After decades of intensive effort by both experimental and theoretical physicists worldwide, a tiny particle with no charge, a very low mass and a lifetime much shorter than a nanosecond, dubbed the "axion," has now been detected by the University at Buffalo physicist who first suggested its existence in a little-read paper as early as 1974.
The finding caps nearly three decades of research both by Piyare Jain, Ph.D., UB professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and lead investigator on the research, who works independently -- an anomaly in the field -- and by large groups of well-funded physicists who have, for three decades, unsuccessfully sought the recreation and detection of axions in the laboratory, using high-energy particle accelerators.
The paper, available online in the British Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics at http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0954-3899/34/1/009 , will be published in the January 2007 issue.
Results first were presented during a two-day symposium held in October at UB that celebrated Jain’s 50-year career in the physics department in the College of Arts and Sciences.
During that symposium, the world-renowned and Nobel Prize-winning scientists in attendance expressed astonishment and delight that the axion finally might have been found.
The axion has been seen as critical to the Standard Model of Physics and is believed to be a component of much of the dark matter in the universe.
"These results show that we have detected axions, part of a family of particles that likely also includes the very heavy Higgs-Boson particle, which at present is being sought after at different laboratories," said Jain.
The story of the search for the axion particle in high-energy physics -- not to be confused with the search by cosmologists and astrophysicists for axions produced by the sun -- reads almost like a novel,
with veritable armies of physicists committing many years of research and passion to its discovery starting in the 1970s.
In 1977, theoretical physicists predicted that there should exist a particle with characteristics very similar to those described in Jain’s papers; in that publication, the term "axion" was coined. After that theoretical work, there was a mushrooming of papers from both theoretical and experimental physicists all chasing the axion using low-, medium- and high-energy accelerator beams from different laboratories worldwide.
But when it proved to be too elusive, many in the physics community then abandoned the search in the 1990s, based on puzzling evidence that perhaps this tantalizing particle didn’t exist after all. Some groups flatly denied its existence and began referring to it as a "phantom."
Jain’s initial interest in the elusive particles originated with work he began publishing in 1974 in Physical Review Letters and other journals that demonstrated evidence for particles with very low mass and very short lifetimes during particle accelerator experiments he conducted at Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
At the time, Jain’s papers elicited little interest from other physicists.
"This particle was there in my original paper in 1974," he said. "The experiment gave a hint that these particles existed but did not generate sufficient statistics to prove it. I knew I had to wait until a heavy ion beam at very high energy was available at a new accelerator."
As recently as 1999, a project called the CERES experiment at CERN in Geneva again focused on attempting to detect the axion, but that project also was unsuccessful.
The problem, according to Jain, was with their detector, which was electronic, the standard used in high-energy physics experiments today.
"They didn’t know how to handle the detector for short-lived particles," Jain said. "I knew that for this very short-lived particle -- 10-13 seconds -- the detector must be placed very near the interaction point where the collision between the projectile beam and the target takes place so that the produced particle doesn’t run away too far; if it does, it will decay quickly and it will be completely missed. That is what happened in most of the unsuccessful experiments." Instead, Jain used a visual detector, made of three-dimensional photographic emulsions, which act as both target and detector and that therefore can detect very short-lived particles, such as the axion. However, use of such a detector is so specialized that to be successful, it requires intensive training and experience. In the 1950s, Jain was trained to use this type of detector by its developer, the Nobel laureate, British physicist Cecil F. Powell. Jain has used it throughout his career to successfully detect other exotic
phenomena, such as the charm particle, the anomalon, the quark-gluon plasma and the nuclear collective flow. In Jain’s successful experiment, the axions were produced under extreme conditions of high temperature and high pressure, using a heavy ion lead beam with a total energy of 25 trillion electron volts at CERN in Geneva.
His experiments generated 1,220 electron pairs with identified vertices, the origin of each pair. They peaked at a distance of just 200-300 microns from the interaction point where the collisions take place in the emulsion.
"Only at that very short distance did I find the peak signal of this very-low-mass, short-lived particle with a neutral charge," he said.
After they are produced, axions rapidly decay into two electron pairs, the electron and the positron, he explained.
"We identified each vertex for each electron pair and we would not accept any electron pair unless we knew its vertex," he said. "There was a congestion of all kinds of low mass particles, including axions, near the detector. The background has to be filtered out from this congestion in order to obtain the signal of the axion."
Jain’s co-author on the paper is Gurmukh Singh, then a post-doctoral researcher at UB and now a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
During Jain’s long and illustrious career at UB, he published 175 scientific papers on a wide variety of physics topics, ranging from cosmic ray research performed on balloon flights to National Institutes of Health-funded studies on bone tissue to find more effective cancer therapies. "After half a century as a scientist at UB, I find that with the discovery of this axion, my mission is complete," he concluded.
Source: University at Buffalo
Whoah.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Yay! The fucking family law Legal Opinion and the role play over liao! YAY YAY YAY YAAAAAAAYYY! Because of the stupid report I scared my life with pictures of transexuals' genitals! Damn disgusting! Loose and flabby and dunno what. Yucks!
I think I hate mats more then ever. I just saw this bunch of mats, holding on to their fucking cellphone, playing some shitty RnB music, then dancing to it! Eh you not Michael Jackson la chee bye. Knn shit people, shit music, shit dance moves. As expected.
I think I hate mats more then ever. I just saw this bunch of mats, holding on to their fucking cellphone, playing some shitty RnB music, then dancing to it! Eh you not Michael Jackson la chee bye. Knn shit people, shit music, shit dance moves. As expected.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
In Sydney or Seattle nobody would bat an eyelid, but the couples are part of a thriving underground swinging scene that is an anomaly for a country where oral sex is illegal and Playboy magazine is banned.
There are at least 10 swingers clubs in Singapore, most of them private, some of them online. With more than 6,000 members, the Web-based United SG Swingers is one of the biggest.
"There are a lot more people that are open to the idea. It's so widespread now," said a 42-year-old Singaporean company executive who only wanted to be identified as Jack.
"Swinging is all about sex. It's satisfying the urge to have casual sex and doing it with somebody you're comfortable with," said Jack, who has been swinging for 10 years.
For all their enthusiasm, few swingers tell family and friends about their lifestyle, although the practice is not illegal in Singapore.
"In Singapore, most people will perceive us as perverts," said a 39-year-old publisher who has been swinging for five years. "Look at our government policies, they say: 'Let's open up.' But our policies have always remained very conservative."
Wealthy Singapore, which has consistently ranked near the bottom in a global survey of sexually active nations, has been struggling to shake off its reputation for prudishness.
Friday, it opened Sexpo 2006, the country's second sex exhibition, featuring an array of toys and seminars.
SINGAPORE SWING
At United SG Swingers, people share erotic photographs, exchange personal ads and correspond about the next gathering. It is a close-knit community in which couples recommend good sex partners and criticize those who aren't.
A police spokesman confirmed that swinging is not illegal as long as it is done behind closed doors, is consensual and no money changes hands.
This year, the organizers of United SG Swingers started holding "on premise" parties, where couples can engage in group sex in houses and hotel rooms across Singapore.
At these parties, the bedrooms have a strict clothes-off rule and the "hard swingers" can engage in partner swapping. The "soft swingers" are couples who stand around and watch, or have sex with their own partners in full view of others.
Couples who swing say that seeing their own partners in action keeps their passion burning.
"It's like looking at cake and wanting to eat it," said the main organizer of United SG Swingers, 37-year-old IT specialist Josh, as his 32-year-old wife nodded in agreement.
But some swingers disapprove of these parties, saying they can degenerate into orgies.
"You can't establish pure friendships when there's a large group," said Ishak. "Genuine swingers would want to establish trust -- you can't trust a person just by meeting them one time and then think they can do it with your wife."
A 34-year-old Australian who attends swinging parties told Reuters that Singapore's scene is just evolving.
"It's very innocuous here, it's not like other countries," he said. "Compared to Australia and Europe, it's more discreet and less lively. Singaporeans are pretty reserved in a lot of ways."
I think Mek is finding the webby now.
There are at least 10 swingers clubs in Singapore, most of them private, some of them online. With more than 6,000 members, the Web-based United SG Swingers is one of the biggest.
"There are a lot more people that are open to the idea. It's so widespread now," said a 42-year-old Singaporean company executive who only wanted to be identified as Jack.
"Swinging is all about sex. It's satisfying the urge to have casual sex and doing it with somebody you're comfortable with," said Jack, who has been swinging for 10 years.
For all their enthusiasm, few swingers tell family and friends about their lifestyle, although the practice is not illegal in Singapore.
"In Singapore, most people will perceive us as perverts," said a 39-year-old publisher who has been swinging for five years. "Look at our government policies, they say: 'Let's open up.' But our policies have always remained very conservative."
Wealthy Singapore, which has consistently ranked near the bottom in a global survey of sexually active nations, has been struggling to shake off its reputation for prudishness.
Friday, it opened Sexpo 2006, the country's second sex exhibition, featuring an array of toys and seminars.
SINGAPORE SWING
At United SG Swingers, people share erotic photographs, exchange personal ads and correspond about the next gathering. It is a close-knit community in which couples recommend good sex partners and criticize those who aren't.
A police spokesman confirmed that swinging is not illegal as long as it is done behind closed doors, is consensual and no money changes hands.
This year, the organizers of United SG Swingers started holding "on premise" parties, where couples can engage in group sex in houses and hotel rooms across Singapore.
At these parties, the bedrooms have a strict clothes-off rule and the "hard swingers" can engage in partner swapping. The "soft swingers" are couples who stand around and watch, or have sex with their own partners in full view of others.
Couples who swing say that seeing their own partners in action keeps their passion burning.
"It's like looking at cake and wanting to eat it," said the main organizer of United SG Swingers, 37-year-old IT specialist Josh, as his 32-year-old wife nodded in agreement.
But some swingers disapprove of these parties, saying they can degenerate into orgies.
"You can't establish pure friendships when there's a large group," said Ishak. "Genuine swingers would want to establish trust -- you can't trust a person just by meeting them one time and then think they can do it with your wife."
A 34-year-old Australian who attends swinging parties told Reuters that Singapore's scene is just evolving.
"It's very innocuous here, it's not like other countries," he said. "Compared to Australia and Europe, it's more discreet and less lively. Singaporeans are pretty reserved in a lot of ways."
I think Mek is finding the webby now.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
So I was at the Legal Lab and doing everything but work when I saw this:
"ONE
there is NO SUCH THING as a friendstertracker.
it does NOT exist. so quit postingstupidbulletins like
"OH-EM-GEEEEE this WORKS!!!"
no, it doesnt.
TWO
To the people who have like 25,000friends,
are you serious?
You're stupid.
Go play in traffic.
THREE
Don't ever post pictures and say
"OMG, I'm so ugly"
"OMG, I'm so fat"
because if you were,
you wouldn't post them.
And if u do ur a freaking mongoloid.
FOUR
Nobody cares about threats over theinternet.
Don't try to act hardcore with thekeyboard.
Fighting online is like racing in thespecialolympics;
even if you win, you're still retarded.
FIVE
Quit crying
b/c you're not on someones top 8.
who cares?
ITS FRIENDSTER!!!
Stop bitching!!!
SIX
Who really cares if
I don't accept you as a friend?
MOVE ON!!!
Don't send me another request ormessage asking
"what's up with you not adding me?"
I don't want you as a friend,
that's what's up bitch!!!
SEVEN
Little 12 year olds who have Friendster
and look like sluts, and act likewhores
go somewhere else
because nobody wants you here.
EIGHT
If you have decided to read this,
you are a true Friendster Friend.
Real friends read their bulletins.
NINE
I say you go and pass this on
and maybe it will finally get throughpeople's brains
TEN
And if you open a bulletin and it sayssomethinglike
"repost this in 100 seconds or a ghostwillrapeyourdogtonight,or some dead skinless girl isgonna rapeyourmom"
QUIT BEING A DUMBASS
This is a test to see how many people
in your friends list
actually pay attention to you.
Repost this with..
"10 things idiots do on Friendster"
I was like thinking "how true" until I saw the person who posted it. THE IRONING IS DELICIOUS!
Yay. I am very very very bored now and I very very very want to eat a lot a lot a lot of curry puffs and drink loads and loads and loads of coke and smoke sticks and sticks and sticks of ciggys.
Yay.
"ONE
there is NO SUCH THING as a friendstertracker.
it does NOT exist. so quit postingstupidbulletins like
"OH-EM-GEEEEE this WORKS!!!"
no, it doesnt.
TWO
To the people who have like 25,000friends,
are you serious?
You're stupid.
Go play in traffic.
THREE
Don't ever post pictures and say
"OMG, I'm so ugly"
"OMG, I'm so fat"
because if you were,
you wouldn't post them.
And if u do ur a freaking mongoloid.
FOUR
Nobody cares about threats over theinternet.
Don't try to act hardcore with thekeyboard.
Fighting online is like racing in thespecialolympics;
even if you win, you're still retarded.
FIVE
Quit crying
b/c you're not on someones top 8.
who cares?
ITS FRIENDSTER!!!
Stop bitching!!!
SIX
Who really cares if
I don't accept you as a friend?
MOVE ON!!!
Don't send me another request ormessage asking
"what's up with you not adding me?"
I don't want you as a friend,
that's what's up bitch!!!
SEVEN
Little 12 year olds who have Friendster
and look like sluts, and act likewhores
go somewhere else
because nobody wants you here.
EIGHT
If you have decided to read this,
you are a true Friendster Friend.
Real friends read their bulletins.
NINE
I say you go and pass this on
and maybe it will finally get throughpeople's brains
TEN
And if you open a bulletin and it sayssomethinglike
"repost this in 100 seconds or a ghostwillrapeyourdogtonight,or some dead skinless girl isgonna rapeyourmom"
QUIT BEING A DUMBASS
This is a test to see how many people
in your friends list
actually pay attention to you.
Repost this with..
"10 things idiots do on Friendster"
I was like thinking "how true" until I saw the person who posted it. THE IRONING IS DELICIOUS!
Yay. I am very very very bored now and I very very very want to eat a lot a lot a lot of curry puffs and drink loads and loads and loads of coke and smoke sticks and sticks and sticks of ciggys.
Yay.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
SINGAPORE: The Goods and Services Tax will be increased to 7 percent from 5 percent presently.
This was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Parliament on Monday.
However, when the rise will be implemented, will be decided later.
Speaking in Malay, Mandarin and English, Mr Lee explained that the hike was necessary to finance the enhanced social safety nets, needed to help the lower income group and he emphasised that the offset package would more than counter the rise in GST.
While Singapore's current model to tackle the widening income gap is sound, Mr Lee said the government would take on two approaches to deal with the new environment - to strengthen the safety nets and tilt the balance in favour of the lower-income groups who do not benefit from the fruits of economic growth.
To do this, government spending will have to go up. The government now spends some 15 percent of its GDP - one of the lowest in the world.
"This is inevitable over the next 5 to 10 years. Infrastructure investments will cost money - R&D is to cost $5b over the next 5 years; as medical technology improves, people age and more will go to hospitals to get more treatment, so spending is bound to go up. As we tilt the playing field across the board, the lower income will be getting another boost, not just once in a while. Therefore its better to start building resources now so that when we spend more, we have the means to do so," said Mr Lee.
To finance this, indirect taxes or the Goods & Services Tax will have to go up.
"It will give us precious extra resources to implement social programmes like Workfare later on. Our aim is to help the lower income groups and the elderly, not to increase their burdens. When we implement the GST increase, it's not just the GST increase, it's the package which will fully offset the impact of the GST increase and begin to strengthen the social safety nets and tilt the balance in favour of the low income groups - we will not just raise the GST but we will have a comprehensive offset package," said Mr Lee.
This package will be weighted more to the middle and the low income groups, especially the elderly, and it will more than offset the GST increase.
"It is not just an offset package to deal with the GST. It is a whole set of measures which we are taking in order to tilt the playing field in favour of the lower income group, which is what we have to add and tally in the balance, and my purpose is to help the lower income group. For the middle income, it will be generally about ok; for the higher income, I think the higher income should end up paying more overall. It's part of being one society. I'm not going to tax 15% on income tax, I'm not going to tax 25% from GST the way the Scandanavians do, but I have to make the adjustments of 2% which I think is fair and I think Singaporeans will support," added Mr Lee.
He explained that it is better to do the increase now when the economy is doing well, rather than wait till later. This will give the government time to see how this adjustment can be managed, and to cope better with the unknown forces of globalisation over the next 5 to 7 years.
More details of the GST increase will be announced on 15 February 2007, which is Budget Day. Mr Lee added that Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam would deliver the Budget speech.
Another change will be the amending of the Constitution to allow the government to tap the capital gains received from investing the national reserves. - CNA /dt
Lan jiao I tell you. Eh cheng hu lemme tell you. You want to help low income right don't need to make a lot of pattern one. Just cut down the tax. You few months ago increase bus fare now you increase GST? Fucking hell now one pack of rice like 30 cents more because of your chee bye tax. Eh siao eh. Every item 30 cents you add up la. You buy rice 30 cents. You buy bak 30 cents. You buy veggie 10 cents. Add here add there end up chee bye fortune liao. Eh brother, your pay 1 million can tahan 30 cents leh. My pay kanina 200 dollars 30 cents become material leh. Nah beh. Ciggy tax, GST, transport, stamp fee, every lan jiao also want to tax. Kanina next time I at TP eat beef steak you tax me Beef Tax issit? You see our pay a not? Got increase a not?
Simi lan jiao more precious supplies. Our money tak ni surplus dunno how many billion no need top wa lang eh lui eh la. Lim beh ke tan jiak ng pa ko nia leh, ai bueh hun ki ma ai san xiong si xiong, ni nah beh.
Simi lan jiao safety net. You take the net and hang us on the neck la. Quicker and less cost.
Fucking just smoke away my life la.
This was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Parliament on Monday.
However, when the rise will be implemented, will be decided later.
Speaking in Malay, Mandarin and English, Mr Lee explained that the hike was necessary to finance the enhanced social safety nets, needed to help the lower income group and he emphasised that the offset package would more than counter the rise in GST.
While Singapore's current model to tackle the widening income gap is sound, Mr Lee said the government would take on two approaches to deal with the new environment - to strengthen the safety nets and tilt the balance in favour of the lower-income groups who do not benefit from the fruits of economic growth.
To do this, government spending will have to go up. The government now spends some 15 percent of its GDP - one of the lowest in the world.
"This is inevitable over the next 5 to 10 years. Infrastructure investments will cost money - R&D is to cost $5b over the next 5 years; as medical technology improves, people age and more will go to hospitals to get more treatment, so spending is bound to go up. As we tilt the playing field across the board, the lower income will be getting another boost, not just once in a while. Therefore its better to start building resources now so that when we spend more, we have the means to do so," said Mr Lee.
To finance this, indirect taxes or the Goods & Services Tax will have to go up.
"It will give us precious extra resources to implement social programmes like Workfare later on. Our aim is to help the lower income groups and the elderly, not to increase their burdens. When we implement the GST increase, it's not just the GST increase, it's the package which will fully offset the impact of the GST increase and begin to strengthen the social safety nets and tilt the balance in favour of the low income groups - we will not just raise the GST but we will have a comprehensive offset package," said Mr Lee.
This package will be weighted more to the middle and the low income groups, especially the elderly, and it will more than offset the GST increase.
"It is not just an offset package to deal with the GST. It is a whole set of measures which we are taking in order to tilt the playing field in favour of the lower income group, which is what we have to add and tally in the balance, and my purpose is to help the lower income group. For the middle income, it will be generally about ok; for the higher income, I think the higher income should end up paying more overall. It's part of being one society. I'm not going to tax 15% on income tax, I'm not going to tax 25% from GST the way the Scandanavians do, but I have to make the adjustments of 2% which I think is fair and I think Singaporeans will support," added Mr Lee.
He explained that it is better to do the increase now when the economy is doing well, rather than wait till later. This will give the government time to see how this adjustment can be managed, and to cope better with the unknown forces of globalisation over the next 5 to 7 years.
More details of the GST increase will be announced on 15 February 2007, which is Budget Day. Mr Lee added that Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam would deliver the Budget speech.
Another change will be the amending of the Constitution to allow the government to tap the capital gains received from investing the national reserves. - CNA /dt
Lan jiao I tell you. Eh cheng hu lemme tell you. You want to help low income right don't need to make a lot of pattern one. Just cut down the tax. You few months ago increase bus fare now you increase GST? Fucking hell now one pack of rice like 30 cents more because of your chee bye tax. Eh siao eh. Every item 30 cents you add up la. You buy rice 30 cents. You buy bak 30 cents. You buy veggie 10 cents. Add here add there end up chee bye fortune liao. Eh brother, your pay 1 million can tahan 30 cents leh. My pay kanina 200 dollars 30 cents become material leh. Nah beh. Ciggy tax, GST, transport, stamp fee, every lan jiao also want to tax. Kanina next time I at TP eat beef steak you tax me Beef Tax issit? You see our pay a not? Got increase a not?
Simi lan jiao more precious supplies. Our money tak ni surplus dunno how many billion no need top wa lang eh lui eh la. Lim beh ke tan jiak ng pa ko nia leh, ai bueh hun ki ma ai san xiong si xiong, ni nah beh.
Simi lan jiao safety net. You take the net and hang us on the neck la. Quicker and less cost.
Fucking just smoke away my life la.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
So I went to friendster today and I saw this from my Hiap Seng
" My Fourteen Favorite Boys!!
Firstly, I want all of you to know that I love u to death and its hard for me to only pick 14 boys to send this to, so consider yourself lucky ... or is it not lucky? If I dont get this back I understand =) I have a game for you.
This game has been played since 1977. Once you read this letter, you must send it to 14 males within five days. On the fifth day, SHE(the female of your choice) will either ask you out, or say "I love you." Please send this to your 14 FAV0RitE males. It has worked for years. Good luck boys.
*muackz*"
A perfect way to end the day. Thank you man.
" My Fourteen Favorite Boys!!
Firstly, I want all of you to know that I love u to death and its hard for me to only pick 14 boys to send this to, so consider yourself lucky ... or is it not lucky? If I dont get this back I understand =) I have a game for you.
This game has been played since 1977. Once you read this letter, you must send it to 14 males within five days. On the fifth day, SHE(the female of your choice) will either ask you out, or say "I love you." Please send this to your 14 FAV0RitE males. It has worked for years. Good luck boys.
*muackz*"
A perfect way to end the day. Thank you man.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Winsor did his magic on me yesterday! He did this tarot card thingy. Managed to come out with incredibly true analysis on my love and work life. Oh my god. They say they work by being vague, but hey Winsor wasn't being vague at all leh.
Winsor, please go be a magician or wizard. I swear you will become Gandalf or Zedd.
Winsor, please go be a magician or wizard. I swear you will become Gandalf or Zedd.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Just finished the book Dante Equation. Somehow the book is affecting me more then a book about a Jew Bible should. Maybe I was one of the many Jews who laughed at Jesus when he was crucified. Hey, you never know.
Love to love, love to love, love to love.
Maybe forgiving is as about forgiving yourself as to forgive others.
I still can't forgive myself.
I'm sorry.
To you.
You know who you are.
Love to love, love to love, love to love.
Maybe forgiving is as about forgiving yourself as to forgive others.
I still can't forgive myself.
I'm sorry.
To you.
You know who you are.
Friday, October 20, 2006
The Malaysian in me is always surfacing in situations where he is not needed. Happens more and more often nowadays. Must be Mahatir and his charade.
So I finished working. Puahing flyers. Easy job dey! Sit there, smoke 1/4 pack of ciggarettes, play pool, go dance DDR and Para-Para then come back get money. Next time work I must also like that. Pay you to smoke! Like Philip Morris got sponsor!
Then I went down to Paya Labar. Eh BTW Paya Labar is one hellhole man. Chee bye 1 build road here build road there. Kan ni na I every Sunday pass by there build road. Nah beh build dunno how many years liao still build. Nah beh build road to Rome also no need so slow. Yah where was I. Ok. Then I went down to that shithole that is called Teo Industries Building. Eh Benny the road is called SHAW Road not SHORE Road! Went there and met my soulmates Chris and Regan, who not so incidentally provide the means for my continued intake of tar and ethanol. Did some shit there, and went home.
BUT HERE IS WHERE THE ADVENTURE STARTS! The paragraphs above are like the prologue of a novel arh. Must make you all xim yang yang then want to read. Boh bian must practice journalism liao Law cannot study GPA too low.
Yah where was I. Ok. The Malaysian in me surfaced. The dumb, smoker, Marco Polo wanna-be side of me decided to take a bus back to Tampines. The Singaporean, spend-thrift, asshole side of me wanted to take a taxi. But boh bian la. Lifestlye expensive. The Singaporean decided to take a leaf out of our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Bible(May He live forever) and let the Malaysian win. So KJ took a bus.
BAD MISTAKE FUCKHEAD, BAD MISTAKE. The dumb side of KJ took over and he took bus 22. Yup, bus 22. So he travelled on a bus, pretending he was on a camel, meeting many exotic ladies and mysterious old men along the way, and earned a fortune trading spices and goods to the people of the East. Unfortunately again, he followed Christopher Colombus' ship waves instead of some other respectable adventurers. So, the Malaysian KJ turned up in Bishan.
BISHAN! WHICH RESPECTABLE EASTERNER WILL GO THERE UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME PRESSING NEED OVER THERE?! THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH ARE BABARIANS! I NEED TO GET MY CLANSMEN DOWN TO WAGE A CRUSADE ON THOSE HERETICS! CLENASE! PURGE! KILL!
So KJ wandered along the streets of Bishan, a foreigner in a strange land, far away from home. Luckily, KJ had a contact in Bishan. A lady named Deborah. So he contacted her. And she told KJ there wasn't any bus back home.
Home is where the heart is, but KJ's heart is certainly not in Bishan.
So, KJ couldn't find a tavern in Bishan, nor a stable where he could spend his night in. Then the Singaporean part in him roused from what seemed like delayed alcohol slumber. A mighty battle in his brain ensued, in which the Singaporean part won. A thought rang in his head like a church bell that was rung by the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
He was living in the 21st Century.
All the illusions of riding on camels and exotic ladies disappeared faster then a djinni on steriods. Holding on his possessions tighty(which consist of only 4 pieces of paper), he took a train home.
The end.
Yay.
So I finished working. Puahing flyers. Easy job dey! Sit there, smoke 1/4 pack of ciggarettes, play pool, go dance DDR and Para-Para then come back get money. Next time work I must also like that. Pay you to smoke! Like Philip Morris got sponsor!
Then I went down to Paya Labar. Eh BTW Paya Labar is one hellhole man. Chee bye 1 build road here build road there. Kan ni na I every Sunday pass by there build road. Nah beh build dunno how many years liao still build. Nah beh build road to Rome also no need so slow. Yah where was I. Ok. Then I went down to that shithole that is called Teo Industries Building. Eh Benny the road is called SHAW Road not SHORE Road! Went there and met my soulmates Chris and Regan, who not so incidentally provide the means for my continued intake of tar and ethanol. Did some shit there, and went home.
BUT HERE IS WHERE THE ADVENTURE STARTS! The paragraphs above are like the prologue of a novel arh. Must make you all xim yang yang then want to read. Boh bian must practice journalism liao Law cannot study GPA too low.
Yah where was I. Ok. The Malaysian in me surfaced. The dumb, smoker, Marco Polo wanna-be side of me decided to take a bus back to Tampines. The Singaporean, spend-thrift, asshole side of me wanted to take a taxi. But boh bian la. Lifestlye expensive. The Singaporean decided to take a leaf out of our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Bible(May He live forever) and let the Malaysian win. So KJ took a bus.
BAD MISTAKE FUCKHEAD, BAD MISTAKE. The dumb side of KJ took over and he took bus 22. Yup, bus 22. So he travelled on a bus, pretending he was on a camel, meeting many exotic ladies and mysterious old men along the way, and earned a fortune trading spices and goods to the people of the East. Unfortunately again, he followed Christopher Colombus' ship waves instead of some other respectable adventurers. So, the Malaysian KJ turned up in Bishan.
BISHAN! WHICH RESPECTABLE EASTERNER WILL GO THERE UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME PRESSING NEED OVER THERE?! THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH ARE BABARIANS! I NEED TO GET MY CLANSMEN DOWN TO WAGE A CRUSADE ON THOSE HERETICS! CLENASE! PURGE! KILL!
So KJ wandered along the streets of Bishan, a foreigner in a strange land, far away from home. Luckily, KJ had a contact in Bishan. A lady named Deborah. So he contacted her. And she told KJ there wasn't any bus back home.
Home is where the heart is, but KJ's heart is certainly not in Bishan.
So, KJ couldn't find a tavern in Bishan, nor a stable where he could spend his night in. Then the Singaporean part in him roused from what seemed like delayed alcohol slumber. A mighty battle in his brain ensued, in which the Singaporean part won. A thought rang in his head like a church bell that was rung by the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
He was living in the 21st Century.
All the illusions of riding on camels and exotic ladies disappeared faster then a djinni on steriods. Holding on his possessions tighty(which consist of only 4 pieces of paper), he took a train home.
The end.
Yay.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
SEAL falls on grenade to save comrades
By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 13, 3:02 PM ET
CORONADO, Calif. - A Navy SEAL sacrificed his life to save his comrades by throwing himself on top of a grenade Iraqi insurgents tossed into their sniper hideout, fellow members of the elite force said.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor had been near the only door to the rooftop structure Sept. 29 when the grenade hit him in the chest and bounced to the floor, said four SEALs who spoke to The Associated Press this week on condition of anonymity because their work requires their identities to remain secret.
"He never took his eye off the grenade, his only movement was down toward it," said a 28-year-old lieutenant who sustained shrapnel wounds to both legs that day. "He undoubtedly saved mine and the other SEALs' lives, and we owe him."
Monsoor, a 25-year-old gunner, was killed in the explosion in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. He was only the second SEAL to die in
Iraq since the war began.
Two SEALs next to Monsoor were injured; another who was 10 to 15 feet from the blast was unhurt. The four had been working with Iraqi soldiers providing sniper security while U.S. and Iraqi forces conducted missions in the area.
In an interview at the SEALs' West Coast headquarters in Coronado, four members of the special force remembered "Mikey" as a loyal friend and a quiet, dedicated professional.
"He was just a fun-loving guy," said a 26-year-old petty officer 2nd class who went through the grueling 29-week SEAL training with Monsoor. "Always got something funny to say, always got a little mischievous look on his face."
Other SEALS described the Garden Grove, Calif., native as a modest and humble man who drew strength from his family and his faith. His father and brother are former Marines, said a 31-year-old petty officer 2nd class.
Prior to his death, Monsoor had already demonstrated courage under fire. He has been posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his actions May 9 in Ramadi, when he and another SEAL pulled a team member shot in the leg to safety while bullets pinged off the ground around them.
Monsoor's funeral was held Thursday at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. He has also been submitted for an award for his actions the day he died.
The first Navy SEAL to die in Iraq was Petty Officer 2nd Class Marc A. Lee, 28, who was killed Aug. 2 in a firefight while on patrol against insurgents in Ramadi. Navy spokesman Lt. Taylor Clark said the low number of deaths among SEALs in Iraq is a testament to their training.
Sixteen SEALs have been killed in
Afghanistan. Eleven of them died in June 2005 when a helicopter was shot down near the Pakistan border while ferrying reinforcements for troops pursuing al-Qaida militants.
There are about 2,300 of the elite fighters, based in Coronado and Little Creek, Va.
The Navy is trying to boost that number by 500 — a challenge considering more than 75 percent of candidates drop out of training, notorious for "Hell Week," a five-day stint of continual drills by the ocean broken by only four hours sleep total. Monsoor made it through training on his second attempt.
By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 13, 3:02 PM ET
CORONADO, Calif. - A Navy SEAL sacrificed his life to save his comrades by throwing himself on top of a grenade Iraqi insurgents tossed into their sniper hideout, fellow members of the elite force said.
ADVERTISEMENT
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor had been near the only door to the rooftop structure Sept. 29 when the grenade hit him in the chest and bounced to the floor, said four SEALs who spoke to The Associated Press this week on condition of anonymity because their work requires their identities to remain secret.
"He never took his eye off the grenade, his only movement was down toward it," said a 28-year-old lieutenant who sustained shrapnel wounds to both legs that day. "He undoubtedly saved mine and the other SEALs' lives, and we owe him."
Monsoor, a 25-year-old gunner, was killed in the explosion in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. He was only the second SEAL to die in
Iraq since the war began.
Two SEALs next to Monsoor were injured; another who was 10 to 15 feet from the blast was unhurt. The four had been working with Iraqi soldiers providing sniper security while U.S. and Iraqi forces conducted missions in the area.
In an interview at the SEALs' West Coast headquarters in Coronado, four members of the special force remembered "Mikey" as a loyal friend and a quiet, dedicated professional.
"He was just a fun-loving guy," said a 26-year-old petty officer 2nd class who went through the grueling 29-week SEAL training with Monsoor. "Always got something funny to say, always got a little mischievous look on his face."
Other SEALS described the Garden Grove, Calif., native as a modest and humble man who drew strength from his family and his faith. His father and brother are former Marines, said a 31-year-old petty officer 2nd class.
Prior to his death, Monsoor had already demonstrated courage under fire. He has been posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his actions May 9 in Ramadi, when he and another SEAL pulled a team member shot in the leg to safety while bullets pinged off the ground around them.
Monsoor's funeral was held Thursday at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. He has also been submitted for an award for his actions the day he died.
The first Navy SEAL to die in Iraq was Petty Officer 2nd Class Marc A. Lee, 28, who was killed Aug. 2 in a firefight while on patrol against insurgents in Ramadi. Navy spokesman Lt. Taylor Clark said the low number of deaths among SEALs in Iraq is a testament to their training.
Sixteen SEALs have been killed in
Afghanistan. Eleven of them died in June 2005 when a helicopter was shot down near the Pakistan border while ferrying reinforcements for troops pursuing al-Qaida militants.
There are about 2,300 of the elite fighters, based in Coronado and Little Creek, Va.
The Navy is trying to boost that number by 500 — a challenge considering more than 75 percent of candidates drop out of training, notorious for "Hell Week," a five-day stint of continual drills by the ocean broken by only four hours sleep total. Monsoor made it through training on his second attempt.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Shit this month is really bad. Traffic accident and all the shit.
Went to the doc on Monday. Doc said my tricuspid valve is faulty. Some regurgitation. Yay. Then went to the doc on Tuesday. Doc said my spine is bent. Yay.
Tick tock goes my biological clock man. Death really wants to tango with me. Come la Death!
See, even if I quit smoking, some other disease is going to take me away anyway. Why fucking bother?
Eh God, can RM my life a not? I not very happy la. I random my life till kena shit everytime.
Fucking depressed.
Went to the doc on Monday. Doc said my tricuspid valve is faulty. Some regurgitation. Yay. Then went to the doc on Tuesday. Doc said my spine is bent. Yay.
Tick tock goes my biological clock man. Death really wants to tango with me. Come la Death!
See, even if I quit smoking, some other disease is going to take me away anyway. Why fucking bother?
Eh God, can RM my life a not? I not very happy la. I random my life till kena shit everytime.
Fucking depressed.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Living life by the seat of your pants is very attractive today -- be spontaneous!
Living life by the seat of your pants might seem very attractive today. There's a strong hunger for spontaneity around you right now, the likes of which you haven't seen in quite a while. It's been so long, in fact, that you might not recognize it! If you're still obsessed with the idea that planning and organization are the only things that are going to give you a better grip on what's going on around you, today is the day to rethink that.
KJ, don't take things literally.
Living life by the seat of your pants might seem very attractive today. There's a strong hunger for spontaneity around you right now, the likes of which you haven't seen in quite a while. It's been so long, in fact, that you might not recognize it! If you're still obsessed with the idea that planning and organization are the only things that are going to give you a better grip on what's going on around you, today is the day to rethink that.
KJ, don't take things literally.
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