Dôme ou Coupole?

On se l'est jamais demandé! (ou du moins, pas moi...)

Alors on obtient la réponse ici:

Il faut dire dôme lorsqu'on parle de la structure de l'extérieur et coupole lorsqu'on la désigne de l'intérieur.

Pour un exemple, clique sur le lien... ;)

What is it?

Here's another brain teaser:

Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
And whoever knows it, wants it not.
Can you tell me what I speak of?










Answer - Counterfeit Money

Kai kou xiao

My mother made some this morning, so for those who don't know it, here's a photo!

Yummy!

Nice t-shirt

Photo copyrighted by Elodie in England ;P

Animations to check out

Here are two interesting animations:
Animator vs. Animation
Animator vs. Animation II

(thanks to J.T.)

And here are a couple of quotes I'd like to share as well:

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
-Dame Edna Everage

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
-Grabel's Law

All these friend networks...

Soh-lee lah.

I have now signed up for Friendster, and even Facebook, and I have decided to sign up for whatever people ask me to sign up for, but I am not going to update my profiles much! I don't see the point of signing up if I'm not going to update my account, but signing up might just be easier...who cares if I forget I have an account? I'm pretty sure there are other people who do that! :P

So, see ya on whatever network...

Seminar and others

Last Saturday there was a seminar in MFI organised by MASAF (Malaysian Students' Association in France). It was to talk to the juniors who are leaving soon, giving them more info, etc. I was just going to support them a bit, but ended up being a facilitator (just accompanying a friend, though, since I had nothing prepared)

I went there on Thursday by bus, and went straight to Hung Jen's place. Friday was her birthday so we celebrated at midnight; I'll just put a photo of her cutting the cake:

(photo courtesy of See Hua)

I didn't take much photos there...one that I took was of this hot plate noodles...it was nice, but for some reason unknown, the noodles didn't come very well presented... :P

noodles sprawling out...are they trying to escape being eaten? lol

Just before going back (or so I thought...) I met up with Geok Ching at KLCC on Sunday morning. There happened to be a food festival with some colourful booths, so I took some photos:

The guy with the mike was asking people from the crowd to go up on stage to answer questions.

We then went upstairs to take a better photo of the stage (without the crowd in front of us), but...

the chicken moved! (away from the stage la)
(okay, I admit we were more interested in the chicken than in the girls...or at least I was :P)

Spot the chicken!

And a pretty nice touch to the beras Jati booth:

A scarecrow!

After having lunch, I set off for the bus station to get a ticket back to Kuantan. Unfortunately almost all the tickets were sold out and the first bus I could take was at 10.30pm! (should have listened to Hung Jen when she told me to buy my ticket early...) After calling my parents to ask what I should do, I ended up going to my uncle's place (where my father and brother joined me the next day) 'cos it turned out my brother had to come for an interview. So I got back to Kuantan with them on Tuesday. Luckily my cousin could come and fetch me that Sunday!

And last but not least, now that I'm back in Kuantan, a temporary setting (before its trip to France) for the cute little bear from Hung Jen and See Hua! :P

A little history lesson

IN THE 1500'S
>>>
>>> The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
>>> temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to
>>> be. Here are some facts about the1500s:
>>>
>>> These are interesting. ..
>>>
>>> Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
>>> May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting
>>> to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.
>>> Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
>>>
>>> Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the
>>> house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the
>>> other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all
>>> the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone
>>> in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..
>>>
>>> Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood
>>> underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the
>>> cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it
>>> rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall
>>> off the roof. Hence the saying It's raining cats and dogs.
>>>
>>> There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This
>>> posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could
>>> mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung
>>> over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into
>>> existence.
>>>
>>> The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had
>>> something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had
>>> slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they
>>> spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter
>>> wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would
>>> all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance
>>> way. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
>>>
>>> (Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
>>>
>>> In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that
>>> always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to
>>> the pot. They ate mostly vegetables a nd did not get much meat. They would
>>> eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
>>> overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it
>>> that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge
>>> hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..
>>>
>>>
>>> Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
>>> When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It
>>> was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would
>>> cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew
>>> the fat..
>>>
>>> Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
>>> caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
>>> death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years
>>> or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
>>>
>>> Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of
>>> the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper
>>> crust.
>>>
>>> Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would
>>> sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
>>> along the road would
>>> take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the
>>> kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and
>>> eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of
>>> holding a wake.
>>>
>>> England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
>>> places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
>>> bones to
>>> a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of
>>> 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they
>>> realized they had been burying people alive. So they wou ld tie a string
>>> on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the
>>> ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the
>>> graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus,
>>> someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
>>>
>>> And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

Thanks to Wei Ling for this!