Standing Eggs

So they say today is the first day of spring. Another thing they say, on Spring Equinox, an egg can stand on its end. It all started early this morning, I was so fascinated by the fact that a bunch of adults were so busy and excited playing with eggs. So amusing. And I waited patiently for someone to break an egg. But the standing egg thing is true, it can be done. I'm staring at one now. And why exactly do they stand? I turned to the trusty Google for help.

Apparently eggs standing derives from the notion that, due to the sun's equidistant position between the poles of the earth on the first day of spring, special gravitational forces apply. On the first day of spring, the Earth's axis happens to be pointing perpendicularly to the direction of the Sun. Although it might seem like a special event, all it really means is that day and night have about the same length: 12 hours each, more or less.

While it's true that on both equinoxes the earth's axis is perpendicular to the sun so day and night are of equal length, there's no scientific reason to suppose that such an alignment changes the gravitational effect on solid objects here on earth.
And this would mean that an egg can stand on the Autumnal Equinox as well!

Hence the conclusion: eggs can actually stand any day of the year not just at the equinox. With a lot of patience. Try, try, try harder.
Standing eggs on Spring Equinox? Urban Legend they call it.

Happy First Day of Spring then! Time to change your feng shui!

Another Rainy Day, I'm getting my fill.

Gorgeous. Haunting. Let go. Decompress. Grandiose and gratifying. The waves will roll over you.

“The sky and I, we’ve had our fights and I’m coming round to rain. If the rain come round and it don’t come out, then I’ll never have to speak to him again." Captain and the Hourglass- Laura Marling. Beautiful.

Future Reflections

This is for mom and everyone else. Let me help you with some words.

1. Cheesy :- Something that is unintentionally kitschy, tacky, poor quality, inauthentic.

(Cheesiness is subjective. What seems cheesy to me may not be cheesy to you)

2. Corny :- Trying to be cool, but ultimately being very uncool, often extremely embarrassing.

3. Kitschy :- Skanky, so lame that it has an ironic appeal.

4. Tacky :- Gaudy, flamboyant, bad taste.

I.e. Wearing a translucent blouse with a black bra is downright tacky.

5. Trashy :- Someone who portrays themselves in a very "unclassy" way. a.k.a Lindsay Lohan

6. Crappy :- Used when voicing your opinion on sub-par and shoddy things.

7. Skanky :- the act of looking cheap, dirty and nasty or slutty.


I hope that helped. They're certainly not the nicest words but they are definitely some of the most popular words used in today's society. Thank you for joining me for to today's English lesson and I hope to hear from you soon.

Yellow, Brown, Red then comes.. Wait.. Oh forget it. (Pool on a billiard table)

...and It took Mark, Jon and my brother 2 hours to play 2 games. and being the only person watching them, it felt like eternity.

I spent the last few days of 2009 catching up on movies and working on my tan. 2 movies in particular which I thoroughly enjoyed were 500 days of Summer and the Young Victoria. I personally enjoyed The Duchess more than The Young Victoria but it's still worth watching.
This holiday season has been extremely fun and relaxing. There's nothing more relaxing than spending time with your family. We had a quiet New Year's Eve but we still had a big feast and a fun night playing Mario Party on Wii and stuffing ourselves with all sorts of treats at 12 in the morning.

I can't believe another year has come and gone. Thank you to everyone who has made it so memorable. The best is yet to come. Happy Twenty-ten people, or Two-thousand-ten.

Oh p.s: String bikinis are a pain in the ass. You have to adjust them every few minutes and spend the rest of the time worrying about them but eventually your boob still pops out. Wth. But that doesn't mean I'm not wearing them anymore. Ha.

Monkey Business

Meet my new friends. Monkey mom and monkey child.

P.s: I'm allergic to the Sun.
P.p.s: and What did you think of Avatar?
I thought it was brilliant.

I Spot a Minnie Mouse... with Crocs

Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you had a great Christmas. My entire family is back for the Christmas celebrations and we have been laughing non-stop, eating the most delicious foods. I can’t believe all the fun I had in only a week. A beach party with incredible people, wonderful meals with my family and the cranium, scruples and gaming sessions with cousins I have not seen for such a long time.
What a beautiful Christmas. It was amazing spending time with my family and friends. I love you all.

The Maid Needs A Maid

..to clean up her room which looks like a dusty battlefield.

Repair man and repair lady are still here working hard and I hope they will wrap up their work soon. Can't wait to see the end result. What would the world be without plumbers, electricians and maids? The world needs more people like them.

It’s been gloomy and wet of late but I am happily indoors with John Mayer's Battle Studies as my faithful companion. I've been feeling spacey recently if you know what I mean. Must be the hypnagogic hallucinations I have been having. Weird and twisted at times.
and I know I haven't been the best person or friend lately and I apologize for that. There are some things bothering me and I've been pretty distracted.

It's Tuesday today.
So happy Tuesday everyone, hope the day has been one of continued love and fulfillment.
This year has been filled with extreme happiness and sadness. Life knows no set course. I am happy with this year, am excited to close it out as best as I can. One day at a time. Today is the first day of December. So many things to look forward to. How this year is almost over, I’m not entirely sure.

Rottweiler In The Garden

This week's picks: Persuasion and Escala.

Persuasion. My new favorite Jane Austen book. It's the one of the sweetest, most subtle and tender love story I have ever read despite its simple plot. Captain Wentworth is no Mr Darcy but he's a wonderful character too. Jane Austen writes the most romantic books and the characters she creates just takes it to a whole other level. One thing I did not like about Persuasion, there are too many 'Charles' in the book. Maybe because they have very limited English names in the 1800s as names like Mary, Elizabeth, Anne and Jane appeared in quite a number of books, unlike now where ding dong names like Blanket or Doughnut or Apple are more common than peanut butter and jelly. Back to Persuasion, the ending's very similar to that of Pride and Prejudice but who cares. Persuasion is a simple book which exemplifies Jane Austen's acclaimed wit and ironic narrative style. Highly recommended.

Since It's been raining every other day here, I've been cooped up in my room reading while listening to Escala- a pop, instrumental crossover electronic string quartet. They sound exactly like Bond but it's good to listen to something like that when you're reading as it doesn't distract you from your book.

Oh and uncle got a rottweiler. It's only a month old. But I'm secretly terrified. when it grows older and bigger. Scaaarrry. What if it bites my head off or my limbs or my fingers?!
Dogs aside, I have received complaints that my blog isn't personal enough whatever that means. So I have decided to end each post with a random fact about dear ol' me.

Fact #1- I like tou foo/ bean curd, I do. That white tasteless thing. Yum.

Unnatural Selection

I've read plenty of New York Times Best Seller books in the past and they're not all good. Trust me. I'm sure most people have read or at least heard of Dan Brown, whose books like The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and Deception Point all topped the Best Seller Lists. Well a couple of days ago I read his newest novel- The Lost Symbol. I must say it's not as good as the three I mentioned earlier, but perhaps slightly better than Digital Fortress.

Okay, okay I did not like it. I wouldn't deny the fact that Dan Brown is a creative genius and every book he writes is bound to be a page-turner.
But judging from the way he kills or try to kill off his characters, Dan Brown seem somewhat schizophrenic in nature. Seriously, one of his female characters died because a psychotic man pushed her head-first into a tank filled with ethanol and she was killed within seconds. After that he tried to kill off his main character by strapping and locking him in a crate and pumping water through a tiny vent trying to suffocate and drown poor Robert Langdon. (He escaped unscathed, obviously. But he was supposedly dead for a few minutes. Then he was all mighty and heroic and healthy again. Wonderful.) And finally he almost killed his main female character by inserting a medical needle into her vein as if she were giving blood, but the needle was not attached to a tube. So her blood was flowing freely out of it.

Come on. Just picturing these scenes in my head makes me want to puke. It's revolting, appalling, disgusting, sickening and everything in between.
It's no wonder why I do not enjoy reading books in the crime/thriller genre.
After I finished the book I went through some reviews and I thought the one by Financial Times was the best. They panned the book as "a novel that asks nothing of the reader, and gives the reader nothing back", adding that it "is filled with cliché, bombast, undigested research and pseudo-intellectual codswallop". LOL.

Books aside, I've been trying to find new music since I'm free from school, assignments, tests and all that stuff. And I found and absolutely loved Muse's new album- The Resistance. I loved every single track. Best album in a long long time! Muse ftw!

Octopus In The Garden

I did another med school interview.

This one was creepy. Imagine walking in to a dimly lit room, curtains drawn with a desk right in the middle, two chairs and one interviewer sitting there with a constant smirk upon the face. Then you feel as if the air has been sucked out of your lungs. It was like a police interrogation room with the spotlight shining brightly and directly on you. Then the smirk on his face slowly turns into an evil grin when you continue to stutter and stammer your way through the interview with rotten grammar and answers that would make preschool kids cry. And it goes on and on and on and on and... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

After what seems like eternity, you emerge from the dreadful room, breathe in air like you've been trapped underwater forever. Then you finally notice the genuine broad smile, cheekbones lift, eyebrows dip across the face of the interviewer.

And you suddenly realize what a wild imagination a person has when they are all anxious and unsettled. And you feel the weight lifted off your shoulders and you know you have tried your best and even if you don't get what you want, it's an experience you will never forget.

.:: I'm sorry I tend to exaggerate::.

On a lighter note, two lovely girls are celebrating their birthday today- Carmen and Jeanette. Happy birthday lovelies!

And finally do listen to Ephemera's Air and Fleet Foxes' He Doesn't Know Why. Beautiful songs for a beautiful Sunday. Happy Sunday people!