Tuesday 26 February 2008

Sydney Holiday

3Willings
1) Command and Conquer 3
2) A Moment to Remember
3) Ramen Kan

Suffering from Post-Sydney Holiday Blues right now (PSHB).

The trip's been really enjoyable.

I had fun and it gave me some time to relax from work. I also got some reflection time to think about things past, present and future.

Looking back at the photos, I regret that I didn't stay longer.

I would have loved extra time with family and friends.

Jamie and me in Palm Beach

And I would have spent more time getting fat! Food there is fantastic!

Ramen Kan - best valued Ramen in Sydney (or maybe Australia?)

Sydney fishmarkets offer the best seafood platters

A selection from the Lindt cafe

My other regret is being a bad influence to my trusty travel companion, Fee.

In 'da clubs with Fee and Sau

His words "This is the most I've drank in one night in my whole life" sends guilt-shivers down my spine. I guess he'll never be the same again.

But I'm sure he had a good time.

Fee, doing a different type of site seeing

Most regrettably, I couldn't spend this trip with my girlfriend. It would have been so much fun with her.
Celebrity in Sydney. Mel from Sunrise is in the photo too.

Other than that, Sydney's been a blast.
Maybe I'll do it again next year.

Less than forty days 'til the next travel bug bite. I can't wait!

Wednesday 13 February 2008

Valentine O Ate

3Willings
1) Guitar Hero 3
2) Jordin Sparks - Shy Boy
3) Computer upgrades
I'm kicking myself.

I was pretty sure I was gonna up the ante on Valentines Day this year.

Something classy.

Maybe a candlelight dinner


with KFC and rice or something.

Sadly my baby and I are on a 'no-fast food diet'. So that's no good.

Plus my baby is far away for work.
I guess you can't have a valentines day date if you don't have a date. Go figure.

Im spending Valentines Day house sitting my girlfriend's house because her family have krabi.

It weird sleeping in this house all alone. Its like she's here but she's not.

Then again, I really should stop going through her things and underwear.

Anyways, here's some photos our last date.

I love the ketchup bottle

Dam! The burgers at FAB are huge!

Angry!!!! How am I suppose to eat that?!

Thursday 7 February 2008

Believe it or Not

3Willings
1) The Killers - When You Were Young
2) Cheese and Fire Grapes
3) Hajime No Ippo (again!)
Before you read this post please go to this site and complete the personality test:
http://forer.netopti.net/

Done the test?

Yes?

Cool.

On with the story.

Yesterday was the Hamish's last day to convince Andy that there people out there with supernatural and psychic powers.

I've been glued to the radio because of this segment.

I've been sitting on the fence in this topic. My background forces me to look at things logically. See the facts. And from what I've seen, they're not accurate - Psychics, tarot card and fortunetellers.

On the other hand, my girlfriend and her crew are down with this stuff. They can see aura apparently! Their Facebook is littered with astrology stuff. Their stories are compelling so it must be true!

The experiment was this - Hamish was to bring in four experts to tell something about Andy's past. And it didn't matter if the experts made mistakes, as long as they came up with a pearl of a fact that couldn't have been guessed, then that would be enough.

That would have been enough for me too!

Four days and four psychic experts later - Hamish and Andy finally conclude that there is NO such thing as psychics or supernatural powers.

Even Hamish turns unbeliever.

I too turn unbeliever.

The tarot readers and so-called experts all kinda just guessed their way through Andy's life. For every one they got right (like the colour of their car - which can be a statistical guess) they would have gotten about ninety wrong.

I was disappointed.

Hamish and Andy even proved how 'wishy-washy' these experts are by calling a random stranger and pretended to be a psychic. The segment was hilarious. The guy who answered was so impressed with Hamish's so-called psychic powers

Hamish: "you are in a bit of turmoil.. a big decision is up ahead..."
Stranger: "ohh yes thats right.. we're buying a house and its been a difficult time.."

Hamish; "whats with the number 14.. I can see a number fourteen"
Strangers" "well the settlement date was suppose to be the fourteenth..."

Hamish" Hmmm I can see July..."
Stranger "i dunno. .. the settlement is in January.."
Hamish " oh yes.. That’s what I meant.. I knew it was a 'J' month.."


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Last night my cousins and I were talking about astrology and personality tests.
My fortune for this year is apparently quite impressive.

And then they tell me of the Barnum effect.

If you took the personality test above, then you would have gotten the same analysis as everyone else who's done that test. And you would have graded it pretty accurate.

What the Barnum (or Forer) effect shows is a phenomenon called subjective validation. When an unrelated or random event is perceived to be related because we want it to. Because that’s what we believe or demand to believe. We are wishfully thinking.

"We are constantly trying to make sense out of the barrage of disconnected information we face daily. Hope and the uncertainty evoke powerful psychological processes..." claimed psychologists Barry Beyrstein.

And if you do some further readings, the studies have showed that we happily 'ignore' the grossly inaccurate statements about us, simply because we want that relationship (between our supposed fortune and us) to exist.

So with that, I have now sadly turned TRUE unbeliever to psychics and fortune tellers - even personality tests. (so how about religion - is there such thing as a god? or do we just want to have a god? hmmmm spicy stuff this is)

Btw, the psychic in me is saying that you are in front of electronic equipment.... a computer perhaps... a mouse.. do I see mouse in ur hand... no.. it looks like a track pad... could be a mouse... I can't quite tell...