The 8 main points of respected climatologist Dr. Jim Salinger on his guest lecture for our paper last month. Respect the man, he takes the stones out of everyone in Greenpeace ( Read more... )

10 things to learn from Japan.

1. THE CALM
     Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.

2. THE DIGNITY
     Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.

3. THE ABILITY
     The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed ( Read more... )

Now, I would say, weird.
At dinner tonight, with my dad, we talked about earthquakes.

Based on what I learned and what I have been told by the professors in the field of geology and geography, no matter how big the size of an earthquake is (be it undersea or on land), are merely the simple movement processes within the earth's crust. Now this is ( Read more... )

Here's the definitive edition of my awesome Taiwan adventure, hmm... still wouldn't call it an 'adventure' but oh wells... it kinda was hahaha.

Day 1 (18/12/2010)
Continuing from the post before, I didn't sleep before going to the airport XD
We watched Initial D until around 130am before I went upstairs to take a shower and finalize my packing, ( Read more... )

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We talked about a lot of stuff while we were out having drinks and dessert, and among the things we talked about: weird dreams we've had XDXD man it got so scary at one point we told everyone to stop talking about it XDXD

One story:
Fong dreamt himself chased by something, he doesn't know who or what, but he was being chased in a building full ( Read more... )

Thinking that all the things we did in Dunedin would go to waste if I don't post them on LJ, so ... here it is XD

(30/08/2010) - The Beginning
We drove from Christchurch to Dunedin after the boys picked me up from Burnside... found out that they chucked in all my bags into the boot of the car and we're not gonna stop anywhere since they've already ( Read more... )

Its weird how time flies really fast when you're having a lot of fun.
So many laughs and highs XD this time was probably worthwhile :P

The flatties we lived with for the week taught us the way to flat XDXD after living with them I seriously considered that the boys should all flat together XDXD

After living with them, we're closer to them now lmao

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Got up around 720am and then got changed and ready, and headed for the bus stop around 740am something, and completely forgotten that the buses run on 30min intervals on weekends, so the bus never came until around 815am (the bus for the trip leaves at 830am sharp)... so it was mad rush XD thank God the bus arrived around 825am and I pretty ( Read more... )