Sunday, November 08, 2009

Saturn and us

This picture is taken by the spacecraft Cassini.
It's Saturn between the Cassini and the Sun.
A beautiful eclipse with the famous ring in another light.


Now, let's move from the big picture to the something smaller.
In the picture above and below, that's Earth as a spot.
Noticed how fucking tiny our precious blue planet is.


It's the only one.

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Cockroach

First i find it at my kitchen table, but it hides away quickly.

Later, it's in my room, above my cupboard which is stuffed with pretty much useless books.

On a side note, that's the potpourri Marcus and Jiaxin gave me for last birthday.

I knew what i had to do.
I went to check out my kitchen sink: no insecticide
Rolled up a old newspaper.
Stood on my bed.

Here's the interesting part.
It is clear that the cockroach is not aware of me, as it did not bulge.
But with my shadow cast over it, and my body radiating heat, it has to have detected me already!
Seems like the cockroach treated me as a non-person, it is not afraid of me!
A non-person is someone who is more of an object rather than a person; when the non-person does an action, we usually don't react, or react with auto-pilot responses. Good examples will be beggars or flyer distributors.

And i, as a human being many times larger, did not strike it immediately.
I was nervous, my heart rate increased, i might have even started panting.
I stood there for more than 30seconds.
Then i thought, why the fuck am i being afraid of this shit which is not even giving me attention?

BAMZ.

Some white substance came off by the abdominal, but the feelers kept moving, after a minute of watching, it even starts crawling towards the under side of my cupboard.
Pretty fit old roach.

Friday, November 06, 2009

Get back on track

I get lost more often than i get back on track.

It's more fun when i'm lost.

I think it's the same for everyone.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Talk about movie: Food Inc.



This movie will be boring if you are a junk food or fashion fundamentalist, and the content is mostly unrelated to Singapore.

Some things i learnt from the movie:
90% of the soy seeds planted in the US are patented by a company "Monsanto", farmers remain poor because of the monopolization.
Corn is used in a scarily amount of products, including batteries, coke, charcoal, diapers, syrup, and juice.
Throughout our human evolution, we've been struggling to get enough sugar, salt, fats, and ultimately calories, it's no wonder people are gobbling fast food.

We are all gonna die early if these bad calories continue to be cheaper and the organic stuff never gets more affordable.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Love Story Taylor Swift meets Viva La Vida Coldplay—Piano Cello—by Jon Schmidt



Love this piece. Sweet father.

This makes me imagine how i am in the future, as a father.
I think i'll bring my kids all outdoors and just wack. :d

It's scary to become a father who doesn't parent properly, just because it's so important for that life/lives you brought into existence.

What kind of father do you wish to be?