Another fraud

Sigh... another one.

Shocking and Annoying Revelations

Quite surprised by the nature and extent of the revelations exposed. Nothing short of scandalous.

This is Hope

Miracle.

My Vote for 22 Nov 2009 EM London Asia Capital PLC

IN CASE THERE IS ANY DOUBT





http://www.londonasiacapital.com/

versus
http://www.londonasia.com/
Read the linked documents for full background.

I Am Very Annoyed

I am very annoyed. Mudslinging. Shut Up and Sit Down. I have cast my vote. http://www.londonasiacapital.com vs http://www.londonasia.com

Freedom of Speechers

Will all the protestors who want Freedom Of Speech guaranteed in Singapore please Sit Down and STFW. Some of us have to live here, and it's Fg peaceful and safe as it is !! You Go Home !

Reconstructing Megalodon

Reconstructing Megalodon

Be Still - Our Daily Bread

Be Still - Our Daily Bread

Respectable physicists gone crackpotty « A Quantum Diaries Survivor

Respectable physicists gone crackpotty « A Quantum Diaries Survivor

Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist

Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist

China-based Click Fraud Ring Busted

Sigh - internet crime will not go away completely.

Manage your bibliography online and collaborate with other researchers | Mendeley

Manage your bibliography online and collaborate with other researchers | Mendeley

required reading

geopolitical essays

crackpot or bankable ???

You decide

Cryptovirology

Read and know

The Nature of Code

good to know

Another Opinion Made Public 3

"The reluctance of the Singapore government to step in to protect consumers’ interests have damaged their credibility. MM Lee Kuan Yew even reprimanded the investors that they “went in with their eyes open” and hence have no right to blame the FIs for the losses they suffered now."

Incendiary device set off. Expect rebuttals if not retribution.

Another Opinion Made Public 2

New CEO has tough job fighting fires.

Another Opinion made Public

"Temasek’s exit from Chartered Semiconductor will mark the dawn of the semiconductor industry in Singapore and yet another blemish on its record under the leadership of Ho Ching after Shin Corp, ABC Learning, Merrill Lynch and Barclays Bank."

Serious Brain-Power competition

My 3D Visual Kei Band

Band Name: Covenant System ( Kobenanto Shissutemu )
Vinch ( Leader ), Drums
Seph, Guitar
Bii, Guitar
Azu, Bass
Michi, Vocals
TJ, Keyboards

Composed and rendered in Poser Pro; post-prod using GIMP and Windows Movie Maker; includes 3rd-party 3D and 2D content.

Paul Ponnudurai

Anime Manga Industry M&As

Mergers and Acquisitions by Japanese publishers involving targets in Europe.

Click to feed - relax, chill

Dodgy deals, expediency and business as usual

Depends on your POV.

JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CONTENTS FESTIVAL ( CoFesta )

JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CONTENTS FESTIVAL (Called “CoFesta”) is the world's largest comprehensive contents festival.The events connected with the contents industry like games, animation, manga , characters, broadcast, music and film are held in cooperation with each other.
While various contents from Japan influence and improve each other and cooperate in media technology industry to inform of our statement, CoFesta aims to be the world's largest contents festival which create new capability and spread it abroad widely.
A purpose of the CoFesta
To provide the opportunity when a person concerned with the contents all over the world can see a lot of Japanese contents at a time in order that the contents in every field in Japan are sent to the world in cooperation with each other.
To bring international collaborations and business　in providing opportunity to exchange with world contents centering on Asia, and also interchange of people concerned with contents.

Food Lifestyle for Greening Our Planet

5 Foods You Should Grow in Your Own Backyard


Top 5 Foods You Should Only Eat When They're In Season


10 Allergenic Foods to Avoid


10 Foods You Should Buy Organic

Chinese Buying Power !

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Chinese group buying explained

If one quarter of Humanity said - "We want an iPod each" - wow, go figure !

AliPay - enormous potential on-line business

Watch AliBaba.com's Alipay - an on-line payment business for China's internet community.

One quarter of Humanity is Chinese. Average out the expenditure potential and you get.....

Relax, Enjoy....

The Gini Coefficient

Either I had been dozing off during Economics class back in the day, or this item mooted in 1912, had been intentionally omitted from our syllabus.

It can be used as political arsenal:
http://kentridgecommon.com/?p=5028

Congratulations Gypsy Queen J-Rock Band !

Opening for Hoain Japan Festival 2009
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090820-00000179-bark-musi


and more information here:
http://www.gypsy-queen.com/blog_aki/

You could have said "Sorry, No, I Can't Do That."

Read and ponder.

Chip Goodyear, Iraq, Australia,Singapore,Temasek, BHP,

See this link:http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1570933.htm
and this one:
http://johnharding.com/2009/08/18/charles-chip-waterhouse-goodyear-iv-and-saddam/

Was there more than meets the eye, in one of Singapore's de facto SWFs and its CEO-designate parting ways ?

Surely deals such as mentioned in the first article happen as a matter of course around the world 24x7, and the Public are none the wiser until all comes to light for one reason or another.

Obsolete Technology / Lifestyle

Forty sunset technologies and the way we were. Hmmmm, true true...

Also,

Internet Host News

Be afraid.... be very afraid....

Technical - Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File

Who knows if this will really work or just leave another by-pass or hijack route open....

Male-ness

http://asianhunks.blogspot.com/2009/08/chaiwat-in-volume-magazine.html
Great himbo-style costumes and accessories


http://asianhunks.blogspot.com/2009/08/shake-magazine.html
Rarely-seen perfect combo of slim and taut body proportions. Chuck out the over-muscled freakazoid chunky male proportions already.
( also love the magazine name ! Ha hahahah ! )

Media du Jour III

Click here to get more mini-SharkBreak widgets - www.SharkBreak.com

Biosemniotics

keep in view

Artificial Intelligence

Enough said

Literary Analysis

I ain't no scholar of literature, so this sort of thing simply impresses me and makes me interested to find out more.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fb20090802dr.html

Book Review and the East vs West literary backgrounds of reviewers

Let's look at two reviewer's pieces on David Peace's Occupied City, his second book in his planned trilogy.

First, read the what the West-based reviewer has to say:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article6733250.ece

Then read what an East-based reviewer has to say:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fb20090802a1.html

Now ain't that a wonderful insight ?

I want to read the book.

Peace, David, OCCUPIED CITY, Faber and Faber, London, 2009, 288 pp.

9 August 2009: 2022 hrs SST

Remember

I think I need to become a virtual tourist to Germany !

tralallalalaalal

off to Germany in Second Life

( 3D-JC packs toothbrush and change of fundoshi )

I have combined my blogs

I have combined the old posts from my older blog to here, propriety be cast to the winds !

Merging this blog with another

I am combining my bloggies....

Don't ask why - it's just something I want to do.

On-line Humanity's Collective Thought Diarrhoea

SOCIAL SYNTHESIZER from aetherbits on Vimeo.

Living Building Exterior ( virtual display )

555 KUBIK_ extended version from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

http://gizmodo.com/5323671/3d-projection-gives-building-fantastical-undulating-skin

Dollfie Links I want to take note of

http://www.redlionbjd.com

http://kidili.webcity.com.au/~nin47681/admin/catalog/

http://www.domuya.net/


Nice purple shirt

Agua De Beber - Quarteto Em Cy

Agua De Beber - Quarteto Em Cy

An inspired acapella introduction. Very well done.

I now look like a gothie all right

Suffering from a sub-conjuntival haemorrhage

so

really gothie-looking

More tongue-clucking - Entrepreneurial Immorality

"Kleiner-Backed Terralliance Sues Ex-CEO Olson For IP Misuse"

Tut tut tut tut

I could find links of similar greed expose ("ex-poh-says" sorry I don't have the keyboard nor the font to type that special e letter) all day.

There are so many being reported, among the millions of schemes which go undetected / unreported.

Scams and schemers - in Japan

I thought there were millions of scams like these around Asia, but to have them in Japan - tut tut tut tut.

getting more beautiful

"FOR the female half of the population, it may bring a satisfied smile. Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors."

Cross-post becos.

Amusingly interesting Japanese goods

OK OK you got me for girl dolls !!!

ack - Japanese Anime Cute, with interchangeable character clothing and accessories !!!

http://www.pinky-st.net/index.html

and here:
http://www.mr-hobby.com/vance/figures/index.html

How to change the eyes on my SD13 Boy Self

blink blink

Viewsonic LCD monitor with a samsung base ?

I just bought a viewsonic LCD monitor.

I noticed while attaching the base to the screen that the word "Samsung" is printed onto a part of the base underside.

Strange.

Happening Club and Vehicles...

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=1000006610
Now that is one helluva happening club


And these are very happening future eco-city vehicles:
http://psipunk.com/plus-concept-vehicle-for-future-megalopolis/

http://psipunk.com/ipse-futuristic-individual-mobility-concept-will-let-you-drive-in-underwater-mode/

Future Transportation - IPSE Futuristic Individual Mobility Concept Will Let You Drive in Underwater Mode

Future Transportation - IPSE Futuristic Individual Mobility Concept Will Let You Drive in Underwater Mode

Quincy Jones - On the Street Where You Live

Really surprising mix of samba marching-band style with solo saxaphone jazz club style. Phew. And those typical ascending fourth note series - Quincy Jones all the way.

NHK Pacific Ocean live: Solar Eclipse

Live NHK feed from a boat in the Pacific Ocean. Very clear skies, total darkness, and weird orange light all around the horizon. Stars visible. Light before and after the total eclipse was dim, although out in the wide open Pacific under clear skies.

Watch CCTV4 for the solar eclipse live

The live solar eclipse was broadcast over CCTV4 and the feed was from AnHui.

It was dark as night in the city.

The corona was clearly observable for a couple of minutes.

Now switching to Taiwan.

Not Fair - pouring rain, nullified eclipse

Bah !!!

It is raining buckets. I can't tell if the dim light is because of the tropical squall or whether it's the solar eclipse.

solar eclipse 22 July 2009

Well it is 0425 hrs local time which is +8 hours GMT.

I am now at 103º48´ East of Greenwich.

There was a strong wind with smokey smells 1.5 hours earlier ( Approx 0700 hrs local time ) followed by brief rain.

Right now, the sky is overcast, and the light appears dim, somewhat like sunrise on a cloudy morning.

expected window of eclipse at my destination =
08:40:51 to 09:43:55 in the morning

Nice writing ethos

refreshing style for a tech article

argh - can we taser them ?

Blue Banana... ahem

well yes, edible too

Mathematicians and Libel

Not completely thought through, but forms a good starting point from which to discuss the topic. See my tags for this post to get a flavour of what the topic is.

START !!!

My daily real life blogging starts here and now.

My manga-style 3D story series has infested my previous life-blog

My blogger blogspot bloggies

Just a listing:

http://3dreferences.blogspot.com
http://ibr-remote.blogspot.com
http://2dreferences.blogspot.com

http://my-video-creation-refs.blogspot.com/
( for my own reference only - as and when I have something to note )

http://music4my3dvr.blogspot.com/
( again, for my own reference primarily - music creation software )

http://3d-jcprivate.blogspot.com/
( Private access only - moved from my own website to blogspot hosting as of today )

http://unrealconsumption.blogspot.com/
( stupid pre-2008 crash finance-economics lifestyle )

Another psychological reaction

We're all gonna die, so who cares what we do ?

The inevitable destruction and demise of Humanity is at hand.

Humanity is it's own tool of destruction.

We can do nothing to save ourselves; so why should we even begin to try.

Uhmmm post-Millenial psychological reaction

urhm - see for yourself.

Cognitive Science and the New Spirituality

Read and wonder

Some Anthro issues

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/12/dual-origins-of-japanese.html
to be comapred and contrasted with
http://www.experiencefestival.com/japanese_people_-_genetics_and_physical_anthropology

IS/IT Security during workforce reduction

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212903521&cid=nl_tw_networking_H

quote begins

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, sees the risk of similar incidents as companies downsize in response to the troubled economy.

"As belts tighten and the credit crunch continues to hit around the world, more and more companies will be making the decision to make staff and contractors redundant," he said in an online post. "...[A] disaffected employee could create havoc inside your organization so make sure that appropriate security is in place."

quote ends

Worldwide job losses could reach 51 million in 2009

Yu Sheng Lo Hei - Lunar New Year phrases

I beg to differ with all the sage and erudite research published at various authoritative websites by academic researchers.

The following, according to my tradition-abiding mother, comprise the correct, final and only version of the auspicious phrases to spout during the Yu Sheng Lo Hei (Fish Salad Lucky Toss).

From her undated newspaper clipping, sourced in Singapore, with my comments in parentheses:

For each ingredient, say this ( Mandarin pronunciation):

Raw Fish:  Nian Nian You Yu - for abundance  ( every year you shall have abundance)

Lime: Da Ji Da Li, for good luck ( sorry, dunno )

Five Spice Powder and Pepper: Wu Fu Lin Men, for good fortune ( sorry, dunno )

Plum Sauce: Tian Tain Mi Mi, for a honeyed year ( Every day shall be a sweet day)

White Radish: Wan Shi Ru Yi, for success ( In ten thousand things shall you be successful)

Red Chilli: Zhao Cai Jin Bao, for prosperity ( I think this means a lot of gold entering your purse )

Lettuce:  He Qi Sheng Cai, for harmony and wealth ( exactly as it says)

Carrot: Bu Bu Gao Sheng, for eminence ( With each step you gain eminence)

Pickled Red Ginger:  Hong Yun Dang Tou, for good luck ( sorry, dunno )

Oil:  Fu Yun Nian Nian, for good fortune and luck ( Prosperity gathers each year )

Peanuts: Jin Sha Man Tang,  for prosperity ( Gold sand fills your halls)

Crispy crackers: bian di huang jin, for prosperity ( The entire floor of your home be filled with gold )

When tossing:  utter anything auspicious, including sheng yi xing long, for brisk business ( business with spirit of dragon ?), and sheng ti jian kang, for good health ( body be healthy).

Here are some links:

http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_177__2009-01-08.html

( which my mother refutes !!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng

http://susanchua.blogspot.com/2006/01/lo-hei-yu-sheng-chinese-new-year.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080209114918AAj9E6z

http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/ask/children/342

http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/interesting_facts_about_6244.html