Sunday, May 30, 2010

Yu dan tai ki zhe na !

when all seems better dont let your guard down, it is almost never always the case. So hard to maintain the balance. I understand now exactly about the fight for an imperfect world. Its the goal not to achieve a perfect world where all that doesnt exist. the fight is a fight for perfectionism IN the imperfect world. GO FOR IT

Facts of dhoom

i have ten facts
1.you're reading my post
2.now you're thinking that was a stupid fact
4.you didn't notice I skipped 3
5.you're checking it now
6.you're smiling
7.you're still reading my post
8.you know all you have read is true
10.you didn't notice I skiped 9
11.you're checking right now
12.you didn't notice there were only supposed to be 10 facts

fixed by uytred

EGGFEST

in such a short while , my cooking skills deproved ... emos. despite not really using the proper equipment, i still didnt expect to get hash dammit.
EGGFEST YAYe~

Friday, May 28, 2010

Heart and Mind

So easy to confuse the two. but pls ppl they are very different entities altogether

Thursday, May 27, 2010

The pleasures of doing GP

Many times, after I have finished a lecture on the decline of American farming and rural life, someone in the audience has asked, "What can city people do?"
"Eat responsibly," I have usually answered. Of course, I have tried to explain what I mean by that, but afterwards I have invariably felt there was more to be said than I had been able to say. Now I would like to attempt a better explanation.
I begin with the proposition that ( eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as "consumers." If they think beyond that, they recognize that they are passive consumers. They buy what they want — or what they have been persuaded to want — within the limits of what they can get. They pay, mostly without protest, what they are charged. And they mostly ignore certain critical questions about the quality and the cost of what they are sold: How fresh is it? How pure or clean is it, how free of dangerous chemicals? How far was it transported, and what did transportation add to the cost? How much did manufacturing or packaging or advertising add to the cost? When the food product has been manufactured or "processed" or "precooked," how has that affected its quality or price or nutritional value?
Most urban shoppers would tell you that food is produced on farms. But most of them do not know what farms, or what kinds of farms, or where the farms are, or what knowledge of skills are involved in farming. They apparently have little doubt that farms will continue to produce, but they do not know how or over what obstacles. For them, then, food is pretty much an abstract idea — something they do not know or imagine — until it appears on the grocery shelf or on the table.)
The specialization of production induces specialization of consumption. Patrons of the entertainment industry, for example, entertain themselves less and less and have become more and more passively dependent on commercial suppliers. This is certainly true also of patrons of the food industry, who have tended more and more to be mere consumers — passive, uncritical, and dependent. Indeed, this sort of consumption may be said to be one of the chief goals of industrial production. The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into our mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so. We may rest assured that they would be glad to find such a way. The ideal industrial food consumer would be strapped to a table with a tube running from the food factory directly into his or her stomach.
Perhaps I exaggerate, but not by much. The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the connections between eating and the land, and who is therefore necessarily passive and uncritical — in short, a victim. When food, in the minds of eaters, is no longer associated with farming and with the land, then the eaters are suffering a kind of cultural amnesia that is misleading and dangerous. The current version of the "dream home" of the future involves "effortless" shopping from a list of available goods on a television monitor and heating precooked food by remote control. Of course, this implies and depends on, a perfect ignorance of the history of the food that is consumed. It requires that the citizenry should give up their hereditary and sensible aversion to buying a pig in a poke. It wishes to make the selling of pigs in pokes an honorable and glamorous activity. The dreams in this dream home will perforce know nothing about the kind or quality of this food, or where it came from, or how it was produced and prepared, or what ingredients, additives, and residues it contains — unless, that is, the dreamer undertakes a close and constant study of the food industry, in which case he or she might as well wake up and play an active an responsible part in the economy of food.
(There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free.
But if there is a food politics, there are also a food esthetics and a food ethics, neither of which is dissociated from politics. Like industrial sex, industrial eating has become a degraded, poor, and paltry thing. Our kitchens and other eating places more and more resemble filling stations, as our homes more and more resemble motels. "Life is not very interesting," we seem to have decided. "Let its satisfactions be minimal, perfunctory, and fast." We hurry through our meals to go to work and hurry through our work in order to "recreate" ourselves in the evenings and on weekends and vacations. And then we hurry, with the greatest possible speed and noise and violence, through our recreation — for what? To eat the billionth hamburger at some fast-food joint hellbent on increasing the "quality" of our life? And all this is carried out in a remarkable obliviousness to the causes and effects, the possibilities and the purposes, of the life of the body in this world.
One will find this obliviousness represented in virgin purity in the advertisements of the food industry, in which food wears as much makeup as the actors. If one gained one's whole knowledge of food from these advertisements (as some presumably do), one would not know that the various edibles were ever living creatures, or that they all come from the soil, or that they were produced by work. The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared or fast food, confronts a platter covered with inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.) And the result is a kind of solitude, unprecedented in human experience, in which the eater may think of eating as, first, a purely commercial transaction between him and a supplier and then as a purely appetitive transaction between him and his food.
(And this peculiar specialization of the act of eating is, again, of obvious benefit to the food industry, which has good reasons to obscure the connection between food and farming. It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams, or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. And, though her sympathy for the slaw might be less tender, she should not be encouraged to meditate on the hygienic and biological implications of mile-square fields of cabbage, for vegetables grown in huge monocultures are dependent on toxic chemicals — just as animals in close confinements are dependent on antibiotics and other drugs.
The consumer, that is to say, must be kept from discovering that, in the food industry — as in any other industry — the overriding concerns are not quality and health, but volume and price. For decades now the entire industrial food economy, from the large farms and feedlots to the chains of supermarkets and fast-food restaurants has been obsessed with volume. It has relentlessly increased scale in order to increase volume in order (probably) to reduce costs. But as scale increases, diversity declines; as diversity declines, so does health; as health declines, the dependence on drugs and chemicals necessarily increases. As capital replaces labor, it does so by substituting machines, drugs, and chemicals for human workers and for the natural health and fertility of the soil. The food is produced by any means or any shortcuts that will increase profits. And the business of the cosmeticians of advertising is to persuade the consumer that food so produced is good, tasty, healthful, and a guarantee of marital fidelity and long life.)
It is possible, then, to be liberated from the husbandry and wifery of the old household food economy. But one can be thus liberated only by entering a trap (unless one sees ignorance and helplessness as the signs of privilege, as many people apparently do). The trap is the ideal of industrialism: a walled city surrounded by valves that let merchandise in but no consciousness out. How does one escape this trap? Only voluntarily, the same way that one went in: by restoring one's consciousness of what is involved in eating; by reclaiming responsibility for one's own part in the food economy. One might begin with the illuminating principle of Sir Albert Howard's , that we should understand "the whole problem of health in soil, plant, animal, and man as one great subject." Eaters, that is, must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used. This is a simple way of describing a relationship that is inexpressibly complex. To eat responsibly is to understand and enact, so far as we can, this complex relationship. What can one do? Here is a list, probably not definitive:
1. Participate in food production to the extent that you can. If you have a yard or even just a porch box or a pot in a sunny window, grow something to eat in it. Make a little compost of your kitchen scraps and use it for fertilizer. Only by growing some food for yourself can you become acquainted with the beautiful energy cycle that revolves from soil to seed to flower to fruit to food to offal to decay, and around again. You will be fully responsible for any food that you grow for yourself, and you will know all about it. You will appreciate it fully, having known it all its life.
2. Prepare your own food. This means reviving in your own mind and life the arts of kitchen and household. This should enable you to eat more cheaply, and it will give you a measure of "quality control": you will have some reliable knowledge of what has been added to the food you eat.
3. Learn the origins of the food you buy, and buy the food that is produced closest to your home. The idea that every locality should be, as much as possible, the source of its own food makes several kinds of sense. The locally produced food supply is the most secure, freshest, and the easiest for local consumers to know about and to influence.
4. Whenever possible, deal directly with a local farmer, gardener, or orchardist. All the reasons listed for the previous suggestion apply here. In addition, by such dealing you eliminate the whole pack of merchants, transporters, processors, packagers, and advertisers who thrive at the expense of both producers and consumers.
5. Learn, in self-defense, as much as you can of the economy and technology of industrial food production. What is added to the food that is not food, and what do you pay for those additions?
6. Learn what is involved in the best farming and gardening.
7. Learn as much as you can, by direct observation and experience if possible, of the life histories of the food species.
The last suggestion seems particularly important to me. Many people are now as much estranged from the lives of domestic plants and animals (except for flowers and dogs and cats) as they are from the lives of the wild ones. This is regrettable, for these domestic creatures are in diverse ways attractive; there is such pleasure in knowing them. And farming, animal husbandry, horticulture, and gardening, at their best, are complex and comely arts; there is much pleasure in knowing them, too.
It follows that there is great displeasure in knowing about a food economy that degrades and abuses those arts and those plants and animals and the soil from which they come. For anyone who does know something of the modern history of food, eating away from home can be a chore. My own inclination is to eat seafood instead of red meat or poultry when I am traveling. Though I am by no means a vegetarian, I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable in order to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade. And I am getting almost as fussy about food plants. I like to eat vegetables and fruits that I know have lived happily and healthily in good soil, not the products of the huge, bechemicaled factory-fields that I have seen, for example, in the Central Valley of California. The industrial farm is said to have been patterned on the factory production line. In practice, it looks more like a concentration camp.
(The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy and remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. The knowledge of the good health of the garden relieves and frees and comforts the eater. The same goes for eating meat. The thought of the good pasture and of the calf contentedly grazing flavors the steak. Some, I know, will think of it as bloodthirsty or worse to eat a fellow creature you have known all its life. On the contrary, I think it means that you eat with understanding and with gratitude. A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. The pleasure of eating, then, may be the best available standard of our health. And this pleasure, I think, is pretty fully available to the urban consumer who will make the necessary effort.)
I mentioned earlier the politics, esthetics, and ethics of food. But to speak of the pleasure of eating is to go beyond those categories. Eating with the fullest pleasure — pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance — is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend. When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest:
There is nothing to eat,
seek it where you will,
but the body of the Lord.
The blessed plants
and the sea, yield it
to the imagination intact.
1989

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Stupid pioneer method

I dont care what they say. its juz epic and i am sticking to it despite the 90 % of singapore use E right- E left. Once you know when to flip and all it juz rocks=)
Gotta start my 4: 3 plan soon ... a healthy balance. hope its enough and also that i can follow through

losing yourself

and now that the events have now aligned, and being unable to strike a balance, are you finally losing the fight for an imperfect world?

One of the worst feelings ever....

Why did i come back?

Typical

So typical, never ever say that these things only happen in stories. wtf la that is so.... any person who read a book that contains that will say its so repulsive... then why are they such fucking hypocrites. its madness
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And all this juz happens when i wanna blow at the 66c and abit of 22c

Friday, May 21, 2010

@,@

I guess i should stop dancing down that dangerous line, or even walking. I mean, why do people think that the universe is centered around them? Or that they are so much better than others in everything. Looking down on people in their everyday life as if they are not worth the food they eat... come on you know how sad it feels to see people treated that way? insensitive doesnt even cover the tip of the iceberg

Locked out

Juz when the day was turning better after meeting up with some frenz, it had to take a turn for the worse again. After such a fucking tiring day and i still gotta face the barred gate all for nth. AND THE WORST IS AFTER ALL THE WAITING... NO UTILITIES FUCK LA wtf is this la. Its like an inescapable endless cycle=.=

edit by uytred
original was "faced"

Haida loop!

must learn !! 3c , 22bc, 66 c, 22b 22c, 66c,22b22c, 66c.....

unholy gel tank of dhoom

fk the chances are one in five. Carolina , biorad 1, 2 and 3 and i just had to get weltec.. Fk the bloody conformation of the gel tank and the fking comb size.. So ridiculous to load. And its the only tank made for your gel to defy gravity and fly knn

Thursday, May 20, 2010

shroud of shadows

fade. It is impossible to attain true invisibility, this is more of a type of mental magic, a passive indifference , an aura ... Philip pullman has got it right. Extremely exhausting.. One slip up thats it.

rust

nice , i have less than 4 weeks to scrape off one and a half years worth of rust.. Gotta gear up. Wish i had as much energy as glenn to get rid of the things that clog up the internal works

magic

you gotta believe you are really doing it. Its not sleights or gimmicks, its magic! Its the best way to pull everything off confidently and enhance the show. Dont be a sootbird !

convincers

its all about the performance, the little hints at the subconscious. Of course, xlm /xzm is not little at all lol! People need to read these little flows to see.. Twilight zone ftw

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

self control

lost it finally today... over nothing too. all that hate of everything arnd me including myself but them... guess its so subjective ...
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Feel like learning zippo tricks to enhance performances

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Balance of Payments

neither running a surplus nor a deficit. A balanced balance of payments is what every one should aim for, apart from the fact that my reserves are zilch and there is so much things i wtb with earphones added to the list. TAIGA why did u tell me jabens existed TT nuuu

BISHIKITTEN=)


OMG this totally deserves its own post. BISHI KITTEN FTW=)
Thx so much taiga for shopping it
Kew~~ kew~~ =)
jy on the vectoring!

dancing on the edge

seems like i am dancing on the edge too much recently. Without the aid of nikkman ! Tao's dancing edge ftw :)

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Joke

When the very things u live for( in some sense) turns around on you and just snaps at you , the feeling is just shit. in this case i cant believe i am actually ashamed of this. i dont even dare to say "this is......" i would rather just bury myself omgwtfbbq. That aside, gonna steal and use a few quotes:

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''Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you shouldn't take anything for granted.
''A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."
Sounds like a wrestling match, I say.
''A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way."
Which side wins, I ask?
He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins."

from the book and posted on glenn's blog, Tuesdays With Morrie

"you know when you have read a good book, when
you turn the last page and feel a little as if
you have lost a friend"

Random quote from a pic in glenn's blog- all too true

Motivational quote from mr chu
"when you want to do something, you will find a way
when you dont want to do anything, you will find excuses
In life there are people who can produce results
the rest produces reasons on why there are no results."

i think i am missing sth somewhere in this last one just like the curry and CLEANEE=)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Appreciation

Guess it is these times that i really can appreciate all that has been done. need to understand more besides just these moments.
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Look behind the curtains

oh nos what have i been fed with

omfg organic chem is fun? what the hell did charlie chan feed me with nuuuuuuuuu

Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Smith

yes control is certainly one thing that totally ruins your innocence.... sick however... even an exposed view can be considered one already. ponta is really a master in it. I thought it couldnt be harder than the pass. its way mad to the point of xcm. At least it has helped me psychologically to learn the pass it so much easier than i thought !!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Oh and Life Just sucks doesnt it....

When u watch a tv program or a movie. you sometimes go " omg thats ridiculous, where got so zun one?? thats bull la"... maybe the producers have experienced sth similar. aft all , it is perfectly possible for sth like that to happen despite the odds. Though every thing seems screwed, you just have to pick up the habit of politicians that is hindsight. from every thing that happened close to 9, 10 , or 11 years ago as memory fades to dust, i have found out about the Aiel way nth can beat that. as time progressed the incidences that happened during that period of time. have had to mediate countless time with all sort of ridiculous things abt mules among many others.... to my most recent failure.....
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The key to the prism is the wheel of time. its not just about the vocab but also the views... oh and theres no point if in the end of the ages you cant grasp what the wheel has taught you. the wheel weaves as the wheel wills and only the master of the wheel and can see through all the facades will obtain the prism.( am i asking for too much? i guess i am)
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on a side note, perfectly understandable illogical mad failes


uytred fixed your typo on ".. what the wheel has thought you" --> taught

Ginseng

And aft the shrill whistle, the fan wheezed its last wheeze and dieded leaving behind the trademark ginseng smell of dhoom. It was then that i knew it was finished. That WE were finished. The last time that unholy smell of dhoom that came about was from the heater. and now just when i thought it was gonna be a blessing that the heater went, it was just no fking use at all. at least there werent puffs of smoke like the epic CRT monitor of dhoom
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YAY NEW FAN



edit by uytred: fixed the typo on "whislte" and "monintor"


Sunday, May 2, 2010

New to Magic?

let us destroy your innocence=)