A Knight's Tale...

Rambling Man

2008-12-31T01:21:00.002+08:00

Courage is not the absence, one who does not posesse fear does not understand courage. Courage means to defeat fear, to stare at it until it turns away. To act, to fight, when your brain is telling you get the F*** out of there.....

Resolutions are useless. Do not resolve to do something, just do it. When you plan, you plan to fail. Everyone procrastinates, everyone makes that little list of things to do before kicking the bucket. Screw that list, do it now. Do it now or you will never do it.

There is no future, there is no past, there is only the now. The now in which we exist, the now in which we perish. There is no reincarnation, there is no after life. We seek meaning in our lives, hoping that what we do in life will echo in eternity. But there is no eternity, no forever. There is only the now. When our time has come and gone, all that will be left is nothingness. The universe will not remember us for there will be nothing to remember. Even the universe itself has no meaning to existence. So bask in the now, live the moment. Enjoy not the hour, not the minute nor the second. This instant is all there is, all there will be.

The Nonsensical Podcast!

2008-10-29T20:49:00.000+08:00

I have just started my own podcast. Check it out at http://thenonsensicalpodcast.mypodcast.com/ if you have time!

剑与盾

2008-10-19T23:54:00.002+08:00

Don't let her be cold
Don't let her be sick
Don't let her be sad
Don't let her be disappointed
Don't let her be angry
Don't let her be frustrated
Don't let her be lonely
Don't let her lost faith
You are now the sword that serves
You are now the shield that protects
The sword and shield that I hoped to be
The sword and shield that I could never be

Treasure what you have

2008-10-08T20:45:00.002+08:00

When was the last time you ever said "I love you" to the person nearest to you?
Most people tend to take what they have for granted but I guess that is pretty normal. Since what they have is always with them, most people don't realize what it is like to be without.

Most people don't realize how close they were to not meeting that person. Perhaps you do not believe me. Perhaps you believe in fate, that no matter what, you would have found the person next to you.

The truth is, you were closer to missing the person that you would believe. The threads of fate are thin. The fact that two thread cross are rarer than anyone thinks. If you had been late for that bus, If you had talked to your friend instead of that person, if you decided to take the next lift, if you had turned left instead of right.

Some people had the blessing to cross paths but never treasured what they and they don't even realize what they have missed. I do not know whether to feel pity or anger at these people. Perhaps I even feel hatred towards them.

Maybe people can only treasure what they do not have. I have almost never had to work hard for the things I have in life. I consider myself blessed in many ways. But I would gladly exchange them for that one thread.
But perhaps I am one of those who do not treasure what I do not have. To readily give up what I have for what I don't. Maybe it is because of what I do not have, that I consider it important thing in life. Or maybe its because of what I already have it, that's why I do not consider it important. I do not know

So the next time you are with the person, be grateful. Because you were closer to not have meet the person at all.

Nice Wallpaper

2008-10-06T21:55:00.001+08:00

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This is a wallpaper from a PSP game, Yggdra Union. It features the Knight unit from the game in a pose I really like

周杰伦 - 稻香

2008-09-26T19:32:00.001+08:00

New Song from Jay Chou

http://www.haoting.com/htmusic/270205ht.htm

对这个世界如果你有太多的抱怨
跌倒了就不敢继续往前走
为什么人要这么的脆弱堕落
请你打开电视看看
多少人为生命在努力勇敢的走下去
我们是不是该知足
珍惜一切就算没有拥有
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随着稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带着你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
童年的纸飞机现在终于飞回我手里
所谓的那快乐
赤脚在田里追蜻蜓追到累了
偷摘水果被蜜蜂给叮到怕了谁在偷笑呢
我靠着稻草人吹着风唱着歌睡着了
哦哦午后吉它在虫鸣中更清脆
哦哦阳光洒在路上就不怕心碎
珍惜一切就算没有拥有
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随着稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带着你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好
不要这么容易就想放弃就像我说的
追不到的梦想换个梦不就得了
为自己的人生鲜艳上色
先把爱涂上喜欢的颜色
笑一个吧功成名就不是目的
让自己快乐快乐这才叫做意义
童年的纸飞机现在终于飞回我手里
所谓的那快乐
赤脚在田里追蜻蜓追到累了
偷摘水果被蜜蜂给叮到怕了谁在偷笑呢
我靠着稻草人吹着风唱着歌睡着了
哦哦午后吉它在虫鸣中更清脆
哦哦阳光洒在路上就不怕心碎
珍惜一切就算没有拥有
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随着稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带着你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随著稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随著稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随著稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好

Komm Susser Tod, now in music form

2008-09-07T18:21:00.001+08:00

Posted this song way back in March. now available in music form instead of youtube video. just look to the left. at least until i change to another song again

彩虹

2008-09-03T19:06:00.000+08:00

看不见你的笑
要我怎么睡的着
你的声音这么近我却抱不到
没有地球太阳还是会绕会绕
没有理由我也能自己走掉
释怀说了太多就成真不了
也许时间是一种解药解药
也是我现在正服下的毒药

作词:周杰伦
作曲:周杰伦

Aoi no Sora

2008-08-31T19:43:00.002+08:00

Our mortal shells will one day pass
Memories will one day fade to nothing
Buildings will one day turn to stones
Civilisations will rise and fall
Mountains will one day turn to sea
Our Sun will one day become dark
The universe will pass as though we've never been
But I am thankful and glad
That I had the chance
To have lived with you
Under this clear blue sky...

Where a part of me now lies......

2008-08-30T15:29:00.003+08:00

Have you ever....
Have you ever met someone who mirrored much of your thoughts?
Have you ever met someone who's smile is you need to brighten up your day?
Have you ever met someone who is so much a part of your life, its hard to imagine what you'd do without?
Have you ever met someone who makes things you thought were important seem trifle in comparison?
Have you ever met someone whose happiness is more important than your own?
Have you ever met someone who you wish you could hold forever?

What if that is as far as you can ever go?

People always say it is not like farming or even karma. You never reap what you sow. Some spend their whole life to find it, some may just bump into. The results are never the same.

But the reality of it is much harsher than that. Sometimes, it will hang a rope infront of you, only to kick you down the cliff. Sometimes, it's like the light at the end of the tunnel, which turns out to be the head lamp of an incoming car.

How long would it take, if ever, to find someone like that again?
Would you settle for someone less?

Who am I?
What am I to do?
When will I get out?
Where should I go?

I, I will be here, I will be here waiting. If you come here, you will find me. I promise.

Root 3

2008-08-24T20:14:00.001+08:00

I fear that I will always be a lonely number like root 3
a 3 is all thats good and right, why must my 3 keep out of sight
beneath that vicious square root sign
I wish instead I were a nine, for nine could thwart this evil trick
with some quick arithmetic
I know I will never see the sun, as 1.7321
such is my reality, a sad irrationality
but hark, what is this i see?
anther square root of a 3
comes quietly waltzing by, together now we multiply
to form a number we prefer, rejoicing as an integer
we break free from our mortal bond, with a wave of the magic wand
our square root signs become unglued, the love in me has been renewed

from Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Test of Will

2008-08-08T17:23:00.003+08:00

2 out of 7
ira et invidia
remember who you are
do not falter
this is a test of your will
i will not falter
fight through the pain
there is no pain
do not deny it
pain does not work for you
pain cannot be denied
forgive my weakness
no, do not run
do not turn away
i am who i am
3 out of 7

Way of the Office: 3 Times Rule

2008-06-02T10:34:00.002+08:00

3 Times Rule: Wait till the 3rd email from your boss before beginning any work

Explanation: 1 X Email = I don't really need it. 2 X Email = I think I may need it. 3 X Email = I really need it

Way of the Office: Mind over Matter

2008-06-02T10:31:00.002+08:00

Mind over Matter: If no one really minds, it doeesn't really matter

Corollary: Do only work that matters. See 3 Times Rule for what matters

Way of the Office: The Last Minute Rule

2008-06-02T10:29:00.003+08:00

The Last Minute: Every piece of work needs improvement until the last minute

Corollary: Do not submit work until the last minute. At that point, it will be perfect

Warning: Submitting work infinitely ahead of time may result in spending infinite amount of time improving said work until the last minute

静静的单恋版

2008-05-21T21:02:00.002+08:00

静静的
Original by 庾澄庆
Lyrics Modified by Me

空气里躲着什么有点浪漫的心动
我偷偷看你希望你能看我
世界上多了什么好象变得很不同
站在你身边这一切都很宽阔

我还在等着你静静的爱我
只要有你陪我静静的就足够
我还在等着你静静的温柔
就这样手牵手静静的看着天空

心里面藏着什么我只想要让你懂
但愿我的梦也就是你的梦
纸条上写了什么我好想要听你说
让字字句句充满我们的笑容

我还在等着你静静的爱我
只要有你陪我静静的就足够
我还在等着你静静的温柔
就这样手牵手静静的看着天空

永远要记得那天独自许下的承诺
瞬间点亮的火花是我们的拥有

我还在等着你静静的爱我
只要有你陪我静静的就足够
我还在等着你静静的温柔
就这样手牵手静静的看着天空
静静的手牵手是最简单的梦

Stop De-Siao-ing Olympics

2008-04-18T13:04:00.002+08:00

Keep reading and hearing news about the bruhaha about the Olympics. I have no idea what their problem is, and I don't really care. But stop using the Olympics as a tool for politics. The last time I checked, the Olympics were about sports....and sadly in recent years, money.

And the last time I checked, the Olympic flame doesn't have magical properties. Snuffing it out doesn't give you superpowers. So stop swarming it and trying stop it like it will achieve any political agenda. Its not the One Ring, its not Excalibur and its not fucking Kryptonite.

I have purposely refrained from using any specifics in the above entry. So don't bother me

Me Guitar Hero

2008-04-14T22:23:00.002+08:00

I play alot of games, and one of the games I play the most is Guitar Hero 2 and 3. Alot of people post their runs on youtube. But I'm no where as good as those people. But I'm still proud of myself that I have managed to progress from a 3 finger playing newb to a semi decent player on expert. Here's 2 videos I filmed while trying out my new camera. The songs are Helicopter and Reptilia. I'll post more if I have the time to do more filming

Helicopter

Reptilia

Ikaaaaaaaruuuuuugaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2008-04-10T23:44:00.002+08:00

In an age long past, people used to make video games hard. There were no tutorials, no hints, no help, no leading you by the hand. All you had to depend on to survive was your reflex and brains.
Games doesn't hesitate to ream you, and ream you hard. Giving no leeway, where its sole purpose was to erase your existence.

This was the age where games like Ikaruga was made

And now its back with a vengeance to stalk us again. So that an all new generation of gamers will know how to fear video games. Available now, on Xbox Live Arcade. Download it now. You know you want it, even if you don't know what the hell I am talking about.

4 years 10k

2008-04-08T22:58:00.002+08:00

Noticed my counter finally hit 10000 hits. And it took 4 years to do it. That averages out to 7 hits a day. So I thank the average 7 people who frequents my blog even though I never update it.

The mathematics of Deal or No Deal

2008-04-04T20:43:00.002+08:00

I've watched many different versions of this game, and no one seems to understand the point behind this game. Most people like to keep the damn fucking case until the last and open thinking it MAYBE the big prize.

They think that by opening all the small numbers, they are increasing the possibility that the case they chose is the big prize. Let's just get one thing straight. The probability that the case you choose is the big prize is 1/(Total number of boxes). THE FUCKING END. PERIOD.

The objective of the game IS to open the small numbers. But the one and only purpose of that is to push the price that the banker is willing buy the case you chose. The purpose of the case is for you to SELL IT. SELL IT. SELL THE FUCKING CASE!

If you want to keep the case and open it. Ignore EVERYTHING that happens in the middle. Open the cases in sequence, it doesn't matter.

The fact that there are much more small numbers is nothing but a ploy. You have a higher probability of opening small numbers in the middle. Making you think you may have the big prize. BUT the fact that there are alot of small numbers means you have a higher probability of choosing a small numbered case IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

2008-04-01T19:10:00.002+08:00

Just watched this Evangelion "remake" movie today. Note the inverted commas when I say remake. The movie for most part follows the original story with most scenes almost exact carbon copies of the TV series. But there are some new scenes that are entirely new and improve on the TV series.

However, there are signs in the movie that points to this movie being not a remake but rather a story that happens some time after the TV series story arc.

1) In the opening scene where the tanks line up waiting for the Angel, the sea is red. In the TV series, the sea is green like normal. This coincides with the failed Instrumentality at the end of End of Evangelion

2) At the end, Kaworu Nagisa wakes up and says "I look foward to meeting you again, Ikari Shinji"

There are also many minor differences in the movie

1) The Eva colours are different.

2) Seele and Nerv have different logos

3) The Angel numbering system is different. Sachiel is the 4th this time round and not the 3rd. And subsequent Angels are numbered sequentially.

4) Ramiel does not retain its octahedron shape. It shifts its form in accordance to its attack and damaged taken

5) The angels disintegrate into blood/LCL like liquid after being defeated. This is perhaps in line with what happens to humans in the End of Evangelion when their AT Field is lowered.

6) Several new scenes are added, making slight changes in the storyline

7) Lilith has Sachiel's face instead of the Seele logo

The highlight of the movie is the fight scene between Eva and Ramiel. Also, Shinji in the movie seems slightly more determined though he is still just as whiny.

Stupid Inventions

2008-03-22T11:00:00.002+08:00

I've seen plenty of stupid inventions in my day. But this one really made me laugh. Its called a rape prevention device.

A woman is suppose to wear it like a tampon. And how many woman is willing to place a tampon with a spike into their vagina?? They say its designed to not hurt the user. Right. Yeah, the same way nuclear reactors are not suppose to blow up like Chernobyl

But the really stupid thing is. Did they really think rapists are not going to realise there is a string coming out of the vagina and just shove his dick in? The rapist is just going to think its a normal tampon and rip it out. And do you think he's going to be gentle? This is a tampon with a spike we're talking about here

The math is simple, not everyone can do it

2008-03-14T00:56:00.002+08:00

In 2001, a movie called Swordfish was made. In the movie, the antagonist, Gabriel asked the main character, Stanley if he would kill an innocent child if it would mean he could cure all the disease in the world. Stanley answered "No" outrightly.

Some may think Stanley is correct and that Gab is evil for suggesting that an innocent child be killed. But from another perspective, how many innocent children could have been saved? Is the life of one worth the blood of thousands?

Sometimes in life, we may have to make choices to sacrifice some to save others. If given a choice, would you kill one person to save the lives of many others?

In my opinion, for those who say no, you may have retained your humanity by claiming that you killed no one. Not directly at least. But what about those who would die because you could not pull the trigger?

In some ways I pity Gabriel. How many people can be perverse enough to take the blood of hundreds and thousands on his own hands to preserve the lives of others?

I was reminded of this while watching anime. In the show, a school CCA club was to be suspended because 2 of their members were involved in a fight outside school. These 2 members were delinquents and have not attended the CCA for a very long time.

The dilemma was whether to lie and remove their names from the club in order to save the club. The head of the club felt that they were abandoning these 2 members. I couldn't understand what was so difficult in this situation. I would have axed these 2 members without blinking an eye.

Perhaps these is a very different matter all together. But it made me wonder, am I Stanley or would I be Gabriel?

Komm Susser Tod

2008-03-13T09:58:00.000+08:00

LED Mirage Bubirons Up!......Sort of.....

2008-03-02T15:54:00.002+08:00

Took a long hiatus from modelling. The last model I left off was the Bubirons, but since then lots of things happened and most of my modelling gear has been packed up in a box. In the end I just slapped this baby together with only primer on it. Its not pretty, its not totally done, but it sure beats being in a box in pieces I guess

恋爱症候群

2008-02-03T20:41:00.000+08:00

恋爱症候群
词曲/黄舒骏
黄舒骏1989《雁渡寒潭》专辑

(口白)有许多专家告诉我
他们说要以理性的态度谈恋爱
我常想大概这些专家从来没有谈过恋爱
不信你试看看谈恋爱你还会有理性我想那大概是假的

关于恋爱症候群的发生原因至今仍然是最大一个谜
不管性别年龄职业体重学历长相和血型没有一个人可以免疫
有些专家学者研究后相信恋爱是内分泌失调所引起
却有别人认为恋爱属于滤过性病毒像感冒无药可救但会自动痊愈
不管你同不同意自古到今许多例子证明
恋爱不但是一种病态它还可能是一种变态

一般发病后的初期反应会开始改变一些生活习性
洗澡洗得特别干净刷牙刷得特别用力半夜突然爬起来弹钢琴
有人每天站在阳台对路人傻笑有人突然疯疯癫癫突然很安静
有人一脸痴呆对著镜子咬著指甲打喷嚏有人对著小狗骂三字经
女人突然改变发型男人开始每天练著哑铃
食欲不振歇斯底里四肢萎缩神经过敏发抖抽筋都出现在这时期

随著病情越来越变本加厉人会变得格外敏感勇敢和恶心
写的说的唱的都像天才诗人一般才华洋溢愈肉麻愈觉得有趣
有人恋爱之后每天躲在厕所哭泣有人开记者会宣布恋爱的消息
有人总是喜欢两个人躲在黑漆漆的地方像做了不可告人的事情
每天忙著找人算命挖空心思改变自己配合对方的习性
把每天都当作纪念日把自己当作纪念品
每天漫无目的腻在一起言不及意也觉得好有趣
走著坐著躺著趴著都形影不离像是两人三脚又像连体婴

心里想的只有爱你爱你爱你爱你也不管家里米缸有没有米
也不管路上有人示威抗议只管爱你
心里想的只有爱你爱你爱你爱你也不管海峡两岸统一问题
也不管衣索匹亚多少难民只管爱你

经过一段轰轰烈烈热恋时期不久就会开始渐渐痊愈
两人开始互相厌倦互相攻击对方缺点所有甜蜜都随风而去
然后开始从错觉和误解中清醒惊讶自己为何如此不聪明
为了爱情不管一切不顾父母朋友姐妹兄弟开始感到后悔不已
然后开始感到疲惫沉闷气喘心悸牙痛头痛梦呓
然后是精神不济瞳孔放大脾气暴躁四肢麻痹终于受不了要分离
虽然结果颇令人伤心了解之后也没什么了不起
爱情终究是握不住的云只是我想要告诉你哦……

在我落寞的岁月里你的温柔解脱我的孤寂
带给我深深的狂喜如此颤动著我的心灵
轻轻诉说爱你爱你爱你爱你不管是黑夜或是黎明
不管是梦中或是清醒深深爱你
我要对你说爱你爱你爱你爱你不管是黑夜或是黎明
不管是梦中或是清醒深深爱你

多么幸福让我遇见你呜……

A Thousand Years of Dreams

2008-02-02T23:08:00.001+08:00

I've been playing a game called Lost Odyssey recently. Its a game with a main character that is immortal and has lived for a thousand years. Part of the game consists of short stories from the character, Kaim's, life. The short stories are pretty good and I will try to document them as I progress through the game.

The stories are copyright of their respective authors

Hanna's Departure
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The family members have tears in their eyes when they welcome Kaim back to the inn from his long journey

"Thank you for coming."

He understands the situation immediately
The time for departure is drawing near

Too soon, too soon. But still, he knows, this day would have to come sometime, and not in the distant future.

"I might never see you again," she said to him with a sad smile when he left on this journey, her smiling face almost transparent in its whiteness, so fragile - and therefore indescribably beautiful - as she lay in bed.

"May I see Hanna now?" He asks

The innkeeper gives him a tiny nod and says
"I don't think she'll know who you are though."

She hasn't opened her eyes since last night, he warns Kaim. You can tell from the slight movement of her chest that she is clinging on to a frail thread of life, but it could snap at any moment.

"Its such a shame, I know you made a special point to come here for her...."

Another tear glides down the innkeeper's wife's cheek.

"Never mind, its fine," Kaim says

He has been present at innumerable deaths, and his experience has taught him much. Death takes away the power of speech first of all. Then the ability to see. What remains alive to the very end, however, is the power to hear. Even though the person has lost consciousness, it is by no means unusual for the voices of the family to bring forth smiles or tears.

Kaim puts his arms around the woman's shoulders and says,
"I have lots of travel stories to tell her. I've been looking forward to this my whole time on the road."

Instead of smiling, the woman releases yet another large tear and nods to Kaim.
"And Hanna was so looking forward to hear your stories."

Her sobs almost drowns out her words.

The innkeeper says, "I wish I could urge you to rest up from your travels before you see her, but....."

Kaim interrupts his apologies,
"Of course I will see her right away."

There is very little time left.

Hanna, the only daughter of the innkeeper and his wife, will probably breathe her last before the sun comes up.

Kaim lowers his pack to the floor and quietly opens the door to Hanna's room.

Hanna was frail from birth. Far from enjoying the opportunity to travel, she rarely left the town or even the neighborhood in which she was born and raised.

This child will probably not live to see adulthood, the doctor told her parents.

To this tiny little girl with extraordinary beauty, doll like features, the gods had dealt an all-too-sad destiny

That they had allowed her to be born the only daughter of the keepers of a small in by the highway was perhaps one small act of atonement for such iniquity.

Hanna was unable to go anywhere, but the guests who stayed at her parent's inn would tell her stories of the countries and towns and landscapes and people she would never know.

Whenever new guests arrived at the inn, Hanna would ask them,
"Where are you from? Where are you going?"
"Can you tell me a story?"

She would sit and listen to their stories with sparkling eyes, urging them on to new episodes with "And then? And then?"
When they left the inn, she would beg them, "Please come back, and tell me lots of stories about faraway countries!"

She would stand there waving until the person disappeared far down the highway, give one lonely sigh and then go back to bed...

Hanna is sound asleep.

No one else is in the room, perhaps an indication that she has long since passed the stage when the doctors can do anything for her.

Kaim sits down in the chair next to the bed and says with a smile,
"Hello Hanna, I'm back."

She does not respond. Her little chest, still without the swelling of a grown woman, rises and falls almost imperceptibly.

"I went far across the oceans this time," he tells her. "The ocean on the side where the sun comes up. I took a boat from the harbor way way far beyond the mountains you can see from this window, and I was on the sea from the time the moon was perfectly round till it got smaller and smaller and then bigger and bigger until it was perfectly round again. There was nothing but ocean as far as the eye could see. Just the sea and the sky. Can you imagine it, Hanna? You've never seen the ocean, But I'm sure people have told you about it. Its like a huge endless puddle."

Kaim chuckles to himself, and it seems to him that Hanna's pale white cheek moves slightly.

She can hear him. Even if she cannot speak or see, her ears are still live.

Believing and hoping this to be true, Kaim continues with the story of his travels.

He speaks no words of parting.

As always with Hanna, Kaim smiles with a special gentleness he has never shown anyone else, and he goes on telling his tales with a bright voice, sometimes even accompanying his story with exaggerated gestures.

He tells her about the blue ocean

He tells her about the blue sky.

He says nothing of the violent sea battle that stained the ocean red.

He never tells her about those things

Hanna was a tiny little girl when Kaim first visited the inn.

When she asked him, "Where are you from?" and "Will you tell me some stories?" with her childish pronunciation and innocent smile, Kaim felt a soft glow in his chest.

At the time, he was returning from battle.

More precisely, he had ended one battle and was on his way to the next. His life consisted of travelling from one battlefield to another and nothing about that has changed to this day for the centuries of his life.

He has taken the lives of countless enemy troops and witnessed the death of countless comrades on the battlefield. Moreover, the only thing separating enemies and comrades is the slightest stroke of fortune. Had the gears of destiny turned in a slightly different way, his enemies would have been comrades and his comrades’ enemies. This is the fate of a mercenary.

He was spiritually worn down back then and feeling unbearably lonely. As a possessor of eternal life, Kaim had no fear of Death, which was precisely why each of the soldiers' faces distorted in fear, and why each face of a man who died in agony was burned permanently into his brain.

Ordinarily, he would spend his nights on the road drinking. Immersing himself in an alcoholic stupor - or pretending to - he was trying to make himself forget the unforgettable.

However, when he saw Hanna's smile as she begged him for stories about his long journey, he felt warmer and deeper comfort than he could ever obtain from liquor.

He told her many things......
About a beautiful flower he discovered on the battlefield.

About the bewitching beauty of the mist filling the forest the night before the battle.

About the marvelous taste of the spring water in a ravine where he and his men fled after a losing battle.

About a vast bottomless blue sky he saw after a battle.

He never told her anything sad. He kept his mouth shut about the human ugliness and stupidity he witnessed endlessly on the battlefield. He concealed his position as a mercenary from her, kept silent regarding his reasons for travelling constantly, and spoke of only things that were beautiful and sweet and lovely.

He sees now that he told Hanna only beautiful stories of the road like this not so much out of concern for hr purity, but for his own sake.

Staying in the inn where Hanna waited to see him turned out to be one of Kaim's small pleasures in life. Telling her about the memories he brought back from his journeys, he felt some degree of salvation, however slight.

Five years, ten years, his friendship with the girl continued. Little by little, she neared adulthood, which meant that, as the doctors predicted, each day brought her that much closer to death.

And now, Kaim ends the last travel story he will share with her.

He can never see her again, can never tell her stories again.

Before dawn, when darkness of night is at its deepest, long pauses enter into Hanna's breathing.

The frail thread of her life is about to snap as Kaim and her parents watch over her.

The tiny light that has lodged in Kaim's chest will be extinguished.

His lonely travels will begin again tomorrow - his long long travels without end.

"You'll be leaving on travels of your own soon, Hanna," Kaim tells her gently.

"You'll be leaving for a world that no one knows, a world that has never entered into any of the stories you have heard so far. Finally, you will be able to leave your bed and walk anywhere you want to go. You will be free."

He wants her to know death is not sorrow but a joy mixed with tears.

"Its your turn now. Be sure to tell everyone about the memories of your journey."

Her parents will make the same journey some day and someday, Hanna will be able to meet all the guests she has known at the inn, far beyond the sky.

I, however, can never go there.

I can never escape this world.

I can never see you again.

"This is not goodbye. Its just the start of your journey."

He speaks his final words to her, "We will meet again."

His final lie to her.

Hanna makes her departure. Her face is transfused with a tranquil smile as if she just said,
"See you soon."

Her eyes will never open again. A single tear glides slowly down her cheek...

..................

2007-07-28T21:34:00.000+08:00

How do you find something that you know can't be found if you're looking for it?
Do you not look for it?
But if you're not looking for it, how do you know when you have found it?

Core Works GP04 Conversion Kit

2006-11-16T19:05:00.000+08:00

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2006-11-15T19:06:00.000+08:00

Read my letter on Today 16-08-2006

2006-08-16T13:28:00.000+08:00

Published under the "I Say" column. Below is the link to the online version if u do not have acces to the hardcopy

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/136588.asp

Original Scan of news article
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MG GP03 Dendrobium Stamen

2006-06-18T18:13:00.000+08:00

Don't be a PUSSY, Be a MAN!

2006-05-20T21:08:00.000+08:00

A man's word is a binding contract. A person who says one thing and turns around and say another is not a man, it is a PUSSY. Don't be a PUSSY, be a man

LED Mirage B4: Destonius

2006-04-26T20:44:00.000+08:00

The Mighty Alpha is the first of Dr. Diamond Neutral's trio of masterpiece mortar headds, "The Mighty Series". Dr. Diamond asked for LED Mirage engines for his Mighty Series designs, since that would be the only engine suitable for these ultra-powerful machines. Amaterasu also provided him with the special translucent armor developed by mortar headd Meister Ladios Sop exclusively for AKD mortar headds (it's used on the LED Mirage) for mounting on the Mighty Series.

Dr. Diamond left the selection of the Mighty Series pilots up to Amaterasu, however the good doctor emphasized that he wanted “crazy or stupid” headdliners to be the pilots. The type of headdliners that would walk headlong into an ambush, knowing it was there but not caring.

Ladios Sop spent more time tuning the engine for the Mighty Alpha than any other machine. He tuned it to such a degree that it exceeds even the LED Mirage in power. For this machine, Amaterasu set a high standard for the pilot; no less than the title of Kensai. When the time came, it was awarded to Kensai Maximum.

The Mighty Alpha is slimmer than the other two in the Mighty Series and its armor sports a higher level of transparency. Its original name is the Akatsuki Hime (Dawn Princess) but after Maximum's instatement into the Mirage Corps and the inclusion of Mirage symbols upon the Alpha, it is renamed the LED Mirage B4: Destinias.

Originally, its armor was tinted red, but because of the pilot, the engine was tuned to emit light in Opera colors. [editor’s note: Opera is a color that is commonly regarded to be difficult to print on paper. It is a light, purplish pink or deep pink that is almost fluorescent.] The LED B4 is one of the most powerful mortar headds ever designed and when coupled with Kensai Maximum can be considered "invincible".

The mortar headds of the Mighty Series each carry a speid (or mace) made by renowned sword meight Taisen Suzuka. Fatimas Queen and Salome aided in the development of the Mighty Series.
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The kit is sort of a "ceremonial" version with most of the weaponry removed from the head, forearms and legs.

Rules from the Male Side....

2006-04-14T20:25:00.000+08:00

We always hear "the rules" from the female side. Now here are the rules from the male side.

These are our rules!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us bitching about you leaving it down.

2. Birthdays, Valentines, and Anniversaries are not quests to see if we can find the perfect present yet again!

3. Sometimes we are not thinking about you. Live with it.

4. Sunday = sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

5. Don't cut your hair. Ever. Long hair is always more attractive than short hair.
One of the big reasons guys fear getting married is that married women always cut their hair, and by then you're stuck with her.

6. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

7. Crying is blackmail.

8. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

9. We don't remember dates. Mark birthdays and anniversaries on a calendar. Remind us frequently beforehand.

10. Most guys own three pairs of shoes - tops. What makes you think we'd be any good at choosing which pair, out of thirty, would look good with your dress?

11. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

12. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it, not discussing the ramifications of any future events that may be a result of the problem.

13. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

14. A headache that last for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.

15. Check your oil! Please.

16. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

17. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.

18. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us. We refuse to answer.

19. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

20. Let us ogle. We are going to look anyway; it's genetic.

21. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

22. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

23. Christopher Columbus did not need directions, and neither do we.

24. The relationship is never going to be like it was the first two months we were going out. Get over it. And quit whining to your girlfriends.

25. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.

26. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is. What does a "fragrant sunset" look like anyway.

27. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.

28. We are not mind readers and we never will be. Our lack of mind-reading ability is not proof of how little we care about you.

29. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

30. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.

31. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine. Really.

32. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as navel lint, the shotgun formation, or "This Old House."

33. You have enough clothes.

34. You have too many shoes.

35. Foreign films are best left to foreigners. (Unless it's Bruce Lee or some war flick where it doesn't really matter what the hell they're saying anyway.)

36. It is neither in your best interest or ours to take the quiz together. No, it doesn't matter which quiz.

37. BEER is as exciting for us as handbags are for you.

38. Thank you for reading this; Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight, but did you know we really don't mind that, it's like camping.

Why Arts modules suck

2006-04-13T10:29:00.000+08:00

After taking my first arts module that requires essay writing, I have concluded that Science>>>>>Arts. If Arts modules were the foundation of our society, I think we would still be running around in animal fur and using random gurgles as a form of communication.

Why do I say that? Because it seems that arts modules require you to to treat the people marking your papers like idiots. Yes, idiots. To give an example of this. I give you the most simple question I can think of

1 + 1 = ?

Now a scientist will give you this answer

1 + 1 = 2

Now for an arts module answer....you better have alot of time for this....

Definition of well ordering
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In mathematics, a well-order (or well-ordering) on a set S is an order relation on S with the property that every non-empty subset of S has a least element in this ordering. The set S together with the well-order is then called a well-ordered set. A well-order is necessarily a total order.

Roughly speaking, a well-ordered set is ordered in such a way that its elements can be considered one at a time, in order, and any time you haven't examined all of the elements, there's always a unique next element to consider.

Spelling note: The hyphen is frequently omitted in contemporary papers, yielding the spellings wellorder, wellordered, wellordering.
Contents
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* 1 Examples
* 2 Properties
* 3 Equivalent formulations
* 4 See also

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Examples

* The standard ordering ≤ of the natural numbers is a well-ordering.
* The standard ordering ≤ of the integers is not a well-ordering, since, for example, the set of negative integers does not contain a least element.
* The following relation R is a well-ordering of the integers: x R y if and only if one of the following conditions holds:

1. x = 0
2. x is positive, and y is negative
3. x and y are both positive, and x ≤ y
4. x and y are both negative, and y ≤ x

R can be visualized as follows:

0 1 2 3 4 ..... -1 -2 -3 .....

R is isomorphic to the ordinal number ω + ω.

* Another relation for well-ordering the integers is the following definition: x
This well-order can be visualized as follows:

0 -1 1 -2 2 -3 3 -4 4 ...

* The standard ordering ≤ of the positive real numbers is not a well-ordering, since, for example, the open interval (0, 1) does not contain a least element. There exist proofs depending on the axiom of choice that it is possible to well order the real numbers, but these proofs are non-constructive and no one has yet shown a method to well order the real numbers.

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Properties

In a well-ordered set, every element, unless it is the overall largest, has a unique successor: the smallest element that is larger than it. However, not every element needs to have a predecessor. As an example, consider an ordering of the natural numbers where all even numbers are less than all odd numbers, and the usual ordering applies within the evens and the odds.

0 2 4 6 8 ... 1 3 5 7 9 ...

This is a well-ordered set and is denoted by ω + ω. Note that while every element has a successor (there is no largest element), two elements lack a predecessor: zero and one.

If a set is well-ordered, the proof technique of transfinite induction can be used to prove that a given statement is true for all elements of the set.

The well-ordering theorem, which is equivalent to the axiom of choice, states that every set can be well-ordered. The well-ordering theorem is also equivalent to the Kuratowski-Zorn lemma.
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Equivalent formulations

If a set is totally ordered, then the following are equivalent:

(1) Every nonempty subset has a least element.

(2) Transfinite induction works for the entire ordered set.

(3) Every strictly decreasing sequence must terminate after only finitely many steps (assuming the axiom of dependent choices).
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See also

* Ordinal number
* Well-founded set
* Well partial order
* Prewellordering
* Directed set

Definition of addition
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Addition is the basic operation of arithmetic. In its simplest form, addition combines two numbers, the addends or terms, into a single number, the sum.

Adding more than two numbers can be viewed as repeated addition; this procedure is known as summation and includes ways to add infinitely many numbers in an infinite series. Repeated addition of the number one is the most basic form of counting.

Addition is also defined for mathematical objects other than numbers — for example, matrices or polynomials, often by analogy.
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* 1 Notation and terminology
* 2 Interpretations
o 2.1 Combining sets
o 2.2 Extending a measure
o 2.3 Combining translations
* 3 Properties
o 3.1 Commutativity
o 3.2 Associativity
o 3.3 Zero and one
o 3.4 Units
* 4 Performing addition
o 4.1 Innate ability
o 4.2 Elementary methods
o 4.3 Decimal system
o 4.4 Computers
* 5 Definitions and proofs for the real numbers
o 5.1 Naturals
o 5.2 Integers
o 5.3 Rationals
o 5.4 Reals
* 6 Generalizations
o 6.1 In algebra
o 6.2 Addition of sets
* 7 Related operations
o 7.1 Arithmetic
o 7.2 Ordering
o 7.3 Other ways to add
* 8 In literature
* 9 Notes
* 10 References

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Notation and terminology

Addition is written using the plus sign "+" between the terms; that is, in infix notation. The result is expressed with an equals sign. For example,

1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
5 + 4 + 2 = 11 (see "associativity" below)
3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12 (see "multiplication" below)

There are also situations where addition is "understood" even though no symbol appears:

* A column of numbers, with the last number in the column underlined, usually indicates that the numbers in the column are to be added, with the sum written below the underlined number.
* A whole number followed immediately by a fraction indicates the sum of the two, called a mixed number.[5] For example,
31⁄2 = 3 + 1⁄2 = 3.5.
This notation can cause confusion, since in most other contexts, juxtaposition denotes multiplication instead.

The numbers or the objects to be added are generally called the "terms", the "addends", or the "summands"; this terminology carries over to the summation of multiple terms. This is to be distinguished from factors, which are multiplied. Some authors call the first addend the augend. In fact, during the Renaissance, many authors did not consider the first addend an "addend" at all. Today, due to the symmetry of addition, "augend" is rarely used, and both terms are generally called addends.[6]

All of this terminology derives from Latin. "Addition" and "add" are English words derived from the Latin verb addere, which is in turn a compound of ad "to" and dare "to give", from the Indo-European root do- "to give"; thus to add is to give to.[7] Using the gerundive suffix -nd results in "addend", "thing to be added".[8] Likewise from augere "to increase", one gets "augend", "thing to be increased".
Redrawn illustration from The Art of Nombryng, one of the first English arithmetic texts, in the 15th century[2]
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Redrawn illustration from The Art of Nombryng, one of the first English arithmetic texts, in the 15th century[2]

"Sum" and "summand" derive from the Latin noun summa "the highest, the top" and associated verb summare. This is appropriate not only because the sum of two positive numbers is greater than either, but because it was once common to add upward, contrary to the modern practice of adding downward, so that a sum was literally higher than the addends.[9] Addere and summare date back at least to Boethius, if not to earlier Roman writers such as Vitruvius and Frontinus; Boethius also used several other terms for the addition operation. The later Middle English terms "adden" and "adding" were popularized by Chaucer.[10]
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Interpretations

Addition is used to model countless physical processes. Even for the simple case of adding natural numbers, there are many possible interpretations and even more visual representations.
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Combining sets

Possibly the most fundamental interpretation of addition lies in combining sets:

* When two or more collections are combined into a single collection, the number of objects in the single collection is the sum of the number of objects in the original collections.

This interpretation is easy to visualize, with little danger of ambiguity. However, it is not obvious how one should extend this version of addition to include fractional numbers or negative numbers. See this article for an example of the sophistication involved in adding with sets of "fractional cardinality".

One possible fix is to consider collections of objects that can be easily divided, such as pies or, still better, segmented rods.[11] Rather than just combining collections of segments, rods can be joined end-to-end.

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Extending a measure

* When an original measure is extended by a given amount, the final measure is the sum of the original measure and the measure of the extension.

A number-line visualization of the unary addition 2 + 4 = 6. The augend 2 is a point; the addend 4 is a change, resulting in 6.
A number-line visualization of the unary addition 2 + 4 = 6. The augend 2 is a point; the addend 4 is a change, resulting in 6.

Under this interpretation, the parts of a sum a + b play asymmetric roles; instead of calling both a and b addends, it is more appropriate to call a the augend, since a plays a passive role. In geometry, a might be a point and b a vector; their sum is then another point, the translation of a by b. In analytic geometry, a and b might both be represented by ordered pairs of numbers, but they remain conceptually different.[12]

Here, the addition operation is not so much a binary operation as a family of unary operations; the function (+b) is acting on a.[13] The unary and binary views are formally equivalent: if X is the set of all possible augends and Y is the set of all possible addends, there is a natural identification of sets of functions

X^{X\times Y}\cong \left(X^X\right)^Y.[14]

This formula is a special case of a law of exponentiation that may be more familiar for numbers.

The unary view is useful, for example, when discussing subtraction. Addition and subtraction are not inverses as binary operations, but they are inverses as families of unary operations.

This section is under construction.

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Combining translations

* When two motions are performed in succession, the measure of the resulting motion is the sum of the measures of the original motions.

A number-line visualization of the algebraic addition 2 + 4 = 6. A translation by 2 followed by a translation by 4 is the same as a translation by 6.
A number-line visualization of the algebraic addition 2 + 4 = 6. A translation by 2 followed by a translation by 4 is the same as a translation by 6.

This section is under construction.

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Properties
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Commutativity
4 + 2 = 2 + 4 with blocks
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4 + 2 = 2 + 4 with blocks

Addition is commutative, meaning that one can reverse the terms in a sum left-to-right, and the result will be the same. Symbolically, if a and b are any two numbers, then

a + b = b + a.

The fact that addition is commutative is known as the "commutative law of addition". This phrase suggests that there are other commutative laws: for example, there is a commutative law of multiplication. However, many binary operations are not commutative, such as subtraction and division, so it is misleading to speak of an unqualified "commutative law".
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Associativity
2+(1+3) = (2+1)+3 with segmented rods
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2+(1+3) = (2+1)+3 with segmented rods

A somewhat subtler property of addition is associativity, which comes up when one tries to define repeated addition. Should the expression

"a + b + c"

be defined to mean (a + b) + c or a + (b + c)? That addition is associative tells us that the choice of definition is irrelevant. For any three numbers a, b, and c, it is true that

(a + b) + c = a + (b + c).

Not all operations are associative, so in expressions with operations other than addition, it is important to specify the order of operations.
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Zero and one
5 + 0 = 5 with bags of dots
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5 + 0 = 5 with bags of dots

If one adds zero to any number, the quantity won't change; zero is the identity element for addition, also known as the additive identity. In symbols, for any a,

a + 0 = 0 + a = a.

This law was first identified in Brahmagupta's Brahmasphutasiddhanta in 628, although he wrote it as three separate laws, depending on whether a is negative, positive, or zero itself, and he preferred words to algebraic symbols. Later Indian mathematicians refined the concept; around the year 830, Mahavira wrote, "zero becomes the same as what is added to it", corresponding to the unary statement 0 + a = a. In the 12th century, Bhaskara wrote, "In the addition of cipher, or subtraction of it, the quantity, positive or negative, remains the same", corresponding to the unary statement a + 0 = a.[15]

In the context of integers, addition of one also plays a special role: for any integer a, the integer (a + 1) is the least integer greater than a, also known as the successor of a.
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Units

In order to numerically add certain types of numbers, such as vulgar fractions and physical quantities with units, they must first be expressed with a common denominator. For example, if a measure of 5 feet is extended by 2 inches, the sum is 62 inches, since 60 inches is another name for 5 feet. On the other hand, it is usually meaningless to try to add 3 meters and 4 square meters, since those units are incomparable; this sort of consideration is fundamental in dimensional analysis.
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Performing addition
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Innate ability

Studies on mathematical development starting around the 1980s have exploited the phenomenon of habituation: infants look longer at situations that are unexpected.[16] A seminal experiment by Karen Wynn in 1992 involving Mickey Mouse dolls manipulated behind a screen demonstrated that five-month-old infants expect 1 + 1 to be 2, and they are comparatively surprised when a physical situation seems to imply that 1 + 1 is either 1 or 3. This finding has since been affirmed by a variety of laboratories using different methodologies.[17] Another 1992 experiment with older toddlers, between 18 to 35 months, exploited their development of motor control by allowing them to retrieve ping-pong balls from a box; the youngest responded well for small numbers, while older subjects were able to compute sums up to 5.[18]

Even some nonhuman animals show a limited ability to add, particularly primates. In a 1995 experiment imitating Wynn's 1992 result (but using eggplants instead of dolls), rhesus macaques and cottontop tamarins performed similarly to human infants. More dramatically, after being taught the meanings of the Arabic numerals 0 through 4, one chimpanzee was able to compute the sum of two numerals without further training.[19]
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Elementary methods

Typically children master the art of counting first, and this skill extends into a form of addition called "counting-on"; asked to find three plus two, children count two past three, arriving at four five. This strategy seems almost universal; children can easily pick it up from peers or teachers, and some even invent it independently.[20] Those who count to add also quickly learn to exploit the commutativity of addition by counting up from the larger number.
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Decimal system
Single-digit addition table with various strategies colored: 0 in blue; 1,2 in light blue; (near) doubles in (light) green; making ten in red; 5,10 in gray.[3]
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Single-digit addition table with various strategies colored: 0 in blue; 1,2 in light blue; (near) doubles in (light) green; making ten in red; 5,10 in gray.[3]

The prerequisitive to addition in the decimal system is the internalization of the 100 single-digit "addition facts". Conceivably one could memorize all the facts, but many strategies besides rote learning are more enlightening and, for most people, more efficient:[21]

* One or two more: Adding 1 or 2 is a basic task, and it can be accomplished through counting on or, ultimately, intuition.
* Zero: Since zero is the additive identity, adding zero is trivial. Nonetheless, some children are introduced to addition as a process that always increases the addends; word problems may help rationalize the "exception" of zero.
* Doubles: Adding a number to itself is related to counting by two and to multiplication; doubles facts form a backbone for many related facts, and fortunately, children find them relatively easy to grasp. near-doubles...
* Five and ten...
* Making ten: An advanced strategy uses 10 as an intermediate for sums involving 8 or 9; for example, 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14.

To add multidigit numbers, one typically aligns the addends vertically and adds the columns, starting from the ones column on the right. If a column exceeds ten, the extra digit is "carried" into the next column.[22] For a more detailed description of this algorithm, see Elementary arithmetic: Addition. An alternate strategy starts adding from the most significant digit on the left; this route makes carrying a little clumsier, but it is faster at getting a rough estimate of the sum.

* Fraction: Addition
* Scientific notation: Operations
* Roman arithmetic: Addition

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Computers
Addition with an op-amp. See Summing amplifier for details.
Addition with an op-amp. See Summing amplifier for details.

Analog computers work directly with physical quantities, so their addition mechanisms depend on the form of the addends. A mechanical adder might represent two addends as the positions of sliding blocks, in which case they can be added with an averaging lever. If the addends are the rotation speeds of two shafts, they can be added with a differential. A hydraulic adder might need to add the pressures in two chambers, to be done by balancing forces on an assembly of pistons via Newton's second law. The most common situation for a general-purpose analog computer is to add two voltages (referenced to ground); this can be accomplished roughly with a resistor network, but a better design exploits an operational amplifier.[23]

Addition is not tremendously important to analog computers, whose essential function is integration.[24] By contrast, addition is fundamental to the operation of digital computers. For digital computers, the efficiency of addition, in particular the carry mechanism, is an important limitation to overall performance.

In fact, addition was not only a tool but also a basic goal for the earliest automatic, digital computers, and as late as the 20th century, mechanical calculators have been called "adding machines". Wilhelm Schickard's 1623 Calculating Clock could add and subtract, but it was severely limited by an awkward carry mechanism. As he wrote to Kepler describing the novel device, "You would burst out laughing if you were present to see how it carries by itself from one column of tens to the next..." Adding 999,999 and 1 on Schickard's machine would require enough force to propagate the carries that the gears might be damaged, so he limited his machines to six digits, even though Kepler required more. By 1642 Blaise Pascal independently developed an adding machine with an ingenious gravity-assisted carry mechanism. Pascal's calculator was limited by its carry machanism in a different sense: its wheels turned only one way, so it could add but not subtract, except by the method of complements. By 1674 Gottfried Leibniz made the first mechanical multiplier; it was still powered, but not motivated, by addition.[25]
Part of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine including the addition and carry mechanisms
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Part of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine including the addition and carry mechanisms

Adders execute integer addition in electronic digital computers, usually using binary arithmetic. The simplest architecture is the ripple carry adder, which follows the standard multi-digit algorithm taught to children. One slight improvement is the carry skip design, again following human intuition; one does not perform all the carries in computing 999 + 1, but one bypasses the group of 9s and skips to the answer. This old method predates electronic computing; it was known to Charles Babbage as "carriage anticipating".[26]

Since they compute digits one at a time, the above methods are too slow for most modern purposes. In modern digital computers, integer addition is typically the fastest arithmetic instruction, yet it has the largest impact on performance, since it underlies all the floating-point operations as well as such basic tasks as address generation during memory access and fetching instructions during branching. To increase speed, modern designs calculate digits in parallel; these schemes go by such names as carry select, carry lookahead, and the Ling pseudocarry. Almost all modern implementations are, in fact, hybrids of these last three designs.[27]

Unlike addition on paper, addition on a computer often changes the addends. On the ancient abacus and adding board, both addends are destroyed, leaving only the sum. The influence of the abacus on mathematical thinking was strong enough that early Latin texts often claimed that in the process of adding "a number to a number", both numbers vanish.[28] In modern times, the ADD instruction of a microprocessor replaces the augend with the sum but preserves the addend.[29] In a high-level programming language, evaluating a + b does not change either a or b; to change the value of a one uses the addition assignment operator a += b.
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Definitions and proofs for the real numbers

In order to prove the usual properties of addition, one must first define addition for the context in question. Addition is first defined on the natural numbers. In set theory, addition is then extended to larger sets that include the natural numbers: the integers, the rational numbers, and the real numbers.[30] (In mathematics education,[31] positive fractions are added before negative numbers are even considered; this is also the historical route.[32])
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Naturals

There are two popular ways to define the sum of two natural numbers a and b. If one defines natural numbers to be the cardinalities of finite sets, then it is appropriate to define their sum as follows:

* Let N(S) be the cardinality of a set S. Take two disjoint sets A and B, with N(A) = a and N(B) = b. Then a + b is defined as N(A U B).[33]

Here, A U B is the union of A and B. An alternate version of this definition allows A and B to possibly overlap and then takes their disjoint union, a mechanism which allows any common elements to be separated out and therefore counted twice.

The other popular definition is recursive:

* Let n+ be the successor of n. Define a + 0 = a. Define the general sum recursively by a + (b+) = (a + b)+.[34]

Again, there are minor variations upon this definition in the literature. Taken literally, the above definition is an application of the Recursion Theorem on the poset N2.[35] On the other hand, some sources prefer to state a restricted Recursion Theorem that applies only to the natural numbers. One then considers a to be temporarily "fixed", applies recursion on b to define a function "a + ", and pastes these unary operations for all a together to form the full binary operation.[36]

This recursive formulation of addition was developed by Dedekind as early as 1854, and he would expand upon it in the following decades.[37] He proved the associative and commutative properties, among others, through mathematical induction; for examples of such inductive proofs, see Addition of natural numbers.
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Integers
Defining (-2) + 1 using only addition of positive numbers: (2 − 4) + (3 − 2) = 5 − 6.
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Defining (-2) + 1 using only addition of positive numbers: (2 − 4) + (3 − 2) = 5 − 6.

Further information: Integer

The simplest conception of an integer is that it consists of an absolute value (which is a natural number) and a sign (generally either positive or negative). The integer zero is a special third case, being neither positive nor negative. The corresponding definition of addition must proceed by cases:

* For an integer n, let |n| be its absolute value. Let a and b be integers. If either a or b is zero, treat it as an identity. If a and b are both positive, define a + b = |a| + |b|. If a and b are both negative, define a + b = −(|a|+|b|). If a and b have different signs, define a + b to be the difference between |a| and |b|, with the sign of the term whose absolute value is larger.[38]

Although this definition can be useful for concrete problems, it is far too complicated to produce elegant general proofs; there are too many cases to consider.

A much more convenient conception of the integers is the Grothendieck group construction. The essential observation is that every integer can be expressed (not uniquely) as the difference of two natural numbers, so we may as well define an integer as the difference of two natural numbers. Addition is then defined to be compatible with subtraction:

* Given two integers a − b and c − d, where a, b, c, and d are natural numbers, define (a − b) + (c − d) = (a + c) − (b + d).[39]

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Rationals

Addition of rational numbers can be computed using the least common denominator, but a conceptually simpler definition involves only integer addition and multiplication:

* Define \frac ab + \frac cd = \frac{ad+bc}{bd}.

The commutativity and associativity of rational addition is an easy consequence of the laws of integer arithmetic.[40] For a more rigorous and general discussion, see field of fractions.
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Reals
Adding π2/6 and e using Dedekind cuts of rationals
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Adding π2/6 and e using Dedekind cuts of rationals

Further information: Construction of real numbers

A common construction of the set of real numbers is the Dedekind completion of the set of rational numbers. A real number is defined to be a Dedekind cut of rationals: a non-empty set of rationals that is closed downward and has no greatest element. The sum of real numbers a and b is defined element by element:

* Define a+b = \{q+r | q\in a, r\in b\}.[41]

This definition was first published, in a slightly modified form, by Richard Dedekind in 1872.[42] The commutativity and associativity of real addition are immediate; defining the real number 0 to be the set of negative rationals, it is easily seen to be the additive identity. Probably the trickiest part of this construction pertaining to addition is the definition of additive inverses.[43]
Adding π2/6 and e using Cauchy sequences of rationals
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Adding π2/6 and e using Cauchy sequences of rationals

Unfortunately, dealing with multiplication of Dedekind cuts is a case-by-case nightmare similar to the addition of signed integers. Another approach is the metric completion of the rational numbers. A real number is essentially defined to be the a limit of a Cauchy sequence of rationals, lim an. Addition is defined term by term:

* Define \lim_na_n+\lim_nb_n = \lim_n(a_n+b_n).[44]

This definition was first published by Georg Cantor, also in 1872, although his formalism was slightly different.[45] One must prove that this operation is well-defined, dealing with co-Cauchy sequences. Once that task is done, all the properties of real addition follow immediately from the properties of rational numbers. Furthermore, the other arithmetic operations, including multiplication, have straightforward, analogous definitions.[46]
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Generalizations

There are many things that can be added: numbers, vectors, matrices, spaces, shapes, sets, functions, equations, strings, chains... —Alexander Bogomolny

Real addition extends to addition operations on even larger sets, such as the set of complex numbers or a many-dimensional vector space in linear algebra.

* Vector: Vector addition

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In algebra

There are many more sets that support an operation called addition.

There are already infinitely many natural numbers, and the set of real numbers is even larger. It is also useful to study addition on smaller sets, even finite ones. In modular arithmetic, the set of integers modulo 12 has twelve elements; it inherits an addition operation from the integers that is central to musical set theory. The set of integers modulo 2 has just two elements; the addition operation it inherits is known in Boolean logic as "exclusive or".

The ideas of extending and compacting sets can be combined. In geometry, the sum of two angles is often taken to be their sum as two real numbers modulo 2π. This amounts to an addition operation on the circle, which in turn generalizes to addition operations on many-dimensional tori.

A general form of addition occurs in abstract algebra, where addition may be almost any well-defined binary operation on a set. For an operation to be called "addition" in abstract algebra, it is required to be associative and commutative. Basic algebraic structures with an addition operation include commutative monoids and abelian groups.
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Addition of sets

One extraordinary generalization of the addition of natural numbers is the addition of ordinal numbers. Unlike most addition operations, ordinal addition is not commutative. However, passing to the "smaller" class of cardinal numbers, we recover a commutative operation. Cardinal addition is closely related to the disjoint union of two sets. In category theory, the disjoint union is a kind of coproduct, so coproducts are perhaps the most abstract of all the generalizations of addition. Some coproducts are named to evoke their connection with addition; see Direct sum and Wedge sum.
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Related operations
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Arithmetic

Subtraction can be thought of as a kind of addition—that is, the addition of an additive inverse. Subtraction is itself a sort of inverse to addition, in that adding x and subtracting x are inverse functions.

Given a set with an addition operation, one cannot always define a corresponding subtraction operation on that set; the set of natural numbers is a simple example. On the other hand, a subtraction operation uniquely determines an addition operation, an additive inverse operation, and an additive identity; for this reason, an additive group can be desribed as a set that is closed under subtraction.[47]

Multiplication can be thought of as repeated addition. If a single term x appears in a sum n times, then the sum is the product of n and x. If n is not a natural number, the product may still make sense; for example, multiplication by −1 yields the additive inverse of a number.
A circular slide rule
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A circular slide rule

In the real and complex numbers, addition and multiplication can be interchanged by the exponential function:

ea + b = ea eb.[48]

This identity allows multiplication to be carried out by consulting a table of logarithms and computing addition by hand; it also enables multiplication on a slide rule. The formula is still a good first-order approximation in the broad context of Lie groups, where it relates multiplication of infinitesimal group elements with addition of vectors in the associated Lie algebra.[49]

There are even more generalizations of multiplication than addition.[50] In general, multiplication operations always distribute over addition; this requirement is formalized in the definition of a ring. In some contexts, such as the integers, distributivity over addition and the existence of a multiplicative identity is enough to uniquely determine the multiplication operation. The distributive property also provides information about addition; by expanding the product (1 + 1)(a + b) in both ways, one concludes that addition is forced to be commutative. For this reason, ring addition is commutative in general.[51]

Division is an arithmetic operation remotely related to addition. Since a/b = a(b−1), division is right distributive over addition: (a + b) / c = a / c + b / c.[52] However, division is not left distributive over addition; 1/ (2 + 2) is not the same as 1/2 + 1/2.
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Ordering
Log-log plot of x + 1 and max (x, 1) from x = 0.001 to 1000[4]
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Log-log plot of x + 1 and max (x, 1) from x = 0.001 to 1000[4]

The maximum operation "max (a, b)" is a binary operation similar to addition. In fact, if two nonnegative numbers a and b are of different orders of magnitude, then their sum is approximately equal to their maximum. This approximation is extremely useful in the applications of mathematics, for example in truncating Taylor series. However, it presents a perpetual difficulty in numerical analysis, essentially since "max" is not invertible. If b is much greater than a, then a straightforward calculation of (a + b) - b can accumulate an unacceptable round-off error, perhaps even returning zero. See also Loss of significance.

The approximation becomes exact in a kind of infinite limit; if either a or b is an infinite cardinal number, their cardinal sum is exactly equal to the greater of the two.[53] Accordingly, there is no subtraction operation for infinite cardinals.[54]

Maximization is commutative and associative, like addition. Furthermore, since addition preserves the ordering of real numbers, addition distributes over "max" in the same way that multiplication distributes over addition:

a + max (b, c) = max (a + b, a + c).

For these reasons, in tropical geometry one replaces multiplication with addition and addition with maximization. In this context, addition is called "tropical multiplication", maximization is called "tropical addition", and the tropical "additive identity" is negative infinity.[55] Some authors prefer to replace addition with minimization; then the additive identity is positive infinity.[56]

Tying these observations together, tropical addition is approximately related to regular addition through the logarithm:

log (a + b) ≈ max (log a, log b),

which becomes more accurate as the base of the logarithm increases.[57] The approximation can be made exact by extracting a constant h, named by analogy with Planck's constant from quantum mechanics,[58] and taking the "classical limit" as h tends to zero:

\max(a,b) = \lim_{h\to 0}h\log(e^{a/h}+e^{b/h}).

In this sense, the maximum operation is a dequantized version of addition.[59]
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Other ways to add

Incrementation, also known as the successor operation, is the addition of 1 to a number. In formal treatments of addition, such as the Peano axioms, the successor is an elementary operation, and addition is defined from successors through recursion.

Summation describes the addition of arbitrarily many numbers, usually more than just two. It includes the idea of the sum of a single number, which is itself, and the empty sum, which is 0. An infinite summation is known as a series.

Counting is an intuitive procedure that can be formalized as the summation of 1 over some finite domain. In everyday counting, the domain is typically a small set of physical objects; in mathematics it may be large and abstract, as it is for the prime counting function.

Integration is a kind of "summation" over a continuum, or more precisely and generally, over a differentiable manifold. Integration over a zero-dimensional manifold reduces to summation.

Linear combinations combine multiplication and summation; they are sums in which each term has a multiplier, usually a real or complex number. Linear combinations are especially useful in contexts where straightforward addition would violate some normalization rule, such as mixing of strategies in game theory or superposition of states in quantum mechanics.

Convolution is used to add two independent random variables defined by distribution functions. Its usual definition combines integration, subtraction, and multiplication. In general, convolution is useful as a kind of domain-side addition; by contrast, vector addition is a kind of range-side addition.
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Conclusion
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1 + 1 = 2

Now you see what I mean? If you gave a scientist the scientific answer, 100 marks. If you gave an arts lecturer the scientist answer, 30 marks. If you gave an arts lecturer the arts the arts answe 95 marks...wait, wtf? 95 marks? THAT'S RIGHT! Those mofos will NEVER give you full marks. EVER.
Now you see the degree of problem here. Scientists treat each other as intelligent human beings and give the shortest, most efficient answer to the question, while arts lecturers expect you to define everything and then explain it. And after that, they're not even willing to give full marks

P.S.
I know technically the arts answer to 1 + 1 = 2 is the correct one

No I'm not dead yet....

2006-04-12T16:43:00.000+08:00

Nothing to write about so never update. And an update usually means I'm either really pissed at something, usually like the fucked upness of the human race or I have a finished model. Unfortunately, the human race has yet to show me further indisputable proof of its stupidity so this post is about a new model.

Its a 1/6 model of Saber from Fate/Stay Night, an anime which started out as a Hentai game...

RX121 TR1 Advance Hazel Rah

2006-03-08T18:04:00.000+08:00

Latest work =)

Hi Nu Gundam Evolve 5 Styling

2006-02-07T22:26:00.000+08:00

I'm pretty much done but since I'm using epoxy glue, I have to glue the parts together slowly due to the long drying time. Here's some picts of the finished basic MS w/o the back pack and wing binders.

Infact I liked it so much in this form, I half considered leaving the backpack and wing binders off!

The bare resin on the back is on purpose for the glue to have more grip

Dance out Rainbow

2005-12-15T21:17:00.000+08:00

OK!!!! We got it!!! You must have REAL feelings when you dance in order to dance well and win competitions!!! There's no need to hammer it into our heads every 5 minutes in the show, Jesus Christ....

AND I'm not even watching the damn show, I can hear it from my room....every fucking 5 minutes...

Humanitarians, hah!

2005-12-13T21:14:00.000+08:00

Yet more news of humanitarians championing for rights of humankind. To me, its nothing but bullshit. They claim to be fighting for rights of people, I say they're just doing it for their own selfish ego. This is yet another example of "see my root of all evil post"
This time, they are complaining about euthanasia again... They say its against human rights. Fuck You! I want to die and I say its MY RIGHT to want to die. You think your set of rules is for everyone? When they try to stop people from performing euthanasia, aren't they VIOLATING the person's rights to want to die? Hypocrites, I say.

To a person dying from so much pain, morphine doesn't even have any effect anymore, which is more cruel? Letting the person die painlessly or preventing him from dying? These "humanitarians" juz shoot their mought off, are any of them in the same situation. If you are also dying of pain and suffering and still championing against euthanasia, then I will listen to you...

They see themselve so high and mighty. I see them no better than people cutting open people's wounds and pouring salt over it.
Time to wake up and smell the roses, BITCH

The root of ALL evil

2005-12-02T09:31:00.000+08:00

A topic done to the death. Is it money? Greed? The human mind? Nay I say. All humans have the capability to be evil. Everyone is greedy. So what is the one thing that causes the troubles on this earth? It can be summarised in one simple sentence.

"The ill-intention well-informed minority leading the well-intention misinformed majority"

Think I'm talking cock? Hit the history textbooks, read through it. Too lazy, open today's papers. You'll see what I'm talking about soon enough. One example is terrorism but believe me it DOES NOT stop there.
It's a sad fact that there will ALWAYS be people gullible enough to believe things they should not. And it is because of this that we can never be truly rid of problems in our present society.

Which brings me to another different but related topic. Be it game or movies we have seen that a hive-mind species is often potrayed as being an evil entity. The Borgs, the Zergs etc etc... The writer claims that they are evil because one loses their individuality. But is that truly the case?
Is it truly bad to have one species working towards one greater good? To have one common goal? To have their will driven towards the betterment of the species instead of taking part in petty debacles among oneself?
Infact, there wouldn't be evil at all since evil is a perception. Once the whole society see things in a common perspective, evil itself would no longer exist

Destiny Impulse

2005-11-27T13:34:00.000+08:00

Model number: ZGMF-X56A
Code name: Destiny Impulse Gundam
Unit type: Experimental use Mobile Suit
Manufacturer: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Operator: ZAFT
First deployment: NA
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit
Dimensions: overall height 17.76 meters
Weight: max gross weight 63.54 metric tons
Construction: Unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact nuclear fission reactor, power output rated at 8826 kW

Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; Variable Phase Shift (VPS) armor
Fixed armaments: 2 x MMI-GAU25A 20mm CIWS, fire-linked, mounted in chest; 2 x M71-AAK
"Folding Razor" anti-armor knife, stored in hip armor, hand-carried in use;
2 x RQM60 "Flash-Edge" beam boomerang; 2 x MMI-710 "Excalibur" anti-ship sword,
M100 "Balaena" plasma beam

Technical and Historical Notes

Following the development of the Impulse Gundam, ZAFT carried on working on the next
generation of MS. The Destiny Impulse was the testbed for one of such MS, the Destiny
Gundam. The X56A was based on the in service, X56S(beta) and underwent several critical
modifications, including the use of a nuclear reactor for unlimited power, the addition of
extra wing binders for extra mobility, a high powered beam cannon for long range strike
capability, an extra propellent tank for longer fight time. The wing binders were also a
testbed for a new use of the mirage colloid
Basically ZAFT tried to include all of the Impulse multiple strike packs into one lethal
MS.
In the end the present compact nuclear reactor's output was deemed too low and a high output
but less fuel efficient deuterium drive module was implemented. The number of anti-ship swords
was reduced to one. The improved fight time was at the cost of lower mobility hence the propellent
tank was thus removed. Hence the role of the new MS was a fast pinpoint strike force.
A toally new chasis was designed while the primary armaments remained the same
and further minor enhancements were added
The sole prototype of the X56A never saw real combat and was officially listed as
"dismantled"

Pilot: Unknown
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Finally finished it. Sorry for the lack of pics. Very diff to take pic of it cause its fairlyback heavy and the slightest upset will cause it to topple

The hands were milliput-casted from the Hazel, not very well done. Its harder than I thought it would be... Other parts were pretty much slap together from the 2 different kits

The forearms were super thick and does sorta spoil the overall stream line design of the kit. But since I set out for it to be OOB as much as possible I didn't reduce the size. I highly recommend anyone doing the same kit to reduce the width by at least 1mm

Street Entertainment News

2005-11-22T20:32:00.000+08:00

Here's a site that my friend setup
Street Entertainment News

It has some interesting reads about street culture. Be it music, dance or extreme sports. Its pretty informative. Head on down if/when you got the time.

This is the exact sort of thing that will do us in....

2005-11-21T21:27:00.000+08:00

I'm sure the name Nguyen Tuong Van will not be unfamiliar by now. The guy who will soon be hanged in Singapore for trafficking 400g of heroin. Why do I say this is the sort of thing that will do us in? Not the drug traficking part dammit.. The inability to take responsibility for our own actions!

In all honest truth I pity the guy, based on the reports he is a nice guy. I'm pretty sure he's another likeable person in real life had anyone met him before this. He did what he did to help his family and in the end got into trouble. The way I see it. He made a decision to do something illegal, he made a decision to transit in SGP which has a death penalty. He was caught. Is there anything truly wrong with him being executed? If anything I would respect him more if he accepted the punishment.

However I feel that he should not be the one to die on Dec 2. It's his brother. Throughout his trial, Nguyen claimed that he was only carrying the drugs in a bid to pay off debts owed on behalf his twin brother, Khoa, borrowed to pay legal fees of around $35,000 accrued in court cases around three years previously. If his brother had any sort of honour left in him, he would offer to take the execution in place of his brother.

The fact is, it is human nature to squirm our way out of any trouble we get ourselves into. EVEN when we are caught red-handed or at the expense of others. As a child we are told not to lie, yet we instinctly do it when we do something wrong. We do it to cover our backsides. In certain.....organistions.... where we know we can get into serious trouble for something minor we cover ourselves sometimes by getting others into trouble. It is this instinct that will do us in eventually.

I'm pretty sure if one fateful day some idiot causes an accidental nuclear ICBM launch. He will blame it on everything other than himself even at the expense of total global nuclear apocalypse.

BAH.....

As a sidenote I quote "Mr Downer said that Nguyen's case should serve as a reminder to Australians that if they went into countries which had the mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking they needed to be very careful."

WTF? Many countries carry death penalties for various crimes, even USA. So I should be careful when going anywhere? Balls man, if one is not doing anything illegal why should one need to be careful? Oh I see, you're saying all Australians traffick drugs, now I get it....

I can't study on Sundays

2005-11-20T11:57:00.000+08:00

Weekdays are much more condusive for studying....My brain switches off on weekends....

Here's another peek at what I've been up to during exam periods

It's almost done, but my Hi-Nu is coming in so there's a chance it'll go into backlog again.... My record high for a backlog kit is 5 years before completing it. LEt's hope I dun repeat it again..

In case anyone is wondering how many kits I have in backlog.

1/72 Hasegawa Super Valkyrie
1/72 Hasegawa VF-0D
1/100 HG Tallgeese III
1/144 HGUC Hazel
1/24 WAVE Koubu

Not alot, however these do not include kits I have not yet started on. Those count towards inventory....

Primed.....

2005-11-18T17:59:00.000+08:00

Primed the Hazel, thinking whether to just finish it or wait for the upgrades. wait too long sometimes will lose momentum, damn sianz

In other modelling related news, I have just ordered a Hi-Nu Gundam conversion kit. A hi-nu is something I've wanted for quite a while. And since now there's a discount, why not....

I expect it to arrive sometime next week, right in the middle of my papers, lol....
I also pre-ordered another kit I've wanted for some time. The Gundam Mk V. Core-works just released a kick-ass version of it. ETA, January, haha.....

Am I broke or what...

New work

2005-11-11T18:33:00.000+08:00

The HGUC Hazel Custom.... Waiting for extra parts from the next Dengeki hobby mag. Sianzzz

The state of the world.....

2005-11-01T13:26:00.000+08:00

Long time never update liao, looks like not many people visit my blog anymore, but nonetheless...

Read recently some bugger who went to test drive a sports car caused an accident which killed the salewoman who was in the car with him. The accident also destroyed another BMW and a van. The guy got off only with injuries.
What the fuck man. The salewoman was still damn young and had to die because of the irresponsibility of this fucker. Why do I say this? The fucker is a warehouse supervisor earning less than $2k a month, so he was probably test driving for fun only. Yeah, the joy ride cost someone her life asshole. He deserves to go to jail and then on the day of release gets plastered into the prison wall by an incoming 10 tonner. Pui..

Just heard on the news, Iran's president say Israel should be wiped off the face of this earth. Why am I not the least surprised? Cause if its one thing that we learn from history, its that it always fucking repeats itself. We spend enough time in peace and soon enough, we get another megalomaniac on our hands.
Guns will probably start blazing soon. Oh well, at least it decreases the population of humans on earth.

Recently the planet has been experiencing an onslaught of deadly diseases and natural disasters, SARS, bird flu, Tsunamis, earthquakes etc etc etc... Has anyone wondered why this is happening?
Well isn't it obvious enough? The planet itself is trying to bring itself back to equilibrium by ridding itself of the cause of imbalance. Anyone wants to take a wild guess what the cause is?

Agent Smith or rather Wachowski brothers were right when they wrote the script for Smith. "Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. And the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure."

In reality there are no machines but the planet itself is taking actions necessary to bring itself back into harmony. Unfortunately, I fear that it will not be able to do so before it is too late

When will humans finally see that we are all sharing the same planet and that all our petty conflicts are nothing. In time, our Sun will supernova, our habitat will be destroyed and nothing will be remembered of our insignificant species. Perhaps that is the fate the universe has for all sentient beings like us. Such that we don't spread our cancer to other parts of the universe. Only those who see the truth will survive cataclysm.

WTF is wrong with human beings?

2005-09-20T20:30:00.000+08:00

Story 1
I was heading to ARTs canteen so I went to take the lift near the ATM. And guess what I saw. The lift was full so this guy cannot get in, he gets out of the lift and what does he do? He starts spamming the lift button BEFORE the lift door can close.
It has got to be the most idiotic scene I have ever seen. The people in the lift were trying to close the door and this guy keeps spamming the lift button. All the while giving the "Why the hell isn't the light staying on?" look
But that's not the end of the story. This guy finally gives up and the door closes. I thought he has gotten the idea. But NO. He now stands there like a log hoping that the button will light up by itself. I am NOT shitting you. In the end I had to walk over and press it myself....

Story 2
To protect the identity of this person I will change the story. Let's say there is a quiz with 3 different papers, A,B and C
The rules are as such

1)ALL participants must bring a blue pen and a 10KG dumb bell
2)Additionally, people taking quiz C must bring a pencil and an eraser
3)Anyone not adhering to rules will be disqualified

So I said to my friends "Why do we have to bring a dumb bell?"
And what does this guy say? "I think no need dumb bell la, we taking quiz A. Just bring pencil and eraser can already"

Were the rules THAT hard to understand?

GOD DAMN IT!!!

2005-08-27T11:34:00.000+08:00

It has been a long time since I blogged. This time because since the opening of school, I've realised that the intelligence of the human race has taken a nose dive. Within a short span of a few weeks, I received more stupid questions than I need in a life time. Well, to be honest, some of them are not stupid but reflect the ugly nature of our fucknig species.

1)Where is SRC?
What the fuck? Do I look like a bloody street directory? There are maps stuck all over campus

2)Where are we meeting?
This wouldn't be a stupid question if not for the fact that I ALREADY POSTED THE FUCKING MEETING PLACE IN MY E-MAIL!!! READ MY FUCKING MAIL

3)Do I get any CCA points for joining the club?
Granted, this IS a valid question. However, I hate people who join clubs just for CCA points. Especially MY CLUB. My reply will be, NO, YOU DON'T GET ANY CCA POINTS. I don't even have to kick them out of the club myself. They usually NEVER show up after knowing no CCA points are given. Good Riddence

4)Other general questions whose answer can be found easily
I'M NOT YOUR FUCKING MOTHER, DON'T EXPECT ME TO SPOONFEED YOU.

5)After asking me stuff, do completely the opposite
WHAT THE FUCK? IF YOU DON'T PLAN ON LISTENING TO MY ADVICE OR AT LEAST TRYING IT OUT BEFORE YOU DECIDE ITS NOT FOR YOU. DON'T ASK!!!!
I have only 70-80 years to live. Don't waste my time

I've always considered myself a helpful person. But the recent spate of these idioticness, I've decided to fuck anyone who asks me another stupid question. However I am not an unreasonable man. I will still answer any questions if and only if the answers CANNOT be found at the folliwing sites

www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.streetdirectory.com
www.sbstransit.com.sg
www.smrt.com.sg

or questions about stuff I honestly forgot to post

On a side note, new model completed

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeedooooooommmmmmm!!!!!!!!

2005-06-22T12:09:00.000+08:00

Gundam that is. This entry nothing to do with Braveheart.

Picked up a MG Freedom Gundam a few weeks back and dumped all my other work and started on it. Reason being its design is really cool. Haahaha, it reminds me of another Gundam that I like, the Hi-Nu Gundam. The wings are the best part of the whole design.

Originally I planned the pose to be something like this

With the left hand stretching out. Unfortunately in my total lapse of judgement I forgot to sculpt the right hand and assumed it would be able to achieve the posture. As always, assumption is the mother of all cockup and so I changed the pose into something else. I always like the scene in Evangelion where Eva-01 pierced an angel in space using the Longinus Spear. So I changed the pose to a spear throwing pose ala Javelin throwing.

Tadaaa......

This next pic I really like, really got the sey there

The kit was built OOB and only the left hand was sculpted to give it a more dynamic pose. The "V"s on the face plate was removed as well to give it the Zeta Gundam look

Inline Skate Completion Project 2

2005-06-05T10:42:00.000+08:00

If you're wondering where's project 1, then I guess you're gonna have to scroll through my past entries. I'm not gonna spoon feed you. There's enough of that in this god damn world already. People always expect others to spoon feed them information. I especially hate those people on forums who demand information that can be obtained within a few click of the mouse. But I digress.

The last time I posted about my skates were last year around Nov. I got myself a pair of Rollerblade Twister Plus a couple of months back and have never looked back. Die K2!! Die Rossignol!! Salomon are good skates but they dun fit my feet so they are spared. Recently in my boredom I decided my Twisters were getting abit boring since alot of people own them. To seperate myself from the crowd I had to customise my skates. The logical place to start were the frames. I had a design floating around in my head based on the cursed seal in Naruto. I spray painted the whole frame black first but it didn't come out well

The original crap on the frames were showing up. No matter, I busted out my rotary tool and sanding attachment. After sanding I repainted the frames

Much better.... Originally I wanted to mask all 4 sides of the frames and cut out the design. But in my laziness I just cut out the design on a piece of cardboard and use it as a template. The effect wasn't very good since the paint sort of "blurred". I kinda knew that would happen but I was just too lazy

Exams over and nothing begins

2005-05-09T14:18:00.000+08:00

Exams finally over for me on the 5th and so begins the long awaited 3 months holidays. After exams the only thing I seem to be doing in excess is eating. Starting on the 6th, went for sushi buffet, 7th dim dum at Geylang and yesterday, Big-O.
I've nothing planned for hols, I dun plan to work either unless I find something that interests or or pays me a ludicrous amount of money for peanuts of work.
Actually there are some things on my to do list but I haven found the motivation to fo them yet..

1) Clean my room
2) Train for IPPT
3) Skate
4) Design a character for Graphite
5) Get a haircut
6) Get abs

In retrospect, I should have done 5) and 6) before yesterday since my senior asked a group of us to help him with some filming of a CNA show. It involves playing beach volleyball at Sentosa. I hope the editor edits me out or at least my face, hahahaa...

圆梦的小熊

2005-04-21T15:06:00.000+08:00

Maybe I'm abit WOLS but just heard this song and the story attached. Very touching

圆梦的小熊

歌手:六甲乐团

景仰的天父你还能施舍多少天
还有多少天能让我留在这世界
无奈肉体的病痛它一直在蔓延
不断侵蚀著我活下去的每一天
垂泪的点滴透过针头穿刺皮肤表面
我似乎已经没有任何的感觉
就在想要拔下呼吸器的那一瞬间
隔壁病床传来一句温馨的誓言
等病好一点爸爸带你环游世界
下了决心旅行迪斯奈乐园
耳边微弱的心电图呈了一直线
相依为命的爸爸已经不在我身边
就在伤心之馀想起来一个心愿
和爸爸环游世界的计划还没有实现
想了一个办法能够与他去冒险
来走遍全世界大小的每一个地点
我拿起了一苹小熊象徵爸爸的脸
加上我的名字代表著共同的心愿
等病好一点爸爸带你环游世界(牵著手下榻每一个地点)
下了决心旅行迪斯奈乐园(许了愿等著我们去实现)
等病好一点爸爸带你环游世界(不要怕梦想离我们不远)
下了决心旅行迪斯奈乐园(许了愿我们一定会实现)
这是来自一个日本小女孩的故事
藉由传递的方式把小熊交给去旅行的人
就这样不分国籍语言一个传过了一个
只是举手之劳携带完成了他的心愿
当他得知小熊平安去了十七个国家
忍住了病痛哭著感谢实现心愿的人
这对圆梦的父女也许已经不在人世
但是环游世界的旅行会一直走下去

Teachers say the darnest things

2005-04-19T01:00:00.000+08:00

not local

Biology professor - "the sperm have to survive for quite some time, and they get their energy from the large amount of sugar present in the seminal fluid"
Girl in Class - "why doesnt semen taste sweet then?"
Professor - the taste buds for sweetness are on the tip of your tounge not the back of your throat"

"You MUST be here to present your final project. If you are not here, you will not pass. If you are DEAD, have your lab partner bring in your corpse. You'll get a B." - Prof Coe. Final Project.

"And if you don't study for the test, YOU... SHALL NOT... PASS!!!"
-Mr. Ishimoto (Math) - 10th Grade

"Put it in more!" Mr. Doty, Band Director talking to clarinet player
"You need to get rougher! RRRROUGH!" Mr. Callaway, Biolab Honors teacher

"Yes, I have a daughter your age. I also have a gun collection."
English teacher

"Remember I'm your teacher, not your friend. I already have friends, I don't need any more."
-Mr. Naisbitt, AP European History, first day of class

"Your essays need to be like a skirt: long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to still be interesting."
-[ b]Dr. Tim Knight

"Infinity isn't a number... I like to think of it as a happy place." - Discrete Math professor

Olsen's Laws (Drafting Teacher)
1. If at first you don’t succeed, use violence.
2. Pass the buck.
3. Attitudes are more important than facts.
4. Comfort is the key.
5. If the shoe fits, steal it.

One time in high school, this kid Tyler in my Phys Ed class wore a sleeveless shirt. The teacher doesn't like shirts like that, and here is the conversation that followed:

Mr. V: What the hell is that you're wearing?
Tyler: A muscle-shirt.
Mr. V: No, muscle-shirts are for men. You have to have muscles to wear a muscle-shirt. THAT'S a tank top. Girls wear those.

"Lead Picrate is a high explosive.... high explosives detonate at a velocity greater than 10,000 m/s... I'm going to make some lead picrate."
--Dr. Jim Peploski CM103

"Now stand up here so I'll be able to duck behind the desk"
--Dr. Jim Peploski CM103

"Bacteria are practically immortal...unless you hit them with a hammer or step on them"
-Dr. Much, microbiology lecture

mr. forbes was talking about projectiles, and someone asked if a bird was a projectile.
"only if it's dead." -mr forbes.

"You have to the finger the clay in, ladies and gentelmen. You must master your fingering." Mr. Peruse, Art Teacher

"I hate students, I'd love teaching if it wasn't for them." - Prof. Goldsmith.

"And now.. here's my favorite organic molecule of all..... ETHANOL!!!"
Dr. O'Connor - Chemistry 302: General Chemistry 2

"Yes ladies and gentlemen we have a chemical called fucose-kinase, so appropriately abbreviated by our friends, the Japanese, as fuc-K. That's right, we hace a chemical called fuck. And if you want to get adventurous and turn it into an alcohol, you can, indeed, form fuckitol. Sounds like something an organic grad student would drink after finals week."
-My organic chemistry prof, he had a class of 600 people rolling in the aisles

"Why are you smiling, if you are having fun, it means you are not doing it right!"
-Mr Meyers 11th grade programming teacher

Bump...

2005-04-09T23:52:00.000+08:00

Long time never update so bump my blog abit so that it wun get deleted by blogger. Right now its 13 days to exams, and 26 days to the 3 months holiday. Can't wait for exams to start, thats right, you are not seeing things. I am waiting for exams to start. Quoting Agent Smith from Matrix "Everything that has a beginning must have an end" and exams are the beginning of the end of my yr 1 uni life.
It seemed only a short while ago that I matriculated...wait it IS only a short while since I matriculated....well that's the way uni is, a whirlwind of endless work and suddenly a 3 month break.

Instead of studying for exams I am thinking of what to do during the hols. One thing for sure is to catch up with frens which I have conveniently neglected(ooops), long time never go KTV also.
I'll be going back to HCI to train too not so much for competition than to improve PR with the current team. I also need to restore some of my fitness I've lost since the beginning of NS.
What else....probably I'll be skating alot too...
Also signed up for a few camps during the hols as facilitator or senior, actually only 3. But I can forsee myself not going for some of them. But judgin from the way I did the interviews they probably dun wan me either, lol....
More time for me to skate and train I guess.

Somewhere at the back of my head, a voice is telling me that the 3 month hols is a good time to find a gf, but seriously I have no target right now. Sure there are plenty of pretty girls but no one has sparked my fighting spirit yet. In fact, its quite easy for me to get to know people in Science cause the probability of the girl being another MOE scholar is like 50%? Sometimes even after I know their names and stuff, in the end will degenerate into the Hi-Bye sort of aquaintance....I think my default mode is "unfrenly" right now for some unknown reason.
I envy the students of tomorrow, got so many pretty female teachers. Unfortunately for them, I'm also one of their future teachers, hahahaha......
I think eventually I'll end up as a monk like my fren in NTU.....

12 Types of Women You Should Date

2005-03-26T12:01:00.000+08:00

1- Miss Sweet
Miss Sweet is a woman who's positive, content with her life, always upbeat -- and just a blast to be around. She's a genuine person without a bitch bone in her body. She's always truly happy to see you and you find yourself looking forward to spe! nding time with her. Miss Sweets are usually snapped up out of the dating market right away, so they're pretty rare. But if you can find one, you've got a real treasure on your hands.

2- Miss Equality
This type of woman is a true feminist -- not one of the radical man-haters, or the hypocritical pseudo-feminists who think that equality means "I demand equal rights and an equal salary, but a man still has to pay for me." The Miss Equality of the world genuinely like men, and understand that equality means equality across the board, from holding the door open to fighting on the front lines. They believe that a relationship should be a 50/50 partnership, and are more than willing to shoulder their half of the responsibilities and dating expenses -- just because it's the right thing to do.

3- Miss Sexual
You should be s! o lucky to encounter one of these! Miss Sexual loves men and ! loves sex -- and makes no bones about it. She's not selling it, she's not using it as a tool to manipulate men -- she just naturally craves it. Miss Sexual is not to be confused with a nymphomaniac, who suffers from psychological problems -- rather, she has somehow bypassed the female societal training of auctioning off the use of her vagina to the highest bidder. For this reason, most other women hate her, because she's giving it away free of charge. But men love her because she's a free spirit who's actually honest about her sex drive. Very rare, but worth searching the ends of the earth for

4- Miss Best Friend
Closely aligned with Miss Sweet, Miss Best Friend is another joy to be around. She's the kind of woman you're totally in sync with -- you like the same things, watch the same TV shows, enjoy going to the same places. You can spend five minutes with her and think you'! ve known her for years. She's always on your side, laughs at all your jokes, and calls you just to say "hi" because she genuinely misses you. She's great just to hang with. A word of warning, though -- with Miss Best Friend, you have to make your sexual interest known from day one because if she gets it into her head that you are going to be "just friends," it's almost impossible to change her mind.

5- Miss Straightforward
This is the type of woman who knows how to communicate. With Miss Straightforward, there are no games, no expecting men to be mind readers, no behavior based on ridiculous, female-biased advice from articles in Cosmo or The Rules. Miss Straightforward will pick up the phone and ask you out. She will do what she says she will do -- not say one thing and do just the opposite. Although she may be blunt at times, at least you'll ! know where you stand and you'll never have to spend hours! trying to decode contradictory or emotion-based female behavior.

6- Miss Independent
This is a good woman to find if you don't have a lot of time to invest in a relationship or you're the type of guy who needs a lot of space. Miss Independent has a real life of her own and is happily going in her own positive direction. She's the type who wants a man in her life, but doesn't need a man in her life. And she certainly isn't looking for men to solve all her problems or blame when things don't go her way.

7- Miss Loyal
Miss Loyal will never cheat on you or constantly be on the lookout for a "better deal." When you go out, she won't be scanning the room for other guys, but will keep her attention focused on you, the man in her life. She's also more apt to stick around if times get tough.
8- Miss No Pressure
While many women are chomping at the bit to get married, Miss No Pressure hasn't fallen prey to any such agenda. She's happy just to be with you. So you don't get any, "Where is our relationship going?", or hint-dropping about the future or window-shopping at the jewelry store. She may want to get married at some point, but she's in no hurry -- she thinks that if it happens, it will just happen naturally.

9- Miss Secure
Miss Secure accepts herself as she is and is comfortable with her good points, as well as her bad. And she feels the same about you. Miss Secure doesn't need constant attention to shore up a sagging ego, has tons of self-esteem, and is always going in her own positive direction.

10- Miss Personality
Miss Personality is a great find. She might ! not be up for first prize in a beauty contest (although she c! ould be), but her intelligence, wit and sparkling presence just light up the room, and she draws people like a magnet. Her personality is so charming that it easily overcomes any deficiencies she might have in the looks department, just because she's so great to be with.

11- Miss Low Maintenance
The rarest of the rare, Miss Low Maintenance is the most atypical of modern women. She really doesn't care about how much money you have -- she just likes you for yourself and not for what she can take from you. She's likely to be a true feminist, and will gladly pay her share of the dating expenses. If you can find a Miss Low Maintenance, hang on to her for dear life!

12- Miss Right For You
A lot of guys choose women who are "arm candy" -- good-looking trophy girlfriends who bolster their status among other men or counteract their o! wn insecurities. That's all well and good, but if you find a woman who makes you happy, regardless of looks, age or social status -- or what any other guy thinks -- then you have definitely won at the mating game.

Kaaaaawaaaaaaiiiiiii

2005-03-25T09:35:00.000+08:00

I liked the previous picture so much that I did another version of it without tears. I also tried a new technique called manga shading by mixing pen and pencil.

I've also decided to come up with a name for her, so that she can be the main female character if I ever manage to draw an actual comic strip....I'm still thinking of a good one....

=p

2005-03-22T16:37:00.000+08:00

This came out of nowhere, during lecture on Mon my hand anyhow move like got mind of its own.....

yawn........

2005-03-22T15:55:00.000+08:00

ATTRACTION... the act of associating horniness with a particular person.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT... what occurs when two extremely horny, but not entirely choosy people meet.

DATING... the process of spending enormous amounts of money, time and energy to get better acquainted with a person whom you don't especially like in the present and will learn to like a lot less in the future.

BIRTH CONTROL... avoiding pregnancy through such tactics as swallowing special pills, inserting a diaphragm, using a condom, and dating repulsive men.

EASY... a term used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.

EYE CONTACT... a method utilized by one person to indicate that they are interested in another. Despite being advised to do so, many men have difficulty looking a woman directly in the eyes, not necessarily due to shyness, but usually due to the fact that a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

FRIEND... a person in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.

INDIFFERENCE... a woman's feeling towards a man, which is interpreted by the man to be "playing hard to get".

INTERESTING... a word a man uses to describe a woman who lets him do all the talking.

IRRITATING HABIT... what the endearing little qualities that initially attract two people to each other turn into after a few months together.

LAW OF RELATIVITY... how attractive a given person appears to be is directly proportionate to how unattractive your date is.

NYMPHOMANIAC... a man's term for a woman who wants to have sex more often than he does.

SOBER... condition in which it is almost impossible to fall in love.

Wish List

2005-03-21T22:13:00.000+08:00

That has only 1 item on it, The Viper Sidewinder TP frames....

Dun "small look" these frames, one pair cost $300 a pop.....

Those were the days

2005-03-14T23:42:00.000+08:00

For those my age.......

1. You grew up watching He-man, Transformers, Silver hawk an Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles and Smurfs too.

2. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You will squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug. The teachers said you must brush each side10 times too.

3. You know what's Bin(1) Fen(1) Ba (1) San(1) is all about.

4. You know what SBC stands for.

5. You were there when the first chinese serial, the Awakening was shown on TV. You know who is "Ai Yo Yo Lao Shi"

6. Internet? What the hell is that? So you thought a decade or more ago.

7. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary school.

8. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEEP! when pressed. There are colourful tickets for TIBS buses. The conductor will check for tickets by using a machine which punches a hole on the ticket.

9. Your favourite actor and actress is Huang Wenyong and Xiangyun. Next is Lee Nanxing and Zoe Tay and the Aiyoyo woman.

10. You've probably read Young Generation magazine. You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.

11. You were there when they first introduced MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.

12. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.

13. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.

14. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.

15. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka(20 cents per pack) and Ding Dang(50 cents per box), that had a toy in it and it changes every week not forgetting the 15 cents animal crackers and the ring pop, wherethe lollipop is the diamond on the ring and "Di Kam", which you'll win small to big bells, etc.

16. You watched TV2(also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.

17. All that you know about Cantonese is from the Hong Kong serials you watched on TV2.

18. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest story books you ever thought you have read. Even Sweet Valley High and Malory Towers.

19. Civics and Moral Education was "Hao3 Gong1 Min2".

20. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that serve food in plates and let you use metal forks and knives.

21. The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.

22. Catching was the IN thing and twist the magic word.

23. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.

24. CDIS was your best friend.

25. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellisedcharacters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.

26. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go.

27. Boys loved to play soccer with small tennis balls in the basketball court or play something that uses tennis ball to hit other players known as "HUM TAM BOLA" during recess /after school

28. Hopskotch, five stones,chateh and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too...

29. Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the most important plants of our lives.

30. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds from the textbooks. Even Mr Willy.

31. You did stupid exercises like seal crawl and frog jumps.

32. Every children's day and national day you either get pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or dumb files with Happy National Day 1994'.

33. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother.

34. Chinese teachers were always old, boring and damn fierce looking.

35. Your form teacher taught you maths, science and english.

36. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor quality.

37. You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the school to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.

38. Famous Chinese singers were only Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai.

39. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.

40. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.

41. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.

42. During class gatherings, parents always tag along in case someone gets lost at Orchard Road.

43. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.

44. Handkerchiefs were a must for both genders

45. Collecting notebooks and all kinds of stationery was a popular thing.

46. Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friend like you, hard to forget".

47. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"

48. You play "Bottle caps" and erasers with various countries' flags printed on them.

49. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.

50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.

Tadaima...

2005-03-12T10:09:00.000+08:00

Almost one month nvr update. Very busy lately... Mid terms last for so long this sem unlike last sem, everything before midterm break chop chop finish liao.
Not only that I've been busy selling my skates...I bought and sold off 5 pairs of skates in the past year.. Finally I've found one that suits my needs

And here's what everyone(as if) has been waiting for
"picture removed as requested by my fren"(Shy, lol)

hahahahahah.....Thanks for all the wrong answers...Only YM got it correct

Guess again

2005-02-16T23:34:00.000+08:00

WHO IS THIS?

No mystery gift this time though. I'm having problem generating the first one. Beelan, u should grow longer hair, hahahaha.....

..............................................

2005-02-14T00:18:00.000+08:00

Valentine's Day......BAH!

Huuuurkkkk....Bleeeeeaaaahhh...

2005-02-11T23:55:00.000+08:00

The previous pic has had some adverse effect on my drawings. It shift my eyes towards more "realistic" side, which is turning my drawings abit weird, I need to move back to anime eyes... and I realised drawing "realistically" is really hard...

Guess Guess Guess

2005-02-09T23:48:00.000+08:00

Can anyone tell who this is? You can post your answer on the tag board or comments. The eyes look abit weird because the carbon is reflecting my camera's flash. Just a litmus test to see how good my skills are now...or how lousy...

First one to get it right gets a mystery gift

Happy Chinese New Year to all!

2005-02-08T13:43:00.000+08:00

Its that time of the year again! Waiting for ang baos to come in, mwhahahahaha!!!

In the mean time, I did a few more drawings yesterday in school.

This one was done for my skating club presidentess. I'd say there's a 65% likeness
Edit: After posting I realised the eyes aren't level, sorry Yingyi!

Inspired by someone in the LT, turned out completely into something else, but I'd say this is my favourite piece for the day

A really cute gal at a booth outside Central Library. Her face should be smaller and thinner....still need to work on proportions

Random drawing, tried to do a helmet, left it as a rough sketch, didn't bother to clean up

Zen

2005-02-05T10:25:00.000+08:00

A Daily Moment with Zen

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either; just leave me the hell alone.

2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

4. Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

5. No one is listening until you make a mistake.

6. Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

7. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

8. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

9. It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

10. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

11. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

12. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

13. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.

14. If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

15. Don't squat with your spurs on.

16. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

17. If you drink, don't park; accidents cause people.

18. Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.

19. Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

20. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

21. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

22. Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

23. A closed mouth gathers no feet.

24. Duct tape is like the force; it has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

25. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

26. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.

27. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

28. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Another Friday another lab

2005-02-04T21:47:00.000+08:00

Which means more labmates! The left side of todays photos will look bright cuse I used the flash on my camera. For this one I think the hair was captured pretty well. But the eye brows are shorter in real person and her fac is slightly wider. Its not easy to "anime-fy" people. The eyes are really hard to do. I need to improve on shading too.

Where is my MUSE?

2005-02-02T21:18:00.000+08:00

Couldn't do a proper drawing today....The proportions were either wrong or the placement of the features were weird. Hopefully tomolo there'll be someone to inspire me at NTU tomolo. Going there to collect prize $$$

I'd like to proclaim : 99% of NUS Maths Dept SUCK! The 1% is for MA1100 lecturer Prof Tang Eng Chye and tutor Zhu Chengbo. I salute all MAths Majors and may you rest in peace

Good news!!

2005-02-01T13:38:00.000+08:00

My ZC Custom won 3rd place in the intervarsity Gundam Modelling competition organised by NTU VAS!! My work will be displayed at the NTU Arts Fiesta NTU Canteen A, infront of OCBC Bank, NTU Branch. So if anyone is free can go down and see my work, hahahaha....
If you're too lazy just click on the ZC Custom link on the side bar

Today got 3 more drawings to post, heh heh

This is a girl I was with in the lift at NUS. I had 3 floors to memorise her features. I'd say this one is 80% look-alike

Inspired by this girl at Central Library, I didn't see her face but I really like her hair that was flying in the wind

Tried a rear perspective based on someone at KFC Bt Timah Plaza

More sketches

2005-01-31T19:20:00.000+08:00

I think I'm going abit crazy drawing people

Drew these during chemistry lecture, bottom up 45 degree views

For some reasons, I really like this one.

Some micelaneous girl inside the LT

A girl from the bazaar at Science foyer. I think its quite far off from the real person. The girl face is slightly wider and rounder. And I'm pretty sure I missed out quite abit of her features. I only walked past her twice, and had to do it by memory

Someone on the bus, but din have time to finish before alighting

I also uploaded a few of my old drawings at a new photobucket account
http://photobucket.com/albums/v645/jiexun/

view password still "hahaha"

Change

2005-01-31T16:59:00.000+08:00

I realised by asking people to go to my sketches sub-folder, they can see my other images too. So I had to change to another account. The hahaha password no longer works

Sketches

2005-01-29T23:37:00.000+08:00

Inviting all to view my sketches at
http://photobucket.com/albums/v219/knightsljx/Sketches/
the password is "hahaha"

I'm going to fail CM1131....

2005-01-28T17:30:00.000+08:00

Seriously, I think I'm going to fail this module.....WHY? Because one of my lab TA!! She looks almost like the girl below!!! No, I'm not f**king with you, she is damn chio!!! How the heck am I suppose to do experiments with her walking around distracting me?!?!

Made me missed one of my experiment reading today by 1 min....Shit!

On a side note, I wish I had 1131 lab everyday! sigh......*dazed look*

Wonder if I can volunteer to be lab saigang warrior??

Addition: Ok, she maybe not THAT much like the girl below. But still DAMN CHIO!

New Picture

2005-01-28T10:04:00.000+08:00

Kaaawaaaiiiii....

What is the meaning of life

2005-01-26T23:12:00.000+08:00

Go to google.com and enter

"answer to life the universe and everything ="

without the "" and hit enter

Wonder why I'm not an engineer.....

2005-01-15T14:48:00.000+08:00

Did another modification job today. Yesterday went night skating and found that my FSKs are really not that comfortable. The major reason why I got the FSK boots was that my aggro boots was really heavy. And also my aggro boots could not fit 80mm wheels.
But now I think the need for comfort exceed that of weight.

Which brings us to the problem of how to make my aggro boots fit 80mm wheels...The thing blocking the wheel was the soul plate, which means all I have to do is remve some of the material from the plate so that it would not block the wheels from rotating. So its time to bust out my mini tool again and start sawing away at the plate. Took me about half an hour to saw through the UHMW plastic. Everything fits properly now....or so I thought. The brakes were not going in perfectly. I'm not a person that usually use brakes but for the purpose of the upcoming skating event I think its gonna be fairly useful.
I had a hard time getting use to using brakes last night, most ofthe time will auto T-brake..

Anyway, I saw that the brake was too "high" So I sawed off the top part and now it fits the damn skate.

So after a few months, I'm back to using Salomon ST-90-2 boots with EA FSK frames and FSK 76-80mm wheels....sigh...

STOP USING THE GODDAMN INTERNET EXPLORER

2005-01-09T20:51:00.000+08:00

It is confirmed that IE is the very thing screwing up my template. Stop using IE! It sux. Use Mozilla Firefox or Opera explorer. Your life will be much better off without IE. Trust me, you will never use IE again once you've used other explorers

Powerpuff Roxxor

2005-01-09T20:40:00.000+08:00

No, not that crap we used to see and TV on Sat morning....Is it still on? I'm referring to this Doujinshi I found while surfing for online comics.

http://bleedman.snafu-comics.com/

I really like his style of drawings. The newly created Powerfpuff girls look really good too. Hell, even Mojojojo looks pretty cool too. Two thumbs up for this great comic.

Another great comics I read is Order of The Stick which can be found at www.giantitp.com. Not bad when u need something to kill time.

CHIONG AH!!!!!!

2005-01-08T01:18:00.000+08:00

In a fit of insanity, I took 6 modules this semester...Looks like I'm gonna be a zombie for this time round..... Below is my timetable...Note that I still have 4-5h of tut not slotted in yet....

Good Luck to me....

Good Reads

2005-01-06T20:51:00.000+08:00

Due to recent posts from xiaxue.blogspot.com I manage to find 2 good reads from the web. They're pretty funny, a great way to kill time if you got any.

http://www.normalbobsmith.com/satanssalvation/
http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm

An excerpt I really liked from one of them

# ARGUMENT FROM AMERICAN EVANGELISM
(1) Telling people that God exists makes me filthy rich.
(2) Therefore, God exists.

Which is a pretty good reflection of what the real world is like

How to MASK

2005-01-04T18:19:00.000+08:00

A common problem in modelling is masking an object when u need to paint it. Sometimes you get really weir shapes or objects with many sides. This is a pain to mask if you're gonna take multiple tapes and slowly mask the sides. Also this way does not ensure that the object is masked completely. All too often after painting and removing the tape you find that you missed the line by 1/2mm, which can be frustrating.
I found a way to mask things a while back that can overcome these problems.

I'm gonna demostrate with this Shield. Actually just the V shape on the shield

Take a piece of tape and slap it on, just make sure it covers the whole V.For the sake of demostration, I covered 1/2 the V.

After this, use your finger nail to trace the panel line. After that,grab a SHARP penknife or hobby knife and start tracing the panel line. And walaa! Perfect masking everytime

This works best when the panel line is deep. If the object has shallow panel lines, you might wanna rescribe the lines before using this method. Also, I found that this actually works best with Scotch tape and not the tamiya masking tape. Cause at the edges, Tamiya tape tends to leave furry stuf while scotch tape does not have this problem....

And now, on to the 2nd item of the agenda today.

I AM NOT CUT OUT TO DO FIGURES!!! I swear I will not touch another figure in the forseeable future. I finished up a 1/4 Rei figure that I've been doing for the last few years. It took so long because the casting was CRAP. There were gigantic gaps between the parts and it was a pain to fill them. Eventually I gave up. I only filled it when I had leftover Milliput from other projects.

Finally I filled the damn gaps. But I realise Milliput was not meant to be sanded.....I should've shaped it when it was soft and supple. I got a blister on my leftthumb from all the sanding. I gave up on hard to reach places so they look like crap

Then on to painting. God I hated the fuking head. The whole head was cast as one piece so I used masking solution to cover the hair and the eye. The eyes had lines carved into them so it wa easy to paint the eyes. Yeah RIGHT! I discovered that whoever said Acrylics are meant to be handbrushed ought to be shot. I tried hand brushing and the whole thing turned out like crap. Wel its back to basics now. Masking and airbrush time. I could've mask the eyes slowly but I was too damn tired. So in the end I didn't paint her eyes red. Dammit, Rei has RED EYES!

If I'm ever going to another figure, I'm going to buy those decals for eyes

And here's a pic of it with a 1/60 Striker just for size comparison. Man, she is huge...

Huckbein Done!

2005-01-03T17:14:00.000+08:00

Yet another model done for this holidays. Managed to clear a few this this month. Unfortunately also bought a few this month. I think there has been a nett gain in my inventory...Sianz.

Next up should be a 1/144 Gouf Flight type or the 1/4 Rei

10 Million Megatons

2004-12-31T11:13:00.000+08:00

My mum was telling me the other day that the Earthquake off Indonesia that caused the Tsunami had the power of 1 million atomic bombs...Yeah...I told her that's crap. But she told me that all the newspaper says so.

Ok, which era's atomic bombs are they using? I hope its not the ones dropped on Hiroshima And Nagasaki. That is like super ancient. The Little Boy and Fat Man had ratings of ONLY 13 kilotons. An average atomic bomc has a yield of 10 Megatons. 1 Million atomic bombs would have 10 million megatons of explosive power. And how powerful is that? It's roughly the power of a kilometre wide meteor slamming into the earth. And how powerful is that?

I guarantee we won't be around to talk about it...

This isn't the first time I've read such crap on newspapers. Which is why I guess I dun read it much

But then nowadays smaller bombs of around 1 Megaton are used as they are more efficient at destroying cities than a big 10 MT one

As a side note. The most powerful nuclear weapon detonated to date is the Tzar Bomba which is a fusion bomb that had a rating of 50 megatons

Forces of Nature

2004-12-30T23:27:00.000+08:00

Obviously EVERYONE is talking about the Tsunami that hit recently and the number of people that died and the destruction it caused...
Suddenly everyone starts donating bling bling and sutff. Suddenly big hoo haa.
But guess what?

10 yrs down the road, no one is gonna remember. That's right. Everyone is gonna forget about it. Cruel? I think not. Can YOU remember what disaster happened during the last 10 years? If you can, feel free to flame me. If not, shut up.
Humans are that selfish. First chance the indonesians get, they're gonna use us as flamebait just to divert attention from the internal problems.

Someone posted on HWZ forum that S'pore should stop all the new year celebrations. When someone said that's not gonna happen. They start cursing these people. Say they no heart, whole family die better. But hey! If you're so self righteous, why don't you join Civil Defence now and fly to the affected countries and help them.
Instead of sitting around your computer, typing crap on forums.

I'll admit I'm an asshole. Seriously, I think I've been too de-sensitized to these things. Or maybe I'm just pissed.

More than 100k people died. And how many species have the human race wiped out this century? We mourn the deaths of people but what about the animals that we share this Earth with? How many of THEM die every time we decide we need more space and start clearing the forests? How much pollution do we release into the oceans?

They have every right to live as a human. Humans dun own this planet. We share it. Perhaps this Tsunami is a gentle reminder from Mother Nature that we are citizens of her realm. NOT THE MASTERS. Gentle you may ask? 100k lives lost. Yes it is a sad thing. I'm not saying any of those people deserve to die. But between 1900-1974, 67 species became extinct. And how many are endangered RIGHT NOW?
In yr 2000, the world population is 6 BILLION. I think we're doing a hell lot better than the 800 species that has disappeared from this Earth.

If you're thinking of flaming me right now. Remember, if you can't list the disasters that happened in the last 10yrs. Or you are on the NEXT flight to any of the affected countries. "SHUT UP!"

Luke....I am your Farrrrgerrrrr.....

2004-12-27T18:37:00.000+08:00

No I haven't gone over to the Dark Side. I've ALWAYS been there. This is a new respirator I bought last week. Cause my old respirator....

This one, wasn't working very well. It was having problems blocking out the more fierce organic vapours. Moreover, recently I've been dying from my lung problems. So it was time to invest in a better requipment from 3M. I traded in my old respirator and got this one for free. But I had to buy the filter cartridges which wasn't included with the mask...

This new one is waaaayyyy better. I even wear it for area cleaning....cause my room is too dusty.

Feel The Power

2004-12-22T09:36:00.000+08:00

Presenting the Ex-S Gundam!

One of my favourite design. Can you feel the raw power it eminates? This is a HGUC 1/144 version. After I bought it, Bandai came out with the superior MG version of it. I'm not really pissed, cause the price is Superior too. So I'll just settle for this smaller guy. I'm starting to dislike MG more and more, even though they got more details. It just means there are more parts to prep.

Some day I just might buy another one of this to build cause I'm not really happy with the way it turned out. I stopped halfway during its construction. Those astute enough will see that the shades of blue used on the arms are slightly different from the other parts. Cause when I resume my work I forgot which blue I used before...

I'd probably build a red variant

The Rock, Tree, River, and Sun

2004-12-14T22:44:00.000+08:00

The Rock
The rock sits. In perfect meditation. It is still and silent. It knows all because it does not speak. It only listens. Can you sit as silently and calmly as the rock?

The Tree
The tree stands stiff and straight and withstands against the weather and the seasons. Its roots go deep. It will not lose its balance. Could you stand so strong for such a length of time?

The River
The river flows on and on. It does not stop and look back. It continues. It willingly changes its direction over time. It is swift and powerful, yet it is life giving. Can you be like the river?

The Sun
The sun is warm and embracing. It is not prejudiced. It gives life to all.

All your base are belong to us

2004-12-10T21:25:00.000+08:00

Base for Eva-01 done, click on the link under My Models

Model in progress

2004-12-02T21:07:00.000+08:00

Finally finished painting the Eva
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/knightsljx/pose.jpg

Now left the base....

For my next project, I've decided to do something "funny". I won't reveal anything now but I guarantee it'll be very "interesting"

More pics of the Eva

Post Examination Shopping Spree

2004-11-30T20:29:00.000+08:00

Exams are over and what better way to enjoy than go on a shopping spree. Normally people will associate shopping spree with clothes, shoes, accessories etc... But me, nooo..... I have to spend my money on stuff that either contains biohazards or chemicals potentially damaging to the environment.

Here's what I bought today, believe or not these few things cost me nearly $100

Item no.1: A set of steel burrs, used for my router tool
No. 2: Artist oil paint drying agent. Toxic
No. 3: Artist oil paint
No. 4: Mr Masking Sol Neo. Again Toxic
No. 5: Droppers...for handling Toxic stuff
No. 6: Mineral Spirits. Damn fierce stuff. Not only toxic but also harmful to aquatic organisms and long term damage to aquatic environments. Guess what would happen if I pour enough of this stuff into a reservoir, hahahaa....

Other stuff include styrene sheet, instant foliage, spray adhesive and a styrofoam block. Which brings us to our next topic.
What the hell in the world am I going to do all this stuff? No, not something hentai...if that were the case, I would only need Chloroform. Which is easily available at chem lab and for free.

I'm doing a diorama for my next model.

What I'm doing is a scene of Eva-01 shown above sliding down a hill while firing his rifle.
So far the contruction of the Eva is done. But not the painting..

Other stuff requiring my attention also include cleaning up my room AGAIN as well as kicking the ass of The Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3.

Model Revival Project

2004-11-27T12:26:00.000+08:00

Went snooping around my shelves today and found that I had a few models I had done last time. They were snapped together and had stickers stuck on them. I looked at them and thought what a waste it was to leave them in that condition. Particularly cause they cost quite alot. So I decided to start a model revival project. I'm gonna take all those old models and redo them. It isn't particularly difficult and it whets my appetite to buy new models even though I have tons of undone ones.

I'm gonna start with 2 of them first. The Eva-01 Test Type and Gundam Heavy Arms Custom. No pics for now. I've finished cementing the Eva and the legs of the Heavyarms. I'm gonna do a diorama for the Eva and some battle damage for the Heavyarms. Hoping to finish them before next sem starts.

Last paper for this sem is on Mon at 5pm. Who the hell sets papers at 5pm? By the time finish come out see moonlight liao. Yet another display of stupidity by my school management.

Semper Fidelis

2004-11-19T20:38:00.000+08:00

Long time never blog liao. Today do an update since I already uploaded my recently completed model picture.

Nothing impressive pure out of box. I started on this 3-4 years back. finished assembling it a long long time ago but nvr found the motivation to paint it. A few days ago, in my boredom of studying decided to take it out and finish the damn thing.

Today took CM1101 paper, totally screwed, dun know wat to say, hopefully can get B so no need kena invite back to MOE drink kopi....

3 more papers to go....sianz

Oh yah

2004-10-13T16:55:00.000+08:00

One more thing, I'm longer selling my ST90-2. LOL

WATCH OUT NUS!

2004-10-13T16:50:00.000+08:00

My new shoe.....

My new frame + wheels

Suuupaa Robotto Changeeeee!!!( If you dun understand this part, go watch more old school super robot anime)

My new skates, mwahahahahah

In a fit of insanity I went and bought a pair of commuting skates. Meaning I can now roll whenever I wan, wherever I wan w/o the inconvenience of lugging skates ard...

Selling my skates

2004-10-07T22:46:00.000+08:00

Selling my skates to change to another pair. interested pls e-mail me at knightsljx@yahoo.com.