Wednesday, May 30, 2007
HEY! HEY!!!! I'm back....
Back from the Day 2 Student Leaders Convention (SLC), had "alot" of fun, met alot(hmm... if 1 is little... 12 is alot right?) of new friends. I'm in team Mari... trademark for the sound "MEHHHHHH". Day was fine... as in it did not rain :P Had 2 main team discussion about Youth Empowerment, Political Involvement. Was to come out with an Action Plan to solve 3 main problems faced in Asia- Pacific Region.
1. Government underestimating the importance of youth
2. Youth awareness
3. Little leeway to the society
Chosed 1 and 2. Then tok about the solution, problem, cause, effect. For 2.5hrs, then lunch! Got food!!! Duh... After that, went back to team brainstorming again. for another 2 hrs. Was rushing thru' to complete the Action Paper.. not me... but Yujie... All because of him the team is alive. Manage to not complete, rushed to the drama centre and though we were late. In the end, we were early..... very early.. It was a serious discussion, damn serious. Have to maintain DECORUM. No talking, laughing, cheering, clapping, booing. Have to sit still. Uniform to be tuck in. As there is not talking allow, only note passing. Thats the fun part. Was talking alot of crap. Then suddenly, the CHAIR press the bell. *ding* "Please maintain decorum. No sleeping is allowed. " After like... 2 hrs? it ended. Everyone screaming... clapping lols. And finally, the day was ended by a debrief by our Facs.
After that, when was dinner.... then home. That's not the end of the day yet.... Next... the 2NT concert. Manage to get a ticket. Was waiting for a perfect performance.... but was disappointed in the end. 1 Singing, 1 rapping. The rest dancing. 40+ mins intermission. SUCKS AR... previous year are better one de lor. As usual... the Bats that visited us came agn, could regconise him by the wings.... The food and drinks for sale are all SCAM!!! 1 bottle of 1.5litre bottle.... pour into small small cup, about a fist height and a less than 10cm diameter opening. 1 cup $1!!!! I really wandered how much they were earning. After that went home. Was caught in a long long long traffic jam. But looking for some bread, at least if there is no kaya... we got jam(traffic branded)!.
Bus had no choice but to turn left.... and take 911 route and go back to causeway point... which is the exact oppostite direction i wanted. All in all, damn vesak day... No bus going to my house... all caught in the jam and diverted to other route... only bus left was 903. Alight at mosque and walk back... and now i am what i am doing now...
Awaiting a better days ahead...
Prof. Einstan
Sunday, May 27, 2007
(Image painted by an artist of Andromeda-Milky Way collision seen on earth)
Yo! Another informative news to share. Have you ever wander that whether there is other galaxy other than Milky Way? Yes, there is. It is know as the Andromeda galaxy or M31. Though this is the nearest galaxy to us, it is about 2.9 million light-years away from the Milky Way. 1 great fact that interest me was that Andromeda galaxy is approaching the Sun at the speed of about 300km per sec! An the fact that the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy is approaching each other at the speed of 140 km per sec! and of course they will collide eventually, at a predicted time 3 billion years ahead. Let do some calculation.
1 Lightyear =
300000000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365
= 9460800000000000 km!
If they are approaching at 140 km per sec. They will collide is just
9460800000000000 / 140
= 67577142857142 secs
= 1126285714285 mins
= 18771428571 hours
= 782142857 days
= 2142857 years
= about 2 million year for one light year
2.9 million lightyear
= 2142857 x 2900000
= 6214285300000 years 0.o
My calculation error? nvm... forget it
Let's continue...
The Andromeda-Milky Way collision is a predicted galaxy collision, due to take place in approximately three billion years time, between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group - the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is often used as an example of the kind of phenomena associated with such collisions in simulations.[1] As with all such collisions, it is unlikely that objects such as stars contained within each galaxy will actually collide, as galaxies are in fact very diffuse —the nearest star to the Sun is in fact almost thirty million solar diameters away from the Earth. If the theory is correct, the stars and gas contained in Andromeda will be visible to a naked-eye viewer (if one exists on Earth at the time) in approximately three billion years.[2]
Frank Summers of the Space Telescope Science Institute has created a CGI visualization of the predicted event, based on research by Professors Chris Mihos of Case Western Reserve University and Lars Hernquist of Harvard University.[3]
Such collisions are relatively common; Andromeda, for example, is believed to have collided with at least one other galaxy in the past.[4]
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Have you ever wandered about the origin of mosquito? Why do they only want human blood? But in fact, according to the legend, they only wants 3 drop of blood. Curious? interested? read on and find out!
Lead Character :-
- Ngoc Tam, the devoted husband
- Nhan Diep, the betrayer
- Thien Thai, the genie of medicine
- Merchant, the bastard seducer
The Origin of the Mosquito: a Vietnamese Legend
The Legend of Nhan Diep Far back in the mystery-shrouded past of old Vietnam, there was once a young, hardworking farmer named Ngoc Tam. He was an honest, generous man who had taken for his wife, a beautiful, charming girl from a neighbouring village. Nhan Diep was a slender, dark haired girl, full of life and good humour, always wearing bright flowers about her clothes, that seemed to perfectly complement her own natural beauty. Yet despite being gracious and of good breeding, Diep despised work and had always longed for a life of luxury and pleasure. She soon grew tired and disillusioned with breeding the silkworms that had brought her husband such renown. She was also disappointed with hardly seeing her husband during the day, while he tended to the rice fields and mulberry trees, toiling endlessly to try and ease their poverty. A restless spirit, Nhan Diep dreamt of a day when she might have all that she wished for… One day without warning, Diep fell horribly ill and slipped into a deep, debilitating sleep. Tam found her lying on the ground surrounded by the silkworms that had been scattered from their trays in her fall. He picked her up and carried her back to the house, where he put her into bed. Despite his best efforts to ease her suffering, Diep died in her distraught husband's arms. Tam was inconsolable and wept for days. He shunned the help of friends and family and refused to leave the body of his wife or allow her to be buried. Tam didn’t know how he could live without his precious Diep. In desperation, he sold all his assets and bought a raft and a beautiful casket in which he placed body of his wife. Taking the raft to the nearby stream, he set sail with neither direction nor purpose, just an innate hope that somehow he could find a cure for his broken heart. With his thirst rising and his skin dry and reddened from the salt in his tears, he began hallucinating, imagining his wife singing softly to him from her casket. He knew what he heard was all in his mind, but it made him ache to open the casket, to see his wife alive once more. In his grief and desperation, Tam sought help of any kind, and on the twenty-second day, help found him. Tam woke from a troubled sleep that morning, to find the raft had stopped at the foot of a verdant, flower-carpeted mountain, from which drifted the most enchanting of scents. Leaving the raft and the casket behind, he stepped on to the land and soon found himself walking across a carpet of a thousand rare flowers, beneath colourful trees that boasted magnificent, ripe fruits. Beguiled, Tam continued up the mountainside, not realizing the heights to which he had ascended, until he began tofeel dizzy. He stopped in a small clearing to regain his breath and see how far up the mountain he had climbed. As he walked to the edge, he noticed an old man on the path before him, leaning on a curious bamboo staff. The man had long, white hair that floated gently on the caressing breeze and wrinkled, sun-burned skin. But his eyes had a youth to them, a playful spark, and Tam felt as though somehow this stranger already knew him. At once it dawned on Tam that the old man was in fact Tien Thai, the genie of medicine, who travelled across the world on his mountain to teach his science to men and cure illnesses. Tam fell to his knees, his hands clasped together, and pleaded with the genie to restore his beloved to life. "Ngoc Tam… I know of you and your virtues," the old man said. "You are a good and loving man. That is why I stopped my mountain along your way. I wish to accept you into my company of disciples. You have earned the right to learn much wisdom." Tam was flattered and thanked the spirit humbly, but he was immovable. "I regret that I am in no state of mind to learn anything. I am nothing without my beloved. I feel neither alive nor dead." He gazed imploringly at Tien Thai, who shook his head in pity, then said: “Her hold on you is still strong Ngoc Tam. It will not be relinquished. You must learn to grow, not suffer from your love for her.” "But I cannot live any kind of life without her. I beg you, if it is within your power, bring my Diep back to life." The genie regarded Tam with a kind resignation, then replied: "I shall not deny your request, for your love and grief are sincere and you are worthy of such a powerful gift. But I must ask why you choose to cling to this life of bitterness and gall. The joys of this world seem seldom and transitory, always failing to eclipse it’s woes. I have seen men of greater potential than yourself, entrust their minds and hearts to the whims of selfish, fickle women. I have watched women of wonderful wisdom, surrender themselves whole to the mercy of evil, heartless thugs. In a way I am glad to not understand. Yet it pains me to be ignorant.” Ngoc Tam was at once defiant. "I have loved nothing in life like I have loved her. I must have her back, or life itself is pointless." The old genie sighed. “Do you see this?” The genie closed his palm, then opened it again. Sitting on the flesh near the ball of his thumb was a small, yellow butterfly. “This was once a very different creature indeed. Ugly, creeping, slow. Now look at him.” He let the insect flutter away. “Your grief will not last forever. In time you will be stronger… A new man.” The genie’s words were to no avail, Tam seemed unmoved. "Very well then,” the genie conceded. “Do this: Pierce your finger with a thorn from one of the bushes over there and let three drops fall on the body of your wife. Do this and she shall return to you."
Tam jumped to his feet, rushed over to a large bush and snapped off a mean looking thorn. He thanked the genie profusely, even as he ran off back down the path. The genie disappeared from the spot where he'd been standing, and rematerialized at the foot of the hill. Tam nearly fell into the water in his desperation to get onto the raft, noticing with only some surprise that the genie had beaten him to the water’s edge. He scrambled on to the craft and lifted the lid from the casket. His wife's poor body had deflated somewhat, and Tam could hardly bare to peel away the layers of clothes to the bare skin. Then he noticed her left hand lying by her side. He pricked his left forefinger with the thorn and squeezed three drops of blood, so that they fell on to her exposed palm. Almost instantly Diep opened her eyes as though awakening from a deep sleep. Her wrinkled, pale skin suddenly bloomed with colour and vitality. She gasped and drew in huge breaths and sat up, looking around her. Her eyes took in her surroundings, before settling on Tam who laughed in barely contained joy and dropped to her side. He took Diep in his arms and hugged her passionately. The genie approached the couple slowly. His eyes met Diep's. "Forget not your obligations, Nhan Diep." the genie said to her. "Remember your husband's devotion to you. Return his love, and work hard." The genie turned from the emotional couple saying only: "Go now. May you both be happy." On their voyage home, Tam rarely took his eyes off his wife. He felt as though he had awakened from a long nightmare to find that his life was what it had always been. Diep returned his loving gaze, though often her thoughts seemed to take her far beyond the raft and the stream they sailed down. Tam rowed day and night, eager to reach his native land, and to pretend Diep’s death had never happened. One evening he guided the raft ashore near a small trading settlement to buy provisions, leaving Diep aboard the vessel, stargazing. Diep was still coming to terms with her experience, and since returning to life, she felt almost like a child, as if the world was an exciting, magical place full of exotic wonder. Tam meanwhile, wandered through the trading post, carefully selecting provisions, remaining forever thrifty and cautious. While Tam was ashore, a large vessel came into the wharf and pulled alongside the small raft where Diep lay peacefully. The owner of the vessel was a rich, powerful merchant, who, on noticing Diep was instantly struck by her natural beauty. Standing on the large deck of his ship, staring in wonder at the female below, he made his mind up that he would have her. He disembarked, strolled across the shore and engaged Diep in conversation, immediately dazzling the young girl with his fine clothes and jewellery. Her interest was at once aroused and she accepted the merchant's invitation to join him aboard his ship for refreshments. As soon as Diep was aboard, the dastardly merchant gave the order to his crewmen to set sail and leave the settlement behind. When Tam returned from buying supplies he found the raft untended and his wife missing. In a wild panic, he scoured the beach and the settlement for hours, before taking to the stream in a desperate search for his true love.
Once more, tears rolled down parched skin, and it was nearly a whole month before a thin, haggard Ngoc Tam came alongside the rich merchant's vessel and in pure euphoria spotted Nhan Diep on the ship's deck, sunning herself and giving orders to a slave. After a lengthy commotion, the merchant allowed Tam on board his vessel to converse with his wife. Diep was happy to see her husband, but even though she answered his questions and had food and drink brought to him, she refused to leave. She had grown far too accustomed to her new life of luxury. All her dreams had now been satisfied. Seeing Diep's true colours, Tam became enraged. All love for her vanished in an instant and he no longer desired her. "You are free," he told her, feeling for the first time like a man devoid of emotion. "All I ask is that you return to me the three drops of blood I gave to bring you back to life. I will have no trace of me within you." Diep felt relieved to be given her freedom of Tam so cheaply, and called for her man-servant to bring her a fruit knife. She stood, and with mock ceremony cut the tip of her finger, so that three drops of blood dropped into the palm of Tam's left hand. Almost as the last drop had left her finger, she paled and fell to the ground. At Tam’s feet, the body of his wife exhaled and shrank until it was the size of a small fly. Stunned by the spectacle, Tam turned and fled to his raft, nearly falling over the fat merchant who had come out on deck to see the man who had come to try and take away his woman. Tam jumped onto his raft, nearly capsizing it, and began frantically rowing away from the ship. There came a buzzing and Tam saw the small fly land on the mast before him. It spoke: "I'm sorry my darling, forgive me. Only, please give back the blood. I must have it!" With that, the fly flew at Tam's face, but he swatted it away with a hand and it went careering toward the waves. Tam could not believe all that had happened. He rowed with all his strength until at last he was once again confronted by the mystical, floating mountain. Tam left the raft and ran up the scented slopes until he reached the summit where he dropped to his knees and prayed until the genie appeared and comforted him. The old man listened patiently to what Tam had to say, then sat down next to him and spoke gently. "From now on, Diep will search everywhere for your blood. She will stop at nothing. She will surpass death, she may even reproduce to better her chances of finding you. You must find a new wife Ngoc Tam. One who loves you unconditionally and who will work hard alongside you all your life." Tam nodded and stood, breathing in the wondrous scents of the mountain. He thanked the genie profusely, then took his leave of him.
Tam soon find another wife, a lady he came to love even more than Nhan Diep, and who gave as much love back in return. She worked as hard as her husband and they both enjoyed prosperity and fortune. The only time Ngoc Tam would ever be troubled, would be when he heard a faint buzzing pass by his ear, as of some maddened insect. Nhan Diep suffered eternally for her betrayal, and could do nothing but wait for the moment when Ngoc Tam was away from his new beloved, the only time he was vulnerable to Diep's attack. But he would never leave her side, nor she his. And so Diep watched and waited, her bloodlust forcing her to feed on anyone who might cross her path, eventually becoming a prisoner to her hunger and knowing nothing but her desire to find the blood of her once betrothed… Ngoc Tam.
Does this story arouse your interest? Lets just hope that she will find back her blood from either one of you... hahahha*Evil Laugh*
Friday, May 18, 2007
Woot!!!! Finally... it over...!!!! No more MYE, happy and sad. Sad is bad resultsssss..... happy is good results! Let me analyze my results with you...
MYE Result 2007
Chinese... 50.25 / 100
- As usual, border-line cases... as least I pass!
E- Maths... 93.33/100
- Woot! First time... so high. Btw... nth to show off about it. Paper was easy... no challenge. Abit of careless mistakes here and there. Mr Choh marked this paper as " Insulting" catagory
Add. Maths... 56/ 100
- My first time taking Add. Maths paper, though, still disappointed with my results... can be higher next time. GAMBATTE KUDASAI!
Physics... 79/ 100
- Disappointed. Low results. Aiming for 85 next time round. Main thing.... " NO KEY POINT"
Chemistry... 73/ 100
- OMG! Lowest for Science. Stupid results. Extremely upset. Result could be higher.
Biology... 84/ 100
- Highest for Science. This result is SATISFACTORY only...
English... 47/ 100
- Hehe... as usual. Lowest. Main thing.... " Chee How, please rephrase your sentence x23"
Comb. Humans.... 63.8/100
- History, 34/ 50
- Results is okay, can be improved further on content knowledge.
- SS, 27/ 50
- This is extreme disappointment. Was expecting alot higher. Need to focus more on time management
Total... 639.3/ 910
Average... 70.2%
"Okay" results overall. CAN be further improved. Aiming for 76.5% for End- Of - Year. Hope I can do well. Thanks to those who helped me all along. Jesus, zeus, buddha... etc... " Excellent!" for those who achieved good results.
Signing off...
Einstan...
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Hmm... have a feeling that alot of ppl missed me :P .
Reasons:-
- Not posted for 4 days
- Exam period, not much communication
Okie okie.. back to topic. Tmr is Physics P1 ans P2. Studied well, learning definition, memorizing formula (not F1 Grand Prix), practicing the whole book again. Fine so far... Except for the conduction( transfer of thermal energy thru particle collision), convection ( transfer of thermal energy thru change of density) and radiation ( transfer of thermal energy, can travel thru vacuum) thingy. Sec 2 topics tested? I really dunno... Nvm... later i spending sometime thinking, missing, worrying about it first, then spend time to be with them, hopefully they will began to like me, and follow me thru tmr exam... not forgetting... BEST OF LUCK TO YOU GUYS! ( and gals.... i am not sexist...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Today is English paper 1, CL Paper 1.
English Paper 1
---5 choose 1---
1. Changes
2. Advantage and Disadvantage of Competition
3. "Success does not depend on excellent academic" Do you agree
4. -----Forgotten... someone fill me up---------
5. Write an original story beginning with "I don't feel this is right. Let's turn back," She said.
---Compulsory---
Write a persuasive and friendly speech.
Audience: Students of Merlion Secondary School
Points to note:-
- How it affect your social life
- Reaction of friends when u decided to quit
- How you overcome the problem
- Advice
Guiding point
- Persistent bad breath
- Smelly, clothes
- Prone to disease
- Slower healing for injury
- --------Forgotten-----------
Overall, paper was okie. Was writing --5-- but didnt see the "beginning with". I put "I don't feel this is right. Let's turn back," at the very end and then realize. No time to rewrite. Only way is to make it to --1--. By adding " His mature thinking changed his life, it was the decision that make him what he is now."
CL Paper 1
---2 choose 1---
( Informal Letter writing )
1. To a friend, how you improve your chinese
2. To a television station, to improve their content and reschedule'ing their programme. Also MUST include that you hope for more teenage-likeable show.
---3 choose 1---
1. Disagreement in idea of a project. Write out the whole process.
Points to include:-
- Problem faced
- How you overcome it
2. ----Forgotten-----
3. Newspaper reflection.
A handicap guy score highest in subject. People jeolous.
-------Blah blah blah----------
Made full use of the whole 2 hour. Alot of word dunno. Lucky my lucky star with me--- DICTIONARY! Overall, paper quite okie too. No chim topic/words. Hope i can score well.
GOOD LUCK TO OTHER TOO! May the lucky star be with you ************(stars...)
Not forgetting a poem from the pro!
Title: Lucky Stars
Twinkle twinkle little stars;
How i wander what you are;
A lucky stars to me;
A blessing stars to you;
Whoever you are;
Wherever you are;
May the star be with you;
Bring my lucks to you;
Bring my blesses to you;
In the day, the clouds cover my stars
Luck and blesses cant reach you;
At the night, the clouds moves away;
My stars shines;
May the luck;
May the blesses;
Stick with you till another night.
Composer: Prof. Einstan™
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