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The net is full of people bored out of their mind. I’m one of them. Another one would be the creator of the Not Pron puzzle, found here:

Notpron.com

I’ve been hooked since I’ve started playing. In a week or so, I’ll be

1) bald (from yanking my hair out of my head)

2) blind (no sleep, radiation from computer screen….these evil machines!)

3) needing brain surgery (from banging my head against the wall, crying "Damn, I’m stuck again! Arghhhh..!)

Warning: you should not start playing this puzzle if you’re:

a) impatient

b) have tendencies towards aggresives behaviors

c) have better things to do (don’t we all?)

d) just plain stupid

This is a very challenging game. It’s one of the most creative and time consuming game I’ve ever played. And addictive, did I mention additcive? It needs you to think out of the box, and be extremely resourceful. I started yesterday, only at level 7 now. Time off for me, I should be working (so should you!).

Up for the challange? Try it. Just don’t blame me for all the sleepless nights :p

So, the new Pope is in. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany became Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday. I don’t know, people always say that first impression counts. And this first impression thing is just not working for me in  this case.

The new Pope looks more like a mafia boss from one of those Godfather movies. Hey, I’ve nothing agaisnt him (at least not yet), I respect senior citizens (I guide one across the road once in a while), but Pope John Paul II looks so much more…hmm….warm and comforting? In fact, I feel so vulnerable and close to him just thinking about him…..eww, doesn’t sound right.

Maybe it’s all the things we’ve come to associate with the late Pope. His love and passion for mankind, his faith in his religion, his sympathy for all those suffering.

We’ll sure miss him, huh.

By the way, did i mention I’m not Christian?

I want to make a confession. I’m real shy about this. I’ve been keeping it secret for some time now. I have no idea whether people will accept me after they found out the truth. What are my closest friends gonna think about me? Just to let you know, it takes up a lot of courage for me to be able to do this. So here it goes…ahem. I love pinky! Yes, I do. And no, I’m not finished yet. I love brain too! Hell yeah, love ‘em both, narf!

I love them so much, I want to pay tribute to them with this post. It’s one of the most enjoyable, funny and mind-stimulating cartoon show ever: Pinky and The Brain.

For all those who’ve never seen the show, it’s an animated comedy about two lab mice, Pinky and The Brain, who are constantly trying out schemes to take over the world.

I admire brain’s ambitious nature, his intelligence, and creativity. But Brain also tend to be selfish, short tempered, intolerant because he cares of nothing but himself and his quest of world domination. Pinky, on the other hand, is the total opposite of Brain. Pinky is patient, kind, not jealous or boastful, not arrogant or rude, believes all things and faithful. Of course, also incredibly stupid. Narf!

Brain is soo…smart he even has his own words for things that that is not represented in available contemporary vocabulary. For example, what is the word for ’staring at someone eating in hopes they’ll give you something’? In Brain’s words, it’s called groaking. Other interesting words in Brain’s vocab are:

Yerk - to beat someone vigorously (useful. do that often)

Ultracrepidarianism - giving opinions outside of one’s knowledge (ok, this one too)

Myomancy - divination by movements of mice (Just bought a book to teach myself of this one)

Schadenfreude - joy at the misfortune of others (Ha…)

Viraginity - female masculinity (Eww!!)

Phronemophobia - fear of thinking (everyone experience this at some point in life, right? Right?)

Panphobia - fear of everything (Wow!)

For more, go here.

Also mind-bogling are Pinky’s answers everytime Brain present him with the question: ‘Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?’. It’s available in wav files here.

Too bad the show is not shown on tv anymore, cause Pinky and The Brain rocks!!

Got an email the other day that warns of another tsunami predicted to hit us between the date of 13/4 to 15/4. Ironically, the email reached me a day after that, on the 16th. Thought that was supposed to be a warning. Looks more like a confirmation that whoever made that prediction is either a very unsuccessful fortune-teller or a prankster who has nowhere to direct his pethatic sense of humour. But credits has to be given to this dumb friend of mine who ‘accidentally’ forwarded this mail to me without considering the contents in it.

Can’t really blame him, huh. We’re so used to it. I would even go so far as to say that almost all of us have had the experience of mindlessly forwarding mails without giving thoughts whether it’s contents suits all the recipients in our forward list, or whether the email is seriously outdated. It shows, once again, that computers can really make us dumber.

But then again, what would you do if you got an unconfirmed warning like that? Would you go around spreading the warning to your friends too? I had the fortune to make myself seriously ponder upon that question when I recieved an sms warning of tsunami a few weeks before the email.

And I did. I forwarded the sms to a few of my closest friends and colleagues in Penang. Stupid or better safe than sorry? What are you gonna do? Spank me?! But of course, nothing happened, no tsunami, no nothing. Didn’t even rain. Now, I’m seriously considering what I would do if I recieve any sms of that sort in the future. For anyone who invented these warnings as a prank, it aint funny. I wasted probably fifty cents on sms. Fifty cents!! 

Back to the prediction of tsunami. It seems some parts of the email is worthy of serious consideration:

‘1. The person who predicted 1st Tsunami is predicting that there
would be another one between 13th and 15th April caused by another
earthquake.
2. Animal could sense things much earlier than us. Yesterday’s news
reported all the sea cucumber came out of the sea in PD and whales were out
somewhere in Australia.
3. Sea experts say that there will be another earthquake happening
at the same spot to balance the imbalance caused by the 1st earthquake.’

Now the first tsunami that hit us in Dec was actually foretold by an Indian professor, based on the observation of a mass beaching and deaths of whales and dolphins on an Australian beach. Now that would give logic to point no.2.

Three weeks before the earthquake off Indonesia, Dr Arunachalam Kumar, professor of anatomy at Kasturba Medical College at Mangalore in Karnataka, posted a note about a recent whale-stranding in Tasmania, and its possible implications, on a "listserve", an e-mail distributor, hosted by Princeton University. Read more here.

How true are the logic behind this? Let’s hope he doesn’t have to predict another tsunami for us to find out. And for all my dear friends who forward me emails. Thank you, I appreciate all your mails but mind putting your thinking cap on and at least read through the mail before you hit the ‘forward’ button?