Burning Bridges

Epiphany of the day...

For every bridge we burn today,

We end up with lesser road to walk in tomorrow.

Anal about Food

Oh glorious food,
Cooked with delicious sauces and spices.
I savour your taste at every bite.

Oh glorious food,
But why oh why upon your exit,
Must you anally rape me from the inside?

If the world ends on 21 Dec 2012

Apocalypse or not, it is not within my control if it comes 21 Dec 2012 or at any dates in the near future.

Within my control is my own actions and thoughts..

Before everything ends(if it does), I'd like to be thankful and say some grace..

I am thankful for the life that I have. [ up to the current point in my lifespan ]
Healthy and happy kids and a caring wife.
And many relatives that love us.

Both my parents are still living [ though not with each other anymore, but happy nonetheless ].

I am happy to be living in this era of change where I am able to indulge in technology and enjoy the luxury that modern electronics have endowed us.

I am glad that my brain is able to comprehend many complex subjects and I can use my knowledge eagerly in pursuit of my interests in technology.

I feel appreciated to be always in constant company of family and friends.
It's rather nice to be appreciated and I hope I made them feel the same way too when they are in my company.


If there is really an end to this world (on 21-Dec-2012), I hope to be in the company of my family and friends at that final moment.

Farbird,

9 Dec 2012

If the world doesn't end on 21 Dec 2012, well, those whom still owe me $$, please pay up before the next predicted apocalypse. heheheh

Pride Kills

Another epiphany..

Pride kills...

Not many will realize that their ego and pride have swelled to gigantic proportions when he/she have risen through the ranks and have reached the plateau of his/her peak...

Maybe because there aren't many there on top to tell him/her about it....


My name is Franklin...
If you are a friend, be frank with me...

Don't always let me be the only one being "Frank".

(Pun almost definitely intended)

Sudden Strange Epiphany while reading "The Lost Symbol"

I was halfway reading Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol", when I had this sudden epiphany.

In that particular part of the story, it speaks of "Man" trying to find his link or relevance to the rest of the world.

I realized that the meaning of our existence must be defined by another higher order being.

Consider this, the study of lab rats in a given habitat...

The rats live in their given habitat, happily eating, fornicating and defecating.
By their instincts, they have to forage and breed without much thought to their purpose of existence.
As they live their lives following their instincts, they are unaware that their lifestyle is being monitored, tracked and recorded for some other purposes.
Their lives is defined by the scientists that bred them for specific purposes.

It takes a higher order of intelligence to study and understand the lives of beings with a lower order of intelligence.

Scientifically speaking, it is impossible to measure or quantify without some form of intrusion to the environment in which the absolute result is required. i.e, it is not possible to measure the exact temperature of water without using an intrusive thermometer that has its own thermal properties and hence when introduced to the water, changes the way the thermal energy is spreaded within the water. Though it may be negligible [(mass of water x thermal energy of heated water) vs ( mass of thermometer x thermal transfer )], this causes change to the absolute quantifiable result that it is trying to obtain. Moreover, the butterfly effect theory comes into play with of minute changes that will introduce undesirable and unexplainable phenomenons in the long run.

Akin to the Observer Expectancy Effect experienced in the Hawthorne Factory experiments, placing a person to study a group of people will not produce accurate results, regardless of how dissociated the person is with regards to the group of people that are studied. Further reading of this effect can be found reading about Epistemic Feedback on Wikipedia.

To watch without knowing that they are being watched...
To study the subjects that are oblivious that they are being studied...
Closed Circuit TV(CCTVs) are also considered intrusive for that matter, for subjects whom know that CCTVs are meant for surveillance and will react and behave differently knowing that they are under surveillance.

To watch and study human subjects is impossible, without being intrusive.
And that our nature and instincts that defines our individual selfish needs to survive, far surpasses our need to understand our own kind as a single entity.

Thus with my epiphany, I conclude that we, as humans, can never be able to study or research on ourselves as a species because we are always limited to the technologies that we created ourselves.

If we can study lab rats whom are oblivious due to the technologies we use to watch them,
that "might" also mean that we, as a species, may be oblivious to technologies used by another species of higher intelligence used to watch and study us.

If the above is true, then, there just might be a God somewhere out there...

An old joke I recalled and the epiphany that resulted

Suddenly I recall an old joke told to me when I just joined the boy scouts during my secondary school days..

All new boy scouts have to go through a test that will prove themselves to be good enough to join..
There are tons of questions to be answered in the manner of a 1 to 1 interview..
Though the questions seemed trivial now, it was quite challenging for us, young boys to remember so many answers...

So, a senior told us a joke on how "not" to cheat..

So the joke goes, this budding boy scout was afraid that he couldn't answer all the questions correctly.
So he practiced very hard.. There was only one question which he always stumbled and forgot the answer..

The question was "Who is the Chief Scout of Singapore". This position was usually held by the President of Singapore and then it was "Benjamin Sheares". The boy found it hard to remember the name and wanted so badly to get all the questions correct, so he thought up a scheme to cheat just for this one question..

He'd written the answer on a small piece of paper and stapled the paper to his underwear outer rubber band, so he can take a quick peek at the answer on the pretense of adjusting his belt.

On the Q&A interview test itself, guess what he said when he was asked the question?

Q: Who is the current Chief Scout of Singapore?
A: Crocodile

Looking back sometimes at the problems and difficulties we had when we were young,

everything seemed so trivial when we look back it them. 

However, when the problems are current, they always seem bigger and unsolvable by the current version of us. 

If I might say, 

Challenges, beyond our wisdom to tackle, are constantly presented to us.

Yet, if we do not attempt to tackle these challenges,

Our wisdom will never grow.

New Beginnings

This is a recent epiphany from me.

Recent events that are happening around me gave me a small enlightenment. So thought I'd share with my readers.


" When I was younger, whenever I encountered a disappointing outcome to a challenging situation or predicament, I often prayed that the outcome could be different and cry out to the heavens why it couldn't have been a better outcome.

Now with maturity, when I encounter a less than preferred outcome, I only ask for the courage to accept the results and learn from the experience. 

Then I'd pray that I'd be able to commit the experience to my memory. So that when the time comes that I am placed in the same predicament again, I would remember my previous course of actions and probably exercise my free will to take on a different path to see if I could obtain a better outcome. "

Q: 如果真的可以从头再来 ... 你的选择将会是什么 ?

A: 我会选择有勇气去接受.

Vengeance, Karma and Enlightenment on a Friday morning

I started out the day happy, driving the nanny to my place and bringing my wife to work.

Much was accomplished the day before ( Thursday), that was what probably gave me a happy start on Friday morning. But it was short-lived....