tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102063672011-12-13T18:48:11.978+08:00Because all men and women are microbes. Excepting me.Paxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07732293323582197125noreply@blogger.comBlogger741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206367.post-1150736388589180882006-06-19T23:52:00.000+08:002006-06-20T00:59:48.726+08:00

So, those "seditious bloggers" didn't stop there. Careless remarks, an oversensitive people involving the law in an issue it shouldn't be even involved in. Some 'debate' about freedom of speech. A false dichotomy between free/responsible speech.Later, the Danish cartoon controversy erupted and the government went "I told you so!"The issue was (mis)used as GP essay fodder, then forgotten.But it

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The law-enforcement and judiciary have been acting strangely (by Singaporean standards) lately. I mean wha-- hearing so many ex-PAP MPs cases at one go (after elections of course), letting Gomez off with a slap on the wrist. Something clicked in me one week after they released Gomez. I am so blind to take so long to figure that out. I still reserved my suspicions, though. The agreement to hear

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Guess who made it to openDemocracy's bad democracy award shortlist?This one is a tough competition though... just read the writeups. It has to be tough when The Revolutionary Movement of Congo just missed the shortlist.Bad Democracy AwardsI'm thinking IMF would win this round... they just have more media exposure.UPDATE (23/5): Guess who's getting a mandate?

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on; nor all your Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.-- The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamI don't believe in Fate, because I believe in consequences.I don't believe in Karma, because I am but a drop in the ocean in the greater scheme of things.What I believe in though, is Momentum. We can control

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To Nagfa:When someone makes me an ambigram, I make one back!This one was a little rushed tho!Note to self: Pls update sidebar.Edit: Done. Good.

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Material Safety Data Sheets are fun. One of the most infamous MSDS's is that of water, which includes the following:FIRST AID: SKIN: Wash exposed area with soap and water. If irritation persists, seek medical attention.EYES: Wash eyes with plenty of water for at least 15 minutes, lifting lids occasionally. Seek Medical Aid. INHALATION: Remove to fresh air. If not breathing, give artificial

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Thou shalt not divide by zero.

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Check this out.Funaria hygrometricaFrom the Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection.What a boring title. Surely that photo deserves better! Maybe not all men and women are microbes, because some are actually mosses.

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BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!OK, that's enough in case someone thinks I'm chanting or something...!Gotta write some sort of paper. May the gods of biological sciences smile upon me despite my ongoing heresy against them... *ahem* Failing that, may the gods of sciences in general smile upon me. If not, just the editors and reviewers of my paper. I'm not picky...*crosses fingers*Still, physics rocks

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Today is March 1. You get pi to 2 digits. I dub this day pseudo pi day. It is also the release of the air level results (Haven't got it yet, Yikes!)Pi day occurs at the 14th of March every year. This obviously is some American idea cos' you use the US format of mm/dd. If you used the European format of dd/mm, you'll have to hold it on 31 April. Of course this means that you get something like 31/

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Expletive - An invective when expressive that can be quite abrasive.An adjective whose objective is derisive or otherwise, negative.What's abusive is elusive even to those attentive;Offensive or defensive, it's all rather relative.---------------------------------------On a very seperate note: I think it's very confirmed that mosquitoes love B+ blood. Ha!

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Apparently, there's a virus going on around Singapore these days, and it's airborne! It causes throat infections! At least one person has been hospitalized for this (don't worry, it's not that serious, I got it and turned out fine. It's just not recommended for people with compromised immune systems)! A great way to get your throat infection is to ride public transport. People all around me are

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Yes, I'm alive, but I'm sick again. There must be something wrong with my immune system nowadays. Well no, I didn't contract anything from the lab, it's probably just from my brother, who probably got it from those hot, dusty and slimy disease incubators that are otherwise known as primary schools.Also, I'm uh... working now. I'm working in a lab. Most of my friends are doing admin, haha, take

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Before I begin, let me roughly summarize what is needed from Part 1:1) A meritocracy is only as good as its definition of merit.2) An exam meritocracy is problematic.3) Singapore's implementation of the exam meritocracy is flawed.4) The exam meritocracy has consequences... it prevents 'talent' from rising to the top.5) The problem is systemic.This post is going to be far more speculative than the

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This here is an attempt to reconcile the following statements:1) Numbers never lie.2) There are three types of lies: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.Gee, that's a toughie isn't it? I mean, time and again, statistics always prove themselves plus or minus some value. Car accidents happen pretty much with regularity. The house always wins. But then again, we also hear of people 'overcoming the odds'

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Well, before I go around dispensing more advice and things like that I'd better post something inspirational: Like how horrible I was when I first started! I'll probably post a bunch of landmark ambigrams too...!Unlike most people, I heard of ambigrams before I heard of Dan Brown. Of the names associated with ambigrams in order of discovery (for me):Douglas Hofstadter : Ambigrams -> John Langdon

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I don't know whether to be happy or to be sad...!Me: Should we be happy or sad?Myself: Which would make us happier?I: Duh...So I decided to be happy.Anyhow, just to make this entry not completely pointless, I'll just post an ambigram from photobucket. Plus, my sidebar looks short, and I need to make it longer :p.Theory/Practice (2005)Click for an animated version.This is one of my assymetrical

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A Statistice minus lambda times lambda kayOver kay factorial;There's got to be a better wayWhen lambda equals one.Dedicated to a fellow student.

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Alright, I've tweaked the template a little... This is going to be the first step in changing the blog skin. I've kept the default colour scheme because I myself can't colour coordinate. So...Here are a couple of changes:I've made the main text column wider, so that my articles don't look so squished.Added my picture to create spacing between the links section and the top of the page.Added a '

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Hmm... Looks like I forgot to link Art & Science of the Ambigram on the sidebar. Must fix that. In retrospect, it is much more well-written than I thought.This post will address the evolution of an ambigram. I'm not sure how it's done, but I do it anyway. So I decided to go ahead and do one, observing how I do it. My method is very different from say, Mishra's or Langdon's, but it's mine! And

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My latest endeavor is more akin to running against a stone wall than running against red tape. Red tape I can handle. I've done that more times than I would care to.Stone walls, I'm not so sure. Never done that before.In a way, it's kind of expected. No one hears and no one listens to me. At least, not until after I start chipping away at them slowly. It gets results, but it's slow and labourous.

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Here's a bit of a warning: this post is going to read a little like a GP essay, without the sissy er... I mean *cough*objective*cough* stuff like cop-outs er.. I mean balance and contrived opps... I mean wholistic approaches like SPERM, err... I mean PRESM. Or stupid, unhelpful statements like "I agree to a large extent" (as if agreement is both zero-sum and linear).My impression of

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Well, I've decided to add dialogue as a way to discuss stuff in a differently. But since I suck at creating characters, the dialogue would incidentally be between: Me, myself and I. I'll let them debate the merits of this method of discussion.Me: Hi, I'm me.Myself: I'm myself!I: NO! NO! I'm the one who is I, neither me or myself is I! I am I!Myself: You realize when we said 'I' we were using it

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"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." - John Erskine (1879 - 1951)Correct, Erskine, correct. If were marginally competent in musical composition, I would attempt to prove you wrong. But I am not; thus I have to agree. I wish you won't tempt me anyhow. You're just lucky my only a ability to articulate music is to use a stingray to sing songs by Faye Wong

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It is a little known fact that the Pax has a soul of poetry, despite detesting literature a little too strongly when I was in Sec 2. This is the meaning of this story/poem, now go tell me what the meaning is during exam Bla bla bla... Oi! Since you tell me the meaning you know already, ok? Want me to tell you what it means back for what?What's more, sometimes I think the so-called 'meaning' of

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Word:Meaning:The random word generator is back! And it's more portable this time!I'll explain myself in another post (someday). Happy clicking!Note to Students: These are bad words to add to your vocab list. Really...EDIT: Argh! Blogger is evil! Mess up my formatting! Bad, bad blogger.

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I've been doing quite a bit of blogging lately, mostly because I am very free and have nothing to do, and also because I'm waiting for a certain person to reply... Failing which will cause me to engage in pseudo-stalkerish behaviour like reading scientific papers on apolipoproteins (specifically ApoA1) and quaint villages in Italy. It also makes me think about pizza and stuff like that.... mmmm..

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Step 1:Find a regular phone where you can hear the dialtone.Step 2:Listen to the headset.Step 3:Listen carefully and dial the following sequence...#0*0 ### 000 ### #0*0 ### *00 #0*Actually,3212 333 222 333 3212 333 122 321 sounds better, but you might actually dial someone... accidentallyFor even more fun... dial that sequence while talking to a friend!

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First post this 2006. Yay me.There's something that irks me with a couple of assumptions I encountered in school, I would have blogged about it earlier, but poor Paxy is plagued by perverse procrastination, and an acute affinity for arbitrary alliteration, albeit artificially assisted. OK, that's enough fun with a thesaurus, but that was mostly my brain on caffeine. The antecendent alliteration

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I'm done with the main onslaught of essays, here are snippets that never made it to my college essays. I've submitted everything, and I hope that the adcoms think I rock enough so that I can get into their school. I present college essays, director's cut!Mini essays I wrote while writing bigger ones for College:WHAT I GOT AGAINST BIO STUDENTSSometimes I feel as if the world is conspiring to stop

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Pictures, folks, pictures! I know ADD is very much in fashion nowadays, and I think I've been overpopulating my blog with too much text. *cough*Well, this ain't the US pictures (I'll get to it, if ever)... but it's pictures! Of animals! The furry kind!I bring you creatures, big and small! Otherwise known as animals that somehow ended up in my handphone (which explains all the NOISE) and/or PC

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Here's wishing everyone a merry xmas... I know it's boxing day already... ok...? But I'm not that late. It's still christmas at the other side of the world ok? Anyhow, you can't blame me! I was sleeping half the day. I'm getting old and stuff, ok? I also know I'm short, ok? I can't stay up for more than 2 days in a row, either.I've got essays to do and then some... 1 more week 'til 1 Jan dateline

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I was half asleep when this occured to me:Our Flouride who art a halide,Halogen be thy name.Whoa... sleep deprivation is freaky.

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Alright, A Levels are over. Or actually, the A Levels were over... last month or so. Fittingly, 853 decided to break down on my last ride back home from NY... just to annoy me one last time. Stoopid bus. Just when I was attempting to savour my last ride too. OK, maybe not my last ride, but my last ride in a very long time.I'm out of that A Level shell, you know, the shell where I am forced to be

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What power you hold in your hands:The monopoly of our dreams, The monopoly of our future,The monopoly of death.Yet power is fleeting--All succumb to Nature and Time.

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I've been very lazy/busy lately depending on who you ask, and hence have not been doing my duty of entertaining you. For that, I apologize. Today, I will teach you the secret of building a card pyramid relatively, fast, easy and with a high chance of success. With my method, you do not need steady hands, old stacks of cards or rough table surfaces (of course those help); what you need is a normal

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Just got back my SAT score and it's wayyyy higher than Bush's... Do I rock or what?Now, with my SAT scores, I shall now proceed to take over the WORLD!!!Now for Obligatory Rant:Bla bla bla.... A Level.... People crying... Evil... Fmaths... statistics... mechanics... blablabla.... Chemistry... I hate organic chem... soil chemistry is evil... free radicals... blablabla... cows... mid year... A

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My attempt at a malay translation of Jabberwocky! I have fulfilled the prophesy! Can the world end now?This has got to be one of the hardest things to translate in the world, for one thing it is full of nonsense to begin with. For another, malay has a limited array of sounds, while making it easy to rhyme, makes those portmanteau things difficult.JabberwokiMasa brilig, tov gelincurBerjengkang,

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Well, uh... I just realised my blog lacks photographs. So to make up for this deficiency, I present to you: The Best of Shanghai 2003!!! The best photographs from that batch that stands out in one way or the other. Pictures aren't as glorious as they might be because photobucket resized my photos so you might miss out details.Click for larger versions.This here is a museaum display. The

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Alright folks, they haven't announced it yet, but news has leaked. They *are* really, really planning to change the college name to Cheung Cheng JC...! It wasn't some weird joke dreamt up be someone; they are taking the plan seriously. If you didn't know this already, you must either have been not taking Maths C, or have been ponning lectures.The nightmare lives again.I for one strongly oppose

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Just came back from debate camp yesterday (Sunday), it had the noble objective of promoting bonding between members. Did it succeed? I suppose, yes; it did promote bonding, but not between the members that needed to bond most. It promoted bonding between the J2s, and the few J1s that did show up (Collen, Wee Keat, Joel, Emiko). The timing of the camp was pretty bad, it occured during the period

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Well, originally, this post is supposed to be about democracy and modern art, but I realized I've lost my ability to articulate in a semi-coherent manner about my disgust for CNNY having to announce to the whole school to SMS their vote (costing us all 20 cents) as a show for support of their production (which I have never seen) against worthy contenders such as Punggol Primary School. I'm not

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Here's a riddle for your enjoyment:With pointed fangs it sits in wait,With piercing force its doles out fate,Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,Eternally joining in a single bite.What am I?(Space here so you don't see the answer immediately)A Stapler. Of course, it has to be one of those super staplers that last for eons, because I've never successfully joined my victims eternally...

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Well, you already know how mechanics is paradise and all that, so here's an ambigram for that in two different designs, no less!Sharper blackletter design:Fancy semi-calligraphic design:Pencil Sketch:The apple is supposed to symbolise both the fruit of paradise which brought about the fall of man, and the apple that supposedly dropped on Newton's head.Click for larger images :)Well, I'm worried

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Sorry, post title nothing to do with post again. The phrase popped up in my head somehow, and I thought it was cool.Well, a long weekend has come, and I suppose posting a todo list would help me. Somehow.TODO:1) Study Organic Chem2) Finish assignment M4, M5, M63) Finish chemistry homework4) Physics TYS MCQs x 245) Finish assignment B11 and B96) Read up Capacitance, Superposition & Waves8) Read up

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Well, project work is finally over! Hahaha!No more surveys. No more perforated pages. No more lousy red tape to overcome. And no more bossing my pw mates. Oh yes!Here are some memories re: PW.All those late nights of staying up to edit the report sections written by my friends, waiting and waiting for that email to come is over, not finishing until 3am because the stupid thing didn't come in

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Ok, so what's a week in a life of a JC student who plans to take over the world like?Monday: Physics of fluids lecture with "Cool Man" (so cool that he has special powers of sleep induction). He did a "anti-gravity" demo using an anti-vacuum cleaner (a vacuum cleaner with a reversed motor so it blows rather than sucks) that managed to unplug itself twice throughout the demonstration. Tuesday: Um.

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DragonSymmetry: 180 degree rotationWe had phoenix, now enter the dragon.Well, it's an old ambigram, but the dragon is new. Or rather, the half dragon is new.Obviously, once the A-G mapping was figured out, the word was easy to do. It was quite easy ambigram-wise.Internet is slow today, so I'll have to update the sidebar some other day.Here's the plain ambigram.As usual, click for larger image.The

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Face it, economics is the root of all evil. It is not money, nor the love of money, but something far more basic, economics. Not just the economics of that which is tangible, but also that which is intangible, like power and love. All of life is a cost-benefit analysis, and some of us face barriers to entry, while others, barriers to exit. Economics may not be a zero sum game, but we encounter

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I just discovered something cool the other day.Not only there's another Yiwen (and I don't mean the other one in NY that takes bio, I mean ANOTHER one... damn, this is getting confusing), the Yiwen (henceforth referred to 'Yiwennie') does ambigrams too.Meet Yiwen(nie).Um... here's a summary of Yiwens (so far):Yiwen (The Pax aka Paxy, me!)NY'er - YesAmbigrams - YesRemember, this Yiwen is the one

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Block test is over and it's my birthday! Hahaha... yay me.Took a really long walk from wheelock to the Esplanade. Ate lots.Slacking now.Oh yeah, I improvised an ambigram for Grace. Go Grace! Here be digitized version.As usual, click for larger version. It looks better BIG.

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Hey dudes, I'm taking a break from studying for a moment to post.Now may not be the best moment to post about the art & science of the ambigram as I'm not in the state of mind to write a coherent post, but since when was that a problem? I'll edit this post later (so there). So folks, I'll give you here some tips on how to go about creating your own ambigram.Well, a good place to start is to think

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Damn, I'm tired. I got up late, at 10:30 am this morning. It's 6 now, and I've hardly started mugging, and I can't pay attention. Why the heck do I feel so drained?KFC Chicken?Alien Mind Control?Radiation from Microwave oven?Choir peeps channelling their tiredness at me?There's just got to be a good non-tinfoil hat type explanation.I feel old already, and my birthday hasn't even come yet. Here's

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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect- Paul Valery SYMMETRYSYMMETRY: reflectional symmetry About the y-axisThe word 'symmetry' is not naturally symmetric, but with a little bit of effort, anything goes :). This design was created way back in 2003. And this remains one of my favourites, despite the fact that the

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This came with my lecture notes...Solve this.EDIT: Alright dudes, I wasn't lucid enough to make a long post when I posted this, so I'll just say this... 8 out of 10? Must be that other Yiwen that takes Bio.Also, I left out some nonsense in the tag. It's working now.

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I was cleaning up my HD and came across these...2002 vintage. Anyone remember?Look closely. On the label, there's 3 Faith, my class as well as several numbers that corresponded to our register numbers.I don't remember how I made the stuff glow this way in the render. Serious!Click for larger versions.All pics were done using a really, really old version of Blender Publisher. Oh yeah, and the GIMP

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Hey dudes, I've been pretty busy lately, Jiawen should know. I'm suddenly involved in a debate competition that I didn't know even exist, and I'm the team captain. It's next Wednesday at the Science centre. Which is kind of cool, cos' my friends back in the Science Society aka Slacker's Society are also concurrently involved in a competition there for some reason. If they're free, they might evne

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We were all having our Line A Fmaths Tutorial when we heard the sound of raindrops outside. It was finally raining! This has to be a good sign of times to come. I've finally caught up with my tutorials, debate is winding down (but not for long, I suppose) and I'm recovering from my cold. I'm adjudicating for the JGs tomorrow at Unity Sec, hope I can make it time there in time. Anyhow, things are

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Now marks a new chapter in my life. Uh... actually, this post is just here to announce the fact that us Mathematics 9234 aka Fmaths students have passed a major milestone. We have finished the Pure Mathematics section of our subject! When I say pure mathematics, I don't mean Maths 9233 aka C maths section (although we are going to finish that really, really soon) I just mean we are now starting

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Here's a picture to break up the tedium of a heck of a lot of text...An ambigram of 'Phoenix', the mythical Egyptian firebird. Not sure if I like it... legibility sufferes at the oen section of the word.Click for larger version.I actually have another one of Dragon somewhere...If I did Pegasus and Griffin, that would be all 4 NY houses

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Since the upcoming GP topic is education, I thought I might as well collect some odds and ends regarding the topic before hand. Not that I am unskilled at lambasting the education system (like any other veteran of the system), but it is always good to take the lambasting a notch higher, with the mother of all lies: statistics.Anyhow, in debate, we do motions like "THBT the Singapore's education

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Well, I'm back in KL and I encountered my new next door neighbours. The flight announcer wished us a "Merry Christmas uh--- I mean Happy Lunar New Year" on touchdown... I'll just stick to wishing everyone a plain ol' Happy Lunar New Year for now. Oh yeah, if anyone knows a word/name that has 'S' and 'A' at the extremities, tell me, cos I found the most beautiful S/A combination that doesn't

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Chinese New Year looms around the corner, and appropriately, the motion for the Prelims of the NY Invites is: This House Fears the Opening Up of China. I got ushering duty that day, thus I was stuck in room 4-56 with HCJC, SAJC and VJC. I didn't get to watch the J1s debate, but I heard they shone pretty well, esp. the third and second speaker. I met the SCGS girl, she was representing HC. She

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Hi, everybody. Welcome to dogland, a fictional place, full of um...dogs (as well as other creatures, I'm sure). My brother is documenting the history, economic model, vexilogy and politics of the entire place. Dogland is entirely his creation, I must add. But since I'm his BIG sister, be nice. Go forth and comment. Here's the flag of Dogland, drawn by him: I've also added it as a link on

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(Almost) Reflection ambigrams on the three sciences. I like the LOTR'ish feel, but I think "Chemistry" was badly done. One science to rule them all, One science to find them; One science to bring them all and in darkness bind them. Click for larger version.

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Classy, eh?I just love the stroke on the 'wen'.Done entirely in Inkscape :)UPDATE:Here's the original chinese characters for comparison.Pronounced (pinyin): yí wén, but honestly, I don't care how you do it... In fact, I do it wrong all the time myself... cos' it sounds flat when done correctly. My friends in the Indian Cultural Society showed me how to write it in Tamil, too...!Some variants: yee

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This week was a bad week. Next week is potentially worse. I'm really really tired... Let's see. I'm broke. My computer is dying, thus I am using my bro's comp now. The debate invites are on 5th Feb, which means I have to do stuff for debate. On top of that there is training for the juniors. AND, the JG Debates are also on this period. So I have to help my OTHER juniors. I also get to sit down

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Quote of the Lecture: "Mechanics is the paradise of mathematical sciences, because in it we come to the fruits of mathematics..." - Leornado Da Vinci Yep, 14 Chapters of Mechanics to go before finishing F-maths line A! No, ladies and gentlemen, chapter 0 does not count.

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Was messing about with Inkscape and came up with this. Frankly, it freaks me out. Click for larger version :)

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Time to upgrade! Upgrading my tools of trade. They have served me well, but it is time to move to better stabler versions. The old workhorse GIMP 1.2 will be now GIMP 2.2 + GTK 2.0 + GAP Upgrade :) It may be ancient news but I can't wait to try out GAP. Finally animation in the GIMP! Inkscape 0.4 + Potrace will replace Sodipodi. I only used Sodipodi twice, but it crashes way too often. Who

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Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright,In the forest of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?- William Blake (1757- 1827)Paxy, paxy it's not right,To give poor William such a fright.It takes not immortal hand or eye,Just e-maths from upper secondary...(That was when we learnt rotational symmetry!)- Paxy (1986 - and still alive, unlike William)EDIT: Vectorized version, bigger,

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962) Eat that bio students!!! Oh yeah, I forget to add that ALL real bio is actually chemistry, and all real chemistry is actually physics. In other words, physics is the only REAL science. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, and thus I conclude-- the motion must

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Well, I've always liked Escher, ever since I saw his work. It was not only the art that appealed to me, but also the precision in his work. It is no secret that he 'cheats', but no matter... that doesn't stop me from enjoying his work. My favourite pieces are "Metamorphosis II", "Liberation" and "Snakes" Here's a tesselation of my name. A tribute to Escher, and a tribute to me. It took awhile

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This is the first post just so you won't get 404'd. There may be stuff on this pages in the future. Now remember children: Always brush your teeth, wash your face and comb your hair. That's it for today.

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