blackout

things i leanrt from our electricity being cut off:

1. it's extremely hot and uncomfortable and nearly impossible to sleep at this time of the year with no electricty.
2. when electrical generators explode or something similar they can blow a guy's whole arm off.
3. the Italian restaurant at the Grand Mercure hotel is pretty good.
4. I can't sleep on hotel pillows that are too fat.
5. the rooms at the Rembrandt hotel and bathrooms are really comfortable.
6. Rembrandt makes really good breakfast. (but i don't get why they only serve bran-wheaty-like cereal, ever heard of Koko Krunch or Honey Stars?)
7. you can be very restricted by lack of internet acess.
8. the 'Health Club' (which is just a room full of gym equipment) in the rembrandt has a weird guy who is so eager to explain the machines and can't help but check himself out in the many mirrors.

but most importantly..

9. you don't aprreciate something till its gone. (and yes that works on more than one level)

buffet

okay so hotel buffets are always way overpriced, and the service charge too, i mean 10% of an overcharged meal? and the way overpriced drinks which never come with the buffet charge.
But how can we not love hotel buffets? i mean unlimited food from alarge variety of choice for the period of the one or two hours that your there? its enough to make anyone happier, well maybe not anyone... but it does have that effect on me.
Its much harder than most people think. eating at a buffet i mean. you have to judge which foods are worth eating and filling you up with, and which aren't. but the trick is to not eat too fast, you get full too easily... hehe. yes so now i'm stuffed full of parma ham, pepper beef steak, pasta, patao skin beef thingies, and mango ice cream with sticky rice, along with a variety of other foods.
that's enough to keep me content. :)

cockroaches

have i ever said how much i hate cockaroaches? (<--- is that how you spell it?)

possibly not.
since i was a kid i realised that cockaroaches can fly, walk, jump, swim, whatever form of transport they can do it. thuis causing my fear of them, alsof or the fact that they appear out of no where in my seventh floor apartment.. with those horrible moving anttenna thingies...wat are they called again, feelers?

so you can guess my responmse when i woke up this morning all sleepy and bleary eyed only to find a two and a half inch cocaroach inside my bath room sink. gross. you do not wanna hear me scream when i find a cocaroach in my bathroom at 7 in the morning, its not a pretty sound; and no i have not run so fast out of my room in my life.

my mum squashed it quite calmly with a flip flop, you know cocaroaches have like black blood?

Life of Pi

an engaging book i must admit, although it took me a year to properly start. okay so this post may seem irrelevant to you out there who may not have read the book but i'll post this anyway.

Seemingly the book wanders at the start, captivating in areas where the writing does make you think; but once finishing the book, it leaves the reader with a feel of uncertainty with the truth of the story.
It is hard to read this book and not assume that the story full of murder and cannibalism finally told by Pi is the actual reality of what occurred. But he chooses to tell a story with animals one which offers some beauty and hope, in opposition to one which offers pain, suffering and despair; it may be just this choice of story which represents an individual's view on the world, whether to choose the story of religion which offers some beauty in opposition to not.
or something.

It is mentioned that this story "would make you believe in god", personally i'm not quite sure if it has accomplished exactly that.
Let's jus say this: Life of Pi is not your typical book.

the number 11

Okay so this is long overdue, i promised vish i would post this ages ago (its pretty cool) so here goes:

Something Weird : Believe it or not

11 has become to be a very interesting number. It
could be a forced coincidence, but in any case this is
interesting. You decide for yourself:

1) New York City has 11 letters.

2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.

3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened the
Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.

4) George W. Bush has 11 letters.

This could be a mere coincidence... (Could it be?)


Now here is what is interesting...

1) New York is the State # 11

2) The first plane crushing against the Twin Towers
was flight #11.

3) Flight # 11 was carrying 92 passengers Adding this
number gives us: 9+2=11.

4) Flight # 77 who also hit the towers, was carrying
65 passengers: Adding this: 6+5=11.

5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11. Adding
this: 9+1+1=11.

6) The date is equal to the emergency number 911.
Adding this: 9+1+1=11

Now we have a very upsetting piece...

1) The total number of victims inside the planes are
254: 2+5+4=11

2) The day September 11 is day number 254 of the
calendar year:
2+5+4=11

3) After September 11, there are 111 days more to the
end of the year.

4) The tragedy of 3/11/2004 in Madrid also adds to:
3+1+1+2+4=11.

5) The tragedy in Madrid happened 911 days after the
tragedy of the TwinTowers.

Spooky!!

Read on.....! This is really eerie....

This is something to think about!

Since America is typically represented by an Eagle.
Saddam and Bin Laden should have read up on their
Muslim passages... The following verse is from the
Quran, (the Islamic Bible).

Quran (9:11) -- For it is written that a son of
Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the
Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and
lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still
more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the
lands of Allah; and there was peace.

bday lunch 'thingy'

marié's bday lunch thingy, yep today at j avenue in grey hound. sooo yummy. kinda annoying tho when everyone's speaking thai and i just don't get it.. :s. can't believe prak actually managed to get her 7 presents, hmm spoiling her! lol. i printed out all these photos for her, from the ten years that i've known her... and looking back, damn we've changed!

we used to be so cute.

HAPPY BRITHDAY MARIé!!!!

yep one post all for you, just remember, if your reading this, that i love you more than prakhun ever will!!!! :) xx bff.

reminds me that we're all getting old! and it kinda sucks.

Chiense midterm

My chinese midterm was a joke. teherw as absolutely no point in me even revising, spent the lesson doing a the test that i didn't do last week cuz of MUN. my test consisted of:

1. multiple choice questions- took a glance at the papaers being handed back to people sitting around, memorised numerical answers in one glance and quietly copied them on my papaer.
   
2. Fill in teh balnks based on the history of certain poets- didn't manage to memorise the names of poets and their lives so i had cheat sheets prepared for such emergencies- yep tehyw ere utilized.
   
3. Historical language translation into modern chinese- i just had to laugh, i mean i dont get the modern stuff, and i'm supposed to be able to understand the historical stuff? its like giving a english language beginner a jane austen novel to translate.
4. Definitions- i don't know the meanings of the phrases, now i'm supposed to define them in chinese?
5. Writing down the pronounciations of words- yesss, something i can do... pity it was only worth 8 out of 100 marks.
6. Long essay, more than 150 characters and more than 3 paragraphs- essay?!?!!? okay i write something but lets just hope what i wrote down translates into wat i actually am meaning to say, and not something else horrendously off topic. (kinda helps taht teh girl next to me helped to proof-read it)
   

but believe it or not, it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, and i think i passed so yay!
glad that's over.