trans.formers

I only have 3 words for this movie.

Go

Watch

It.

Here are some auditions for the other bots that were rejected from the casting... =)

n.e.t.s

Now there's a surcharge for using NETS!
The result?
It's forcing everyone to get a credit card? Or carry more cash?
So there'll be more reports of robbed grannies and grandpas who wanted to avoid paying the 2% surcharge?
And if you pay cab fares with NETS - it's a leviable surcharge of 30 cents on top of your metered fare?

What sort of stupid idea is this?
Get the nation to use NETS, "NETS IT!" here, "NETS IT!" there... and then slap the surcharge now when using the system is 2nd nature when buying groceries, books and even electronics?
Or rather should we say it's a damn brilliant and heinous ploy by the little men in white?

On a related article, read Brown's "Start carrying more cash."
Another article on the new meanings on talking.cock.com on N.E.T.S.

golly.woggy

It was those spurs of the moment.

Reminiscent of JC days.

Anyway my hair was overgrown like a weed patch.

And it felt hot and on the brink of blooming into a dandruff garden.

So

I went to a Malay barber.

Now my hair looks like one of those characters in Enid Blyton.

Someone commented that my head suddenly looked

Really round.

Now it's a long hard wait.

For the patch to fallow, the keratin to grow.

benny.hill

This guy takes the cake - is it just me or is his brand of entertainment oh-so-hilarious? =)

dick.lee

I have never really enjoyed his works -
but you have to agree that this excerpt from his concert was pretty amusing.

his.story.of.dance

celestial.earth

天圆，地方 -

步入中年，已不再血气方刚。

人往何处，思绪迷惘。

只有一步一步，抓紧现有时光。

对地顿足，向天呐喊 -

没丝毫头绪，未来一片迷茫。

chip.on.my.shoulder

I always had one.
I just wished it would turn into a casino chip worth $1000 that would win a 1:5000 payout.

Speaking of which - glark.ware has interesting teeshirts like these below:

zero.emission.house

The UK has unveiled its 1st zero emission home that will set the environmental standard for all new homes in the future.
The two-bedroom house is insulated to lose 60% less heat than a normal home.
It also features solar panels, a biomass boiler and water efficiency devices such as rainwater harvesting. The design, unveiled at the Offsite 2007 exhibition in Watford, meets rules to be applied in 2016 that aim to make UK homes more energy-efficient.
The Kingspan Off-Site's Lighthouse design is the first to achieve level six of the Code for Sustainable Homes - which means the house is carbon neutral. About a quarter of UK carbon emissions come from homes.

Green pledge
Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in his Budget in March that zero-carbon houses would be exempt from stamp duty. BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said the Kingspan home is the first to reach level six requirements in the UK.
"The home generates all its own energy - and when you're away on holiday can send electricity back to the National Grid. The company says its annual energy bill would be £31, as compared to £500 for the standard new home of this size," he said.
Among the features in the house are a biomass boiler, which runs on organic fuels such as wood pellets. It counts as zero-emission because the carbon dioxide it gives off during the burning process is offset by the amount absorbed when the fuel crop was grown. It also has a waste separation system that allows combustible waste to be burned to help provide power.

Cost concerns
There will be smart metering so that inhabitants will be able to tell if they are wasting any energy.
While the bills may be cheap, Kingspan, an Ireland-based materials specialist, admits the building cost is 40% more than the standard home.
But house designer Alan Shingler, of architects Sheppard Robson, was confident that costs would fall when more of the homes were built.
"It gets cheaper when you build, say, 250 of them," he said. "For a whole development you can introduce other ways of generating electricity - which is where most of the extra cost comes."

LIGHTHOUSE COMPONENTS

1. Wind catcher, for summer ventilation
2. Solar array at back of house for hot water and electricity
3. High-level of wall insulation
4. Biomass boiler

appraisal.mean.ings

武

It is interesting to note that the very word that embodies "Martial art", is an oxymoron made up of the very 2 words that briefly means "to stop conflict". Isn't the Chinese language such a delightful play of words?
Some believe that the "Wushu" - literally Martial Art, was so coined as such and conceptualised to prevent hostilities rather than to encourage strifes between people. The masters and practitioners of these arts maintain their ideals of their pursuit a purely gentlemenly sport, with the aims of improving oneself through mutual learning rather than showing off in displays of superiority from conquering your opponents.