Art Design - How To Say That

The is from a Japanese website - TAMALOG, and clever though I am, don’t know how to read Japanese! Nor Chinese, Bahasa, etc. So I have no idea what this is all about; but i like it, it is beautiful and I hope you all like it too. I love designs of all sorts.

BTW, its October now and once again the year seems to have sped by! Scary isn't it how time flies. So let's make the most of it and make time to share the things that we like or love - HERE.

I.KIA - Learning Hokkien

Dedicated To All The Sleepy Kuchingnites ... where ever they may be now!

I'd guessed all you folks must be comfortably snugged away somewhere in this world .... But it would be nice to hear from you once in a little while! Thanks Ed and MC for your comment in the chat box! BTW the last photo is dedicated to William who has gone MIA ...

Anyway enjoy these cute photos of sleeping cats. Oh - if anyone of you is reading this; mind if you drop a comment or two? Cuteness to the infinity right? Meow!

This one is for you Willie! ;) This place is kinda dull without you lah!

Hello? Where's Everyone? I'm PISSED!

I guessed everyone has been busy - yours truly included; but hey! I still drop by from time to time. So surely if you can find time to piss, you can find some time to pop in to leave your comment if not a post. And if you are taking a piss - I hope for you that you'll find some where equally nice as this to do so ... *sigh*

Relax ,Take It Easy

This guy(Mika) seems so gay to me but he has such a nice catchy song with a fantastic music video to boot!

So Relax, take it easy on Merdeka Day and enjoy the video!

Are You Stupid?

I did the test and found out that I am kinda stupid - what about you?
Stupid enough to spend time posting here while most don't even bother! *sigh*

You're Kind of Stupid

You got 8/10 questions right! There's some things most people know... except for you.

Are You Stupid?

Important To Have Friends ...

It's important to have friends; especially in Malaysia. Just ask Dato Eric Chia ...

So where are all my friends here? *sigh*

The Man Who Travelled Forward In Time?

Some of us may want to go back in time to a simpler (and happier?) time or perhaps to relive part of our (imperfect) lives.

But here's a man who claimed to have travelled forward in time - and met himself? Well, watch this ...

Lao Zha Bor!

For those of you ladies who think you are too "old" to be cool or 'happening', then please check out www.laozhabor.blogspot.com. Yes! She even has her own blog! She even has a rap song going! Enjoy and remember you are only as old or young as you think. Don't grow old before your age - so live it up! Cheers!

Making Faces

Either the food is bad or they're so sad that Eva is only here for a week and Vera even less days ...

I swear that I wasn't making faces or cracking a joke when I took the photo of these two during the reunion dinner with Eva and Vera! Whoever comes up with the best caption for this photo gets a free kayak ride with me! So get cracking! Except for Joon Khoi and Siok Kim whose faces above are already cracking! hehe!

The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time

Today being April Fool's Day; here's the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. Actually I'm posting only 10 here but you can read all the rest here!

#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website (You need the RealVideo player installed to see it, and it usually loads very slowly). -More-

#2: Sidd Finch

In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton. -More-

#3: Instant Color TV

In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, all viewers could now quickly and easily convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen, and they would begin to see their favorite shows in color. Stensson then proceeded to demonstrate the process. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of people, out of the population of seven million, were taken in. Actual color tv transmission only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

#4: The Taco Liberty Bell

In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called up the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell is housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed that it was all a practical joke a few hours later. The best line inspired by the affair came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale, and he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold, though to a different corporation, and would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial. -More-

#5: San Serriffe

In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that then gripped the British tabloids in the following decades.

#6: Nixon for President

In 1992 National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.

#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi

The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.

#8: The Left-Handed Whopper

In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers

In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history. -More-

#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity

In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.

proof than man needs wife!

Panda Dog

A cute pooch has people on the streets of Tokyo doing a double-take -- it looks just like a panda.It's actually a dog that's dyed to look like a panda. The poodle-Maltese cross was named "Columbo" after the American television detective by pet shop owner Kensuke Hirakawa after he rescued the dog from being destroyed. At first, the dog was aggressive and would not stop barking. Its left hind leg is stiff from a past break and all of its canine teeth have been extracted to prevent it from biting. But gradually, Columbo became tame. Three months ago he became a panda. His owner said dying the dog to look like a panda made sense, because it always had stains around its eyes. Columbo, who is naturally white, was dyed using a special hair dye for dogs that lasts about a month.

Politically Correct Chinese New Year Greeting

To: All The Readers¹ Here,

I sincerely wish² you and your families³

Gong Xi Fa Cai⁴

and an environmentally conscious,socially responsible, low stress,non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the lunar new year from the view of the Chinese lunisolar calendar (however, not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make the world a better place).

Happy Lunar New Year!⁵

Yours,

Class of '74 & '75 Bloggers

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Disclaimer: By accepting this greeting,you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

Footnotes
[1] - Inclusive but not limited to Chinese, Korean, Vietnamnese, Japanese readers and readers of various aggregated and noble cultures
[2] - With no obligations, implied or implicit, whether as to accept or decline this well meaning wish. It is held that the reader has his/her free will to accept and/or decline this wish from the author
[3] - Inclusive but not limited to fellow human beings who are with and/or without their families, functional or dysfunctional
[4] - Translates from the original Mandarin phrase: “Respectfully, may you get rich”. This however, does not mean disrespect to the multitude of other cultures and individuals, out of choice or personal preferences, celebrating or not celebrating the Lunar New Year as seen from the view of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. It must be added here that the author also wishes the reader to be fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated. However this is not a guarantee, and the author cannot be held responsible for any event or events that may or may not be contrary to the above statement(s).
[5] - Listed here are celebration names by various cultures of a similar event held during a similar time, inclusive but not limited to the Chinese: Chun jie; Korean: Seollal; Vietnamnese: Tet.

Fat Cat

This has got to be the fattest cat in the world that I had ever seen! A fat cat in the Year of the Pig looking like a PIG! How appropriate or good grief!

Yoga - Kuching Style!

Being the true patriot that I am *ahem*; I shall not let foreigners upstage us nor let any such claims to go unchallenged!

So without much ado, I proudly present to you all - Yoga, Kuching Style! A much relaxed style that does not require years of discipline nor practice to master unlike some other yoga schools would have you believed! Just the will and motivation to do so only is required. ;o)

Spotted the morning after at Krokong in the Bau district where I take people kayaking on the weekends. Must have been quite a night before!

She Makes Babies ...

Gotcha!

It's NOT what you (most likely Willie) may be thinking.

Camille Allen (left pic) creates tiny babies sculptures out of polymer clay - these are not pictures of real babies! She is 25, married but has no children of her own yet and lives in Powell River, in British Columbia, Canada. I think her creations are pretty amazing.

Just take a look at her amazing creations! Not to mention simply adorable and cute! And for the rest of us - please share with us whatever amazing or interesting experiences and things we come across in this our wonderful daily lives! Remember that life is beautiful. So - share!

words of wisdom for 50 going on 100

Guess Who Went Kayaking With Me?

It just so happened that Kimberly, Tiong Kiat's 10 year old daughter loves kayaking and who better a person is there to take her kayaking through the rainforests of Sarawak than the 'kaya king' himself? Ho ho ho!

We set out from Bengoh , Borneo Highlands on saturday morning after a noodle breakfast at the 10th Mile coffee shop and Kimberley was raving to go ...

Unfortunately Mrs Lim was not the outdoors type and didn't join us. Although we get to meet up at my place later in the evening. Kimberly was beaming from cheek to ear as we set out pushed along by the fast waters as it has been raining the past few days and it's the monsoon season.

Tiong Kiat was enjoying himself too on the waters and pretty soon he was "strutting his stuff "too!We had a wonderful day on the water and I'm sure it was a memorable experience for father and daughter! Nice!

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