The Trip

A dedication and tribute to Grandma.

The Trip

by M. Pinson

“Where are we?”
-I don’t know.

“How did we get here?”
-I don’t know.

“When will we go back?”
-In time.

“What do we do now?”
-I don’t know.

“You don’t know?”
-No, I don’t know.

“What do you know?”
-Everything.

“Then where are we?”
-Someplace.

“Where is someplace?”
-I can’t tell you.

“Why can’t you tell me?”
-It is a secret.

“Are we safe?”
-Yes.

“Are we the only one’s here?”
-For now.

“Why is it dark?”
-No lights.

“Why is it cold?”
-No heat.

“Who are you?”
-A Spirit.

“What kind of Spirit?”
-The Spirit of Death.

“Why are you here?”
-To guide you.

“To guide me where?”
-To your new home.

“Where’s that?”
-Heaven…..

In Loving Memory (II)

TAN SOON WAH

LOVING AND CARING GRANDMOTHER

1919 - 2007

And the worst thing of all? Is that I’m not there for her during her last few moments in this world. Instead, I am 15000 miles away here in Sheffield. I still remember the last thing she did before I left to Sheffield was to look at me one last time so that she wouldn’t forget how I look due to her short term memory loss.

Being so helpless, unable to do anything, unable to be by her side. All I can do is just to sit in my dorm room and cry myself out. Worst thing is that I’m in a middle of an exam now! How am I going to take both of these at once. My dinner plate is full. Too full.

God bless her soul. Eternal peace forever.

Must this happen today?! Heck, I can’t even attend my grandma’s own funeral! T_T

Update: I want to go home!!!

Lights Out

Updated Lights Out! A Plea for your Help.

P.S. My Apple-fy post seems to have captured several people’s attention and thus has started a heated debate on the techno topic of scripts and ports (which I am totally blur in). Pretty fascinating though the amount of time people spend just to type out an arguement so long and detailed just to point out ONE point. Didn’t know that deciding to Apple-fy my house could spark such situations.

Lights Out! A Plea for your Help

Take part in saving the environment! Save our only home in the entire universe. Save our planet. For more information on taking part in this rally, read on!

Taken off Facebook.com

Lights out everyone 1st of feb

On the 1st February, 2007 throughout the world:

The “Alliance pour la Planète” (a national grouping of environmental associations) appeals to all citizens to give the planet 5 minutes respite :

Everybody to extinguish all their lights and illuminations and turn off equipment on stand-by on the 1st February 2007 from 18h55 until 19h00. (GMT)

The purpose is not just to save electricity for 5 minutes that day, but to draw the attention of citizens, the media and the authorities to the waste of energy and the need to initiate action! 5 minutes respite for the planet: that’s not long, it costs nothing and will show our politicians that climate change is something which should figure prominently in political debates.

Why the 1st February? Because that is the day on which the latest report of the United Nations Panel of Experts is to be released in Paris.

Although this event is scheduled to take place in France, we should not miss this opportunity of drawing attention to the global climatic situation.

If we all participate our actions will have great public and political resonance, at an important moment in our political life.!

Please make this appeal as widely known as possible in your own circles and networks! Please also publish it on your websites and in your newsletters.

DIFFERENT TIMEZONES..

Hey guys. Due to popular demand.. Here are a run down of the start times for the different timezones that we’re all in. It would be nice to be all in sync!

GMT (+1) - i.e. France and central europe - 7.55pm
GMT - UK - 6.55pm
GMT (-5) - Eastern USA - 1.55pm
GMT (- - Western USA - 10.55am

I think some people need to lighten up here (excuse the pun!).. If you have noticed the time is only 5 mins and only bout 15000 people are gonna do it.. Power surges, whilst true, aren’t going to cause a problem cos only a small percentage of the population will be taking part. Businesses and other homes will be using way to much electricity for our little demonstration to notice.

Secondly, of course this event won’t change the world’s climate overnight but what it will do is show people that we do care about climate change and something much bigger than our little ‘lights out’ event needs to be done!

So if all you can be bothered to do is sit, complain and do sod all and hope that somehow the world will miraculary sort itself out then it is you who are infact dreaming.

Join in and show others that you too care for your home, your planet, our Earth…

P.S. For those in Malaysia, you might be fast asleep at GMT 1855 -1900 which is 0255 - 0300 in Malaysia. Well, if you’re snoozing off early, then just turn everything off. All things electrical. Well, as many as possible though the alarm clock wouldn’t be wise, you’ll be late for work the next day if you can’t wake up without an alarm.

Update: Hey guys. Due to popular demand.. We think it would be best to do a ‘wave’ across the world instead of people working out what time it would be in your time zone. so basically just turn off everything at 6.55pm YOUR time and let’s watch this wave go.

Apple-fy

I’ve decided that I’m going to apple-fy my entire house in the (near) future. All Apple products in the house. And of course, they’re all going to be Apple White too!

First, an Apple-fied house isn’t an Apple-fied house with at least one iMac. Beautifully sculptured and bleached white to perfection.

Perhaps if I had enough money, I could even throw in the Mighty Mouse and wireless keyboard, wireless and cooler than any other accessory in the market.

Of course, an iMac isn’t complete without wireless internet! And the solution to this is the Airport Extreme.

Featuring the latest in wireless networking technology, the 802.11n. Speeds up to 5X faster and 2X the range of a normal 802.11g network. Connects up to 50 users at once (excellent if I have 20 kids in the house!). The good thing Airport Extreme offers is wireless printer and file sharing. There can be up to 50 computers in the house sharing one printer wirelessly in a central location! How good is that. Plus it’s pretty…

Next is that Airport Express. Works the same as it’s big brother, the Airport Extreme just that it’s much smaller than it’s bigger siblings. In fact it’s so small, it can fit into your palm easily and weighs less than 500g!

It’s used to extend the Airport Extreme’s range if there’s a computer out of the range of the Airport Extreme. It can also do printer sharing too. But the best thing the Airport Express offers is AirTunes! Listen to music from iTunes from your Mac anywhere in the house. Just plug the stereo’s input cable into the port and listen away to your favourite tunes from your Mac anywhere in the house whether it’s the kitchen or the living room or the garage or even outside, heck even the toilet if you do have a stereo in the toilet!

Oh, the joy doesn’t end here. There’s still the Apple TV! Watch movie on your computer on your Widescreen HDTV (doesn’t have to be widescreen or HD though) anywhere in the house. Just plug it in, it’ll join the Airport Extreme’s wireless network and Apple TV will automatically stream all Music, Movies, TV shows, Photos and Podcasts from the computer wirelessly.

Plus it comes with a super cute tiny remote similiar to those used with iMacs and Macbooks.

If I do every manage to Apple-fy my house, it’s a dream come true. I’ve always fancied Apple products just that the wonderfully beautiful and shocking price tag keeps hindering me from getting one.

I think I’m starting to sound like an advertisement here. I better stop.

Apple-fy away! *crosses fingers*

No Pok!

No pork!!! Funny hell.

Dear Mr. President

I found this letter written by Michael Moore to the President of the United States of America and it’s hilarious! I had to share this! Read on.

Dear Mr. President: Send Even MORE Troops (and you go, too!) …from Michael Moore

Dear Mr. President,

Thanks for your address to the nation. It’s good to know you still want to talk to us after how we behaved in November.

Listen, can I be frank? Sending in 20,000 more troops just ain’t gonna do the job. That will only bring the troop level back up to what it was last year. And we were losing the war last year! We’ve already had over a million troops serve some time in Iraq since 2003. Another few thousand is simply not enough to find those weapons of mass destruction! Er, I mean… bringing those responsible for 9/11 to justice! Um, scratch that. Try this — BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE MIDDLE EAST! YES!!!

You’ve got to show some courage, dude! You’ve got to win this one! C’mon, you got Saddam! You hung ‘im high! I loved watching the video of that — just like the old wild west! The bad guy wore black! The hangmen were as crazy as the hangee! Lynch mobs rule!!!

Look, I have to admit I feel very sorry for the predicament you’re in. As Ricky Bobby said, “If you’re not first, you’re last.” And you being humiliated in front of the whole world does NONE of us Americans any good.

Sir, listen to me. You have to send in MILLIONS of troops to Iraq, not thousands! The only way to lick this thing now is to flood Iraq with millions of us! I know that you’re out of combat-ready soldiers — so you have to look elsewhere! The only way you are going to beat a nation of 27 million — Iraq — is to send in at least 28 million! Here’s how it would work:

The first 27 million Americans go in and kill one Iraqi each. That will quickly take care of any insurgency. The other one million of us will stay and rebuild the country. Simple.

Now, I know you’re saying, where will I find 28 million Americans to go to Iraq? Here are some suggestions:

1. More than 62,000,000 Americans voted for you in the last election (the one that took place a year and half into a war we already knew we were losing). I am confident that at least a third of them would want to put their body where their vote was and sign up to volunteer. I know many of these people and, while we may disagree politically, I know that they don’t believe someone else should have to go and fight their fight for them — while they hide here in America.

2. Start a “Kill an Iraqi” Meet-Up group in cities across the country. I know this idea is so early-21st century, but I once went to a Lou Dobbs Meet-Up and, I swear, some of the best ideas happen after the third mojito. I’m sure you’ll get another five million or so enlistees from this effort.

3. Send over all members of the mainstream media. After all, they were your collaborators in bringing us this war — and many of them are already trained from having been “embedded!” If that doesn’t bring the total to 28 million, then draft all viewers of the FOX News channel.

Mr. Bush, do not give up! Now is not the time to pull your punch! Don’t be a weenie by sending in a few over-tired troops. Get your people behind you and YOU lead them in like a true commander in chief! Leave no conservative behind! Full speed ahead!

We promise to write. Go get ‘em W!

Yours,

Michael Moore

Totally hilarious! Maybe President Bush should consider this wonderful proposal, it could in fact end the war in Iraq!

A Typical Malaysian

A typical Malaysian usually have one or more of these features:-

• Uses all mixes of languages (s)he knows namely Malay, English and a wide range of Chinese dialects.
• Often uses the suffix “lah” end almost every sentence in speech.
• Doesn’t care to improve ones standard of English.
• Loves food, Malaysian food that is i.e. Beef Rendang, Roti Canai, Dahl, Char Kuey Tiow, Satay, Curry Mee etc.
• Spends almost every weekend at a shopping mall.
• Rushes to check out everything that was newly opened.
• Doesn’t know that Christmas Island actually exists and that it’s only less than 500 miles from Malaysia.
• Reads the very most one story book a year which is usually done involuntarily.
• Studies what only required in the school syllabus.
• Didn’t know that sleet and snow is actually two different types of percipitation (they most probably assume sleet as snow or perhaps hail).
• Spends a lot of money shopping and at the end of the regrets buying so much.
• Doesn’t know that a copper mine once existed in Sabah.
• Doesn’t know what antimoni is.
• and lastly, doesn’t know our King’s official full name which is around 15 words long!