lundi, mars 30, 2009

no i don't

'nuff said

dimanche, mars 29, 2009

sable mouvant | Jacques Prévert

pour ceux qui aiment de la poésie et de la littérature française, j'ai décidé de créer une nouvelle catégorie de postes: culture française, où je vais copier des poèmes, des extraits de littérature, et aussi peut être essayer de donner un peu de explication et critique personnelle si j'ai le temps.

pour commencer, j'ai choisi un poème de Jacques Prévert, un poète et écrivain français très connu et qui vive encore malgré son mort en 1977 car ses poèmes sont massivement appris dans les écoles français.

dans ma classe de français, nous avons récité quelques de ses œuvres aussi. cela, je vous présente Sable Mouvant, qui s'agit d'un amour où, comme la sable mouvant, il se semble calme à extérieur, mais capable de prendre amoureux au piège, et aussi de le tuer.

Démons et merveilles
Vents et marées
Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée
Et toi
Comme une algue doucement caressée par le vent
Dans les sables du lit tu remues en rêvant
Démons et merveilles
Vents et marées
Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée
Mais dans tes yeux entrouverts
Deux petites vagues sont restées
Démons et merveilles
Vents et marées
Deux petites vagues pour me noyer.

dimanche, mars 22, 2009

struggle | morpheus

All of our lives we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance when I see 3 objectives, 3 captains, 3 ships. I do not see coincidence, I see providence, I see purpose. I believe it is our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us the very meaning of our lives.

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Then tomorrow we may all be dead, but how would that be different from any other day? This is a war, and we are soldiers. Death can come for us at any time, in any place. Now consider the alternative. What if I am right? What if the prophecy is true? What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?

jeudi, mars 19, 2009

marre

j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre j'en ai marre

socratic debates with plato, mucking around with pesticide misuse around the world, microsoft word, excel, EW1, folding paper aeroplanes, report editing, and more editing, presentation slides, powerpoint, presentations, excel encore, gnuplot perhaps, groups meetings, and how does a plane fly again?

time to go anti-gravity. let's go.

mercredi, mars 18, 2009

too much heaven

shocked and amazed at what the Pope said during his current visit to Africa.

"The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only fail-safe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids."

in a region already afflicted by so many other crucial problems like poverty, starvation and illiteracy, i find it cruel and surprising that he can still find it within him and his holy teachings to condone and advocate the needless killing and suffering of the many now, and the many more to come.

contraception as one of a host of trends contributing to a "breakdown in sexual morality", and that church teachings should not be ignored? get real, Pope Benedict, and get a grip on the number of catholic priests involved in paedophilic crimes around the world.

dimanche, mars 15, 2009

proof

proof that FYP is bad for you:

first, we say that FYP requires time and effort.
FYP = Time x Effort

secondly, we know that time is money,
Time = Money,
and that effort is synonymous with force, which according to Newton, is equal to the product of mas and acceleration:
Effort = Force = Mass x Acceleration

so, FYP = Money x Mass x Acceleration

the only thing I know that has all three is the current world economy, crumbling down at a rate faster than the gravitational constant g.

since a depressed world economy cannot possibly be any good for anyone in the world, and since since it leads to recessions which are positively bad, we have:
FYP = Current World Economy = Chaos = Bad

and thus we are forced to conclude that
FYP = Bad

mardi, mars 10, 2009

d'ailleurs

moi, je suis tombé en esclavage
de ce sourire, de ce visage
et je lui dis emmène moi
et moi je suis prêt à tous les sillages
vers d'autres lieux, d'autres rivages
mais elle passe et ne répond pas
les mots pour elle sont sans valeur
pour moi c'est sûr, elle est d'ailleurs

lundi, mars 09, 2009

are you saved?

saw this in the Sunday Times yesterday. quite a clever comic; wonder how it made it through the censors though.

anyway, enjoy:

dimanche, mars 08, 2009

sunday hallucinations

Have you ever glanced out of your bedroom window on a sunny, hazy afternoon, say around 3pm when the heat weakens into a lighter warmth, and right away recognized that though it could have been any other sunny, hazy day of the week, you knew deep inside, that it was in fact Sunday? That profound knowingness, and that perhaps it was the fact that you knew you had to go to school the next morning, or that you had a pile of unfinished homework or report lying on your desk that reminded you. But just somehow, the way the 150 ft trees swayed against the breeze against the slightly reddish glow of the red clay coated hills, or that glowing dusty beam of light slicing through the Venetian blinds onto your bed linens, or even those wretched dogs barking in the distance as their owners leashed them for their afternoon walk. I dunno, it's that underlying instinct I suppose. For me, more often that not, it was the unfinished FYP thesis on my desk which I found to me the most obvious reminder.

One more week of Operation Wind Tunnel. Gotta hang in there.

jeudi, mars 05, 2009

hawaii 5-O

1. my favourite pizza choice is hawaiian

2. i will qualify for kona, someday

3. i want to learn how to surf

4. hula hoop!

5. are all the volcanoes there dormant?