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Any men care for any flame-broiled flavoured body spray to turn on your special lady (or guy)?
Dec. 18th, 2008 | 08:16 pm
Looking to beef up your mojo this holiday season?
Burger King Corp. may have just the thing. The home of the Whopper has launched a new men's body spray called "Flame."
The company describes the spray as "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat."
The fragrance is on sale at New York City retailer Ricky's NYC in stores and online for a limited time for $3.99.
Burger King is marketing the product through a website featuring a photo of its King character reclining fireside and naked but for an animal fur strategically placed to not offend.
The marketing ploy is the latest in a string of viral ad campaigns by the company.
Burger King is also in the midst of its Whopper Virgins campaign that features a taste test with fast-food "virgins" pitting the Whopper against McDonald's Corp.'s Big Mac.
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Updated Mozilla Fox
Dec. 15th, 2008 | 11:41 am
I just updated my browser recently and this is what I saw upon finishing my download on their webpage:
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firef
An international community of security experts is working around the clock to make your web browsing safer (thanks to our open source way of doing things). It’s like having your neighborhood watch led by a group of highly trained ninjas.
So, apparently, now I have ninjas protecting the security of my computer and the next best thing I could hope for is to have ninjas protecting my neighbourhood as well.
I might as well go ahead and put up an ad:
Recruiting NINJAS for my neighbourhood
IGLOOS and polar bears (will be readily available if you go up further north for holidays)
Interested applicants please apply!
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firef
An international community of security experts is working around the clock to make your web browsing safer (thanks to our open source way of doing things). It’s like having your neighborhood watch led by a group of highly trained ninjas.
So, apparently, now I have ninjas protecting the security of my computer and the next best thing I could hope for is to have ninjas protecting my neighbourhood as well.
I might as well go ahead and put up an ad:
Recruiting NINJAS for my neighbourhood
IGLOOS and polar bears (will be readily available if you go up further north for holidays)
Interested applicants please apply!
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Suit against Kenzaburo Oe over WWII mass suicide claims
Mar. 28th, 2008 | 03:58 pm
"I felt strongly that the judge accurately read my 'Okinawa Notes' to hand down the ruling," he said. "I was most strongly impressed by that." - Kenzaburo Oe
I read this article today because I saw Kenzaburo Oe's name. I've only read one of his works before, but I like him.
From: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0803
Japanese court rejects suit against novelist over WWII mass suicide claims
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Fri Mar 28, 5:27 AM
By Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press
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TOKYO - Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe won a major court battle Friday over a book he wrote more than 30 years ago detailing how Japanese soldiers persuaded and sometimes forced Okinawan civilians to commit suicide rather than give themselves up in the closing days of the Second World War.
The topic is a hugely sensitive issue on the southern Japan islands, where battles raged from late March through June 1945, leaving more than 200,000 civilians and soldiers dead and speeding the collapse of Japan's defences. The U.S. occupied Okinawa until 1972.
The ruling was also a high-profile setback for a vocal lobby among Japanese conservatives who have long sought to discredit or censure materials documenting Japanese excesses during the war, including government-supported prostitution, the rape of the Chinese city of Nanking and other incidents.
In his book, "Okinawa Notes," Oe chronicled accounts of group suicides on Okinawa, and alleged that Japanese soldiers persuaded and at times coerced civilians to kill themselves rather than face what they were told would be horrible atrocities if they gave themselves up to the invading U.S. troops.
Historians generally agree that hundreds of Okinawan civilians killed themselves under such circumstances, and there is a wealth of testimony from survivors and their relatives to back that up.
But Yutaka Umezawa, 91, and his brother Hidekazu Akamatsu, 75, argued that Oe wrongfully accused them - though not by name - of ordering suicides on the Okinawan islands of Zamami and Tokashiki in March, 1945.
The two denied the military ordered any suicides and demanded Oe and the publisher pay them $200,000 in compensation.
In a closely watched ruling Friday, their complaint - first filed in 2005 - was rejected.
The Osaka District Court held that "there are reasons to believe" the military was responsible for such atrocities on Okinawa and other nearby southern islands, said spokesman Masakatsu Yatabe.
The court noted that the sites of Okinawan group suicides overlapped with Japanese military posts, and said testimony by survivors that Japanese soldiers handed out grenades gave solid evidence of "the military's deep involvement in the group suicides," Kyodo News agency reported.
"It is reasonable to say the book presented rational resources and evidence, though we cannot determine whether the two were the ones who issued the suicide orders as described in the book," it found.
Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1994, welcomed the decision.
"I felt strongly that the judge accurately read my 'Okinawa Notes' to hand down the ruling," he said. "I was most strongly impressed by that."
The plaintiffs are expected to appeal.
A government decision two years ago to delete textbook references to the Japanese military role in the forced suicides brought the issue to a boil on Okinawa, culminating in a protest by more than 100,000 people in September last year.
Accused of trying to whitewash Japan's wartime history, the Education Ministry soon afterward agreed to restore to textbooks accounts of the military's involvement in the suicides.
I read this article today because I saw Kenzaburo Oe's name. I've only read one of his works before, but I like him.
From: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0803
Japanese court rejects suit against novelist over WWII mass suicide claims
Module body
Fri Mar 28, 5:27 AM
By Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press
ADVERTISEMENT
TOKYO - Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe won a major court battle Friday over a book he wrote more than 30 years ago detailing how Japanese soldiers persuaded and sometimes forced Okinawan civilians to commit suicide rather than give themselves up in the closing days of the Second World War.
The topic is a hugely sensitive issue on the southern Japan islands, where battles raged from late March through June 1945, leaving more than 200,000 civilians and soldiers dead and speeding the collapse of Japan's defences. The U.S. occupied Okinawa until 1972.
The ruling was also a high-profile setback for a vocal lobby among Japanese conservatives who have long sought to discredit or censure materials documenting Japanese excesses during the war, including government-supported prostitution, the rape of the Chinese city of Nanking and other incidents.
In his book, "Okinawa Notes," Oe chronicled accounts of group suicides on Okinawa, and alleged that Japanese soldiers persuaded and at times coerced civilians to kill themselves rather than face what they were told would be horrible atrocities if they gave themselves up to the invading U.S. troops.
Historians generally agree that hundreds of Okinawan civilians killed themselves under such circumstances, and there is a wealth of testimony from survivors and their relatives to back that up.
But Yutaka Umezawa, 91, and his brother Hidekazu Akamatsu, 75, argued that Oe wrongfully accused them - though not by name - of ordering suicides on the Okinawan islands of Zamami and Tokashiki in March, 1945.
The two denied the military ordered any suicides and demanded Oe and the publisher pay them $200,000 in compensation.
In a closely watched ruling Friday, their complaint - first filed in 2005 - was rejected.
The Osaka District Court held that "there are reasons to believe" the military was responsible for such atrocities on Okinawa and other nearby southern islands, said spokesman Masakatsu Yatabe.
The court noted that the sites of Okinawan group suicides overlapped with Japanese military posts, and said testimony by survivors that Japanese soldiers handed out grenades gave solid evidence of "the military's deep involvement in the group suicides," Kyodo News agency reported.
"It is reasonable to say the book presented rational resources and evidence, though we cannot determine whether the two were the ones who issued the suicide orders as described in the book," it found.
Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1994, welcomed the decision.
"I felt strongly that the judge accurately read my 'Okinawa Notes' to hand down the ruling," he said. "I was most strongly impressed by that."
The plaintiffs are expected to appeal.
A government decision two years ago to delete textbook references to the Japanese military role in the forced suicides brought the issue to a boil on Okinawa, culminating in a protest by more than 100,000 people in September last year.
Accused of trying to whitewash Japan's wartime history, the Education Ministry soon afterward agreed to restore to textbooks accounts of the military's involvement in the suicides.
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Nuclear medicine imaging and radiopharmaceuticals
Dec. 6th, 2007 | 09:45 pm
I found this news interesting because I just learned about it in class.
From http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/1
Patients go to plan B due to isotope shortage
Last Updated: Thursday, December 6, 2007 | 10:34 AM ET
CBC News
The shortage of radioactive isotopes due to the temporary closure of an Ontario nuclear reactor is leading patients scheduled for diagnostic tests to make other plans.
Thousands of patients in Canada, the United States and other countries have had their medical tests postponed because of the shutdown of the government-run Chalk River reactor. It had initially been scheduled for only one week for maintenance repairs, but now could be shut down until mid-January.
The reactor is the source of more than two-thirds of the world's demand for medical radioactive isotopes, which are used to diagnose cancer and cardiovascular diseases. It yields enough isotopes to treat more than 76,000 people a day — more than 20 million a year.
Les Blatchford, a cardiac patient from Beaconsfield, Que., told CBC News on Thursday that he was scheduled to have a heart test this past Tuesday. The test, which involved the injection of a radioactive dye into his bloodstream to assess blockages in his arteries, was cancelled until Dec. 18 because of the shortage.
"They were very decent about it," he said of the hospital that cancelled the appointment.
But Blatchford wants to know why the medical industry is so dependent on Chalk River for the source of this material. "Why wasn't an additional supply standing by?" he said.
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On his doctor's recommendation, Blatchford called a private medical clinic in his area, which, despite the critical shortage, has agreed to perform the procedure Friday.
Blatchford said clinic staff assured him they had technetium-99, an isotope of technetium. But he said other Canadians may not be as fortunate. "I'm concerned that there are people who are in a much worse situation than I am," he said.
Once injected into patients, the radioactive isotopes allow radiologists to zero in on areas of higher radiation and to pinpoint key changes in the body to make accurate diagnoses.
Ottawa-based MDS Nordion distributes the isotopes, which can't be stockpiled because they have a short shelf life.
From http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/1
Patients go to plan B due to isotope shortage
Last Updated: Thursday, December 6, 2007 | 10:34 AM ET
CBC News
The shortage of radioactive isotopes due to the temporary closure of an Ontario nuclear reactor is leading patients scheduled for diagnostic tests to make other plans.
Thousands of patients in Canada, the United States and other countries have had their medical tests postponed because of the shutdown of the government-run Chalk River reactor. It had initially been scheduled for only one week for maintenance repairs, but now could be shut down until mid-January.
The reactor is the source of more than two-thirds of the world's demand for medical radioactive isotopes, which are used to diagnose cancer and cardiovascular diseases. It yields enough isotopes to treat more than 76,000 people a day — more than 20 million a year.
Les Blatchford, a cardiac patient from Beaconsfield, Que., told CBC News on Thursday that he was scheduled to have a heart test this past Tuesday. The test, which involved the injection of a radioactive dye into his bloodstream to assess blockages in his arteries, was cancelled until Dec. 18 because of the shortage.
"They were very decent about it," he said of the hospital that cancelled the appointment.
But Blatchford wants to know why the medical industry is so dependent on Chalk River for the source of this material. "Why wasn't an additional supply standing by?" he said.
Continue Article
On his doctor's recommendation, Blatchford called a private medical clinic in his area, which, despite the critical shortage, has agreed to perform the procedure Friday.
Blatchford said clinic staff assured him they had technetium-99, an isotope of technetium. But he said other Canadians may not be as fortunate. "I'm concerned that there are people who are in a much worse situation than I am," he said.
Once injected into patients, the radioactive isotopes allow radiologists to zero in on areas of higher radiation and to pinpoint key changes in the body to make accurate diagnoses.
Ottawa-based MDS Nordion distributes the isotopes, which can't be stockpiled because they have a short shelf life.
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Rude neighbour and robots that will do housework
Nov. 27th, 2007 | 11:49 am
When I was looking out my window last evening, I saw a lady who lives in my neighbourhood walking her dogs. To my surprise, she came up to our front lawn. Then she stared off in the distance, while her dog pooped on my front lawn. I was so surprised it took me a moment to realize what she was doing. By the time I ran to my room to grab my cell phone to take a picture of her with her dog, she was gone. She never came back to clean up after her dog. I thought it was very rude of her to come to our house, just to let her dog poop on our lawn. We don't even know each other. And it was a conscious, deliberate action on her part, to allow her dog to defecate on someone else's lawn.
I like pets, but I don't like irresponsible or inconsiderate owners.
On an unrelated note, here's a news article from http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071127/t
Japan researchers unveil housework robot
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese researchers on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid robot designed to lend a hand with housework, particularly the rapidly growing number of elderly people in the Asian country.
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The 147-centimetre (four-foot-10) robot, pure white save for blue eyes and red arm joints, put its skills on display by helping an elderly person get out of bed and preparing breakfast.
While communicating with the person, the 111-kilogramme (244-pound) robot picked up tomato sauce from the refrigerator with four fingers and carried it with a piece of bread on a plate to the dining table.
With sensors and flexible joints, the robot is able to absorb potential shocks in case it bumps into users.
The robot was developed by Tokyo's elite Waseda University and named Twendy-One, an acronym derived from Waseda Engineering Designed Symbiont.
"In our super-ageing society, both strength and delicacy are required" for robots, Professor Shigeki Sugano said in presenting the humanoid. "Twendy-One is the first robot that can meet those conditions."
The professor said his team aims to sell the robot in 2015.
Japanese are famed for longevity, with more than 30,000 people aged at least 100 years old, a trend attributed to a healthy cuisine and active lifestyle.
But the longevity is also presenting a headache as the country has one of the lowest birthrates, raising fears of a future demographic crisis as a smaller pool of workers supports a mass of elderly.
I like pets, but I don't like irresponsible or inconsiderate owners.
On an unrelated note, here's a news article from http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071127/t
Japan researchers unveil housework robot
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese researchers on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid robot designed to lend a hand with housework, particularly the rapidly growing number of elderly people in the Asian country.
ADVERTISEMENT
The 147-centimetre (four-foot-10) robot, pure white save for blue eyes and red arm joints, put its skills on display by helping an elderly person get out of bed and preparing breakfast.
While communicating with the person, the 111-kilogramme (244-pound) robot picked up tomato sauce from the refrigerator with four fingers and carried it with a piece of bread on a plate to the dining table.
With sensors and flexible joints, the robot is able to absorb potential shocks in case it bumps into users.
The robot was developed by Tokyo's elite Waseda University and named Twendy-One, an acronym derived from Waseda Engineering Designed Symbiont.
"In our super-ageing society, both strength and delicacy are required" for robots, Professor Shigeki Sugano said in presenting the humanoid. "Twendy-One is the first robot that can meet those conditions."
The professor said his team aims to sell the robot in 2015.
Japanese are famed for longevity, with more than 30,000 people aged at least 100 years old, a trend attributed to a healthy cuisine and active lifestyle.
But the longevity is also presenting a headache as the country has one of the lowest birthrates, raising fears of a future demographic crisis as a smaller pool of workers supports a mass of elderly.
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Finals passed!
Nov. 1st, 2007 | 03:51 pm
I passed my exams and did better than I expected. I won't have final exams again till December...so this month is a little bit more relaxing. It's not like I can slack off totally though, because there're still midterms and assignments due this month.
Oh ya, it was Halloween yesterday. Some people came by my place to get chocolate and they seemed pretty old...they seemed to be in their late teens. Then today I overheard some of my classmates saying they went out to trick o' treat too. Shameless people... Though I can understand a bit, sometimes I don't want to grow up... plus these days there doesn't seem to be enough kids coming by so there's still a lot of chocolates left to give away.
A medical doctor who is also a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine came by yesterday to give us a lecture. It was a very brief overview of traditional Chinese medicine and he went over the material very quickly. He focused more on diagnosing diseases rather than the treatment of diseases. Apparently looking at the tongue, eye and ear allows you to diagnose a bunch of different ailments. There're various different parts of the tongue that represent different internal organs. In New Zealand, there's a tribe who greets people by sticking out their tongues and he says he has a great time there looking at people's tongues and taking a guess at what kind of problems they might have. At the end, he gave a demonstration of acupuncture. Acupuncture seems to be getting popular because it's a very fast relief of pain not involving the use of medication that have side effects. My classmates were so brave; a lot of people were really eager for the doctor to stick needles in their ears and hands. Some wanted to try out acupuncture because they were cynical that it really worked. In the end, because he was a very skilled practitioner, he was able to effectively treat my classmates' complaints. I think he achieved his goal, which was to make us become more open-minded towards alternative medicine such as the ways other cultures, be it Chinese or Indian and so on, practice medicine. There were still classmates who were cynical about the philosophy behind traditional Chinese medicine; but my personal take on it is in agreement with what the doctor said. And that is, medicine is to make people feel better; as long as it's not harmful towards people's health, I'm open minded about learning more about how different cultures view medicine.
Oh ya, it was Halloween yesterday. Some people came by my place to get chocolate and they seemed pretty old...they seemed to be in their late teens. Then today I overheard some of my classmates saying they went out to trick o' treat too. Shameless people... Though I can understand a bit, sometimes I don't want to grow up... plus these days there doesn't seem to be enough kids coming by so there's still a lot of chocolates left to give away.
A medical doctor who is also a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine came by yesterday to give us a lecture. It was a very brief overview of traditional Chinese medicine and he went over the material very quickly. He focused more on diagnosing diseases rather than the treatment of diseases. Apparently looking at the tongue, eye and ear allows you to diagnose a bunch of different ailments. There're various different parts of the tongue that represent different internal organs. In New Zealand, there's a tribe who greets people by sticking out their tongues and he says he has a great time there looking at people's tongues and taking a guess at what kind of problems they might have. At the end, he gave a demonstration of acupuncture. Acupuncture seems to be getting popular because it's a very fast relief of pain not involving the use of medication that have side effects. My classmates were so brave; a lot of people were really eager for the doctor to stick needles in their ears and hands. Some wanted to try out acupuncture because they were cynical that it really worked. In the end, because he was a very skilled practitioner, he was able to effectively treat my classmates' complaints. I think he achieved his goal, which was to make us become more open-minded towards alternative medicine such as the ways other cultures, be it Chinese or Indian and so on, practice medicine. There were still classmates who were cynical about the philosophy behind traditional Chinese medicine; but my personal take on it is in agreement with what the doctor said. And that is, medicine is to make people feel better; as long as it's not harmful towards people's health, I'm open minded about learning more about how different cultures view medicine.
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Finals already...
Oct. 22nd, 2007 | 04:33 pm
It's barely 1 month and a half since school started and tonight is the eve of my final. To make it even more fun I have another final two nights from now. It's pretty crazy...I'm glad I'm not playing FFXI at all; I wouldn't be able to do anything in the game because anything significant I'd want to do in the game takes at least 2 hours. If I take study breaks in 2 hour chunks during exam time I can say adios to my current program.
At any rate, I learned that the antidote to acetaminophen (generic version of Tylenol) poisoning is the precursor of glutathione. Usually acetaminophen undergoes glucuronidation or sulfonation but in cases of toxic overdose acetaminophen is conjugated by Cytochrome P450 and leads to a quinone. Quinone usually is conjugated by glutathione but again with an overdose the limited amount of glutathione in the body will be depleted. Free quinone will then form a complex with hepatic protein (liver protein) leading to liver failure because the body will recognize the modified hepatic protein to be foreign and attack it. To make a long story short, massive overdose of acetaminophen is lethal; glucuronidation (Phase II metabolic pathway) is not well developed in children so for children a smaller dose can be lethal. Apparently acetaminophen poisoning is common.
I also learned that the antidote to methanol poisoning is ethanol, because ethanol has a higher affinity to ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase). When methanol is processed by ADH to formaldehyde, the formaldehyde is then oxidized by ALDH (aldehyde dehydrogenase) into yummy formic acid which causes blindness and death. It doesn't take much methanol for this to happen.
I'm not sure why I'm writing about this but it's definitely for myself since I highly doubt anyone reading my page would be interested in this stuff. Most people are just happy knowing that they shouldn't take an overdose of acetaminophen or drink methanol.
At any rate, I learned that the antidote to acetaminophen (generic version of Tylenol) poisoning is the precursor of glutathione. Usually acetaminophen undergoes glucuronidation or sulfonation but in cases of toxic overdose acetaminophen is conjugated by Cytochrome P450 and leads to a quinone. Quinone usually is conjugated by glutathione but again with an overdose the limited amount of glutathione in the body will be depleted. Free quinone will then form a complex with hepatic protein (liver protein) leading to liver failure because the body will recognize the modified hepatic protein to be foreign and attack it. To make a long story short, massive overdose of acetaminophen is lethal; glucuronidation (Phase II metabolic pathway) is not well developed in children so for children a smaller dose can be lethal. Apparently acetaminophen poisoning is common.
I also learned that the antidote to methanol poisoning is ethanol, because ethanol has a higher affinity to ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase). When methanol is processed by ADH to formaldehyde, the formaldehyde is then oxidized by ALDH (aldehyde dehydrogenase) into yummy formic acid which causes blindness and death. It doesn't take much methanol for this to happen.
I'm not sure why I'm writing about this but it's definitely for myself since I highly doubt anyone reading my page would be interested in this stuff. Most people are just happy knowing that they shouldn't take an overdose of acetaminophen or drink methanol.
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Busy and stressed!
Sep. 20th, 2007 | 01:30 pm
I'm busy and stressed recently. I was just accepted into a program I applied for, 2 days after class started. There was a lot of paperwork to get done that I'm still working on now. Things like updating my immunization records, getting reference letters and so on were just a small part of the process of being in my current program.
My program is also very competitive because there's a lot of geeks in my class who know how to study well. I can assume that everyone there is at least as smart as me if not smarter. They're probably all smarter than me. That means I have to study more than I really want to, just to stay in the program and not get kicked out.
Well, I better go and get stuff done.
My program is also very competitive because there's a lot of geeks in my class who know how to study well. I can assume that everyone there is at least as smart as me if not smarter. They're probably all smarter than me. That means I have to study more than I really want to, just to stay in the program and not get kicked out.
Well, I better go and get stuff done.
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Airport security
Aug. 17th, 2007 | 08:07 pm
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.c
I really have a problem with airport security especially when it's a 20 hour long flight and I come back to a place I call home but my first welcome is being treated like a criminal. And all I did was go off to the other side of the globe for a holiday.
I really have a problem with airport security especially when it's a 20 hour long flight and I come back to a place I call home but my first welcome is being treated like a criminal. And all I did was go off to the other side of the globe for a holiday.
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Poof
Aug. 8th, 2007 | 03:52 pm
I haven't been on in FFXI much because I'm planning to quit this month. Plus, there's been weddings, festivals and a bunch of stuff happening recently.
At any rate, if Ariane's reading this, here's another news article about a squirrel except that it's a chocoholic not a rampaging violent criminal: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0708
And here's a story that reeks of Homer Simpson come alive into our world from the animated world: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0708
Remember the episode in Simpsons where Homer had a crayon he pushed up his nose, and got stuck in his brain? I guess if someone can think up an idea for a show it's already happened somewhere in this world sometime or may likely happen in the future...
I suppose the moral of the story is don't stick objects where they don't belong or fall on them and let them stick where they don't belong. But she was only 4, poor woman.
At any rate, if Ariane's reading this, here's another news article about a squirrel except that it's a chocoholic not a rampaging violent criminal: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0708
And here's a story that reeks of Homer Simpson come alive into our world from the animated world: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0708
Remember the episode in Simpsons where Homer had a crayon he pushed up his nose, and got stuck in his brain? I guess if someone can think up an idea for a show it's already happened somewhere in this world sometime or may likely happen in the future...
I suppose the moral of the story is don't stick objects where they don't belong or fall on them and let them stick where they don't belong. But she was only 4, poor woman.
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Happy Belated Canada Day
Jul. 3rd, 2007 | 01:10 am
Happy belated Canada Day to my fellow Canadians reading this journal :)
I spent the weekend playing badminton and tennis, watching Pirates of the Carribean and eating yummy BBQ. And listened to the fireworks going off. I'm not very nationalistic but rather individualistic, so it's difficult for me to relate to the significance of such a national holiday. If I reflect on the personal encounters I've had with other Canadians, in general it's pleasant and I like most of the people I've met, but, those are my individual encounters and even if I take the approach that the individual encounters make up the whole, it's a very limited point of view. Recently from the news I've read, Harper hasn't seem to have been making a wonderful impression on other nations. I'm sure there's a ton of people out there who have their complaints about Canada as well. Sometimes I feel pessimistic about how nations each have their personal agenda, and only the nation itself thinks it's in the right. Surely Canada falls into that from time to time too.
Yet, I have a certain attachment to Canada and there're some national ideals I'm proud of. Some of these ideals are outlined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, some of these ideals have been socialized into me and some I may have abstracted from observing the culture I live in.
Regardless of what I may think, I still wish those with some national pride a Happy Canada Day.
I spent the weekend playing badminton and tennis, watching Pirates of the Carribean and eating yummy BBQ. And listened to the fireworks going off. I'm not very nationalistic but rather individualistic, so it's difficult for me to relate to the significance of such a national holiday. If I reflect on the personal encounters I've had with other Canadians, in general it's pleasant and I like most of the people I've met, but, those are my individual encounters and even if I take the approach that the individual encounters make up the whole, it's a very limited point of view. Recently from the news I've read, Harper hasn't seem to have been making a wonderful impression on other nations. I'm sure there's a ton of people out there who have their complaints about Canada as well. Sometimes I feel pessimistic about how nations each have their personal agenda, and only the nation itself thinks it's in the right. Surely Canada falls into that from time to time too.
Yet, I have a certain attachment to Canada and there're some national ideals I'm proud of. Some of these ideals are outlined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, some of these ideals have been socialized into me and some I may have abstracted from observing the culture I live in.
Regardless of what I may think, I still wish those with some national pride a Happy Canada Day.
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Lunch
Jun. 20th, 2007 | 01:59 pm
I went out for lunch today at a place called Japanese village and ordered a bento. It wasn't very good. In fact, it tasted disgusting. The servers were nice and I got to see my friends though so it made up for the bad food. As long as I am still alive and well after eating the food I'll forgive the restaurant.
They also had an iroha poem up as a decoration. An iroha poem is a poem which uses up all the hiragana in Japanese once each and only once. So, in the poem, you'll find a i u e o, ka ki ku ke ko, sa shi su se so etc. but they'll show up only once each. And, the poem has to make sense of course.
Coincidentally, at lunch today I was the only female. For some reason it makes me think of the time when I bumped into my high school Chemistry teacher during my 2nd year in university. He asked me, "So how's university? Meeting lots of boys and having fun?" I said, "Ya, there're a lot of boys..." But he never let me finish...he said that's great and went on to talk about different things.
What I wanted to say was, "Ya, there're a lot of boys and I don't know any of them >_>;;;" Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink :)
They also had an iroha poem up as a decoration. An iroha poem is a poem which uses up all the hiragana in Japanese once each and only once. So, in the poem, you'll find a i u e o, ka ki ku ke ko, sa shi su se so etc. but they'll show up only once each. And, the poem has to make sense of course.
Coincidentally, at lunch today I was the only female. For some reason it makes me think of the time when I bumped into my high school Chemistry teacher during my 2nd year in university. He asked me, "So how's university? Meeting lots of boys and having fun?" I said, "Ya, there're a lot of boys..." But he never let me finish...he said that's great and went on to talk about different things.
What I wanted to say was, "Ya, there're a lot of boys and I don't know any of them >_>;;;" Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink :)
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The first day
Jun. 19th, 2007 | 01:14 am
The first day I came into being, was as Shirin's mule. I was a hume then who explored Zeruhn Mines where random Japanese players cast Protect on me and cured me while I attacked anything that moved there. After some time, Shirin cast me away as a mule. That was when I became Windaze. Since Bastok had seemed to be such a dreary grey, I wanted to be in a city that had more green. However, Shirin was a mithra, and I didn't want to be the same race. After all Shirin had cast me away, even though she said it was for my own good. Shirin helped me find a home, which was called KaizokuDan. I was very confused at that time, because everything was so new to me. Time passed, and KaizokuDan was dissolved, though I didn't know why.
Next I moved to a new home with Shirin, called Kaminote. After Kaminote it was Akanoishi. It was all a blur. In one of those homes, I remember a pair of Elvaan, called Hikaro and Karlo. Karlo liked Elvaan females like myself. Hikaro never really gave his opinion. But Hikaro and Karlo seemed like brothers. Thelia was there too. She didn't like Elvaans, and called us Dhalmels because of our long necks. Gackty and Gackt were there too, but to me their presence seemed like the bubbles that froth to the surface and disappear. I don't think I even recall their names correctly, but one was a taru and one was a hume I believe. Viana was a familiar name too.
Those were some of the people I met in my infancy :)
Next I moved to a new home with Shirin, called Kaminote. After Kaminote it was Akanoishi. It was all a blur. In one of those homes, I remember a pair of Elvaan, called Hikaro and Karlo. Karlo liked Elvaan females like myself. Hikaro never really gave his opinion. But Hikaro and Karlo seemed like brothers. Thelia was there too. She didn't like Elvaans, and called us Dhalmels because of our long necks. Gackty and Gackt were there too, but to me their presence seemed like the bubbles that froth to the surface and disappear. I don't think I even recall their names correctly, but one was a taru and one was a hume I believe. Viana was a familiar name too.
Those were some of the people I met in my infancy :)
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寂しさ？！
Jun. 18th, 2007 | 03:29 am
朝３時のLSはなんか怖いくらい静かだった。。。 私と話す相手はないうちにここに来
一週間ぐらいまえ、高校から知ってる友達は他の町に引越してしまった。さようならと言
じゃ。。。ここまで書いておく。。またにゃ～
一週間ぐらいまえ、高校から知ってる友達は他の町に引越してしまった。さようならと言
じゃ。。。ここまで書いておく。。またにゃ～
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Fruitful night!
May. 11th, 2007 | 01:21 am
Tonight was fruitful...thanks to UDF and Phantasmagoria, Windaze has a pair of rostrum pumps and an optical hat now. The Alastor antlion fight became smoother and smoother the more runs we did. It adds some variety to the other events that UDF has. As well, I had fun hanging out with friends from Phantas when we killed Hakutaku for ohat. I really like Phantas! It's such a nice social ls. There's nothing like events where you feel appreciated for attending and it's not just for points and so on.
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文語の試験について
Apr. 23rd, 2007 | 01:30 pm
今日は文語の期末試験を受けた。 本当に難し過ぎると思わないが、ずいぶん時間かかった。 結局書くことを終われなかったから、今心配している。これから、次の試験のために、勉
でも。。。やはり心配している。。。くやしい気持ちを持ってるうちに、なにもできない。
今年の授業でいい点さえ取れれば、幸せだ。 いい点を取れるように！
でも。。。やはり心配している。。。くやしい気持ちを持ってるうちに、なにもできない。
今年の授業でいい点さえ取れれば、幸せだ。 いい点を取れるように！
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Random writings..
Apr. 18th, 2007 | 01:26 am
Windaze went farming a lot today. Which means I didn't get much studying done @.@ Thanks Kobu and Shirin for your help!
Starting to play FFXI again after an almost half a year break means there's a lot to catch up on ~~~^^~~~
I wanted to write about games for a Creative Writing class that I have but it's too hard to persuade my teacher that it's worthwhile playing games. He wants us to have an insightful revelation for any writing we do, in order to gave any kind of an A. I find it hard to have a revelation every time I talk about something...I've only been able to produce 2 assignments out of 5 that he considers revelations..I'm running out of ideas.
We've been reading classical Japanese in class. Maybe one day I'll post some of the stuff I studied :D And give my translation for it. I like the Pillow Book, but we didn't read very much of it in classical Japanese because the language is too convoluted.
Starting to play FFXI again after an almost half a year break means there's a lot to catch up on ~~~^^~~~
I wanted to write about games for a Creative Writing class that I have but it's too hard to persuade my teacher that it's worthwhile playing games. He wants us to have an insightful revelation for any writing we do, in order to gave any kind of an A. I find it hard to have a revelation every time I talk about something...I've only been able to produce 2 assignments out of 5 that he considers revelations..I'm running out of ideas.
We've been reading classical Japanese in class. Maybe one day I'll post some of the stuff I studied :D And give my translation for it. I like the Pillow Book, but we didn't read very much of it in classical Japanese because the language is too convoluted.
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Hmm...
Apr. 14th, 2007 | 04:08 pm
Since the last time I posted about the high number of homicides going on in my city, an actual homicide occurred very very close to where I live...I wrote about it for my class assignment and got a good mark on it. It was a pretty scary experience that's for sure.
Today, I'm supposed to be working really hard on my final paper for a Japanese modern literature class. But it's really hard to focus...considering what a long week I've had. I'm just going to take it easy, but that means I'll have to stay up really late tonight to get it done.
Oh well. That's it for now.
Oh ya, I've got a bunch of people I know on Facebook. I should consider switching to Facebook I suppose..
Today, I'm supposed to be working really hard on my final paper for a Japanese modern literature class. But it's really hard to focus...considering what a long week I've had. I'm just going to take it easy, but that means I'll have to stay up really late tonight to get it done.
Oh well. That's it for now.
Oh ya, I've got a bunch of people I know on Facebook. I should consider switching to Facebook I suppose..
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Disturbing stuff
Oct. 9th, 2006 | 05:30 am
I'm supposed to be studying for Sociology, but I found some rather disturbing statistics. The number of homicides per capita is the highest in the city I live in, for all of Canada. I've heard on the news that over the last 3 years or so, the number of homicides has been increasing in the city. I wonder why this is so. Is our police force not large enough to handle the growing population? Are people not being socialized well enough to learn that killing is bad? Is the punishment too lenient? What could the reason be? Maybe Ralph Klein is saving too much money and not spending enough money on the police force. Maybe, we have a lot of people here from other provinces who don't feel they belong, and so they feel like they need to kill people to relieve some stress. Or, people from this province are so stressed out, they feel like killing. Who knows. At any rate it's pretty disturbing to me.
Here's a link to the statistics: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060
Here's a link to the statistics: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060