Sunday, December 21, 2008
Before Xmas
Well, the festive season is here again. It's been a long year, a lot have happened and finally Christmas. It is probably the most important day in the calendar besides Good Friday and Easter Sunday for a Christian like me. But personally, I love Christmas more than any other holidays, I have always been skeptical about Chinese New Year or some other days. Especially after debates whether Dragon Boat festival is from China or Korea plays a part. The verdict would probably be based on the best dumplings. Christmas is the type of holiday which is calm and peaceful(suits my personality) unlike Chinese New Year which is all the rush and bustling with noise and anything red. That's why I loathe the idea of Christmas discounts or the "Shop till you drop" mentally of people. Just keep it simply, have a meal with family members. Although I must really admit there are plenty of good deals out there. The Detroit Three is a great deal, 3 for the price of 1.(Assuming the original price is at the height of their history). What's more it comes with the Autobots as your personal security guard from GM. They can help to protect you and your family from villians before Superman or Batman arrives. No food or drinks needed, just Allspark fragments which to humans is just seashells from the seashore. But the very very quintessential function is to protect your daughters or to a lesser extent your wives from vampires. Yes, vampires. The burgeoning effect and obssession of Twilight on girls is on a scale never seen before. Genghis Khan would surrender his Mongol army if they are pitted against the "zombified" teenagers. The cause of the phenomenon of Twilight on girls is unknown especially if you're a guy. I have not read the book yet, but I have doubts that I will like it and I'll say this book is not for me and I will stick to my books instead, namely LOTR which is the closest(but not too close) trilogy I have to Twilight. In order to protect my computer and blog from virus of angered Twilight fans or even personal security( I don't intend to buy the Detroit 3 and Left 4 Dead is not the answer to zombies), I shall rest my case. Speaking of virus, Internet Explorer is said to have loopholes in its browser to allow hackers to get you. I have always trusted Open sources and this really justifies the choice of switching your browser from the buggy and unreliable IE for Firefox, Opera or Chrome. I wouldn't be surprised if the virus/malware is codenamed "Master Chief" or " Marcus Fenix". To the world of sports, it was a great week of football but don't go telling that to people in my country, they were unfortunate to go down and lost in a competition they enjoyed and were supposed to be good at. The really good part was that Arsenal was never beaten by any big four clubs this season and only the referee stand between victory and a draw and we got a draw. I think we deserved a draw with Liverpool since we'll never walk alone right? Anyway if you don't have a clue of what to buy for your friends, here's a great idea.Introducing Flame from Burger King, which is a body spray to make you smell like well, you guess it a Whopper. So enjoy the holidays while you still can because everyone's going to say 2009 is not going to be a good year.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Celebrating 50 posts on this blog. How history influenced the future and potentially this blog.
(If you are someone who absolutely hates history in anyway, pluck out your internet cable now. The blog bears no responsibility for any medical conditions that you get after reading.)
Finally, this blog have reach 50 posts. This is a remarkable and noteworthy moment for this blog. A milestone of how far this blog went since it was first started. (The date of origin or why it is created is unknown, even to the author. You can say that it is "part of history".) The only information which can rival this good news is probably concrete proof that Hilter have only one ball. And his first question was, "Doctor, will I be able to have children?" Quite interesting that some rumors from WWII finally have some evidence. A half a century+++ question solved.( Hey it's the no. 50 again!) Speaking about WWII, my holiday have been full of booms and bangs in France. Parachuting down with AA guns shooting at you is no joke, you really wish you brought your passport to show that you're not an illegal immigrant. Even if your Sergeant Matt Baker, you still need some half witted squad members to follow you on the hard task to Berlin. Brothers in arms is really no Call of Duty. Aiming at a Nazi five metres away is like swimming in a pool with no water. That's the most irritating part of the game. Games aside, I have been following the television more closely, which I need to in order to survive in the world.(Tell you the story later.) And my intuitive reaction was to watch the History channel. Contrary to the name, most of the programmes actually have numerous elements which are linked to the future. One part of a show about Paint was how microchips can be added to them in the future and when painted on walls and bridges, can help scientist to monitor the wind strength and others of that particular area for the long term. Not bad, even history have a few surprises that you wasn't aware of. So going on the story of December, which maybe can cheer you up and build the mood towards Christmas and forget about the lousy economy or pirates back with a vengeance.
To the story, I was with my CCA friend in school. (Rule no. 1 of the holidays: Don't use the word "school".) And we're discussing about random things and she exclaimed that she can't wait to go home and watch her TV programmes. Then it came to me that for a few weeks (in mid November), I couldn't find the national kids channel on my TV. It was once a shared channel with kids programmes in the morning and Indian channel in the night. So I was quite shocked that the Indian channel dominated the whole schedule of the channel. The first time I saw this new trend, I took it as maybe a special day for the Indian community and completely ignored it. After observing the same thing for about two weeks, I began to sense suspicious and in a way fear. I hate cartoons by the way, never watched the kids channel since..( I am at a lost of History terms to use. My history sucks.) Anyway, the reason I was fearful was that despite rapid falling birth rates in my country, there is no need to neglect kids of their favourite channel. They need time to relax, not just study to get a perfect score for their secondary schools.( Rule no.2 of the holidays: Don't do it again!) So she was so super shocked that I was oblivious to the new kids channel created. And she can't stop teasing me about that. It was a big ridicule in her preception to neglect such changes in TV. To me however, the TV is just well, a radio with moving pictures. So let the schandenfreude begin. Ok, but I have always value the radio highly, especially with BBC Friday night comedy and other podcasts, it have really taken a lot of appeal away from the TV.
So here's the final part. Posing an important question, " What do you do to preserve your country's history, heritage and architecture?" Well, the answer is to install a minister with no links to history, heritage whatsoever. In Italy, the new guy in charge of museums and archaeological sites will be the boss of Macdonalds. I guess you have to win the World Cup before to understand why. But the Gman said," The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world."
So enjoy your holidays mates and for theCrew, I'm looking forward to the year end events.
Finally, this blog have reach 50 posts. This is a remarkable and noteworthy moment for this blog. A milestone of how far this blog went since it was first started. (The date of origin or why it is created is unknown, even to the author. You can say that it is "part of history".) The only information which can rival this good news is probably concrete proof that Hilter have only one ball. And his first question was, "Doctor, will I be able to have children?" Quite interesting that some rumors from WWII finally have some evidence. A half a century+++ question solved.( Hey it's the no. 50 again!) Speaking about WWII, my holiday have been full of booms and bangs in France. Parachuting down with AA guns shooting at you is no joke, you really wish you brought your passport to show that you're not an illegal immigrant. Even if your Sergeant Matt Baker, you still need some half witted squad members to follow you on the hard task to Berlin. Brothers in arms is really no Call of Duty. Aiming at a Nazi five metres away is like swimming in a pool with no water. That's the most irritating part of the game. Games aside, I have been following the television more closely, which I need to in order to survive in the world.(Tell you the story later.) And my intuitive reaction was to watch the History channel. Contrary to the name, most of the programmes actually have numerous elements which are linked to the future. One part of a show about Paint was how microchips can be added to them in the future and when painted on walls and bridges, can help scientist to monitor the wind strength and others of that particular area for the long term. Not bad, even history have a few surprises that you wasn't aware of. So going on the story of December, which maybe can cheer you up and build the mood towards Christmas and forget about the lousy economy or pirates back with a vengeance.
To the story, I was with my CCA friend in school. (Rule no. 1 of the holidays: Don't use the word "school".) And we're discussing about random things and she exclaimed that she can't wait to go home and watch her TV programmes. Then it came to me that for a few weeks (in mid November), I couldn't find the national kids channel on my TV. It was once a shared channel with kids programmes in the morning and Indian channel in the night. So I was quite shocked that the Indian channel dominated the whole schedule of the channel. The first time I saw this new trend, I took it as maybe a special day for the Indian community and completely ignored it. After observing the same thing for about two weeks, I began to sense suspicious and in a way fear. I hate cartoons by the way, never watched the kids channel since..( I am at a lost of History terms to use. My history sucks.) Anyway, the reason I was fearful was that despite rapid falling birth rates in my country, there is no need to neglect kids of their favourite channel. They need time to relax, not just study to get a perfect score for their secondary schools.( Rule no.2 of the holidays: Don't do it again!) So she was so super shocked that I was oblivious to the new kids channel created. And she can't stop teasing me about that. It was a big ridicule in her preception to neglect such changes in TV. To me however, the TV is just well, a radio with moving pictures. So let the schandenfreude begin. Ok, but I have always value the radio highly, especially with BBC Friday night comedy and other podcasts, it have really taken a lot of appeal away from the TV.
So here's the final part. Posing an important question, " What do you do to preserve your country's history, heritage and architecture?" Well, the answer is to install a minister with no links to history, heritage whatsoever. In Italy, the new guy in charge of museums and archaeological sites will be the boss of Macdonalds. I guess you have to win the World Cup before to understand why. But the Gman said," The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world."
So enjoy your holidays mates and for theCrew, I'm looking forward to the year end events.
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