Monthly Archives » December 2004

Sense Of Direction 0 

  Photography.

Dare to give it a try?
Looks like the roads here turned up to be a bowl of entangled spaghetti served on your dinner table =)

Renovation @ Home 0 

  Daily Life.

The crack between the original and extended section of my house wall grows larger each year, so my father decided to seal the crack up.

This is the crack which annoys my parents, whom both are perfectionists.
The workers cam eas early as 9.30am and started to break some bricks apart around the crack. The entire house [...]

A New Spin On The Old Skim 0 

  Science & Technology.

Skimming stones is no idle pastime - it’s hard science. That’s the lesson French physicist Lyderic Bocquet passed on to his eight-year-old son.
Stone skipping = hard science? Read on!
The Lyon University preofessor came up with a formula that calculates the speed, spin and shape necessary for an optimal skim of a stone. You probably know [...]

It’s Winter Solstice Festival! 0 

  Daily Life, Food.

My day of our last Chinese special festival of the year - Winter Solstice Festival - tong zhi (冬至), starts with making the dough for glutinous rice flour balls, called thang yuen (汤圆). I just love the eat this since I was young (not because of my mom force-fed me!), and so I decided to [...]

Medication Monikers - What’s In A Name? Plenty 0 

  Science & Technology.

Medication Monikers
Zocor, Zantac & Xanax. Three sound-alike drugs that treat three different illness. No wonder 15% of medication error are blomed on name confusion. If two difeerent drugs are named as Xango* and Zango* respectively, can you differentiate them? *These drugs do not exist (they only exist in my imagination)
However, naming a drug is as [...]

Interesting Blog Statistics 1 

  Science & Technology.

Perseus Development Corp. randomly surveyed 3,634 blogs on eight leading blog-hosting services to develop a model of blog populations. Based on this research, Perseus estimates that 4.12 million blogs have been created on these services: Blog-City, BlogSpot, Diaryland, LiveJournal, Pitas, TypePad, Weblogger and Xanga.

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Joke No. 208 Please 0 

  Fun.

Reader’s Digest Asia’s 50 Best Jokes.
I went to Reader’s Digest Asia online to check out the result of the winner of the 50 Best Jokes competition. And the results are as what I’ve expected - Joke 16 won the title of being the funniest and entertaining joke.
Here to joke goes:
On his first day, a newcomer [...]