Ok so I've not been updating...reason?my notebook was sent back to the factory and changed the motherboard, heat sink and keyboard...anyways I'm back now, so enjoy...I hope.
This was sent to me last night by a friend..and if you look at the parent pictures..they do look a bit like the lady from my previous post which fell in love with her student. I don't know bout you but I see a resemblance in the eyes of these 'coockooo' people.
The stepfather of a 2-year-old girl lost control and beat her to death because she wouldn't say "please" and "yes sir," an attorney for the girl's mother said Wednesday.
A body found last month in Galveston Bay is believed to be that of the little girl, Riley Ann Sawyers, though DNA tests are pending.
Her mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, and stepfather, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, were arrested Saturday.
Trenor's attorney, Tommy Stickler Jr., also said Wednesday that Trenor is pregnant.
According to court documents, Trenor, 19, told police she and her husband killed the girl in July and hid her body in a shed before dumping it in the bay.
And 2 year old Ridley Ann...is no longer around to see her 3rd birthday. What goes on in these people mind when beating up a 2 year old?harder?no pain no gain? someone should cut their heads open and study their brains and not let them live another day.
Here's one story that would get you wondering where has the world come to..or what is love? I've always doubt the word love when it comes out of a white man or girl's mouth. Call me racist but most of them use the word so...er..meaningless.
EL CENTRO, Calif. - As they parted outside a Mexican police station, the Nebraska teacher who ran off with a 13-year-old tearfully told the boy that she would always love him. But it's doubtful she will see him again anytime soon — unless the boy, an illegal immigrant, is allowed back in the U.S. to testify against her.
A federal magistrate judge in El Centro denied bail Wednesday to Kelsey Peterson, 25, who agreed to be sent to Nebraska to face charges that she fled to Mexico with the intention of having sex with the boy ..... ..... He said the pair had sexual intercourse "maybe twice" earlier this year, before the boy was sent to a youth camp in Nebraska after trying to run away from home. ..... ..... The boy called his former teacher "my best friend" but said she wasn't a girlfriend. "I could tell her anything," he said. "She would listen." ..... ..... "She said to the youngster that she loved him and would always love him in her heart," said Alfredo Arenas Moreno of the Baja California state police. She expressed no regrets and felt it was unfair to be separated from her 8-year-old daughter.
If you read the whole article and look at that lady picture, she don't look like anyone with a right mentality if you ask me.
"Come teacher educate you a bit on sex ok boy? Yes you may be only 13 but what the heck, its US and you're an immigrant..so let me welcome you with our culture."
and the boy would be thinking..what the hell..it's free and I'm a virgin (maybe).
He don't even think of her as his girlfriend and yet they could do it..TWICE..he THINKS, yea right!..it was a real blur moment where it could have been more then 10-40 times that night but yea it felt like twice...that was a right number to tell the judge. Anymore might scare them.
I bet there are student who date their teachers in KL too but we don't get juicy news like that. I know someone who is dating a lecturer in Lim Kok Wing and also a student in that college. I wonder how come no action has been taken on them..oh well. as long as her marks are not bias nothing is wrong right?and how would we even know if there has been some hanky panky in mark giving? we don't that the best part!
So the other day I was talking to a friend about this Open Social thing from my previous post. It seemed that all these "fate" issues that have been going around the internet where me meeting a girl somewhere is pretty much a pre-plan issue. I mean like it's only a matter of how much of social sites surfing or blog hopping till I meet this girl which I would eventually fall for.
So there's no more meetings and falling in love the old school way anymore?like meeting in coffee shops, parties, reunion and the old wishing well or fountain. Fate has found it's need to upgrade itself I guess, we're moving towards the digital era and so is our love life. Though many of us would still not agree about meeting their partners online there is still a whole lot who do. I'm one of those who don't really believe that meeting someone from the internet is dangerous and such, as I believe if someone who really wants to rape you...it doesn't matter if he's your dad or boyfriend who you've known since you were sucking your bottle could still the same. Of course at this point you might tell me the risk is a lot slimmer as you may know that long term bottle sucking boyfriend of your and your father for a much longer time. wouldn't that odd be the same to a stranger if you take some precautions like....lets say don't enter his bedroom?or...take his offer to send you home?or...walk in the back alley with him? common if you're in a public are, I would say the chances of being safe with him is the same or at least almost the same as being with your father.
get ready to be eaten alive!
There are some off who believe in trying as many partners as we can till we find the right one. Some would label these as "desperado" or in some cases "players". What ever they are called I guess some people believe that the galaxy is their limit, and what better place to reach the whole world with out having to fly and waste a ton of money dating, CYBER DATING! be in or be left out..haha! for those who remember the old irc/icq days weird lingo's like ROFL, LOL, TTFN, LMAO, BRB, AFK, _|_ and lots more which I could barely remember..are we heading back to those times? some of us may know that fashion goes round in circles does these dating trend adopt the same formula?
Far beyond the galaxy lies....my love to be found... *takes a deep breath*ah lou pooooorrr where are you arrrr~
Do tell me what you think of relationships these days, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been experiencing these online thingy and have my own believes. It would be interesting to hear your point of views.
*News I know I've been announcing around about the plan to have a podcast. So I shall make it an announcement here as well. If you are interested in joining me in my podcast do hit me a mail at smallstripes (gmail) and we shall talk about it. If you have a blog which you think is interesting and would like me to talk about it and share it with the audience please do tell me as well send your url and a brief explanation on why should me/we visit your blog.
So what is this Open Social? In simple terms it's a set API that will allow developers to create web application for varius web sites without having to worry bout the architecture of their backend. I look at this as a standardization of developing a middleware like bridge where developers can make use of the data of these social sites to reach out to more audience.
Social networks have seen that next wave, and have started opening up developer APIs to enable third-party innovation on their websites. This is a great thing, but it has also led to a growing number of APIs which a developer must learn. So we took a look at the state of the web and asked how we could make development easier for both websites and developers. Out of that exercise came OpenSocial.
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs that will work on many different social websites, including MySpace, Plaxo, Hi5, Ning, orkut, and LinkedIn, among others. In addition, this allows developers to learn one API, then write a social application for any of those sites. Learn once, write anywhere, if you will. And because it's built on web standards like HTML and JavaScript, developers don't have to learn a custom programming language.
Perhaps most interestingly, we will see social capabilities move into new contexts. OpenSocial will also work in non-traditional social contexts, such as on Salesforce.com and Oracle. With a common set of APIs, it will be even easier to extend social functionality. Beyond the many fun and entertaining social applications we already have seen, we think we'll see a number of social applications emerge in business contexts.
There is an example in the video where there is this calender widget where it tells the user there is an event coming up and not only that but it is also able to tell the users who are the colleagues that are going to the event and the friends of the colleague that would be going. This is really a great idea of getting people in touch and up-to-date on event and the people who are going to the event could be contacted for a meeting or something.
As you can see from the picture above there is a large number of companies that are taking part in this open social project. Open Social doesn't only benefit developers but the users as well, sites like yourminis could allow users to customize their own widget and probably place them on friendster or hi5 and other social network sites. To really know more bout Open Social here's a video on it. My words may not explain them as well as the people from google itself.
a brief text version of the video could be read from OpenSocial API blog. MySpace has also join the Open Social family.
MySpace was not initially announced as a part of OpenSocial, leading many to believe that it was absent from the project despite the fact that it already has a search and advertising contract with Google. In an interview with CNET News.com on Wednesday, Google's director of product management, Joe Kraus, said "We would love MySpace to be a part of it," which technically neither confirmed nor denied its partnership.
When smaller rival Facebook started to take off in both membership numbers and public favor after launching a developer platform in May, MySpace seemed somewhat shellshocked and began focusing on initiatives like games and original video programming that fit it more into the mold of a media hub rather than a social network. But last month, MySpace confirmed that it was working on a developer platform strategy of its own.
The release also provides a full list of launch partners for OpenSocial: Engage.com, Friendster, Hi5, Hyves, Imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart (the parent company of TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, and Vox), Tianji, Viadeo, and Xing. Several of those partners, like the high-profile Six Apart and Imeem, had not yet been confirmed otherwise.
Here’s an even more striking thought: tools for marketing written for MySpace will be tools written for marketing on OpenSocial. Social media marketing pros, get ready to rock the web. A peek inside the API documentation reveals:
Name
Postal address
Email address
IM
Phone number
Profile traits
The ability to market based on targeted, self-identified data AND have contact information makes OpenSocial a Facebook-killer from a business perspective if they don’t jump in.
Facebook however refuses to join google and are "in war" or something.
As for Facebook, they got Uber-Face-Slammed since they claim they were never briefed on the initiative and Google doesn’t seem to dispute that. That’s a bit of evil on Google’s part, but I suppose it was justifiable that they didn’t want Facebook to be able to pre-empt in any way. Facebook ought to embrace the standard despite feeling sucker punched, but they should wait until they’re ready to release support to talk about it. Here is why: I can’t imagine an app developer not supporting OpenSocial or Facebook. They’ll all do both. So what is the competitive advantage for continuing to be proprietary? Seems like they gain face (pardon the pub) if they adopt the standard. The trick is to start thinking chess moves ahead now that they see how this game will be played. What open API could Facebook kick off? They certainly have currency to persuade others with. Everyone wants to be a part of Facebook. How can they parlay that into a successful counterstroke and win the next battle? If they come up with something smart, maybe they should wait and announce that alongside support for OpenSocial.
There are 50 Million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will "Checkmate" Facebook and leave them with no moves. TechMeme has over 100 stories saying that OpenSocial is awesome and Facebook is dead. MySpace joins Google on OpenSocial initiative. OK, surely that settles it, Facebook is dead. Nope, not in my opinion.
Are Facebook users going to cancel their account? Nope, I doubt it. OK, so every tech blogger and social network developer is going to cancel their Facebook account and go to what? Orkut? Ning? Even if they did that would amount to about 5,000 users which is less than one/one hundredth of one percent of Facebook users. Or put another way 99.9999% of Facebook users will be happy to stay right where they are. And, Facebook probably adds 5,000 200,000 new users a day anyway. So the impact (revolution) will be over in one day half an hour. By next week this is old news.
From my point of view this is a start to something revolutionary as I last recall these widget stuff weren't that big of a deal and now with the help of Open Social promoting and helping more developers to create application easier. There would be a lot more applications out there for us to choose and there would be a lot of organizing and socializing through the computer compared to the current time now.
I'm really looking forward to this and would really wonder what will happen next.
Aikido is a Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba, who was born on December 14 1883. He is also known as O' Sensei (Great Teacher). It was said that he was weak in health when he was young and was encourage to take up sumo. To cut the story short as he grew older he took up and studied more martial arts before he developed Aikido.
From my understanding there are 2 branches of Aikido, Aikikai and Yoshinkan. In Malaysia you might notice some Aikido called Seishinkan or Shudokan, Seishinkan is basically Aikikai style and Shudokan is Yoshinkan.
The difference between the 2 types of Aikido is that Aikikai style follows the teaching of O' Sensei and Yoshinkan style is a branching of one of O' Sensei's student Gozo Shioda. From my observation Yoshinkan Aikido is more of the hard style compare to Aikikai Aikido, it was also said that O' Sensei first started with the hard style but as he got older he changed it to a softer style realizing it would suit his age and others. I'm not sure how far is this true so do let me know if you know. It is also said that there isn't too much of a major difference in the 2 branching of Aikido.
Gozo Shioda Soke (1915-1994)
I may not have practised Aikido for a very long time but from my reading/video watching I realize there is 2 side of Aikido. There is a philosophical side and a technical side, because O' Sensei was a very religious man and often had a lot to say bout the universe and how we unite with it. The technical part however emphasizes on the footwork, handwork and the body posture of a human. From my practice and from what new practitioners words they would say that Aikido is different from their previous martial art because in Aikido we take down our opponent by taking them off-balance and also by using the opponents energy.
Some would say that it is a very gentle art and is suitable for women or females as it does not require one to have strong arms or move at lighting speed. The theory of taking down an opponent by using their strength is pretty much like what we hear in Tai Chi or some chinese Kung Fu. Many would get scared or assume Aikido is rough and painful from all the throwing and twisting, this is not true though. If you do know how to do yourukemi (break fall) right, it would really not hurt even a bit.
As i was in Aikido class today, my teacher was talking about the things we learn and how we sometimes do not use much of our head to understand it. Yes no deny we humans tend to be spoon feed a lot and sometimes or should i say always too lazy to start thinking bout things or how things work or the reason behind why things are that way. We take things for granted and how it is because it is just the way it is. No question asked.
I also thought to myself at that moment. I use to do intensive training when I just started, still do actually. I train 4 times a week and when I just started it really took a lot of my strength and often I felt as though my back was going to fall apart. I would come back each day with muscles and bones aching and also getting injured. Adding up with my "excellent" sleeping habits in the early...real early mornings. It's just not good for my body at all.
Back to what I wanted to say, I felt that training this much is only making me memorize things or should I say I'm emphasizing on muscle memory more then depending or training my reflexes. I use to want to be good, to be recognize or at least be somewhere good enough to achieve something, thus practicing a lot at the start really made me seem some improvement in myself, I obviously felt happy with what I learnt and all. The longer I practised, I soon realize that I'm no longer improving or I don't see myself improving. Tony Smibert once said in his seminar that in Aikido, you would see yourself improving and then not moving and then improving again. This pretty much related to a human learning curve if you ask me.
Tony SmibertSensei is 6th Dan. Vice-President of Australia Aiki-kai and the Vice-Chairman of the International Aikido Federation
Sometimes I felt less motivated when I don't learn anything, classes don't seem interesting and boring at times but I still went on. Knowing that this feeling of unwillingness and not motivated will eventually go off. I guess this very much apply in life too, sometimes when we are given a job or something to do which is not at our interest at all, it seems like it takes a lifetime to complete that task. If we actually stick to it and finish it, sometimes things wouldn't be that bad.
Thing that we do in life don't always get better and eventually when things stop getting better we shouldn't give up or lose out motivation. Carry on and maybe things would get better, and if gets worst..I would say not to give up, sure talking is cheap but there's no other choice right? Moving forward and constantly moving forward is something not everyone is capable of doing. It's is normal to stop a while and rest but many would see it as being left behind the pack. I've live most of my life doing things alone and I don't agree that one always needs a pack to migrate, sure it's a bonus to have a partner but sometimes it's a test from God or whoever is up there to let us see and realize the challenge in life.
Those who were fan of Hermione Jean Granger, this is a real spiced up version of her. I remember some friends saying that they fell in love with her character while reading the book, and after seeing this video I wonder if this is what they imagine her to be.
I got this video from bluefrogX blog. So thanks for the video.
