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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
THE END
To friends and the minute reader population of this blog: This is the end. No more snippets of wit, humour, sweetness, anger, melancholy, or outright stupidity. i'm taking a rest ad infinitum.
Or till this curse could be lifted, i might still be waiting. You toot.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Random blogsurfing again. Why am i always lucky enough to come upon such disgusting exciting content within the first three clicks... this time from keelyn.blogspot.com.
Postscript: Gosh that just reduced the mean aesthetic score of my blog by 57 percentiles.
When it's your birthday, you can purchase regular price items from giordano at a discount price. Dunno how many percent, but it start from the birthday and last for a week.i am so so thankful Keelyn, that you didn't put up a photo of you in that halter neck. And... thanks for showing me that Xiaxue is actually quite bearable.
Winny's birthday is on the 8th of September, so I ask her to buy some tops which I like from giordano, one of which is a halter neck top.
Postscript: Gosh that just reduced the mean aesthetic score of my blog by 57 percentiles.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
As the imminently frightening Rita dies down to a Cat 2 hurricane, Louisiana is still the worse hit. Come on! Why don't you drown Bush's Texas ranch, pussy!
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Random blog surfing. Extract from estherthequeen.blogspot.com:
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i was mean.
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Random blog surfing. Extract from estherthequeen.blogspot.com:
I feel like cursing and swearing... I feel like crying... I feel like throwing a big tantrums... I feel like screaming at the top of my voice... I feel like venting my anger and frustration at the people around me...Esther, you are either 8 years old or stupid. i hope it's the former but i sincerely believe it's the latter.
I thank God I didnt do all these things... though I really want to cry.. even now as I was typing this out.. I still feel like crying.. My PC died again on me... My MSI motherboard gave me a spark and it went to heaven or maybe hell I dont know...
I feel so like an idiot... because it always happen when I need to do something.. God.. is it because I was disobedient and such things happen? sigh... God.. tell me what shall I do?
I still thank God for the help He provide... my ever beloved brother is getting his best friend to come help me fix it later in the evening... I think I'm going to bed now...
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i was mean.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Lately there has been a so-called IQ question circulating around on the web, which Yong Chuen had tried to use to raise his profile but, sadly, to no avail (it's okay, we still love you because we are your friends and at least you have a good heart). There is, however, one serious loophole in the solution that has been overlooked, and we'll peruse it here.
The question goes like this:
There are 50 households in a village, each occupied by one man, who owns a gun and a dog. Now an unknown number of the dogs have been infected with a disease and the men decide to shoot these dogs while sparing the healthy ones (the disease does not spread among the dogs). There are three conditions (very mathematical albeit unrealistic ones) to adhere to:
1. Each man may only shoot his own dog;
2. Each man would only be able to tell if other men's dogs are sick, but not his own;
3. The men may not communicate with one another in any way.
How is this possible?
The standard solution is given as below:
If there is only 1 sick dog. The owner of it would not be able to see any sick dog. He would immediately realize that it must mean his own dog is sick.
If there are two sick dogs. Each owner of them would see only one sick dog. And he'd think, "If there is only one, why does its owner not shoot?" He should then realize that his own dog must also be sick.
If there are three sick dogs. Each owner of them would see only two sick dogs. And he'd think, "If there are only two, why can't their owners solve the situations according to the analysis given immediately above?" So he would conclude that his own dog must also be sick.
And so on.
This solution sounds all well and good, except that it overlooked one thing – sequence. A simple example would illustrate this:
Following the above solution, if there is only one sick dog, the owner would open fire almost immediately. Sounds very plausible and practical. However, when there are two sick dogs, each owner would probably wait a little while before he concludes that the reason why the other owner is also waiting must be that his own dog is sick, too.
Here comes the problem: How long is each of them going to wait?
Let's say they wait a minute. Then there could be a man who decides at 45 seconds that the reason why these two owners of the sick dogs are not acting must be that his own healthy dog was sick!
In fact, if these 50 men behave stricly as independent logical thinkers, the result of this expriment would be that all of them shoot their dogs at the same time, no matter how many sick dogs there are.
If we could just violate the given conditions (which if adhered to will never yield a solution) a little, a very simple convention would solve this problem:
No matter how many sick dogs one sees, he would wait for that many number of minutes.
i'll leave you to figure out how that would work. :)
*Disclaimer: No dogs were hurt in the above thought experiment.
The question goes like this:
There are 50 households in a village, each occupied by one man, who owns a gun and a dog. Now an unknown number of the dogs have been infected with a disease and the men decide to shoot these dogs while sparing the healthy ones (the disease does not spread among the dogs). There are three conditions (very mathematical albeit unrealistic ones) to adhere to:
1. Each man may only shoot his own dog;
2. Each man would only be able to tell if other men's dogs are sick, but not his own;
3. The men may not communicate with one another in any way.
How is this possible?
The standard solution is given as below:
If there is only 1 sick dog. The owner of it would not be able to see any sick dog. He would immediately realize that it must mean his own dog is sick.
If there are two sick dogs. Each owner of them would see only one sick dog. And he'd think, "If there is only one, why does its owner not shoot?" He should then realize that his own dog must also be sick.
If there are three sick dogs. Each owner of them would see only two sick dogs. And he'd think, "If there are only two, why can't their owners solve the situations according to the analysis given immediately above?" So he would conclude that his own dog must also be sick.
And so on.
This solution sounds all well and good, except that it overlooked one thing – sequence. A simple example would illustrate this:
Following the above solution, if there is only one sick dog, the owner would open fire almost immediately. Sounds very plausible and practical. However, when there are two sick dogs, each owner would probably wait a little while before he concludes that the reason why the other owner is also waiting must be that his own dog is sick, too.
Here comes the problem: How long is each of them going to wait?
Let's say they wait a minute. Then there could be a man who decides at 45 seconds that the reason why these two owners of the sick dogs are not acting must be that his own healthy dog was sick!
In fact, if these 50 men behave stricly as independent logical thinkers, the result of this expriment would be that all of them shoot their dogs at the same time, no matter how many sick dogs there are.
If we could just violate the given conditions (which if adhered to will never yield a solution) a little, a very simple convention would solve this problem:
No matter how many sick dogs one sees, he would wait for that many number of minutes.
i'll leave you to figure out how that would work. :)
*Disclaimer: No dogs were hurt in the above thought experiment.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
i discovered this in *surprise!* your friendly neighbourhood Popular store yesterday. Contains very handy stuffs like "Gomu tsukeru." and "Kimochi desuka?" A must if you are heading Tokyo, or if you want to understand those gibbering in the porn you watch.
(No i didn't buy it, don't come borrow from me.)
(No i didn't buy it, don't come borrow from me.)
Friday, September 09, 2005
This was originally from this blog but it's so funny and acute that i feel obliged to steal it.
Quote from an NBC interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff:
Maybe he had been reading newspapers from up north?
Or perhaps across the Atlantic?
Could it be that he actually reads Spanish?
Or French?
Thank you Mr Chertoff.
Quote from an NBC interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff:
Tim Russert (host): People were stunned by a comment the president of the United States made on Wednesday, Mr. Secretary. He said, "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." How could the president be so wrong, be so misinformed?Well, let's try to find out which newspaper Mr Secretary had been reading.
Chertoff: Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, "New Orleans Dodged The Bullet," because if you recall the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse.
Maybe he had been reading newspapers from up north?
Or perhaps across the Atlantic?
Could it be that he actually reads Spanish?
Or French?
Thank you Mr Chertoff.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up
When September ends
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up
When September ends
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
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