Read this in a book
Take chances, take a lot of them.
Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be.
Your mistakes make you who you are.
You learn and grow with each choice you make.
Say how you feel, always.
Be you, and be okay with it.
At this moment i really should be asleep :X
G’Nite world.
Fall in love or fall in hate
Get inspired or be depressed
Speak the truth or lie and cheat
Dance on tables or cower in fear
Life, the divine chaos
Embrace it
Forgive yourself.
Breathe..
and enjoy the ride.
‘Nuff said.
please comment!
I would not profess to have visited many restaurants in my short time of existence, but one little question always pops into my mind when i pick up the salt shaker and see grains of uncooked rice in it, mingled into the salt.
At first glance the logical deduction is that the grains of rice, being much larger than grains of salt, would push the salt around so that they would not coagulate and form clumps. Many a times, we (my friends and i) would leave it at that.
So, being the bored student that i am (bored of accounting to be exact), i went and Goggled it to find out if our logical minds served us well.
As it would appear, rice, or starch in general, is a good desiccating agent. It absorbs surrounding atmospheric moisture so that the salt would stay dry and not absorb moisture and clump up. This is a little excerpt of a answer from a professor.
I think both sides of the argument are correct. Indeed, the grains of rice will tend to "knock
the lumps out of the salt." So would small glass beads. However, the porous starch structure of
well dried rice is also very attractive to moisture by virtue of hydrogen bonds that can form
between water molecules and the -OH groups in the starch matrix. Thus, dried starch grains make a
fairly decent desiccating agent.
So now we know.
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A little awareness test up here, its pretty amazing what you miss when you aren’t looking out for it.
Read an article about what the way you sleep says about you as a person, and thought it might be fun to share, so here goes
Foetus
Those who curl up in the foetus position are described as tough on the outside but sensitive at heart. They may be shy when they first meet somebody, but soon relax. This is the most common sleeping position, adopted by 41% of the 1,000 people who took part in the survey. More than twice as many women as men tend to adopt this position.
Log
Lying on your side with both arms down by your side. These sleepers are easy going, social people who like being part of the in-crowd, and who are trusting of strangers. However, they may be gullible.
Yearner
People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it.
Soldier
Lying on your back with both arms pinned to your sides. People who sleep in this position are generally quiet and reserved. They don't like a fuss, but set themselves and others high standards.
Freefall
Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don't like criticism, or extreme situations.
Starfish
Lying on your back with both arms up around the pillow. These sleepers make good friends because they are always ready to listen to others, and offer help when needed. They generally don't like to be the centre of attention.
So someone took the half-full half-empty argument and brought it up a whole new level. Love it!
Which is Worse?
Apathy or Ignorance?
Best answer?
I don’t know, and I don’t care.
Picture taken off Flickr.com. Originally Uploaded on September 4, 2008 by BB (O.ö)
Here’s wishing everyone a great 2009 ahead!
Never been a believer of so called New Year Resolutions, if there is something you want to do, i say, JUST DO IT! There’s no better time than right there and then. Why wait till the beginning of a new year, when all is chill and relaxed, is the prime time to take a good break.. Hardly the time to start doing something..
Set goals, and get going! Happy New Year one and all!
Picture taken off Flickr.com. Originally Uploaded on January 1, 2006 by asmundur
All I want for Christmas is a little peace and quiet from the commercialised chaos.
Picture taken from Flickr.com. Originally Uploaded on October 19, 2007 by DrgnMastr
*Stretches arms* Alright, Time for an update after something like a month of inactivity. Been.. well.. busy.
Been surfing around blogs a bit lately, and I have to say, Singaporeans love being food critics. They would head into a restaurant armed with their handy digital cameras, order a dish, take something like ten pictures of the same dish, and finally dig in. When they are done, pictures of empty plates littered with crumbs and food deemed not edible will be taken as a sort of closing ceremony (correct me if I'm wrong, I truly do not understand the entire ritual).
When they get home, the pictures are uploaded into their computers, and subsequently onto their blogs or food critique community sites.
When people read these blogs or sites, they form an image of what the food, service (if mentioned) ambience, and other details of the entire experience, which, effectively, ruins all the fun in going to a restaurant in the first place! If we only visit places that are “highly recommended” how then are our gastronomical horizons going to expand?
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against people blogging about their meals and such, but seriously, if you don’t have anything nice to say about a restaurant, I'd much rather the post not exist, it only serves to damage reputations and spoil potentially enjoyable dining experiences.
Head into an interesting restaurant with good company, and more often than not, the food would be delicious :)
oh and, cute picture huh?
Picture taken off Flickr.com. Originally Uploaded on May 14, 2006 by doc18
I was punching numbers into my calculator, and perhaps by force of habit, kept hitting the keys as if it were a telephone keypad. In my frustration, I wondered, both feature 10 digits, so why can't both use the same number arrangement? Wouldn't it make life so much easier?
And so I Googled it. Here's a little something from HowStuffWorks.com:
It is pretty odd that a calculator and a touch-tone telephone have exactly opposite layouts for their keypads, which have many identical components. The reasons behind the differences are not known for certain, but a few theories exist.
The first theory deals with the telephone's circuitry and tone-recognition hardware. When the touch-tone telephone was being designed in the late 1950s, the calculator and adding-machine designers had already established a layout that had 7, 8 and 9 across the top row. Data-entry professionals, and others who used calculators fairly regularly, were quite adept at navigating these keypads. They could hit the numbers extremely quickly, which was great for data entry, but not so great for dialling a touch-tone phone. The tone-recognition technology could not operate effectively at the speeds at which these specialists could dial the numbers. The telephone designers figured that if they reversed the layout, the dialling speeds would decrease and the tone-recognition would be able to do its job more reliably. This theory has little proof to substantiate it, but it does make sense.
A second theory refers to a study done by Bell Labs in 1960. This study involved testing several different telephone-keypad layouts to find out which was easiest to master. After testing several layouts, including one that used two rows with five numbers each and another that used a circular positioning, it was determined that the three-by-three matrix that had 1, 2 and 3 across the top was the easiest for people to use.
Another theory is based on the layout of a rotary telephone. On a rotary dial, 1 is at the top right and zero is on the bottom. When designing the new touch-tone keypad, putting the 1 on the top-right didn't make much sense, because Western writing is read from left to right. But putting 1 on the top-left, and the subsequent numbers to the right, did make sense. Using that formula, the resulting rows fell into place, with zero getting its own row at the bottom.
All of these theories attempt to explain why telephone and calculator keypads are exact opposites, yet no one theory can be pinpointed as the definitive reason. It is common practice today to use the telephone-keypad layout when designing new products that utilize a keypad, such as Automated Teller Machines.
Random morsel of curiosity. =)
Picture taken off Flickr.com. Originally uploaded by thermophle on December 2, 2005
This goes out to all you people who let your phone ring.. and ring.. and ring.. and divert to bloody MacDonalds Delivery.
Damn. I'm hungry.
Picture taken off Flickr.com. Originally Uploaded on October 6, 2005 by heather
Just thought that the previous blogskin was a little cluttered.. hopefully this looks a little easier on the eye..
and the change in address was coz.. waaaaaay too many "lustylockets sounds soooo girly comments"
will post soon! do leave ur comments on the new skin and perhaps name.
Picture is taken off Flickr.com Originally uploaded by orangeacid on April 14, 2007
Lets talk about smoking (again. Its just something that intrigues me, really). Imagine a man, a chain smoker, if you will. Forty years of age, a French expatriate who picked up the habit from two decades ago while in the Army, not a day goes by without him emptying at least two packs of Marlboros. Yes, he is addicted. But why? Is it just the nicotine that we so often hear about, the substance that seems to have inherited humans' primal urge to tear things apart?
The thing about smoking is that it really doesn't present itself as an obstacle in everyday life. Not unless you are a lumberjack or perhaps a telephone operator who has to speak all day.
Smokers are, really, normal people -- just with cigarettes in their hands. It is popular to believe that smokers were all sucked in by the 'suave' or 'sex' factor, or that they are all victims of subliminal ciggy ads and product placement, or that the poor things are like magpies stuck in a cage, forever darting around inside the captive metal that is a cage, forever deluded by the concept of escape, of freedom. That all comes in handy when there's a need to assign blame, but there's more to it than just a cowboy tipping his hat at a lady with a lighted stick protruding from his rugged face.
Smoking is enjoyable. At least that's what I'm told.
Besides, it makes logical sense; why would you do something over and over and over again if you don't like to do it anyway? Hell, if intercourse was not a pleasurable experience, it would just be a means of procreation.
And then there were condoms. Go figure.
Imagine again, our Frenchman, being told one day that he has to stop smoking for whatever reason, say his house would be burned to the ground perhaps, and he agrees to stop smoking entirely. Besides, its good for his health isn't it?
Say he goes through with the whole thing, withdrawal, nicotine patches, nicotine gum, pain, the whole package. He suffers miserably, but he keeps his home and barely, just barely, his sanity.
What is an addict then to do? Live the rest of his miserable life forever longing for a cigarette? Poor chap enjoys them things.
Now he has to deal with not smoking. For someone who has done it for the better part of his life, i'd imagine not doing something would become a challenge. Waking up in the morning and not having his morning smoke. Writing his diary while chewing a rolled departmental store reciept to a pulp in his mouth. He should be happy, i mean he kicked smoking, right? But is he, really? Is he really healthier mentally?
I definitely am not telling anyone that smoking is good, or that you should smoke because it is enjoyable, but when you have found something that is so obviously pleasurable, even additively so, and were forced to give it up, what then is there?
*sidenote. call it nonsense, or whatever you want. I'm not typing this under the most conducive of environments and as such might make sense to lesser creatures such as moths or crickets, not to you and your expansive mind, but thanks for reading anyway.
Photo is taken from Flickr.com. Originally uploaded on August 6, 2008 by artzy.viva.
The experience of reading is one that is unique to the reader himself. Immersing in a world unknown, exploring ideas never thought up of before, or just reading for nostalgia, reading is, above all, a pleasure.
Reading a book, that is.
"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry."
-Emily Dickenson
Until recently, whenever we mention reading it has almost always been reading a book, but something has changed this. The electronic book reader. While it is not widely available globally, its use slowly but surely spread.
But what good is a book if it cannot be flipped, stacked on your living room table, or shelved away to collect some dust until you next pick it up and enjoy it again? Someone once said "A book is like a present you can open over and over again". True, that.
A book(or magazine) is more than just its literary content. Its colour, shape and even smell, makes it unique. What it tells of the reader is another attribute that the electronic book reader most definitely cannot replace. A man reading Hugo's Les Miserables looks to be a cultured one, the same man reading Hugo's Les Miserables on an electronic book reader looks (to me) more like a geek than anything else. (if he was reading a copy of Playboy, however, it is preferable that it be done on the electronic book reader, so I guess it does have some plus points.. but I digress.)
Books however small, have a sculptural presence and invariably become little islands of interest. The little mound of books stacked in the loo gives a certain insight into the thoughts and concerns of a person. What books are strewn about on the coffee table have the same effect - people notice books. Books, as any visitor to a civilised house knows, do furnish a room. Books never look untidy, even when piled in tumbling stacks.
Imagine taking a stroll about Harvard, and stumbling upon its massive library filled with books of all disciplines looming above. Impressive, isn't it? Now, replace the tomes with these electronic book readers.. They just do not have the same visual effect, especially if their batteries are long dead.
There is something luxurious, even sensual about the book that the electronic book reader can never attain. Antique tomes have a certain allure that appeals the senses and intellect. Don't know about you but in my case antique technology generally find their way into rubbish dumps (or recycling plants etc. what have you).
As long as Man has the need to narrate his knowledge, the book - the one that uses no batteries and are cheap to produce and can last for ages and ages - will transcend into immortality.
PICTURE TAKEN FROM FLICKR.COM. UPLOADED ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2008 BY Roberto69
DAMMIT. 5 HOURS TO BURN AND I LEFT MY iPOD AT HOME.
palmface.
PHOTO WAS TAKEN OFF FLICKR, ORIGINALLY UPLOADED BY TMink.
Found this video clip from CollegeHumour.. Its insane hilarious!
Imagine if your fonts were people.. What would they be like? Here's a fresh take on it..Granted, its a pretty old clip and some might have stumbled upon it before, but surely its worth another look!
Times New Roman is like the Boss
Arial Narrow is narrow-minded racist
Webdings is a loony!
and many more...
MAILBOX! OPENMAILBOX!
*note: Prior knowledge of how a font looks like will make it a hellalotta funnier!
