Showing posts with label borderline knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label borderline knowledge. Show all posts
Friday, November 19, 2010
Saturday, December 26, 2009
China Stakes Claim on Santa
Lavender Food Court, SINGAPORE - A China-born Singapore-based foreign talent explains today the genesis of Santa Claus.
According to the Chinese legend, "Sheng Dan Lao Ren", or old man Santa as we know him today, was a homeless old man in China who was so overcome by the cold one winter that every thing on him shrank, except (his) "eggs" (sheng dan).
- Fishy Slippery (Xin Hua) News Agency
According to the Chinese legend, "Sheng Dan Lao Ren", or old man Santa as we know him today, was a homeless old man in China who was so overcome by the cold one winter that every thing on him shrank, except (his) "eggs" (sheng dan).
- Fishy Slippery (Xin Hua) News Agency
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Twitter Twitter
Seems like I've got myself Twitter and never got to updating it much. The reason is very simple - at least to me.
We do not have free Wifi covering the entire island and internet connection charges are exorbitant.
So, why would I pay a bomb to tell you what I'm doing. Anyway, do you really want to know what I'm doing?
We do not have free Wifi covering the entire island and internet connection charges are exorbitant.
So, why would I pay a bomb to tell you what I'm doing. Anyway, do you really want to know what I'm doing?
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Out of touch
I must be staying home too much. I cannot believe the oddities of society these days. Here are some instances:
1. She does not know the hole is down there. A woman tried to deposit a cheque in a quick cheque deposit box outside a bank and she kept trying to insert the cheque into where she adaamantly thinks is the slit. Despite the clear arrow and a few good looks at the opening, she kept poking the check into the wall. She has no freaking idea that the hole she needs is just 3 inches below. Until a guy puts in his cheque in the hole correctly that she finally figured. The hole is down there, woman!
2. He goes in and out of the lot. A man had to reverse into, drive out of, reverse into, drive out of and finally reverse into a car park lot. By my guesstimate, he probably didn't move the car position an inch. Perhaps he hoped that by going in and out, in and out, the inch will come somehow. I think he is mistaken. How could anyone believe that anything could get any real pleasure from such silly moves?
3. They took more pictures of the live fish awaiting slaughter in a supermarket than any one would in an aquarium. The recent phenomena of supermarkets selling live fish and seafood has turned many of these shopping places into mini attractions. Off-work foreign workers congregate in front of tanks of garoupa, snappers, tilapia, crabs, lobsters, prawn and other shell fish, snapping pictues using their handphones. I never remembered seeing so many pictures taken of fish and seafood; the now-defunct Van Kleef Aquarium certainly didn't see that much action from its visitors, even during its hey day in the 1980s.
I'm getting puzzled.
1. She does not know the hole is down there. A woman tried to deposit a cheque in a quick cheque deposit box outside a bank and she kept trying to insert the cheque into where she adaamantly thinks is the slit. Despite the clear arrow and a few good looks at the opening, she kept poking the check into the wall. She has no freaking idea that the hole she needs is just 3 inches below. Until a guy puts in his cheque in the hole correctly that she finally figured. The hole is down there, woman!
2. He goes in and out of the lot. A man had to reverse into, drive out of, reverse into, drive out of and finally reverse into a car park lot. By my guesstimate, he probably didn't move the car position an inch. Perhaps he hoped that by going in and out, in and out, the inch will come somehow. I think he is mistaken. How could anyone believe that anything could get any real pleasure from such silly moves?
3. They took more pictures of the live fish awaiting slaughter in a supermarket than any one would in an aquarium. The recent phenomena of supermarkets selling live fish and seafood has turned many of these shopping places into mini attractions. Off-work foreign workers congregate in front of tanks of garoupa, snappers, tilapia, crabs, lobsters, prawn and other shell fish, snapping pictues using their handphones. I never remembered seeing so many pictures taken of fish and seafood; the now-defunct Van Kleef Aquarium certainly didn't see that much action from its visitors, even during its hey day in the 1980s.
I'm getting puzzled.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Say What?
Sometimes, there are things would you rather not know. But once you find them on the Internet, they can be too exciting to ignore.
Tuninter Flight 1153 was a Tuninter flight from Bari International Airport in Bari, Italy, to Djerba-Zarzis Airport in Djerba, Tunisia. On 6 August 2005 the ATR-72 on the route, TS-LBB "Habib Bourguiba", ran out of fuel and ditched into the ocean...
In March 2009, an Italian court sentenced the pilot, Chafik Garbi, to 10 years in jail for manslaughter. Prosecutors said that after the plane's engines stopped functioning, Garbi failed to follow emergency procedures, and that he could have easily reached landing strip #25 of Palermo "Punta Raisi" Airport, or even the standard landing strip #20.
Witnesses say he succumbed to panic and began praying out loud, rather than attempting to maneuver the plane to the nearest airport. The last five minutes of the cockpit voice recorder audio have a few scattered seconds of religiously oriented interjections such as "Allah save us!", with the pilot repeatedly telling ATC that the plane is too far out to make it to land, carefully selecting a boat to splash down near, and repeatedly trying to restart the engines.
Wikipedia has the most exciting information. How exciting.
Tuninter Flight 1153 was a Tuninter flight from Bari International Airport in Bari, Italy, to Djerba-Zarzis Airport in Djerba, Tunisia. On 6 August 2005 the ATR-72 on the route, TS-LBB "Habib Bourguiba", ran out of fuel and ditched into the ocean...
In March 2009, an Italian court sentenced the pilot, Chafik Garbi, to 10 years in jail for manslaughter. Prosecutors said that after the plane's engines stopped functioning, Garbi failed to follow emergency procedures, and that he could have easily reached landing strip #25 of Palermo "Punta Raisi" Airport, or even the standard landing strip #20.
Witnesses say he succumbed to panic and began praying out loud, rather than attempting to maneuver the plane to the nearest airport. The last five minutes of the cockpit voice recorder audio have a few scattered seconds of religiously oriented interjections such as "Allah save us!", with the pilot repeatedly telling ATC that the plane is too far out to make it to land, carefully selecting a boat to splash down near, and repeatedly trying to restart the engines.
Wikipedia has the most exciting information. How exciting.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Gourmet Test
This is a one-question test to see if you have the makings of a gourmet.
Question
What is the difference in taste between distilled, mineral, reverse osmosis, and tap water?
Answer
The chemicals.
Honestly.
Pigs, dogs, and some other animals can taste water, but people cannot. Humans don’t actually taste water or even Perrier; they taste the chemicals and impurities in the water.
Did you pass the test?
Question
What is the difference in taste between distilled, mineral, reverse osmosis, and tap water?
Answer
The chemicals.
Honestly.
Pigs, dogs, and some other animals can taste water, but people cannot. Humans don’t actually taste water or even Perrier; they taste the chemicals and impurities in the water.
Did you pass the test?
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Another Numbers Quiz
1. What is the two second rule?
A. If you place your hand under an automatic hand dryer, the time taken for warm air to be blown at your hand is about two seconds.
B. If you approach a junction with traffic lights, the minimum time that the amber light must show before it turns red is about two seconds.
C. If you are on a dry, clear road and you reach the same fixed point before you have counted to two seconds, then you are too close and need to drop further back
D. If you are on a landing aircraft, the time between the rear wheels and the front wheels touching the tarmac is about two seconds.
2. What is the three second rule?
A. In soccer, the three second rules requires a player who has dribbed the ball into the opponent's penalty box to take a shot in no more than three seconds.
B. In tennis, the serving player must hit the ball within three seconds of tossing it up in the air.
C. In basketball, the three-second rule prohibits offensive players from remaining in their opponents' restricted area for longer than three seconds.
D. In the planes, the time lapse between the dropping of the oxygen masks and the delivery of oxygen is at least three seconds.
3. What is the four second rule?
A. In snooker, the time between adopting cue position and hitting the cue ball must be within four seconds.
B. In biology, most plants deliver sap to heal the wound caused by the removal of a healthy leaf in about four seconds.
C. In running, most runners' paces per every 400 meters will increase by about four seconds as they move up from one "classic" race distance to the next (e.g. from 800 m to 1500m).
D. In Olympic 10 m freestyle platform diving, the time between the diver leaping off the platform and entering the water is about four seconds.
4. What is the five second rule?
A. If the guy withdraws before he can count to five, the woman will not get pregnant.
B. If you approach a junction with traffic lights, the minimum time that elapses for the transition of the green to the red lights is about five seconds.
C. If you pick up a dropped piece of food, it is all right to eat it if it is on the floor for five seconds or less.
D. If you subject the AIDS virus to pure oxygen and you count to five, the AIDS virus will be dead.
5. What is the six second rule?
A. In basketball, the umpire gets to throw the ball back in play if the same team in possession of the ball is unable to make a scoring attempt within six seconds.
B. In waterpolo, the umpire gets to throw the ball back in play if the same team in possession of the ball is unable to make a scoring attempt within six seconds.
C. In soccer, goalkeepers must release the ball within six seconds to avoid a violation.
D. In soccer, players making a free throw must relase the ball within six seconds or the other team gains possession.
6. What is the ten second rule?
A. On a cruise liner, the time between the final whistle and the move off must be within ten seconds.
B. On an aircraft, the time between the front wheel and the rear wheels lifting off the tarmac is about ten seconds.
C. In basketball, the team, having gained control of the ball in its own backcourt, must bring it across the centre line within ten seconds to avoid a violation.
D. In basketball, each time a time-out is called, the total duration of play is extended by ten seconds.
A. If you place your hand under an automatic hand dryer, the time taken for warm air to be blown at your hand is about two seconds.
B. If you approach a junction with traffic lights, the minimum time that the amber light must show before it turns red is about two seconds.
C. If you are on a dry, clear road and you reach the same fixed point before you have counted to two seconds, then you are too close and need to drop further back
D. If you are on a landing aircraft, the time between the rear wheels and the front wheels touching the tarmac is about two seconds.
2. What is the three second rule?
A. In soccer, the three second rules requires a player who has dribbed the ball into the opponent's penalty box to take a shot in no more than three seconds.
B. In tennis, the serving player must hit the ball within three seconds of tossing it up in the air.
C. In basketball, the three-second rule prohibits offensive players from remaining in their opponents' restricted area for longer than three seconds.
D. In the planes, the time lapse between the dropping of the oxygen masks and the delivery of oxygen is at least three seconds.
3. What is the four second rule?
A. In snooker, the time between adopting cue position and hitting the cue ball must be within four seconds.
B. In biology, most plants deliver sap to heal the wound caused by the removal of a healthy leaf in about four seconds.
C. In running, most runners' paces per every 400 meters will increase by about four seconds as they move up from one "classic" race distance to the next (e.g. from 800 m to 1500m).
D. In Olympic 10 m freestyle platform diving, the time between the diver leaping off the platform and entering the water is about four seconds.
4. What is the five second rule?
A. If the guy withdraws before he can count to five, the woman will not get pregnant.
B. If you approach a junction with traffic lights, the minimum time that elapses for the transition of the green to the red lights is about five seconds.
C. If you pick up a dropped piece of food, it is all right to eat it if it is on the floor for five seconds or less.
D. If you subject the AIDS virus to pure oxygen and you count to five, the AIDS virus will be dead.
5. What is the six second rule?
A. In basketball, the umpire gets to throw the ball back in play if the same team in possession of the ball is unable to make a scoring attempt within six seconds.
B. In waterpolo, the umpire gets to throw the ball back in play if the same team in possession of the ball is unable to make a scoring attempt within six seconds.
C. In soccer, goalkeepers must release the ball within six seconds to avoid a violation.
D. In soccer, players making a free throw must relase the ball within six seconds or the other team gains possession.
6. What is the ten second rule?
A. On a cruise liner, the time between the final whistle and the move off must be within ten seconds.
B. On an aircraft, the time between the front wheel and the rear wheels lifting off the tarmac is about ten seconds.
C. In basketball, the team, having gained control of the ball in its own backcourt, must bring it across the centre line within ten seconds to avoid a violation.
D. In basketball, each time a time-out is called, the total duration of play is extended by ten seconds.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)