Hey guys,
wonder if you guys are still keen to write into this blog, haha, well now its my turn to be away for abit, in Tsang's and mine favourite English speaking ang moh country, haha.
well, so far have been here for like 9 days, in silicon valley, CA. Been quite good fun here so far, tagged along with my uncle from India who was here visiting too to places like Reno and Lake Tahoe, both a nice places to see.
Once they had left, started driving here too, haha, I really love the 101 (the main freeway from San Fran to LA, it cuts through the valley too). So great driving at 130km/h, I guess its just something I like. Got used to driving on the right side of teh road already, think for us not too difficult still, as we are not set in our ways. So have been driving around quite abit around the valley, to Gilroy (factory outlet), Santa Cruz ('near by' beach) and even dropped my aunt off at the airport and returned home on my own (she's also going to NC). So its really cool. :)
I guess I will just make the occassional post here about wats going on in my life. Also I have started a long-distance relationship with this singaporean punjabi girl who is studying in Adelaide, can say we met through facebook. Guess will wait till I meet her in Jan to 'confirm' our relationship, but she seems like a nice person so I optimistic it will work out. Guess see how it goes. Guess dont want to publically announce it yet, so just keep it among us ya.
15.8.09
28.7.09
banned waterbottles.
Didn't NSW plastic water bottles recently?
Is that the plastic bottled water industry's new marketting ploy? to make us believe that their water bottles are conscious?
And what morals do a water bottle abide to anyway? Is the water in them under their jurisdiction? So like if the water in the water bottle grows fungi and algae and what not, is that the water's fault or the water bottle's? And like are they responsible for non spills, like when their owner is trying to drink from the bottle in a bumpy vehicle or something, who's moral obligation is it that the water should not spill?
25.7.09
A Morally-Self-Consious-Water-Bottle
Since i'm in my Cam-Whore Mode before uni begins again wat-the-heck..Saw this while in Jesmond Shops at Cotton On and decided to buy it..because it says, "A Morally Consious Water Bottle"...Ermmm..you mean, a Morally SELF-Conscious Water Bottle that Reeks of Do-Gooder Bullsh*t...as the Pommies(Brit-ish) might say, "Bah, Humbug!"
27.6.09
Opium-eating wallabies
Opium-eating wallabies get high, make crop circles - Latest News - MSN Singapore News - News:
"Opium-eating wallabies get high, make crop circles
Wallabies are getting 'as high as a kite' on opium in Australian poppy fields and flattening crops as they hop round in circles, according to a report.
The marsupials, which look like small kangaroos, have been getting into medical opium crops in the southern island state of Tasmania and chewing on the plant's intoxicating heads, state officials said.
'We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,' state attorney-general Lara Giddings told a parliamentary estimates hearing.
'Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high,' local media reported Ms Giddings as saying.
Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market, with about 500 farms supplying approximately 50 percent of the raw material for morphine and other opiate drugs.
Livestock and other animals, such as deer and sheep, which eat the plants had also been seen acting 'weird,' industry spokesman Rick Rockliff said.
'There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles,' he said."
"Opium-eating wallabies get high, make crop circles
Wallabies are getting 'as high as a kite' on opium in Australian poppy fields and flattening crops as they hop round in circles, according to a report.
The marsupials, which look like small kangaroos, have been getting into medical opium crops in the southern island state of Tasmania and chewing on the plant's intoxicating heads, state officials said.
'We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,' state attorney-general Lara Giddings told a parliamentary estimates hearing.
'Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high,' local media reported Ms Giddings as saying.
Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market, with about 500 farms supplying approximately 50 percent of the raw material for morphine and other opiate drugs.
Livestock and other animals, such as deer and sheep, which eat the plants had also been seen acting 'weird,' industry spokesman Rick Rockliff said.
'There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles,' he said."
10.6.09
EOFYS @ Allans
Allans Music Online - Home Page
My dear Jonathan Tsang, the End of Financial Year sale is up... go visit that site, if there's anything you want within your budget, I can help you get it and bring it back along with me in July or something...
take a look... bought my protools from them.. so they send me these flyers with upcoming sales and new products etc etc...
My dear Jonathan Tsang, the End of Financial Year sale is up... go visit that site, if there's anything you want within your budget, I can help you get it and bring it back along with me in July or something...
take a look... bought my protools from them.. so they send me these flyers with upcoming sales and new products etc etc...
28.5.09
WRMEA: U.S. Aid to Israel
WRMEA: U.S. Aid to Israel:
"The same applies to the president, the secretary of state, and the foreign aid administrator. They all submit a budget that includes aid for Israel, which Congress approves, or increases, but never cuts. But no one in the executive branch mentions that of the few remaining U.S. aid recipients worldwide, all of the others are developing nations which either make their military bases available to the U.S., are key members of international alliances in which the U.S. participates, or have suffered some crippling blow of nature to their abilities to feed their people such as earthquakes, floods or droughts.
Israel, whose troubles arise solely from its unwillingness to give back land it seized in the 1967 war in return for peace with its neighbors, does not fit those criteria. In fact, Israel's 1995 per capita gross domestic product was $15,800. That put it below Britain at $19,500 and Italy at $18,700 and just above Ireland at $15,400 and Spain at $14,300.
All four of those European countries have contributed a very large share of immigrants to the U.S., yet none has organized an ethnic group to lobby for U.S. foreign aid. Instead, all four send funds and volunteers to do economic development and emergency relief work in other less fortunate parts of the world.
The lobby that Israel and its supporters have built in the United States to make all this aid happen, and to ban discussion of it from the national dialogue, goes far beyond AIPAC, with its $15 million budget, its 150 employees, and its five or six registered lobbyists who manage to visit every member of Congress individually once or twice a year."
http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm
The above excerpt is just part of a bunch of essays on the site.
"The same applies to the president, the secretary of state, and the foreign aid administrator. They all submit a budget that includes aid for Israel, which Congress approves, or increases, but never cuts. But no one in the executive branch mentions that of the few remaining U.S. aid recipients worldwide, all of the others are developing nations which either make their military bases available to the U.S., are key members of international alliances in which the U.S. participates, or have suffered some crippling blow of nature to their abilities to feed their people such as earthquakes, floods or droughts.
Israel, whose troubles arise solely from its unwillingness to give back land it seized in the 1967 war in return for peace with its neighbors, does not fit those criteria. In fact, Israel's 1995 per capita gross domestic product was $15,800. That put it below Britain at $19,500 and Italy at $18,700 and just above Ireland at $15,400 and Spain at $14,300.
All four of those European countries have contributed a very large share of immigrants to the U.S., yet none has organized an ethnic group to lobby for U.S. foreign aid. Instead, all four send funds and volunteers to do economic development and emergency relief work in other less fortunate parts of the world.
The lobby that Israel and its supporters have built in the United States to make all this aid happen, and to ban discussion of it from the national dialogue, goes far beyond AIPAC, with its $15 million budget, its 150 employees, and its five or six registered lobbyists who manage to visit every member of Congress individually once or twice a year."
http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm
The above excerpt is just part of a bunch of essays on the site.
27.5.09
another idea
hey guys,
i dunno if you guys share the same concern for the environment, energy conservation and the poor as I do, but an idea just popped into my mind for a business/charity based on those causes.
I thought I'd like to attempt to help people convert waste heat to do something useful around the house like dry clothes.
An initial attempt would be to channel the coolant from a fridge to a larger area that can be maintained and cleaned so that the clothes can be dried on it.
I reckon this idea will not be immediately attractive as the cost savings will be quite little - maybe under $100 a year? and the initial cost of labor and raw materials to set it up may be way above that order of magnitude (some survey will have to go into this).
There are also several technical and aesthetic/design issues to concern oneself with - whether we can come up with designs for each situation that is functional and simple enough to be of casual utility, and that will be the thing which determines if this idea takes off.
In this climate of tightening belts and of people looking for something worthwhile to do, we can take otherwise unemployed people (ourselves) and apply them to helping the poor whom a few dollars in savings would matter to.
It could serve as a springboard/source of experience to implementing ideas that involve higher tech, more complication and more cost e.g. I envision solar powered windows to absorb energy from the sunlight to power air conditioners, or an external system to aid in cooling the computer, which is becoming the central problem with computing these days (incorporating the home server with the home water heating system). It has the scope of utilizing some of our trainings - varun's business skills, chua's design training, and perhaps shamir could help us market the product using videos - getting the message across to the our target audience.
i dunno if you guys share the same concern for the environment, energy conservation and the poor as I do, but an idea just popped into my mind for a business/charity based on those causes.
I thought I'd like to attempt to help people convert waste heat to do something useful around the house like dry clothes.
An initial attempt would be to channel the coolant from a fridge to a larger area that can be maintained and cleaned so that the clothes can be dried on it.
I reckon this idea will not be immediately attractive as the cost savings will be quite little - maybe under $100 a year? and the initial cost of labor and raw materials to set it up may be way above that order of magnitude (some survey will have to go into this).
There are also several technical and aesthetic/design issues to concern oneself with - whether we can come up with designs for each situation that is functional and simple enough to be of casual utility, and that will be the thing which determines if this idea takes off.
In this climate of tightening belts and of people looking for something worthwhile to do, we can take otherwise unemployed people (ourselves) and apply them to helping the poor whom a few dollars in savings would matter to.
It could serve as a springboard/source of experience to implementing ideas that involve higher tech, more complication and more cost e.g. I envision solar powered windows to absorb energy from the sunlight to power air conditioners, or an external system to aid in cooling the computer, which is becoming the central problem with computing these days (incorporating the home server with the home water heating system). It has the scope of utilizing some of our trainings - varun's business skills, chua's design training, and perhaps shamir could help us market the product using videos - getting the message across to the our target audience.
20.5.09
Doctor uses household drill to save Australian boy - Latest News - MSN Singapore News - News
Doctor uses household drill to save Australian boy - Latest News - MSN Singapore News - News: "Doctor uses household drill to save Australian boy"
Drilling, anyone?
Drilling, anyone?
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