Wavy-Leaf Emerald Moth caterpillar

I came across this article and found it pretty interesting, the caterpillar camouflages itself with its food!

Click here to read the article.

How smart is your right foot?

I got this from Geok Ching:

How smart is your right foot?

This is funny and it will boggle your mind.
And you will keep trying at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can't ................
Mind control does NOT work either!!
1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.

Your foot will change direction. I told you so .....And there's nothing you can do about it!!
Make sure you pass this on to your friends...they won't be able to believe it either!!

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!