Peiking Duck… ah…I mean Dog. Though Peiking duck taste most excellent indeed. Will try the dog next time I visit China. Anyway, took this
photo of Peiking Dog at my chuch in Suzhou. 
Ohh… ahh …ohh … ahh…. nice puppy.
OK NOW GET BACK TO WORK!
I would probably be branded a nerd-for-life, for creating this post, but hack what the hell right.
Ever since I first started to watch Star Wars when I was a kid, I had wanted a light saber, thought the desire for it has weaken with me growing up, there is always this temptation, "to get one for yer self" feeling, whenever you walk pass toy-r-us shelves that have them on display. A light saber is right up there, next to a Dai-katana, when it comes to big boy’s toys for me.
Anyway if ya got the time why not make one for your self. The plans, especially the one used by Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi is very simple to make. I can bet ya, any college student with a bit of experience with the lathe machine can make one for you in a week. Anyway, you can access this site for the plans:
http://www.jedi-academy.com/art/francisco_rotj_plans.jpg
Some of the other lightsabers parts are harder to come by. You will be surprise what is actually used to make lightsabers, old flash handles, wipers, old calculators… You can get the spare parts from this site:
http://www.blast-tech.com/products_cameraParts.asp
You can get more information from this site:
http://www.jedi-academy.com/lightsabermain.html
http://members.aol.com/yodashous2/building.htm
If that is not enough just type "build lightsaber" in google and you be shown lots of site. Thank God for the internet.
I just "like" crossing the roads in Suzhou. You just don’t know when you be joinning the long statistics of the road accidents that happens here. And man, what an adrenaline rush. Just this Sunday, after doing my Sunday marketing at Carrefour, yes, yes, they have Carrefour in China now, I was standing right on the edge of the road, in front of a divider when a bus pulled in right in front of me. I didn’t even notice the bus, until I could see the side wall of the bus.
There are bicycle lanes here in Suzhou. You have to cross the bicycle lane before you cross the main road meant for cars and then another bicycle lane meant for bicycles travelling in the opposite direction. Though the bicycles here are much smaller than cars, they are as notorious.
The good thing about the bicycles here is that a lot of them are "hybrids". They have a dynamo and electric motor mounted on their bike. The dynamo stores energy in a battery when the cyclist is pedalling, and the motor uses this energy to rotate the wheels when the cyclist is not pedalling and damn are these babies cheap. Am so tempted to ship one back to Malaysia and uses it to cycle to work.
"Dudes, I bought this most excellent book. Its called Einstein for Dummies."
"Way cool…. ah… ain’t reading it make us dummies, dude?"
Ya ya ya, its a lame homie joke, so sue me, try coming up with a joke in 5 minutes… Anyway, some interesting facts from the book. I have just been reading the first few pages, seems to be interesting enough…
1. Einstein was married twice, his college girl friend, Mileva Maric and latter his cousin Elsa Einstein…. Interesting…
2. In 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, to let him know that discovery into nuclear fission would also lead to creations of bombs. He also warned that Nazis might develop the atom bomb as well. However he never took part in the creation of the Atom bomb that latter destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
3. A common belief is that Einstein had a learning disability. That belief is very incorrect. He was a top student in school and college, however he often missed classes to study subjects that he liked, which resulted in his bad grades.
4. In 1952, Einstein was offered the presidency of Isreal. Einstein declined the offer…. Smart.
My old buddy and I, went to catch M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the water. My friend complained that it was not very realistic. That the lead character, Mr Heep, was too easily drawn into the story and did not show enough doubt to portray a real life situation. He also told me that the US critics had a field day with the movie, critizing it.
I don’t know, but I seemed to enjoy it a lot. Perhaps its just because I like fairy tales. Perhaps its because the plot is very fresh. When people see how illogical the main character is, I see how courages he is. He is able to have a leap of faith in what he believes in and cast aside what people would perceive him as. How selfless he was that he would do what it takes to save a stranger who he barely knows. These are admirable traits to have. But ultimately, I am convince that it is because the movie gives hope to viewers that everyone can be healed, saved and redeemed, that make me feel that it is a great movie.
My friend Joan sent me this message today, written in green is what was written by her. In blue was what I thought in response to what was written. The message lasted only four sentences.
"One of my friend said that you’re pretty cute and funny after viewing your profile." Yes jackpot
"She has pretty good eye." Yes yes another jackpot
"FYI, she’s a married woman. So, it’s a compliment lor…" Dang it, cherries, no jackpot
Good news eveybody!
My friend Kenny just added a comment to the the post below and I really welcome the news that he brought. Don’t know how he knows these things, but that aside, the good news is that Futurama is back on air.
Comedy Central has resurrected the former Fox animated series from "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. At least 13 new episodes will be produced.
I really hope that this time they will have a longer run than 5 seasons.
Fu - tu - rama. A friend of mine used to pronounce it that way, so did I for a short time. The title of the series, from the creators of the Simpsons is pronounced as Future-rama, even though it is spelled Futurama.
Anyway, I got myself the whole complete series of Futurama. Had lots of fun watching it and reminiscing about old college time when the whole gang of us, (Alan, Kenny, Lionel and Michael) would gather together each Sunday to watch Futu-rama. How I wish, we could go back to simpler times, less cares about careers and women. Ha ha, well the correct phrase would be less cares about careers and NO WOMEN.
Good site for Futurama stuff: http://www.gotfuturama.com/
But anyway, for any of you that reading this blog and is a Futurama fan and would like to view the series again, do let me know.
P.S. Kenny, Christmas Leela is for you.
Nerd Alert. The following post is meant for nerds and Trekkies (which is basically the same thing). If you are handsome/beautiful or sophisticated or do not have any engineering degree/diploma, do yourself a favour and skip this post.
Fellow allies of the Klingon Empire (and Federation spies alike),
This is indeed a good day to die, I present to you the ultimate source to speaking klingon.
http://www.kli.org/tlh/pIqaD.html.
For a while now, I thought there was never a way to translate basic english into Klingon. I thought that people in the studios just made it up. They put in a grunt here and a grrrr there, in such a way that the klingons look extra macho. But I was wrong. Through that link you will find what you need to speak klingon and when you are done, please teach me. Until then I think I am going to stick with the subtitles. Anyway here is a few examples:
Yes = HISlah
No = qhobe’
Where is the bathroom = nuqDaq ‘oH puchpa’ ‘e’
Its a good day to die = Heghlu’ meH QaQ jajvam
Klingon writing:
I haven’t updated for while and let me tell you, being a parent is tough. Children are so demanding nowadays you don’t really have time to update your blog.
Now that I got your attention: No, I haven’t made any babies yet, thank God. But something close to that took place today. I have been appointed Godfather to one of the boys, whose class I have been helping to run. It was a last minute thing, my God son could not find anyone to be his God father, so guess who was the lucky person that got picked, ta da, yours trully. But it ain’t as bad as it seems. In the Catholic tradition, it was quite an honour. It means that I am deemed as trust worthy enough to be able to take care of the kid if he runs into any trouble. Hopefully I can live up the family’s expectation.
Anyway, this is still my first day at work as Godfather so if I run into an interesting, I will keep you guys updated.
Anyway, now that I am officially the God father, I think I have the right to say this now. So I would like to end this post by saying this: "Be a cool or I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE, comprendere?"
