how old are you

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1145&p=front&a=2


God made hands to hold in love, not to strike in hatred. My hands are empty.

oh nose!

In east Asian countries, many ladies get eyelid surgery, to make extra fold.
http://www.drmeronk.com/asian/asian-eyelid-photos.html

In Thailand, Indonesia many ladies have surgery to make bigger nose.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020805/story.html


In Iran, many ladies have surgery to make smaller nose.
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/04/nose_jobs_in_iran.php

In Britain, other cosmetic surgeries are common, in US botox too.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/05/1212258982021.html

European hymen surgery
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/europe/11virgin.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp

Female circumcision surgery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting

I hadn't heard of this cosmetic non-surgical botox technique for reducing the protruding north Chinese 'square jaw' to a smoother cheek profile as in pic.
http://www.mirandaplasticsurgery.com/botox_for_jaw_reduction.html?gclid=CMDGlIfbhJQCFSMYagod1DE_XA


Different shapes and sizes. Plastic surgery to correct physical problems is one thing, but if only to make copies of famous people's noses is a bit ridiculous I think. But what do I know, I'm just a guy. Like I said to a friend, a girl is never more beautiful than when she is naked and leaving her mums tummy to join us. There is no makeup necessary, just a breath of fresh air and a little crying. Is she a hollywood model? No, she's a chubby wrinkly little mess, with a funny shaped skull and toothless and almost bald, some vernix and lanugo. Beautiful, eh? :) yup.

insyallah, i will be blessed too with a gift like that. alhamdulillah. peace be with you.

Sacred Biology: brains and bits

" Among the 17 tissues, the highest similarity in gene expression patterns was between human brain and testis, based on DDD and clustering analysis. Genes contributing to the similarity include ribosomal protein (RP) genes as well as genes involved in transcription, translation and cell division. Conclusions: Present results provide evidence to support the proposal that human testis and brain share the highest similarity of gene expression patterns."

http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?doi=10.1159/000076290


This surprised me, apparently testes and brains have some strong genetic similarities.


I was aware that during embryogenesis and fetal development IIRC, male gonads (testes) move internally from somewhere around the cephalic-cervical region (head-neck) towards the abdomen to the caudal-urethral region, producing a weak area susceptible to hernias. Is it possible that the testes are comprised of isolated homologous brain tissues, and are thus secondarily affected by bio-chemicals meant for the brain? Do treatments for brain disorders affect the libido? Do female ovaries also have brain-like tissue?

lost and found and lost and found...

"You don't know what you've got til it's gone"


From the song by Joni Mitchell, 'Big Yellow Taxi'

(I just happened to see a blogger's similar quote)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Yellow_Taxi
http://jonimitchell.com/musician/song.cfm?id=BigYellowTaxi
http://jonimitchell.com/research/g_entry.cfm?id=31


Joni is a Canadian Eurasian lady, she also wrote 'Both sides now', nice song.

Finance, sex, social status

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_on_sc/finance_and_sex_10

"Stanford psychologist Brian Knutson, a lead author of the study, says it's all about the power of emotion and arousal and our financial decisions. The link between sex and greed goes back hundreds of thousands of years, to men's role as provider or resource gatherer to attract women, said Kevin McCabe, professor of economics, law and neuroscience at George Mason University, who wasn't part of the study."

There's a bit more to it...

a day aside

(I stowed away some posts.)

(49th post): hmm

Had the feeling to paint, but had only 3 colors of acrylic paint, missing the yellow paint, only got blue, red, maroon and white. looking for some spare sunshine.. warna kuning dimane?

Got lot of colors of water color paints, wax crayons, art pencils, color chalks, ceramic glazes, oil color paints to make paintings, but no more acrylic paints. can't mix the different kinds of paint (oil & acrylic), it doesn't work. ...............................................................................................

update: I found some.

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sunshine cookies in "portable oven" (awak punya keta ke?):

"baking cookies on the way to school"

water balls & bubbles

[Not sure if the videos are working properly today]

Drinking tea with chopsticks on ISS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7obLT4s2-HA&feature=PlayList&p=1CD69623D2AD01AA&index=7

Mana boleh buat teh tarikh? Tak boleh, ek?

Water is spherical (not formless), in space station, water forms balls.

Here is a wave in a water ball, and water droplets inside a bubble inside a water sphere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaHLwla2WiI

Video: Pure H2O & CO2 inside a H2O skin, at ISS in microgravity



Some of the lines of Siddhidas Mahaju(N.S.987-N.S.1050) read as follows

सज्जन मनुष्या संगतनं मूर्ख नापं भिना वै पलेला लपते ल वंसा म्वति थें ल सना वै

which states that even a moron can improve with the company of good people just as a drop of water appears like a pearl when it descends upon the leaves of a lotus plant.

San Diego fire

I lived there for awhile, working for Aziz at Metro Market, every single day for a year, enjoying his wife's fine Arabic cooking for lunch, and helping his son open a new market at the Mexican border. Hopefully the winds will slow and the rains will come there.

http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/images/2007-10-22_2057-2102_HSDO_010403_QKM.jpg

Traix, vehicle of the future?

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/the-man-the-machine-and-the-critical-power/
http://criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/Budapest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Path_%28book%29



Electric or air supplementary power? See this air car:
http://paddyk.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/blades-air-and-automobiles/

See the 3rd paragraph at this link, about the electric "killacycle" & video. 0 to 60 mph (88km/h) in 1 second! 175 lbs of lithium ion batteries is much more than Traix would use.
http://www.adventuresofgreg.com/HPB/2007/09/nextfest-success.html


My Solution: Design concept vehicle Traix.

Traix: 1/2 pedal, 1/2 electric bike-car (2 wheeled) in which the harder you pedal, the more juice the battery provides, aerodynamic, links to others on the road via a push-button latch-hook, to form a "train" of say 20 - 100 vehicles on a highway, so everybody cruises aerodynamically with moderate leg power with optimal cardio-vascular aerobic action. At a desired exit, small "bus" of 10 vehicles splits off as a group and goes to neighborhood, then splits apart again into "solo" vehicles, solos park in tight space or carried inside the home. Very good for commutes, not for hauling big heavy stuff (but 2 linked side-by-side could pull a packed tent trailer easily).

Traix fights the poor health problem in the developed world: obesity-diabetes-hardened arteries from lack of aerobic exercise (due in part to oil addicted auto culture reliant on petroleum powered vehicles).

Traix fights the bad pollution problem in the developed and developing world: air pollution and various auto emissions, dirty waters, global warming, oily wars.

Traix avoids the dangers of riding bicycles in auto traffic in cities and highways, by keeping many riders in a unitary mass, in line, rather than all over the road, yet allows easy quick detachment at "bus stops".

Traix recharges via solar panels or home electric plug in, combines a motorcycle battery with a capacitor system for both slow and high speed.

Traix quickly adjusts for optimum aerodynamics as solo, duo or bus/train configuration, and provides both carbonfiber/bamboo shell with protective safety foam surrounding the hull, with umbrella-like top.

Traix really is the sensible option. Blue water, green forests, clean air, good healthy quick non-polluting transport.

Financial investment required for further development. Traix project cannot proceed without funding, contact me via email for more info.

[Traix Design by DDeden Designs]

Rilek Relic Relax Realaxe Raelix

The winter storms returned
to the palace by the bay,
was it not that season
for me to go away?
selam ke salam
salam selam
floating,
diver,
me,
u

A very touching song

Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9J5o1iVfAw

Kenny Loggins wrote this song about Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin while a senior in high school, when he was supposed to be studying for his final exams, he instead hid in his parents room and composed the melody and some of the lyrics.

He says here (at a live concert) that this song began his music career and later paid for his children's education. (Note to future teachers: Sometimes the kids have something else in their hearts and minds that are more important to them than exams. It's good to be aware of that.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inUKxeeHSM4

A. A. Milne wrote the House on Pooh Corner books about his son Christopher and his stuffed animals Pooh, Piglet etc. placing the story in the nearby Cotswald forest.

The original Winnie, a bear from Winnipeg, Canada, was brought to the London Zoo by Canadian soldiers during World War One, and was seen by Christopher and his nanny and parents. Christopher's stuffed bear was therefore named Winnie after this bear. Sometimes simple things are best.

The post post post (post posted after the post)

This post is just to follow that last one.
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Yes, one of those days.

Life is in a haze.

How many more?

Does anyone keep score?
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sahaja

How long I wait for an honest wife,
why did I survive, this shattered life,
destroyed by deception & gang of knife,
unhealed without love, stricken from strife.

My daughters and sons, still not yet born,
I'm surrounded by children and I am so torn,
I asked for mercy, but I received largely scorn,
so I worry so wary, wearied, weakened and worn.

Truly spoken, because truth is all that i have now.

Daud

Forest fire fighting in Nor Calif

http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/


This reminded me of my summer spent fighting forest fires in Northern California, taking time off my work as a forester (penghutanan) at the Menominee Forestry Center in Wisconsin.

50 years

Salam Merdeka /|\ Selam Merdeka

1776 Independence US
1957 Merdeka Malaysia


Selamat Hari Merdeka Malaysiaku



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6970348.stm


Live Free /|\ Dive Free

mubarek ramahdan muslimah

keyboard surrealism

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Surreal inversion: bunnywabbit, butterfly-flutterby, archerfish

Windmill polypedalmobile

http://www.glumbert.com/media/kineticsculpture

Wind powered flock of flamingos or herd of elephants?

Art, science, engineering

Bucky Fuller in Time Magazine: geodesic domes, dymaxion, synergetics
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601640110,00.html

Spacial Geometry article on Buckyballs and geodesics
http://members.cruzio.com/%7Edevarco/invisible.htm

Eclipse: Malaysia - Tahiti - California

Blue Crescent moon photo from space!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070320.html




Nice Lunar Eclipse tonight, full moon, clear starry night.
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/mon/aug27h18.htm

International Blue Crescent
http://www.ibc.org.tr/

Malaysian Red Crescent
http://www.redcrescent.org.my/drupal/node/63

Retail Shopping Science?

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/68521/

aduh, nak stadi ituhkah? apenyo...

handbag mania! $260,000 for a purse (it's empty!)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082001554.html?hpid=topnews

alamaaak!

I don't even have a wallet...
but since I also don't have any money...
um...did I say that out loud?
er...no i'm the Nor Calif of Kuala Walu Wiki so I am very rich and powerful!
Somebody else carries my money for me... i dunno whozat doe..

Dutch Me?

Hari ini, adelah kedai kopi yg baru dekat sini, namanya Dutch Brothers, dia bagi free large mocha coffee all day. i terima tiga cawan, 1) ice mocha 2) frosty mocha 3) hot mocha, sedap sangat, nyum nyum! Lepas tu, aku pegi pustaka, baca majalah yg baru sains...good stuff.

DANK U DUTCH BROS! I'll come back if i ever get money again.

http://www.dutchbros.com/flash/


I don't think I have any Dutch background, but maybe a bit of Dutch Cocoa? I wouldn't mind that, since I always liked chocolate!

Today (it was a sunny day)

Today is simply a very nice sunny day. :)





A note on Keith Ellison, first American born sunni Muslim in congress in USA, represents the City of Minneapolis in my home state of Minnesota. He is a lawyer, his wife is a teacher, 4 children, supports for president Barack Obama, who spent 2 years in Indonesia during childhood (munkin dia bercakap bicara bahasa).

What is it?

From Querencia, a Navajo silversmith crafted this bolo tie.
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Happy 42 birthday Singapore! August 9 2007
http://www.ndp.org.sg/multimedia/webcast/index.html

Coconut Philosophy?

Botany 101 metaphor

Coconuts can't grow if cracked from the outside. Coconuts can grow if the root inside can penetrate out through the shell, away from the light, down into the dark soil, stabilizing position (representing basal trust network stability, parental bond, security, daily nutritional foundation), only then can the stem grow up (representing freedom, independence, choices, responsibilities).

The stem (and branches-leaves-etc.) all have to grow up away from the shell, towards the light/energy source.

The leaves grow towards the light, but then, they point outwards (away from the stem, which is the structural support) so the horizontal leaf surface absorb maximum light.

This is like reaching out to friends... They can't give light, but can reflect it and also help slow the gusts of storm winds. However they also compete (need their own space to grow), so one can't overextend too far, or the stem will weaken (too dependent on other people weakens self-discipline, slows growth).

Sometimes the wind blows hard or the water level in the soil drops or rises, these are life's challenges. Every night, darkness allows sleep (rest & restore inside).

Don't worry about cracking the "shell", that happens naturally as you grow both deeper and higher. :) [well, this just popped up, don't really know if it's right]

Sometimes things fall down

The I35W bridge between Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota has collapsed, killing some people, many vehicles dropped down into the Mississippi River from it's height. Divers are searching but the flowing river and the dust hinder searching.
I myself drove across that bridge hundreds of times from my hometown of Red Wing, both in winter and summer, it gave a nice view of the river and Twin Cities. The bridge structure was classified in 1990 as Structurally Deficient, like 70,000 other bridges in the US. The annual snow, ice freezing/thawing cycles, and the salt applied to roads to prevent slipping, and the very heavy usage of that bridge, and the recent construction there, contributed to its demise, I would think. Al fatihah & Wings, Prayers & Teddy Bears to all affected personally.

Video of collapse:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070802bridge,1,5546538.story

Witnesses blog:
http://www.slate.com/id/2171653/

Bahasa Indonesia Versi:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/indonesian/ (click on the Mississippi section)