Fie for Thought
Monday, December 29, 2008
Interesting Xmas this year. My Malaysian friend, Alia, came over to Singapore with her family for the holidays. So they wanted to see Orchard road with its lights up, and of course, shopping. Its kinda disappointing this year. The lights and decorations weren't as great as last year. It's like totally "budget" decorations.
A friend of mine said, "The world is in recession.......... except Malaysians." I was like wtf? when he said that. But now I know why. The way my friend's parents spend on their shopping, it's scary. I mean like they're spending like there's no tomorrow or that the world is in its golden age or something. Prada, Guess, etc... you name it. But they don't look like that sort at all. Her dad's in denim jacket and jeans, which made him look like some normal Malay Uncle that lepaks in the coffee shop and her mom looks like any other fierce Malay lady. As for my friend, she dressed up like totally simple. Average Jane I might add. Interesting people.
So we walked around Orchard Road, ate at an Indonesian restaurant, watch the fountain of wealth, played with the koi fishes and more shopping.
So it was a lot of walking here and there, talking, shopping and pictures. Oh yah, pictures. Here's some of them. Kinda weird but they asked me to pose with them. >.<
The Xmas tree at Paragon
The Coca Cola Bottle Pyramid at The Hereen
The decorations inside The Hereen
The Fountain of Wealth
And the Koi Garden
A friend of mine said, "The world is in recession.......... except Malaysians." I was like wtf? when he said that. But now I know why. The way my friend's parents spend on their shopping, it's scary. I mean like they're spending like there's no tomorrow or that the world is in its golden age or something. Prada, Guess, etc... you name it. But they don't look like that sort at all. Her dad's in denim jacket and jeans, which made him look like some normal Malay Uncle that lepaks in the coffee shop and her mom looks like any other fierce Malay lady. As for my friend, she dressed up like totally simple. Average Jane I might add. Interesting people.
So we walked around Orchard Road, ate at an Indonesian restaurant, watch the fountain of wealth, played with the koi fishes and more shopping.
So it was a lot of walking here and there, talking, shopping and pictures. Oh yah, pictures. Here's some of them. Kinda weird but they asked me to pose with them. >.<
The Xmas tree at Paragon
The Coca Cola Bottle Pyramid at The Hereen
The decorations inside The Hereen
The Fountain of Wealth
And the Koi Garden
Yeap, these are some. Gonna miss ya Alia! I'll see you in May ya!? Take care of yourself!
PS: Er. I look like a tourist myself. Teehee
PS: Er. I look like a tourist myself. Teehee
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Been busy as usual but I'm now addicted to reading up about the cosmos. Lol an old interest since young. Been reading a lot about the whatever there is to read. Be it black holes/quasars, novas, tachyons, star magnitudes, dark matter, planet X aka Nibiru, and so on and so for.
These stuffs are so huge, so far away, it makes us here on Earth look freaking tiny. Astronomers use Astronomical Units(AU) to measure distances. 1 AU is 93 million miles or 149598000km or the distance from the Earth to the sun. Pluto, the furthest ex-planet, is 39.5AU away from the sun. That's like almost 6 billion km away! Another unit that astronomers use to measure distance that are extremely far is to use Lightyears. That's the distance covered by light in one year, which is 300,000 x 31556926 secs (number of seconds per year) = almost 10 trillion km.
Now imagine this. The nearest galaxy that is similar to our galaxy, the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy is the Andromeda galaxy, which is 2million Light years away. So... you do the maths. Our own galaxy is about 100000 lightyears across. Yes, that's fucking huge! How can there not be life elsewhere?! You're talking about roughly 100 billion stars in one galaxy. Seriously, there are some other fucks out there looking up in the sky wondering where the fuck are we.
And you think it couldn't get any bigger, there's a blob like structure out there in space that's 200 million lightyears wide. Our Earth, about 12000km in diameters, the sun is 1.4 million km across, from sun to pluto is, 39.5AU, 6 billion km, from sun to the nearest star, proxima centuari, 4.3 light years, which is 39.9 trillion km away, our galaxy is 100,000 km across, which is 9.5×1017 km. So imagine the biggest fucking thing in the Universe is 200 million lightyears wide. THAT'S FUCKINGLY HUGE!
So that's the biggest thing. The furthest thing? Is at 13.2 billion lightyears away. Don't even think of how far is that. Its far beyond farrrr.. If you're traveling at the speed of light, 300,000km per sec, you'll reach there in 13.2 billion years.
So with all these huge, huge spaces, I can't help but be damn curious about it. What the heck is out there? We're so vulnerable that we can't go out there to space without being in danger of radiation. To see a black hole devouring nearby stars, to see quasars in the center of galaxies, to see humangous supergiant stars going off in supernovas, these are the magnificient things that I've been so curious and amazed of since I was young. Its just breathtaking to think about it.
*Random ramblings*
These stuffs are so huge, so far away, it makes us here on Earth look freaking tiny. Astronomers use Astronomical Units(AU) to measure distances. 1 AU is 93 million miles or 149598000km or the distance from the Earth to the sun. Pluto, the furthest ex-planet, is 39.5AU away from the sun. That's like almost 6 billion km away! Another unit that astronomers use to measure distance that are extremely far is to use Lightyears. That's the distance covered by light in one year, which is 300,000 x 31556926 secs (number of seconds per year) = almost 10 trillion km.
Now imagine this. The nearest galaxy that is similar to our galaxy, the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy is the Andromeda galaxy, which is 2million Light years away. So... you do the maths. Our own galaxy is about 100000 lightyears across. Yes, that's fucking huge! How can there not be life elsewhere?! You're talking about roughly 100 billion stars in one galaxy. Seriously, there are some other fucks out there looking up in the sky wondering where the fuck are we.
And you think it couldn't get any bigger, there's a blob like structure out there in space that's 200 million lightyears wide. Our Earth, about 12000km in diameters, the sun is 1.4 million km across, from sun to pluto is, 39.5AU, 6 billion km, from sun to the nearest star, proxima centuari, 4.3 light years, which is 39.9 trillion km away, our galaxy is 100,000 km across, which is 9.5×1017 km. So imagine the biggest fucking thing in the Universe is 200 million lightyears wide. THAT'S FUCKINGLY HUGE!
So that's the biggest thing. The furthest thing? Is at 13.2 billion lightyears away. Don't even think of how far is that. Its far beyond farrrr.. If you're traveling at the speed of light, 300,000km per sec, you'll reach there in 13.2 billion years.
So with all these huge, huge spaces, I can't help but be damn curious about it. What the heck is out there? We're so vulnerable that we can't go out there to space without being in danger of radiation. To see a black hole devouring nearby stars, to see quasars in the center of galaxies, to see humangous supergiant stars going off in supernovas, these are the magnificient things that I've been so curious and amazed of since I was young. Its just breathtaking to think about it.
*Random ramblings*
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
....Let's see....
..A 3rd world India trip..
...A majorly important KL seminar event...
..30 OCBC branches..
...Stagmore Camp...
Now to stand back and take a look from the outside.... Hmmmm..ok...
I don't know if this is exciting, scary, fucked up or sad. Haha. It's like an addict saying "MORE! MORE! MORE!!!" not knowing that the drug's killing him.
Then again, it's a good drug, so why not have more?
"Have too much of something, even though its good for you, would turn out bad for you."
Have too much oxygen, you'll die. Have too much water, you'll die. Too much salt, you'll die. Oh well, better have something than nothing at all.
On the lighter side, my Malaysian and Brunei friends are coming here! Hoho. A special food tour for them! Hehehe. This is gonna be some fun shits. Oh and not forgetting the Aussies next year! Damn I need to start making plans to travel!
..A 3rd world India trip..
...A majorly important KL seminar event...
..30 OCBC branches..
...Stagmore Camp...
Now to stand back and take a look from the outside.... Hmmmm..ok...
I don't know if this is exciting, scary, fucked up or sad. Haha. It's like an addict saying "MORE! MORE! MORE!!!" not knowing that the drug's killing him.
Then again, it's a good drug, so why not have more?
"Have too much of something, even though its good for you, would turn out bad for you."
Have too much oxygen, you'll die. Have too much water, you'll die. Too much salt, you'll die. Oh well, better have something than nothing at all.
On the lighter side, my Malaysian and Brunei friends are coming here! Hoho. A special food tour for them! Hehehe. This is gonna be some fun shits. Oh and not forgetting the Aussies next year! Damn I need to start making plans to travel!
