I'm so shallow now. Oh dear. It's good that Nelson is there to share his knowledge with me, so I can learn stuff while bumming around.

But well, just an idea:

Would you be able to recognise the MRT voice when you hear it in person? I mean, I can imagine if people recognise on the road "Oh excuse me, are you the FHM girl of the year?" (Is there such a thing? Never mind, you get my point. Don't do it in front of her grandma though.) What if you are just walking down the road and you hear the MRT voice in person? Would you stop by and ask, "Excuse me, are you the MRT voice?"

Or imagine the MRT voice having a job interview.

"On your CV, you claim that you voiced the soundtrack for MRT station names. If you don't mind, can you say 'Bishan'?"
"Bishan."
"My gosh you ARE the real thing! Can you say 'Orchard'?"
"..."

I remember that when I was in RI and RJ, I would always sleep in the train from Choa Chu Kang to Bishan. When the MRT voice says "Bishan" I would wake up, alight the train and rush off to school. Till now, I still wake up when I reach Bishan even if I don't intend to alight there.

Wouldn't it be very cool if SMRT uploaded the MRT voice soundtracks, along with the person's name, from 1986 to present?

"On Being Certain" by Robert A. Burton has got to be one of the most depressing book I've read so far. You know what Kurt Godel did to Math? And what Descartes did it to EVERYTHING?

Well, using the latest results from psychology and neurology, Dr Burton finished the job by doing it to "Cogito Ergo Sum." Nice one, doc.


To sum it up,

Godel + Descartes + Burton = Massive headache.


Pick it up from your nearest library. If you dare.

The flowers have bloomed in my army camp. Maybe the quick transitions between the blazing sun and the pouring rain serve as signals for the jasmine flowers to bloom together, thereby improving their chances of successful cross-pollenation. Whatever the reason, it remains a fact that there was a huge bloom of Jasmine flowers in my camp, and it's really fragrant. Since young I have always been told that flowers are fragrant, but I never actually associated flowers with fragrance because all the flowers I've seen (i.e. bougainvilla, ixora, hibiscus) have no smell.

Yes, so if you wish to make your house fragrant naturally, plant jasmine. You can't really smell many other flowers.

Only if you are prepared to have them visited by bees though. The jasmine bloom in my camp received good patronage from them.

"How's the bread?"
"Pretty good. You want some?"
"No! I'm genuinely interested in knowing it's quality."

"Hello, is John in?"
"Ahh, please hold on."
"No, it's okay! I just want to know if he's at home."

"Excuse me mister, are you in the queue?"
"No, I'm not in the queue. *steps aside*"
"It's ok! I was just wondering why you've been standing there for so long."

Random idea.

Suppose you invent a head-dress (could be a cap, hat or visor) which contains a patch that measures skin-conductance. The head dress would display the scaled skin-conductance graph of the wearer. This would allow other people would know how stressed you are, and to a certain extent, whether you are lying. However, the display for the skin-conductance is designed such that you can only read the skin-conductance of other people if you are wearing a particular kind of goggles.

Experiment one.

1. Get a bunch of people. Give half of them special goggles.

2. Split them into pairs, so that 1/3 of the pairs have 2 goggles, 1/3 of the pairs have one, and1/3 of the pairs have none.

3. The researcher, while wearing the special goggles, observes them having a conversation with each other, with perhaps some prompting questions.

Which of the cases is the most stressful? Both partners having goggles? Both without goggles? Being the only one without goggles? Or being the only one with goggles?

Experiment two. (Same thing, except the bolded parts)

1. Get a bunch of people. Give half of them special goggles, and give the other half of them similar-looking but normal goggles.

2. Split them into pairs, so that 1/3 of the pairs have 2 special goggles, 1/3 of the pairs have one, and1/3 of the pairs have none.

3. The researcher, while wearing the special goggles, observes them having a conversation with each other, with perhaps some prompting questions.

Which of the cases is the most stressful? Both partners having special goggles? Both without special goggles? Being the only one without special goggles? Or being the only one with special goggles? Would they be able to tell if their partners have special goggles?

Random thoughts:

Some of the recent advertisements are seriously bad, or as Nelson puts it, "No effort!"

Like, the "London Choco Roll" advertisement just involves some airy voice chanting "London Choco Roll" while a yellow fairy dances in front of the said product.

Or, the "Jia xiang mian" advertisement.

"Jia Xiang!" "Mian!"
"Jia Xiang!" "Mian!"
"Jia Xiang Jia Xiang!" "Mian Mian!"
"Jia Xiang Jia Xiang Jia Xiang!" "Mian Mian Mian!"
"ooooooooooh Jia Xiang Mian!"

That's like some secondary school cheer, dude.

The Shop N Save advertisement is painful to even recall.

OH. MY. GOD.

Shawn(now 14) has broken his voice.

And in this new campus superstar, there is ANOTHER guy called Jarod Lee(now 13). This guy sings damn well too!

What's best, Shawn and Jarod are gonna sing together!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xfwBR3Lk0&feature=related

My goodness.