The iPod Game. (tagged)

oook lol, i usually ignore being tagged but this is too (potentially) funny to pass off.



The Measure of How Well Your iPod Really Knows You

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense.
4. Write the answers down, or even comment on it.
5. Tag 5 people.

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1. How are you feeling today?
Bad - U2

hey, that's not true. i'm finally done with exams! but i suppose jap was pretty sucky.

2. Will you get far in life?
There is a Light That Never Goes Out - Anberlin

oh yeh.

3. What’s your best friend’s theme song?
Ada Apa Denganmu - Peterpan

oh wow... interesting.

4. What is the story of your life?
You Are My God - Planetshakers

yeh, my mbp does know me well.

5. What was school like?
Noise and Kisses - The Used

oh shit. getting a bit too honest there...

6. How can you get ahead with life?
The Little Things - Colbie Cailat

well... yeh, i guess. could be the big things too, i wouldn't know.

7. Whats the best thing about your friends?
Automatic Heart - Goodnight Electric

uhm... why? but... sort of i guess... as in they know what to expect from me?

8. Describe your grandparents.
A Message - Coldplay

no idea.

9. How’s your life going?
Been A Son - Nirvana

as opposed to... i'm a daughter now? i mean. yeh... i have been a son all this time.

10. What will be played at my funeral?
White As Snow - Jon Foreman

yay! a sad sounding song about great stuff! its perfect.

11. Will you have a happy life?
Must've Done Something Right - Relient K

WOOHOO!

12. What do your friends really think of you?
Rooftops - Lostprophets

"Will we make our mark this time?
Will we always say we tried?"
I guess with all the big questions that we wrestle through in life, we're in it together hey?

13. Do people secretly lust after you?
Your New Twin Sized Bed - Deathcab for Cutie

oh... i guess not...
"With a single pillow underneath your single head...
I guess you decided that old queen was more space than you would need...
Now its in the alley behind the apartment that says 'free'..."

14. How can you make yourself happy?
Laser Gun Electro Boy - Goodnight Electric

yeh! ...sure...

15. Will you ever have children?
Super Mario Bros. Theme - Konji Kondo

hehehe

16. What song would you strip to?
Heart Songs - Weezer

I don't think so...

17. What does your mom think of you?
Sleep - Taking Back Sunday

well, yeh, she does complain that i sleep too late. too late being later than 9.

18. What is your deep, dark secret?
Wow - Snow Patrol

AHAHAHA are you serious?! I haven't played for like... oh wait. as in... world of warcraft right...? oh shi-

19. What is your enemy’s theme song?
The Change Inside of Me - Mercy Me

considering i haven't had an enemy for ages... i guess that's kind of true. people change.

20. What’s your personality like?
Mungki Nanti - Peterpan

er... i... i dunnooooo =(

21. What will be played at your wedding?
The Light That Blinds - Shadows Fall

not a chance. possibly the first 30 seconds. but any further than that and my guests would probably drop dead.

see for yourself.


anyway, that was fun. i now tag:

1. Chancey
2. Ooi Didi
3. Douglas
4. Gabriel
5. Mop


I'm still in the middle of writing a proper long post. actually, i might have to post some stuff parts at a time. Bye!

What's with these homies dissin' my girl?

HAHA!

Pork and Beans by Weezer. This is officially my favorite music video. Today. I don't know bout tomorrow. Or what it's like to be. Ahh.

Oh sorry.

Here.

Earth

Home.

I'm a permanent resident.


Hmm. I'd like to complain about increasing fuel prices. But really. It's not like we've got a whole lot of it left anyway. Electricity costs have also risen. I suppose one solution would be to use less. Hmm. Making changes to our incredibly comfortable lifestyle?

No way! It's our right as citizens to use as much electricity as we want... right?

I don't feel talking about it because there's still so much that I myself need to resolve and reconcile, but I really need to get this off my chest. Like, what are we doing about our neighbors who don't even have electricity? Or clean water? Why is it such a big deal that our "necessities" come at a higher price when we deny these necessities to others. Ah forgive me for being cryptic. I'm trying to see how far I can go without being a hypocrite.

My point is... ok, I'll admit, this was more or less because everyone started complaining about the 2.70RM/litre price hike. It also reminded me of the miniature world video Greg put up.

43% of the world live without basic sanitation.
30% of the world have bank accounts.
7% are educated at secondary level.


If you have a fridge to store food, closet to keep clothes, a bed to sleep in, and a roof over your head, lucky you.
Cause 75% of the world doesn't.

18% struggle to live on 1USD or less a day. (about RM3.20)
53% struggle to live on 2USD or less a day. (about RM6.50)


Granted, these stats are old, and are probably much worse now. That's the way the economy of the developed world works, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.


I used to think preventing global warming was important, but not a huge priority cause I was gonna die before the shit hits the fan anyway. Well, that was pretty selfish, and in fact foolish, cause... I've only got one home.


Sustainable Development is defined as meeting the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations ability to meet their needs. Learnt that in the second week of engineering. That seems like a perfectly normal thing to do right? I mean, obviously never intend to make life hard for our grandkids. But humans are just so shortsighted. No one really worries about the consequences if they can make a quick buck. No one worries about the consequences unless its immediately and obviously harmful. And no one worries about the consequences until the shit hits the fan. And even then, some are still capable of pretending there are no consequences.

I don't know folks. I've just yelled an incoherent mess. And in some sense, this is the beginning of my apology to my home, for all the damage I've done. It's also the indication that I've got my foot somewhere along the journey of the redemption of my home.


Am I a treehugger? How many people strive each day to put money into a dream retirement home fund? I know where I'm spending retirement, and retirement's gonna last an eternity. Can you blame me?

Laminin

Okay folks, biology lesson today. Let's talk about my favorite protein, Laminin.

They [Laminin] are a family of glycoproteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding in almost every animal tissue. [1]

Basement membranes are basically dense layers of protein sheets found underneath organs, like your lungs, or your blood vessels, or even your skin.

The laminin in basement membranes is produced by many different cells, and is involved in just as many activities, like cell adhesion, migration and differentiation, embryonic development, and forming or re-forming blood vessels during healing of wounds. [2]

Laminin is pretty much what's holding your body together, and repairing it.

Great stuff isn't it? In other words, without laminin, you're fu (i believe the technical term is) screwed.


But that's not all. You know what really gets me about laminin?

Take a look.


Incredible huh?

There's a video about it on youtube by Louie Giglio.


Now to practice my referencing skillz.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminin, 29 May 2008.
   
2. Li J, Zhang Y-P, Kirsner RS. Angiogenesis in wound repair: Angiogenic growth factors and the extracellular matrix. (2003)
   

Hey Everyone

Go click on that button on the right there, the purevolume one. I just wrote a new song and its called The Orphans and the Widows. Try and guess what its about. It's not funny at all. In fact its about the homeless people on the streets. Kind of. But I wrote it because of the cyclone in Burma and earthquakes in China that have orphaned and widowed so many people. I was kind of inspired by Ai Hui actually, just went for her pre-album launch mini show.

Click Here for Ai Hui's Myspace.

I really love her stuff, I'm so getting her album. It's worth a listen, she's a terrific songwriter and she's got a beautiful voice.

So yeh, I've kind of picked up my guitar and pickled my brain a bit more, and hopefully more songs coming. By the way, I'm kinda happy with how the song turned out, but I think it's not final. Will be adding more touches to it, debating on whether to add drums and bass or not. i should probably get a semi-acoustic.

Love, Chris.

edit: note the new banner up top. watch the video and find out more...

reflectivejournal?oplz.

i'm in the middle of an engineering assignment, its called a reflective journal. basically its an almost weekly thing and we get different things to write about each time. it just so happens that this time we're supposed to write about academic honesty?


"academic honesty? wtf is that?"


like... plagiarism and stuff. but how do you write 2 to 3 paragraphs on academic honesty?


omg. i just got an idea.


i'll just look for someone else's writings on academic honesty and paraphrase it and then cite it, awesome!


honestly. what can i write?


"oh gee yeh, its really important that engineers don't take credit for other people's work even though they do it all the time anyway."


anyway.

Colossians 3:23
And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men;

so i'll stop whining and get to it as soon as i post up pictures.


Dandenongs trip!


Climbing up the hill! From left, Paul, Aileen, Me! (in a beanie), George, and Greg.


Sarah, Josh (kneeling), Vinay, George, Isaac (bald guy =), Aileen (kneeling also), Kyrstal (in blue), Cheryl, Shin Yi, Me (beanie), Greg, Roshan, Paul, and Brian. Missing Tim again cause he took the photo.


Greg, beside the fireplace.


And Tim teaching.


Autumn trees.


Vibrant coloured bird on the deck.


Another cute little bird next to the breakfast table.


At breakfast, Aileen and Jason.


Roshan, Brian, Tim (lol) and Cheryl (lol).



Vinay, Joshua, Shin Yi, and Greg.

edit: PANORAMARAMARAMAshots. By Tim.







So yeh. The Dandenongs. Had a great time there, thanks to Tim and Isaac and al the 101 folks.



oh by the way.

Check it out! Flower on my macbookpro!


Mmhmm.


I got my Jim Dunlop Jazz III's! YAY!

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i won't shut it down.

haha.

had a gig on thursday night. quite fun, should've focused more on the show than the music though. music was gonna turn out pretty bad cause of the equipment anyway. ah well. i bought a multi effects processor prior to the show, so i worked some wah into my solo, which was pretty cool. too bad i couldn't really hear me throughout the show anyway.

don't think i'll post the video cause the quality's not very good. you can't really hear much of the music, mostly random background conversations.

had a great time at the dandenongs over the weekend with tim and the other guys on the life 101 course. such a beautiful place.

i think i've used my brain much harder over the few weeks on the life 101 course than the entire semester at uni. i've come to realise how much i've let my mind be dulled over the years. sad to think that sometimes i get to the point where i'm tired of thinking. oh well. i've been thinking lately. what am i doing in engineering?


i want to be an arts student.


but i'm my parents are asian. haha. classic excuse.


no i don't know if i want to be an arts student, i don't know what i want anymore. clearly maths isn't my strong point. but clearly people get good at maths after insane amounts of practice anyway. i just don't. want. to. do. math.

hmm. i don't think engineering was my decision though. it was my choice. chose to do it despite knowing i fail at maths. now i need more faith to carry this through.


oh well. physics test on wednesday. gotta start studying for that.

later folks.