Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Historical event on Thanksgiving day at Luigi's Cuisine

I just thought about posting our Luigi's Newsletter here just for laughs!

On Thanksgiving Day,
Our Ironic Chef "Hotshot Bobby" wants to eat some turkey (actually chicken la) so we all gathered for a hearty dinner.
Due to our tight work schedule, Bobby went to buy them at the neighborhood aiming to hit Luigi's at 18.00



Rut, in his most handsome look in years, sang the karaoke waiting for our Ironic chef.
PS. If any guys/girls interest in him...let me know...i'll give u his contact

Other pictures are of our historical 8-people winning eleven tournament.



Results
(Preliminary Round)

Japan 3 - 1 Denmark
Bobihara 2
Jontaro 1

Japan 1 - 2 Columbia
Rutiyoshi 1

Japan 1 - 1 France
Bobihara

(Knockout roud)
Japan 0 - 1 S.Korea


Heard some ESPN analyst giving their opinion on our players as follows:

1. Kaichunizawa (DC)
A threat to opposition MF as constantly going for all loose-balls in the field but hardly remembers his tactical position.

2. Bique (DMC)
Lingering in the midfield area trying to close all the gaps left by team-mates who are all out to attack.

3. Peetozuke (MC)
Aiming to hack all opponents with the ball close to him and constantly heads all goal scoring opportunities over the bar.

4. Rutiyoshi (LMC)
Constantly yelling at Changitori to play in position, yet somehow he scored his first international goal for the team.

5. Jontaro (RMC)
Lost his Panda head due to a new winning version but somehow he scored a miraculous goal for the team.

6. Changitori (AMC)
Ever-present everywhere in the field trying to injure every position. Is phenomenom in getting all the corners for the team.

7. Bobihara (FC)
Always looking to run to the side of the court to make right-wing baseline crosses. However, more successful in scoring 3 goals from mostly set-pieces.

8. Danimaru (SC)
Constantly pressuring the opposition defense with lightning runs. Though scoreless but had a hand in almost every other goal in the tournament.


Catch and Join in the latest entertainment here at Luigi's...

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

I'm an IGDA Member

I just wanted to point out that the GDXCON was successful arranged during the last weekend. I'm still getting the pictures developed, and once I've finished it, I'll update my blog again with all the details. On a side-note, I've also am now an IGDA member, and if you noticed on the bottom right side of my blog, well that is my member profile :P

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Guess How Rich Thailand is

It isn't a surprise at all that Thailand is a country in debt based on this Country Wealth Statistic at World Bank article.

What Next?

No guess to what happens after this :)

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Thinking in Songs

After going through some of my old music collection, I've found a few great compositions that I really like. One of them was called Tulpjes in de Lente (Little Tulips in Spring) composed by Vincent Voois, a Dutchman in which really inspired me to start composing. In one of his MOD tracks(A MOD track is an amiga sound format that uses real wave tables to synthesize notes, which does create sounds that are way better than early MIDI) he embedded the following quote:

I can track and compose exactly what is inside my head... i only can't
perform it live :)

My hi-tech midi- keyjazz jammer exists out of an old rotten AT-101 US
keyboard

Vincent Voois - Composer (General Noise Engineering)
That was what started me in getting into music composition as a hobby. Though having a dire lack of ability to play musical instruments, I've learnt that at times it takes just hard work, dedication, and some inspiration to compose music. After toying around for a while, and composing an odd collection of tracks, I have to say after all this time I've watched, it was a great experience. Though I don't think myself to be really accomplished as a composer, I'm glad to know that many of my friends actually still listen to a few of the tracks I've composed from long time ago, and that really gives me a lot of inspiration though I have to admit many of my songs are really created by a rotten AT-101 US keyboard :P

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Shocking but Not Surprising News

One of my favorite games was Katamari Damacy which is a quirky game designed by Keita Takahashi. The idea of the game Katamari Damacy is to roll a ball around until it gets bigger and bigger - and that is actually the game. Though the game idea sounds mudane, it is one of the sleeper hits of recent times. During in one of his interviews, he mentioned that he wasn't playing much video games. After that interview, it would not be a surprise that one day he would stop designing games and it was confirmed with the following article: Katamari creator dreams of playgrounds.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Game Composers

I was just reading through some music review, when I stumbled upon an article giving the background of some of video game greatest composers. I finally found that the person making Mario Bros theme was Koji Kondo.

Da da da da da da!



Work Policy?


Read the following, LOL:


ระเบียบการพนักงาน

ระเบียบการพนักงาน ซึ่งทุกคนต้องปฏิบัติโดยไม่มีข้อแม้

1.การแต่งกาย:
บริษัทขอแนะนำพนักงานทุกท่านว่าท่านควรแต่งกายให้เหมาะสมกับฐานเงินเดือนของท่าน

เพราะถ้าทางบริษัทเห็นว่าท่านใส่รองเท้า PRADA ราคา
30,000บาทและถือกระเป๋า GUCCI ราคา 40,000 บาท
มาทำงานแล้วล่ะก้อ บริษัทขอสันนิษฐานว่าฐานเงินเดือนของท่านเหมาะสมดีอยู่แล้ว
ไม่เห็นควรต้องขึ้นเงินเดือนแต่อย่างใด

2.การลาป่วย:
บริษัทไม่ยอมรับใบรับรองแพทย์ หรือคำวินิจฉัยใดๆที่ระบุว่าท่านป่วย
เพราะถ้าท่านสามารถไปพบแพทย์ได้ >ท่านก็น่าจะมาทำงานได้

3.การผ่าตัด:
ห้ามพนักงานทำการผ่าตัดใด ๆ ทั้งสิ้นตราบเท่าที่ท่านยังเป็นพนักงานของที่นี่
ท่านจำเป็นต้องมีอวัยวะครบถ้วนท่านไม่สามารถตัดสินใจยักย้าย ถ่ายเท
หรือตัดอวัยวะใดๆทิ้ง >เพราะบริษัทว่าจ้างท่านครบทุกส่วนและไม่บุบสลาย
การยักย้ายถ่ายเทอวัยวะใดๆถือว่าเป็นการละเมิดต่อสัญญาจ้างงาน

4.การลากิจ:
พนักงานมีสิทธิ์ลากิจได้ 104 วัน ต่อปีได้แก่วันเสาร์และวันอาทิตย์

5.การลาพักร้อน:
บริษัทยินดีอนุญาตให้พนักงานลาพักร้อนได้ในช่วงเดียวกันของทุกปี
โดยบริษัทขอประกาศให้วันที่ 31 ธันวาคม และวันที่ 1 มกราคม
เป็นวันหยุดพักผ่อนประจำปี

6.การลาเพื่อไปร่วมพิธีศพ:
การลางานเพื่อไปร่วมพิธีศพไม่ถือว่าสมเหตุสมผล
เนื่องจากท่านไม่สามารถทำให้เพื่อน ญาติหรือเพื่อนร่วมงานฟื้นขึ้นมาได้
แต่หากพนักงานจำเป็นต้องไปร่วมพิธีศพ พิธีควรจะจัดในช่วงเย็นหลังเวลาเลิกงาน
บริษัทยินดีให้ท่านออกไปก่อนเวลาเลิกงาน 1 ชั่วโมง

7.การลาอันเนื่องมาจากเสียชีวิต:
ถือเป็นการลาอย่างสมเหตุสมผล อย=E

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Funky Funky


I was just looking through some old records and reviews when I've stumbled on the

http://www.discogs.com/release/151651

If you noticed it was a band called Cameo which was somewhat of a trendsetter during the 1970s-1980s, not something that you will listen these days, but somehow I got stuck on their song "Word Up" and I would highly recommend this piece. Anyway, one review I found that I really liked was by a reviewer on the same site which goes as follows:

jazzliscious - 24-Apr-04 12:09 PM
There is a verse in this song that says it all. I can't and won't quote it word-for-word but it basically tells DJs to quit fronting about how cool they are and get back to the music. This is the overlying problem that in my somewhat expert opinion (I've tracked this techno genre since 1992 and know what it means to program for hours on tedious old analog synths and sequencers and drum machines, etc.) has all but rendered techno dead. This ultra-minimal "music"(?) being made these days is NOT cool, it only sounds good when your brain is tweeked out on whatever drugs you're on and is simply the by-product of laziness and ineptitude of those who are too mentally challenged to learn the craft of electronic music production! I don't like old music better because I'm stuck in my limited perception and memories of "the good old days". I like it better because it IS better. More time was put into its making and more brainpower into its conception. Word Up epitomizes this in a few short phrases of words. DJs, quit acting so cool and get back to what really matters - the MUSIC. And yes, much more time was put into this track than the average "techno track" of today. And back then everybody thought its producers were lazy for using these newfangled drum machines and s-synth-e-s-sizers or whatever the hell they're called. Now, producers sample a loop, loop a sample and VOILA! You just made a track! Now go out and score some girls 'cause you're so fuckin' COOL!

Buffet Questions

A week ago, I was awarded an Educational/Research support grant from the Computer & Communication Education Foundation. I don't really know what to write much about but I do want to comment that the reception buffet was alittle too well stocked, and there was an embarassing amount of left over that day. By the time the party was over, most of the food was still there. I wonder if it was possible to ask if we could pack back some of the food from those buffet especially when the guest can't finish all of it? What do you think?

Monday, November 07, 2005

Another Day on the Train

One of my favorite mode of transport is the train. As noted the train is rather punctual compared to other forms of transportation, and that makes me like the train alot, especially the MRT subway which crosses close around my home. During the last weekend, I was traveling to the World Robotic Olympiad (WRO2005), where I was one of the field MCs early in the morning, by the subway. I was expecting it to be just another day on the Subway, when suddenly as we stopped by the RamaIX station, there was an alarm, and the security annouced that all the passengers had to evacuate the train. As this hardly been a procedure that the passengers are used to, most passengers who left were confused and I've noticed that some of them were muttering about train malfunction or maybe another possible mishap (as noted the subway used to had a head on collision between the train and a bogey).

When the train was vacated, I've noticed that there was a single lady in the late 30s wearing rather casual clothes like what you see in the market place was standing meeking just inside the small box that was the access to the train driver's seat. After a short while, I could see the security guard leading her out of the train and hustled her up to the MRT station HQ. It seems that the lady was trying to get into the train driver's cabin, and the driver was afraid it was a hijacking scenario decided to call the security to sort it out.

This hijacking incident could be shrugged off as a minor offense, it does lead to some serious questions what if the hijacking attempt was indeed sinister? On the positive note, we could see at least the security guards managed to clear the matter rather quickly.

Though the incident made me late for over about half an hour, somehow I like to talk about how I was lucky to have survived a train hijack and lived to tell it, in what was supposedly supposed to just be another day on the train ;)

Friday, November 04, 2005

Living Near the Airport?

With all the Thai Government talking about making a mega city just next to our new airport, I just can't help figure the foolishness of that. Anyway, I just thought this flash just fits in with the theme:

http://www.frontsteps.com/movies/neuro/

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Opportunity in the time of Crisis

Today I went to A. Jaeb's (A colleague in the same office) Mother's funeral. During my visit in the temple with a number of other lecturers, in which we reached extremely early, I was dying to find something to eat after a long travel. I was fortunate enough to find that there was this ice-cream vendor just across the van in which I quickly walked towards the vendor.

The vendor was a queer looking old man in the 40s-50s who had an odd smile considering he lost alot of teeth, and wearing a hawaii styled shirt making him look somewhat like a tourist. At the moment he was talking with a kid who seem to be interested in getting an icecream. During that time, I was going through the selection of icecream and asked him to get one for me. He laughed and apologized to me that he ran out of most of the ice-cream and had only 3 type left. It was kind of queer to know that the icecream vendor ran out of icecream considering it was a cold and damp day, so I stuck a conversation with him.

It started out as a quick discussion about bad weather and how it was typical conception that icecream doesn't sell well during the rainy season. When on that topic, he stratched his head and laughed. He said he wasn't expecting his icecream to sell well, but he told me meekly that he hasn't seen any other icecream vendors in his usual route, and it might be the fact that most other icecream vendors decided to in unison to take the day off allowing him a one day monopoly of the district - which was nearly a total of a week's typical sale. When asked why he didn't stay home like the other vendors, he could only laugh and say that it was better to sell icecream to people than to just stay home and stare at the ceiling. The kid that was buying icecream could help but laugh at that.

So at the end, I bought an icecream (though I didn't like any of the remaining types) and continued talking with a few other trivialities with the vendor before leaving. When thinking back on the topic, I remembered that one of the phrased that we had a good laugh was "Opportunity in the time of Crisis" - who would have thought about that?

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Propaganda

I just kind of irks me when reading the paper with all the new and fancy words that the policy makers are creating these days. As I'm pretty bored with all of this propaganda, I've decided that it would be a good idea to list a few of the common terms used by people in power and its everyday equivalent according to my own interpretation.

Term -> My Interpretation
Public Information -> Propaganda
Regime Change -> Revolution
Preventive War -> Preemptive War
Collateral Damage -> Civilian Deaths
Education about Facts -> Disinformation
Embedded Journalists -> Propaganda Agents
Media -> Propaganda Machine
Citizen -> Slave
Instill Democratic Goverment -> Control the State through Proxy
Current Politics -> Bullsh*t

Am I going over the top? Hmm... Nah...

Friday, October 21, 2005

Notebook Thermal Sensor Breakdown

I'm not trying to sound too technical, but I just wanted to recall about an odd triviality that I had of late. When talking about computers, I think I do know alittle bit about them having my share of experience as in assembling my own computer and etc. One of the computer breakdown experiences I've remembered very well was when I fried my PC powersupply by just simply touching it. Another experience that I remembered has to with a harddisk failure that was a result of my Harddisk casing had an undetected fan failure in the casing which attributed to a heat buildup which later made the harddisk kaput!

Related with the problem of that old harddisk, it made me more observant about the problems of heat with computers. In most of my newer PCs, I've had a habit to open up the casing so that there would be better ventilation and less risk for heat build-up that can cause serious problems. Later I also found that most computers also come in with heat monitors that can automatically detect potential problem when the heat rises above a level. That monitor is called a thermal sensor which is used to monitor if the temperature at the mainboard rises above a level that is deemed dangerous. These thermal sensors are also useful because it can automatically configure the strength of the fan. An example is that if it is hot, the fan works harder (generates more noise), and if the temperature is cool the fan would be at a lower setting (more quiet). As you notice, one of the most irritatible parts of the computer is the noise of the fan. Anyway, I'm just having a minor problem with my notebook lately. The problem seems to be that the thermal sensor of the notebook is kind of dead. At first I was thinking it may be a major problem, but since I needed to use my notebook for a lot of things, and I can't afford to send my notebook to the repair facility yet. After using the notebook for a while, I figured that the saving grace of the notebook was that when the thermal sensor goes down, the fan just runs at full speed all the time. By the looks of it it isn't a really serious defect considering by my estimate, the temperature in the laptop shouldn't be over the limit, but the major drawback is that its pretty noisy. Anyway, on a sidenote, I hardly care - there is noise everywhere in Bangkok, and I think another source of noise pollution won't be that bad :P

Friday, October 14, 2005

Never leave you Citizen ID at Home

Okay, as stated earlier, I'm on one of those barren spells again. A few days ago, I lent my big bro my ID card because he needed to get a copy of it to confirm that I would be working with him on the BOT (Bank of Thailand) workflow improvement contract. After he finished photocopying my ID, I didn't put it back into my wallet immediately. That was a big mistake.

Today I had to go make a new bank account so that I can receive a grant from the Computer and Communication Education Foundation Grant. When I finished filling up my forms, I finally realized I forgot to bring my ID and it was lying around my cluttered desk at home. Gah! Now I had to go back home again to get my ID and get back to make my bank account. Now that is alot of time wasted especially when the bank in question isn't quite close to home :-/

So that is my lesson. I take my own Citizen's ID for granted, but at times it can be really necessary, so don't forget to carry with you all the time just to be safe.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Senseless Part#1

Life sucks currently - Too much work, too many unforseen pitfalls, too many headaches, but I'm not going to give up to those small potholes in life.

Anyway since life is pretty bad lately, what is a better redemy than to spend alittle time on something that is senseless like a meme and then go back to work :P

Basics:
:x: name: Pisal
:x: height: 175
:x: shoe size: 10
:x: hair color: Black
:x: siblings: Younger/Older Brother
:x: eyes: black
:x: college: Assumption University
:x: high: EIS
:x: elementary: RIS
:x: hometown: Bangkok
:x: favorite place: Home
:x: favorite soda: Ice Tea PEACH!
:x: game: Tetris
:x: favorite food: Pizza
:x: favorite book: LOTR
:x: favorite pen: Reynolds - Blue
:x: favorite animal: Almond(my dog)
:x: waterbrand:
:x: favorite burger place: Home
:x: favorite hobby: Cook / Play Computer Games
:x: favorite friends: The Homies
:x: bar or club: Saxophone
:x: favorite vitamins:
:x: favorite news: Slashdot
:x: favorite dog: -
:x: cell phone co.: Nokia
:x: favorite shirt: Working - Blue Long Sleeve Shirt
:x: favorite sport: Basketball
:x: favorite alcohol: Screwdriver
:x: favorite computer: Fast and Powerful
:x: favorite fruit: Pineapple
:x: favorite song: When You Say Nothing at All
:x: ketchup or salsa: Ketchup
:x: favorite milkshake: Strawberry
:x: steak or lobster: steak
:x: favorite color: blue
:x: favorite weather: sunshine
:x: favorite state: Bangkok

Do You?
:x: have a crush on someone: Yes
:x: wish you could live somewhere else: Maybe
:x: think about suicide: Used to
:x: believe in online dating: ...
:x: think others find you attractive: Maybe
:x: want more piercings: No
:x: like cleaning: Yes
:x: like roller coasters: No
:x: write in cursive or print: Print
:x: last talked to: Big Bro
:x: last thought of: Food
:x: last cut your nails: yesterday
:x: last did laundry: long time ago
:x: last hugged a tree: A few months ago
:x: last watched anime: 1 year
:x: last prayed: Can't Remember

For Or Against:
:x: long distant relationships:
Neutral
:x: killing people: Against
:x: teenage smoking:
Against
:x: driving drunk: Against
:x: gay/lesbian relationships: Neutral
:x: soap operas:
Neutral

Have you?
:x: ever cried over a girl/boy: Never
:x: ever been in a fist fight: Yes
:x: ever been arrested: NEVER
:x: ever had a friend die: Yes
:x: ever dated a cousin: No
:x: ever used a gun: Yes (ROTC - army training))
:x: ever finished a puzzle: Yes
:x: ever got surgery: Yes
:x: ever got beat up: Yes (But also beating up the other person :P)
:x: ever hated someone: Try Not to
:x: ever made a huge mistake: Yes
:x: ever tried any drugs: Yes (if alcohol counts :P)
:x: ever jogged a mile: What about a minimarathon?
:x: ever played with someones feelings: Don't Know
:x: ever had feelings for someone young: Neutral

What?
:x: shoes do you wear: Running Shoes
:x: are you scared of: Roaches
:x: do you sleep in: Floor/Bed
:x: did you eat for lunch: rice
:x: is love: ???

Number Of Times:
:x: of times I have had my heart broken?: 1
:x: of hearts I have broken?: 3
:x: of girls I have kissed?: ...
:x: of boys I have kissed?: NEVER and NOT PLANNING TO
:x: of guys/girls you've rejected?: 2
:x: of drugs you taken: NEVER
:x: of accidents you been in: Too many to count
:x: of people you lead on?: ???
:x: of people you broke up with?: 3

Do you think you are:
:x: pretty: Don't Think So
x: funny: If I'm in the mood
:x: hot: ???
:x: friendly:
If I'm in the mood
:x: ugly: You can count on me
:x: loveable: maybe
:x: caring: sometimes
:x: dorky: Yes!!!!
:x: cocky: At Times
:x: girly: No
:x: boyish: Yes
:x: smart: Yes
:x: pimp: ???
:x: angel: I'm a mean angel
:x: gangster: LOL
:x: god: of my own destiny

Favorite:
:x: five letter word:
:x: comedian: -
:x: candy: -
:x: cartoon: Sanctuary
:x: cereal: -
:x: chewing gum: -
:x: day of week: Sat
:x: least fave day: Wed
:x: jello flavor: Strawberry
:x: summer/winter: Winter
:x: trampolines or swimming pools: swimming pool !!

Person Who:
:x: slept in your bed: -
:x: saw you cry: -
:x: made you cry: -
:x: you went to the movies with: Such a long time ago...
:x: yelled at you: -
:x: sent you an email: I'm a black hole

Have you ever:
:x: said "i love you" and meant it?: Yes
:x: gone out in public in your pajamas?: Yes
:x: kept a secret from everyone?: Yes
:x: cried during a movie?: Yes
:x: ever at anytime owned anything new kids on the block?: ???
:x: planned your week based on the TV Guide: Yes
:x: been on stage?: Yes
:x: been to New York?: No
:x: been to California?: Yes
:x: been to Florida?: No
:x: Hawaii?: No
:x: China?: No
:x: Canada?: Yes
:x: Europe?: Yes
:x: what time is it now: 21:15
:x: apples or bananas?: apples
:x: blue or red?: Blue
:x: walmart or target?: Bah!
:x: spring or fall?: Spring
:x: what are you gonna do after you finish this?: Eat
:x: what was the last meal you ate?: Dinner
:x: last noise you heard?: The Keyboard
:x: last smell you sniffed?: My Food
:x: last time you went out of state/province?: A few months ago

Friendship/Love:
:x: do you believe in love at first sight?: Yes
:x: do you want children one day &
if so, how many?: Yes, 11 to create a foodball team (p.s. I'm not serious :P)
:x: the most important thing in a friendship is?: Loyalty

Random Crap:
:x: criminal record?: NONE
:x: do you speak any other languages?: English, Thai
:x: name some of your favorite things in your bedroom?: PS2 and Books, Books, and More Books!
:x: piercings and where?: None!
:x: worst feeling in the world?: Hungry
:x: whom you love: The World

Your:
:x: nickname(s): Chang
:x: initials: PS
:x: how old do you look?: 20
:x: how old do you act?: from 16-60
:x: glasses/contacts?: Glasses
:x: braces: Used to
:x: do you have any pets?: None
:x: you get embarrassed?: If it deals with my personal life
:x: what upsets you?: Bad Food and Undependable People

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Mobile Phone Ring Tone

With all the interesting ring tone you can put on your mobile phone form synthesized MIDI to real sampled music (MP3), I found you can learn much from the choice of music. People with current hit music usually are those who follow the latest trends. People using synthesized music embeded in the phone usually are not technically saavy or just are people who like conforming to set standards. People with classical or jazz music are people with sophisticated taste. People using game music are hard core gamers. If you noticed, you can kind of predict people's personality or habits from their ring tone.

On a sidenote, today while I was proctoring, one of the mobile phones left in a student's bag was ringing. It had an MP3 ringtone or the song "I am so Lonely" by Akorn on full volume. After the first few phrases the whole class was laughing, much to the embarassment of the owner who came to close it. Just a short lesson, turn off your mobile phones (or keep in silent mode) if you are going to enter quiet places such as an exam room and if possible at a concert :P

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Early Morning Doldrums

During the last few weeks, I've been extremely busy wi th things. As with an increasing workload at times I have to work longer and at times into the early morning. The major problem is that when you sleep very early in the morning, its pretty difficult to maintain a right state of mind when you have to wake up a few hours later many consecutive days.

Coffee is bad. As noted, it makes you hyperactive but only for a short moment before fatigue sets back in - and pretty much leaves you in a worse state than you were before. Eating sugar does help, but having too much sugar adds too much calories and also excess sugar leads to easy mood swings from imbalanced hormones. In summary, there is nothing better than sleep if you have too little sleep.

Anyway, life of late been pretty like a sin curve. At times its in the dump. For example, I'm increasingly frustrated with the excessive amount of spam in many of my email accounts. Lately with my newer email accounts I've taking extra precautions to the point of paranoid. To be exact, I will never give that email to any other person than people who I trust, and also are computer literate enough to know how to prevent spam. Anyone knowing this email would belong to an elite clique that could contact me. Anyway the last statement could be taken lightly like a joke, but somehow I have to admit it does sound somewhat elitist :P Talking about bad times, one of my forums was hacked after been attacked for a while. Can't really care too much at the moment due to work, but I'm currently going to get it back online with a new safer system. I got caught in a thunderstorm and had to wade through flood. The GDXCON2005 which I'm arranging is getting along well, and with potential sponsors, things can't be looking greater at this moment! My latest research is coming out well. Been invited as a special referee for a world robotic competition. Getting an additional side-job. Oh well, I could ramble on and on about little things but lets just leave it at this for now after a long absence.

With all that has gone through the last forthnight, somehow I just yearn for a long hibernation. Today, I'm going to make 120% sure I'm going to get it.

Friday, September 16, 2005

An interesting excerpt from a chain letter I've got:


"Did you know that those who appear to be very strong in heart, are real weak and most susceptible?

Did you know that those who spend their time protecting others are the ones that really need someone to protect them?

Did you know that the three most difficult things to say are: I love you, Sorry, and Help me.

Did you know that those who dress in red are more confident in themselves?

Did you know that those who dress in yellow are those that enjoy their beauty?

Did you know that those who dress in black, are those who want to be unnoticed and need your help and understanding?

Did you know that when you help someone, the help is returned in two folds?

Did you know that it's easier to say what you feel in writing than saying it to someone in the face?
But did you know that it has more value when you say it to their face?"