Excellent Manadagrams for Understanding Chinese Words

I stumble upon this site today and think that many Papa Mama in Singapore would love this.

Although I am not Singapore's 10-thousand-hit-per-blogger, I very much would like to recommend it to those parent who want to teach their child Chinese in an creative manner, or struggle to find way to teach Chinese.

On the left is the example, here is the link. I did some googleing and found a Chinese site too, here.

Please help to spread this around if you love Chinese as much as I do.

I wish they can come out more of these aid, they are good.

Human ancestor is worm, not monkey

According to this report, a major part of a marine ragworm's brain is similar to a minor part of human brain, scientist believes that this might be be the initial part of human brain evolution.

I always say, PC game developer are a bunch of enigmatic visionary, but no one listens. See, they made the discovery earlier than the scientist.

Now you know how your ancestor look like.

Evolution made giraffe neck long, and only giraffe

I think, evolution must be pretty clever and selective to make giraffe neck long, because since only giraffe needs a long neck to eat from tall tree.

And elephant has long nose, and monkey can climb tree.

Alot of work, don't you think so?

I would have give all animal a long neck, that would be simpler. I hate to think.

Credit to this comic's artist, I forgot where it comes from. I blame evolution.

关国家屁事

最近频频在地铁里面闻到一股怪味道, 类似从身体里面放出来的那一种, 又有如死鱼腐肉的味道. 那臭味冲鼻而来, 车里的乘客纷纷掩鼻, 面面相觑.

起初还以为不知何方的高人在练气功, 吐呐之间, 把身体里的废气都释放了出来, 我们只不过是受到他内功的波及, 非战之过也, 非战之过!

后来怪味如春雨后的竹笋般, 到处可闻, 有时在马西岭, 有时在坡底. 我料就想, 哪来的这么多高人, 四处放气, 逼着我们也练得面红耳赤. 我这时猜想可能是附近的废料处理厂.

但就在今天, 我在莱佛士站时, 车门打开的那刹那, 一阵臭味由下而上, 迎面而来, 我这时发现它来自地底沟渠. 但我还是不能肯定, 哪里的沟渠.

真的是沟渠的话, 哪关谁的事? 我左右望望, 新加坡可能太累了. 这些人怎么能每天对着臭人, 臭事而无动于衷呢?

哎, 明天再看看, 如果还有臭味再打算吧.

不过, 你今天读我的主题已知道我要说的是屁话了吧. 说说就算了, 明天再看吧.

Eternal Cheeseburger

This video is not for the faint of heart, and those who visit fast food regularly.

A cheeseburger from McDonald, New York left untouched for 137 days, still fresh. Dunk in hydrochloric acid, no problem. I am not sure, did they try electrocuting it? Maybe it's only weakness is Kryptonite.

This is The food they should pack for a nuclear fallout.

Stock it now! in case the price of gold drops, or you can sell them back to McDonald when they run out of burger.

Will MaxiCash accept this huh?

Source: McDonald’s Hamburgers: Almost Entirely Indestructible

Thanks, jymster.

The kid knows more Internet lingo than me

Since when you give a kid a PC, web connectivity, and they master the language of the web faster than you can anticipate.

I got him this t-shirt, I Gun N00b, for his birthday because he constantly beat me at any game which requires flexibility.

His PSLE is around the corner, so he is refrain from playing game and focus on his study.

We love you Raynor, and happy Birthday.

Agora, Clash of Religion

I know not many have watched this movie, I also know little will consider owning the DVD. But I want to recommend to friends who believe, or don’t believe. Or think that science and logic is everything that this universe is, there is no God.

At roughly 301AD, King Tiridates III proclaims Christianity the state Religion after he was cure by Gregory.

100 years later, Christianity flourishes throughout the west, Jewish is scattered. Background story in Roman Egypt, where the Great Lighthouse was built, and evolves mainly around Hypatia, the famous Philosopher who was stoned to death, and torn apart. She is a martyr of Science, called a witch.

This is a serious film, you can see in many parts how beliefs was debated, like it is today, many scene how Religious leader cleverly use their knowledge of the Scripture to mislead crowd, and how Science and Religion misunderstood each other. Later in history many scientist was burned, staked, or crucified as heretic, many golden centuries of Religion was marked in this way.

I watched, like this film and then later found out that it won awards, but has difficulty winning crowd.

I watched again with subtitles, part of me was moved, part sadden. It is still what we see today, although not obvious.

But then again, I also enjoyed it very much. We should have more movie like this.

Go get the DVD, or come get from me. If I host a movie event, this is what I will show. 5 star.

Sunbath day - breathless in your presence

I was breathless in the water after my few day struggle against this.

I am so glad the sun is shinning brightly above me.

A short board game session with my kids

Father love is, playing military strategy board game with your boys, and on the way teach them humility, and that battle can most of the time, be won through peace.

Hahaha! I now got two boys that enjoy playing game with their not-so-old old man. Another item taken out off my bucket list.

Fancy a game? You have to be my son. Hehe.

国家支气管炎

国庆日在不知不觉中逼近了. 近日来茶饭不思, 寢食不安, 有几次直觉得生命力几乎流尽, 一种非常宝贵的经验. 哦, 不过别误会, 我不适跟担心国家大事无关, 我好像还没有这种担子在肩上.

我是得了支气管炎, 现在还在受苦, 不知过不过得了国庆日....

开 玩笑得.

不过, 支气管炎也并不是好玩的. 第一晚睡觉时, 一呼一吸之间总会无法控制的猛干咳, 整晚犹如在坐水凳, 透了几口气, 又被按入水里, 不停的重复, 又重复. 全身不痛不痒, 就只呼吸管道抽搐了又放松, 放松又抽搐. 我一夜都在枕头里告诉自己这是一种精神锻炼.

小孩子在家里不要乱乱许要变坚强的愿望. 坚强的性格, 没有捷径, 也不是天生的.

第二天, 医生给了我一些特效药, 松了我的夜晚, 暗地里颇觉得有点失望.

这件事倒给了我一些領悟. 个人支气管炎事小, 几副药, 几天休息就没事了.

组 织, 团体, 国家支气管炎起来呢?

The new generation, the new textbook

I snap at my son's comic school textbook for fun.

Ok, it is not for fun. I actually resent my primary school teacher who did not inspire our English learning with such interesting pictorial story book.

See la, mum, I told you Green Lantern can encourage interest in learning English, art, humanity, etc. But you don't buy for me, now I not only poor in English, cannot find a better job, also some Singaporean look at me like I am a third class citizen.

Now is Chinese language turn already huh?

False Prophet

Below are philosophical views and thoughts, if you are the kind who may simultaneously combust out of too much thinking, you should stop here.

How fake can a human being be? I mean, how can you tell a fake human, unless you know a real one personally, there is no reference you can rely on.

An example, someone tries to be, or pretend to be one kind when he is in public view, but leads a very different private lifestyle. It is contradictory, isn’t it? But how do you know this is not what a human being is originally meant to be?

I once read an article that someone synthesized egg which consists the yolk, white and shell. It can be break, cook, fried, and taste exactly like an regular egg. Hell, it even has a cheaper cost than a real one. Chemically, it is no different from a real one, only it is not laid by an hen.

Further to this, does a exact copy of a real one constitutes a fake? And be given a lower value than the original?

Walk around Singapore China Town and you will see those fake bums they were selling, I always wonder how many woman bought it, and how many man likes it. It is ironic that we fake in every way in our daily life we can but we dislike fake stuff.

Thanks to Technology, particularly the Internet, you can fake anything but it will reveals it’s true form once it reaches the web. I bet, an evil man may even grow horn on his head if he stays long enough on Internet.

There is a kind of person who screws everything in life but only good in one things he do, he hates it’s every moment, it tortures himself daily and he struggles every moment living in it. But, he is good at it.

What should he do? Pretend to be the false prophet for the rest of his life?

I borrow this photo from Post Secret to put more impact into my article. Is this the time already? I hate to pretend.