The next movie I want to watch -- The Bridge on the River Kwai
This film super old, made in 1957, directed by David Lean who also directed Lawrence of Arabia in 1962. Based on a French novel by the same name, the movie is set in WW2 and chronicles the building of the Death railway between Thailand and Burma. The story in the movie is supposed to depict real-life characters -- Allied POW's who were ordered by the Japanese to build 2 Kwai River bridges between 1942 and 1943. Can you imagine? Your enemy asking you to build bridge for them to transport their supplies and troops so that they can bomb your army even more. At first the Allied troops damn sian dowan to build bridge, but after a while it became their source of pride. They completed the project on time and it was a super zai piece of work. Zai until when the Allied Colonel Toosey discovered that British and American troops secretly planned to bomb the bridge, he attacked his own people.
Ok. Why I blog about this?
1) I like war movies and I want to justify why I ought to watch another one
2) This story got good moral --
(a) Don't get distracted from your bigger goals -- Sometimes you have a big goal, then u divide your tasks up into small small ones.... then u focus on all the details... then u start falling into quicksand, sucked into a small task that is actually not that significant to your ultimate objective
(b) Stick to your principles -- which side are you on? The Japs praised the British POW colonel for his efficiency and competency. The colonel thought that his own army was losing. After a while he began to forget his principles. All the pledges they make in army camp... he throw out of his mind liao.
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I have spent many late nights in the office. Before you think this is a horrible horrible experience... let me convince you otherwise. You see, there's this flavor of tea in the pantry -- Celestial Seasonings White Peach Tea. Damn nice lah... I keep drinking it I think after a while they are going to start wondering how come the supply depletes so fast. So when I start feeling guilty, I will drink a cup of normal Lipton Tea.
The tea bag is such a clever invention you know, I have respect for the inventor. It not only fun to tarik tarik the tea bag... the tea bag functions as a stirrer too. For lazy people like me, it's perfect. Don't have to stir the sugar or creamer, just agitate the liquid buy pulling the tea bag up and down damn fast.
As leisure today, after doing quite a lot of work, I read the article "Will humans swim faster or slower in syrup?" by Edward Cussler. Studying fluid mechanics of swimming, they wanted to find out if people could swim faster in higher viscosity liquid. Damn cool lah the way they set up the pool for testing, they actually used 310kg of guar gum to thicken the water. If you want, read the article here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/109667863/HTMLSTART
I think I'd rather have the syrup on my pancakes though. Don't think I want to swim through syrup, though maybe I'll get a sugar high from it.
This film super old, made in 1957, directed by David Lean who also directed Lawrence of Arabia in 1962. Based on a French novel by the same name, the movie is set in WW2 and chronicles the building of the Death railway between Thailand and Burma. The story in the movie is supposed to depict real-life characters -- Allied POW's who were ordered by the Japanese to build 2 Kwai River bridges between 1942 and 1943. Can you imagine? Your enemy asking you to build bridge for them to transport their supplies and troops so that they can bomb your army even more. At first the Allied troops damn sian dowan to build bridge, but after a while it became their source of pride. They completed the project on time and it was a super zai piece of work. Zai until when the Allied Colonel Toosey discovered that British and American troops secretly planned to bomb the bridge, he attacked his own people.
Ok. Why I blog about this?
1) I like war movies and I want to justify why I ought to watch another one
2) This story got good moral --
(a) Don't get distracted from your bigger goals -- Sometimes you have a big goal, then u divide your tasks up into small small ones.... then u focus on all the details... then u start falling into quicksand, sucked into a small task that is actually not that significant to your ultimate objective
(b) Stick to your principles -- which side are you on? The Japs praised the British POW colonel for his efficiency and competency. The colonel thought that his own army was losing. After a while he began to forget his principles. All the pledges they make in army camp... he throw out of his mind liao.
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I have spent many late nights in the office. Before you think this is a horrible horrible experience... let me convince you otherwise. You see, there's this flavor of tea in the pantry -- Celestial Seasonings White Peach Tea. Damn nice lah... I keep drinking it I think after a while they are going to start wondering how come the supply depletes so fast. So when I start feeling guilty, I will drink a cup of normal Lipton Tea.
The tea bag is such a clever invention you know, I have respect for the inventor. It not only fun to tarik tarik the tea bag... the tea bag functions as a stirrer too. For lazy people like me, it's perfect. Don't have to stir the sugar or creamer, just agitate the liquid buy pulling the tea bag up and down damn fast.
As leisure today, after doing quite a lot of work, I read the article "Will humans swim faster or slower in syrup?" by Edward Cussler. Studying fluid mechanics of swimming, they wanted to find out if people could swim faster in higher viscosity liquid. Damn cool lah the way they set up the pool for testing, they actually used 310kg of guar gum to thicken the water. If you want, read the article here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/109667863/HTMLSTART
I think I'd rather have the syrup on my pancakes though. Don't think I want to swim through syrup, though maybe I'll get a sugar high from it.
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hang on...do they really need to do a research. I've seen ants get stuck in gooey wood saps (don't ask me how I know, I had a weird childhood) and they "swim" slower.
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