Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Random stuff:

I remember in primary school there's this song that goes "look right look left look right again" when crossing the road. Then I wondered why you look right twice and look left once.

Recently I realised that it's because the cars always come from the right side when you are standing on the kerb.
Unless you are in Orchard where the road is one way.

Which makes me wonder if the primary schools in, say, US, learn "look left look right look left again" cos their roads are different.
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If you're from RI, you'll remember that the headmaster made a speech about the NUTS(No-U-Turn Syndrome) where in Singapore, only places where U-turns are allowed have a sign that indicates so, and elsewhere it is assumed that U-turns are not allowed. Whereas in other places, only places where U-turns are not allowed have a sign that indicates thus, elsewhere it is assumed that U-turning is allowed. As such, it was said that legislations that specify what are allowed would stifle creativity, and we should instead only specify what is not allowed.

It is only recently that you'll see a sign with a bold circle around a cigarette. This specifies that smoking is allowed only in that area, and not elsewhere in the coffeeshop. This makes more sense than putting a "smoking prohibited" sign outside the yellow box area because the yellow box area is always much smaller than the area outside it.

So does this stifle people's creativity about where smoking is allowed? Perhaps, but it doesn't really matter.
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The popiah stall with great service and great popiah closed down.
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Many stories in Doraemon speak of Nobita getting bullied, Doraemon giving him a gadget that makes him more powerful than the bully, Nobita punishing the bully, and finally abusing the power that Doraemon's gadgets confer to him.

Perhaps the author of Doraemon wants to teach us that power corrupts.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Which is thicker? Thinner or turpentine?

If thinner is thicker, then turpentine is thinner. Since turpentine is thinner, and thinner is thicker, then turpentine would be thicker.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

I am super free now, after chem O prac and kata seminar.

Chem O prac was the kind where you have this feeling that everyone else will do very well. Everyone else got >100% yield while I got 45% yield in organic synthesis. Probably calculation error because I remember I did the whole thing quite carefully. Either that or everyone else forgot to subtract the weight of the filter paper. :P But that's not very likely, considering that Daniel Lo also got >100% and he is usually very careful. Hope I can get some prize.

I'm amused by the tv mobile on laptop advertisement. The guy and girls are all staring at the strategic spot.

TOFLMAO.

Friday, December 01, 2006

I laugh at the ad wars between star hub and singnet.

"There's something fishy in here." Join the fat green pipe today! - Starhub


"Rarrrr I'm fat!" "I may not fat, but I'm fast!" - Singnet