Biology Course Parody

Today i was having a biology course, my professor says in example that one man that is technically very successful, and run the fastest, if he doesn't have balls, he is not comparable to the beach bums that have 25 offsprings with various woman that passed by the beach, because he poliferated and reproduction is all it matters in evolution, because no reproduction, no evolution.

birds that have beautiful feathers that attracts cats that will eat it might be in danger always, but if the bird's feathers can attract many other birds to fertilise the eggs and reproduce many enjoys darwinian success (before eaten by the cat) than the one that is next door that lived a very successful life but attracts no other birds. It's tricky, my professor says.

Darwinian fitness is reproduction success, not the capability of jumping higher or flying higher.
implication: We are doing it wrong, should marry early and have lots of decendents, the largest tribe rules the earth.

so in the end both that have bigger brains or bigger muscles are equally capable to survive, though the world glamorises big brains. They interbreed and come to a median anyway, so why matter?
implication: it doesn't matter whether your mate has big brains or muscles.

Plants have sex all the time, bees carry their sperm (pollum) to help them reproduce. Plants are the most obscene species because their reproduction organs (flowers) are the most outstanding and largest in size. So when you are smelling a flower, you are smelling...? Why is it that women like flowers so much again?
implication: hmmmmmm...

Someone asked then how do you determine a new species? When the species cannot interbreed with the old species anymore. Man, it's all about reproduction, and no the government did not pay me to say this.

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38 Steps

38 Steps to becoming a trader(quoted)

1. We accumulate information - buying books, going to seminars and researching.
2. We begin to trade with our 'new' knowledge.
3. We consistently 'donate' and then realise we may need more knowledge or information.
4. We accumulate more information.
5. We switch the commodities we are currently following.
6. We go back into the market and trade with our 'updated' knowledge.
7. We get 'beat up' again and begin to lose some of our confidence. Fear starts setting in.
8. We start to listen to 'outside news' and to other traders.
9. We go back into the market and continue to 'donate'.
10. We switch commodities again.
11. We search for more information.
12. We go back into the market and start to see a little progress.
13. We get 'over-confident' and the market humbles us.
14. We start to understand that trading successfully is going to take more time and more knowledge than we anticipated.

MOST PEOPLE WILL GIVE UP AT THIS POINT, AS THEY REALISE WORK IS INVOLVED.

15. We get serious and start concentrating on learning a 'real' methodology.
16. We trade our methodology with some success, but realise that something is missing.
17. We begin to understand the need for having rules to apply our methodology.
18. We take a sabbatical from trading to develop and research our trading rules.
19. We start trading again, this time with rules and find some success, but over all we still hesitate when it comes time to execute.
20. We add, subtract and modify rules as we see a need to be more proficient with our rules.
21. We feel we are very close to crossing that threshold of successful trading.
22. We start to take responsibility for our trading results as we understand that our success is in us, not the methodology.
23. We continue to trade and become more proficient with our methodology and our rules.
24. As we trade we still have a tendency to violate our rules and our results are still erratic.
25. We know we are close.
26. We go back and research our rules.
27. We build the confidence in our rules and go back into the market and trade.
28. Our trading results are getting better, but we are still hesitating in executing our rules.
29. We now see the importance of following our rules as we see the results of our trades when we don't follow the rules.
30. We begin to see that our lack of success is within us (a lack of discipline in following the rules because of some kind of fear) and we begin to work on knowing ourselves better.
31. We continue to trade and the market teaches us more and more about ourselves.
32. We master our methodology and our trading rules.
33. We begin to consistently make money.
34. We get a little over-confident and the market humbles us.
35. We continue to learn our lessons.
36. We stop thinking and allow our rules to trade for us (trading becomes boring, but successful) and our trading account continues to grow as we increase our contract size.
37. We are making more money than we ever dreamed possible.
38. We go on with our lives and accomplish many of the goals we had always dreamed of.

I like 37 and 38. Who is holding the 'Skip' card?

Icosystem

*not in order of importance

Seth and I

A photo taken during the Planet Shakers concert in the past month. With me in the photo is Seth, one of my cell members. When I first got to know him, he's sec 3.

Now he's in design school, confident and playing drums on stage, even have his own members already. (quite popular with girls too hehe)

So glad too have seen him grown.

霸王别姬

有美人名虞，常幸从；骏马名骓，常骑之。于是项王乃悲歌慷慨，自为诗曰：
“力拔山兮气盖世，
时不利兮骓不逝。
骓不逝兮可奈何，
虞兮虞兮奈若何!”
歌数阕，美人和之。项王泣数行下，左右皆泣，莫能仰视。(quoted)

《史记?项羽本纪》“霸王别姬”

于是项王乃欲东渡乌江。乌江亭长?船待，谓项王曰：“江东虽小，地方千里，众数十万人， 亦足王也。愿大王急渡。今独臣有船，汉军至，无以渡。”

可见项羽不是没有渡江生息的机会，只是项羽固执地认为“天之亡我”，不愿渡河，“乃自刎而 死”。虞姬为什么不等所有的机会都用尽，再无生路时殉情，就这么匆匆忙忙就判了项羽的死 刑呢？(quoted)

王者的殉落，是矛盾的。成功前屡有挫折，坚强是因为表露脆弱。

别谈一代枭雄,我们何尝不是在所有生机用尽后就擅自判了自己死刑？在给他人多一个机会，再奋斗，在尝试，在对待自己，在信，在望，在爱。

再信，再望，再爱吧！

NeXT up!

Was just doing some research on NeXT Computers, during that time, Steve Jobs was running both NeXT and Pixar, and I thought that these NeXTcubes are used mainly by these animation companies that needed high rendering power. But check this out, UBS, the financial powerhouse, uses the NeXTcube!

"Freeborn traces UBS' use of IM back to 1995, when Swiss Bank had a large installed base of NeXT Computer Inc. computers and developed its own chat program for them..." (quoted)

As the article reads, financial services are using IM (instant messaging) in communication because emails are deemed to be "too slow" (Bloomberg terminals already have IM services where you can communicate with the helpdesk -- press "help" button twice). Financial services seem to be in the forefront of technology, among the early adopters, from using NeXT computers to having proprietary databases, softwares and even languages written for their own analytical purposes, usually in the trading floors.

Would it be that financial services are the frontline in pushing the frontiers of technology in the commerce? Any entrepreneur out there coming out with a groundbreaking tech? Maybe the first customer to approach is a banker...

Walk On

So Mr Tham put this book in my hand, but was quite busy, plus there are a queue of books to be read at home, I didn't quite get to read it until today.

"If U2 had been in fellowship....., it would have been easy to get sucked into a Christian subculture. Many bands in similar situations are discouraged from playing in secular venues like bars or clubs because Christians shouldn't be in these places. The theory is that you shouldn't take Jesus into what are often called "dens of iniquity". The only acceptable reason for attending these places would be to evangelize the lost who go there.

As a result of this mindset, many talented musicians are steered into a fospel band scenario, going from church to church singing cliche-driven songs with limited content. The audience members are almost exclusively Christian, and, as the majority of them already have assented to the beliefs being preached from the stage, the cliches are wasted. A safe Christian industry ghetto is created with pop stars and record companies....."

Today's reading is until page 15. Really, how should a "Christian" band approach the industry? Or for that matter, a "christian" teacher, a "christian" engineer, a "christian" salesman, a "christian" ---------- is there any difference? There are "christian" books and media materials that may fit what is mentioned above "cliche-driven songs(or books or films) with limited content." Even to some of us, we have been conversing and thinking in such a state where we loose our relevance in the society?

Was just walking by a stall in a major shopping centre near an MRT station with T-shirts with "christian"' printings, and somebody in my group commented that it was quite highly priced. This circle of merchandizes have almost a exclusive audiance/customers that there is probably less need for improvement, when in lack of competition?

Economics of "christian" products...

Merdeka prayer @ Bukit Merah

Prayer for Malaysia on the 31st Aug at Ps Vic's office. Four main items we prayed for:

1. Corruption
2. States
3. Leaders
4. Churches
   

Was a good time to get to know our country and to pray. wonder how i can get Pak Lah's merdeka speech. Do they upload somewhere online?





Supper at Brinda's after the prayer...buzz of comparisons between singapore "mamak" food and Malaysia's...