america's next vp????

sigh... if u ever wonder why some americans are so stupid, just look at this vice-president candidate, ie running mate of mccain. at first, i thought she made a blunder when she said "russia's proximity to alaska make me experienced" (note: she's the governor of alaska). from this clip, she does certainly thinks so...



below is the transcript, from the above link,

COURIC: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land-- boundary that we have with-- Canada. It-- it's funny that a comment like that was-- kind of made to-- cari-- I don't know, you know? Reporters--

COURIC: Mock?

PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.

COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our-- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia--

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state.

another post after a long while

hmmm... just to share something which i dunno if mika notice.. most of her blog entries are usually posted when i'm sleeping over at her place..and she writes them when i'm asleep (which is q early lah..) and guess wat... she's taking a super super long afternoon nap (2hrs and counting) now while i'm posting an entry.

many thanks to crystal, kangliang n ivy (previous classmates from VJC) and xiaoyun n zhenhao (somehow they wished me almost at the same time at 1300h... hmmmm.....) for the birthday wishes.  n of cos big thank you to mika who brought me to LAWRY'S PRIME RIBS to celebrate my birthday yesterday... now... we're not rich ok... it just happened that mika got a one-for-one voucher from dbs.  anyway, think mika will blog about the food and ambience and service, so i shan't talk much about it.  but i must mention about this pleasant surprise we had. 

at the entrance of the restaurant, where ppl usually queue, there were many certs put on displayed. most are for best food, restaurant, etc etc. but one cert was placed at one side isolated from the rest. the cert was not-so-nice, not-so-professional, and was in this ugly blue... mika noticed it and guess wat? it had the CSC logo and it was a Certificate of Appreciation from Signature Love Project 2004, with bryan lee seng long's signature and his stamp. kinda surprised that such a classy restaurant actually bothered to display our cert. haha.

mika is still sleeping...

anyway, i was surfing and come upon this video on youtube.   it on this song called "New Math" performed by Tom Lehrer, a American song-writer cum mathematician.  He's NOT the guy in the video.  Basically, the song is about how math is taught nowadays and it really reminds me of the math homework mika gives to her students. 

a post after a long while

Actually i had no intention of posting until i visited the website which monitors the traffic on this blog (haha... bet u didnt know i was monitoring...)

Anyway, to my surprise, despite the long lull, there were actually visitors to this blog!!! ok... not many people la... only 13 last week (which is super pathetic compared to xiaxue, mrbrown, blah blah blah)

But it's not ZERO!!!!

Ok la.. some came by accident... like someone actually googled "mao of bali" (???) and so came to my entry on my trip to bali. others googled "csc spa bukit batok",  "white rose memorial munich", blah blah. And someone was probably looking for a solution to a puzzle, cos he/she googled "has 10 boxes each containing 10 marbles. One marble weighs 10 grams. But there is one box out of those 10 boxes which has the marbles weighing 9 grams each".  (??????)

Ok... This is really a boh-liao entry and the next entry will be..... dunno when. super busy with sailings, duties, blah blah blah. Dun ask why, cos it's sensitive. But i explained to my guys with a chinese saying and it goes "虎落平阳被犬欺"... Heh