Telecast rights and the end of the week

Enough about the World Cup!  Enough is enough!  Why are people thinking that because we're damn rich as a nation, it's a disgrace not to have telecast right?  Why is it a reason to vote for opposition? Stop.

Have been ot-ing on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  If work doesn't kill me, my baby will.  No later than 7.30 pm tonight...

Bad mood

Bad mood

If you believe in what you wish for

But wishing does not make things turn into reality la...
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Putting the best foot forward

After a month or two, of favouring my right knee whenever I navigate stairs, I could walk properly most of the time now.
The trick is, to walk "normally".

When I favour one side, I take to take a slow excruciating step with my left foot, then land heavily on right foot.  Pain will strike at random, despite the care I took.
Now, with some recovery and knowing the limits between acceptable discomfort and actual pain, I could try to walk without favouring one side.  By doing so, each step is kept quick and light.
So haste trumps caution, some of the time.

Blog Maintenance - FY10

+seen
+read
-commentary

JW: all my post are my comments, so why do I need a tag for commentary?
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A mini food run

ST caught some video segments on razor, introducing food around Jalan Besar; so I proposed having it for tea-dinner.
link: http://www.razor.tv/site/servlet/segment/main/lifestyle/46714.html

1st stop - Vinegar Pork Knuckles
Street: Beatty Lane, or 24 Foch Road
Coffeeshop: ??
Stall: Cheng Mun Chee Kee Pig Organ Soup

JW: Vinegar was fragrant, meat was soft.  However, the taste didn't quite soak through yet.  Still, one of the better Vinegar Pork Knuckles commercially available (home-cooked is still the best).

2nd stop - Hakka Beef Ball Bee Hoon
Street: 45-48, Syed Alwi Road
Coffeeshop: San Lee Eating House
Stall: The Beef House

JW: Soup was surprising light and fragrant.  Much as I hate parsley, I had to admit that it contributed to much of the fragrance.  The other flavours in the soup seemed to be beef and salt.  The bee hoon soaked up the soup well.  However, the beef balls are tougher than the usual deal.  On closer examination, they taste more beefy than the rest, so it might be an acquired taste?
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Binge Drinking

Kinda dumb..
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Micro sleep

I was holding a bowl of soup in my hands and...
Time to go to sleep!

Non-Newtonian fluid

Maybe I'm stubborn, but perhaps if you just ask, or maybe just grumble, I would have have done it for you. Since you chose to do it the Singaporean way, then meet corn starch.

Tu na

ST brought me to a Chinese physician yesterday. My knee had pains after a gym injury a few months back, so she was a bit insistent on it. His skills were fine, but he could improve on his compassion for pain.
Eg:
"This leg where got painful? The right leg should hurt more"
Massages right leg, while someone howled in pain.
"Correct, right? That's cause the right leg had to take over the weight bearing. So it hurts more even though it's not the injured leg..."
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The Pacific - Episode 3: Leckie-Stella romance

Sheesh, it isn't real...

In real life, Leckie never had a great romance with a Greek-Australian girl and her family (he mostly spent his time Down Under having affairs with a variety of women), and you can kind of tell. (I suspected it was fictionalized even before I started reading up on Leckie.) There's a difference between compressing events (or assigning moments one character had in real life to another character in the film) and inventing things out of whole cloth, and it sticks out in the middle of a production that's largely so committed to fidelity. 

source: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2010/03/the_pacific_part_three_medals.html
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The best laid plans..

..were dashed by a late call last evening.  It was a bug report and I spent the next 2.5 hours dealing with.  It looks set to upset my plans on Monday as well.
I have been hitting my targets for this week till this happened.  So... more buffer zones, doing "nothing" ?
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(2007) Girl who blogged about fatigue and breathlessness, died 3 days later

This happened in 2007.  Kinda sad.  Then there are those people who think we can simply walk away from our worklist.  He rightly deserved to be flamed.
http://pinkmayflower.multiply.com/journal
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Protest vote

The argument is sound, in fact.
"Let one MP fall, so that the ruling party shall know fear".

Most people who read the "alternative news" would probably agree with this.
Problem is, do you want *your* district to bite the bullet?  To vote in the jokers they call the opposition?
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Anti-Social behaviour Part 1: Damaging books

Was sitting in Starbucks today with ST and I was reading Discovery Channel magazines.  I was interested in one of the feature articles and jumped directly to it. 

"Hmm.. it's at page 71".
Flip, Flip.
"Page 60.  A pinch of pages shall do it."
Pinch.
"Page 80?  Ok, I'll go back."
Pinch.
"Page 60?  What the?..."

On examination, I found out someone tore out pages 70-79.  Okay, so you like the article, but the magazine isn't yours!  Ownership issues aside, I wouldn't destroy a publication like that.

Over the years, I noted that browsers in bookstops tend to take very little care of books.  They flip the pages without care; they load another heavy book on top of the one they had just opened up to read.  Are these book lovers?

In libraries, books suffer from being deliberately dog-eared, highlighted, noted on, cut out, torn out.  It puzzles me; it upsets me.  Lack of morals?  Or a lack of appreciation of books?
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What knowledge and skills are worthwhile learning? What are the goals of education? - An old teaching.
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Genuises

The minds of past genuises, like Maxwell and Pascal, are astonishing.
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Fun with figures

How things can look rosier or gloomier with the manipulation of scales.
Pictures are stolen from.. elsewhere.

Govt figures:

1999 - things look good

2000 - still ok..

2001 - not so rosy

2006 - things are turning for the worse

 

July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike

On 12 July 2007,  2 US Apaches fired on a group that they claimed were insurgents, killing 2 Reuters reporters.  Later, Wikileaks posted a video online and caused international interests.

From the video, it looked that the US Army had mis-identified the cameras as weapons and opened fire.  The footage contains people being killed by the M230 Chain Gun.  If this discomforts you, please do not watch the video.

Site hosting the video: http://www.collateralmurder.org/
Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike
What is Wikileaks?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
What is a M230 Chain Gun?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M230_Chain_Gun

Doubts about the video: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/07/military-raises-questions-credibility-leaked-iraq-shooting-video/


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Soldier Story US Army FCS ACU Version Preview

Soldier Story 1/6 scale 12-inch US Army Future Combat Systems soldier.
http://toyhaven.blogspot.com/2009/09/soldier-story-us-army-fcs-acu-version.html

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