Tiu lor, phone cracked
Actually, the mirror cracked. Dropped it on the road, face down, so the mirror cracked. Two unsightly spiderwebs. Taped it so that fragments won’t drop. Am so smart.
So I walk with a horribly ugly phone now. Say hi if you see a girl holding up a piece of taped-up silver looking thing.
Change the mirror how much leh?
All Food is Blergh.
I can’t help it, for every mouthful of Sambal I put in my mouth, I thought,
“This is not it, there are definitely better stuff out there. Even I can come up with something more awesome, given the time.”
The nasi lemak did not disappoint. But it certainly did not impress either. The same thought creeps up, every.single.meal.
The hawkers in KL should really buck up their efforts. Are their tastebuds horribly, horribly out of tune to what is good food? There are days that I come across proper food and I would have good mood for the rest of the day and then there are days when I find GREAT food that I dream of eating the same thing for a week. I am not psychotic, merely deprived of proper, tasty food.
You see, my thought on this is that, they skimp on materials, that’s why their food sucks. But that thought quickly evaporated when I’m reminded that most of these hawkers hire foreign workers to prepare their food.
THANK GOD INDONESIA BANNED INDONS FROM COMING ANYMORE.
I look forward to good food from now on. YOUR INDON TASTEBUDS ARE WEIRD. KEEP IT TO YOURSELF.
If anything please send those who underperform back to Indon too. Yes, the good ones can stay. KTHXBAI.
I do not hate Indonesians, I just worry about how our food is gonna be like 20 years from now.
I supposed it would taste like crap, but whatever it is, we have got to stop the tragedy from spiralling into a state of disarray.
Malaysians should really start doing their own butt-washings.
wow
I’m not proud of what I did. I don’t know if I’ll regret it. But right now, I feel like I have finally done something for myself. Not sure if it’s for the best though.
I told her I’m not staying with her. She took it well. I think.
I grew some balls. Girl balls. =D
My diet has some deficiencies.
First, greens. Other than the occasional cabbage side dish hera and there, I barely eat greens when I’m out. I dunno, they never look any good to me.
Second, fruits. It’s been almost a month since any remnant of fruit glided down my throat, save for the slice of watermelon after the birthday korean meal.
Third, MEAT. RED MEAT. I can tell you, when I look at pictures of burger patties and chunks of steak, I actually salivate. Damn. Iron deficiency is definitely why I feel damn tired after doing nothing at all.
Ughh… I wanna go back and have a proper meal. Without msg, without paying through my nose and finally be eating something that’s properly done.
Guess What?
For once in my life, I took a proactive step. I found a job in a computer shop and had just finished my shift about and hour ago.
As I walked to the eatery to pack my dinner and along the way to get my car, my mind spun around one single thought.
Why in God’s name did I take up this job??
If I wanted money, I just had to open my mouth and ask. If I wanted some challenge, I could take up boxing classes. If I wanted intellectual stimulation, I would be better off reading my much neglected novel collection. If I needed some contact with human life, I could well join a student society that I have avoided(like a plague) for 5 years.
My father compared my pay to a toilet cleaner’s and concluded that the latter is more well off than me. It wasn’t snide at all, it’s just him being his totally logical self. I would know, because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Anyway, I disagreed. But I have no idea at all if those nice ladies cleaning The Gardens’ (Mid Valley) loos are indeed earning less than me.
In fact, I dunno. It’s not about the Camera Fund, or the PS3 Fund.
I guess I just want to have a taste of what it’s like to earn my keep. Like my friends who have all started work.
Work had been non-eventful. Thank god I didn’t screw up.
Here’s to my newfound sense of achievement.
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You PMS your bloody pasal la! Hei it wasn’t me that put an ovary that bleeds every month in you bitch. Bring your self-pity and moodswings to somebody who actually gives a damn and see la how long they can stand you. Just see how many friends you will have left one day.
Which is why I don’t want to stay with you. Who would want to face someone who only sulks and blow up her own problems whenever somebody tries to innitiate a conversation? Day in and day out, it’s like this>> =(
I totally cannot stand this kind of people.
Not my fault your life sucks la… you wanna let it out, i can only listen but don’t make it sound like I’m the bane of all your woes. I am insensitive by nature, don’t expect me to understand anything like that, although I can feign it.
One more thing, I solve my own problems or work around them. I suggest you do the same, bitch.
Fusion
I love this idea. Not the faltering of the project, but the concept of using fusion as a source of energy. However, they really must first build the box. Adamantium, anyone?
Fusion falters under soaring costs
By Matt McGrath
Science reporter, BBC World Service
‘World’s biggest science experiment’
An international plan to build a nuclear fusion reactor is being threatened by rising costs, delays and technical challenges.
Emails leaked to the BBC indicate that construction costs for the experimental fusion project called Iter have more than doubled.
Some scientists also believe that the technical hurdles to fusion have become more difficult to overcome and that the development of fusion as a commercial power source is still at least 100 years away.
At a meeting in Japan on Wednesday, members of the governing Iter council will review the plans and may agree to scale back the project.
‘Size of a battleship’
On a windy construction site in the south of France, the lofty scientific goal of developing nuclear fusion as a power source is starting to take on a more substantial form.
Covering an area of more than 400,000 square metres, workers have built a one-kilometre-long earthen platform on which the experimental reactor will sit.
"This is going to be the world’s biggest science experiment," says Neil Calder, Iter’s head of communications.
"This is a vast global project to show the scientific feasibility of fusion as a limitless source of energy.
"On top of this platform we are going to build 130 buildings. The main building will contain the Iter machine itself.
"It will be huge – the size of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris – and it’ll weigh about the same as a battleship – 36,000 tonnes of metal and instrumentation."
Controlling fusion
Iter was formally launched in 2006 as collaboration between the European Union, the United States, Russia, Japan, China, India and South Korea. The plan was to build the world’s most advanced fusion experiment within 10 years for a budget of $6bn (£3.6bn).
Plasma in a tokamak – a fusion reactor device – can reach millions of degrees
But the grand scheme has been dogged by soaring costs caused by more expensive raw materials and increases in staff numbers. Emails seen by the BBC indicate that the total price of constructing the experiment is now expected to be in excess of $16bn (£10bn).
Professor Sebastien Balibar is research director for the French national research laboratory in Paris. He says that if the rising price of Iter is met by cutting back other research programmes that would be a disaster for science.
"If Iter is built on money having to do with energy or oil, that is perfectly good, I hope it works and in one hundred years I hope we know how to control a fusion reaction. But if it is taken from the public support of research in physics or biology then I would be very upset," says Professor Balibar.
‘Different road’
Costs are not the only problem; Iter is also beset by huge technical challenges.
Fusion takes place when a superheated gas called a plasma reaches a stage called ignition, where hydrogen atoms start to fuse with each other and release large amounts of energy. Iter aims to achieve this but only for a few minutes at a time.
MIT professor Bruno Coppi has been working on fusion research in Italy and the United States for many decades. He believes that Iter is the wrong experiment; it is too costly, will take too long and may not deliver fusion. He says we should be looking at other options.
"We are pressed for time, the climate situation is worse. I think we should go with a faster line of experiments. Iter should admit its limitations and it will give a limited contribution to fusion, but to get to ignition you need to follow a different road," he says.
Fusion is like trying to put the Sun in a box – but we don’t know how to make the box 
Professor Sebastien Balibar
Another huge hurdle is how to contain gases that are 10 times hotter than the Sun. The materials required simply haven’t been invented yet.
Professor Balibar explained: "The most difficult problem is the problem of materials. Some time ago I declared that fusion is like trying to put the Sun in a box – but we don’t know how to make the box.
"The walls of the box, which need to be leak tight, are bombarded by these neutrons which can make stainless steel boil. Some people say it is just a question of inventing a stainless steel which is porous to let these particles through; personally I would have started by inventing this material."
Failure a possibility
In Provence, the scientists working on Iter say they have faith that the project will deliver the most effective path to fusion.
Dr Norbert Holtkamp is the man tasked with building the machine.
"Iter is a step that will demonstrate whether fusion is viable. But whether it is easy then depends on the cost of energy at that time on the cost of oil, but certainly Iter has the potential.
Dr Holtkamp recognises that Iter is a scientific experiment – and as such it has the possibility of failure.
"Any project can fail, especially if it’s one of a kind or the first of its kind. It would be irresponsible for any scientist or project manager to say that in a science project it cannot fail."
Long-term plan
The rising costs of construction and technical challenges are to be reviewed at a meeting of the Iter council in Japan on Wednesday and Thursday. It is possible that by the end of this year, a new scaled-down version of Iter will be agreed.
The Iter tokamak would be the largest of its kind in the world
Dr Holtkamp says the view that the project is to be scaled down is wrong.
"Fusion is not going to be the alternative in the next 20, 30 or 40 years, that is correct. But there needs to a long term plan; 40 years is little more than a generation. We need to think about the next generation and the many after that."
Professor Balibar says that the end result of the ballooning costs and increasing technical challenges will be a further slowing of the path to fusion.
"The consequence of all these difficulties is that it’s not going to be tomorrow that one succeeds with fusion. But the energy problem and the climate problem are urgent," he says.
"The global warming is now – one needs to find a solution immediately, one cannot wait 100 years. The solution to the climate and energy problem is not Iter, (it) is not fusion."
While fusion offers a long-term hope of securing energy supplies, the changing climate and the pressing need for greener energy may ensure that renewables get greater political support in the short to medium term.
Ultimately fusion may be a technological dream that is just too hard to turn into reality. And Iter, in a beautiful setting in the south of France, may become the graveyard of a good but impossible idea.
Sometimes, you just have to leave me to my own devices…
… lest I go beserk and napalm your face into… meat sauce.
It’s true, there have been cases of people-who-just-want-to-be-left-alone wanting to be left alone. Dire, dire need to be LEFT ALONE. Bloody hell, ask.me.move.table.move.this.wipe.that… when I have more important things like looking at Megan Fox’s pictures to worry about journals to read.
Anyway, I never fuss about you, you don’t fuss about me lah.
Oh yah… thanks Bbb for the John Mayer-Where The Light is Concert DVD. Gives you copy after ripz?
And thanks for the Sushi meal… *bahagia*
Jess… I think I want sushi… =D
Then I’ll have 4 meals of sushi in less than a week =D
Obligatory Birthday Post!
In just an hour or so, I will hit 23. Yeah, one year before 24 and 6 years before 30. You get my drift…
As of now, my biggest dream is to work, get some money, play and retire well in a small place. Have the freshest of ingredients around me so that I can experiment with all types of cooking. Sort of like this person.
As of now, I have achieved and am going to achieve 2 things that are quite important. I have a Degree in my hand and will graduate with a Master’s Degree by 24. And then… in line with my GRAND PLAN, I can start procuring for a land in a comfortable area, maybe by 30. =D
Anyway, just saying…
MAYBE I SHOULD START GETTING A BOYFRIEND.
I bet many would agree… but as I was saying, I was just saying =D
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Update: Dunno if u’re reading. Thanks bro, for that awesome meal. Had been long time since my last Korean teehee… even my burps are of the satisfying kind right now, 30% garlicky and 70% of meat +kimchi= AWESOME =D
I can sleep happy tonite.
muahahahah
there’s this recorded conversation between a raging customer and a very very patient astro service personnel forwarded to me.
Am so amused by how the lady(kanangambigai) argues… like a rabid dog.
wahlao…. I think his(Jeeva) way of handling it was… not very smart.
Anyway, it is amazing how people can abuse customer service ppl like that.
I’m amazed that she held on to that one phrase, “what did you mean by it’s my problem?” for the whole 22 minutes and 30 seconds hahahah. Yeah, I’m listening to the clip while typing this =D
And this line: “grade up yourself in the English”
is CLASSIC!!
makes me wonder if this is the kind of ppl that make me wait forever for someone to layan me when I call some hotline.
