Who on Earth reads my long boring rubbish here?
Anyway, the most boring exam just ended even though it's the first paper. Which means I can relax a little bit more than usual.
Had a wonderful weekend, it was awesome from front to back. Friday after playing for OCF I went for dinner at a friends' place and just have nothing but good times there. And a whole lot of Take Two and Grabble. Then Saturday, a bunch of us went out shooting because there was this Shoot The City thing where we have a list of 20 items and we are supposed to present those items in photographs however we choose to interpret them. Didn't go off to a great start because it was raining and a number of other things. But more importantly we all got sidetracked a lot and mostly took photos of stuffed toys (long story) and before we knew it we decided to not submit at all. Went for badminton for an hour and then suddenly we all decided to cook dinner at a friend's place. Even more impromptu was that we decided to make lemon tart for dessert. So a quick grab of a change of clothes from home, grocery shopping and off we go to cook. Made pizza with tons of toppings and a lemon tart. The plan was that there was enough time for it to set before we went for a gig. But it didn't. In fact after we came back from the gig, not only did the lemon tart didn't set, the base was burned. Which was a pity because that was probably one of the best tart base I've made in awhile. Fortunately, there was barely enough tart base and other ingredients to quickly whip up another batch. 40 minutes later, tart came out all nice and stuff and just for kicks, we decided to brulee the top. o. m. g. Best idea in awhile. While I knew that the base was a bit dodgy (didn't bake it long enough), the filling was pretty good. The best part? I did it all from the top of my head, measurements and all. Someone said it was like taking a test. Nearly true except I was using someone's oven which is a bit hard to predict. Sunday had dinner at another friend's place and we stayed for quite a bit and the bunch of us actually went on to finish a litre of tequila. And we're still fine. I think.
Really really great time.
Time to do a news dump.
Student hides Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up in his assignment. Win.
Psychology majors are least happy with their majors. Ironic isn't it?
You can't argue with data. Panasonic > Canon > Nikon =P
Dog is a man's best friend. And when a best friend is going to die, you lament. Powerful stuff.
Science can answer questions about morality? Are you absolutely sure?
Cooking and baking are kitchen science. Like all science, there's a process, a reason for why they behave the way they do. Something that should be taught it more cookbooks rather than recipes.
God works even in the toughest of human conditions and circumstance. North Korea is no exception.
Which geek are you?
Bees can solve the traveling salesman problem? This is HUGE!! If we can break it down to an efficient algorithm, pretty much there's no such thing as a "hard" modeling problem. Which also means that computer security might go down the drain soon. I think it's a pretty good time to go into physics.
Be grateful for that sister of yours. She's one of the major factors that you are not depressed.
Think you are great at light painting? Try light painting an entire city...
Really good ideas rarely happen. Hmmm.
I'd like to have 1/2,000,000,000,000,000th of a slice of pie please.
Apparently you can buy your way into the US. Is it just me or does this sound a bit off?
The Christian beliefs are not to be assumed but to be thoroughly convicted in to the point where we see everything through these beliefs. Very interesting. For those of us who come from a Christian family, this is what we sound like. We assume the Christian belief (in our case, via our parents) which actually on hindsight for me is a pretty dangerous thing to have. But there's the other side of adhering so strongly to the beliefs that we have been so convinced of that we act in a very un-Christian manner. Hitting that balance is something we all struggle with.
This is very interesting and VERY tricky. From a former Christian missionary, how does one preach the gospel when they want actual physical evidence or physical witness that Jesus was a real person, nothing more, nothing less? This tribe from the Amazon live in the present, they do not talk about things several generations ago nor several generations in the future. And they are genuinely happy about their way of life. So, given that they already find it hard to accept anything without physical evidence or witness, how do you tell them that they have sinned (ala Adam and Eve), that Jesus came over 2000 years ago to save sinners and finally that we can look forward in the future where we will be with God and all the pain and suffering will be gone. All of these events are largely out of their scope of their physical verifiable belief system. To make things even harder, as a by-product of their belief system, they do not have a creation story. Of course, this is something that only God can deal with but it is one heck of a challenge to bring the gospel to these people. You can't help but feel the frustration of the missionary in trying to bring the gospel to these group of people who want no part in it because they literally cannot see or hear Jesus himself. Brings another dimension to the term spiritual blindness. Watch both the videos. Very interesting stuff.
How can you not want a hedgehog after seeing this picture? By the way, the photographer is awesome stuff.
No seriously, who reads my crap?
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