We painted an imperfect picture

I like this paint work for its less than excellent artwork and all historical figure mash up scene. What a grand gathering! How many of them can you recognize?

(Link) Picture source, visit the site at your own risk. I heard it is laden with Trojan.

Holy Golden Empire, Internet world formed by Hong Kong forumer

I would like to show you this ‘great’ Internet Empire established by Hong Kong netizens whom frequent local top forum – Hong Kong Golden (Link), it is like Singapore Hardware zone.

(Link) Map, Wikidot.com. Safe to visit.

DIY magic like kaleidoscope video, N82

I attached a Kaleidoscope to N82 and walk around my house for fun. The effect is magical as well as the experience. I think it provides some kind of therapy by watching.

(Video)Youtube, self-make kaleidoscope video.

What is Kaleidoscope? (Wiki)

The Taqwacores, Islam and Punk Rock, now gain popularity among young Muslim in US

I am contemplating this novel by Michael Muhammad Knight. A portmanteau of taqwa, an Islamic concept of love and fear for Allah, and Hardcore, the punk rock sub-genre. Taqwacore thus refers to a genre of Muslim punk rock, existing only in the novel at the time of its writing, but since emerging as an actual genre.

Now on Amazon.com, I hope it will appear soon in Border.

Also read, (Link) A tale of sex and drugs among young Muslims, Brian Whitaker.

The extra 1 second delay in 2008

What do you do with an extra one second in life? Astronomy.com,

“On December 31, 2008, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).”

This, will dramatically change our count down on 31st Dec? Would you feel the one second older next year? Astronomy.com also reveals an interesting fact that Earth rotation is gradually slowing down, sort of like when you reach 40.

(Link) News, Astronomy.com, 2008 will have 1 extra second!

How to clean toilet with coke

Now, this is a good way to recycle a perfectly cool and tasty drink for the sake of cleanliness. Hard core Pepsi supporter will be delighted to do it.

(Howto) Wiki, VideoJug, How to clean your toilet with coke

SMS cost 0 to send, really

Via LifeHacker, New York Times news, we are actually, being ‘chop vegetable head’ by our service provider. So, if only I can rally Singaporean to boycott sending SMS, it would be the day the Earth stood still, or rather, Singapore stood still.

(Link) NYT, What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting.

2 days left...

It will not have much different, so I publish the result here. Thanks for those whom care and cast theirs. Two hundred and 4 votes in total.

Why do you believe in God?

12(5%) - I am bored
39(19%) – I want to go heaven
8(3%) – I am afraid of hell
47(23%) – I want to add meaning to my life
78(38%) – I don’t
20(9%) – Others

So far, I did not receive any mail. Thanks, this is more accurate than I expected. I take back my skepticism. I will take these 2 days to round up and put up another. It is not about religion this time, but a service survey. Make a guess.

Religion needs no revolution. I think.

About.com talks about some religion evolution here, interesting short quote,

“Judeo-Christianity is rife with such evolution. Jesus strove to change Judaism, but his followers ended up following the new path of Christianity..”

I may add. Many came to change the ‘wrong’ doing of their culture. They got cast down, eventually, even if they were right. Why die trying to change a wave when it is easier to swim to a visible shore? Face humanity with best of your conscience and let history be your testimony.

Street ads of human

What you see here is a poster that a Russia web tries to promote its content by putting up street ads. This one says they got a Large Hadron Collider for sale. I notice little tails at the end of each ad. I am sure many will see how human act similarly here. I find it intriguing, given how vast 2 cultures are.

(Link), EnglishRussia, Russia’s street advertisement.

Stop swearing and do it already

Hmm.. What is the pledge again? I will not have any sexual relationship before marriage, or I will stay true and loyal to one partner? Many keep saying that our mind draws only toward what we think, not away from it. Thinking ‘I will not’ or ‘I shall not’ is going to do put you exactly where you will not.

Oh, but this is old thought already. You already ‘KNEW’ and tried this.

A research report at MSBN, quotes,

“Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do..”

Read more here. (Link) MSBN, Study: Teenage 'virginity pledges' are ineffective

Youmankind, the tale of us, destroying ourselves

First time in history, we are force into a system of inescapable interdependency, blind to the consequences of our action. It seem that any move we make in this fragile global system.. result in chain reaction we cannot control…

And, we still think we can figure it out…

Are we sure we won’t perish in our own hand?

(Video) Youtube, Youmankind. I don’t want to spoil your holiday, but we cannot ignore the truth. The answer is inside. (Via) PerceivingReality.com

8 cats kept an abandoned 1 year old baby alive

Nuff said.. read the news. Quote follow,

Alicia Lorena Lindgvist from Argentine says,

"I was walking and noticed a gang of cats sitting very close together. It is unusual to see so many like that so I went for a closer look and that's where I saw him. The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him, licking him because he was really dirty,"

God bless those cats. (Link) News, Topnews.in

How much do you love your elder?

My link/friend LieZi posted an ancient code, it is not taught in school, and cannot be found on book anymore. I really appreciate it very much. Some quotes strike me again. I will attempt to translate them here.

亲爱我　孝何难 We have no problem showing filial piety to loving parent
亲憎我　孝方贤 True filial piety never changes even if they despite you
亲有过　谏使更 Advise your elder when you see their fault
怡吾色　柔吾声 Be gentle and clam in your persuasion
谏不入　悦复谏 If it don’t work the first try, cool down and try again
号泣随　挞无怨 …..

I am not going to translate the last part. You can study them in 烈子 - 弟 子 规. highly recommended.

And this, my friends,

用人物　须明求　倘不问　即为偷
借人物　及时还　后有急　借不难

Is why you still keep your friends…

Japanese daily train scene

I heard about this. This is the first time I seen it on video. I also didn’t know they actually have so many pushers. No wonder Japanese are all so skinny. (Video) to the Youtube video

Singaporean, are we lucky?

Recycled, hack your dad’s old shirt into sexy mini skirt

Ok, this is for ladies; and my Howto pick for this week. A step by step with video guide on turning an over stretched t-shirt into mini skirt. Save the t-shirt, saved the world. Brilliant!

How to Turn an Oversized T Shirt into a Hot Mini Dress. (Link)

My ambitions

After re-emerging from the sinking city, all I want is to accomplish 2 things. Start a nation and love my wife more..

Sinking, freezing, great escape…

I will be here for a week plus… make it back hopefully by mid December.

Artwork of auto/facial expression

Autoportraits by vladimir nikolic, artwork of facial imitation of auto mobile. They all look so gloomy to me, maybe because all automobile are, during this economic down turn. (Link)

Tech of Warring dynasty recreates?

My son, with his sister were riding on this self propel mechanical camel at zoo. I watch as the mech beast made fascinating moves. It reminds me of Zhuge Liang (诸葛亮) from Romance of the 3 Kingdoms. You see, he invented automatic horses and cows as logistic transport during his invasion. They are call 木牛流马.

There is no record of these Technologies ever pass down…

Sunbath day back date - Lightning

We cut short our sun tan session due to heavenly wrath. Damn!

Breast of Youtube video

I was ambivalent about the content of these video. Since they are often the most viewed, I watch them for word of wisdom until I realize. I am too old for this. The appealing side, obviously, about them is the “Escape Light”. #$%^ I really catch no ball what they say.

Photos of abandoned theme park in Korea

This sign is so unfriendly and that squirrel roller coaster, so wrong… no wonder it is forsaken. (Photos) via DarkRoasted Blend, abandoned South Korea theme park.

Google LIFE archive, photos of history

Google releases its historic photo archive, which pack collection of photos from 1870 to 1980. There is first Red Indian, auto mobile, war photo and astrologer, every aspect of humanity. I am so going to dig the archive.

(Link) Google LIFE Photo archive.

Airline route art work depiction

Here is a soft and beautiful art work, illustrated by schedule of flight route. Click to enlarge. (Link) to the project, Air Lines.

Who needs to get pay cut?

These bosses which MyPaper refers to, in your fat hope, will and should include Minister, MP, CEO of GLC and Semi GLC. Who, again, for about 0.07%, have already planned this, or else why do you think they ask MOM to announce it.

Like a drama play out, I prepare to get hurt. So you must too.

Self ownership, the philosophy of Liberty

An intriguing video which promotes ideas of self reliance, and ownership. The background music is riveting, and presentation, thought provoking. I pause at many slides in order to understand some of its deep content. This video is shared through Facebook, also available on its original site.

(Link) Video, via jonathangullible.com, The philosophy of Liberty.

Best of me, worst of me. Past post revisit

I thought this is fun, and for those who just know me. I still stand by all my past opinion, only regret my loose language ability. My past Posts,

4 points which usually means "better offer"
Owner
Who are you working for?
please let go
Yaya! work to become the perfect steak
hey dude! My pod is bigger than yours
Work in Singapore = 1% real work + 99% politic

During this recession time, it is like histories revisit, and prophesies.

Don’t waste your money on motivational workshop

I have a theory. You can never be inspired by any amount of motivational speech when you are down, not even when it was delivered by Anthony Robbins. When you are inspired, you don’t care much even facing thousands of obstacles.

Bottom line. You don’t need to attend any power talk when you are not ready.

How to know? Juice yourself everyday, like what this Wikihow taught.

(Link) How to Create an Abundance Mentality, WikiHow.

A phrase there I cannot agree less – “Cut down on watching the news.”

China “fake” Pentagon seen in Google Earth

This is Google Earth image of a real Pentagon in China Shenyang, Lat 41°36'30.02"N, Long 123°31'58.43"E. China can copy anything, I will not be surprise if someone find a durian like building there, or maybe one day they copy Eiffel tower.

(Link) Pentagon in China discovered via Google Earth, via 煎蛋 Digg Digest.

I sortta like one of the reader comment, let me translate,

“奇怪，我在沈阳也没发现啊，难道是秘密机构”

“Strange enough, I never seen it in Shenyang. Maybe it is a secret agency.”

You can never know…

Why we pay so much for medicine

An intriguing, light hearted video at Youtube, from Humana, tells why health care expenses are @#$% high. Off course, it does not apply to every country, but most of it. It is especially true in developed nation, like us.

(Video) Humana, Why Is Healthcare So Expensive?

Chinese hacked White House email, disturbing..

Multiple sources reported hackers penetrated the email system of the White House, speculation that China government was behind these attacks. It is said that hackers used "Grain of Sands" technique which is adopted by Chinese. If this is true, no nation is safe from them…

(Link) News via Defence Tech, China Hacks White House Email?

Fire extinguisher mod into speaker

Here is how you fight fire, save the earth, and enjoy music at the same time. From Russia with love.

(Link) Fire extinguisher turns into speaker, TopMods.net and EnglishRussia

Gong Li, Li Gong. Doesn’t it sounds weird?

Congratulation! Ms Gong. You must be very excited now. I think this piece of news is nothing to you. What I think will piss you is, IMDB wrongly translated your name. Gong Li to Li Gong. Don’t they have a slightest idea of how Chinese name works? Just because Lee Ang is Ang Lee they believe it can be apply to all Chinese name. Don’t they know Li Gong in Hokkien means “you S*****”.

(Link) click to see Li Gong, before they change it, or will they?

Youtube, Transcandere, beyond self actualization

Is there a level higher than the highest of Marslow Hierarchy? In this interesting video, an attempt is made to explain transcendence – a level supposing higher than self actualization. Time for new thoughts, anyone?

(Video) Transcendence, above and beyond Self-Actualization.

Japanese cultural figure in playful style

51JapaneseCharacters.com is a project site which depicts Japanese cultural phenomena with funny and strange figurines. There is a game there which you click and a random figure is generated. For example, this guy Ekiin, who doesn’t want to pass his disease to you, can be found during busy hour at the subway station.

(Link) “51 Japanese Characters”

Youtube: Tropfest NY winner, Mankind is no island

A Youtube video which tells silent stories of homeless, abandoned people in NY and Sydney. Lightly music and moves your heart without a word, much like the Global Warming video I linked the other day. Watch (Video) Youtube, “Mankind is no Island” by Jason van Genderen.

Renaissance art of Barack Obama meets marvel

Here is picture of why I like about him. He believes America can be saved, and so does the World.

Stop giving me crabs and do your job

Here is a stream of picture that will stop you from doing your job, and just laugh. (Link)

Great read, letters from Johns, faked intimacy

I came across Susannah Breslin’s web project that post anonymous letters from real life red light district regulars. ‘John’ usually felt lonely and unworthy at the end, no matter how good it feels at that moment. Sex without spiritual connection, or love as we know it. Some quotes from the post, ‘I want to kill myself’,

“I wanted to kill myself. I went completely against my own moral convictions and support of feminism. The experience was not pleasurable at all, but rather very nerve racking and riddled with guilt throughout the whole act. It was something to simply do it and get it out of the way, so that I would be just like other non-virgin men.”

“I am damaged-goods, so even if someone would want me I can’t allow my baggage to affect her life in a negative manner. Therefore, I am not allowed a conventional relationship.”

Sounds like an outcast. If only our local ‘Geylang’ regular can express themselves.

(Link) I want to kill myself, Letters from Johns. Do you feel lonely after an ONS?

Geek made Wordpress T-shirt

No matter how I have tried, I just cannot say I like Wordpress. In fact, I gave up my Wordpress blog at lah.cc to stay more active here. This T-shirt is another story. I totally like it, and the slogan. (Link)

Google calculation error

Will Google make mistake in calculus? You enter this in Google search box and take a look at the result. Google made calculation mistake when you take 399999999999999 – 399999999999998.

All smiles are faked

According to a ScienceDaily article here, (Link) suggest that individual that underwent rejection can spot insincere smile easier than those who didn’t, like gut feeling. Socially rejected, off course, they experience so little genuine smile that made them suspicious to all. If they make a guess that all smiles are faked, sadly, they will get it correct as it is true. We are surrounded by them. It is the real one that is hard to decent.

Hold you trust till you see the deeds.

What robot thinks about humanity?

Here is a video from NewScientist, which a robot talks to you about humanity, and gives you reasons why they should be destroy, or reduce in size. Less car, less food consume. What’s more? (Video) NewScientist, via Endgadget.

The next five years you will see movies feature how human got tired of themselves and find ways to destroy humanity.

Photography poster of federal budget

On this site you can buy a very detail chart on America spending. The single most comprehensive and transparent (also beautiful) financial detail I’ve seen for a nation, even for organization. Tell me where my money has gone?

(Link) Death and Taxes:2009. via.

OEM is better, boost economic

This is already happening in Singapore. I don’t care how many complain actually knock out products suck, as long as I am making money. For consumer, a cheaper alternative, a FOC one, is always in our consideration.

(Video) Youtube, China fake iPod.

Related, my previous post about China electronic product.

As a leader, you should grow weary of communication gradually

I like this quote, "If you're a leader and you're not sick and tired of communicating, you probably are not doing a good enough job." Always find new ways and means to communicate.

In Dumb Little Man post today, and add to mine to read list, (Link) Leader Jazz, book.

Others, 5 important questions for leader who intend to rule by democratic system, I altered them a bit,

What power have I got?
Where did I get it from?
In whose interests do I use it?
To whom am I accountable?
How do I get rid of me and find someone better?

via mrbrown. Although it sounds more like for a sole ruler.

Beautiful art work of Alan Macdonald with a little bit of everything.

Reconnaissance style with a nostalgic feel, a little touch of popular culture plus man’s wet dream. I wonder when China Fake art king will starts to duplicate this. Hope to see it in our China town soon. (Link) to Alan MacDonald site.

Surfing the Internet is good for your brain

Here, there is finally good news about surfing that immense, porno filled black hole that sucks away times from your real live. BBC news has a report on this. Lets read some quotes from the news,

“Researchers say this might even help to counteract the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down.”

“Rsearchers also say that, compared to simple reading, the internet's wealth of choices required people to make decisions about what to click on in order to get the relevant information.”

Finally,

Professor Smith said: "A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults, demonstrating that our brains are sensitive and can continue to learn as we grow older."

Thanks, Mr Smith. Now I can show this to my wife and stay longer on the web.

(Link) BBC news, Internet use ‘good for the brain’. Via LifeHacker.

2 twelve year old boys offer to examine your breast

In Singapore, legal sexual intercourse is at 16, but watching movie with obscene sexual content is at 18. I am not sure about America, but wonder how many women here allow a 12 year old boy to touch their sensitive part.

This is not controversial? Two scouts at the age of 12 offered to check your breast on a carpet they set up in their home basement. Maybe some women like it.

I have a serious question for Tracy Gill here, would you lead by example?

(Video) Youtube, the interview. Brian makes an interesting remark at the end, don’t miss it. And, they request Jessica Alba to volunteer for the project. Way to go! Brian and Zach. I can’t wait to see what she says.

Youtube video directly from God himself

Watch, this is funny and entertaining. (Video)

Movie preview and recommendation by Tz

Why I never see this is Singapore? Although I heard the whole show consists of only conversation. I am sure it would be a mind bogging Science fiction experience as renowned Scientist discusses the facts and evidences with a man claims to live for 10 thousand years. Yes, he was there when God make the World. Intriguing?

Text link to movie recommended by me (Movie) The Man from Earth.

Suicide bomber new terror tactic on Youtube

In this short CCTV video you’ll watch an India woman with a plastic bomb inside her bra, pass by the queue, and detonated it. She failed to takeout her intended target, but this method will very soon, copy by terrorist around the World. Maybe they are training them right now.

Our MRT TV ads on terrorist need to change a bit. Please watch out for suspicious breast. It is now ok to look at and inspect them closely.

(Video) Woman crazy Ivan, or maybe crazy Mary.