Friday, November 16, 2007
Mad-th Musings

State: Mad about Math

Most Japanese villagers take pride in picking locally-grown red radishes which accompany almost every meal in winter. Traditional Japanese winter food can be found in Hokkaido, such as rice cakes (mochi) steamed with wild grape leaf. Great.

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Deadly Decimals
Vulgar Fractions
Terrible Test
Mean Bits
Ugly Fractions
Murderous Maths

The most pathetic facts about Maths: Perfectly useless numbers. You can't touch them, you can't eat them, you can't sit on them and on their own they mean absolutely nothing.

But. The more we know about numbers, the more we realise that everything in the universe depends on them.

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Bad Phone Scams

Last Sunday during youth leaders meeting, we actually receive one such phone scam. Well. It was a machine operated scam.. UNTIL IF you respond to what it say.. by pressing '9'. Well. I've never witnessed phone scam myself before. I did not press '9' because it was simply too dumb to do so. The message was in Chinese with an obviously-I-know-from-where accent. It basically repeated itself for three times then the call was terminated.

Today I got an email from a friend. Her email was about phone scams and for the first time, I read such emails. Well, all the description matched exactly the phone call that I had received last sunday. Cool huh.

Just wanna say that the machine operated message will be about you being involved in a High Supreme Court case. Just listen to all you want but just don't respond..

Well. Imagine if its from High Supreme Court. Will the call be in Mandarin? Ehlo? What's the first language of Singapore? Will a call from High Supreme Court turns out to be a machine operated call?

Look at how I titled this story. Bad Phone Scams. Who is their target victims? Old people mainly. Well. Perhaps the recent news about Singapore's aging population is rising and made the stupid phone scam creators excited over it. So please.. whatever age you are now, please inform those elderly who are always at home picking up phonecalls. Ain't a smart thing when you learn something and not helping.. you will end up shooting yourself in the leg.

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I just got notified. My no-pay-leave has been approved. Hokkaido soon to be in my sight.
I'm thinking of a good reason to go Ho Chi Minh City when school reopen... oh, I'm going there for a friend's wedding - Is this reason qualifiable? You be the judge. Afterall, my grades are ok and first week of school won't have any tutorials. Sometimes, although having your passport with you, leaving the country isn't that simple.

Sigh. I'm jailed on this little island but free to roam anywhere from Pulau Ubin to Sentosa. Isn't that wonderful. I just love this country.

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I want creamless pasta.