我很忙

大家好，我是cowl...这是我的新转集......希望大家喜欢.

Ok Ok, I follow Jay Chou quote as he promoting his latest album (我很忙), no reason, just is same as what I'm going thru right now, being busy lately, very busy, the company is conducting a big migrating of the current software tonew one, hence from arrangement of purchasing hardware, software, vendor arrangement, planning.....to name a few, but is really take alot of times.

Well this is a great opportunity for me as one organization is setting up a brand new system, from scratch, meaning in term of the infrastructure and installation of hardware and software is covered by me. So 很忙 is well worth it, just not sure where to start the project sometime, somehow any people just have to go down, hand-on, fail fail fail, then eventually success will be coming, and we are far more superior than any other people when the times come...eventually. I'm very grateful and excited with all these changes, (damn even installing a server rack really test your EQ and IQ), looks very easy, but some special skills involved. Not many moment like this in our life that we had an opportunity to learn and see such changes, unless we setup our own company, I hope to see more of such changes at near future.

Eventhoug 很忙, but yet I will try to relax myself, err...not the "蛇 relax" lah, is really give ownself a break. Anyone out there, remember to give yourself a break, "work life balance"...........mah.

Fragility Of Friendship

Is friendship fragile ? It’s a really difficult question......think back, you have live for many years, how many friend you know and how many friend is really......a friend.

How much can you expect from a friend? Why does this question arise? Because your answer is a pretty good barometer of how well your friendships will weather relational storms. Let's face it, we don't ask much of casual friendships, the kind in which you invite each other to a party once a year. But we demand more from friendships characterized by strong feelings and a shared history. We expect friendships to be easier, more automatic than they actually are.

Think about your childhood friendships. They often set the tone for all the rest. You never "worked" on the friendships, they just happened. For example, your first best friend lived just two houses down from you and you literally met in the sandbox at school. The bond was almost instant. He/she liked vanilla ice-cream and building sand castles. So did you. What's to discuss? It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship—until your family moved to another town and you found another sandbox.

Just a few short years later, sandbox bliss was replaced by the tormented, possessive feelings of a third-grade relationship where blatant betrayal reared its head. That's when you learned that your new best friend was playing at another classmate's house after school. Sound familiar? It happens to nearly all of us.

There may be worse betrayals in store, but probably none is more influential than the sudden fickleness of an elementary-school friend who has dropped us for someone more popular, or those who easily get jealous (red eye) when your friend get a good life than yours, or better job than you, or get promotion earlier than you, “It shouldn't be that way”, we think to ourselves. But alas it is. It's the lesson our friendships continually teach us, a lesson we don't want to learn: Friendships are FRAGILE.

The seeming ease of friendships—compared to romantic and family relationships (more likely loaded with emotional baggage)—is part of the reason we value friendships so much. Relatively speaking, friendships just happen...So...as much easy it happens as easy it falls through???...

Well...the main point here is FREEDOM...It’s your will, your decision, your action...Attemt to build a bridge...to reconnect and make things right...call your lost friend...tell him/ her “I don’t know what happened between us...but I want to apologize”...sincerity always caughts off guard...apologize both for past insensitivities and laugh and laugh at how comical it all seems in retrospect...It’ll be cleansing...you have a good chance...TRY IT...

Alien VS Predator...Sequell

When I first saw this trailer, I though it was Alien part 6 or 7, cos the Alien appear for sometime before Predator appear, damn. Anyway part one is not very impressive, somehow still anticipate this movie. ;-)

More info on the following website : http://www.avp-r.com/

The Science Of Lucky...or is it?

Below are appended from an email from my (ex)colleague, consider, an old friend ;-)I believe many people will asked, how to become LUCK? No concrete evidence that can proved that there is a SURE LUCKY formula(s), articles below is an experiment done, and perhaps to a certain extend, it may be true, still entirely up to individual.
How to Be Lucky – Err… I think is in the form of “Science”? Nah, who cares? Happy Reading. (Pity, I’ve actually re-type the whole articles for the posting on this blog)


“BY PROFESSOR RICHARD WISEMAN, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserves? A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisement in national newspaper asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.

Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and has them take part in experiments.

The result reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this has due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message half through the newspaper saying: “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win ₤250.”

This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more then two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupt their ability to notice the unexpected.

As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intend on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisement and miss other types of jobs.

Lucky People are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decision by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could used to create good luck, I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think an behave like a lucky person.

Dramatic result these exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The result were dramatic, 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.

The lucky people had become lucky and the unlucky people had become luckier.
Finally I had found the elusive “luck factor” Here are the top four tips :1) Listen to your gut instincts – they are normally right2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy, Have a lucky day.”

What the blog about ?

Mmm...How do I start...not too long ago I aware that there are some other friends out there who read my blog, which is a surprise for me, last time I started the blog as a place to rage, roving...with a group of "Blog Buddies", it was a very rolling type of blog last time, many people stop posting now, but Blog popularity is increasing everyday, time goes by and fast, today for me the purpose of posting this blog more or less still the same, but with addition that it help to learn some net stuff and also to write "philosophy", for new friend, long time friend, very long time (school) friend, or the sort.

OK, there's one fella here birthday, so we all make a birthday dinner for that fella, well is a nice dinner eventhough is "oily" and "very windy". Happy Birthday to you Sir. 来啦! 来啦!

Become better species ?

Here is a story on a "busy road", happened for real … A dog was knocked down by a car and died in the middle of the road. Later, another dog is seen beside the motionless dog, and it tried to wake the companion up using its paw. When the attempts to wake its companion failed, it tried to push the fallen companion.

Though the traffic was busy and dangerous, it just will not go away from the fallen companion. It just stood beside the fallen companion howling and "crying"

A lot of people saw this incident and promptly wiped out their gargets to take some pictures. "How, even a dog can show its love to its friend…" and it will be a great story to tell…" it must seemed to have come to their minds quickly. And so, I guess this is how you are getting this story…

Point to ponder: With all this technological inventions and innovations, have we, human, become better species?Do we know love better then animals? Yes, ..or at least it used to be. We may be losing the most instinctive behavior while we are busy building highways and archs in our lives. These pictures reminding us we may be becoming second in the primal designs God has created.

Where are we come from ?

Get a chance to attend a new software deployment lately at KL, there's a chance to meet colleague from other country, while we were there, a few "view" or "people" just make me feel "Familiar", what does that mean ? Well, kind of funny, those people or some of the places I step into, give me a sense of feeling that I've seen them before, and some of the places, I've been here before, but the fact this is the first time I came, the first time I meet these people. Gosh, the more I think back, mmm...really, I can say is false nor true.

Like some believe that our previous life might have met someone like them or came to some places, then why this life we came here again, is this the cycle ? where do we came from ? is it mean some place we have to re-visit ? during my school day, some friend of mine did tell me things like that before where they feel like they came to a place before whereas this is just the first time they came.

Well is just a feeling anyway, is a great trip with a Suite Room to stay :Þ Looking foward for the new software to be implemented.

MERDEKA ! MERDEKA ! MERDEKA !

That's the shouting we hear today! and now!, Malaysia celebrate her 50th Birthday, well the theme for this year. "Malaysiaku Gemilang", in nearly every year, a brand new theme and logo were made for the celebration of Merdeka. And though, what is the theme or logo for past year ?

Well :
1970 = Muhibah dan Perpaduan
1971 = Masyarakat Progresif
1972 = Masyarakat Adil

1973 = Masyarakat Berkebudayaan Malaysia

1974 = Sains dan Teknologi Alat Perpaduan

1975 = Masyarakat Berdikari
1976 = Ketahanan Rakyat

1977 = Bersatu Maju

1978 = Kebudayaan Sendi Perpaduan

1979 = Bersatu Berdisplin

1980 = Berdisplin Berbakti

1981 = Berdisplin Berharmoni

1982 =Berdisplin Giat Maju

1983 = Bersama Ke Arah Kemajuan

1984 = Amanah Asas Kejayaan

1985 = Nasionalisme Teras Perpaduan

1986 = Bangsa Tegas Negara Teguh
1987 = Setia Bersatu Berusaha Maju

1988 = Bersatu

1989 = Bersatu

1990 = Berjaya

1991 = Wawasan 2020

1992 = Wawasan Asas Kemajuan

1993 = Bersatu Menuju Wawasan

1994 = Nilai Murni Jayakan Wawasan

1995 = Jatidiri Pengerak Wawasan

1996 = Budaya Penentu Kecapaian

1997 = Akhlak Mulia Masyarakat Jaya

1998 = Negara Kita, Tanggungjawab Kita

1999 = Bersatu Ke Alaf Baru

2000 - 2006 = Keranamu: MALAYSIA

Selamat Hari Merdeka !

Today eve of my country independence, finally settle some of the important task here, now finally have some bit of time to Blog again.

Well, if you ask back yourself, do you still remember "Sejarah Malaysia" ?, I believe as time goes by, people start forgot how the country that we stay in, comes from...well, friendly, I don't remember much, nevertheless that does not mean I'm not concern about this country, and as far as I'm concern, I stay in this country, and I should love this country. :-) Some info extract from the WWW :

The national day commemorating the independence of the Federation of Malaya from British colonial rule. In a wider context, it is to celebrate the formation of Malaysia.

Malaya Independence
The effort for independence was spearheaded by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, who led a delegation of ministers and political leaders of Malaya in negotiations with the British in London for Merdeka, or independence. Agreement was reached on February 8, 1956, for Malaya to gain independence from the British Empire. However, for a number of logistical and administrative reasons, it was decided that the official proclamation of independence would only be made the next year, on August 31, 1957, at Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur.

How the independence date was derived
Even before the delegation left for London, the date for independence was already set. It was decided during a discussion in 1956 involving UMNO Youth chief Tun Sardon Jubir and his deputy Haji Ahmad Badawi in Kepala Batas, Penang. Haji Ahmad Badawi is the late father of the current Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Also present at the discussion was Haji Ahmad Badawi's father, Haji Abdullah Fahim, who was also the Penang Mufti and a renowned Muslim scholar. Analysing the independence dates of countries like Indonesia and India, all falling on odd dates in August, Haji Abdullah Fahim after conducting his own calculations decided August 31 as the most appropriate date.

The formation of Malaysia
The Federation of Malaysia, comprising states of Malaya, North Borneo (later renamed Sabah), Sarawak and Singapore was to be officially declared on the date August 31, 1963, on the 6th anniversary of Malayan independence. However, it was postponed to September 16, 1963, mainly due to Indonesian and the Philippines' opposition to the formation of Malaysia. Indonesian opposition later escalated to a military conflict.

Indonesia considered Malaysia as a new form of colonization on the provinces of Sarawak and Sabah in the island of Borneo (bordering Kalimantan, Indonesia), which they laid claim on. [citation needed] To assure Indonesia that Malaysia was not a form of neo-colonialism, a referendum, organized by the United Nations, and the Cobbold Commission, led by Lord Cobbold, were formed to determine whether the people of Sabah and Sarawak wished to join Malaysia. Their eventual findings which indicated substantial support for Malaysia among the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak, cleared the way for the final proclamation of Malaysia.
The formation of the Federation of Malaysia was then announced on September 16, 1963. However, the Independence Day celebration is still held on August 31, the original independence date of Malaya. This has caused some minor discontent among East Malaysians in particular since it has been argued that celebrating the national day on August 31 is too Malaya-centric.

Good Service

Many company / shop...etc today emphasis good customer service, while the former service industry personnel (I am) :-) is good to see what type or we rather called it "level of services" we can get when we patrol certain outlet, be it a restaurant, cinema, bank...etc

To provide a good customer service is very tough because we simply deal with human being, especially today human being already goes into a level they know "how to complain" stuff. So its pretty difficult to maintain the level nowaday, while we agree that, at the end, it just whether "humanity respect" is there or not, to makes the different in the communication.

Some way of efficiency and good service example :
Went to pretty grand restaurant for pass few time, what they emphasis (I believe) is relaxation & efficiency, while I waited for the food to cook, from seat down, until the food arrive, until I settle the bill, on all this occasion, From head to toe, I never even touch my tea pot, and I still enjoy my tea, the waiter is efficient enough that they will pour tea for me whenever is empty or near empty, I virtually don't have a chance to serve myself, the service level is unparallel.

So, what's your service level ?

The Treat

There is a day where I need support from Microsoft Server Support, so made a call to their toll free and a person pickup (off course), after few conversation, I'm satisfied with their service, although much of the support is they keep asking $$ from you before they start support you, well there is some case where they need to support anyway.

The call centre support personnel is fluent in English and pretty knowledgeable in their product, I remember few years back where there their support is in Indian, so I though, Hu Yoh...now they have improve alot, maybe not....the fact is the support centre now is in a country called : China

If the support personnel is a female, (wow, what a sweet voice) ;-) not only sweet voice, their English is even better than most of the call centre that I experience here.

China is really changing, one year back the story is , many chinese are starting to learn English, barely a year later we heard that, they have master English. The fact is they are getting better and better, the treat is very large considering the size and population in China, I amaze with their 精神 , I salute them. What I see is they really all out in getting what they want, they are more and more independent, at the end we need to rely on them instead.

So call centre here, if still thinking of honeymoon or 9am-5pm works, then better pack early and search for something else to do, you guys are loosing out fast.

Transformers

I'm a Transformers fan since child, way back 1984, as time goes by the transformers (Cartoon) not much surface on the TV screen anymore, until this movies roll out, at first though is an all robot affair, well is not, there is real human actor, wow this is great, with Hollywood great graphic effect today, and that another Steven Spielberg way of producer, one can expect a great "wow" in this Transformers movie.

While I was thinking the face or the design of the robot "might" look like in cartoon, but there's alot facelift in the robot itself, YES!!! they are amazing!. and I kind of like the storyline as well, although notice alot of editing has been done to the movie. Whatever is it, is worth to see this movie, whether you are young or old.

The Sequelssss......
On May 30, 2007, DreamWorks greenlit two sequels to Transformers.Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Peter Cullen are signed on to return. the storyline may introducing the Dinobots, Constructicons, and Soundwave into the movies, and this time expecting Transformers will have a larger role to play.

Some Tit & Bits on Transformers :

Cybertron
Is the home world of the Autobots and Decepticons in the assorted stories in the fictional Transformer Universe.
The capital of Cybertron is the Iacon Hub City and serves as the base of operations for the Autobots. Other cities are Kaon (the Decepticon capital), Perihex, Antihex, Uraya, Polyhex, Vos, Tarn, Nova Cronum, and Crystal City (destroyed).

Optimus Prime
When Optimus Prime arrives on Earth at the same time as Ironhide, Jazz and Ratchet, he scans the new alternate mode of a semi-truck and quickly joins up with Bumblebee, where he meets Sam Witwicky. The Autobots then go with Sam to retrieve his ancestor's glasses, on which a map to the Allspark is engraved. They recover the glasses, but a secret government organization, Sector 7, arrests Sam and his friend, Mikaela, and capture Bumblebee
Before it is discovered Sector 7 also has Megatron hidden under the Hoover Dam, Ironhide questions Prime on why they should protect the humans, seeing them as primitive and violent. Prime replies that the Autobots themselves were not so different from them once, quoting "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings". Before the final battle with Megatron, he says, "By the end of this day, one shall stand, one shall fall." This is a tribute to the 1986 animated film, in which Optimus Prime delivers the line, "One shall stand, one shall fall." before his final battle with Megatron.

Bumblebee
A spy in autobot, returning to his role as the friend of the Autobots' human ally - in this case, Sam Witwicky Sam possesses the glasses of his great-great-grandfather Captain Archibald a famous explorer. Unknown to Sam, the glasses are engraved with the coordinates showing the location of the life-giving Allspark. Bumblebee is assigned to guard Sam from the Decepticons, and poses as a used 1977 Chevrolet Camaro as Sam and his father are buying a car for Sam. They eventually purchase Bumblebee, due in no small part to Bumblebee damaging every other car at the dealership.

Ironhide
Arriving on Earth at the same time as Optimus Prime, Ironhide's protoform lands in a swimming pool. Ironhide quickly sneaks away to the driveway, scans a family's GMC Topkick pickup truck and reconfigures his alternate mode to a new camouflaged form (though before he does, he is seen by a little girl who believes him to be the tooth fairy) before meeting up with the other Autobots at Bumblebee's location.

Megatron
Leader of Decepticon, he is very nasty, powerful and utterly ruthless kind of robot, while the original Megatron is transforming to a......Gun, in the movie he tansformed into a Cybertronian Jet, while is a good start as the gun look really not that "keng".

Blackout
One of my favourite, Blackout and his partner, Scorponok attack the SOCCENT Forward Operations Base in Qatar, making him the first Transformer to be seen active in the film. He is then seen flying through a desert when Starscream rallies the Decepticons. He is seen again during the final battle, where he is destroyed by a squad of Special Operations soldiers (led by Captain Lennox) and a group of F-22's while attempting to attack Optimus Prime from behind. Based on Internet claims.

Starscream
Starscream rallies the other Decepticons to battle when Frenzy alerts them to the Allspark's location. Upon reuniting with Megatron, he is scolded by his leader in a manner reminiscent of his G1 counterpart: "You have failed me yet again, Starscream!". He arrives in time to aid Devastator and Megatron in the final battle and destroys several human vehicles, including three other F-22 Raptors. Starscream is able to conceal himself among the jets in order to ambush them, but eventually retreats from the battle after the F-22 pilots regroup and engage him with their superior numbers. An interlude during the end credits shows Starscream leaving Earth's atmosphere, leaving questions about his role in the future sequel.

Barricade
He is a hunter/scout of the Decepticons, choosing his vehicle mode to easily hide among the humans as a symbol of authority. His persona appears to be that of the cliche "bad cop", as he fiercely interrogates Sam Witwicky once he locates him. At one point, Sam refers to him as 'the insane cop'. His weapons include Gatling cannons and arm-mounted spikes, and he has a compartment in his chest where he stores Frenzy. When in car mode he can simulate the appearance of a human driver, the same holographic model that "pilots" Blackout and Starscream.

Bonecrusher
His feet are wheels, "skating" as opposed to running. His weapons include blades on his forearms, as well as a claw-like scoop at the end of a large telescopic arm. This claw is used in ordnance disposal on Buffalo armored vehicles.
he is touted as a subservient warrior of Megatron who despises all the other Decepticons, and if someone attempts to befriend him, he will have nothing to do with them. The toy's tech spec expands on this aspect by stating that he hates everything including Megatron, but only sticks around because he fears being terminated by his leader.

There's alot to go, well watch the movie mate!!

Define : Love

Being following up with Penang case of little girl Shearwey Ooi Ying Ying, 90% speculation that the bone is belongs to the little girl whereas the final DNA result haven't really being disclosed to the public, while the the mother and her boyfriend pending triad, what do we really see in the case ?

The woman,a top sales girl, deeply in love with a jobless "junk" who takes drug......yet she still deeply love the junk very much......seems like whatever the fault of the guy is.......NO fault at all.

Some other case that I remember 1-2years back, there are some people who like to "suan siao" other people or fight other people or simply cause havoc anywhere they go, BUT their girlfriend or wife (eventhough beside them) does not take the initiative to at least advise their love one that "it is wrong" for them to behave that way, most of them just keep mum and pretend nothing, this is actually encouraging their love one to continue harming other people, JUST WHAT CROSS INTO THESE WOMAN BRAIN?!, IS DAMN A MORON ATTITUDE. Is that because the person is your love one? so everything become so supportive, become biase, is BLIND, your heart is become devil itself, which you will guaranteed get your karma for that.

Unfortunately not many people will care or realise what their responsibility, so that what LOVE on the other hand has fools everything. Just bare in mind everytime you want to do something evil, that person that you hurt will NOT need to seek his/her revenge, GOD will see it and you will face your wrath. Take care...whoever wanted to do evil, if you think you can get away, think again, think twice.

Fantastic Surfer

Last week went for the Fantastic 4 sequellll......

The four superheroes has been known for their power, but I just damn impressed with the Silver Surfer, damn this fellow is so cooool. It just unstoppable...look at it, just look at it...

Next anticipated movie...Transformerssss!!!

The "Xenon"

There was one articles on by Road Transport Department enforcement director Salim Parlan says on considering banning car with xenon light installed, or more popular as HID.

Personally I do support the banned but perhaps a better way is to do a control like our car tinted, xenon light bulbs also have bright, brighter, brightest...(donno what's the correct terms :-P) so it should be able to control.

There is one reader argued that xenon light give more secured light coverage and better than conventional light bulbs, to me that statement is a BULL SHIT, normal light bulbs has been here many many many years before xenon light comes, but never have an articles on banning them cause these lamp bulbs simply does NOT poses any "irritate state" to any user before.

Well some people don’t even have the brain to soundly think about their car headlamps whether they pose danger to people or not, those especially with high beam should 100% ban, as it poses a great danger to other road users, to them it look glamours on their car (and theirself) If the JPJ ban the xenon light, many car user will opposed not because they cannot drive their car, just because they won't look as glamour and especially causes them a hole in the pocket (for those already installed), so at the end, a proper control instead of banning it, is so far fair to everyone.

By the way, I do not represent any vehicle or lighting manufacturer, and neither are any of my cars fitted with Xenon or HID lights.

Another Years "Old"

This year birthday, try out Chili's Restaurant at Gurney, the price is slightly expensive but the dishes is "Big Size", and in fact is nice, try out the "lamp shoulder", you'll like it, damn full but have a enjoyable dinner on the first day.

Alot wishing coming in, thanks everyone !
As getting older, sometime don't have the "form" to do so much things like "younger" time, tend to relax. Begin to be lazzzzzzy......

A surprise comes from fellows colleague, they're celebrating with me, a mini party has been held, no special terms or word can say...except Thank You All, I valued it.

An Inconvenient Truth

Former US Vice President, Mr. Al Gore organized a great seminar, about Global Warming, whoever attended his seminar or at least aware what he said during the seminar will find that in-deed our earth is in great dire strait. In fact many people does not aware the urgency of global warming, we do our daily routine without giving a damn what happen because many simply does not have much sense for our earth, the effort by many company is not that impressive, well something to note :












He show some nice picture of famous icy mountain now facing "melt-down", the cause...

The climate system varies through natural, internal processes and in response to variations in external forcing factors including solar activity, volcanic emissions, variations in the earth's orbit (orbital forcing) and greenhouse gases......Would this sounds like natural disaster ? well we "HUMAN" are always one of the many contributor for nature change, we can see even on movie, many creatures, mutant, so-called accident, are all started with Human. Example : Godzilla - its existent due to nuclear effect from buclear bomb.

The increased levels of greenhouse gases due to human activity as the main influence. This attribution is clearest for the most recent 50 years, other hypotheses have been proposed to explain most of the observed increase in global temperatures. Among these hypotheses are that the warming is caused by natural fluctuations in the climate or that warming is mainly a result of variations in solar radiation.

The predicted effects for the environment and for human life are numerous and varied. The main effect is an increasing global average temperature. From this flow a variety of resulting effects, namely, rising sea levels, altered patterns of agriculture, increased extreme weather events, and the expansion of the range of tropical diseases.

What Can We Do To Prevent ? Some Tips :


1) Change a light. Replacing a regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent one saves 150 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

2) Drive less. Walk, bike, carpool, take mass transit, and/or trip chain. All of these things can help reduce gas consumption and one pound of carbon dioxide for each mile you do not drive.

3) Recycle more and buy recycled. Save up to 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide each year just by recycling half of your household waste. By recycling and buying products with recycled content you also save energy, resources and landfill space!

4) Check your tires. Properly inflated tires mean good gas mileage. For each gallon of gas saved, 20 pounds of carbon dioxide are also never produced.

5) Use less hot water. It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Reducing the amount used means big savings in not only your energy bills, but also in carbon dioxide emissions. Using cold water for your wash saves 500 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, and using a low flow showerhead reduces 350 pounds of carbon dioxide. Make the most of your hot water by insulating your tank and keeping the temperature at or below 120.

6) Avoid products with a lot of packaging. Preventing waste from being created in the first place means that there is less energy wasted and fewer resources consumed. When you purchase products with the least amount of packaging, not only do you save money, but you also help the environment! Reducing your garbage by 10% reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 1,200 pounds.

7) Plant a tree. A single tree can absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

8) Turn off electronic devices when not in use. Simply turning off your TV, VCR, computer and other electronic devices can save each household thousand of pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

How much we can do from the tips above ? I believe its depend, well the awareness of global warming still lack among many people, some aware but not much action taken to prevent, a truth is a truth, we cannot pretend nothing happen about the truth, the truth that affect the world, an inconvenient truth.

1 Year (一年)

Opening......

Enter June 2007, the third years of this Blog, somehow I just notice that, its been a year since this Blog being updated, Gosh, the time is just so fast, I don't feel like I've desert the Blog for 1 year, somehow the last update profile show it is.

Ha, let me think......(pause)

Many time I just don't have the "point of blogging TIME" , everything so busy for me, which not allow me to have the initiative to post, as alot of other interesting technology suface, just don't feel want to post, somehow alot of "Blog Sense" crossed into my mine, so I just have to keep trying trying trying, to Blog. And I made it, at least to this Blog. ;-) It's been at least.....1 Year

Many happening in the past year, just too much bad news, 2005 we see many reputable icon pass away, Hong Kong star, the Australian Croc Hunter : Steve Irwin, accelerate tension and war, Global Warming...etc

Hhhhh...(叹息）I go thru a "Painful" and "Fruitful" time from 2005, a time where my life got a twist to not so good, way into 2006......I strongly believe this is the year that my life really twisted to GOOD (转瑞点) , alot of coincident "message" were passed to me, the most valuable experience I ever get, the pinaccle of awake I am. Is hard to explain here, but everything were happen in sequence, it like God is passing an encouraging message to me. I not sure what is the like but I believe there's plan in our life (冥冥中自有安排）. And we can't change this but only to "flow" with it, and we will succeed.

2007, I feel great about this year, probarly I started to know the value within it, and I'm happy to be able to start the blog again, though it may not as creative like previously, anyway Blog does not have fixed format or size. (自由发挥）

Tommorow this Blog turns exactly 3, an early Happy Anniversary.