Mistakes

Recently I have come to know about some of the mistakes done by my friends and close ones. People open up to me regardless of how well they know me. I have always cared for my friends regardless of their gender. To me, if you are a friend of mine, I respect you for what you are.

I do not want to go into the details of what they had done or how the repercussions of their mistakes are affecting them. I just want them to know, I respect them for owning up to them. The fact that they admitted their mistakes, is the first step to set things right.

I'll support them. Things can only get better. I'll do my best to make sure that I would do all I could to help them overcome the trauma. Remember, be glad that you made your own mistakes, it's better to learn from them rather than to learn from others' mistakes. Just do not repeat them. Nothing is going to come out of it. Move on and I'm there for you.

Rubik's Cube

I was watching The Pursuit of Happyness DVD, when I noticed Will Smith solving the Rubik's cube. It reminded me about one of my students, she is gifted in solving the rubik's cube. It's just amazing how they solve the cube. I decided to research more on the cube and the following are my findings.

The Rubik's cube is named after the founder who is a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture. It is an ingenious invention by him in 1974. It became so popular that in the eighties that one in three houses in Europe had a cube. They have sold abt 300 million cubes till date worldwide which include imitations as well. The sale of the Rubik cubes actually helped Hungarian economy come out of communism. That is how successful the invention is.

If you could solve the cube, you are looked upon as a genius. Studies show that most people give up after meddling with the cube. However it still has the same appeal as it was first created. You see a unsolved cube, you have the tempatation to solve it.
There is a group called Speed Cubers which do speed solving. They can solve the cube in seconds. The world champion for blind solving is Leyan Lo, and he could solve the cube in about 2 minutes blindfolded after studying it for a minute.

It is just amazing that this invention create many possiblities. Well I'm going to get my own cube and learn the art of solving it. You can grab one for a dollar at convenient stores.

I'm back

It has been 5 months, 10 days, 23 hours and 35 mins since my last post. I had been busy with studies and work. Now that I'm on a break, I hope to be a regular blogger again. So, do look out for my future posts.

Coffee Shop Barricade

It has been a tiring one month or so. I was busy with my brother's wedding, then some unfortunate things happened so was busy with that. I had to entertain my Australian relatives for a month, who were here for the wedding as well. Was their local tour guide...shopping, dining, visiting...and the outcome...I'm 4 kgs heavier. Now that I'm a bit free, I'm back with the 1st post for December.

I was at the Vinayagar temple consecration ceremony yesterday. As all temples do, there were many barricades and volunteers. It's a norm for temples to do so to prevent people from rushing into the temple after the ceremony. However what irked me was a vounteer who did not us into a coffeeshop. He said that we could not use it as it was near the temple. There were many others who demanded how could he do such a thing. He couldn't give a proper reply. What pissed me further was that he allowed Chinese people to access the coffeeshop. Below is an excerpt of the conversation:

Dad: Why are you not allowing us?
Volunteer: You cannot enter the temple...You've to wait for your turn.
Sav: But we're going to the coffeeshop not to the temple. Besides they're more barricades after the coffeeshop. We can't climb over it.
Volunteer: No sir, you cannot go from here.
Indian Man: This is Bullshit! Cannot have Kopi?

Volunteer allows 3 chinese people into the coffeeshop

Indian Man: Enna la Nee??? They can drink Kopi....not me ah?
Volunteer: No la sir....You have to wait for your turn.
Dad: Thambi...We want to have coffee, you don't believe us...follow us and see.

Volunteer allows us in.

30 minutes later, we pass by the volunteer after having coffee.

Dad: We already had our coffee, thanks.
Volunteer: I respect you sir, you did not enter the temple.
Sav: Huh? He still dun...
Mum: Saravana...Let's go.

Jalsa

I know I'm guilty...had not been blogging. I've been very busy with lots of stuff. Will write more about that another time. Today's blog is related to Dec 1....yea World AIDS Day. AIDS is on the rise. The government just predicted that this year the numbers are set to soar again. It's just crazy that people practise unsafe sex. Many are unaware that condoms can prevent infection. For all the sex perverts out there...if u want to sleep around think about your family and put on a condom. Although condoms are out there, I believe safe sex is sex with a faithful partner who is the wife. Being a man...I hate to say that men are always on the lookout for the young and beautiful. If you can't be faithful to your wife, do not infect your spouse knowingly. A true family happiness comes within the family. If you want love outside your family, why bother starting a family in the first place. If your wife is not as slim or pretty as before, why look for love elsewhere? If looks and sex life are what a man looks for in a woman, think twice before starting a family. Well I think I've vented enough of my frustration on flirting married men.

Anyways...while having lunch at NTU canteen a few weeks back, Vai and myself spotted a message board. The Message board read "Unprotected Sex is...". Many had written their views about it. However one cheeky Indian or rather Tamil whom I presume is from India, had written something which was funny. I'll let you figure it out yourself...well for my non-Tamil speaking friends out there...I'll explain to you if you ask me personally.

English

There are only three more days to the major English test. It's sixty percent of the entire module. Having tried the practice papers, neither am I convinced that I could do well nor do I feel confident. CS, Jason and myself sought the help of our tutor. It was nice of him to invite us to his office. Although our queries were answered then, when we sat down to try another paper, we were hit with more questions and uncertainties. Hence we sat together to study and discuss the answers on our own. While we were in the midst of discussions, we decided to take a breather by watching YouTube videos. As we were trying to make sense of the verb groups, noun phrases and grammer, this video just tickled us. This shows how English is universal and need to be understood by all. Enjoy the video, while I get back to my Grammer Book. Hopefully by Sunday, I'm ready for the test. Wait a minute....is 'the test' a direct object noun phrase or a complement? Argh...hope my study group on Sunday can answer that.

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Bananas

After having several days of minimal sleep, I rushed for my morning Science tutorial to be on time. The 2 hour lesson comprises of tutorial and practical. Today's lesson was on Electricity. I have always enjoyed calculating voltage and resistance. Hence when the practical started, I was full of enthusiasm. This time we were given circuits. It was fun experimenting and trying to relate the theories we had learnt. Once our Experiment 1 was done, Brandon went to get the appratus for the second one. He brought back a 'Digital Analog Training System ETS-700'. It was a device which could test the resistance and voltages. The task given to us was to find the value of resistance on the given resistors. After spending some time figuring out how the device works...we were able to carry on with activity. I was pretty intrigued by the device and as I was reading the symbols on the device, my eyes spotted "Banana" on the device. What could be a Banana on an electrical device? My classmates were also clueless as to what it could mean. I raised my hand to capture the attention of my tutor. He came down and he didn't know what it could be. I would have been pleased if he had tried to find out what it could be or sought someone's help. However he said, "Don't worry. You won't be touching on it". I was pretty disappointed. To think that this institution that I'm in, is supposed to provide us knowledge which can benefit the students that we would be undertaking in the future, his reply didn't help the cause. Before I could ask him more, he walked away to attend to another classmate. I spotted the lab technician and approached him. He was clueless too. This annoyed me further. Even after the lesson was over, I was wondering what could 'Banana' on the device be? I took a picture and I was asking every friend who was a Science student I came across during lunch. None could give me a satisfactory answer and most replies were rather corny which were nowhere near. Back at home, I decided to check out Wikipedia and found out what the 'Banana' was on the DATS ETS-700. It's a slot for one to insert a 'Banana plug'! A banana plug is used usually for audio systems. I was satisfied that Wikipedia was able to provide me with an answer. I simply love this website. It's just amazing. It has tons and tons of information. For those who want to know more, below is the link about Banana jacks and plugs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_plug