I was reading up about abortion in Singapore while working on this week's ethic's assignment about gender selection. When I came upon this...
Welcome to Women's Clinic of Singapore - Commonly Asked Questions
I feel disturbed reading this guys FAQs.
and this...
"Although, Dr Jen’s background is in O & G, which he has been practicing for more than 25 years, he has also had a special interest in the field of aesthetics for a number of years. His patients are all female and beauty is always uppermost in the female mind."
Besides the bad grammar, it seems to shout "MONEY!"
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Travellers
a 20 hour train ride
some travellers are restless. they walk up and down the corridor and explore every corner of the train.
some will try to get to know as many other travellers as possible. friendly? annoying?
some take detours at every stop possible, prolonging the 20 hours to days... months
some just stay in their seats and sleep. eyes open / eyes closed. thats what the train companies expect. the optimal configuration. buy a seat, stay in the seat. if everyone talked and walked, the train would be a mess.
some travellers are restless. they walk up and down the corridor and explore every corner of the train.
some will try to get to know as many other travellers as possible. friendly? annoying?
some take detours at every stop possible, prolonging the 20 hours to days... months
some just stay in their seats and sleep. eyes open / eyes closed. thats what the train companies expect. the optimal configuration. buy a seat, stay in the seat. if everyone talked and walked, the train would be a mess.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Very Pleased
A few months ago, I felt something was wrong with my car audio. Something was different. I thought my right speaker was wonky, and that the sound was softer on the right side. I remember my sister and feli was in the car, and I kept asking them if it sounded off balanced. I thought maybe I had hearing loss in one ear or something. I tried to compensate with the rather limited EQ on the stock head unit of the Lancer EX.
I thought maybe I needa crank up the woofer a bit, so I decided to yank off my passenger seat and adjust the amplifier for the woofer. That took a while because I procrastinated for weeks, and couldn't find the right spanner. Yesterday I finally bothered to go to the hard ware shop to buy the correct sized spanner to yank off my passenger seat to tune the amplifier below the seat.
I played around with the amp, only to realize it was my speaker that was spoilt, not anything to do with the amp. I double checked by hooking up my yamaha stagepas 300 speaker to my car amp, which worked beautifully. I tried the reverse, hooking up the powered mixer to the car speaker. The speaker produced no sound, unless I applied pressure on the 4 o'clock position, and still only fuzzy crackly sound was produced. Dad said the speaker coil was stuck. He advised me to go sungai road to find someone who could repair it.
My uncle and cousin came to visit today, and to pick up a pair of shoes which my cousin will pass to my sis in aus. He said no one really repairs speaker coils nowadays, so I decided to buy a new one.
Searched around, autobacs, chuan sing, and this nam huat audio, managed to find a 2nd hand jbl sub woofer for $80, which included helping me mount it in my old speaker box. I'm quite pleased with the price, and the sound quality. I just hope it doesn't spoil like the boston accoustic one I had for just over a year.
I felt happy driving home. The sound is so much fuller now.
I brought the old subwoofer home. I'll try to repair it some day... right...
I thought maybe I needa crank up the woofer a bit, so I decided to yank off my passenger seat and adjust the amplifier for the woofer. That took a while because I procrastinated for weeks, and couldn't find the right spanner. Yesterday I finally bothered to go to the hard ware shop to buy the correct sized spanner to yank off my passenger seat to tune the amplifier below the seat.
I played around with the amp, only to realize it was my speaker that was spoilt, not anything to do with the amp. I double checked by hooking up my yamaha stagepas 300 speaker to my car amp, which worked beautifully. I tried the reverse, hooking up the powered mixer to the car speaker. The speaker produced no sound, unless I applied pressure on the 4 o'clock position, and still only fuzzy crackly sound was produced. Dad said the speaker coil was stuck. He advised me to go sungai road to find someone who could repair it.
My uncle and cousin came to visit today, and to pick up a pair of shoes which my cousin will pass to my sis in aus. He said no one really repairs speaker coils nowadays, so I decided to buy a new one.
Searched around, autobacs, chuan sing, and this nam huat audio, managed to find a 2nd hand jbl sub woofer for $80, which included helping me mount it in my old speaker box. I'm quite pleased with the price, and the sound quality. I just hope it doesn't spoil like the boston accoustic one I had for just over a year.
I felt happy driving home. The sound is so much fuller now.
I brought the old subwoofer home. I'll try to repair it some day... right...
Friday, February 20, 2009
Basment SketchUp
I was fussing over the mess in my basement when I was looking for a spanner to remove my front passenger seat of the car to adjust my sub woofer amplifier volume. My basement is just too messy because theres hardly any furniture, so our junk is just piled all over the floor in boxes. Our TV sits on an shoe chest turned on its side, theres a couch, a piano, an ironing rack, and some metal shelves in the side store room area.
So I was imagining (again) how I would do up the basement, and tried to youtube for some CADing software, then I found this FREE Google SketchUp, which was pretty simple to use. Initial learning was quite challanging, but it wasn't rocket science. The help tips were actually helpful (unlike most microsoft help tips) and unobtrusive.
I sorta sketched my basement. Took me a while because I had to go dig up my floor plans from the last renovation, clean it up, print it out, measure the room, then measure the scale. For all the time I took, I don't think my 3d model is very much to scale. All the rounding off here and there would probably add up. But I'm really glad I could use the software and print out a vague representation of what was in my head, because the last 3 or 4 times I tried to explain my concept to my parents and my maid... nothing much got through.
Whats not in the plan are the 2 ceiling fans, the aircon unit above the piano, the intended projector, and the intended projector screen which will be on the short wall perpedicular to the cabinet and opposite the sofas.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Vase or electric bulb?
"the rectal contents are supported by the levator ani muscles, possibly assisted by the transverse rectal mucosal folds. For these reasons, the removal of a large foreign body, such as a vase or electric light bulb, from the rectum may be a formidable problem" - snell
A vase or light bulb. Wow. Formidable problem indeed.
A vase or light bulb. Wow. Formidable problem indeed.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Da Qin Christian Monastry?
"At first it seemed to be a wonderful Chinese scene of the Five Sacred Mountains or possibly a representation of the five peaks of Hua Shan, one of the Taoist sacred mountains. But as my eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, I could see what had foxed the cultural experts from the province. For the centre of the mountain had a cave created within it. And in the cave was the lower portion of a statue. The mountain and the cave were classical Chinese in design. The figure was not. The robes were Hellenistic in style and the posture was one never seen in Chinese religious art. I have worked extensively with the Russian and Greek orthodox Churches and thus I have become familiar with Orthodox iconography. I suddenly realised what I was looking at. In Orthodox iconography, the Nativity is not depicted as in Western art. The orthodox follow the description contained in the Book of James and this says that Mary gave birth to Christ in a cave in a mountain, by herself. In front of me I could see the mountain and the cave. And the figure of Mary - for so I believe it to be - lay exactly as she is often depicted in Orthodox icons, her right leg drawn up slightly, her left lying along the ground, holding the Christ Child who looks towards her. Above the cave, the celestial light shines down. Here was Mary; here the place where the celestial light had once been but had been ripped down; here outlined by dirt, was the shape of a child. I was looking at the earliest known Christian statue in China and it fused, just as I had always thought it would, Christian and Chinese art in the way that Gandharian art fused Greek and Buddhist art."
hmmm??
and whats up with this?
"Many have tried to present the early Church as one ship, ploughing forward, driven by truth, with odd heresies breaking away from it. In fact the Early Church of the first 4 centuries of the Christian era were a motley collection of distinct tradition s which drew upon and fused with a variety of local, pre-Christian traditions. In Britain for example, the Celtic Church arose, distinctive through its fusion of Christianity with Celtic traditions and even deities. Antioch developed a Christianity that fused Christianity with a humanism which was the hallmark of the philosophical schools of the City. Meanwhile down in Egypt, the Church of Alexandria fused Christianity with the ancient traditions of the goddess Isis and her infant son Horus to produce the earliest known statues of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child. Egyptian Christianity was far more transcendental, more concerned with godhead than the humanitarian traditions of Antioch.All this came to a head in the fifth century. The Roman Empire had turned Christian during the 4th century and sought to create One Church just as it saw itself as the One State. As a result, local divergences and differences came to be seen as a profound threat to the concept and unity of the One Church model. Gradually local versions of Christianity were absorbed, dismantled or dismissed. These differences often expressed themselves in debates about the nature and person of Christ. For reasons too complex to go into now, the Archbishop of Constantinople, Nestorius, was in 431 dismissed as a heretic and his teachings about the humanity of Christ were declared heretical."
hmmm??
and whats up with this?
"Many have tried to present the early Church as one ship, ploughing forward, driven by truth, with odd heresies breaking away from it. In fact the Early Church of the first 4 centuries of the Christian era were a motley collection of distinct tradition s which drew upon and fused with a variety of local, pre-Christian traditions. In Britain for example, the Celtic Church arose, distinctive through its fusion of Christianity with Celtic traditions and even deities. Antioch developed a Christianity that fused Christianity with a humanism which was the hallmark of the philosophical schools of the City. Meanwhile down in Egypt, the Church of Alexandria fused Christianity with the ancient traditions of the goddess Isis and her infant son Horus to produce the earliest known statues of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child. Egyptian Christianity was far more transcendental, more concerned with godhead than the humanitarian traditions of Antioch.All this came to a head in the fifth century. The Roman Empire had turned Christian during the 4th century and sought to create One Church just as it saw itself as the One State. As a result, local divergences and differences came to be seen as a profound threat to the concept and unity of the One Church model. Gradually local versions of Christianity were absorbed, dismantled or dismissed. These differences often expressed themselves in debates about the nature and person of Christ. For reasons too complex to go into now, the Archbishop of Constantinople, Nestorius, was in 431 dismissed as a heretic and his teachings about the humanity of Christ were declared heretical."
Sunday, December 28, 2008
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
good without god?
Can there be good without god?
OF COURSE NOT!
Then it'll only be "o"!
at least if theres no good, there won't be bad, only whatever is opposite of O.
Thats something to think about... whats the Opposite of O?
OF COURSE NOT!
Then it'll only be "o"!
at least if theres no good, there won't be bad, only whatever is opposite of O.
Thats something to think about... whats the Opposite of O?
Monday, November 17, 2008
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