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What did the Black Eyed Peas say to the Char Kuey Teow auntie?
"Mai ham, mai ham, mai ham! (don't want cockles)" hehe. Get it?
lol.
12 years ago
Effeuiller la Marguerite
Nighttime, or to be politically correct, the wee hours of the morning, is the time for emoing. Hehe. I was looking up the "She loves me, she loves me not" game when I came across the French version of it:
Elle m'aime un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie, pas du tout.
It translates to 'She loves me a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at all'. I love this. What are the chances of you ending on 'not at all'? 1/5. lol. You can't be thaaaat unlucky can you?The Polish version, on the other hand, sounds like whoever came up with it is a Major Depressive Paranoid:
Kocha... lubi... szanuje... nie chce... nie dba... żartuje... w myśli... w mowie... w sercu... na ślubnym kobiercu
This means: she loves me... she likes me... she respects me... she doesn't want me... she doesn't care... she makes fun of me... in her mind... in her speech... in her heart... at the wedding carpet. Talk about being pessimistic, huh? Haha.
Walks in the Sunset
This is a Chinese saying which says that the light of the setting sun is sublime, and that time is short.
As I was setting the stew to simmer, Joyce was staring out the kitchen gate. As I joined her by the gate, she mentioned how the weather was perfect for a walk.
Hearing that, I thought it would have been a good idea to actually go for one. The whole bunch of us have never really gone for a walk together before. So off we trudged, up the hill and round the housing estate, gawking at houses.
The evening sky was really nice. The way the setting sun lit up the clouds, it seemed as if a huge angel had shed its wings in the sky. The silence permeated the evening, giving us a sense of tranquility, well, at least until the next car arrived. Such awesome company, with the bonus of such awesome scenery. Life couldn't be any better. Well, maybe if it was followed by awesome food, like we the stew we had (haha...damn angkat bakul sendiri), life could be.
However, as the Chinese saying goes, the evening drew to an end. I think it was less than 30mins before the light dimmed and Esme started to feed the mosquitoes. Still, it was a walk to remember, pardon the pun. hehe.
Let's do it again. This time maybe with a beach. (^_^)
Evolution: Is it still Relevant?
The following essay is the entire script for my persuasive speech that I will present on Monday (?). After hearing what Mr Franklin said in class today, and how this girl adamantly insisted that evolution has been proven, I've decided to put this up.
Is Evolution Still Relevant?
We have been bombarded with the idea of evolution ever since the moment we subscribed to Astro and turned on Discovery Channel, showing documentaries on how fossil records show evidence of evolution. “Let the facts speak for themselves!” They say. However, it is a fallacy to believe that facts speak for themselves—they are always interpreted according to a framework. The framework behind the evolutionists’ interpretation is naturalism—it is assumed that things made themselves.
Evolution is a deduction from this assumption, and it includes these unproven ideas: nothing gave rise to something at an alleged ‘big bang,’ non-living matter gave rise to life, single-celled organisms gave rise to many-celled organisms, invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates, ape-like creatures gave rise to man, non-intelligent and amoral matter gave rise to intelligence and morality, man’s yearnings gave rise to religions, etc.
Evolution, of the fish-to-philosopher type, requires that non-living chemicals organize themselves into a self-reproducing organism. All types of life are alleged to have descended, by natural, ongoing processes, from this ‘simple’ life form. The first self-reproducing organism would have made copies of itself. Evolution also requires that the copying is not always completely accurate—errors (mutations) occur. Any mutations which enable an organism to leave more self-reproducing offspring will be passed on through the generations. This ‘differential reproduction’ is called natural selection. In summary, evolutionists believe that the source of new genetic information is mutations sorted by natural selection—the neo-Darwinian theory.
However, there is a substantial flaw in this assumption. Mutations which increase genetic information would be the raw material necessary for evolution. To get from "amoeba" to "man" would require a massive net increase in information. There are many examples of supposed evolution given by proponents. Variation within a species (finch beak, for example), bacteria which acquire antibiotic resistance, people born with an extra chromosome, etc. However, none of the examples demonstrate the development of new information. Instead, they demonstrate either pre-programmed variation, multiple copies of existing information, or even loss of information (natural selection and adaptation involve loss of information). The total lack of any such evidence refutes evolutionary theory.
Another problem with the premise of evolution is that it requires life to spring out of a primordial chemical soup, otherwise known as spontaneous generation. Evolutionists admit that the chances of evolutionary progress are extremely low. Yet, they believe that given enough time, the apparently impossible becomes possible. If I flip a coin, I have a 50/50 chance of getting heads. To get five "heads" in a row is unlikely but possible. If I flipped the coin long enough, I would eventually get five in a row. If I flipped it for years nonstop, I might get 50 or even 100 in a row. But this is only because getting heads is an inherent possibility. What are the chances of me flipping a coin, and then seeing it sprout arms and legs, and go sit in a corner and read a magazine? No chance. Given billions of years, the chances would never increase. Great periods of time make the possible likely but never make the impossible possible. No matter how long it's given, non-life will not become alive.
Let me give you another example: an enzyme, which is the building block for the gene, which in turn is the building block for the cell, and that for the human being. The probability of it randomly occurring is 1 in 10^40,000, more than the number of atoms in the universe, which incidentally is 10^80.
Now the infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting at keys of a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely produce something coherent, for example the complete works of Shakespeare. If there are as many monkeys as there are particles in the observable universe (10^80), and each types 1000 keystrokes per second for 100 times the life of the universe (10^20 seconds), the probability of the monkeys replicating even a short book approaches zero. That was for a short book. Now imagine the probability for the information from a pinhead sized piece of DNA, which incidentally is 4 billion gigabytes.
The phrase ‘missing link’ is commonly heard when talking about evolution. If living things had really evolved from other kinds of creatures, then there would have been many intermediate or transitional forms, with halfway structures, otherwise known as the ‘missing links’. However, the inability to imagine functional intermediates is a real problem. If a bat or bird evolved from a land animal, the transitional forms would have forelimbs that were neither good legs nor good wings. How would such things be selected? The fragile long limbs of hypothetical halfway stages of bats and pterosaurs would seem more like a hindrance than a help. Besides that, there are no fossil records what so ever of animals in the transitory stage, but overwhelming numbers fossils which show fully developed animals.
Broken boats cannot carry you across the water. Having seen how the scientific and mathematical evidence piles up against evolution, rendering it redundant, I think it is time we find another theory to replace it.
References
Ham, K., & Sarfati, J. (1999). Refuting evolution. Master Books.
Wikipedia. (2009). Infinite Monkey Theorem. Retrieved 15 November, 2009 from the World Wide Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Alcorn, R. (2008). Ten major flaws of evolution - revised. Retrieved from http://www.epm.org/artman2/publish/creation_evolution/Ten_Major_Flaws_of_Evolution_-_Revised.shtml
VipChannel. (2008). Debating-refuting-beating - darwin dawkins evolution theory. Video posted to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfE6pKCzSTU
O My Friend, I Weep for You
A sound heart is life to the body,
But envy is rottenness to the bones.
But envy is rottenness to the bones.
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent,
But who is able to stand before jealousy?
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy as cruel as the grave.
Jealousy as cruel as the grave.
For wrath kills a foolish man,
And envy slays a simple one.
You say you love, but I see not what you call love. Love is supposed to suffer long, be kind, does not envy; does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Instead, I see malice and envy dripping from your heart, hiding a poisoned dagger in your smile. Your kindness only lasts as long you think you can benefit from it, and when you have perceived otherwise, it stops. Is this true kindness?
I believe true love bears all things. Even when things don't go the way you really want it to be, you still love. What I see in you is obsession, a twisted longing, not love. I implore you, change your ways and put seek the Kingdom of God first! Before God gives you over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness.
(T.T)
The Mortal Instruments
MPH was selling them at 20% off. I couldn't resist the sweet seduction of fiction, so I bought the first two books. When I went up to the counter to ask for the City of Bones, since it wasn't on display, the lady at the counter looked me in the eye and said:
" Second floor, all the way to the end, children's section."
My friends all burst out laughing. Ah, the embarrassment.
That aside, I'm now more than halfway done with City of Bones. So far, so good, except for the annoying gay romance which keeps popping out. Otherwise, the story has its fair share of demon slaying action, mystery, romance and saving the world. Something definitely worth buying if you aren't hyper homophobic.
Another Attempt at Haiku
A raging river,
set.
Drowning all
around it.
A taut string,
pulled further.
Pling.
It snaps.
A still pond.
Stone
drops in.
Ripples spread;
Chaos.
A leaf in a torrent.
Sucked in
by
the vortex.
Pebble in the river.
Reluctant.
Forced along.
War, pride.
I'm right.
Still, sorrow stems
And people die.
Maybe I'm saying something, maybe I'm not. But this I will say: Being stuck in between warring factions is not fun. (*>.<*)
Don't Mind My Monologue
Would it be right if my actions, which would benefit myself greatly, cause a close friend to grieve? If my actions would result in making another friend go against a statement made? Would it be right for me, if my actions may result in either the losing of a friendship or resulting in something more?
Should I then continue with this course of action?
Then again, do I really mean it? Am I just kidding myself again, like before?
Oh, where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell? Only God alone understands the way to it and HE alone knows where it dwells.
In that case, can pinjam sikit ah?
Assignments Are Sapping My Creativity...
You know what? I think I shall go to bed.
I stayed up till 3am on Tuesday/Wednesday at Daryll's place, kononnya do assignment. Ended up Kevin emoing in a corner, Koo and Chi Ken DotA-ing in the dining room, and Daryll sleeping in his room. Had to wake up at 8am to get to Uni before 10 so that Koo, who didn't bring his clothes, can go back to his dorm and bathe.
Screw the PDA. I'll do it tomorrow and just skip judo...again.
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