Me, MySeLF AnD I...

Meet New FRIENDS!!!

Last Thursday, I attended my friends' party. THere was a girl that I already knew this girl was also invited. Actually it's one of the reason why I wouldn't want to miss the said party.

Well, it was cool, lots of beers and chit-chats. But one thing I'll never forget, that I had a great time with this girl. She's simple but elegant. Matured and fun to be with.

But too bad she has a boyfriend. However, I'm persistent. I wanna be closer to her... Have a deep friendship, that is.

Now, I'm enjoying my life. I found new reasons to enjoy everything that life can give. At least I feel I'm real, and not being handicapped and contained by work and pressures that it brings.

Wish me luck in this journey!!!

My post after a long time of absence

I've been focusing on my career these past few years.  No time to chat, to  moderate my sites, to do everything that I usually do when free time. Stress from work, from heavy traffic, and pressures in life.

Now I'm bringing it in. Making ways not to be different from the past. I have to enjoy life and not to be suppressed. Why should I be suppressed huh?

This is me and I am me!

So what about work? You work because you need it? Because you need to earn money? Work like a rat? No way!

Work as like a hobby, something that interests you. Not being like prisoner...

Just for an update, I'm trying to know more about a girl. This girl is tall and has great personality. A perfect package, a perfect girl. How I wish that I can be with her...

Signs and Symbols, what's the difference?

A sign is an entity that indicates (represents) another entity to an agent (a human, animal or robot) for some purpose. It enters as a correlative in the relation of signification and significance (meaning for constructs) causing something else to come to the mind as its effects. According to the classic views of Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, 'signification is a relationship between two sorts of things, which are signs and the kinds of things they signify'. To express a significance, the signs may both point out and stand for the entities signified, or just take the place and substitute as the symbols do. Also, signs or symbols may signify only mental constructs or they signify both constructs and external things. Then, since the signs signify (express, denote, connote, or designate) but the constructs mean, the significance of a sign in a language (natural or formal) equals the meaning of the mental construct designated by the sign.

A symbol, in its basic sense, is a conventional representation of a concept; i.e., an idea, object, quality, quantity, etc. In more psychological and philosophical terms, all concepts are symbolic in nature, and representations for these concepts are simply token artifacts that are allegorical to (but do not directly codify) a symbolic meaning, or symbolism. From the most general systemics perspective, a symbol is a communication mean, it is a graphical, written, vocal or other physical object which, usually in a syntetic sense, is used to the representation of another, more complex, physical or abstract object, or an object property. It is also used in various metaphoric notions.

Skyscrapers of 2010

1. FREEDOM TOWER
Location: New York City
Completion: 2009
Height: 1,776 feet

The top of the tower will consist of a latticework containing some pretty little windmills and a spire that reaches 1,776 feet in honor of the year the US was established. It will eventually be crowned the world's tallest building--despite the fact that the top third won't even have floors.

It has a single glass elevator that will glide from the top floor to what will be the world's highest viewing platform 1,500 feet above the ground. At that height, you'll be able to look down at the Empire State Building, the top of which is 28 feet lower. I'm afraid of heights, I don't wanna have a view of it.

New Yorkers have become a touch nervy about working in tall buildings, this replacement for the World Trade Center will have only 70 floors containing about 2.6 million square feet of office space. In comparison, the twin towers had 110 floors taking up a whopping 11 million square feet. Hope it'll not happen again, I pray. (9-11)

2. TAIPEI 101
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Completed: October 2004
Height: 1,667 feet (The highest building as of now 2006)

Already considered the world's tallest building even before it was completed, this monster tops the 1,483 feet tall Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its other global record: world's fastest lifts, which can jet you from the lobby to the 89th floor for only 39 seconds. Going up?

To help stabilize this teeteering beast, architects added a "mass tune damper," essentially a giant ball that, in this case, weighs 730 tons. Although such dampers are usually hidden, this one is open to the public and painted gold. If it were a real gold, some may chip on it!

Taiwan was so eager to have the world's tallest building that it overlooked minor obstacles that might have worried lesser developers. Like the major fault line that sits a mere 660 feet from the tower's base. My GOD!

3. LOTTE WORLD II TOWER
Location: Pusan, South Korea
Completion: 2010
Height: 1,620 feet

Located on a widswept bay. Pusan is renowned for its typhoons. Engineers will put seven tanks holding 2.2 million gallons of water at the top of the tower, which, believe it or not, will help stabilize the building when it gets a bit breezy. Yeah that's true but can it be incorporated to the building? Physics, Mechanics, Dynamics...brings a good idea!

Since their building will tower everything in Pusan. South Korea's second largest city, the designers wanted it to look at least a bit Korean. The tower is meant to resemble a traditional Korean totem.

With the troubles of 9/11 in mind, firefighters get their own set of stairs. Plus, the building will include reinforced areas that protect people from smoke and fire. If there's ever a shortage of water to battle tha blaze, firemen can always tap into those handy 2.2 million gallons sloshing around the roof. Remember the 7 tanks on the roof?

4. SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTRE
Location: Shanghai, China
Completion: 2008
Height: 1,614 feet

A tram-car system will pootle tourists around the hole that makes the building look like a giant bottle opener. This could bring an idea to come up of a skycraper that looks like a Coca-Cola bottle! Going back, there will be an outdoor observation deck at 1,329 feet. At that height you won't even be able to see the people you're gobbling on hahaha.

This building's foundation was poured in 1997. Financial crisis hit and developers realized they were suddenly too skint to build a 101-story tower. The building sat unfinished for years, until construction resumed in February 2003. It should be, or it'll just a waste of money.

Shanghai's recent skyscraper building spree is causing the city to sink, although so far the rate is a mere centimeter per year. Still, that's what you get when you build a throbbing metropolis on stinking swamp land. They should monitor this, and have a regular tests. Kinda scary about this!

Boogers...what's that for?

The air we breathe contains a whole host of dust, germs, and pollen, and if these particles went straight into the lungs, our breathing system would be damaged.

Mucus or snot, the preliminary form of a booger, prevents this by tapping the particles and keeping them in the nose.
After some time, the snot surrounds them along with some cilia "the tiny hairs insided the nose", and dries them down.
And so welcome: the booger.

Boogers, in fact, indicate that the nose is working properly.
But don't let it stay inside your nose.
Hahaha