alwyn!
raffles junior college
08 08 '89
leo
star wars fan
Judoka





wishlist :

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
Matter and Consciousness by Paul Churchland
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki
Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines
Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice

Games:
Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne by Triumph Studios
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic by Triumph Studios
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood by Spellbound
Myth III: The Wolf Age by MumboJumbo
The Bard's Tale by InXile Entertainment
Dragon Age by Bioware
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir by Obsidian Entertainment
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Places I'd Like to Visit:
Sweden
Switzerland
Italy
France
Thailand
Brazil
South Korea
Japan (again!)
Norway
Costa Rica

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"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free.
free to think, to express my thoughts
free to live to my own ideal
free to live for myself and those I loved
free to use all my faculties, all my senses
free to spread imagination's wings
free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope
free to judge and determine for myself
free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past
free from popes and priests
free from all the "called" and "set apart"
free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies
free from the fear of eternal pain
free from the winged monsters of night
free from devils, ghosts, and gods
For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of my thought, no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings
no chains for my limbs
no lashes for my back
no fires for my flesh
no master's frown or threat
no following another's steps
no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words.
I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds. And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain for the freedom of labor and thought
to those who fell on the fierce fields of war
to those who died in dungeons bound with chains
to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs
to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn
to those by fire consumed
to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men.
And I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still."
-Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), "Why Am I An Agnostic?", 1896

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We are part of the universe. Our earth was created from the universe and will one day be reabsorbed into the universe. We are made of the same matter as the universe. We are not in exile here: we are at home. It is here and nowhere else that we can see the divine face to face. If we erect barriers in our imagination - if we believe our real home is not here but in a land that lies beyond death - if we believe that the divine is found only in old books, or old buildings, or inside our head - then we will see this real, vibrant, luminous world as if through a glass darkly. The universe creates us, preserves us, destroys us. We are part of nature. Nature made us and at our death we will be reabsorbed into nature. We are at home in nature and in our bodies. This is where we belong; this is where we must find and make our paradise, not in some spirit world on the other side of the grave. If nature is the only paradise, then separation from nature is the only hell. When we destroy nature, we create hell on earth for other species and for ourselves. Nature is our mother, our home, our security, our peace, our past and our future. Science is inherently materialist. It always seek material explanations. It never accepts as an explanation that some spiritual force was at work - if it did, then science and technology would come to an end. Disease was once thought to be caused by witchcraft. Science gave it a material explanation which allowed us to control it. Magnetism at one time seemed like a spiritual force - Thales of Miletus thought that magnets were full of spirits. But then science provided a material explanation. In the same way scientific pantheism believes that everything that exists is matter or energy in one form or another. Nothing can exist, be perceived, or act on other things if it is not matter or energy. That does not mean that spiritual phenomena or forces cannot exist. It means that, if they do, they must in fact be material. In scientific pantheism, science becomes a part of the religious quest: the pursuit of deeper understanding of the Reality of which we are all part, deeper knowledge about the awe-inspiring cosmos in which we live, deeper knowledge of nature and the environment, so that we can better preserve the earth's wealth of natural diversity. In scientific pantheism, cognitive openness - listening to reality, to new evidence, to all the evidence, to other people's needs and feelings - becomes a sacred duty in all aspects of life from science to politics to domestic life. Of course, we cannot say that science endorses pantheism. Many religions today state their beliefs in ways that no-one can disprove, so they can and do co-exist with science. But scientific pantheism positively thrives on science. scientific discoveries continually underline the wonder and the mystery of Being, the immensity of the universe, and the complexity of nature.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. alwyn
2. ask the judokas
3. ...maosquitong...

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. judo
2. intelligence
3. open-mindedness
4. big appetite

THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I have a hard time resisting temptation
2. -
3. I am only human

THREE THINGS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND:
1. GAMMA FUNCTION
2. stupid ppl who do damn well cos they mug
3. ppl obsessed with violence and destruction

THREE THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU:
1. homework
2. teachers who give lots of homework
3. quizmakers who think there are only 3 things that annoy me

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. those things in boxes that pop out at you when you open them
2. -
3. -

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. food
2. water
3. air

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
1. mandy moore (one big band of cells)
2. bon jovi
3. westlife

THREE PEOPLE YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME WITH:
1. jingwen
2. xinyang
3. my reflection

THREE THINGS YOU CAN'T DO:
1. finish homework WILLINGLY
2. like teachers
3. give birth

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. blogsurfing
2. dreaming (awake or otherwise)
3. reading physics

THREE THINGS YOU WANT REALLY BAD RIGHT
NOW:
1. judo golds
2. understand gamma function
3. teachers to die

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. physicist
2. psychologist
3. soldier

THREE PLACES YOU WOULD GO ON VACATION:
1. Japan
2. USA
3. anywhere else but home

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. achieve unification of physics
2. win team gold
3. live happily ever after

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1: grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. write down what it says: "When the universe was shown to be expanding, Einstein discarded the cosmic force with ill-concealed chagrin, later describing it as the biggest blunder of his life" -About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Paul Davies
2: stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first? CD rack
3: what is the last thing you watched on tv? danger beneath the seas
4: without looking, guess what the time is: 9.07pm
5: now look at the clock, what is the actual time? 8.57pm. hmms
6: with the exception of the computer, what can you hear? Cars outside
7: when were you last outside? what were you doing? School library borrowing books
8: before you came to this website, what did you look at? Another blog.
9: what are you wearing? The usuals
10: did you dream last night? yes
11: when did you last laugh? During physics, shortly before lim boon huat threw eraser at me
12: what is on the walls of the room you are in? I am in the living room. Lotsa things
13: seen anything weird lately? Reflection of me wearing a white gi
14: what do you think of this quiz? I think ive done it b4
15: What is the last film you saw? Day after tomorrow
16: if you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first? The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
17: tell me something about you that i don't know: I topped my primary school
18: if you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? The laws of physics wouldn't allow you to do that
19: do you like to dance? Someone teach me how to do chicken dance
20: george bush: capable, but not decisive enough
21: imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? Err...Aeris?
21: imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him? Squall...hm.
22: would you ever consider living abroad? Why not mann

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Message: JUST A WAY TO LET EVERYONE KNOW UR DARK TRAITS

AFTER READING, CHANGE THE ANSWERS AND POST AGAIN

1. NAME: jesus christ
2. DO YOU THINK YOU'RE NORMAL: better than that.
3. DO PEOPLE FIND YOU STRANGE: some do
4. DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD: not.
5. DO YOU SING A LOT: yes
6. DO YOU BACKSTAB: im a nice person
7. ARE YOU A GOOD FRIEND: I guess so.
8. ARE YOU IN LOVE? no
9. ARE YOU YOUNG: im not even LEGAL yet
10.EVER BEEN A LEADER OF SOMETHING: yahh
11. Ever killed a living creature? Dumb question
12.LAST ODD THING DONE: staying awake during bio!
13.DO YOU WEAR MAKE UP : No
14.DO YOU REBEL: it depends
15.EVER STARTED A FIRE: obs!
16.DO YOU THINK YOU'RE EVIL: hell no
17.DO YOU LIKE LYING: no duhh
18.DO YOU REGRET: I regret having to answer this question
19.DO YOU HAVE A BESTFRIEND: hmm yah..
20.DO PEOPLE HATE YOU: for reasons I cannot comprehend
21.DO YOU HATE PEOPLE: there are angels and there are assholes
22.CAN YOU KILL SOMEBODY: probably, but not unless absolutely necessary.
23.DO YOU CUT YOURSELF?: now that's just plain stupid.
24.EVER TASTED BLOOD: like doh
25.DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHERS MAY THINK OF YOU?: to a certain extent
26.EVER DONE ANYTHING OCCULT: no. I don't believe in that shit
27.ARE YOU GOTHIC: No
28.DO YOU SMOKE: No
29.CONSUME DRUGS: go to hell
30.WHAT DO YOU WEAR: casual mostly
31.YOUR SKIN COLOR: munjen
32.DO YOU LIKE THE SUN: without it, life on earth will perish
33.HAVE YOU LOST SOMEONE YOU LOVE: no
34.HOW DOES GRIEF FEEL: don't know...but I think ive got a pretty good idea
35.YOUR ROLE MODEL: Richard Marcinko/Albert Einstein
36.YOUR HEART DESIRES TO BE WITH WHOM: my heart desires to remain inside my body, thank you very much.
37.YOUR LISTENING TO: the sound of silence. Not the simon and garfunkel one
38.DO HATE YOURSELF: quizmaker is stupid
39.DID THIS QUIZ MAKE SENSE: no, it made dollars! Im bored lah
40.PARTING WORDS: TAG!

spacetime rip! by agent quantum , quite possibly at 7/13/2004 09:42:00 pm :)



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