Someone very cleverly concocted this mathematical humour to amuse, and believe you me, it’s much more amusing than conceivable.
A school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator.
He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
Algebra
‘Al-Gebra is a problem for us’, the Attorney General said. ‘They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off at tangents in search of absolute values.
‘They use secret code names like “X” and “Y” and refer to themselves as “unknowns”, but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
As the Greek philosopherIsosceles used to say, “There are 3 sides to every triangle.”
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.” White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President.
It is believed that another Nobel Prize will soon follow.
A five-year old Chinese boy has launched himself into the record books as the world’s youngest pilot by flying a plane unassisted.
He said, “I quite like it, because flying a plane is very exciting and it’s much more exciting to sit in the front instead of the back. Also, the level of danger in the front is higher than in the back. The person in the front has to drive, and it’s really fun.”Forget toy modelairplanes, the five-year-old Chinese boy He Yide is already piloting real planes in the sky. Nicknamed Duoduo, he completed a 35-minute solo flight by ultralight aircraft at the Beijing Wildlife Park, earning himself a world record as the youngest pilot ever.
Duoduo is no stranger to extreme feats. His father, He Liesheng, who calls himself “Eagle dad”, has already let Duoduo compete alone in a sailing race and sometimes makes him run around almost naked in the snow. The elder He says these harsh training exercises are part of his “Eagle education”
He said, “Eagle Education” builds the qualities of bravery, morality, emotion and strength. Bravery is an important part of “Eagle Education. Today’s flight realizes this principle. After living here for 20 days, Duoduo has really become much braver.”
A five-year old Chinese boy has launched himself into the record books as the world’s youngest pilot by flying a plane unassisted.
The video posted online has prompted huge debate over He’s style of parenting, even though he said the boy had had “no problems” from the “intense education method”. Still, experts caution that this approach isn’t suitable for every child.
5-year-old Chinese boy flies a plane solo CCTV News – CNTV English
Zong Chunshan, Director of Beijing Youth League & Psych. Counseling Center, said, “At different ages, a child’s development and physical characteristics have their own laws of maturity and what they can withstand. So people should respect these laws of development, and they should not say ’I think (the child) should be like this and therefore I will educate him or her accordingly’. Doing this is very likely to harm the child in the name of love.”
Eagle Dad insists this kind of training is good for his son. And they’re already planning their next adventure to China’s least-populated area, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
others achieve greatness and still others have greatness thrust upon them.
Whichever way you look at Singapore, when ousted by Malaysia in 1965 from being one of its Malaysian federated states, it was deemed to fail & fade further backwaters way because of its total lack of natural resources.
Singapore, under the capable leadership of Lee Kuan Yew & his team of able & dedicated politicians, proved to be otherwise. Its real strength, apart from a totally uncorrupted team of politicians, lies also in the calibre of its largely Chinese population . . . the greatest “natural” human resource second to none.
Today, Singapore’s skyline soars with all the trappings of an international metropolis, ultra-modern integrated casino resorts, high per capita income, modern housing & accommodation for every citizen, world class universities, the list goes on & on.Today, it is attracting high calibre personnel as the place to work & live.
Where is Malaysia today with its oil & all other natural resources such as rubber, oil palm & its once great tin industry (killed & buried by Mahathir)?
Instead of being drained dry by its former British colonial master, its incorrigible UMNOputra team of politicians has been draining its coffer clean & enriching themselves thereof
Singapore, the City State, today enjoys a giant status of economic strength & power. It’s a far cry from its backwaters day, when it served as a drainage port to the British Colonial master.
This is a tribute no less owing to Lee Kuan Yew, the economic architect, statesman of world renowned, and one who can stand in front of the Cambridge student audience & audaciously said: “I have a Double First from Cambridge, your Prime Minister McMillan don’t.”
Good leadership breeds good followers. Today, LKY’s son, Lee Hsien Loong is equally brilliant & qualitatively backed by his first-class team of politicians. With this excellent team at the helm, Singapore will no doubt continue to grow & see greater days ahead.
Having said & done, let’s have a look at Singapore’s past some fifty years ago.
Yesterday was a beautiful day, despite intermittent showers & cold wind. We went for lunch with Raymond & Hazel at the Rose Heritage Garden in Carmel, Kalamunda.
Hazel is profoundly in love with beautiful flowers & we had hope to see roses in bloom there. Instead to our utter surprise, a sea of beautiful tulips greeted our unbelieving eyes. Tulips of different hues, vibrant colours welcoming us & other visitors in all their glorious splendour.
I was so enraptured that my trigger-happy fingers went on clicking my digital camera non-stop. Hungry stomachs were momentarily forgotten. In the absence of blooming roses, for which the place is famous, tulips greeted us with even greater glory & colourful splendour.
People living in Kalamunda don’t have to go to Araluen to catch the tulip show every Spring, now that this is at our door step!
Winter shower has seen its last day, for Spring is now in the air. Lovers of nature & those young at hearts can delight themselves feasting their eyes with inexpensive delicious lunches or be there at the Rose heritage Garden in Carmel for afternoon tea or coffee.
Have a wonderful day today!
Happy Father’s Day
Australians celebrate this day on the First Sunday of September each year.
“Without Thee” an original chorus & song composition by Paul Chong with music sung beautifully by Pastor Jeffrey Saw.
Pastor Saw first came to Perth in 1991 as a religious worker from Myanmar, sponsored by the former Church of Resurrection.
He was then a young man with a mop of dark black hair.
Today his black hair has been replaced by grey and through sheer hard work, he has built up a church with well over 150 members in the congregation, mainly of Karen minority.
These people has settled down peacefully in a peaceful & harmonious environment, so drastically different from being prosecuted in Myanmar. The little town of Katanning south of Perth is said to be attracting quite a number of Karen minority.
With God’s guidance, love & care, the Karen people are now happy Australians“
“Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.”
”Without Thee”
– lyrics by Paul Chong Music by Pastor Jeffrey Saw
”I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing.” – John15:5
People speak of Mother Teresa with awe & admiration, the same will equally apply in no lesser degree to Marie Dickinson – a virtual unknown set in the backdrop of human endeavour. There is no pomp or publicity to attract media attention. But do we need to be in the forefront before greatness is conferred upon the real good-doers.
Goodness of the heart is what God seeks, and true goodness is seldom exposed or sensationalised for which the media strike the commercial tune!
Marie Dickinson is a woman of substance, faithful & loyal to the core. She stirs with the break of dawn and hums her ways right through the fall of darkness. She handles both domestic & commercial affairs (of her late husband Stuart) with dexterity & speed of efficiency as with magic.She’s been her husband’s secretary, business partner, account/book keeper, life partner & mother of two beautiful daughters Seanne & Heidi.
Knowing her for all these years since 1981 when I first visited Perth, I still feel totally inadequate to present her true image. She & her late husband had been host parents to a good number of foreign students – from top of the Himalayan countries to the rice plains of Vietnam, Hong Kong & Malaysia, not forgetting my own youngest brother, Mike and his brother-in-law Daniel.
Seanne & Heidi posing beneath a huge portraiture of themselves.
Mike (Standing Left) & his wife Doreen in blue (Standing third from left)Two nights ago, Lilian & I together with two other young couples gathered at China Court Restaurant to celebrate 225 years of good living (the years of the two young couples not included) – an intimate & cosy affair blessed by the absence of other diners that auspicious night. God must have seen to that. There was a touch of showers but otherwise warm & quiet within therein for our purpose. We three “musketeers” have an age difference of only three months between each of us. Born in the Tiger year she’s anything but that ferocious creature we find in the wild but a subdued gentle white breed rarely found in the world…….
Helping to celebrate: Carl & Joasnsy Pergrum
Paul & Lilian Chong Looking radiant with a good top of hair, untainted by the advancement of time, she still attends the same old Riverton Baptist Church sine the 70s without clamouring for honoured position or deaconship. Marie is just one member of the congregation dutifully & faithfully carrying out her fair share of responsibilities of church building.
She took on the task of looking after Peggy Walters, a retiree in the Sherwin Lodge, Rossmoyne, like more than a daughter unto her. Each week Marie would fetch her for shopping, stand by on call in case of emergency, helping her with chores which became too much to bear for an eighty-year-old with a weak heart & unreliable gait. Marie guiding her on with every due care & attentio
Her heart is good & strong & may have only be broken but once when her dear husband Stuart who operated their home-based Interior Décor business died of that dreadful motor neuron disease in his fifties.
Let’s hear what my brother Mike, now manager for an international corporation in the Pacific Rim, has to say:
“Marie and Stuart played host parents to many foreign students. I do not know how many but during my time at Leederville Technical College and WAIT ( now Curtin University) I recalled clearly there were two other Malaysian Malay students and another from Hong Kong. Marie and Stuart were actually Doreen’s brother, Daniel’s host parents but somehow we ended being adopted as well.”
Mike continues: “Marie and Stuart love having friends over for meals and we were invited over many occasions. As most meals were western/Aussie meals we were of little help but Marie would be busy single handed lay churning to 3 course meals . . . entree, main course and of course her lovely and delicious desserts. It was a first for me to taste pavlova and hers was simply irresistible!
“When not entertaining at home,” Mike says “Stuart and Marie would invite their close friends to dinner at a restaurant and at least once we joined them in the up market Oyster Bar which we would not think of dining there as students.”
“Marie and Stuart are very generous and caring people; the generation of Australians who felt very blessed and wanted to share what they have. On one occasion they invited us to join them to a beach holiday stay near Yanchep; something again as students we would not such expense. However it turned out to be an embarrassing experience cos my $500 Madza could not start and Stuart had to disrupt his holidays to tow my car with his to a mechanic at Osbourne Park!!, I felt so bad and it was my fault for not servicing the car regularly. But here again is the kindness and generosity of the Dickinsons. And never for once did Stuart or Marie brought this up in subsequent meetings.”
Marie was born in the year of the Tiger, but far from being the ferocious animal as in the wild, she’s an exceptional white tiger so rarely seen in the world at large . . . most docile & tame & mysteriously welcoming in sight.
Marie has dedicated her life that so others may live better!
Be very careful when dealing with self-proclaimed master plumbers, electricians or master tilers who glorify themselves with advertisements such as this:
If you are dissatisfied with their performance or disservice, you have absolutely no recourse to pursue your claims & complaints. From my own personal experiences, I found their professional associations most protective of their own, the consumer affairs department would want you to first negotiate with them and settle the dispute among yourselves and further telling you straight that they are not in a position to compel them to abide by any decision reached. So where does the poor consumer stand? He stands to being fully exploited, slaughtered left & right. If you are a senior or pensioner, you are even more fair game. It’s cheaper to consult a doctor or lawyer!
I was most unfairly & unjustly charged for a Rinnai B20 continuous flow hot water system – a hefty frightful total of $3,282.50 . . . all well within the warranty period of one year (10 September 2012 till 4 April 2013). The cost of Rinnai B20 is just $949.00 the rest go towards enriching the plumber!
The Scales of Injustice (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Once money is in hand, expect no further courtesy from them. Emails and phone calls get no response. It’s all your own fault! They well ignore you most unprofessionally & against all business conduct & code of ethics shift the responsibilities to their fellow rivalries.
Goodwill & reputation are built up over time, but for a misguided CEO all it takes is a bit of dirt to wipe clean the slate of time.
One-time slaughter is not the game to be, Goodwill & customer care will forever be.
For your perusal, all correspondences & photographic evidences are available & will be inserted later.
You be the judge & jury.
Spread the word & protect yourself against all forms of exploitation & injustice.
Autonomous car drives itself with no fear of traffic problem or accident even at speed of 150 mph. It’s sure it’s exciting & thrilling!
It’s the latest automobile technology! This is no fiction nor is it a pigment of your imagination. You see robots performing human tasks and what of the American predatory drones flying without pilots . . . seeking & striking terrorists? Remote-control is featuring everywhere. Prayerfully & speaking for my own personal disability of being rendered immobile because of glaucoma, this will definitely be capable of solving traffic problems & creating new exciting frontiers.
Autonomous cars are coming — and they’re going to drive better than you. Dr. Chris Gerdes, when addressing a TED audience, reveals how he and his team are developing robotic race cars that can drive at 150 mph while avoiding every possible accident. And yet, in studying the brainwaves of professional racing drivers, Gerdes says he has gained a new appreciation for the instincts of professional drivers.
An autonomous car may seem like a thing of the distant future, but mechanical engineer Chris Gerdes is racing to make it a reality today.
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Imagine a car that can drive itself – that with the push of a button can get you home safely when you’re too tired to drive or have had a night of one too many drinks. Dr. Chris Gerdes, the Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (conveniently acronymed CARS), and his team are developing a robotic race car, capable of driving at outrageous speeds while avoiding every possible accident. Gerdes’ research focuses on the development of driver assistance systems for collision avoidance, as well as on new combustion processes for engines.
Prior to teaching at Stanford, Gerdes was the project leader for vehicle dynamics at the Vehicle Systems Technology Center of Daimler-Benz Research and Technology North America. His work at Daimler focused on safety analysis.
One of the great mystery about cigarette smoking in that once you’re hooked, you’re not likely to throw off the bad habit lies in its production design incorporating all the Five Senses! It always feel so good! So cool . . . so exhilarating!
Remember friends, I always maintain a crucial difference between a man & a woman lies in the question of “feeling”.
For a man is as young as he feels
Unfortunately, for a woman . . . she’s as old as she looks.
However, there’s one compensation . . . like good wine, she mellows with the years. That’s why some men prefer older matured women to the spirited sweet young things.
“Good design looks great, yes – but why shouldn’t it also feel great, smell great and sound great? Designer Jinsop Lee (a TED Talent Search winner) shares his theory of 5-Sense Design, with a handy graph and a few examples. His hope: to inspire you to notice great multisensory experiences”.
Jinsop Lee is an industrial designer who believes that great design appeals to all five senses.
Maybe why SEX is so good it’s because of the Five Senses. AND people say that great sex is still good even though it’s bad! Sex involves, more than likely, all the Five-Senses of the great extreme!
A former professor of design, Jinsop Lee founded the firm Uncle Oswald Is My Hero, which produces clever iPod speakers from old telephone handsets. And we’ll let him take it from here: ”My design background began when I was 5 years old. My mother cruelly refused to buy me a Star Wars X-wing fighter, so I built my own from Lego. Yes, I was the traumatized little boy in the corner of the playground holding the multi-coloured Lego X-wing fighter. However, this did teach me an important lesson: You don’t have to follow the instructions that come with the box.
As an adult, I started my career as a suit-wearing design consultant, designing stuff and strategies for large companies. I then spent a mandatory two years in the Korean Army without killing anybody. Then I began teaching English, which eventually led to a job as an associate professor of industrial design. Being a professor means you’re designing the most important thing of all: students and the type of designers they will later become.
“Now I am working on a series of short videos about industrial design. Each video follows a simple formula: the viewer must learn something new about design while laughing (or snickering) an average of two times per minute. It turns out the second criteria is much harder than the first.”
Remember “Avatar” the famous Hollywood blockbuster featuring magnificently those misty mountains? This is the venue where the film was shot from. Below:
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. . . What an outdoor elevator or lift, call it whatever you like, so tall that it looks like reaching the sky!
The Bailong Elevator/Lift rises 326 meters/1,069 feet up the side of a cliff to the top of a plateau. We couldn’t believe our eyes. The Bailong Elevator/Lift is claimed to be the biggest, and most exposed elevator in the world.
If you are frightened of heights, this is to be avoided, lest your knees should give way!
Access to Zhangjiajie National Park is venturesome enough with its twisting & steep climbing roads, and now this to make your heart jump out of your mouth!
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