01. bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. swam with wild dolphins
03. climbed a mountain
04. taken a ferrari for a test drive
05. been inside the great pyramid
06. held a tarantula
07. taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. said 'I love you' and meant it
09. hugged a tree
10. done a striptease
11. bungee jumped
12. visited paris
13. watched a lightning storm at sea
14. stayed up all night long and watch the sun rise
15. seen the northern lights
16. gone to a huge sports game
17. walked the stairs to the top of leaning tower of pisa
18. grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. touched an iceberg
20. slept under the stars
21. changed a baby's diaper
22. taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. watched a meteor shower
24. gotten drunk on champagne
25. given more than you can afford to charity
26. looked up the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer (i have 4 =D)
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo (fake one)
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a cheque
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. ... more than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
140. Wrote articles for a large publication
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a seizure
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone's heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. ... and gotten 86’ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196: Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ
198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199: Written your own role playing game
200: Been arrested

da vinci code game

i just love this game.

10 stars! dan brown would have spoken to me if not for the fact that he lives across the pacific ocean. and i have 2 emails from Robert Langdon and Jonas Faukman in my gmail.

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some of the riddles are coded in the perfect square method which i coded some of my posts with and nobody took the time to decode. =(

anyway, if you do try, you would have to figure out the size of the square i used. muahahahah

its very tedious too as there is another step to solving my posts. it can be done in seconds unless you find a website.

some posts have a third step if im not wrong. but thats really simple to replace.

im sure i can do this easily

i have a bad habit of oversimplifying many things.

firstly, i guess because im always very confident of myself. =P
another reason is that during this year, many assignments regardless of subject require a personal definition of certain words.

that would lead to oversimplification as the argument would only work based on your meaning of the word. for example, 'experience' (see previous post).

another example is my answer for the ss exam. the question asked for my opinion on 'disregarding the past as only the future mattered'.

my answer was that if living in the future refered to a state of the world, then it would be possible to live in the future. for example, if living in the future meant that everybody migrated to live on the moon, then if technology advanced so rapidly that everybody lived on the moon, then they would be living in the future.
see? oversimplification. my definition is not useful at all.

what i can conclude is that not every word should be given a definition as that limits the meaning of the word as well as the argument.

but for some words like 'censorship' a definition should be given as that tells the reader where the author is coming from. - from mr koh.

its all in the body

it is possible to climb a mountain in singapore, even if the highest lump of soil here is only considered a hill.

if everyone wore high heels and climbed up bukit timah repeatedly, then the experience would be similar to climbing up a mountain. by experience, i mean how tired and how challenging the climb is. its hard to achieve the temperature drop and lack of oxygen in the air but i suppose one could fan him/herself more and more vigourously after more trips up the hill. and for the oxygen part, one can restrict himself to only breathing through his mouth or something. haha

ok, the above suggestions are really a bit far fetched but my point is that it is technically possible to experience anything, anywhere. that is if the definition of 'experience' is for your body to use up a certain amount of energy in a certain period of time, to feel cold, hot, to smell something and so on.

since 'experiencing' something is based on the 5 senses, then age, health and familiarity would be important factors to take note.

if i ate 3 pieces of pizza when im 5 years old, then i would be very full, but if i ate it when im 20 years old, then i'll probably still feel hungry.

if i eat pizza when i have a cold, then it wouldnt taste good. but it would be delicious if im healthy and can taste it.

if i can only eat pizza once a year, then it would be extremely tasty and valuable to me. if i can eat pizza everyday, then it wouldnt taste as good and taste boring.



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when i decided to write this post i thought of an example- when watching tv, i saw a female guest star speaking and suddenly i felt really sad because i realised i spoke like her, very jerkily and the main point doesnt come across straight away.

but now i dont see the link with my point above.

bukit timah day 1

the 5 of us- christine, subra, wilbur, chun han and i had a trek in bukit timah hill in the rain today. when going down the slope, we saw a school of japanese kids, probably 9 or 10 years old. its propotional isnt it? 15 yr old vips climbing mt fugi and 9 to 10 yr olds climbing bukit timah. plus, it was raining in both cases. haha

our mentor was ms wang, and she went through the scientific method with us and we were asked to come up with 5 questions each when trekking. some of my questions were not scientific ones, according to her. like whether the part of the forest i saw near the path was representative of the entire forest. and rather than questioning why most of the leaves were dark green (which is common), a better question would be like "why are some leaves red?" which is questioning the uncommon/abnormal.

there were questions like "why is moss slippery?"and ms wang said that that was not a good question too, simply because moss contains water. another question was whether vines could identify what was supporting it on its upward climb. for example, if a vine is placed in between a tree and a lamp post, which one would it choose to attach to?

a good question asked by christine was why was it that some leaves on the same plant had different shapes. shes really observant i must say, i never ever thought of that question or even paid close attention to the consistency of the shapes of leaves.

why are there so many plant species? apparently this is a huge question for many scientists and there is no answer for it yet. i thought it was simply because the wind and sea is favourable and blows all the seeds over to the tropics and because of favourable conditions, many animals like to travel here, bringing over the seeds. ms wang said something about competition but she didnt elaborate.

she gave mr teo 5 research topics and he picked how landscape patterns affect ecology. another topic was to study the behaviour of orangutans and to suggest possible improvement to the orangutans' life. isnt it interesting? i havent been to the zoo for a long long time and it would be fun to observe how much time the animals spend scratching each other, swinging around or basking in the sun. it would be especially rewarding to have our plan getting accepted, and perhaps improving their lives by building a playground or having a bigger enclosure.

i asked ms wang what our research topic of how landscape patterns affect ecology would lead to and she said that perhaps bukit timah nature reserve could be linked back to the central catchment area which was divided by the construction of BKE. by building a bridge for the animals to cross? i have no idea how it can be done.