWC's Big Pilot's Watch to allow bus travelers near the airport to try before they buy at Berlin, Germany.
2. Life-size stickers of people were stuck on automatic sliding doors at a mall in Mumbai, India. When someone approaches the doors move apart and it feels like the people on the door are moving away. The person enters to find the message 'People Move Away When You Have Body Odour'.
3. Another creative idea by The Fitness Company. Heavy Weights were placed at various subways in New York City which creates an illusion that the person holding the safety bar is doing weights.

You Are Vanilla Ice Cream

Your personality is anything but "vanilla" You're a risk taker, who's up for anything new. You go well with anyone and fit into any situation. You are most compatible with rocky road ice cream. What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

Dearest Vanilla, you're my favorite too, i didn't know i am you (: Dang it, i am craving for ice cream right now.

Archery was fun, and everyone should try to go for it at least once in their life. I know Singapore ain't have like Africa where you can hunt for animals with a bow.

Everyone was mad about archery after Lord Of The Rings, yes Legolas the handsome elf tell me about it. Click here to see Archery at it's best via Youtube. Although the fat cute guy doesn't have any resemblance of Legolas but his skills are superb. Just ignore the Korean commentary but have fun looking at an arrow cutting through an arrow/some small shit.

Current Music Video Watching: Paris Hilton - Nothing In This World

Do not worry, this video ain't that dumb and sexually explicit compared to her Stars Are Blind Music Video.

Basically this video is about a loser kid in school, who gets bullied 24/7, get dunked in a toilet bowl, failing exams, and all he thinks about is super star Paris Hilton. Suddenly one fine day, on the way from school he realised his new neighbor is Paris Hilton, OMG. Yes, he decided to pop the question and the following day he went to school with her. Everyone in the school was like dumbfounded and super envious rahhh. The feeling was like, words cannot be used to describe.

Well, everybody definitely wished to have a famous super star partner before and of course i won't deny that too. Have fun finding one boys and girls (:

Nothing in this world can stop us tonight, i can do what she can do so much better.

I was blog hopping when i came across this picture, which is rather amusing. It's something most of the chemistry teachers love to mention about when it comes to the chapter on Stoichiometry. So what is your definition of a mole?

Yes, join the emo bio club now.

If you cannot play the guitar, or you simply can't be a rocker. I hereby need to inform you that it's is definitely okay. You still can be rocker, or making the people nod their heads simultaneously, or jumping on others, just be a Air Guitarist.

Air guitar is the act of pretending to play guitar, consisting of an exaggerated strumming motion and often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching. Air guitar is generally used in the imaginary simulation of loud electric guitar music, especially rock, heavy metal, and so on. Although it is acceptable to play air guitar to acoustic songs, it is an act traditionally left to rock. Headbanging is often used in conjunction with an air guitar. Real guitar players also often play air guitar quite accurately while listening to their favorite artists...

Via Wikipedia

Yes, it's so cool and there's even a Air Guitar World Championship. Click here to watch the champion of 2006 perform, hell yeah. Are you gonna be my girl (:

Finally MSN Messenger works, cheers.

Hello fellowmates. Do you people actually remember the Numa Numa craze? Everyone was like hooked on that song, and it soon became rather irritating seriously.

Numa Numa (or "the Numa Numa Dance") is an Internet phenomenon based on amateur videos made for the song Dragostea din Tei by Moldovan pop band O-Zone. The phrase "Numa Numa" comes from the chorus of the song, "nu mă, nu mă iei," meaning, roughly, "(you) won't take, won't take me."

Yes, and this fat big size dude, Mr Gary Bolsman made the song ultra popular in the internet world. Mr Chicken Little had a big part to play too.

A Flash-based video of American Gary Brolsma (born January 14, 1986) lip-synching the song energetically on his webcam brought the Numa Numa phenomenon to the US (video). Brolsma has stated that he first discovered the song in the Japanese flash animation [1].

Brolsma first published his "Numa Numa Dance" on the Newgrounds site on December 6, 2004, where it has since been seen more than 13 million times.([2]) Since then it has popped up on hundreds of other websites and blogs, and he has made appearances on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's The Tonight Show and VH1's Best Week Ever.

Via Wikipedia

Anyway, Gary Brolsma is back with a new music video called New Numa which is produced by Dan Balan, the producer for O-Zone's Dragostea din Tei. Click here to watch his new music video. I'm in no position to comment, but i was really distracted by his youknowwhat.

wallyz11 commented: GREAT GREAT STUFF Screw the Haters
romblen commented: I like this one. pretty good 4/5
og4sure commented: that dude got sum fattie tits

Do check out the New Numa contest too, a whooping $45 000 to be won yay.

I was reading the combine feed of ScienceBlogs and i came across a test that many science/computer freak did. It's none other than the Nerd Test. I am nerdier than 89% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out

By the way, here's the definition of a Nerd Via Wikipedia.

Nerd, as a stereotypical or archetypal designation, refers to somebody who pursues academic and intellectual interests at the expense of social skills such as: interpersonal communication, fashion, and physical fitness.

The word should not be confused with Geek.

A geek (IPA: [giːk]) is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination, usually electronic or virtual in nature. Geek may not always have the same meaning as the term nerd (see nerd for a discussion of the disputed relation between the terms).

The test was alright, and some parts were quite tricky which demands some proper thinking.

Thank goodness i remembered how Sir Issac Newton looked like, seriously.

It also contains some basic chemistry and scripting/programming knowledge. Chemistry part was a brisk to me, but C++ programming? No way my friends.

In the end i got 89 over 100 points. Yay and i got a High Nerd rank. But seriously, i think there's loads of nerds around me in my life. Yes, those people who can study straight away after they wake up, and study till it's bed time.

I know it's insane, or do you prefer sweeping the roadside or plowing the soil? Be a Nerd, it's better, trust me.

Just returned home from Bukit Batok Driving Center. For your information, i signed up for 5 slots straight which started at 9.50am all the way till 4.30pm. Maybe having only a 10 to 15 minutes break in between, i know it's abit hardcore.

Anyway, lessons were interesting to a certain extent. The lecturers were friendly and humorous, and they provided some useful information that cannot be found in the basic theory book. Personally, i think the $16.80 did not go to waste because the lessons were kind of helpful and there were pretty ladies around. Please notice the italics. I managed to pass my basic theory evaluation aka internal test today, which means i am taking my real basic theory test in two weeks time already. Booked the slots for advance theory today too, come on let's have a fast game (:

Talked to my parents about my teeth extraction, and called up my dentist again. I'm still rather confused, whether should i really remove them tomorrow partly because i am very scared. By the way, it's going to be the fourth one from the center, both of them you know? You tell me how am i supposed to go out after that.

Was given the chance to view a highly entertaining video on youtube titled "Here It Goes Again"

Basically it's four guys performing a well coordinated dance, using treadmills. Well, i did not know treadmill can be used for dancing in such a manner. I shall head down to my gym soon and start dancing, hogged the machine and scare off all the old birds.

hTVerteX commented: i saw this video and thought, wow, great choreography. well done, guys!

Click here to view the video.

How i wish the tornado will suck me in and blow me into outer space, poof.

Now they all moved on, but they will always be remembered by me.