Siblings are precious.
That's why i'm here, supporting two of em' in the International Chess Finale.
All i can say is, i'm very proud to be your brother and all the best for the tournament.
This is, by far, the limit of my sentimentality x)
ps. Goodbye Avram. Jinggles over the new manager.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Labels: football
Two goals. Two shots hitting the post. Two unsuccessful penalties. It was a nightmare. I did all i could for Terry to send the ball back into the net; but i suppose, it was not meant to be. I am proud though that Chelsea have surpassed everyone's expectations and managed to raise their bar this year by reaching the Champions League final.
The opening ceremony. 
Terry giving Rooney and the Reds a hard time.
The Grieved Captain. I'll be looking forward to another year of entertaining football.(Loving the new Chelsea kit)As Arnold puts it, "We'll be back."
Sunday, May 18, 2008
It was a long time ago that i wore my heart out on my sleeve and treated every single task as a compulsory obligation. The picture above portrays just how fond i was of leisure activities. Check out the artwork from one of my juniors. She's very bright.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Labels: pieces of me
Labels: acoustic
Would you accept a job twice as good as your current one - twice as much income and twice as fulfilling - given one condition of employment: you can never reveal anything about it to anyone at all?
Gosh. I've always wanted an alter ego. Especially one that makes bling.
Would you accept twenty-five years of extraordinary happiness if it meant you would die at the end of the period?
Definitely not. What's life if you always smile like the women in The Stepford Wives?
For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing there would be very little chance at ever seeing your family again?
With her hand in marriage. No objections to that.
Would you willingly have one finger removed if it somehow guaranteed immunity from all major diseases?
I would prefer the opportunity to fall sick and play truant (x
After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make one final dash into the house to save any one thing. What would it be?
My novels.
You are given the power to kill people. They would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. How would you use this power?
First, i'll experiment the terms and conditions of using such powers. Then, i'll be looking forward to working with the security agencies around the globe.
Would you rather be extremely successful professionally, with a fairly ordinary private life - or a very happy private life and only an ordinary professional life?
I'd love to be extremely successful professionally until i make billions. After that, i'd be satisfied with having a happy private life and a secure profession.
If you could script the basic plot for your dream tonight, what would the story be?
Acquire super-intelligence, develop theory for unlimited power supply(nucleur fission), build robotic aid, modify my entire life with newfound technology(and still maintain the cool-ness as it is, lol), solve the world's most pressing problems, and at the end of the day.. 100 marks for all my test subjects.
Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it meant you would live for 500 years at any physical age you choose?
I wouldn't want to live that long. Too much grief of losing your loved ones.
In front of you are ten pistols. Only one of them is loaded. For one million dollars, would you pick up one, point it to your head and pull the trigger? You get to keep the money regardless of the outcome.
Yeah, i'll do it. Not for the money though.
Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by five years to become extremely attractive?
I want my five birthday cakes! Nu-uh, not gonna cut it short.
If you could take a one-month trip to anywhere in the world, and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?
Egypt. A lot of things i'd love to unravel as an archeo.
Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it meant ending hunger in the world?
No. Hunger and famine exist for a reason. I won't be the one pulling the trigger just to rid of our problems.
There. Second tag!
Heart of Steel
6:42 AMDespite the air of disappointment in the previous post, Iron Man was never a disappointment. Technically speaking, the suit is made of a type of aluminium alloy (x
It would be a brutal lie to say that i have never lied in my life.
To some people being polite, and using little white lies is considered important.
To some people speaking the truth in an unoffensive way is considered important.
A person who is true to himself will diligently seek out information about the aspects of reality with which he needs to interact in order to benefit himself. He will acknowledge what he knows and apply it; he will acknowledge what he does not know and seek it out. He will put what he knows into practice to maximize benefits to himself, given his best understanding of reality. In doing so, he might fail in his goal or overlook a facet of reality. However, we cannot fault him for doing his best especially if he resolves to improve his knowledge and avoid similar errors in the future. The honest individual will recognize that his personal failings and undesirable circumstances are not unavoidably imposed on him by external forces beyond his control; he will refuse to remain a passive victim and will resist negative external pressures.
Note that honesty does not begin with communication with other people; it begins with the self. A person can be perfectly honest with himself and not say a word to another person in a given situation.
Let us imagine a man sitting in a theater, watching a film whose central ideas he recognizes to be contrary to his best self-interest. Would it be wise for the man to immediately declare his realization to the rest of the audience? Of course not. The man can recognize all the failings of the film and genuinely seek to act in a manner otherwise than as the film suggests without ever speaking a word about it to anyone. If he does talk about the film to everyone in the audience while the film is playing, the man would in fact be committing a dishonest act; he would be engaged in self-deception concerning his genuine self-interest which does not include being expelled from the theater.
A rationally selfish individual does not see himself as possessing an inherent responsibility to other people unless that responsibility was consensually entered into in the form of a promise, contract, or agreement. Thus, he is not obligated to give other people the truth about himself, his thoughts, or his understanding of reality; he can choose to do so only if it serves his best self-interest. This lack of obligation does not give him license to mislead other people or to give them deliberate falsehoods. However, he has three options whenever he interacts with another person: stating the whole truth, stating part of the truth, or silence.
Sometimes stating the whole truth or a part of it to other people will anger or offend those people so that they react in a manner harmful to the truthful individual. The honest man is under no obligation to speak in such circumstances, and silence is a superior option. However, in some situations even silence is detrimental. If a robber-murderer asks an individual where his family is hiding, the individual would not only betray the people he values by telling the truth; the individual is morally obligated to mislead the robber-murderer in order to save his family. After all, if the individual were to stay silent, the robber-murderer might kill him for being uncooperative. Misleading the robber-murderer might send him off on a futile search and buy the man and his family time to escape or organize retaliation.
Thus, when communicating with other people, the honest man will use the following set of principles:
1) When it benefits or does not harm him, he will tell all or part of the truth.
2) When it harms him to tell all or part of the truth, he will stay silent.
3) Only when it harms him to either tell the truth or to stay silent, he will tell a falsehood.
I admit. I have a heart of steel. I am indifferent. Most people are. I just do it with a bit of sarcasm.But, having met you, i feel the tendency to change, Eloise. I won't though. You will not get the satisfaction from me being prized open like a can of soda ^^ There is one thing i am capable of promising, and that is i will never lie to you. Ever :)
Ferus Man
12:28 AM
Invincibility. An adrenaline that inspired me to live up to it's name. A force so gargantuan(over, much?) that, in the past, i overcame the limits of which i stacked upon myself on several occasions.
Woke up with a headache. Yes, a very intense knife-poking gesture at the cerebrum. Definitely not a good way to start a day. Thinking about Add Maths was horren-defying(is there such a word? mind my English when i'm on the verge of vomiting). I mean, i am aware that i have the capabilities to attempt such questions - but, when it came down to the last 45 minutes, i did something similar to star players in a football match who line up for a penalty kick only to send it flying high over the bar, which, in this case, you stack another goal post on top of that one and still wouldn't score. I panicked. Choked(as in, petrified to the very last bone in my body).
It was a long time coming, i suppose. That persona of invincibility that i put on in the face of tests. Night after night of burning the oil, i had the nerve to assume the unimaginable. In the end, i am still and always be a human.
"To err is human, to forgive... thats right on"
Well, let's just forget the latter part of that sentence and focus on the "making mistakes as a human section".
Urgh, head buzzing with formulae from my numerology study(said with a Jack Black accent in Nacho Libre). I guess all that's left for me is to pick up the pieces and invigorate that magic touch. Note-to-self: disappointments from exams does not signify the end. It's a work-in-progress for better things to come. There are worse things that a 16 year old with an unstable mentality can be disappointed with. When you reach that place where you're above everyone else, it's hard to let go.
I'll be revving it for the next one. I've got Biology and History in four days.
Meanwhile, i'll be observing Robert Downey Jr. on the bigscreen. Ferus Man (x
Now that's invincible. A man made of substance similar to that of my spoon.
Friday, May 16, 2008
More than Words
11:02 PM
More than Words - that says a lot, no? It took me two weeks to learn this one. This kid has talent.