Date - 28/02/2007
Weather - Sunny.
Mood - :)
Song - Wang Lee Hom - Wei Yi
Been really busy this two weeks or so. So ya, not really much time to go blog. To make it all up, I'll start off with this simple little fact - sheet i found on some forum. Here goes:
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot,
left foot...
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Interesting hor? Hehehe .. in any case, like i said, quite a busy two weeks. Let's see, went back to Malaysia for CNY. Cannot blame la, parents are malaysians, so what else can do? LL follow back lor. In any case, on our way there, we had to pay some "Extra fees". And for those who know nuts about what i'm typing, yes, i'm referring to corruption. [ which, in any case, strikes me as being so alien a culture since i'm so used to the "GOD" [ Read: don't mess with me, asshole. ] feel that is kinda prevalent in the Singapore Police Force. ] Oh well. Anyway, we were pulled over and told that we were over the speed limit [ running at about 124km/h, speed limit is 110, i think. ] okay la. talk talk abit here and there, ended up paying RM30 to "excuse" ourselves. and yeah, it's an evil, but then again, it's a necessary evil =P
Anyway, the Bai Nian was kinda pathetic, partly because I was busy with my report and plus the fact that we kinda lost touch with most of my Malaysian counterparts also. Sad huh? Lol.. ended up with a kinda pathetic HongBao collection. I won't say how much, but it's definitely less then SGD50. But hey, the thought counts more then the money collected bah. Or then again, maybe i'm saying this to console myself? Hahahaha .. anyway, other then that, here's something you don't really get to see in Singapore. I posted it in my friendster for quite a long time already, but well, just putting here for the memories as well .. here goes:
In Malaysia, it's called Roti Tisu. It's basically dough that is stretched REAL THIN, fried, and then shaped to make this "mountain". And while some shops add sugar, this particular one uses condensed milk, so yeah, think someone better dial 1900 - 912 - 6868 le .. hahahaha
Anyway, back to the Singapore side of my life. Okay la, the few days back, I also been visiting most of my friend's house to Bai Nian [ or rather, trying to improve my pathetic HongBao money, LOL ]. to that end, i was rather successful. Of course, with the help of a little bit of Dai Dee/Blackjack, I managed to win about 20 bucks bah. but then again, a taxi ride home erased all the winnings. zzz. all thanks to some joker [ you know who you are .. ] who kept delaying all of us, lol. and yea, I consider myself lucky to have money for the cab home. If not .. I don't really want to think about it also xD
And well, lastly, celebrated Johnny's birthday about 2 days back. Nothing big, just a little birthday celebration organized by his family with Meng, Joei and I playing his PS2 and free - loading the food into our stomaches xDDD
oh well, after all of this, i suddenly feel like there's a dark cloud over me. For one, there's my final year paper. Then there's also my medical checkup for NS. Then the impending fear of me not being to make it to poly .. and the list goes on. zzz. Oh well. Guess i'll have to take things one at a time, huh?
Okay. Out.
