Illusion

In my Indonesian blog, I have posted an article about an illusion (an object that deceives your eyes), but in that posting I connect it to a more absctract and broader meaning in the definition of the illusion itself, especially the illusions that happen in your life. But here in the posting, I would only like to present the illusive pictures that might entertain you in some way.



Here we go, like in the first picture below. In the picture, there are two groups of dots are displayed. The right group seems to have a bigger dot at the centre. Nope you are wrong, both central dots have the same diameter! This pic is playing tricks on your eyes!


Here in the second picture, all you have to do is to keep staring at the black dot at the centre. After a while you will see that the grey haze that surrounds the dot will start to shrink until it almost completely disappears. That's because as you focus on the central dot, your brain starts to ignore the surrounding objects! But as your focus is away from the dot, the shade begins to reappear!

In the picture below, you see yellowish green arrows on the blue background. All you have to do is to stare at them for a few seconds. You will see as if the arrows are moving very slowly.

Illusions like those above are everywhere to be found on the web. You can find them easily. I would just like to show you those illusions could be very fun and enjoyable. Feel free to look for more of them!

(Written by: Yari NK. Pictures taken from the Web)

Wimbledon!

Wimbledon is drawing near! Each year I can't wait for another Wimbledon to come. This is because Wimbledon is considered the best amongst the other Grand Slams and it is considered as the pinnacle of all tennis tournaments. The oldest grand slam classed-tournament that goes back as early as 1877 now offers equal prizes for both men and women for the very first time this year. The Centre Court's roof for the 2007 tournament is being remodelled, so for the time being there will be no roofs in the centre court. But in 2008, Wimbledon's Centre Court will be equipped with a modern retractable roof that will prevent the rain from interrupting the matches in the Centre Court.

For this year's Wimbledon, In the gentlemen's section I predict that Roger Federer will seize the fifth title in a row. While Andy Roddick and the Spaniard, Rafael Nadal will vie for the other spot in the final. In the ladies' section, the title is still open equally for Justine Henin, Maria Sharapova and Amélie Mauresmo, with the Williams sisters and several Russian top-notch players are looking for a spot in the semifinal.

Ok. I don't want to write a prolix posting on Wimbledon. If you want to know more about Wimbledon there are loads of sources on the Web for you to look for. In this posting I'd just like to welcome the annual Wimbledon. Now and for the next two weeks I want to stick my butt on the couch to enjoy the full live coverage of Wimbledon and let's see who will lift the trophies!

(Written by: Yari NK)

Maybe because I am a fool......

Scenes from OB (upper) and Bajaj Bajuri (lower)

in the course of the Indonesian television history, as far as I remember, there are only two Indonesian sitcoms that can make me as dumb as a couch potato. They are OB (Office Boy) and Bajaj Bajuri. Bajaj Bajuri, unfortunately, are no longer on any stations to be watched, the TV station which aired the sitcom cut off the programme with no distict reasons, but OB is still aired regularly in the late afternoon on weekdays.

If you ask me why do I like those coms, I don't think I have the right answer for you since up to now I still search for the most logical answer for it. Are they so funny that I pay special attention to them? Not necessarily! if we speak about the term 'funny', the ones of Srimulat or Extravaganza can also make me crack up as well as those two coms can. But those Srimulat or even something that is considered higher like Extravaganza have fed me up, while those two coms are still much of an entertaining horseplay.

What about their acts? So far I admit that they do it more than just good, but their act is not the best I have seen even though in the Indonesian scope! And the characters therein are inconsistent sometimes. Take a look at Oneng, Oneng is depicted as a woman with a double digit IQ, so foolish that she cannot digest the simplest information that is fed to her. But at times, Oneng is doing better than an average uneducated does! In some occasions, I found that Oneng spoke English (a foreign language) better than a newby does, with a good grammar though with an impaired pronunciation. Also Sascha in OB, she is supposed to be a forgetful girl with an inferior intelligence, yet in some occasions, her memory is surprisingly photographic!

Then why do I like them?? The best answer I can get is maybe because the scenes in both coms are very dynamic, it means the scenes are never trapped in a dragging dialogue! That's as close as the best answer I can get. Or maybe because I am a fool to like those coms! As foolish as the reason of why I wrote this posting with this topic!

(Written by: Yari NK)

A Counterfeit Watch (Intermissive Jocular Posting)

One day, a man took his timepiece to a watch shop to have it repaired. When he arrived at the shop, he handed over the watch to the shop owner and flowed a conversation like this:

The Shop Owner (SO) : What's happened with this watch, sir?
The Man (M) : I have no idea, it's kaput! It cost me $3000
SO : Pardon me, sir?
M : The watch cost me $3000
SO : But sir, this watch is counterfeit, it's not a genuine one! You were duped sir! Where did you buy this piece of junk???
M : I bought it at yours, moron! Almost a year ago! Where else could it be????

Thanks to sis Aisha from Malaysia, on whose blog I read this comical story! The original posting is in Malay.

(Retold in English by Yari NK)

The cheapest way of travelling à la Cyrano de Bergerac

An illustration of Bergerac's illogical way of cheap travelling

Low cost travelling is everyone's dream, it does not only belong to us who witness the magic of aerodynamic engineering today but it also belonged to everyone who lived in the past. Cyrano de Bergerac, a homosexual-suspected French writer who lived in the 17th century also had a dream of zapping himself to any places in this world at a low cost. Unfortunately de Bergerac was born two centuries before an actual air balloon flew for the first time carrying a pessenger within. His proposed way of cheap travelling was only on the text he wrote, and it is a laughing stock for everyone of us who reads his proposal today. Here is what he proposed to make a cheap far-off travelling:

De Bergerac was imagining that he had a balloon, large enough to bring him within up into the air. After he reached a noticeable height, all he had to do was to stay suspended in the air without having to move any inches. As he stayed suspended in the air, he would witness the earth rotating below, and after several hours he would land in a totally different place! De Bergerac was sure that he would be able to go to Canada from France without having to go by sea if he had a balloon he imagined!

But can we go travelling around the world as the way described by de Bergerac? Unfortunately things are not as simple as the theory that ran into de Bergerac's mind. If you are floating in the air, you don't really separate yourself from the planet earth! You are still tied together, because you are floating in the envelope of atmosphere which also participates in the earth's rotation. And the atmosphere spins together with the planet along with everything in it: clouds, airplanes, birds, insects, dusts or even viruses! Logically if the atmosphere does not rotate together with the earth, we would be always battered by a superstrong wind more terrible than the strongest hurricane we've ever witnessed in normal condition. We would take an analogy like this: suppose that you are on a motor cycle dashing at a speed of 100 kph in a very calm wind, what would you feel? Of course you would feel a strong wind coming towards you! The same case is also true for the spinning earth with the still atmosphere.

Now we understand why we can't benefit from the cheap (travelling) idea described by de Bergerac. Besides if de Bergerac's idea is applicable to actual physics, all of the commercial airlines would have already long gone, out of business!

(Written by Yari NK)

Do you really want to be an invisible man?

David McCallum

For those who were born before 1970s, do you still remember 'The Invisible Man' the series? The American series was starred by a prolific British actor, David McCallum. The series is about a scientist who experienced a terrible accident during his scientific expemeriments, resulting in his invisibleness. But fortunately this invisible man came with a good intension despite of the advantage he gained from the accident. He combatted the evil-doers along the series!

But what will you do if you become like him, an invisible man? Do you want to take the advantage to do otherwise? Imagine if you become an invisible man, you can do various malefactions for your own benefits and for your own pleasures. You can slink comfortably into a movie theatre to watch your favourite new released movies without having to be in the ticket line first! Or, you can steal cash from the cashier's registers at any stores you like, or take this one, you can sneak in the ladies' restroom stealthily to feed your blue imagination! You name your own malefaction! You will do them all with impunity and no one seems to be able to stop you.

Ok. let's drop the word fiction from the phrase science-fiction. We now resort to pure science. Do you know that if an invisible does really exist or in the future if we can create invisible men due to our future high technology, he will have the most critical downside?? What is it?? If you become an invisible man, surely you will become BLIND! It means that you cannot see at all!! How come?? Simple! Our eyes are like a camera, we can see things clearly because there is light to penetrate our eyes! This light will be stopped and will be refracted within our retina and create an image from the object we see in the back of the retina! Thus we can see the object clearly!! Now in the case of invisible man, the eyes are transparent and the retina will fail to refract the light to make an image in the retina because the invisible eyes fail to stop the light! So there will be no image created in the back of our retina thus we will see nothing!! The detail of this mechanism is quite complicated and it is beyond the scope of this posting and beyond the blogger's knowledge! Hehehehe.... But now you know that if you are an invisible man, I'm sure that you will benefit nothing from the advantage of being invisible! Ok?

(Written by: Yari NK)

Tallest Buildings in the World

Do you subscribe to pay-TV (Whether it's satellite or cable?) If you do, then you know that one channel in the line-up is National Geographic Channel (NGC). One of my favourite programmes is Mega Structures which tells us about massive (and tallest) buildings, how they are built, and what technologies are invloved in the buildings themtselves. So it was no surprise for me to find out that every tallest structure in this world involves multinational companies to combine their resources to build the structure! Here below are some of the tallest buildings (and the future tallest buildings):

THE PETRONAS TOWER

The Petronas Towers are the past tallest building in the world (1998-2004) before it was surpassed by Taipei 101. Yet the towers are still considered as the tallest TWIN towers in the world. Located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the building which is designed by a Norwegian architect, Dawid Tadeusz Mauno, has the original height of 375 meters. That height figure is actually not enough to make the towers the tallest building in the world. To make these towers the tallest building in the world, they added an antenna on the top of the building to make it as high as 452 meters. That's the world record at that time! The Building which began to be built in 1995 has 88 floors and 78 elevators within.

TAIPEI 101 (臺北101)
By the time this article was written, Taipei 101 (Located in Taipei, Taiwan of course!) was the tallest building in the world. It surpassed the Petronas Towers in height in 2004. The building who is designed by C. J. Lee & Associates has 101 floors, that's why the building is named Taipei 101. The height of the main building itself is of 449 meters, with the antenna added on the top of it the height becomes 509 meters. The building is equipped with a very high speed Internet connection which comes at the rate of 1 gigabit per second on fibre optic or satellite connection.

BURJ DUBAI برج دبي
In English it is simply translated as Tower of Dubai, is still under construction. The construction itself has begun in 2004 and will be finished circa 2009. The tower will be the tallest building in the world and it will surpass Taipei 101 by a very wide and record-breaking margin! Located in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates, the height of the tower will be estimated as 818 meters with the antenna installed on the top. The number of the floors will be estimated around 160 but I still have no idea who exactly desgined this building, perhaps you can come with the information I need.

Burj Mubarak al-Kabir

Also known as Mubarak Tower in English. Located in the future urban area in Subiya, Kuwait, this tower will also be the the future tallest building in the world. The building will have the height of 1001 meters, the only building on the planet that hits the mark of kilometer. This building is still proposed, and the construction has not yet begun. The other facts about this building are still little known.

(Written by: Yari NK)

Phobias

Do you have a permanent fear of something? If you do, then you might have suffered from a phobia. But you are not alone, people with phobias are here and there to be found. There are countless kinds of phobia, some are very common, some others are very unusual and sound so ridiculous. Here below I make a list of phobia to be recognised (sorry the list is not arranged alphabetically):

Zoophobia : The fear of animals
mymercophobia : The fear of ants
Ablutophobia : The fear of bathing (wow! I wonder how smelly someone with this phobia can be!)
Ailurophobia : The fear of cats
Coimetophobia : The fear of cemeteries
Pedophobia : The fear of kids (he/she who has this phobia might better remain single for life!)
Iatrophobia : The fear of doctors (Wow! Too bad I can't find the term for someone who fears of shrinks!!)
Oneirophobia : The fear of dreams (Should he stay awake for good and all?? Sigh!!)
Phantasmophobia : The fear of ghosts (Though I've never met such person, I believe that this phobia is quite common)
Cyberphobia : The fear of computers ( LOL, surely the one with this phobia will never know the fun of blogging!!)
Homophobia : The fear of homosexuality
Paraskavedekatriaphobia : The fear of Friday 13th! (Gosh! I don't believe it that such phobia does exist! The term itself is very much of a tongue twister!!)
Trypanophobia : The fear of injections (Maybe all kids do have this phobia)
Chrematophobia : The fear of money (Aaagh! Is this a phobia or a stupidity???? LOL.)
Icthyphallophobia : The fear of penis (Another tongue twister! But lesbos are free from this phobia!!)
Glossophobia : The fear of public speaking ( I think I do have this phobia when I was younger)
Enissophobia : The fear of comitting a sin (This phobia is one out of a few that has a positive characteristic I think)
Sequipedalophobia : The fear of long words !! (Surely he/she with this phobia would not like to know what kind of phobia he/she has when he/she reads this posting! LOL)
Didaskaleinophobia : The fear of school (Lazy pupils/students???)
Phonophobia : The fear of noise
Ophidiophobia : The fear of snakes
Technophobia : The fear of technology (This is even worse than cyberphobia!)
Arachnophobia : The fear of spiders ( I think this is a very common phobia especially amongst women! But strangely I can't find the term for the ones who fear of roaches!! Which is very common too amongst women!)
Zemmiphobia : The fear of rats
Scoleiphobia : The fear of worms
Virginitiphobia : The fear of rape (Heck !! Who likes to be raped anyway??????)
Ergophobia : The fear of work (Is it attributable to lazy people?)
Obesophobia : The fear of weight gain
Isolophobia : The fear of going out alone (Perhaps it has got something to do with phantasmophobia described above)
Nosocomephobia : The fear of hospital

..... and many others! You can find the rest of them easily online. Perhaps you can find the phobia for those who fear of pretty girls or handsome men!! LOL.

OK. That's all for now.

(Written by: Yari NK)

The Left Brain vs. The Right Brain

Ok now, let's play a little game in this posting. There are two charts above as you see. You can play it in English or in Bahasa Indonesia. The upper chart is for you who want to play in English, while the lower chart above is for the ones who play in Bahasa Indonesia. The rules of the game are very simple. Here they are:
Try to SAY the chart aloud and as fast as you can! Remember you have to SAY the COLOUR of each word and DON'T SAY THE WORD of each word!

That's it! The rules above are very simple. I hope you understand what I have written above. Let's see how well you can do it! As you try to play the game, you will find out that it is not as easy as you thought, is it? Why is it not that easy? The game above is a classic example of the conflict between our left brain and our right brain. As our right brain tries to say the colour, the other half of our brain is trying to outwit our right brain by telling us that we should say the word! That explains why this game is not so easy to do!

You can play with both charts interchangeably! I mean, you can play the game in Bahasa Indonesia with the English chart or vice versa. If you understand both languages well, you will find the same difficulty in playing the game. Now let us substitute the charts with the one which alphabet you are not familiar with like the ones written in Arabic, Chinese or hangul (Korean) alphabet (Too bad I don't have the charts with those alphabets). If you have any of them, you can try it by saying the colour from the chart, in a language that you understand, you will find out that it will be a lot easier to do! Why? That's because our left brain cannot read the word thus it cannot outwit our right brain. The case is also true if you are illiterate (you can't read)! Try to find an illiterate person to play this game, he/she will easily do the game!

Ok. That's all for now.

(Written by: Yari NK)

A durian seller and a frugal lady (an intermissive jocular posting)

One day a frugal lady went to the market to buy some durians, she saw a durian man (seller) in the distance, so she approached the seller and started to make a deal with him.

The Frugal Lady (FL) : Sir, how much is a kilo of durians?
The Durian Man (DM): They are 5 ringgit a kilo, ma'am!
FL: 5 ringgit?? are you kidding me?? Why is it so expensive??
DM : Because the durians sold here are delicious and very sweet!
FL : What if they are not sweet as you claimed?
DM : Then I will give them to you for free!
FL : Really? Cool! Then please give me 10 kilos of them which are not sweet!!
DM : *#?!!*$#@!!!

Thanks to sis Aisha from Malaysia from whose blog I read this comical story. The original posting is in Malay.

(Written and Retold in English by YARI NK)

MSG: Could it be that much of a health-risker??

MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) powder: Ready to season our food!

In the late 1970s and in the beginning of 1980s.... there was a hypothesis (a hearsay to be more exact) stating that MSG, the flavour enhancer, is responsible for a syndrome called 'Chinese restaurant syndrome'. The symptoms of this syndrome are various including headache, palpitation, shortness of breath, chestpain, and many others including restlessness. But about 20 years later, studies show that there is no clear evidence that MSG is directly responsible for the syndrome. So the 'theory' of Chinese restaurant syndrome remains a controversy up to now. But does really MSG give rise to such syndrome? is MSG the culprit for such symptoms above? What is it exactly MSG? etc.... Well again, I searched for articles on MSG online, from the various articles I read, here in this post I would like to excerpt it below:

What is MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)? MSG is a very common thing in Southeast Asia. It is a flavour enhancer. Here in Indonesia, MSG is sold in the market under various brand names i.e. Ajinomoto, Miwon, Sasa, etc. It is widely used in seasoning oriental food. But do you know that glutamate is naturally present in our body?? Yes, glutamate is an amino acid that makes up proteins. It is a very abundant and important amino acid. Not only glutamate is naturally present in our body, without consuming it, the body itself produces this amino acid that is vital for our metabolism and brain function. And how is this MSG manufactured? In the past MSG was produced from protein-rich food like seaweeds, today MSG is produced from starch, corn sugar or sugar beet with the aid of natural enzymes. The next question is: does body treat glutamate from MSG similarly with the one naturally produced in our body? The latest studies show that our body cannot distinguish glutamate produced in our body from glutamate contained in MSG! So it means that glutamate contained in MSG will be treated and synthesized similarly with the one naturally produced in our body! Glutamate is not merely produced in our body, it is also widely present in our natural food we consume every day. Tomatoes, cheese, corn and milk are the rich sources of glutamate. Again, the glutamate consumed from these kinds of food is handled similarly with the one consumed from MSG in our body!

Now, the important question arrives: IS MSG SAFE? According to US FDA and other bodies worldwide responsible for the safety of food support the fact that MSG is SAFE. The oriental food seasoned with MSG is actually much much and much safer than American fast (junk) food! The 'theory' from the late 1970s about Chinese Restaurant Syndrome was apparently sparked by ignorant theorists and low-grade scientists to disserve oriental/Asian food! Now for those who follow blindly those low-grade scientists by avoiding MSG but being addicted to American fastfood, I dare to say that you are risking your health more! Now for those who enjoy MSG in their food, it is safe to take it moderately. Of course, excessive consumption of anything (including MSG) is never advised!

Ok. All for now and enjoy back your MSG. LOL.

(Written by: Yari NK)

Between Maria Sharapova and Angelique Widjaja

Maria Sharapova: The Rising Russian Superstar in Tennis

To open this topic, I would like you to remember our Indonesian tennis player from the 1990s: Ms. Yayuk Basuki! Do you still remember her? She is the best Indonesian tennis player in history. Of course I believe you all (Indonesians) do. Her best achievement in Wimbledon is the quarter-final in 1997, and her highest rank according to WTA is 19 in the world, also in 1997. To my opinion, Ms. Yayuk Basuki during her professional time could do better than what she had already achieved in 1997 if she followed what professionals do to boost her career. I remember how she turned down French Open for the sake of Wimbledon, an attitude that she should not have as a professional. I understand that she disliked clay court, the one like Roland Garros, the venue of the French Open. She could not maximize her effort in a slow clay court, that's why she skipped Roland Garros to concentrate more on the fast grass court of Wimbledon. But as a professional she can't choose where she had to play for she cannot be so picky. She should follow her fellow tennis pro, Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario, a Spaniard, who disliked Wimbledon's grass court but she always took part in the tourney without being so picky. She knew that as a true champion, she had to be able to play in all kinda courts! No matter how slow or how fast a court is. Sánchez-Vicario is the opposite of Yayuk Basuki in her preference of a court. I remember how Yayuk Basuki refused to move her home base to Europe or the United States to boost her career. The proximity of her residence to the great tourneys will help her to improve her career's achievement. A path that she did not follow for a bad rationale: home sickness!

Four years later, another Indonesian player was 'born': She is Angelique Widjaja. In 2001, she lifted girls trophy in Wimbledon and all of the sudden she was an everybody's hero in this country for making the headlines. Amongst the crisis that blanketed this country in many facets, the trophy lifted by Angelique Widjaja is like an oasis in the vast desert. But obviously the trophy was the zenith of her achievement since that time Widjaja's career declined as rapidly as it ascended. It seemed that Widjaja fell into the same pit as her elder, Ms. Yayuk Basuki! Now we have almost heard nothing from her again as she only played in some murky satellite tourneys.

On the other hand, Russia's Maria Sharapova has never lifted girls trophy in her career. When Widjaja was high on lifting her first (and the last) girls trophy in Wimbledon, Sharapova was focusing on bringing home the ladies trophy! Why bringing home girls trophy when you can bring home the trophy for the bigger ladies?? Who is gonna remember the ones who lifted girls trophy?? Nobody! That's what came across Sharapova's mind! As we see today, Sharapova hits the headlines of every sport pages in the newspapers and magazines.

Of course in this blog, I would not like to belittle the achievement of Ms. Yayuk Basuki. It doesn't matter what I say in this blog, Yayuk Basuki is still one of the greatest tennis player in this country. But would she follow the path of the professionals, she could make the bigger headlines in the newspapers front pages!

(Written by: Yari NK)

Scoville Scale.... Just how hot is hot??

Naga Jolokia: India's hottest chili pepper in the world!

Being addicted to chilis and hot food, I tried to search for the articles on chilis. Amongst the countless articles I found through exhaustive search on the web, I ended up at the article on Scoville Scale! Scoville Scale.... heck what is that? Yeah, this is something new to me as well, Scoville scale is a scale for measuring the hotness of chilis! Or if you read the article at Wiki, the term hotness is replaced by the word 'piquancy', a term that is not exactly synonymous. Then how do they scale the scale?? That's what I wondered too at the beginning before I read the article, but as I continued reading I began to see light on the scale. I will give you here the outline, for the detail about the scale you can look into it at Wiki (or elsewhere on the Web), the complete explanation is there to be read.

At first, I had no idea how they measure the hotness of a chili. Do they have to put it in the mouths and feel the hotness on their tongues? Well if that is how they do it to measure it, then the result would contain much subjectivity since the human's natural sensors are poor measuring tools for external stimuluses. Then how do they do it? It's apparently simple. All chilis contain a natural chemical compound called 'capsaicin', the compound that gives rise to a burning sensation at the neuro-receptor in your tongue (or even in your skin!). That's why as you chew the chilis you will sense the hotness on your tongue. Now to begin measuring the hotness of the chili, all you have to do is to dilute the extract of the chili in sugar water until the hotness is no longer detected in the chili or the capsaicin in the extract is completely diluted in the water. The degree of dilution will then give the reading of the measurement. For example, the bell peppers (aka the paprikas) have no capsaicin at all, it means that the scoville rating of a paprika is zero. On the other hand, the hottest chili pepper in the western hemisphere called habañero has the scoville rate of 200,000 (wikipedia). It means that the habañeros have to be diluted 200,000-fold before the capsaicin is completely diluted in the water or no longer detected in the chilis. Still confused? hehehe... don't worry I bet you are not alone in this case.

So according to Wikipedia (see the article about Scoville Scale for more detail), the hottest chili on the planet is Naga Jolokia, the chilis are cultivated in the region of Assam, India, (The scoville rating is about 1,000,000, approximately five times hotter than that of an habañero!) which picture is displayed above. What about Thai peppers (In Indonesia we call it 'cabai rawit' or in Malaysia it is dubbed as 'chili padi') ?? Well, a bit surprisingly, our Thai peppers are only rated at 100,000! which means 10 times milder than the Jolokias! Well, are you now interested in tasting that Jolokia?? Well I think you will have nothing to lose. At least eating too much Jolokia will help relieving your constipated bowels, and you will need no longer Vegeta to empty out your intestines... hehehehehe......

Ok folks. All for now.

(Written by: Yari NK)

Secondhand Smoke vs Fart

When I was browsing around at youtube.com, I unwittingly found something hilarious. It is about two men sharing the same enclosed room (They are seemingly sitting in a restaurant or in a diner, sharing the same table). The one on the left is puffing a smoke from his cigarette while the other one is struggling with his flatulence after having some meal. Maybe because the flatus is being pushed all the way down by the new occupants in his tummy, the man cannot hold his fart anymore and he eventually lets go a big fart in the middle of the meal! LOL!
I am a smoker myself, but I realise that it is not good to give the people of non-smokers the secondhand smoke from my cigarettes, so now I have made up my mind that I have to phase out my smoking habit especially when I am in the crowd.
What about the farting habit?? Yes I have a habit to pass the gas at will since I am an easygoing farter. LOL. But of course when I am in the crowd I would always try to make my farts as inaudible as I can though it was not always successful. Hehehe.... The safest place to let go a fart in my workplace is at the security post! My fellow securitymen would not complain since the post is also their safest shelter to pass the gas (apart from the toilet or the restrooms, of course!).
The wisdom of the video display is obvious. It is trying to show us that if you are annoyed by someone who is farting near you, the people around you (especially the non-smokers) are also likely annoyed by the secondhand smoke from your cigarette! And one more thing we have to keep in mind that gas from the fart is not as harmful as the smoke from a cigarette, though the gas from our farts is sometimes odourous due to the sulphurous compound produced in the gas.
Ok, I hope you can enjoy the video, but for those who cannot take the video for a decent display I would like to deeply apologise. I understand that in most eastern society, farting is still considered a taboo.

(Written by: Yari NK)

My Life, My Spectrum

I am gonna let you know that this is my very first blog. Until yesterday blogging was something that failed to attract my attention at all, until I found some interesting blogs on the web. I am basically not a writer nor an academician. I am just a commoner, a person with an average intelligence. I am of nothing special. So if you find my posts confusing either grammatically, analytically or logically I would like to apologise for that kind of inconvenience. But inshallah I will make myself clear for you and I will try to raise some interesting topics (though it might not be always succcessful, of course!), and I will try to show you the spectrum of my shallow knowledge on everything. Of course, I will exclude all of my personal life including the one of my family's. Anything that happens in my family will not be shown in this blog and I will need to create another blog to write about my personal life in the near future!
In return I would like to hear from you, guys, criticism is very welcome, and friendly opposition is something that I can take with my open arms! So don't hesitate to spit out anything that is already formulated in your head upon my posts! Any comments will anyhow enrich my spectrum!

Ok folks I think that's all for now.

(Written by: Yari NK)