If I were a lion

 

I’d be able to roar away all my frustrations  >;/

hello kitty!

Say AWWWWWWW.

 It’s wearing glovessss!!!! GIGGLES. :D:D

Do you feel it?

 I don’t think it was as much the sand drawings (which are amazing) as her performance that made the whole thing beautiful.

It’s like she’s conducting the whole audience.

But I do suppose you have to be Ukrainian to truly engage with it. Oh well.

To Infinity and Beyond!

                                             Batam; April 09

Today sealed 2010…
onwards.

Virtual Learning HMMM.

Some time back in class, we were talking about a couple of things. Globalization, technology (as always)  and virtual learning. People can even take tuition from a tutor halfway across the globe.

Virtual learning has tried to creep into our schooling lives since before i could remember (when it started that is :/). i guess thats not all too long ago considering im still kinda young *coughs*. But the thing about it is, it’s kinda a bad idea to me. Not in its entirety of course, more like, if we delve much further into trying to incorporate it extensively into education.

Think about it. What is school to you? Lets think primary level. School was , recess, hop-skotch, blind men, catching, five-stones, okay fine class rooms, music lessons, PE, the occassional computer lab lessons. Yeah back then we still had typing tutorials. Think thequickbrownfoxjumpedoverthefence. Now i suppose it’s more of Typing Maniac in kindergarten.

My point is, if the day comes where everyone is virtually home schooled. These are the things they stand to lose. Social life and skills, physical activity ( obesity percentage rising?), hands-on practice sessions, as in science labs.

 Do we want to have everything we know in our life based on theories only? Even socializing? I definitely dont want that. period.It’s not to say that technological advances aren’t welcomed. It’s just that I feel that it should be a part of our education to enhance it) rather than to dictate it.

BINGLE BELLS!

I use my Oral B cross action toothbrush. I love the colour, the bristles, and its the brand most dentists recommend.

Its the same with search engines. Most people jsut stick with the top search engine Google.  For us average human beings, once we’re sold to a search engine, we stick by it. We dont spend our lives singling out new (or old eitherrr) ones to try out.

However, maybe, just MAYBE, we’re missing out on the good stuff this way.

Bing is Microsoft’s newest answer to it’s pool of search engines from yester-year. Think Microsoft Live Search, Msn Search. How boring. i very much prefer the sound of bingbingbingbongbing.

See, I wanna make you sing BINGle Bells by this Christmas. Why would earth-bound, average technology user Karen do that you ask?  Many, but I’m just highlighting to you THREE, cos they’re more than enough.

What do you see in the red circle?

You’re right. NOTHING!!! I love how there’s so much empty space byby senseless clutter and ads my eyes glaze right past cos they hurt them so.

Next, feast your eyes on the EXPLORER PANE all the way to the left. Churns out related searches! 

And when i click on images… 

the explorer pane actually displays style, colour,… the works! as you can see, i chose black and white images. :O

FINALLY, (I’VE KEPT THE BEST FOR THE LAST SO READ THIS IF NOT EVERYTHING ELSE!)

Look at these lil video panes….

you can just simply HOVER your cursor over ANY one of them, and it loads and gives you a preview. DDD:

Time to change toothbrush brands, anyone?

Video hosting sites are <3

Seriously. Who is a TV-made couch potato these days.  Okay secretly I’m just sore that I dont have cable at home.But it doesnt change the fact that all the channel wars and advertisments are swiftly being sucked into the virtual world as well.

For us users, let’s just rejoice on the saving of bandwith costs [ if you upload] and the EXPANSIVE variety of programmes available to us online from …..                                                                                                                                           Youtube  Dailymotion Youku Tudou icefilms.net  Flickr Revver Vimeo (upload laaaaaaaarge files) Truveo Myspace megaupload Gawkk Vidoosh (Iranian) Blip.tv and even Xtube Youporn which im sure some of you are more familiar with than i am…..

OKAY WORD VOMIT.

Well of course with all these come copyright issues and such BUT we also get access to so much more content from worldwide FASTER.

So….. THANK YOU VIDEO HOSTS. Without you, there would be a supermassive blackhole in my life. So just gimme gimme more, gimme more, gimme gimme more.

Anyhow, even though this is ancient (think 2006 D: ) and Google videos has since taken over Youtube, I just thought to share this and recognize the bloke for his efforts. Cos it IS rather entertaining watching him argue simultaneously with himself. And himself.

*** I cant embed the 3 videos here cos the HTML doesnt work anymore so all i can do is provide you the link! CLICK it.

Love thy portfolio case

So the time has come for our mock interview and I went in search of the long-forgotten portfolio case.

Found it, and thought to myself : You ugly little thing, it’s time for you to see the light of day.

I hadn’t even gotten down to mental criticisms regarding smells when it hurled the metal hook of its zip right into my Kate Spade [ that's my left eyebag for those of you who dont know]. Thank goodness I blinked.

Talk about bees leaving their stingers behind. Buh. >:[

Hola, I know my virtual life has been stagnating at the vertex of a parabola, but electronics have been failing me in general sobs. Think 3 laptops passing on around the same time. Tragic, really.

Anyhow, I’m convinced that I would surely have died if I lived in a world like in the movie Minority Report and technology or luck chose not to show me favour for even a split second D:

For those of you whom i’ve lost, this is it.

Smashing show, scary prospect.

In gist, Tom Cruise, our scientology It guy plays a law enforcer in the year 2054, where cars fly (as do annoying singing cereal boxes), touch screens are replaced by touch erm…space, and people are identified by their iris, leaving me to wonder what happens with the blind. My primitive, narrow mind also fails to understand the lack of warmth in interior designs, as well as the outlook of that world in general.

The movie is set in Washington D.C., which is experimenting the Precrime technology, where 3 psychic mutant humans ( no, this isn’t X-men Evolution Infinity) have visions of murders yet to happen, thus allowing Tom Cruise and gang to pre-empt these murders and put these premature murderers  into some state of deep sleep.

Somewhere along the way, Tom Cruise is predicted to be a future murderer. Given that he’s divorced in the show, his chances of getting a magical kiss are mighty bleak, so of course we see him on the run to escape the fate of becoming Sleeping Beauty.

Allow me to highlight that in 2054, it is only normal to expect fugitives to replace their eyeballs to avoid being eye-dented, so to speak. It is also perfectly normal for metal spider-bots to climb all over you and pry open your eyelid to eye-dentify you. D:

D: D: D: D: D:

Well forgive me if I’m a country mouse fearing technological advances and loving my eyeballs but I think I could do without some psycho psychic damning me to Slumberland. ( Not that they’re psycho in the show they’re actually really pitiful my heart goes out to them sigh ;/). I mean, just imagine. One day you’re down on your luck and some microsecond technical glitch causes a spider-bot eye-dentifying you to spear you in the eyeball. O.O Not a nice thought. Seriously, that has to stay in Happy Tree Friends, period.

Oh yes, also. With the whole iris recognition technology in place, wouldn’t there be a necessity to prevent eyeball gouging cases more than murders. Ugh.

Still, despite my apprehension regarding its technology, Minority Report is an amazing show, so if you haven’t watched it, its time to come out of your cave and do so now!  HEEE.

Murphy my buddy, I must say that,  particularly in our context,

I am, without a doubt, an absolute believer in absence making the heart grow fonder.