Time Machine

Found something interesting on time machine...

Time travel could be a reality within just three months, Russian mathematicians have claimed. They believe an experiment nuclear scientists plan to carry out in underground tunnels in Geneva in May could create a rift in the fabric of the universe.

Scientists say that time travel could be a reality in just three months. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hopes its "atom-smashing" tests - which aim to recreate the conditions in the first billionth of a second after the "Big Bang'" created everything - will shed invaluable light on the origins of the universe.

But Irina Aref'eva and Igor Volovich, of Moscow's Steklov Mathematical Institute, say the energy produced by forcing tiny particles to collide at close to the speed of light could open the door to visitors from the future.

According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, any large amounts of matter or energy will distort the space and time that surrounds it. If the energy or mass is large enough, it is claimed that time can be distorted so much that it folds back on itself - creating a wormhole, or time tunnel, between the present and the future.

But Dr Brian Cox, a member of CERN and one of Britain's leading experts in particle physics, is highly sceptical about the Russian claims, calling them "nothing more than a good science fiction story".

However, Einstein's laws of physics suggest that time travel is only possible into the past as far as the point when the first time machine was invented.

Time machine, a dream or reality?

Unforgettable Travel Experience

Recently AirAsia and MAS have offered cheap tickets, and many tour agencies offer various attractive tour packages. Have you planned your holiday trip already? Talking about travelling, it reminds me about one of the unforgettable experience that happened in Hatyai many years ago.

A few years back, I went to Langkawi with my friends. From Langkawi, we took the local tour package to Hatyai...just the ground tour arrangement. We took ferry from Langkawi to Hatyai. After reaching the jetty, we were asked to sit in a special taxi that will send us to our hotel in Hatyai. The Thai taxi is very different from the taxi in our country, the taxi just like a small lorry with roof and wooden chairs at the back. More than 10 people just squeezed in that small "taxi", some tourists went to Phuket, some went to Hatyai. The journey took more than one hour...and we just squeezed like sardin fish. Then bad thing happened...started raining. The rain poured inside...helped us to wash our face. Luckily the rain was not too heavy.

When we reached the town area, we were so happy thinking that we will reach the hotel soon. But the nightmare started. The driver didnt know the actual location of our hotel. The driver sent other passengers to their hotels first. When we reached the last hotel, other passengers went down and my friend went to the toilet. We told the driver to wait for a while and we thought he understood that. But when other passengers took all their luggages, the driver drove away. We asked him to stop...but he couldnt understand what we said (in English). Oh no...my friend was left behind without anything, no luggage and her purse was with me. Die....my goodness...at that moment I truly can understand the situation where a chick tries to talk to a duck. Finally, the driver stopped and let us down in front of a shopping complex. He couldnt find the hotel and he also couldnt understand what we said....so we took all our luggages and walked back to the hotel where my friend had been left. Luckily we still remembered the way back to that hotel. Thank goodness...my friend was waiting for us in front of the hotel. After that, we took another taxi to our hotel. Despite that bad experience, we did enjoy the rest of the trip.

The lesson learnt : if you are not familiar with the language used in that country, better join tour or go with someone who can communicate in that language.

Investment

KLCI reached its highest (1500++ pts) in the history at the mid of January 2008. Everyone is so optimistic, thinking that our economy is improving. However, since the announcement of the dissolved of parliament, KLCI kept dropping...less than 10 days already dropped to 1370 pts. That's called volatility of the stock market. Do you like roller-coaster? If you do, then definitely you will enjoy the excitement of current market trend. US economy is facing recession, sooner or later the negative effects will spread to the world since US is the largest importer of the world. The only people that can make money now are those who have excellent TA skills or those insiders; otherwise better stay sideline.

The volatility of KLCI will affect investment tools like shares market, unit trusts, bonds, ASN, ASW, EPF, insurance (policy with equity investment) etc. The return of these tools will be lower this year as compared to last year. We have to experience once again the recession period just like 10 years ago *-*. I had closed my position in the investment...just thinking that this year is not a right time to do it.

好康介绍

音乐

你看过超级星光大道（台湾的综艺节目）吗？喜欢星光帮的成员吗？杨宗瑋，林宥嘉，潘裕文，许仁杰等人已经发唱片了。好听的歌曲不少，例如：因为我相信，总在我身旁，你是我的眼，那首歌等等。歌声温柔动人，歌词触人心弦，旋律美妙动听。。。好歌！

烘焙食谱

喜欢吃蛋糕吗？想不想亲手做蛋糕给情人，父母或朋友以聊表自己的心意呢？烘焙其实不是很难，照着食谱做，成功率蛮高的。如果失败了，也不要紧，失败是成功之母嘛！介绍大家一个网页，有1000道食谱，包括蛋糕，面包，饼干和西点等。最棒的地方是还有影音教学（video teaching），所以更清楚。

Delights of Baking : http://www.skybake.com/recipe.asp
(included in the LINKS corner)

Animation Movie

Recently, I had watched two animation movies together with my niece - "Bee Movie" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks". Both of them are good - entertaining and got moral values, suitable for kids. Actually I had watched most of the animation movies from Disney and Dreamworks, their movie products are really excellent.

At the beginning of "Bee Movie", there are a few sentences which I think quite meaningful:

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway.

Because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.

I like the last sentence...real cool! :D

Fireworks

The most exciting moment during CNY is 12 a.m. of the first day. Everyone stays up and waits for the midnight. When it is almost 11:45 p.m. , some people start playing the fireworks and firecrackers. You can hear the big bang here and there....

烟花的灿烂粉饰了新春的夜空，那一瞬间的美丽点燃了人们对新一年的盼望和希望，也象征新春的来临。。。祝大家新年快乐，新年蒙恩！

Miracle

I had been sick during CNY...not very serious, a bit fever + running nose + sore throat...still can walk and talk, so still consider OK! I remembered two days before CNY, my nose got worse during the night. I woke up at night, breathless because both of my nostrils got stuck...cant function, so need to breathe like fish (using mouth temporarily). I tried all means to keep my nose warm, massage and rub it continuously, but in vain. Then I remembered God, so I pray to Him. After a while, my nose can breathe again...it's a miracle. Thanks God for listening my prayer. Then I slept again z z z Z Z Z... :D

Gong Xi Fa Cai