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31/03/2008
Banana God
The cultural war between creationists and scientists+everyone else has taken hold on Youtube over the past few year... with videos debunking literal interpretations of "holy" books getting millions of bickering comments.
I too tried to put my 2 cents into the whole ignorant-design debate, only to encounter the unbelievable believers.
A devout Christian yesterday suggested that I should look at the perfect banana, as the evidence that god exist. [Serious!] He said the banana is just too amazing and has to be designed by god for human consumption since it:-
1) Is perfect for the human hands to hold
2) Has non-slippery surface
3) Has a handle at one end to remove the wrapper
4) Has color indication on the surface about it's content
5) Green is too early for eating
6) Yellow is just right
7) Black is too late
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10) Nicely shaped for the mouth
Blimme.
So I wrote back:-
1) Fits 4 monkey hands + elephant trunk as well
2) Will be slippery when pedestrians step on it
3) Elephants don't peel, neither did stupid humans when banana was 1st popularized 130 yr ago
4) Oh so you do have common sense!
5) U don't have 2 eat green banana only bcos scientists discovered ethylene
6) There're multiple banana varieties with different colours including red, purple
7) You have use black mushy ones to bake banana bread
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10) so is my penis.
[Yes I did.]
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29/03/2008
Queens of Night
The notion of seeing Mozart's "Magic Flute" in the Midwest is sufficiently ridiculous that I decided to give it a try the other day.
Although I know absolutely nothing about opera, I did have a CD with this Queen of the Night Aria "Der Hölle Rache", which was wonderfully angelic, except that...
no, it shouldn't be. not according to the theater's German->English subtitle that I was trying NOT to read.
This lovely song, one of the most celebrated pieces of opera, is actually about vengeance, murder and revenge~!
O_o
This Queen was persuading her daughter to kill someone.
Shocking.
Even more so than our soprano missing her top note.
Perhaps Damrau's Angry Witch of the Night was indeed more appropriate...
[Gosh I didn't know Mozart was so much *more* than a musical genius. Who knew he'd criticize the Catholic church and gender inequality... in a 200yo fairy tale?!]
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25/03/2008
Many Soldiers' Worth
I love The Onion :)17:40 Posted in HomoSEXual | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email this
24/03/2008
East of Troost
Kansas City, winner of the All American City 2006, is currently the 6th murder capital of the US and it shows. Everyday I hear ambulances and police cars rushing around town. Every evening news is dominated by reports of gangsters shooting, kids setting old lady on fire, boyfriend killing girlfriend and her unborn child, etc. Most of these happened in the ghetto and, like it or not, a lot of the suspects were black.
The first week I arrived at KC, people told never to venture east of the infamous Troost street into the black neighbourhood, where I'll not be welcomed. Indeed, when I drove around that block with my instructor, absolutely everyone within the 100m radius wanted to know why this Chinese guy was in a car with a 60yo black man. One even attempted to open our door and get inside. Scary.
Worrying that this may condition me to equate black faces with danger and turn me into a racist, I took this racist test called the "Implicit Association Test (IAT)" I found on BBC.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
As part of the internet "Project Implicit" run by 3 scientists in the US, this test claims to dig out your deepest "automatic" attitude towards race, regardless of what you're willing to express outwardly.
After 15min of button pressing, the computer said no.
"I have a moderate automatic preference for Black People compared to White People."
Must be Obama.
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22/03/2008
Boys History
I don't fall in love easily and heaven knows when I will be ready again. But it will happen again, I just know it.
This very someone who is still a complete stranger, with an entirely different background and orbit. Somehow, we will defy the stupid zodiac, collide in space and derail each other from our orderly insignificance.
I shall be patient at my telescope, until this Big Bang of a new universe.
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19/03/2008
It's not political, it's personal
http:///www.letcaliforniaring.org/getouradseen
Everyone wants a happy ending.
As Obama said in his defining moment yesterday, we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction: toward a better future for our children and our grandchildren.
They still haven't raised enough money to air this ad in California. If you wanna help, go & donate at http:///www.letcaliforniaring.org/14:35 Posted in HomoNATural | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
If only this message can get to where it's most needed
10 years after Matthew Shepard's brutal murder, kids are still dying because of their sexuality. In America of all places.
We need a better future~
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14/03/2008
Life is full of loneliness is full of life
[click 4 panorama]
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A friend once told me that in Goa, cows would gather at the beach and watch the sunset everyday. Wonder what that's like.
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I have so much love to give. Where are all the people who deserve it?
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My sister got me some Twinings Classics Darjeeling from London. Once it's opened, the musky scent will fade. So I've been sniffing and staring at it for the past 3 months, not wanting to use it...
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11/03/2008
Who's worse than terrorists?!
[Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern caused outrage by saying homosexual agenda is the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam.]
I'm just so fed up with these self-righteous people abusing their freedom of HATE speech.
ENOUGH!
If this is her speaking against racial equality, abusing the Bible to justify enslavement of Blacks as descendants of Ham like they used to, she would have been REMOVED for her office RIGHT AWAY without question.
How can this society find racism intolerable but homophobia OK?!
Discrimination is NOT part of religious freedom!
This is why I think holy books are outdated. This is why I think religion as a guide of morality is irrelevant. This is why religious bigots who pick & mix their favourite Biblical paragraphs and use them as a weapon is dangerous.
Love and let love.
CNN
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10/03/2008
Yet Another Chinese Shame (Rated 18/over)
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Talk Dirty in the Conference Room
Every monday morning, people in my lab take turn to present a progress report. I've only joined this new behaviour & memory lab for a couple of months and I'm still surprised by the kind of things we talk about, out loud, in the conference room.
Here's an excerpt of this morning's conversations on courtship behaviour...
"Now see, he's approaching the female, singing her songs, and he'll try to lick her belly"
"Gosh, this mutant male only need to court her for 2 seconds b4 she gave it up"
"So are the mutants defective in courting or memory?"
"Are you pairing up mutant boys with mutant girls? or mutant boys with normal girls?"
"If you put a male with a female together in a large chamber, what's the chance of copulation, say, within 20 minutes?" (100%)
"They have shown in Austria that if you put a virgin male with 3 different mated aggressive females in a roll, then he will remember and lose his libido for up to 9 days" (> human 20 years)
"We have spent tens of thousands of dollars installing those 8 cameras, we should be able to film 8 pairs of animals having sex at the same time"
Hehe. Bet you can't tell this is worthy of a Nobel Prize... :P
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