damaged

flash mob

Saw this when I was watching Oprah just now. More than 20,000 people pulled off a massive surprise for Oprah during the Oprah Show's 24th season kickoff party. The entire crowd performed a choreographed piece to the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling,". Award-winning director Michael Gracey says the interaction between the Black Eyed Peas and the crowd is what made the flash mob so extraordinary.

Check out the flash mob that took over Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

As I was watching this, it reminds me of a video I saw during church service few months back. This is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program.

Another one... T Mobile full advert made in Liverpool Street Station

sam, sam and sam...

Was just youtubing and found this vids... Truly amazing.. This is Sam Tsui. A singer, actor, songwriter, (and college student) who simply loves to make music.

stop motion

thousands of pictures taken for this stop motion animation. really creative and interesting. great work. amazing.

waste

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- e e cummings -

A Glimmer of Hope?

The worst thing for the world economy would be to assume the worst is over.

Welcome to an era of diminished expectations and continuing dangers; a world where policymakers must steer between the imminent threat of deflation while countering investors (reasonable) fears that swelling public debts and massive monetary easing could eventually lead to high inflation; an uncharted world where government borrowing reaches a scale not seen since the second world war, when capital controls ensured that savings stayed at home.

How to cope with these dangers? Certainly not by clutching at scraps of better news. That risks leading to less action right now. Warding off deflation, for instance, will demand more unconventional steps from more central banks for longer than many now seem to foresee. Laggards, such as the European Central Bank, do themselves and the world no favours by holding back. Nor should governments immediately seek to take back the fiscal stimulus. Prolonged economic weakness does far greater damage to public finances than temporary fiscal activism. Remember how Japan snuffed out its recovery in the 1990s by rushing to raise taxes.

Japan also put off bank reform. Countries facing big balance-sheet adjustments should heed that lesson and nudge reform along, in particular by doing more to clean up and restructure the banks. Countries with surpluses must encourage private spending at home more vigorously. Chinas leaders are still doing too little to boost private citizens income and their spending by fostering reforms, from widening health-care coverage to forcing state-owned firms to pay higher dividends.

At the same time policymakers must give themselves room to change course in the future. Central banks need to lay out the rules that will govern their exit from exotic forms of policy easing (see article). That may require new tools: the Federal Reserve would gain from being able to issue bonds that could mop up liquidity. All governments, especially those with the ropiest public finances, should think boldly about how to lower their debt ratios in the medium termin ways that do not choke off nascent private demand. Rather than pushing up tax rates, they should think about raising retirement ages, reining in health costs and broadening the tax base.

This weekend many of the worlds finance ministers and central bankers will meet in Washington, DC, for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Amid rising confidence, they will be tempted to pat themselves on the back. There is no time for that. The worst global slump since the Depression is far from finished. There is work to do.

-Excerpt taken from The Economist-

(full article click on the link)

guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my Savior,

and my hope is in you all day long.

-Psalms 25:5-

Far better it is.....

.... to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.


-Theodore Roosevelt-

The Climb

I stumble upon this song as I was searching for another song. Not a fan of Miley Cyrus but yet found that the lyrics of this song is really nice.

I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,
Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I
Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what?s waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes they knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith baby
It's all about
It's all about
The climb
Keep the faith
Keep your faith

heat

i can feel the heat

.:burning within me:.

Take A Break

a time to reflect
a time to rest
a time to play
a time to laugh
a time to dream
a time to pray

-i need a break-

Earth Hour - Let's Make A Difference

What began as a campaign to get Sydneysiders to turn their lights off, has grown to become one of the world’s biggest climate change initiatives. In 2009, at 8.30pm on March 28, people around the world will turn their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. We’re aiming to reach one billion people, more than 1000 cities, all joining together in a global effort to show that its possible to take action on global warming.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia with 2.2 million homes and businesses turning their lights off for one hour. Only a year later and this event had become a global sustainability movement with up to 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as theEmpire State Building (New York City), Sears Tower (Chicago), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta), Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia), Wat Arun Buddhist Temple (Bangkok, Thailand), the Colosseum (Rome, Italy), Royal Castle (Stockholm, Sweden), London's City Hall (England), Space Needle (Seattle), the CN Tower (Toronto, Canada) and SM Mall of Asia & The Giant Globe (Manila, Philippines), all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

Earth Hour 2009 is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to take responsibility and to get involved in working towards a sustainable future. Iconic buildings and landmarks from America to Australia will stand in darkness. People across the world will turn off their lights and join together in creating the vital conversation about the future of our precious planet.

Over 74 countries and territories are participating in Earth Hour 2009. This number grows every day as people realise how such a simple act, can have such a profound result in affecting change.

Earth Hour is a message of hope and a message of action. Everyone can make a difference.

-taken from Facebook Earth Hour 2009-

Quail eggs

I was just going through all the pics I've taken and collected throughout my days in Uni and I found this. We were at this Thai Bazaar in Genting Highlands. It was my first time seeing this and was so amazed by it. Till now, I still think that it's so cool. Haha...

Quail eggs

half way done

just a lil longer

Final product

Abby

... my uncle's dog.

Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership

Read this article in The Times magazine by Richard Stengel, Mandela's 8 Lessons of Leadership. Click here for the full article.

1) Courage is not the absence of fear — it's inspiring others to move beyond it
2) Lead from the front — but don't leave your base behind
3) Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front
4) Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport
5) Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer
6) Appearances matter — and remember to smile
7) Nothing is black or white
8) Quitting is leading too

What do you think?

think simple

This is a story shared by my company's Executive Director yesterday. Very interesting though some of you might have had read before.

" Back when NASA started launching manned spacecraft in the 1960s, they found out that the astronauts couldn’t use pens to write with while in space. The ink wouldn’t flow down through the pen in a zero-gravity environment. NASA decided to retain a man named Paul Fisher to design a pen that would work in space. A mere $1.5 million later, they had a solution. NASA now had a pen that worked in zero gravity, in a vacuum, and in a drastic temperature range. The Russian cosmonauts had the same problem, of course. So they used a pencil. "

According to what is written below, it seems like the story was exaggerated. Which is true? I don't know. This is just what I found on the net.

Now, this anecdote isn’t historically accurate, and has become a bit of an urban legend. The truth is both the US and Russia used pencils at first, and Paul Fisher independently created the pen and sold 400 of them to NASA for a song. The reason the exaggerated story is so widely embraced, though, is because it rings true.

Moral of the Story:
We often expend large amounts of time and effort creating elaborate solutions to problems when a simple answer is right under our noses.

Shall We Dance?

This is quite an old movie but I've just watched it today. Read some of the reviews about this movie. Mostly negative. However, I find it quite interesting. Haha...

Tagline of the day.....

SteP OUT

oF the

ORDINARY

Kingdom Hearts 2

At last I managed to finish up this game after a long time abandoning it due to error reading the DVD. Bought a few hoping to be able to play but to no avail until recently. Went to Yik Foong and bought this game again cause I really want to play this game. Thank God it worked.. No problem loading and etc... Really enjoyed playing the game as it has a lot of Disney characters in it. Might look a lil childish but it's a great game... Makes me think back of the old Disney cartoon and how nice it is compared to the cartoons now. Hehe... Anyway, enjoy the ending...

Murata Boy

Just came back from Ipoh Parade. Went there for the lauching of.... *drum rolls*..... Murata Boy..!! Hahaha... Wondering what it is? Well, it's a Bicycle-Riding Robot.. Really enjoyed the demonstration and it reminds me of my own final year project --> Single Sensor Line Follower Robot *applause*.... Gone are those days where I rush from here to there... Going to see my supervisor and looking for other lecturers for guidance. Awww... Miss those days... *emo* ... Hahaha... Anyway, a preview of my robot...

First Design of my Robot

Final Design of my Robot.. See the difference??

Now... Back to Murata... Amazing bicycle-riding robot... Live in Ipoh... First time in Malaysia....

2008

a NEW year...

a NEW beginning....

a NEW journey...

Leaving the past

BEHIND...

straining toward what is ahead

and......

thank God for

2007