http://news.xin.msn.com/en/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4245401

Another hilarious news... Looks like crooks now are so skilled that they could take men by surprise... They make use of the common joke cracked by society to rob... haha

Inception is a great movie, truly intelligent, truly captivating, truly a masterpiece. It is a somewhat mixed genre, of sci-fi, thriller, fantasy, action, comedy, james bond and a little horror. It adopts a matrix style whereby it will lead you to question yourself, not of existence but of dream. It contains the theory of subconscious, preconscious, dream incubation. It's about a man who tried to use dream incubation on another guy, using his dreams to alter his thoughts. I personally like the question: Is the world you are currently on real? Do you remember how you came to this place? Yea, it is true that in a dream, you just pops up nowhere, anywhere, randomly, yet it feels so real and vivid. Oh, and the concept of depth of dream, 2nd layer and more, dream in dream, I experienced it once, it was rather tiring. In this movie however, they brought in limbo, a hell for people who died in deep layer of dream, where they would stay there for a very long time until they got 'kicked'.

After watching the movie I can relate myself to it a little. Frankly, I never had a satisfying sleep where I could wake up fresh and revived, there's still that sense of mental fatigue that sleep wont cure. Often at my preconscious state, I struggled to refuse or reject that I'm gonna wake up in the real world. Yet inside, I might just be in a total dark world stoning, unless I could remember the dream. The theory in the movie is great, that there is this architecture of dream, and the architecture must never tell the dreamer the layout of his dream or else the subconscious will know where to get to and how.

here's one weird phobia:

Fear of the Happy Birthday song
by KiKi
(East Coast)

Every since I can remember my little brother, now 21 has been afraid of the Happy Birthday song. When he turned 1, I can remember him running behind the sofa in fear of the song. When he turned 2 he did the same thing.

Now that he has turned 21 today he is still running (not behind the sofa), and I thought that maybe he would grow out of it, but he didn't. I am not for sure if there is a name for this phobia, but if there is would someone please let me know. Thank you.

Bless this guy.... For me, I'm more than happy to receive that haha, current achievement: 4 songs on my birthday haha

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“Photographer arrested because of taking photos”.

A spokesman said, “As he was causing obstruction to the police officer in the discharge of his duties and causing danger to himself and others, the officers decided to restrain him and move him to safe grounds, but the man resisted and put up a struggle. The officers then had to handcuff him.”

Humans are getting weirder and weirder, haha people nowadays sure are privileged to enjoy just comical scenes... Cause of case: Impatient, arrogant, uncaring police, curious, desperate, unlucky photographer... simple enough?

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Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction

JAKARTA - Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.

Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country.

"But it has been decided that actually the mosques are facing Somalia or Kenya, so we are now suggesting people shift the direction slightly to the north-west," the head of the MUI, Cholil Ridwan, told Reuters. "There's no need to knock down mosques, just shift your direction slightly during prayer."

Definitely a grave mistake, glad they found it.... However, "just shift your direction slightly during prayer" sounded a little 'bo-bian-must-do with no other solution' in a exaggerated extent of original 'plan' to 'knock down mosques'.... Such trivial ways to correct should have been known already, no need to announce publicly ba...

So what if I didn't get top for the paper/subject? If its just 3 marks difference? Do you have to rub it in my face like some desperate loser? And do you have to announce to the whole class I screwed up part of the SEQ? Now take your character, freaking voice and attitude and get out of my sight.

my rpl:

One may be angry at something, but it is imbecile to vent in on others. To make others unhappy, why not keep that anger to urself and welcome the many happiness that might chance upon you? You're just purely selfish. Uve only lost a battle, just congrats your opponent and win the war, how nice would that be? For unable to take taunts from the 'loser', you are just degrading yourself, you aint anywhere better?

After doing a general paper question on materialism then a realize that Desai's story have signs of materialism too. For example Private Tuition with Mr Bose, the students find that languages are not necessities in life, and they are somewhat seducing Mr Bose with their luxuries they possess. In Pineapple Cake, Victor's mum used him to showcase her wealth rather to adore him as a son, and to get an extra portion of the cake in the end of the story. In Farewell Party, we could see that their sociallizing are very artificial and insincere. In Devoted Son, the filial and obedient son turned into a tyrant controlling every part of Varma's life, obviously neglecting and replacing the tradition ways of the family with modernization and 'certificates'.

Watched 2 movies today, toy story 3 and ip man legend is born. Hmm, lets star with toy story 3

Didnt watch the prequels, but it was hilarious, one of the cartoon movie that is not too lame haha, theme is brotherhood as usual, plus a little of 'letting go', for the benefit of more mankind. Though I wouldnt say is worth 10 bucks, maybe 5... but yea it's definately better than up...

Ip man legend is born focus more on the storyline than the moral or even the fight scene. If you notice, their fighting style revolves around that few moves. The actor isnt as good as donnie but still applaud-able. As for the jap guy that betrayed the dojo, I seriously think he's a bastard, despite his pitiful story of being forced to be jap spy from young. No matter how bad was his past, to be able to have such great masters adopting is like blessing from heaven, and as we know in olden chinese culture, brotherhood is taken very seriously, how could he just do that? lol, well the romance part is too rush, and the training part too was too brief. However I think it has a good storyline ba, still think ip man 1 and 2 is better based on actors actings and moral and essence of wushu.

Subject: The Pastor's Ass

A pastor wanted to raise money for his church, and on being told that there was a fortune to be made in horses decided to purchase one and enter it in the races. At the local auction, however, the going price for a horse was so high that he ended up buying a donkey instead.

He figured since he had it, he might as well go ahead and enter it in the races, and to his surprise the donkey came in third. The next day the local paper carried this headline: "Pastor's Ass Shows."

The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and this time it won! The local paper read: "Pastor's Ass Out Front."

The bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race. The next day, the local paper read: "Bishop Scratches Pastor's Ass".

The bishop was fit to be tied! He ordered the pastor to get rid of the donkey. The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent. The local paper, hearing the news, posted this headline the next day: "Nun Has Best Ass in Town."

The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for ten dollars. The next day, the paper read: "Nun Sells Ass For $10"

After the bishop was revived, he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild. The next day the headlines read: "Nun Announces Her Ass Is Wild and Free".

The bishop was buried the next day.

Thanks Mr Samy Rajoo for sharing the joke, adapted probably somewhere in the internet. Haha power of media is great haha, or rather deadly...

2 great quotes today by Marianne Williamson:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."

Church tuition today is great, Joel & Wei Chong went to lead junior games for the first time. Not bad for first time, not enthu enough though haha, fun games, haha sometimes it's really enjoyable to see the kids enjoying themselves so well.

Watched Akeela and the bee at night. Rather standard storyline, but well one thing good is that they did highlight the importance of using appropriate or suitable speech in the right time. Eg when to use good english and when to use slang. So again I dont see why singlish is highly criticized. It's basically our culture. Not only singlish is a 'rojak' language, many of the words had differ their meanings from their original meanings. It's unique in a sense no country have this 'culture'.