This blog company gave me a shock of life few days ago. All my entries were missing and not able to login.

So i emailed the company but got no reply. I got annoyed and sweared not to write blog anymore. Later, i found a line on the main page that no entries are missing. I was relieved.

Aiya, don't know this stuff is hard lor. but this is life isn't it ?

Before i left for shopping in Soon Hing, i went to the hall and saw the teachers were preparing for the feast after the Art Camp.

The Thai teachers are good at this activity, i have to stress here, when i said Tai teachers, it meant my school only.

I went to have a look and ound the Tian Mi Mi. huh, how horrible the hanyupinyin. I cannot read at all, but manage to cheat it all through.

Huh, i did not know that i have such a good voice. Ok, i am going to practise hard for a Thai song and will sing it when it comes. Just to surprise all.

By the way, i came here early ( CC) is because i am very angry with someone who treated me as a coolie.

I had some arguments with a well travelled person about calendar of Thai people and i found this interesting.

A US physicist is lobbying for people to adopt his novel calendar in which every date falls on the same day of the week each year.

The current calendar, which runs for 365 days, was instituted by Pope Gregory in 1582 to bring the length of the year in line with the seasons. But because the Earth actually orbits the Sun every 365.24 days, a 366-day "leap year" must be added every four years to account for the extra fraction of a day. In this Gregorian system, a given date (such as New Year's Day) falls on different days of the week in different years because 365 is not evenly divisible by seven.

That means new calendars must be printed every year, and the dates for recurring events constantly recalculated. "For many years, I've had to make up a new schedule to tell my class when homework is due," says Dick Henry, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US. "Here I am putting all this totally unnecessary work in and I decided I better do something about it."

So Henry designed a calendar that uses 364 days, which breaks down evenly into 52 weeks. In his so called "Calendar-and-Time" (C&T) plan, each month contains 30 or 31 days. He decided on each month's length by forbidding the new calendar to differ from the old one by more than five days and by setting Christmas Day, 25 December, to always fall on a Sunday.

Extra week

His constraints meant eight months would have different lengths than they do now. March, June, September, and December would each contain 31 days, while the other months would each get 30. To keep the calendar in synchronisation with the seasons, Henry inserted an extra week - which is not part of any month - every five or six years. He named the addition "Newton Week" in honour of his favourite physicist, Isaac Newton.

"If I had my way, everyone would get Newton Week off as a paid vacation and could spend the time doing physics, or other activities of their choice," he says.

Despite this incentive, Henry says he has encountered resistance to his plan - mainly because people would be "stuck" with a birthday that always falls on a Wednesday, for example. Henry, who is among that group, is not moved by the argument. "You have my permission to celebrate your birthday the preceding or following Saturday," he says.

And what of the people born on dates that no longer exists in the new calendar, such as 31 January, or during Newton Week? Henry suggests they celebrate on either 30 January or "consider themselves to be born on the fourth of July" (which falls on a Wednesday).

Sacrosanct seven

"I think such a calendar would be extremely useful," says Owen Gingerich, an astronomer and historian of science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. He says previous calendar reform efforts have "crashed" because they disturbed the seven-day week considered sacrosanct by religious groups. Efforts have involved adding an extra, unnamed day at the end of the year or, as happened after the French Revolution, implementing 10-day weeks.

"This is the first proposal I'm aware of that gets into a standard calendar but doesn't have the pattern of seven upset," Gingerich told New Scientist. He notes the world was slow to adopt the Gregorian calendar. England and its colonies did not switch to the system until 1752, nearly 200 years after Rome began using it.

Henry hopes to have rallied enough support for his plan to start it on 1 January 2006, when New Year's Day in both the old and new calendars falls on a Sunday. And he is not stopping with dates - Henry says the entire world should operate on Greenwich Mean Time. People in the eastern US, for example, would have to get used to eating their midday meals when the clocks read 1700. "People are adaptable if benefits are there," says Henry.

 the christian calaendar

who invented the calendar ?

I was researaching the New Year teaching materials and listening online of the new year songs and felt the mood is high. Well, b4 i came to this cc i went to meet Uncle Ooi to discuss about teaching Gongxi gongxi.

Well, on the way met an drunkern man, he wanted to sleep me with me,. huh, he told me he works in the police station. Gosh, who knows what but he addressed me as Ajarn ( teacher in Thai), he should have seen me or know me a teacher in anuban.

Fine, who cares, finally a trishaw man came and asked him to go home and rode him back. God saved me :))

ok if u like to listen to the new year song, http://mp3.baidu.com/m?z=0&cl=3&ct=134217728&sn=&lm=-1&cm=1&sc=1&bu=&rn=30&tn=baidump3&word=%B9%A7%CF%B2%B9%A7%CF%B2&pn=30

Expatriate Forums in Malaysia
The one stop information and service center for expat in Malaysia

http://www.alloexpat.com/malaysia_expat_forum/

i wonder the Malaysians overseas do have this for the ease of the country fellows ???

But i found this one lor:

Welcome to Malaysia Forum.

We are a group of non-partisan, but socially conscious Malaysian students and professionals living in United States of America. Malaysia Forum intends to create greater discussion and understanding of Malaysia and also its connection to the greater world. Through this forum, we would also like to gather different perspectives from people across the globe for the betterment of Malaysia.

Malaysia Forum welcomes all interested individuals and groups (regardless of religion, ethnicity and nationality) to participate in this endeavor. We believe that having our effort combined, we can make a difference in further growing democracy and civil society of Malaysia.

Currently, we meet regularly in the Bay Area, California. Recently, we had our first workshop session at Bechtel International Center of Stanford University. We were very happy that more than 70 people came to rekindle themselves on the various social issues of Malaysia.

http://smf.stanford.edu/

Malaysian Medical Resources Forum  is here http://forum.malaysianmedicine.com/

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Are you Interested in Buddhism?Do you have something to ask about Buddhism?

Come, my brother and sister. Join us for some spiritual advices and may you find the truth from the Lord's teaching.

May the spiritual strength of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha bless you, your family, friends and all sentient beings.

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Welcome to the MALAYSIA FORUM 

http://www.forum.com.my/

I told myeself many times that i must write this lo li lo so, but when i click on the websites, it never stops going to copy and paste.

I know many like to read my life in this town which a motorcycle can carry three pillions. The no U-turn sign is blinded to the traffic police because there are cars and motor cycles carrying loads of passengers and pillions doing the U-turn.

i love pics of these cute cute animals :)) hehehe

http://www.6to23.com/pic/qt/940/

http://www.886.com.cn/bbs/printpage.asp?BoardID=25&ID=1999

http://www.qqmm123.com/html/bizhi/whbm/20050612145819.htm

http://www.downweb.cn/Article/210/218/2005/2005110911468_2.html

http://www.0929.net/gif/2004/8-29/175543.html

http://www.imagesite.cn/html/shiliang/mhys/20051123140431.htm

http://bbs.cs.cq.cn/printpage.asp?BoardID=41&ID=30239 

http://bbs.zol.com.cn/index20050926/index_155_35716.shtml

How is the 2006 fortune for me ? i don't know, i just know that i have to paste this topic two times. :((

getting tired liao and just paste this one.

But i like this one lor

I like her very much because she is a very good actress.But, the acting world is always full of back stabbing lor. They have to take it.

　　本报讯（记者卓伟）陈凯歌和倪萍十年前曾有过一段长达数年的恋情，在倪萍畅销一时的自传《日子》中也曾隐晦地提到过这段恋情。

　　日前有媒体报道，陈红在接受某杂志的专访时暗指当年陈凯歌之所以离开倪萍是因为“没有魅力让这个男人爱上她，”为自己的老公“平反”，而倪萍昨天在接到记者的电话后，态度很平静，不愿对此做出回应。

So do u know the history of Santa Clause or not, if not then read on...

However, do u know the meaning of Father Christmas?

Father Christmas Country of Origin: England n an enchanted white horse, Father Christmas flies over the houses of England on Christmas Eve. He brings presents to be carefully placed under Christmas Trees, and treats to fill fireside stockings. With a wreath of holly atop his head and a long green robe on his stout frame, he is the embodiment of jovial Christmas cheer embraced by England in the 19th century and is reflected in the 'Spirit of Christmas Present' in Charles Dickens’ famous story, A Christmas Carol. Sources for the History of Father Christmas: http://www.fact-index.com/s/sa/santa_claus.html Learn More About Christmas History & Legends

"American Origins: (As sent to me by Brian Dodd)
Quote from ENCARTA 95

The American version of the Santa Claus figure received its inspiration and its name from the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas, brought by settlers to New York in the 17th century.

As early as 1773 the name appeared in the American press as "St. A Claus," but it was the popular author Washington Irving who gave Americans their first detailed information about the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas. In his History of New York, published in 1809 under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, Irving described the arrival of the saint on horseback (unaccompanied by Black Peter) each Eve of Saint Nicholas.

The History Channel says this :

The Legend of St. Nicholas

St. Nicholas

Corbis-Bettman