Research is to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thought
~ source unknown
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
from FB: St. Xavier's Institution Alumni, Penang MY
St. Xavier's Inst., my school, my everything young..
Visionary...
I think the true test of a genius is the ability to see the follies of one's own times.
The ability to change one's own times is the true test of a leader.
And the ability to do both is the true test of a visionary who will never be elected.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
The ability to change one's own times is the true test of a leader.
And the ability to do both is the true test of a visionary who will never be elected.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
the good and bad, in everything...
The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse.
~ Albert Einstein
On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. "In the course of the last four months, it has been made probable - through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilard in America - that it may become possible to set up nuclear chain reactions in a large mass of uranium... And this new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs... A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory." He urged Roosevelt to begin a nuclear program without delay.
In later years Einstein deplored the role he had played in the development of such a destructive weapon: "I made one great mistake in my life," he told Linus Pauling, another prominent scientist, "when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atoms bombs be made."
~ Albert Einstein
On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. "In the course of the last four months, it has been made probable - through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilard in America - that it may become possible to set up nuclear chain reactions in a large mass of uranium... And this new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs... A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory." He urged Roosevelt to begin a nuclear program without delay.
In later years Einstein deplored the role he had played in the development of such a destructive weapon: "I made one great mistake in my life," he told Linus Pauling, another prominent scientist, "when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atoms bombs be made."
everything is possible (in our thoughts, of course!)
Can the weather be controlled? Tesla built machines that made rain and machines that dispersed clouds. Could there be machines that cause earthquakes and tsunamis? We always assume these disasters are accidental and have no plan. The Conspiracy Theorist would say your Secret World Government DOES control the weather. THEY are the cause of the Florida hurricanes, the vast flooding in 2005, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, tornadoes, volcanoes blowing and many earthquakes. Those with the technology can artificially disturb nature and all of us would assume these were natural events. Could a sunny day be purposefully planned for some reason unknown to us?
(C)2005 by Doug Yurchey
(C)2005 by Doug Yurchey
the Question:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
~ Epicurus 340 - 270 BCE
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
~ Epicurus 340 - 270 BCE
Saturday, May 10, 2008
look who's talking...what a sidesplitting world it is!
"For example, the Swedish Press Council is over 85 years old. It is true that these are developed countries with mature democracies. But are we, too, not an almost developed country with an increasingly mature democracy?"
Everyday we attach a new different personality to our face. A day will come in everyone's life when the original one surfaces, till then let us all read the most important book we must read at least once in our lifetime, ourselves....
(Photo of Mr. Clive (who took it at joke & toy shop in Barcelona & I found it @ Flickr)
Friday, May 09, 2008
got trapped? here you go...
It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
- author unknown, sourced from the most popular Malaysian blog!
- author unknown, sourced from the most popular Malaysian blog!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Let's be self-reliant from now on!
To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C
(try Tamilnation.org)
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C
(try Tamilnation.org)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
nO fOOling arOund...
You can fool all the people some of the time;
You can even fool some of the people all the time:
but you can never fool all the people all the time!
(Sourced-out; not mine)
You can even fool some of the people all the time:
but you can never fool all the people all the time!
(Sourced-out; not mine)
Monday, February 04, 2008
qUANTUM mECHANICS
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties
— Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning.
But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties
— Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
decide upon granting opportunity(ies?)
It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.
– Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World (London: Allen & Unwin, 1951, p. 108) (I picked this from Wikipedia on Feb. 3, 2008)
The world was created 5 minutes ago, agree?
"There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that 'remembered' a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago."
– Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind, 1921, pp. 159–60; cf. Philosophy, Norton, 1927, pp 7. (I picked this from Wikipedia on Feb. 3, 2008)
on liberty and equality...
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost
- Aristotle
(BTW, equality, at best, is relative, so don't expect it too often. It's a cruel world out there..more cruel in here..:-)
- Aristotle
(BTW, equality, at best, is relative, so don't expect it too often. It's a cruel world out there..more cruel in here..:-)
educated mind...
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
- Aristotle
Sunday, January 27, 2008
price of freedom..
If the price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free
- Pol Anderson
- Pol Anderson
on liberty and safety...
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety
-Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Nothing left in human rights...ponder!
I may disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it -Voltaire
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Demolished is my hope, brother!
MBSA - Why?
Something that a good democracy could have avoided. But since we're citizens with the infamous 3rd world mentality and led by organizations of such ideologies, apa pun boleh LAH!
BTW, all places of worship are equally good or bad, if you think deeply enough.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtf3SosPEyc
2. http://picasaweb.google.com/malaysianindian1/DestructionOfHinduTemplesInMalaysia
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8o12E7ejlY
Monday, October 29, 2007
Why people fail? Why others pass? No answer.
Does passing or failing matters? Just the mere articulation of these two nouns immediately flashes the word “EXAM” in an average mind (not brain, mind you!). Did yours? Never mind. Forget it. But exam is not the only passing or failing issue. Any form of personal evaluation by others, say job interviews and car driving test are also those events which results in pass or fail. So now, what is it all about passing or failing? Keep reading, don’t fail to do that.
In academic departments, people still choose to use failure as the key quality indicator in statistics. The mathematical connotation is that passing rate is too branded to be used. Colleges rank themselves according to who failed out more students as a measure of superiority. Passing rates are also considered but only on occasions when failure rates are beyond imaginable threshold. The trepidation of failing is instilled due to fear of exclusion. But is apprehension the worst pit one can expect out of failure? People want to be in the mainstream and remain relevant to their surroundings. Personally, failure seldom helps this revered ambition. There are hundreds of journals and even PhD dissertations that study the attributions for failure and success of a person. Why people fail to pass?
And now, that was a very delicate question which requires personalized answer. A thorough self-examination may provide the answer, but to many people self-analysis is difficult and probably religious. Self-analysis is a painful exercise because we think we are more than 100% right and others always wrong. Blame-Caster, as they called it. As a passing remark, we have never collected data about ourselves to facilitate the analysis. The bottom line is one should be able to accept failure as part of the game. The result of the game itself does not end the game. When you don’t like the result, go for a replay. If that doesn’t work, change the sport. Don’t bother about what the spectators have to say. Referees have a job to do. So don’t blame them too. Everyone fails at some point in time in their lives. Accept failure and dare to fail. If you fail, just sit back and relax. Then play it harder but safer the next time. After all, as they say, success is merely the absence of failure.
Valliyappan David Natarajan© 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
PhD is the greatest academic game
You may score even with an own goal! The thing is to strike the goal.
Monday, October 01, 2007
What Galileo said?
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them.
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