Nov 17, 2008

Impatients balsamina

Reading my Lab Manual and wondering what is this Impatients thingy... what's the plant??? So I'm impatient and do a quick research on Wikipedia.

Wah! I'm so excited to know this is my most loved plant during my childhood years!!!

Oh it was so fun to throw the ripen fruits (which that time I thought as seeds) and they will pop open and burst out all the tiny seeds inside! very fun. Just like this stuff

Once upon a time it was so abundant at my house's backyard and I don't know why now I feel very happy to think of the plant. Sweet memories.

Now think of the plant make me think of the big old white cat...
Not this one...this is 1 of her many kittens...most of her kittens don't know how either died or disappeared to nowhere...and this is one of her longest surviving ones.

Hope she'll still be there when I go back...she was so small and cute when I was small and cute and now she's big and old and I'm big but not old.

Oh and the flowers are red, pink, purple, or white and I love most is hybrid of pink and white because it was rare.

The plants grow so fast especially after rain and they live and die and more plants will just pop out anywhere and grow and grow...and die....and new plants!

Oh Impatients balsamina...I'm remember this name forever.

Nov 9, 2008

oh basketball

I never good at playing basketball but today represented Malaysia in SouthEastAsia Games! Wah a big game. Other people all sleeping so I mengorbankan diri untuk bangsa dan negara.

So this year SEA Games is held at Michigan and only participated by 5 SEA nations because the rest didn't swim across the pacific ocean to arrive in time.

Actually this is only a SEA Games for U of Michigan

The day started not very nice with some drizzles but it doesn't matter because we are playing indoor. Then the sun shining brilliantly but it doesn't matter also.

So we have 4 games to play. Vs Indonesian students, then S'pore, then Vietnam, then Thailand.
At first look you know Malaysia's team is very weak because I'm in the team, then only have 5 players and occasionally pinjam 1 or 2 players from volleyball... Why everyone plays volleyball but not basketball...

As we never practiced before we expected to lose all to those "professional looking" teams but however we only lost 3 out of 4!!

...and the last game was never played bacause another team swims back to Thailand d...

and so...game over...

Nov 4, 2008

Beware of Scammers!

This is real fun! There are scammers everywhere in the world.

And these scammers are stupid people. really stupid. Incredibly stupid and extremely stupid and don't deserved to be called scammers but idiots.

So the story like this: I want to sell my laptop so I post on Craiglist and Facebook Marketplace. Soon Michael Worns reply from Craiglist say want to buy. So I'm quite smart to search for his name and email then discovered he's a scammer. SO bye bye la, delete the email.

Then another guy email and another woman and another guy and another guy and another idiot message... (both Craiglist and Facebook)
And all their messages: Hi seller [hi buyer :) anyone calls people like that?], how's your day? eh my daughter go to West Africa la, Nigeria la...study there lo, so I want to give her surprise, a big surprise. So I will pay you extra to cover for delivery...and ho, I'll pay you by Paypal...[wah some give me extra $100, some up to $1000!].
Oh I need your name, email, address, paypal account no. bla bla...[some request to pay me check so need address to mail to me bla bla...]

And a few are very religious idiots, which open and end their message with may God bless you. Thanks but no thanks.

And hehe here's one from a Diego guy
Q#1.is this item still available for sale? Not for you
Q#2. How long have you owned it?
Q#3. a) Have you owned it from new?b) If not how many previous owner?
Q#4. Why are you selling it? stated d, can't read ah?
Q#5. In your opinion, what sort of condition is it? stated
Q#6. Any available photo? I posted 4 photos...is he blind?
Q#7.what year is this item manufactured?
Q#8.what is the final price?
Q#9.can you help me determine the weight? ...
Q#10.Will you accept a certified Cashiers Check OR Personal Check?
Q#11.Will have a friegth company that will be available for pick-up of the
item?because the operate 7:00am to 7:00pm mon-Saturday,I will like to know your full name and address included your contact phone number and your email address,So i can payment in timely manner. I'll like to have the response to these question in your earliest convenience.
[wah so many questions!!! why so serious?]

N:B,I want you [I don't want] to respond back to me direct through my e-mail box back to my
private box at(fred_diego@yahoo.com), Also you have to [have to?] get back to me such as:

NAME: Spiderman
ADDRESS: ask batman
CITY: Gotham City
STATE: STATuE of Liberty
ZIP CODE: 12345
PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS: hahaha@haha.com
PHONE NUMBER: 911

Hope to hear from you soon. bye bye, you will never hear from me

Regards,

Fred Diego.
Very stupid la they all, not qualified to be scammers. FYI: they say will send check to you or pay via paypal but actually won't because they will fake a paypal email, or say got problem with the check whatever...and you lost everything.

Oh, actually among those idiots there are a few relatively not that stupid because they put some honest-looking display photos to deceive people.

By the way, still waiting for buyer...