20070624 GL Outing~

-- 24/6 , 一班傻仔GL和我们的Chief GL一起出去玩~




GLs , Departed~ =)



Breakfast @ Geylang - Singapore famous "Chick Nest" =P


Super childish geh Chief GL -.-"


Me & my partner GL - JS


随手一拍~


男人的梦想 >.<"


狡童二人组


Nice hat =)


可爱的文祺~~


07' -Shin-

Recent Life~~

FOA '07 - Half Angel~





Diver Ready~!



6月22日记： 终于pass了theory test ^^ ... 真的很高兴~~很可惜大家都很忙，没有跟别人分享到我的喜悦~ =P

Chinese Culture Camp - On The Run

搬东西搬到手指失去知觉？
想plan想到眼前发白差点晕到？
开会开到想翻台？
穿Nike Air上上下下到脚趾还会肿起来？
Setup PA system到想打爆那个Mixer?
开pick up绕NTU来来回回几十圈？
晚上在罗里后面大唱情歌？
半夜拉防火室的Hose出来玩水？

请不要怀疑....
这就是我们 - CCC 总务兼夜巡队~

T. Rex Was Slow -Turning Plodder ??

Tyrannosaurus rex's fearsome reputation has taken another knock, with new research suggesting it was a slow-turning plodder.

Now a U.S. team, led by biomechanics expert John Hutchinson while at Stanford University in California, suggests that T. rex also weighed considerably more than some experts had believed, took up to two seconds to turn 45 degrees, and is unlikely to have exceeded speeds of 25 miles (40 kilometers) an hour.

Building on previous work into the dino's biomechanics, the new findings challenge the perception that T. Rex was an athletic super-predator capable of running down fast, agile dinosaurs.

The team used a computer-modeling system to calculate the weight of a fossil specimen from the U.S. and then to estimate its running speed and turning ability, which has never been done before.

That fossil, an average-size adult, weighed between six and eight tons, and some individuals may have been as heavy as ten tons, the researchers said.

The team found the animal, hampered by a long tail and that heavy body, would have taken one to two seconds to make a quarter turn—far slower than a human.

"We now know that a T. rex would have been front-heavy, turned slowly, and could manage no more than a leisurely jog," Hutchinson, the lead study author, said.

Different Kind of Walk

Previous work by Hutchinson indicated that T. rex reached top speeds of between 10 and 25 miles (16 and 40 kilometers) an hour.

But the new study further undermines the popular notion that T. rex could reach speeds of around 45 miles an hour (72 kilometers an hour), as often depicted in movies.

"The method that we applied, creating a kind of computer sculpture of the body of a T. rex, takes into account the whole anatomy," he said.

Previous investigations into the biomechanics of dinosaurs have also often been based on living animals such as elephants, the research team added.

But the new research suggests T. rex walked very differently than the mammals, which use vertical, pillar-like legs. For the dinosaur to maintain its center of mass over its feet it would have needed to keep its legs bent, the team suggested.



Slow Prey

Paul Barrett is a dinosaur researcher at London's Natural History Museum who was not involved with the study. He says the new research does appear to undermine the idea of T. rex as a super-predator.

"It suggests that T. rex is basically a lot slower and more lumbering than a lot of the recent views on it have been," he commented.

However, "most of the animals that T. rex would have been hunting were also large and pretty slow moving and not particularly agile. So although it wouldn't have been a particular speedy predator, that might not have been a big disadvantage," Barrett said.

"These were also big clunky animals that clearly weren't running around at 50 miles [80 kilometers] an hour," Hutchinson said. "And why would [T. rex] need to turn quickly if it was preying on other big, relatively slow things?"

Smaller two-legged dinosaurs would probably have been able to outrun T. rex, however.

"T. rex probably didn't eat those, unless it got lucky and caught one off guard," Hutchinson said.

The environment during T. rex's day was also very different from today, Hutchinson added, and probably one where animals didn't need to be built for speed.

"I think there's a bias imposed by looking at living mammals in the Serengeti and elsewhere on open grasslands where they have a lot of space," he said.

"When T. rex lived there probably weren't a lot of huge open spaces to be charging around in at massive speeds."


National Geographic
James Owen
7th June 2007

Reference:
"Tyrannosaurus Rex Was a Slowpoke" [February 22, 2002]

*纳闷*

成绩出了...TMD...
差到不懂怎样形容...两个sem而已，拿了13科...
累积了2个HD，7个Dist.，2个Credit...还有两个fail....
干....
每个sem fail一科...一跌就是3rd Class....
两个Sem 9个A拿不到1st Class....放弃算了...
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想到就度烂....

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早上打篮球竟然扭伤脚...
不顺利啊.....

2001高考作文福建满分卷-石器时代版

--很有寓意，值得一看...

故事从何说起，很久很久以前，有一个人，也就是我。
　　
　　我住在小岛上的山洞里，挨过一个又一个冬季是如此的困难，我和我同伴要找到足够的粮食和水和木柴，每个晚上会有一个人，坚守在火堆之旁，如果火堆熄灭的话，洞外不停回响着野兽饥饿的叫嚣将欺近到我们的身边。

　　终于有一年，大旱来临，我们即便山林觅尽也找不到粮食，眼看着洞中的储藏的粮食日渐减少，长老们蹙额无策。

　　 每天，三餐缩减为一餐，我们彼此面壁躺着，我们清醒地知道我们挨不了多久，每一次，两人一组派出去的搜索队大多一走就没有回来。便回来了也只带来失望的消息。

　　 越多越多的妇女和老人儿童死去，恐惧象夜晚的火堆照亮了每个人的心灵。洞外的野兽是早绝迹了，我心中的野兽却不走，来来回回，发出低沉阴森的声音，不停的提醒着我面对着它的存在。

　　那一天，轮到了我和另一个同伴走出洞外搜索，我们不知道走了多远，汗水一点一滴的下来，在龟裂的大地的上走，两条腿瑟瑟的抖着。

　　我不停的说着，粮食快完了，水也没了。我的同伴目光炯炯的告诉我——回去也是等死，面对他的勇气，我连一点的惭愧之情也不会有，我太饿了。

　　“找到了，水，呵呵，还有，你看看，这是什么果子，能吃吗？”同伴惊喜的叫了起来。

　　眼前出现了一片奇怪的植物，他们没有花，没有叶子，只有果实，是我们从来没有见过，我们不停着啃着，坐在地上，我们早已干涸的眼眶滚下了眼泪。
　　
　　同伴抹着嘴说，我要回去告诉大家。我边啃边想着，把大家叫过来，眼前的果子也不过多支撑十几天，但是我没有多说什么。

　　回山洞的路上，我一直犹疑着，我的同伴脚步飞快的走在我的前面。我掏出早准备好的石头，我心里的那头野兽跳了出来，我手中的石头重重的在他的后脑勺就是一下，他倒了下来。

　　我明白了那么多外出搜索的人为什么都没有回去。

　　对饥饿的恐惧使得我不敢做出任何乐观的打算，比如发现的果子是否足以支持我挨过这个冬天。

　　我把同伴的尸体上的肉一块一块的割下来，看也不看的塞进我的嘴里，眼泪又下来了，可以一切不能多想，我告诉自己，即便死我也要死在所有人的后面。

　　第二年的春天，我回到了山洞，所有人的都已经死去，面孔中爬满了殂虫，这让我感到恶心，我燃起火把焚烧了洞中的一切。
　　
　　一年又一年，五千年很快就过去了，有了部落有了街市有了城镇有过饥荒有过战争，我呢，足够的智慧度过了我拥有的岁月。这刻画着苦难的一张脸让每个人感到诚信的力量，我一遍一遍的告诉所有人，仅仅拥有健康、美貌、机敏、才学、金钱、荣誉是不够，只有诚信，诚信才能让我们活下来，象我活的这样的好。

　　
　　这一次，是史无前例的大洪水，刚开始，平原上一片饿浮，哀鸿遍野。很快的，高山变为小岛。洪水不停着追蹑着我的足跟，我再一次的感到恐惧，但是我的周围一个人也没有，我看见那些相信我的人一个又一个的没顶，没顶之前还喊着我的名字。

　　我绝望了，洪水漫过了我的腿，我的腰，我心中的野兽找不到一个噬食的对象。
　　
　　我闭上了眼睛。

　　当我醒来的时候，我发现我躺在一艘小床的甲板上，两个人抬着我的四肢。

　　一张高目深鼻的面孔出现在我的面前，他低下头，告诉我他叫诺亚，他自我介绍他是上帝的使者，上帝不满意自己以前的创意，将收回所有的陆地再造一个世界，驾御的这艘小船只能载七个人，他们依次代表着世界未来七大洲的七个希望，——健康、美貌、诚信、机敏、才学、金钱、荣誉。

　　“目前我已经找到了六个人，现在有一个问题，如果你答错了，洪水就是你的归宿，我也将再次扬帆寻找那个人。”诺亚说。

　　在健康、美貌、诚信、机敏、才学、金钱、荣誉中你的位置是什么？

　　我笑了起来，说——诚信。
　　
　　现在，大家知道了，为什么这个世界充满了谎言。只要我们活着并想活下去，我们就要不停的说谎，并告诉身边所有的人，这就是诚信。 　

Annual Gathering wt. my best buddies~

--Sunday, 3rd June '07 , Back to Malaysia again =)
Despite having to skip 2 meetings, I'm still insisting to attend our annual gathering @ PD ~
Wyne , Hooi , Sea , Shin - and this time KayYang too =P

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Pre-departure



Departure @ 6.30am +.+"...
It was quite an effort to wake all of them up~
Especially Mr. Sea >.<"

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5 Bloody zai having breakfast near Wyne's restaurant~ ^^

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The Arrival



What we can get outside the window~
Lovely =P


And inside... Bloody hell >.<"...

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Top Secret

The activities, the plans etc. there is highly classified. It's something personal and MUST remain unknown to others!
=P

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The Most Unwanted


KayYang aka. Futsol Genius


Sea aka. Sexy Sendoh


Wyne aka. Kura-Kura


Hooi aka. 7-Up


Shin aka. Blow Water King


07' -Shin-

3个无聊人士...

今天是铧纬到新加坡来的第三天~
难得有空，今天和佩雯一起把他"领"去走走...
明明大家讲好早早起，然后去Science Center的... aihz... 本性难移，到大家见面的时候，已是原定时间的2小时后...
大家都在赖床...（不看到曙光不去睡的后果...=.="）
Science Center去不成了，就改去Bugis走走...
walau...现在新加坡大减价，什么东东都便宜...IT产品更是借此推展一连串的促销会 >.<"
简直可说是男人的梦想啊...
不过，这对我这个没有购买能力的学生仔来说，是非常残酷的 T.T...
anyway，有个相机在手里，我也蛮满足滴~~

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我们今天的第一站是...





National Library of Singapore 新加坡国家图书馆~
Aihz... Look at this building, 13-stories, fully air-coned, equipped with Student Lounge and Study Lounge, LOTZA REFERENCES, TONNS OF NEW ARRIVALS... =.="... Think back when I went to our dearie Malaysia National Library to do my form3 Sejarah report... Knn >.<"...

乖乖geh书香子弟like me surely would be glad to spend more time there, but this two bloody... Tire like hell le @@"...




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Well, although Singapore is a small like bloody stressful country, but, she is nonetheless a charming little island =)
The Night Scene is fair, at least, the air is cool and invigorating~
I lurve the Night~


Lamp Post~
Was testing the light exposure =P


Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay~


Esplanade from the opposite bank~


Fullerton Hotel - 1 of the most sophisticated and comfortable 1 in Singapore =P


The Merlion statue of Singapore (Back-view, lazy to go front @@"...)

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PM concentrate taking picture~


3 Bloodies~

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我望着月...
在想....或许哪天....
我可以携你的手，一起体会下一个梦幻的旅程....
尽管....
缘分只是生命中的巧合....




07' -Shin-