
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Friday, 6 November 2009
and you realise..
Friday, 30 October 2009
and I realised..
Alexander III of Macedon, popularly known as Alexander the Great , was a Greek king (basileus) of Macedon who created one of the largest empirin ancient es history. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his father Philip II of Macedon to the throne in 336 BC after the King was assassinated, and died 13 years later at the age of 32. Whilst both Alexander's reign and empire were short-lived, the cultural impact of his conquests lasted for centuries. Alexander is one of the most well known figures of antiquity, and is remembered for his tactical ability, his conquests, and for spreading Greek civilization into the east.
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential men in history. His 1687 publication of the PhilosophiƦ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually called the Principia) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics.
Wong Lap Beng (1929-2001) was a bus driver and every morning, he would wake up at 4am to fill up his bus with diesel and make sure the air pressure in his tyres were satisfactory. he had a wife which he loved dearly and 5 children, 3 boys and 2 girls. Every evening after dropping the last passenger of at the batu Langat bus stop, he would return home and give his wife a kiss on the cheek. his oldest daughter would then give him a back rub. dinner would be ready in 15 minutes and the whole family would be at the table. after dinner, his children would wash up and he would secretly go to his room and take out his daily earnings and put it under his mattres. 50 years later, he passed away peacefully with all his children and grandchildren around him.
3 different lives. 3 different paths taken.
what would YOU do before you died?
Monday, 19 October 2009
the 10 commandments in fantasy football
- thou shalt not buy a liverpool defender or goalkeeper
- thou shalt not buy a portsmouth player
- thou shalt have Fabregas and Bent no matter what
- thy weekly pundit is wise, listen to it
- thou shalt not captain Berbatov, let alone buy him
- thou shalt not have faith in thy Manchester City defenders
- thou shalt always pray for Liverpool balloons
- thou shalt sell Foster. NOW.
- thou shalt have faith in Saha
- thou shalt not use thy wildcard 10 weeks into a 38 week league. resist, my child.
any ones that should be changed msg me on that lil box at the side.
Sunday, 27 September 2009
OMYGOSHH!!!!
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Time Will Tell. by Nancy Gibbs
In 1991 we were fighting a war in Iraq, and still are; health care needed reforming, and still does. But before despairing that some things never change, consider how much has. In 1991 the world watched a black motorist named Rodney King be beaten by L.A. cops, all of whom were acquitted; a majority of whites still disapproved of interracial marriage. Ask yourself, Would the people we were then have voted for a mixed-race President and a black First Lady?
That year, apartheid was repealed, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Dow broke 3000. The next year, the first commercial text message was sent; now there are more transmitted every day than there are people on the planet. In the time it took for toddlers to turn into teenagers, we decoded the human genome and everyone got a cell phone, an iPod, a GPS and a DVR. As the head-spinning viral video "Did You Know" informs us, the top 10 jobs in demand in 2010 did not exist six years ago, so "we're preparing kids for jobs that don't yet exist using technologies we haven't yet invented."
We have managed, rather gracefully, far more change than we predicted would come; it turns out that our past's vision of the future was not visionary enough. This is often the case: reality puts prophecy to shame. "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote," declared Grover Cleveland in 1905. Harry Truman, in his 1950 State of the Union address to mark the midcentury, predicted that "our total national production 50 years from now will be four times as much as it is today." It turned out to be more than 33 times as large. "It will be gone by June," promised Variety in 1955 — talking about rock 'n' roll. "It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister," declared Margaret Thatcher in 1969.
Leaders rely on the future as a vaccine against the present. The Soviets have put a man in space? "I believe we should go to the moon," President Kennedy announces. "I have a dream," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declares as the world around him burns. Maybe the promise is realized, even surpassed; maybe it keeps receding, pulling us along. "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time," Abraham Lincoln supposedly observed. Which is true for those in charge of creating it but maybe not for the rest of us. When we pause and look back, we get to see the past's future, know how the story turned out. Did we rise to the occasion? Did we triumph? Did we blink?
The past's power comes from experience, the lessons it dares us to dismiss on the grounds that maybe things will be different this time. The future's power is born of experiment, and the endless grudge match between fear and hope. We are having a dozen simultaneous conversations right now about change: in our institutions, our culture, our treatment of the planet and of one another.
It's tempting to just stand stock-still and squeeze your eyes shut and wait for the moment to pass, or else hoard canned goods and assume the worst. This has been an awfully ugly summer of argument, and you'd be forgiven for concluding that we've lost our will to face or fix anything. We'll just dance with the devils we know, thank you. But if you look past Washington, past Wall Street, turn down the volume and go outside and walk around, you'll find the parcels of grace, of ingenuity and enterprise — people riding change like a skateboard, speeding off a ramp, twisting, flipping, somehow landing with a rush of wind and wheels — and wonder that it somehow hasn't killed us yet.
When members of the freshman class of 2027 look back at our future, what's likely to surprise them most? Will they marvel that gays were once not allowed to marry — or that they ever were? That we waited while the planet warmed, or that we acted to save it? That we protected the poor, or empowered them, or ignored them? That we lived within our means, or beyond them? We'll make our choices one day at a time, but our kids will judge our generation for what we generate, and what we leave undone.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
post-per-day
for example: this is the introduction to their selection of low -fat smoothies.
Smoothies made with fresh fruit
and good-for-you yogurt!
They’re all at least 98 percent fat free – how?
We make sure we only pick the skinniest
cows to produce our milk and yogurt.
Not only that, all of our fruit is put through
a vigorous Olivia Newton-John style workout,
complete with leg warmers and the
tenacity to 'choose life'.
Freshly Squeezed, no added sugar!
We take the most innocent-looking
fresh fruit and veggies (especially the
ones with naturally sweet personalities
and cute little dimples),
then brutally squeeze, pulp and grind
into a delicious, vitamin packed juice.
Surprisingly this is legal to do.
Except in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana,
where the Humanity Towards Fruit Legislation
Act of 1999 was put in place to protect the
rights of innocent fruit, much to our outcry.
I wont even bother making any wisecrack jokes. anything i come up with pales in comparison to that
next, fruit crushes, basically mixed fruit juices:
Surprisingly, it’s not unheard of for
our fruit to get quite friendly with
each other when our Boosties are
looking the other way.
It always starts as an innocent
Fruit Crush, but then leads to
something more serious.
In fact, some crushes have lead
to full relationships that have
resulted in offspring – for example,
a plum and apricot just gave birth
to a “pluot”. Cooool!
that is dope. mr lemon, mrs watermelon.. please welcome your son, waterlemon. he's sour and seedy. noone will ever like him.
and on the allergy info, there's a little section that is printed in small fonts (looks like terms & conditions) but wait! here's what it says :
- the space between your eyebrows is called the glabella
- 90% of the population has an "innie" belly button
- a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes(on average) loses two teeth every two years
- a pregnant goldfish is called a twit
- in every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
- Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and was placed third
- no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
- the word "fart" comes from the old english "foertan" (meaning to break wind)
- a ducks quack doesn't echo
- a snail can sleep for three years
- all the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
- its impossible to lick your elbow
- triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13
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- most lipsticks contain fish scales
- coconuts kill about 150 people each year (that's more than sharks)
- if you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death
- bats always turn left when exiting a cave
- people photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
- more than 50% of the world's population as never made or received a telephone call
- winston churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance
- all polar bears are left handed
and lastly:
all information was correct at time of printing, or so we hope. sometimes we do make mistakes, we're human after all. Well actually it wasn't humans that put this together, it was a giant baboon wearing a little top hat. We call him Graham.
hell yeah. this is THE best flyer I've ever read. either they're taking advantage of the fact that no one reads , or they're just THAT brilliant.
oh and when i was leaving through the exit in Isetan, i accidentally stepped on some juice that this kid dropped from "Boost" (i know. the irony) and i closed the glass door behind me without looking. (I WAS IN A RUSH!)
and then i heard "THANKS" in the most sarcastic tone you will ever hear and i tell you, that really lit my day up. it was just that awkward. we both laughed and i opened the door for her. awesome. funny as hell.
signed,
chuen. =)
P.S their brekkie to go-go is awesome.