Counting my stuff

I have nearly seen 17 years of my life.

I have 1 sister.

I have a mum and dad.

I have 2 living grandparents.

I have used only 5 handphones since I was P5.

I sleep with 2 stuffed toys.

I have 2 fridges at home.

The fridge for drinks is reduced to 4 packets of milk.

We have 4 TV sets at home.

Only 1 has a cable connection.

I have 1 PlayStation.

I don't have any PSP.

I never spent more than 4 years in a single school.

I have a blog.

I have 138 friends on Friendster, but

less than 5 remember my birthdate without friendster reminding them.

I maintain 2 emails.

I have 138 unread email messages in my yahoo account and

I have 1347 unread messgaes in the gmail one.

I have 1648 songs in one computer's song library.

I have a laptop which I have owned since Sec 2

I had over 500 songs in its library until it crashed

about 1 year ago.

Now it has 25 songs.

I have a grand total of 9 playlists.

I have recorded 9 of my musical works.

I have lost over 7 of my works.

I have 45 packets of McDonald's chilli sauce.

We have only one printer that works.

I have over 100 channels on cable.

One of my favourite shows in 1000 places to see before you die.

My internet connection can only reach a max of 54.2 Mbps.

I have tons of ticket booklets.

My books only occupy 5 rows in a bookshelf.

I have seen 6 concerts and 2 musicals.

I spend an average of $60 a month.

I spent a grand total of $312.50 for the month of November already.

That is $252.50 more than usual.

I have 4 pairs of shoes.

I have 6 more days of exams to go.

I have 2 months before I see the results.

I have gone through 10 years of schooling.

I have gone through nearly 17 years of my life.

If condoms had sponsors...

It would look like this...

Why everything comes from India

I am enlightened that everything comes from India after watching Goodness Gracious Me.
Here's some:

• Superman is from India because only there can you run faster than a train, have two jobs at the same time, cannot take a day off from work, have a terrible haircut, and travel around in cheap flights.
• The Queen of England is from India because she is a descendant of Queen Victoria, the empress of India. In fact ,the whole royal family is from India. The family business, the whole family living in the same house, arranged marriages, living with parents until marriage etc.
• The English language is from India. We have words like verandah, bungalow, jungle, shampoo, thug, etc. If you think it's bullshit, that's very Indian too.
• Almost everyone in the Bible is Indian. Feeding of 5 thousand with fish and bread? Sounds like an Indian picnic to me. Moses came down the mountain with two tablets. Reminds me of your Indian pharmacist. Samson lost his strngth because of his loss of hair. He sounds like a Sikh. Indian, right?
• Leonardo da Vinci seems to paint Indian lifestyle. Look at the Last Supper. 13 men on the table. Where are the women? In the kitchen of course.
• Picasso is Indian. His self portrait has an eye here, an ear there... Just like the streets of New Delhi.

The things you learn from GGM... If you take offence I sincerely apologise!

Tips on how to swear at someone, and get away with it!

Moral of the Story: Be truthful!

A Conversation

I had a conversation with one of my friends. Let's call him A

A: You know what?

Me: Your blog lacks visuals

A: I think you're right

Raise your hands if you agree.

8 Things I learnt today

1. It's fun to make sodium ethanoate

2. Sodium ethanoate stinks

3. Never make sodium ethanoate in your mother's kitchen, she'll smell a rat (more like sodium ethanoate)

4. Never tell your mother you decide to cook something and accidentally poured the ethanoic acid all over the sodium hydogencarbonate -- she'll never fall for it. Seriously.

5. Your mother WILL wonder where all her vinegar (source of ethanoic acid) and bicarbonate of soda (source of sodium hydrogencarbonate) went.

6. She'll wonder why is the a funny white powdery substance in her favourite pot.

7. Your mother will make you wash the pans, but:-

8. You are just in time to rush off for your music lesson and if you don't leave then, you'll be late

Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day, a day where bloggers write about a single topic at the same time each year.

This year's topic is poverty.

In this rapidly developing world, globalisation has become the buzzword for the 21st century. Nations who adopted the policy of globalisation has prospered well into this era, whereas other nations are struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of development.

In its wake, it has left problems, and one of them is poverty. Poverty is defined as deprivation of basic necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, and so on. In 2005, the World Bank has announced that 1.4 billion people were living under $1.25 a day. Although this has decreased from 1.9 billion in 1981, it is still 1.4 billion too many.

There has been action against poverty, but unfortunately it has shown uneven progress. According to the World Bank, poverty rates decreased in East Asia from 80% to 18% of the population. However, in Sub-Saharan nations (West African countries) the figures remain at 50% who live in poverty.

Poverty has several problems, some examples are:-

• Hunger: Hunger is when there is not enough food to go around. However, it is a well known fact that there is actually more than enough food to go around for every body. Yet one person dies of hunger somewhere in the world every 3.5 seconds. Action taken to solve this problem is "Food for work" and "Food for Education" programmes where people are paid with food at their work or education where food is provided rather than bought. This measure has been successful.



• AIDS: This is a increasingly treatable and preventable disease, yet one person dies from it every 15 seconds. AIDS have known to ravage entire communities, often attacking adults and children alike. There has been cases where medical facilities are deserted because doctors themselves have died of AIDS. To resolve this matter lies in education, but in impoverished communities education is costly, and needs lots of time resource. In short, it is a hefty investment.



• Darrhoea: Surprisingly common, yet fatal for communities with lack of medical facilities. Usually cholera and dysentary is caught by consumption of unclean water. However, it is proven that a cure for diarrhoea is cheap, simple and best of all, can be home made. Called Oral Rehydration Therapy, it is an alternative to rehydration tablets. The Therapy is carried out by mixing water with salt and sugar. This is extremely obtainable even in poorer communities. However, lack of awareness has claimed many lives to date, and 1.6 million people die of diarrhoea each year.

To alleviate the problems in poverty, some developed nations have adopted schemes such as donating 0.81% of the country's income to aid (carried out in the Netherlands).

What you can do is support organisations that aim to reduce poverty namely by volunteering, collecting funds, and so on. Another option is voluntourism, a recent idea. This is where you volunteer in a certain country and still get a chance to visit attractions, with lower cost of accommodation and food. Some even volunteer to teach ensure that education is received by everyone.

Whatever the case is, remember that you can make all the difference in the world. To the world, you may be just one person, but to to a person, you may just be the world.