London Olympic 2012.

Please tell me you watch the opening of London Olympic 2012.

Because it is simply awesome!

I am sure most of us know the history of Great Britain, especially those Commonwealth countries, but the opening ceremony was an event reminding us all the transitions that they have gone through, their glorious years and people.

The stadium was transformed from a country view of farming and hilly place to an industrial age of Europe. That was superb. They have performances reminding the world of whom they were, what they are proud of, musics that they loved, casts that were legendary (James Bond, Mr. Bean and Mary Poppins!). Even the Queen took part in the gimmick, 'jumping of the helicopter'.

Every Olympic opening ceremony is remarkable at its own and waiting for another 4 years after Beijing to watch this is just remarkable. But I know it would, London has been prepared even since last year when I had a visit there. The stadium was all ready!

Good luck to all Malaysian athletes!

Do you best and make us proud.

Two years after, and still.

I went to Silverstone for a visit yesterday, and that exact moment, I remember it was the date, exactly 2 years of my last day at Toshiba Electronics Malaysia, of what we all called TEM.

(gambar ehsan dari Puan Nana)

And as part of the remembrance day, I went back home, open up the lost lost folder of my photos during the  glorious days at TEM sambil makan coklat. Yerp, this was 3 years ago, we went to Burger King for birthday celebrations. I know we had rough times during work, but seeing our genuinely happy faces, we actually had many good times too. Counting back all the faces there, only 5 left. The rest has gone out, including me.

(This was my place, next to Kak Lina. We were a great team eh...)

I know time has past.

But if I'm an X-Men, what I wish the most for my specialty is to turn back time.

Yes Jaffrey, ko memang psiko.

And yes, I miss TEM :)

Roman Numbers

I was rushing preparing a paperwork just now, and my boss said that the Appendixes should be paged with roman numerals. Ok. That is cool, but when it go through big numbers till 20 plus pages, I got confused.

I am usually good with numbers. Come on, not only that good,  I am a genius.

But not with Romans. Caesar might have sentenced me to death if was ever his advisor. FOr me, Roman numerals usually comes till 13, which is XIII and no further than that. So, I checked in the wikipedia to study and do my deep research. Yes, a very deep one. And it came up, that they are really that simple.

Ok. All you have to do is to remembers these basic symbols.

1 = I

5 = V

10 = X

50 = L

100 = C

500 = D

1,000 = M

3 = 1 + 1 + 1 = III

4 = 5 - 1 = IV (1 is located in front of 5, if it is for subtraction)

And there you go. See, I am really that genius.

So, example, what is 674 in Roman?

500 + 100 + 50 + 10 + 10 + (5 - 1)

D + C + L + X + X + IV

DCLXXIV

Genius! Haha.

I really think I should write a book. @@

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Yes. This may sound stupid. The American President was actually a vampire hunter.

Beware Edward Cullen!

I watched the movie of Abraham Lincoln, not the one about his biography being the President, but this one is  how he became a Vampire Slayer. Amazingly, all facts here about this legend were all correct, the wife, the son (Willie who died). It differs only how his son died, yes, what else, bitten by a vampire. Not forgetting the Civil War, the political adventure etc.

The writer was a genius, to be fair. How he arranged the facts of stories were put nicely, make sense and could be accepted, even it involves vampire. But, people, please... please don't ever put in your mind that this was actually true, even it could be, but it's not. Abraham Lincoln is truly a legend. He abolished the slavery system in America, which is HUGE contribution to the country, and to the world. Remember him as that.

... Wait. There is one thing which might not be true. In this movie, the vampire could not kill another vampire... But Edward Cullen totally can! Boo yah!

Philippines 2012: Sagada, The Mountain Province

After Banaue, we stopped by in Sagada, The Mountain Province on our way to Baguio. We past by at the highest point of the highway, which is 22,000 feet high!

Sagada is popular for its hanging coffins. It is still the funeral practices and burial customs for certain minority groups. 

The coffins were first put up at the mountain cliffs before the body was put inside later. The reason why they were buried in such ways are to bring the deceased closer to heaven. Not only the hanging ones, there are coffins that are stacked together inside a cave which are believed to exist the last 400 years. 

Besides the coffins, Sagada is also known for its outdoor activities such as hiking, cave exploring, nature hikes, waterfalls and water rafting. But as we are not in proper attire and not having the time, we decided to pass all that and proceed our journey to Baguio.

The scenery is simply breathtaking. 

But the road, it's breathless. Hehe.