2. Upload pictures for criticism
4. Buy a decently sharp knife with sharpening block
5. Buy container for own kitchen utensils (no sharing with sister)
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7. Go out shooting either on film or digital
Well it's been an interesting exam period. I'm just glad that this semester is over because some of the more boring subjects for this course are all lumped into this semester. I think this just goes to show that I'm really a technical person and I cannot stand doing business and/or management side of things. For example the last paper is pretty much about drawing diagrams and on project management. Boring. Ironically this semester I wished that I had managed my time properly because right at the end of the semester I had monster assignments to hand in all at the same time and I think I nearly paid it with my life.
I think I should start finding for good diary apps for the iPhone. Since blogging has been few and far in between, there have been many things going on in my head and I keep telling myself I should take note of this when I blog. Obviously not a good idea since with time everything decays even memory (you can pretty much thank that to the Second Law of Thermodynamics =P).
I'm not sure whether I'm going through some sort of identity crisis of my own. Everywhere I go, where ever I am that I have some sort of a remote interest in, something happens or someone says something that just says "You're nothing. You don't know what you are talking about/doing. Seriously." And I'm sure that dozens of friends and/or people have been telling me that I'm actually doing good but somehow I somewhat don't believe them. For one, they are in my opinion seriously waaaay better than me in any way possible. I have been overly cautious and try to be humble whenever some one says that because (1) Some people are just saying that I'm doing good just out of courtesy or politeness which I think is just really shallow and (2) Even if they really mean it, I do not want to jump ahead and eventually lose my head to ego. I think that sometimes people are hit with a combination of the above and cause them to be deluded of the main point or what the context is about and I might say that some have gone to the point of no return until they will eventually crash and burn in some way. I guess what I'm saying is that I lack discernment and self-confidence in whatever I do. I used to think that self-confidence equals arrogance and therefore I will avoid anything to do with self-confidence for no one likes an arrogant person. It is perhaps this misunderstanding of what self-confidence means that had led me to live a rather timid life. Afraid of criticism, afraid of confronting my peers about my interests/skills, afraid of standing up. How does one undo years of living a lie? A lie that I think is fundamentally at the core of most of my problems in life? Just as Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his inaugural speech in 1932, "The only thing to fear is fear itself", I'm in fear. Fear of myself and others.
It is unbelievably hard at times to be scientifically technical person especially when you don't have that many scientifically technical friends. The hardest people to talk to sometimes but ironically the best people to talk to are the arts students/people. Maybe it is just me but there is a lot of things that I would like to know in the world of the arts, media, history, marketing and advertising etc and just this little curiosity into the littlest corners of the human subconscious hit by these areas is something that I can take interest but have no reason to pursue it any further. The kicker comes in when the conversation starts to veer the other end of the spectrum. Any slight technical jargon that flies out of my mouth and the dams in their ears shut tighter than a unopened jam jar. And then the poking starts. Sure I know that it's all for fun but there are times where enough is enough. This whole thing makes me feel like us science-y people can "stoop down" (for lack of a better phrase) to the arts but not the other way round. Is it due to attitude or something else? Don't get me wrong, some of the best, meaningful and intellectual conversations I've had in my life are people who want nothing to do with science and I'm grateful for them but it wouldn't hurt to be just to be slightly inquisitive about the sciences. Normally most of us would be able to give something in layman's terms (most of the time we really understand these things from our lecturers/books from layman's example anyway).
Ok enough negativity, heer teh niuz:
An approval matrix of several events. Quite funny some of them eg. bottom right quadrant about South Korea and the World Cup, top right on long newspaper articles and demanding more pictures of cats and a mention of the Serious Eats Food Lab column (thought it would be higher on the scale). The bottom left quadrant is just wrong.
There are plenty of Easter eggs in all of the Pixar movies if you just look hard enough. Time to start collecting.
This is possibly the root issue for all the problems we've been having in Malaysia since it's independence. Short sightedness of the Malaysian leaders perhaps? Worse still taking pot shots at our southern neighbours? Not cool man.
Interesting, Australia is the 4th safest country to give birth and yet more mothers are even more anxious about their pregnancies.
Some historical and cultural info about one of Melbourne's not-so-obscure laneway.
Although I'm not strictly in these category of men, I feel some of the things that they feel.
Sick. A 1W laser available to the public. 1W may not sound like much but in one of the physics lab that I've visited in my undergrad years had a 10W laser at their disposal. This 10W laser is enough to melt your eyes before you can even blink.
A little too late for Sony but let's not cross them out just yet.
If this is true, then technically I've not hit my teenage years =P
Hmmm, what we are doing to our dogs seem to be a reflection of what we are doing to ourselves?
Apparently being fat makes you more likely to contract sexually transmitted diseases even though they are getting waaay less action in bed.
This can get rather ugly in the future.
Hahaha, Darth Vader has borderline personality disorder.
Beware Calvin Klein cologne wearers. Beware.
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