Deep Blue Sea

This was one of the most amazing films that featured sharks. One of the most amazingly disgusting films about sharks that it.

Sharks were never universally feared by people until Hollywood came into play. Jaws and Deep Blue Sea revolutionized people’s fear of these animals like nothing else did. Spreading quite a bit lies at that too.

It would seem that humans became one of the foods that sharks regularly placed on the menu. Let’s totally forget the fact that humans don’t have enough meat and fat content to even be tasty enough to the shark shall we?

Watching the re-run of Deep Blue Sea made me feel sick. Not only were the characters killed every 10 minutes and the technology was clearly not up to standard, there didn’t seem to be ANY research done on sharks. Or if there was, they skewed it completely using just one singular defense: We amp-ed up their intelligence so they think differently.

But that ironically clashes so badly with the way they made the sharks hunt. Apparently according to DBS they hunt only using their sense of smell! Sharks hunt using electroreception sensing the magnetic fields around them. It is so sensitive that it can even sense an animal’s heart beating 100km away. While that is not to play down sharks’ sense of smell ( able to smell as little as one part per million of blood in seawater ), Hollywood has definitely killed a lot of shark info there.*that’s not all they killed but let’s not get started on that*

Eye candy of all time

Brad Pitt is so beautiful he makes me wanna cry

Its just another one of my randomness. He is going to be the next Sean Connery in my book. (The next sexiest oldest man on earth that is)

Its a new year. Already

Everyone is making new year resolutions.

I’m not going to bother. Resolutions never work and are only for the strong-willed, highly driven people. Well, either that or the resolutions set are really easy. Like “I’ll shower twice a day” or something. Whenever its December the 31st, you start hearing people say “Damn it, I failed my resolution for this year, next year I’ll keep to them”. But guess what? In 12 months, you hear them say the exact same thing. If they even remember their resolutions that is.

I have no resolutions planned for the year. (Never had anyway) But what I do have are hopes for the new year.

What’s foremost on my mind right now is for my BJ to give BETTER replies when I interview him. What on earth happened to that branch of my family. My god!

Blehaaaaa

Cameron was awesome.

Watched FRIENDS again today. Always awesome. The episode With Ross and Monica’s cousin got me wondering once again what on earth was deal with Joey’s dick so I went to Google it.

I was wondering if had meant that Joey had to be like the natives and be big so he had Monica make him some add-ons to make him appear larger.

Turns out they meant circumcision.

I had never really got the full idea of circumcision. But Wikipedia cleared it right up for me. Google images even provided very graphic and detailed pictures of the surgery.

One word: Ew.

But I must say I think the circumcised male anatomy looks better. And I firmly believe they are more hygienic than their uncircumcised counterparts. If there is a 30% chance of reducing HIV, it is definitely worth giving a thought.

The article also led me to read more in-dept about female genital mutilation. Or as some people PREFER to call it: female genital cutting.

Big Diff… Both equally stupid, barbaric and torturous. Makes me cringe just thinking about it. As a woman, it kills me to think that in Africa, most girls go through extreme genital mutilation without any form of pain killers.

While there are mild versions where it only involves the removal of some skin similar to male circumcision, one must note that there are no proven benefits to it. There is no purpose or argument for hygiene as there are no trapping of ammonia or urine like in the male situation. In fact statistics inflammation of wounds in infants is way higher.

But at least that is mild and there are proper medical treatments in most places.

It is, however a whole different ballgame when it comes to the extreme AND common form of FGM in Africa. It involves the entire removal of the clitoris and labia and sewing up the remaining flesh to just a small tiny hole for excreting urine and menstrual fluids.

As if it is not enough to just about kill the baby with pain, they even tie the legs of the infants together tightly for 6-8 weeks to get the wound to close up faster.

Any female out there would know just how sensitive genitals are. Imagine cutting off so much off a baby and then – for the unlucky ones who are in really backward places – use thorns to hold the remaining torn pieces together or poking them with a needle that pulls thread through already traumatized flesh.

These are common forms of FGM. The lesser used forms are even more horrific. Repeated poking of genitals with needles until they are completely unrecognizable as human parts, burning them with fire to kill the nerves. All these so that when the girl grows up she won’t commit adultery because she doesn’t feel anything during intercourse anyway.

How much of pigs can men be when they try soooo hard to keep their women with them? If you want to ensure your wife stays with you, be nice to her bitch.

FGM is so *cringe cringe cringe*

Off to Cameron

I’m setting of for Cameron Highlands tomorrow! Its going to be a really long journey up. Estimated to be about 6-7 hour drive. But the nice weather is going to make up for it all ^^

I suppose I could start on my Featurewriting stories on the way up, except that I can’t bring my Mac along. My mom is worried about theft and all. I am too, just not as much as her. Still, Mac stays in SG.

I’m going to really miss my dogs and my Sims 3 World Advt.

But I won’t miss fucking idiots pissing me off. Making a mountain out of a molehill as usual.

Will be back on Wed 23rd Dec!

Rememberance

Looking at the pictures of my JJ OG mates graduating and having a prom party, I can’t help but feel that I have missed out on a lot. Facebook holds many pictures of them rolling around on the synthetic field, having lunch at the canteen, studying at those little nooks. All of them brings me back to the really wild times we had during the first three months.

Memories always have a certain flavor to them. Sometimes you even remember a smell.

Man I miss JJ. I sometimes wish I stayed there. But then again, I would have stayed for the wrong reasons. Fun is never a good reason to stay in a school…

I never liked Chinese

I have never loved Chinese nor bothered to exceedingly well in it. I hated the many strokes and eye-crossing characters.

But I have always loved how poetic the language is. As annoying as some Cheena people make the language out to be, when in the hands of a master, Chinese can be even more melodic, dramatic, romantic and all the -tics than French. And this comes from someone who really hates Chinese.

Out of  10 words I probably only understand 4 and I have to admit those that I can get really spins my head.

So what brought on this sudden admiration of Chinese?

Music and good old drama series. (Clarification: Not Singapore made drama series. Awesome ones from overseas)

Pretty!

I might not be Catholic or Christian, but I totally wouldn’t mind getting married in a church. They are just too damn beautiful…

Yum

Quote from Hareni:

You are having the cake and eating it!!!

Agreed. Totally agreed.

While waiting for WebD lesson, I swapped another set of Sims 2 Expansion Pack for Sims 1 full collection with Josiah. The sad thing is I don’t have the time to play them at all.

My life is so sad.

Speaking from the grave

Its week five and I want to kill myself