How leh?

How do you approach a girl you fancy? Maybe a teacher? A colleague? A friend even?

I have this language teacher that I think is hot. Seriously kawaii. Okay, but not on movie star kawaii quality, but close enough. But the problem is, I don't know here well enough to actually ask her out. She might have a policy against dating her students maybe. Or she got so fed up with so many male students asking her out, or she's already in a relationship.

I don't know...I really wanted to get to know her better. Maybe ask her out with a couple of her students? Or ask her help in some office shit, and then ask her out with the excuse of thanking her? Or just go straight up to her and ask for a date?

Tips?

Suggestions?

Grrr...here goes my weakness again

Sometimes I just hate myself...but I just can't resist the temptations! Now I know what every women felt when they go shopping!

The list of newly acquired book during tonight's trip to Kinokuniya.

Non-fiction:
KoreDake Book

Fiction:
Pandora's Star - Peter F. Hamilton
Judas Unchained - Peter F. Hamilton
Time's Eye - Author C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Sunstorm - Author C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Star Wars: Vision of the Future - Timothy Zahn

Excuse me?

I just finished watching So, You Think You Can Dance? on TV. All the dancers are very very good. Don't know who won though, 'coz I didn't finish it.

Anyway, the judges, I gotta hand it to them. They give good review. What they are holds a lot of water. That is expected from someone who's who in dance business. They have been there. They have done that. And they can criticize all they want and still come out smelling like roses. But, can the audience make a good judgment as well?

According to some people I know, if the audience says something bad about the dance, for example, "Oh, you guys are not fast enough for for this dance...can you perhaps speed it up?"; the dancers will come back and says, "Oh really? why don't you come up here and do it yourself!"

Hmmm...were their egos hurt? I meant the dancer's enormous ego. So hurt they can't take a suggestion from the paying audience? Okay, non-paying audience, but audience nevertheless.

Here's the point I want to make; whereas some experts can say what you have done wrong, and if you don't like it, and challenge them to do it, they (the experts) probably could do it, because, well, they ARE the experts. BUT, what if some non-expert were to do the same and have the same challenge thrown at them? How will the non-expert react? Continue smiling and proclaim that they are not hurt by that insult? Do something and be embarrassed by the results? Retort that dancing is what dancers do and enjoying dance is what audience do, and if the audience DO NOT enjoy they dance, the can...NAY!...they have a right to demand that they be entertained!

So, you still think you can dance?

Nihongo!

Well...tonight I took my first class in Japanese Language. Hehehe, good class it was. Pretty sensei as well. Kawaii!

Anyway, learned alot of new words today...Japanese words of course. Like aso, hiru, yoru which means, morning, afternoon and evening respectively. Also several congratulatory greetings, like tanjobi omedetogozaimasu, kekkun omedetogozaimasu and shinnen omedetogozaimasu, which means, respectively, happy birthday, happy wedding, and happy new year. The additive -gozaimasu gives the greeting a more respectful sound. Something like a very happy new year, and is preferred if you're speaking to someone of respect; like your teacher, boss, parents and elders. The greeting without -gozaimasu is more for friends, younger people, and people of the same social status.

Well...no need to bore you with what I've learned tonight. Oyasuminasai!

Eye EM Spectrum Sensitivity

Hello. I see you!

Okay, so we live on Earth, like, du'UH! And our eyes, those two shiny looking piece of pearl-like contraption we like to spoil are adapted to a specific band of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths...right? Because our Sun, Sol, gives off light in a variety of wavelengths, but the most prominent of these wavelengths happen to fall within a thin band we egoistically call "visible light", our eyes, and the eyes of most life on Earth are adapted to receive this stimuli. A few others does away with eyes, and some see in infrared red.

Anyway, examining the construction of our eye, we can see that two types of cell groupings are responsible for sight; cone cells responsible for daylight vision, and rod cells for nighttime vision. Cones need a lot of stimulus to be activated, while rods need only a few photons. Now, assuming that we can manipulate our DNA; which by the way is way past the time to dilly dally; can we make our eyes a little more sensitive to other wavelengths? Say for example...infrared red? So instead of seeing "visible light", we'll be seeing...heat light. Now further assuming that we can see; for lack of a better word; heat, and not see the current "visible light" anymore, would "visible light" then be defined as heat light (aka infrared red, IR)?

What if we were made to be sensitive to both IR and VL (visible light)? Can we switch between them just like we blink? How about if we were able to see in ultraviolet? Or even perceive X-ray band wavelengths? Would it be possible? Would it be better than the cumbersome and unsophisticated machine equivalents? Would voyeurism rule?

I for one would like IR and VL vision rolled into two tiny packages that is our eye. That way, nighttime driving would be so much saner, and nighttime jungle trekking would be so much funner. What you like?

Blog News

Blogs...how effective are they in news dissemination? How were they even part of news dissemination? Why bother blogging at all? Are they really all they crack up to be? Are they even legitimate?

These questions has been burning on slow burner at the back of my mind for sometime now. It seems that we lived in a world full of contradictions. Observe how we say "Cold as hell" and "Hot as hell" to basically mean the same thing, i.e.:extremely. Or how we say "Like hell!" or "Hell yeah!". In this case, using the same term, "hell" to make it mean two totally dissimilar things, which the example sought to show, "Impossible" in the first instance, and "Excellent!" in the second.

So too the world of blogging...if it has come to such monstrosity; because it too has succumbed to the confusion of contradictions. How so in this case is easily observed by two values shared by everyone on this planet (well...at least humans); that of privacy and secrecy. These two values are as opposite as opposites can be and blogging as we know it, is an interplay between these two values.

One one hand there are millions who sought to bare all to the Internet public, posting everything and anything about themselves on personal blogs leaving little if any to imagination. And on the other hand, millions more are so secretive that they refuses even to publish their IP address, let alone their blogs (if they even have one). Most of the pseudo-secretive types hover in the middle. They post personal rambling, but hides behind a cloak of anonymity; standard practice now.

But the point is, while two extremes exist, the later category (those pseudo-anonymous) bloggers are the ones I'm talking about now, about contradictions. They want to bare all, and yet they want to hide. They want to hide their name, and yet they want others to know what they ate for supper. They want others to know they love sex, but decline to mention normal sex or same-sex sex...and the list goes on.

You get what I mean? Is it vanity or is it voyeurism? Is it expressionism or is it conservatism? You tell me.

Relationship

I don't understand people sometimes. Especially people in a relationship, married or otherwise.

I was discussing our salaries with a couple of friends just now after work, and we digress into how we spend our money. I said that my friend has changed since he's spending more and more time at work rather than at home doing the things he like, and he goes like, "No money what to do?" I answered him, "Work say work lar, must enjoy also mah."

And the next thing I knew, he's saying something like you will get your comeuppance someday, and when you do, you will suffer like us also, with nary a penny to spend on yourself.

I was stunned to say the least. Notice the words he used. Suffer! Indeed!!! So I ask to him, why didn't you just break up and be single and enjoy all your obviously hard-earned money all on yourself then? He never reply because he doesn't have a good answer.

Why indeed? Why does married (or in this case, steady relationship) always talks about their relationship like it is some kind of a prison? A death sentence? A torture? If they feel that way, why did they even get into the relationship in the first place?

This question has been buggering me since time immemorial.