My gorgeous

My gorgeous is back! Its me and my gorgeous again :)

gooooooooood...

Awkward places

Inside the lift, is one of those awkward places. When there is a lot of people standing in the lift, most of them will face the door, and its fine. But when there is only two person or three person, its creates a awkward space.

If you are with your friend, and there's another person inside the lift, you would refrain from chatting about personal things. If there is only two person in the lift, people either look at the mirror, adjust their hair, clothes; or just look down on their shoes, hands in the pocket; or just stair at the screen showing the floor number, as the lift ascends or descends.

Its awkward because both are trapped in a space, unintended, unplanned. Its will continue to be awkward because nobody would think that such a short time is worth making the effort to chat or know each other. Its awkward because its socially inappropriate to initiate anything.

Awkward spaces often stays awkward because of people's behavior or inner-barriers. Imagine while we are working, walking on the street, living in the same building; there are often awkward spaces in between that we can't see.

what the iphone needs...

source: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/you-know-it/what-the-iphone-needs-276046.php

The world clock

Saw this on think.com.my:

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks.htm

look at the world temp.. save the penguins... don't use so many sms and tissue paper and turn on your comps less...

Argentina and Tevez

Argentina better win this Copa.. I supported Argentina since young. Did you know that Maradona said Messi was the most like himself, that's a great praise from one of the best Argentina players in history. Tevez is going Man-U, does it mean now my favourite team in Premier league is Man-U? hmm..

Go Argentina!!!

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

I don't want to be a dull boy.

People in the present world does not know how to play. One of my fondest memories is to make a kite and fly it with my dad when i was young. I played gasing with the kids in the neighbourhood and was inspired by how my dad used to make his own gasing from a chunk of wood and a nail, and told myself i would do that someday, well something i have yet to do (maybe i would do it with my boy(s) next time, i would definitely make a kite and fly it with my kid).

Maybe i am blessed with no drag-n-drop and no nintendo (we couldn't afford it). My only first-hand possession of toys is a box of assorted lego blocks. I first played video game, touched a APPLE-II computer, and later played the first SEGA console in my friend's house. I first saw a M.A.S.K switchblade toy in school when my classmate with a silverspoon brought it to school. I saw many toys, but never owned them.

We used to create our own game-books in school, we wrote the story line, draw out the characters, and write the steps of the game-book. In school, we have hand-motion RPG, where a person will use his hand and fingers as a character walking in a story line, with the other hand as villians and other characters, where we created special-moves for the characters-to-choose from, and drew them out in game books.

We have all-year-round tournament going in school for eraser-fighting and 围棋 on pages torn out from mathematics exercise books (our teacher used to punish those students with very thin mathematics exercise books). I was quite good at 围棋, but sucked at erasers. We have rankings, and for every period of time, people knew who is the king of the hill at that time (you need to win the top ranked for a few times convincingly in order to be recognized). Each person devised special strategy, and we know each other's strategy and constantly think of ways to counter it. Each person's strategy is usually in the macro level, but in the micro level, there is vanilla strategies like 两头蛇 that everybody employs and knows how to counter. (people in Malay school play other games).

The fact is we can't afford a lot of things, so we have to create our games by hands on. Do kids still do this in school? I wonder.

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ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY - "The sentiment expressed by this proverb was first recorded thousands of years ago by the Egyptian sage Ptahhoptep, who wrote in c. 2400 B.C., 'One that reckoneth accounts all the day passeth not a happy moment. One that gladdeneth his heart all the day provideth not for his house. The bowman hitteth the mark, as the steersman reacheth land, by diversity of aim.' The more familiar modern saying appeared first in James Howell's 'Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish' (1659), and was included in later collections of proverbs. Some writers have added a second part to the proverb, as in 'Harry and Lucy Concluded' (1825) by the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth: 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy/ All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy'." From "Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New" by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993). quoted

The Merits of Play

I've noticed since young, that many of the 'smart kids' that do not seem to study, but have superior academic skills, spend much of their time playing. Kids that grew up playing video games are smart, those that play with a lot of hands on things, build their own toys etc are usually creative, and those that do alot of role play, imaginative plays when they are young have great ideas growing up. Forget about what playful play and productive play, play has not meant to be productive in the sense that we defined productivity; only then, we're true to our playing. Kids need to play, kite, tops, marbles, throw stones in the streams, go waterfall, pick up shells, hide-and-seek, spraying the garden hose, etc. Not drag-n-drop, not superior mathematical theorerms, nor scoring in MENSA tests. Those are the products of play, i would think.

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The Merits of Play

Play is not just about having fun, it is serious business.

Research has shown that play - particularly unstructured, spontaneous games vs. scheduled activities like music lessons and football practice - is a powerful force in human development. Play experts such as Stuart L. Brown, founder of the Institute of Play, early childhood professor and author Vivian Gussin Paley, and Yale research scientist Dorothy G. Singer believe that spontaneous play and fantasy play help children learn about the world, cope with life's pressures, and process negative emotions such as fear, anger, even worry. They have found that role-playing prepares us for real-life situations, allowing us to practice, for example, making decisions under pressure, leading a group, or thinking abstractly. Group play teaches us to socialize and to cooperate. Play also gives us a chance to better know ourselves through self-evaluation and self-reflection, which are critical development tools according to Robert Heffer, a clinical psychologist with Texas A&M University. Play also encourages creativity. Says Edgar Klugman, Ed. D. and author of Play, Policy and Practice, "Good make-believers are often better at imagining things," and a good imagination is hardly reserved for childhood.

Research has also identified two types of play: Playful play and productive play. Playful play is doing an activity for the pure joy of doing it, such as skipping rocks on a pond, rolling down a hill until you are dizzy and giddy, or playing air guitar. Jeri Robinson, vice president of early childhood programs at the Boston Children's Museum, defines playful play as "exertion without serious consequence."

Productive play has consequences, a specific outcome, and goals other than pure pleasure. It has a specific purpose, such as producing a tangible thing, like a new and better widget, or playing tennis to win a tournament versus just for fun. Although both types of play teach us valuable skills, productive play is the type we can easily weave into our work. (Blurring the Lines By Kevin Carroll )

"Work and play are words used for the same thing under differing conditions." - Mark Twain

About Ken

Ken Costa, vice-chair of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), one of the biggest invesment banks in the world, wrote a book on God at work. Financial Times blog, put it across in yesterday's entries. A more in-depth reporting of his beliefs can be see in this article:

http://godatwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/investment-banker-who-is-comfortable-taking-his-religious-beliefs-to-the-office.pdf

Its interesting some of the things that he expressed inside the article, its mostly what i've believed. Good to know that someone like this is out there.

God versus the Bank of England
Edited by Emiko Terazono
Published: July 10 2007 03:00 Last updated: July 10 2007 03:00

Investment bankers are not often thought to harbour religious beliefs, other than a desire to bow down before the altar of mammon. Ken Costa has set out to challenge that view by publishing a book called God at Work: Living every day with purpose.

In the slim volume, the vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS sets out deeply personal views on reconciling his faith with the City, where he has spent his entire working life.

Mr Costa, who was born and brought up in South Africa, writes that the apartheid regime initially turned him away from Christianity, but that his belief was revived while studying at Cambridge University in the 1970s. He joined SG Warburg in 1976 and embarked on a stellar career that saw him rise to the upper ranks of the investment bank.

But he retained a sense of perspective. In one passage, he describes being impressed by the looming facades of the Bank of England and Swiss Bank Corporation. "But then, in a flash, I saw the truth," he writes. "No bank - Swiss Bank or the Bank of England - would survive the promised return of Christ. Strong as they appeared, their apparent security would be broken in an instant."

marriage and long life

Using 1989 and 1997 data from the National Health Interview Survey and the National Death Index respectively, measuring a sample size of different demographics and people group, research shows that you'll live longer if you stay married rahter than split up. Those that are married are less likely to suffer death from external factors such as infectious diseases and have a better life expectancy than those who are not. ("Marry or die" The Atlantic, Dec 2006)

Marriage, was meant to be.

Neuroeconomics

"In this game, one player divides a pot of money between himself and another. The other then chooses whether to accept the offer. If he rejects it, neither player benefits. And despite the instincts of classical economics, a stingy offer (one that is less than about a quarter of the total) is, indeed, usually rejected. The question is, why?" (Money isn't everything, Jul 5th 2007, From The Economist print edition)

Psychologists has done experiments that people actually prefer to be paid 70,000 to live among the people that are paid 60,000 per year; rather than 80,000 among people who are paid 90,000 per year.

Reading a book on complexity economics, about economics that evolves itself. Its a branch that seeks to explain the failure of traditional classical economists trying to explain the world using simplified assumptions, such as people make decisions rationally. Talk more about it.

Nothing Can Stop Us Now

I remember during the only year i study sec school in SMJK Sam Tet (Ipoh), the guy that sits besides me is a son of a professor. He's always reading old old books of form4/5 or form 6 chemistry and tells me all about the structures of the molecules and the properties etc. All i can remember is that i always tries to entertain him (repeat whatever he says the day before to him etc), and the only thing i remembered him telling me is Benzene (C6H6); which is the main component of crude oil. Its funny, i really enjoyed him though, beacause he's a really patient and funny guy, and because he is so learned, our whole gang calls him 老子.

BUT, what i really remember is this 老子, is always reading academic stuff like this, but yet, he listens to alot alot of songs, stuff like meatloaf, scorpions, guns and roses etc, those very classic stuff. Amazing guy. AND of course he also tells me alot about them.

Probably you could only meet one guy like that in a lifetime. I really cherished the one year i had in that school. I still think that its not only the best boys school in Ipoh, its one of the best in Malaysia (we used to have some years where our STPM is top Malaysia).

Remembering this song caused me to remember my sitting partner in school last time. Last i heard he went to Malaysia U major in Chemistry if im not wrong, thought he would end up in oxford or MIT something, im pretty sure its because of a choice or financial problem that stops this from happening. So this is the song i remembered:

Many of us know the song "heaven knows" from Rick Price, but this is another song that I really liked since young, another song is of course "fragile". Great old ballads from the past. Im more sentimental than i looked. haha...

. :Rick Price - Nothing Can Stop Us Now : .
Soft as a rainbow
Like stardust and moonglow
I see the love in your eyes
Like autumn leaves falling
And the first call of morning
It came to my surprise
True love calls just once in a lifetime
Why should we wait
When now is the right time?

Nothing can stop this love we're making
Nothing can stand in our way
Nothing can block this road we've taken
Nothing can stop us now

The joy of surrender
So strong yet so tender
I give my heart to you
You know you can trust me
And that's how it must be
No matter what we do
Faithful friends and lovers forever
Right to the end we'll always be together

Nothing can stop this love we're making
Nothing can stand in our way
Nothing can block this road we've taken
Nothing can stop us now

When love comes sweetly to your door
Embrace completely
What your soul is longing for

Nothing can stop this love we're making
Nothing can stand in our way
Nothing can block this road we've taken
Nothing can stop us now
Nothing can stop us now

事实胜于雄辩

一只熊拉了一坨大便，把小兔子熏的喘不过气
一只狮子拉了一坨屎，把小兔子熏死了
在树上的小猴看到了，说：“事实（狮屎）胜于熊便（雄辩）啊

here you go...

苹果先生@office says:
cuz they can not see the little window at the bottom
k
give me the address

尹寰* says:
猴址
ohshimah.blogspot.com

苹果先生@office says:
so that if i can not find it i can always get a cab

尹寰* says:
this is the address: ohshimah.blogspot.com
not funny

苹果先生@office says:
ok

猴与熊掌，不可兼得

have not seen my JC roomate LJJ for a long time since he went UK to study archi. was chattin on MSN with him (before this part, i wrote a short song/poem/verse about monkey to him modeled after 我爱夏天,by 脱拉库(Tolaku) ), so the rest of the conversation goes like this:

苹果先生@office says:
是“不曾吃到”
笨
and why does a monkey want to cook another monkey

尹寰* says:
吃不成嘛
不同意义
食猴族

苹果先生@office says:
then it should be吃不成
oh
then it must be those monkeys on the bubu

尹寰* says:
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
本是同树生，相煎何太急

苹果先生@office says:
monkeys are not fruits

尹寰* says:
i want to say 本是同猴生
but its disrespect to elders
this is only between u and me
hahaha
the battle of the tree dweller and the junger roamer

苹果先生@office says:
ok
bring it on bear

尹寰* says:
oh but can u bear with me

苹果先生@office says:
show me that you are not made of fur
yeh, sure
i can keep monkeying around till you are ready

尹寰* says:
hahahahahahahaha

苹果先生@office says:
then we'll get serious

尹寰* says:
serious then do what

苹果先生@office says:
see who is the true king of the jungle

尹寰* says:
you think u gorrilla ah, king of jungle, you only monkey

苹果先生@office says:
fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee
ever heard of that?
monkey fist

尹寰* says:
熊掌
ironmonkey fist
臭猴拳

苹果先生@office says:
yesh

尹寰* says:
鱼与熊掌，不可兼得阿
怎么啦，无言以对啊？

苹果先生@office says:
o(∩_∩)o...哈哈

尹寰* says:
纯棉不觉晓，处处闻猴啼
苹果先生@office says:
see the sun shine on my face?

尹寰* says:
怎么没猴啼？
what sun shine
*春眠

苹果先生@office says:
wait ah

尹寰* says:
春眠不觉晓，处处闻猴啼(屎）

苹果先生@office says:
haha
you wanna smell my shit

we had so much fun staying in the hostel together, everyday its this see-who-is-cornier/wittier/lame-r kind of conversation. he really look like a monkey, and because he owned a ACJC teddy-bear (funorama merchandise), he calls me a bear since JC times (cannot find anything else to retaliate). But bears are much cuter yea.

so i shall spare u all of the rest of the conversation. yes, this is the nonsense that we spout everyday last time. ah, i miss the laugh, i often laugh till my stomach is piercing with pain. LJJ you Chinaman, i will make an exception to say that a monkey is a good friend, for once :)

我是一粒椰子

我是一粒椰子
幼时绿，老了褐
绿时甜，褐有内

我是一粒椰子
漂泊海上像不知去向
但又一日会遇岸深根
会深根成树成材

我是一粒椰子
但愿用处多却不为人知
但愿简单却能贡献
但愿单纯却美丽

我是一粒椰子
椰树长花却没人知
花却没人赏

椰子好像没有梦想
椰渣只是配角
可知漂流是为了寻岸
像无方向但有意义

椰子没有伟大要求
只要你知