Rube Goldberg Machine

I discovered this interesting music video that makes use of the rube goldberg machine concept ie. using an excessively roundabout and overengineered way to get a simple thing done. go watch it! it took them like 85 takes to get it right, and there were only 3 out of all of that that had completely successful runs. plus they destroyed 2 pianos and 8 televisions. you'll understand why after you watch it xD


OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version

another very creative and entertaining music video they did, very famously known as the treadmill video:


OK Go - Here It Goes Again - Treadmill video

my first champagne

Yesterday I attended my cousin's wedding and helped to emcee the wedding dinner part. the wedding was split into morning, afternoon solemnisation + buffet for colleagues/friends, and night for relatives, so i only had to emcee for the night part -thank goodness-

i tried my first champagne last night and it tastes just like grape juice with barely a taste of alcohol! it was sooooo sweet that the sweetness overpowers the bitterness of alcohol, which makes it really nice to drink. uh but of course it's all too easy to drink too much bcos you don't taste the alcohol, so fortunately i only took a few sips. (the rest of the glass was downed by my bro >.>)

and nope, i didn't get drunk at all. after half a glass of champagne, and a few sips of red wine here and there in the afternoon and night. alcohol doesn't taste very nice (all bitter), but it's interesting to try different wines and learn to get over the bitter taste and start tasting the mellowness, or lightness, or heaviness, or the sweet or sour tastes, the varying tones in each wine. after all, a little red wine contributes to better health!

recently a colleague at work was hospitalised with a collapsed lung (google spontaneous pneumothorax), and he's been there for over a week. i think he'll be there for at least another week as he's going for surgery. i feel so sorry for him! it must really be painful and hurts a lot to have a tube sticking into your chest. how to sleep? how to eat? how to breathe???

but he has a lot of visitors, lots of friends and colleagues (including me) who visit him, so he's well entertained. i hope he'll get well soon. he's way too young to have anything bad happen to him T.T worse still, 50% of the ppl who had it have recurrences for the rest of their lives! 这样的消息可真是晴天霹雳阿！

I wish him all the best in his future endeavours, and hope he'll regain his good health in the future!

on a side note, i want to wish wf a very happy birthday in advance!

Interesting quote of the day

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. - Unknown

gosh

omg i just linked the jairus guy to ang jun heng to kallang robbery case! how slow can i be! T.T

first i heard on the news about kallang robbery case where 1 died and 3 severely injured, and all about how they're catching the attackers, then my mum said one of them had his hand and fingers cut off. i was like omg.

then few days later some rj batchmates started spreading around an email about jairus, and i kept thinking he's some j1 who somehow got injured in some canoeing accident bcos they said he's canoe captain and not ex-captain or that he's j3 >.>

then someone told me my batchmate got injured in the kallang case! so i went to google for names of the victims and found ang jun heng who is 19 so must be j3, then found out he's also jairus T.T

i wonder if he can ever canoe again? hope he recovers and gets well. i think i've actually seen him around school a few times, and probably seen him at ccal camp. i still can't believe how vicious people can be just to get money. T.T