It's earlier than I thought!

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OMG OMG OMG! This is some serious shit that is happening! I had to write this post first because this really overtook the urgency of any other of the materials in my to-blog list.

If you read one of my recent post "Where to, Generation Y?", you'd see that I made a few predictions on what would happen in the future. Of course, that were meant to be casual predictions, not backed up by facts. But it turns out one of them, the Genetic Revolution, seems to be happening, and happening NOW!



Yesterday, Dr. Craig Venter (picture above), founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a genomics research organization, had announced that their team of scientist had successfully created the world's first synthetic life! O_O"

They wrote a whole new genome (the genetic informations within a lifeform) in a computer, synthesized the DNA from scratch in the lab by carefully putting together the nucleotides (the basic "letters" of DNA) according to the genomic blueprint they wrote, got a bacteria species to replace their genome with the newly synthesized genome, "booted up" the new genome, and the bacteria species turned into a totally new species with different metabolic life functions.

Now if that sounds like a whole load of jargons to you, take this analogy as an example. Imagine a team of programmers (the scientists) coming together to design a new operating system for computers (writing the new genome). They started by writing and programming the operating software (putting together the DNA). Then they took an existing Microsoft Windows computer (the bacteria species), removed the Windows operating system (removing the existing genome), installed the new operating system (inserting the new synthetic genome), and then booted it up to see if it works (stimulating the genome so that it starts working).

The synthetic bacteria cell had a genome of approximately 1 million base pairs. Apparently given the complexity of the process, the whole research took Dr. Craig Venter and his team 40 million dollars and 15 years to complete. :O

Now I just realized that he gave a talk at TED talks a couple of years back on this research. You can try checking it out below.



Now that this is proven to be successful, he said that the J. Craig Venter Institution would focus on synthesizing lifeforms with practical applications next, probably available by next year. And he highlighted that they will try to tackle the ongoing carbon emission issue by creating bacterias that can capture sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce octane (a hydrocarbon fuel), thus solving the carbon emission and fuel shortage problem in one go. 

The announcement of this feat even got President Obama to take it seriously. He immediately sought advice from his advisors and called for a meeting to be held next week to discuss the implications of this new technology in science. 




Wow, just a mind-blowing WOW is all I can manage. Can you imagine the whole new world that this team of scientists had created? Can you? I can't. But one thing is for sure, they just changed the course of human history. Think about it.

Damn I'm excited. Excited! I'm just so glad that I'm born in this century. 

But I'm feeling sad too, for the fact that people remain ignorant towards the world of science. Remember when Micheal Jackson died, how fast the news spread? Within a single day, the whole world knew about it, and it's not even their business to know, it doesn't affect their life. 

But for this? Nobody knew about it, nobody cared. Did you? 

"Who cares? It's just a bacteria. I'm more concerned about who Justin Bieber or (enter artiste name here) dates."

Yea sadly, that's what majority of the world youth thinks, even though this breakthrough is going to have a major impact on everyone's life in the near future. Yes, I said everyone.

And could you imagine these are the people, your peers, that will be running the world in a decade or two's time? When they don't know what are they going to face?




Okay okay, I think I should stop here. I think I'm still stunned by the news, and I had too little sleep because I was stunned because I saw this news late last night. Okay, stop, zip. Period. Wee~



Till next time, cheers~

Where To, Generation Y?

And the final exams is here!!!

Was too bored studying Chemistry, so I decided to write something.


Anyway, lately I was listening to Gorillaz's latest environmental themed album, Plastic Beach :O... It is a cool album, tons of techno and electronic element though. Kinda gave me a brain stimulation thinking about what the future holds

Here are the album arts, in case you're trying to find it in a CD store :D

Speaking of the future, it's just so exciting and gloomy at the same time isn't it? With all the budding technologies that is coming up, coupled with the rise of environmental issues and ongoing global conflicts, one would think that at this point, it could go either way.

So, what am i doing today? Well, I'm going give you a glimpse of what Plastic Beach gave me, I'm going to do a little prediction on what to expect in the upcoming years, whether we're gonna live that long or not (we possibly could, read on :D ).


Now let's start with a recap on the major "revolutions" that shaped the course of human history shall we?


First, it was the "Hunting and Gathering" revolution. No a big deal, almost every animal hunt or forage for food. But they don't store/hoard foods for future consumption, and it was this little advantage that gave birth to a human tribal lifestyle, making the first humans "humans".

Then came Horticulture and Pastorialism. Horticulture simply means the raising of crops using hand tools, while pastorialism means the domestication of animal. Instead of finding food when they needed it, our ancestors found a way to create a sustainable food source, bringing the food to them instead of the other way round. This of course, saved tons of energy and allowed our ancestors more time to work on other stuffs, which subsequently developed culture.

Third was one of the most defining moments in human history, the Agricultural Revolution. It started off around six to seven thousand years B.C.. Agriculture allowed humans to produce a large surplus of food supply, allowing a burst of human population growth. The need for water to water the crops prompted our ancestors to settle around river banks, which gave birth to the first ancient civilizations. It was not until the 18th century that the Agricultural Revolution peaked. Then came the invention of steam engine, which sparked off the Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution changed the nature of jobs in a society. Steam engines were introduced into almost every sector of the economy, especially agriculture, replacing lots of human labor in the process. The focus of the economy shifted from extracting raw materials, to processing raw materials industrially. Not only were we mass-producing finished products, technologies were also improving rapidly, and the average human lifespan increased significantly!

Since the invention of computers, human growth had increased multiple-fold. Computers brought about the Information Revolution. Ladies and gentlemen, this is where we're in the middle of, the rise of information processing, and many refer the people born when computer technology started flourishing as the "Generation X", implying a new chapter in human history. The nature of jobs too was changed, as in the Industrial Revolution, instead of working with real objects, we're now working with abstract information. Service and creativity jobs replaced a lot of labor jobs. This is where almost aspect of human life improved in leaps due to the rapid growth of new technologies.



So where are we heading to at this point of time?


Green Revolution
The rise of Industrial Revolution slowly resulted in human "Oil Addiction". Simply put, we get most of our energy sources from fossil fuel, and as much as we like to use it, it is finally taking its toll on us. Environmental issues are not news, and it's caused by our addiction to fossil fuel as a source of energy. And today, we're at the tipping point where if the problems are left unsolved, we could go down as the generation that failed the human race.

Now I wouldn't be surprised if that happened, given that we're entangled in this messy web of connections between fossil fuel and the current human lifestyle. It would take bold steps for us to change our lifestyles to allow "oil rehabilitation".

But if we do take the first steps, it could pave way for the "Green Revolution", where we seek to reform our methods of obtaining energy to a more sustainable one. I'm predicting this to happen in a few decades, in fact, it could just happen in the next few years.

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New World Order
The world has 194 nations, each with distinct government style. This is a brave prediction LOL, but I'm predicting that within 200 years, the world's nations will finally be united under a single government to form a New World Order.

Now it might seem impossible for it to happen for now, given the differences in view between the different peoples in the world. But think about it, the development of transportation technology had caused globalization, which kind of spawned a global culture.

There are nations which are poor and where the people there do not get enough exposure to the global culture, but given enough time, its growth would catch up and peak. At that moment, the global culture would be diffused into almost every society, and uniting all nations under one government is a more feasible feat, if not a more efficient, way to manage the world's resources.

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The Singularity
Given the rate at which the computational powers are growing, it wouldn't be long before computer gets as intelligent as human. The term for which this event is "The Singularity". Science visionaries predicted that this would happen in around 2030.

As exciting as it might sound, it might yet bring a new problem to humankind. Think for example, what if the computers decided that humans are an inferior race and tries to terminate us? Go watch Terminator : /

Androids, human-like robots, would raise yet many issues. How would you distinguish between an android and a human, given that they have the same intelligence, same outer appearance? Would it be okay to marry an android? What about killing one? Do we need android right laws, just because they are as intelligent as we are?

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Genetic Revolution
The human genome was finally cracked and published in 2003, opening new doors to the field of genetics.

As to today, humans are already quite adept at manipulating genetic materials. We cloned animals, we modified the genome of crops, we introduced genes to bacterias to mass produce stuffs. It would just be a matter of time before we start tinkering with human genome, isn't it?

The Genetic Revolution, I predict, would happen within 50 years, when our moral understanding catches up with the development of the technology.

Genetic Revolution would see human lifespan increasing dramatically, possibly extending it by 50-100 years or indefinitely. The prospects are promising, new medical technologies spawned from the understanding of genetics could greatly reduce diseases, inherited or contracted.

By breaking moral barriers, we might also see the birth of the first "superhumans", a generation of newborns genetically modified to optimize physical health, which could lead to a split in the evolutionary timeline of human race, where the rich who could afford the technology would be superior to the other humans who couldn't afford the technology.

Cloning too, might also become widespread, though absolutely immoral by today's standard. But moral judgments change with time, cloning might become morally accepted in the future.

The application of genetic engineering is almost limitless, although not all are practical sometimes. Imagine creating a whole new species of "chimaeras"?

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Space Colonization
Earth is limited, soon we could run out of resources, or if we can even get that far, run out of spaces to live. Space colonization is just a matter of time, be it on the moon, or mars. It could happen much earlier than we think it will.

But the process of building a livable place will take a long time. For moon, maybe decades from the start of colonization process before we can really live there. For mars, from at least a few centuries to a millenium, due to the need to terraform the whole planet into a sustainable habitat.

In any case, it would be very uneconomical to colonize other planets at least until we start mastering ways to harness earth's resources efficiently.

My prediction? Within 100 years for the moon, 300 years for Mars.

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Death of Abrahamic Religions
Now of all the predictions this one is really the boldest one. I'm predicting that the Abrahamic Religions - Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, will drop from the "Religion" status to "Cult" status, or at least a "Minority" status, within 3 generation's time from now.

Given that these religions already have a deep root within the current world societies, they would be hard to fade a way , at least not without a fight. But the increasing understanding of the universe has prompt lots of us to question the validity of many of the religious teachings. Such as the question "Is blind faith alone suffice for our life?"

On the contrary, secular movements are picking up momentum. Ever since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, many people started questioning if the traditional religious teachings are still relevant in the current world anymore.

Of course, some sects of the religions adapt, but it is still stigmatized by secular advocates. Some adaptations are more inclined to the current world situation, some straying away. But in any cases, it results many different world views within ONE religion alone, and this will cause the religion to split into smaller ones.

As for the "Death of Religion"? Probably not gonna happen given that it is part of human nature.

While religion will still play a big part in human society, the definition of religion might change in the near future. Instead of being "a sacred institution that provides spiritual relief", it might change into "a socializing institution that provides moral guidance", or something like that.

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Phew. That's all for my post today. Hopefully you understood it LOL!


Till next time, I'll be studying, cheers~

Adam, Eve, Noah

Hey guys! SPM is over, WOOHOO!

But so far I'm not feeling the after-exam mood yet, probably because I studied non-stop during the last two month and is not used to this new daily routine. Meh...

Anyways, updates coming soon. I do have one event which was nearly two months ago that I will blog about - MyCJN Dance for the Planet, and also a very recent one which was the Candlelight Vigil. HAZ TO FINDZ TIMEZ AND PATIENZE TO UPLOAD ZE PHOTOZ!

Anyway, I'm starting off my first post after SPM with this article titled Adam, Eve, Noah as promised.

Oh, if you're from an Abrahamic religion, don't flame me straight away. Instead, give my opinions a thought. Think! That's why God gave you and me a brain. Think!


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Have you ever wondered how life began? And why vast diversity of species exist?

Over thousands of years, theories of the origin of life have been popping up from various places around the world. Explanations were sometimes non-logical, and funny even sometimes.

In Chinese mythology, Nu-Wa created humans from clay.

On the first day she created chickens. On the second day she created dogs. On the third day she created sheep. On the fourth day she created pigs. On the fifth day she created cows. On the sixth day she created horses. On the seventh day she began creating men from yellow clay, sculpting each one individually, yet after she had created hundreds of figures in this way she still had more to make but had grown tired of the laborious process.

In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus also created humans from clay and then gave them fire.

In Egyptian mythology, the God Khnum made human with clay from River Nile. (What's wrong with these guys? They have clay fetish or something?)

But of all the stories about the origin of life, perhaps the most well-known and most widely accepted is the creation of Adam and Eve by the God of the Genesis as written in the Bible.



As stated in the Bible, the God, during 7 days of Creation, made a pair of every single species of animal on earth, and added Adam and Eve (as if it was an after thought) on the 6th day. I'm not sure whether the "one pair of every animal" is correct because I have not read the Bible, correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't really matter as you'll see later.

And so, according to Christianity, God had a hand in the diversity of species. He created every living thing in the world, including the gazillion sub-species of the amoeba genus, even though just a few of them would have served a common niche in the ecosystem.



But there's a flaw in this theory, that is, to accept the 7 Days of Creation, you will have to accept the Theory of Evolution too, which so far contradicts each other and has sparked endless debates throughout the century ever since Darwin published his "Origin of Species".

Why? Because if you ask me, God could not have created the billions of species of life on earth. Okay that's not a very good argument, nevermind let's put that aside. But, there are indeed observable micro-evolutions happening around us, and that is called genetic variations and mutations.

I'm going to show you an example of micro-evolution, take a swarm of mosquito for instance, spray repellent at them and most of them die but not all. Why? Because of minor variations among them that causes the insecticide to only be effective to most of them except for some mosquitoes that have higher level of tolerance and immunity. And the surviving mosquitoes breed amongst themselves to produce a new generation of mosquitoes with immunity to that particular insecticide. This is natural selection in action, kill the weak, only the strongest will survive.

Same thing occurs to some viruses, we have various virus strains that have mutated from previous forms, that's why new virus outbreak always comes first before a vaccine can be introduced. Natural selection selected the weaker viruses to die under our immune systems and the stronger viruses that remained are mutated into different and deadlier forms.

Of course, some might say argue micro-evolution doesn't explain the Theory of Evolution at all. But why not? An observable evolution takes a very long time, modern humans have only been around for like 100,000 years, or less than 10,000 years according to the Bible. Given enough time, I'm VERY sure that this will happen.

Try doing this, save a dollar a day and keep it in a drawer or something, and I'm sure you don't need me to tell you if you keep doing this daily, you're bound to save up to a thousand dollars in around three years time, right?. Apply this anology to evolution, after years and years of all those micro-evolution, an obvious change is bound to happen to a species, and that species will evolve into an entirely new species. If this really happens one day, will anyone still deny evolution?



Alright, anything that happens between the time of Adam and Eve to the time of Noah will not be brought up as it will not matter. When God got pissed of humans and decided that He will flood the earth(still unproven by science BTW), he asked Noah and his family to build a large ark and have the land animals gathered on board before the flooding begins.

Yes it did specify LAND animals only, but there's also a flaw. Noah's ark was huge, approx 140 meters long, 25 meters wide and 15 meters high, but not infinite. So obviously there's no conceivable way to have every single species of land animal on earth to board the ark. So how can you explain the diversity of land animals in the world today? Evolution has to be the key.

Imagine this, there are nearly 6,000 species of mammals in the world, 8,000 species of reptiles, and 9,000 species of birds. Let's be conservative and say only around 100 species or birds are non-avian. So that still makes around 12,000 species of large land animals to be saved, times that by two only(I am not including the fact that Noah did brought 7 pairs of each clean animals on board), and we have 24,000 large animals to be fitted on board. Of course, I'm excluding the fact that there are still 25,000 species of mollusc, 5,000 species of earthworms and 1,364,013 species of other land dwelling invertebrates such as insects and arachnids.

You do the math and tell me a pair of every living species today can board the ark. Please!

Of course, we have not account for the food supply Noah would need to feed the animals. It is said that Noah remained in the ark for a whole year, so the food supply would definitely be much more heavier than the animal loads. So where did he stored his food supply again if the ark was full of animals?

Side fact:

Using wood to construct a ship as big as Noah's ark is not practical, even with the technology of the Industrial Revolution when the last of big wooden ships were built. Wood by itself is not a very strong material, it bends when force is applied, especially so the longer the wood. Ships pitch up and down when it is hit by waves(obviously), a violent wave would force a long wooden ship to bend and tear the ship into two pieces at the middle.



So tell me if Noah had superior technology that only came in thousands of years later? Or was the Bible wrong and Noah built with metals instead of wood? Food for thought.

Okay so evidently, Noah couldn't have fit in all the animals. So to explain the diversity of species, we must thus use evolution. That the surviving species on Noah's ark must have evolved and divided into a lot of subspecies after the flood. And apparently all this evolution took place in less than 6,000 years - 8,000 years ago?

So tell me, if evolution happened long time ago at a very fast rate, then why can't we observe that happening now? One of the facts must be incorrect. Take a guess?



Another flaw in Noah's ark story was that given that only 2 pairs (or 7 pairs for clean animals) of each species is on the ark, it will contradict with the variety of genes present in the animals today. One pair of animals of the same species has only a tiny pool of genes available for their next generation. This is called a bottleneck population.

Imagine this:


Although prior to the flood the gene pool is big, when a pair of animal of the same species that were brought on the ark and were then bred afterwards, all their offsprings and subsequent generations will have the same if not similar genetic materials.

If we had the same genetic materials, we'll all be looking very alike today, all our genetic materials came from Noah's family. And we will be very prone to diseases as all of us have the same level of immunity. Same thing applies to other animals, as soon as a deadly virus starts spreading amongst a population of animals, none of them will survive as they have the same level of immunity. And we'll see mass extinctions of species of land animals due to microbial life attacks, but this is not happening, so I assumed all terrestial animals including humans have a large gene pool and some of the genes have stronger immunity against certain diseases.

So how could you explain, again, the vast variety of gene in a gene pool of a species living today? There can only be two explanations:

One - Evolution happened in a smaller scale, which is micro-evolution, and the variety of gene pool of a species came when mutations happened to their genetic materials.

Two - Noah's Ark story never happened, it was always evolution all the way.



Phew... This must be one of the longest article I've ever written. But what am I hoping to convey to you? Why do I write this?

It's simple, I'm merely saying, to accept the 7 Days of Creation you must also without doubt accept the Theory of Evolution too because any other ways of explaining the shortcomings of the Bible would make far less sense. i.e: Divine intervention, blah blah blah...

So yes, evolution is a therefore a proven theory, directly by science and indirectly by the Bible, it doesn't matter if 7 Days of Creation really happened or not.



Lastly, I'm quoting the late Carl Sagan, one of the most brilliant minds in astronomy and cosmology. He once talked a little about the origin of the universe and God. It goes something like this:

If we are to explaing the origin of universe by saying that God created the universe, then we are left with a harder question to answer. Who/What created God? If something or someone created God, then who created THAT Creator? By explaining the universe in this manner doesn't really explain anything at all!

But what if we explain by saying God was always there and He is timeless and eternal? If you can accept the fact that God has always been there before the universe and time began, then why is it that you cannot accept that the universe is eternal and has always been there? Do we really need a creator to explain the origin of universe?

And so I'm using the same argument to present the case of Evolution. By believing the Bible you must also believe that evolution is true, otherwise the stories in the Bible will not be true. If you can believe that evolution is true, then why not believe that evolution has been going on for billions of years instead of 10,000 years? I really don't see any reason why we need both the Bible and the Theory of Evolution when one of them is sufficient to explain everything.



So that's pretty much everything I have to say now. I'm expecting peoples to disagree with me, it's okay I understand :) . Thank you for reading and till next time, cheers~

11 Dimensions of the Multiverse

.This must be one of my most random post of all time LOL!

Anyways, I was studying today and a piece of unlucky paper ended up in my hands, so I started scribbling random notes that became this...












Enjoy, have fun making sense out of it :)

*If you don't understand what does it mean, come and ask me XD

Till next time, cheers~

The Worst God Argument

I remember just prior to this school break, we had one interesting Malay period. It was a Thursday afternoon, 1:20p.m. was the time. We were in the chemistry lab for what will be the last class before our holidays began.

Our Bahasa Melayu teacher was teaching Malay Literature, and the particular poem he taught that day was the heated topic of discussion.

The poem goes like this, it talks about an old man who is trying to find religion because he had lived in the darkness of having no religious faith for all the years. He realised that he had sinned greatly for not having enough religious education throughout his life, and is feeling guilty with a little bit of worriness. His old age hampers his efforts to learn more about religion, but he swears all his heart that his faith to Allah is undivided.

Well... It's a pretty decent piece of poem I'd say, but being in our class, religion topics will always be subjected to debates. Then the teacher went on and talked a bit about religion, well, in fact, he talked quite a lot. He said that God is the supreme almighty being that is always watching over us, and we should be nice, even though we can't see him, etc...



Alright, I'mma pause it there and talk a bit about the religious beliefs in our class. For those who doesn't know, there are 3 major groups of religious views in this world, according to my interpretion.

1. Theism - The belief that there's a God(or many deities) out there and is constantly monitoring us. The God(s) is/are all powerful and has the ability to interfere and alter our lifes.
   
2. Deism - The belief that God created the universe and seeded the universe with life but does not interact with the universe in any ways.
3. Atheism - The belief that there's no God ever.

Okay, in case any of you guys are wondering, I belonged to the second group - The deists, even though I'm a Buddhist. My belief is that the existence of God itself is a hypothesis, and until now, yet to be genuinly proved or disproved. So I'm actually open to the views that God exists, but I'm sceptical(note: doubt) that the Almighty himself/herself/itself(If God beared any gender at all) had actually interacted with humans. I mean (I know this will sound a bit arrogant, so sorry if you decided to take it seriously), why would an all powerful God care how we live in Earth anyway? We're so small in this universe that God created, so minute that God himself will have trouble finding us everytime he decided to give us a visit. But don't get me wrong, I do believe in God, but not in a way that I would pray to him asking for favor, because I know he wouldn't care. Even if he does, God would seem unfair, unjust, and I would look selfish for getting the favor when others don't.

Alright, as far as I'm concerned, there are a few other deist/atheist in our class, notable ones including Esmond and Yin Pin, maybe Zhong Xin LOL!. And Song Guang being known by us as "The Holy One" XD, but it's all good intention la, he knows the most about The Bible(I think :P) among the students in our class ma.



The few of us created a mildly heated debate with our teacher. It was when he started to say that God exists even when we don't see him. That I understand, that's his point of view, but it got worse when he decided to emphasis on his point.

He said," God is just like air, you can't see it, but it exists."

I went "OMFGWTFPWNZOR!!!"

Of all the religious arguments about the existence of God, this is REALLY REALLY the WORST one I've ever heard. I've seen many documentaries, debates in this topic and this is just the most ignorant statement a person has ever made in advocating the existence of God.

Then we started to debate with him. Actually, what we're trying to say is that you can't compare air with God. But being the Bahasa Melayu teacher he is, I accept his ignorance lar, because by explaining further we'll move into the realm of science where he'll start to look awkward.



So let me get this argument straight. By saying you can't see air and therefore it doesn't exist, he is actually forgetting the fact that humans have 5 senses. We can feel the air, we can smell the air in form of scents, we can hear the air in form of winds, we can even taste the air given it is saturated with some other compounds.

On the contrary, we can't feel God by touch, we can't smell God, we can't hear God, we can't taste God, and we can't see God. The only way we know God exists, some people claimed, is through the special 6th sense, which until now is not truly proven to exist. Therefore we can't prove that God exists, but we can't disprove it either.

AND!!! He was wrong, we can in fact see air, how? Dry Ice is a very good example. Dry ice itself is frozen carbon dioxide, which is a component of the air. There you go, we can see air, but only not in it's gaseous form. And there are many other "see-able" airs like liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen, they're in liquid form and we can see it. That's why I said teacher gave the worst comparison of something with God I've ever heard.



Then we discussed with him about a few other religious topics too, including Song Guang who asked him a funny yet sensitive question. But I'll leave the details for another day when I'm free to talk about it again, it should be interesting for me and you :)

So, until next time, cheers~

Moon Eclipse?

Just saw something strange about the moon, it's in orangy red colour. Maybe it's lunar eclipse, refer to the picture below, the full cycle of a lunar eclipse. Hmm...But I can't see the moon now since it's blocked by the clouds. Ah well...



Today I went for training as usual. Something interesting happened, the prince and princess came for practice too! LOL I'm not kidding, Tuanku Sultan Mizan's son and daugther came to learn golf from my Sifu. :D

They're just normal human beings just in case your wondering...Duh~ Didn't manage to take their pictures. Ah well...



My sifu let me see his guitar today. Well, not just any guitar or so he claimed, it's the Gibson Hawk series or something like that, and it's a limited item. There's a unique serial number for each guitar of that series, cool! And he said one thing, my sifu said that when he retire from music he's gonna need someone to inherit the guitar, and maybe it's me! Haha...I'm being ridiculous, but come to think of it, my sifu will definitely give or at least sell that guitar to me when he really retires, for one I'm very close to him, and his son and daughter doesn't play guitar, might as well pass it to me right? Hohoho... I am already imagining me holding that guitar in my hands, sweet!

Alright, time to sign off. Till next time, cheers~

Dr. Michio Kaku and String Theory

I'm writing this all out of worship and admiration xD .

Anyways, I'm sure none if not only some of you had ever heard of Dr. Michio Kaku. Well who is he you asked? 

There you go...


Looked familiar? Well of course, he's quite a famous TV personality, usually featured in science documentaries, especially if it's about physics. 


Here's a brief description of him:

"Michio Kaku, b. January 24, 1947,  is a Japanese-American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs and a best-selling author."

More info of him here - Wikipedia



So, what's he famous for? He's known for engaging in the String Theory, or the would-be-known as "Theory of Everything", he's especially insightful in this field of physics.

Ah...To write about him would take a lot of time. Anyways, I actually wanted to share some videos of his interviews.

Warning: These are good interviews, but not recommended for those who sleeps at  words of physics.










And here another set of documentary that talks about String Theory

BIGGER WARNING: This will be much more hard to comprehend than the vids above. You are warned~