Miracle Hinacle?

A friend showed me this. It's so hypnotic... o.0

How to Save a Life

Ahem.

1. Sit down.
2. We need to talk.
3. Listen.

This is sometimes all that is most important in how to save a life.

How to let someone save you:

1. Sit down.
2. We need to talk.
3. Listen.

Sometimes, just shut up and listen.

How not to save a life:

1. Get emotional.
2. Be judgmental.
3. Preach.

How to not be saved:

1. Wallow in self-despair.
2. Pity thyself.
3. Give up.

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I wonder whether I ever did anything right...

3 Doors Down

Yay. There was a better turn out than expected. 4 votes! WOOHOO!

Hehe. Anyway, the results of the poll are 2-2. Now, time for the answer.

This is actually a pretty famous maths question known as the Monty Hall problem. It's a question of probability, and humans are inherently bad at questions of probability. This is because a lot of probability questions have answers which tend to be counter-intuitive. Anyhoo, let's get to the game.

The question is simple. We are given 3 doors. One door gives us a win. Two doors give a loss. We want a win. Our aim is to determine the best strategy to use in such a situation to win. Anyone with basic knowledge of probability should be able to follow.

Consider the twist given. After we choose a door, a losing door will be opened. We will then be left with the choice to change our choice or stick with it. Does it really matter?

One way to look at it is this. No matter what we choose, in the end, it will always be a choice between win or lose. So we can see this as 50-50. It doesn't really matter if we switch or not. So some might choose to stay. Some may choose to switch. It doesn't matter.

Here's the catch. DOES IT REALLY NOT MATTER? Maybe you've heard of the term "Conditional Probability". Maybe you know that probability can be very tricky. Maybe you think this is obviously a trick question, and change your mind on whatever your first instinct was. Whatever the case, here's the answer as given by statisticians.

Consider the game played without the twist. What would your chances be at winning? Quite obviously 1/3.

Now, consider playing the game with the twist. We are asked whether we want to change. If we have already made up our minds NEVER to change, then it doesn't make a difference whether we played with the twist or not. So it is as if we are playing the game without the twist. The chance of winning is 1/3. Follow?

Now consider this interesting fact which is often noticed but not appreciated fully. What are the chances that we lose when we choose from the start? Quite obviously, 2/3.

Applying the same logic from the above scenario, if we don't switch, our chances remain the same: 2/3 chance of losing, 1/3 chance of winning.

Now what if we always switch. Hehehe.

This stance assumes that we are wrong on our first choice. It is not always that we will be wrong, just 2/3 of the time. See where this goes?

If we start off by thinking we more likely to choose the wrong door at first, if we switch, it follows it is more likely to be the right door. The probability of 2/3 now comes into our favour, by turning it into the chance of winning.

In case you don't follow, this youtube video should do the trick.

Hope you had fun.

Somewhere in the Rain

It's raining.

My gluteal muscles ache slightly due to leg exercises yesterday.

Weight training is the easy part; how to plan my diet?? That's the tough part. I think I need help...

I feel lazy.

The rain stopped.

It feels like time stopped.

I'm thinking about my friends and family.

It rained again.

ps. weight training isn't easy. It's just easy compared to the other parts...

3 Doors

Hello. Let's play a game! First, read the following passage.

"Here I have 3 doors for you to choose from. Choose which door you want to open. Behind one door is a prize. Behind the other 2 doors is nothing. So... to win, just choose which door you think conceals the prize!

After you choose a door, I will open one of the other doors. Don't worry, I will only open a door which  is hiding nothing! And I will make things easier for you. After I open the fake door, I'll give a choice: now is your last chance to win the prize! Do you want to switch to the remaining door, or stay with your initial choice?"

Now, what you need to do is write your comment: what strategy is best to win this game???

Renal renal

Today let's play a game. How well do you think your kidneys are functioning right now? Let's say our kidneys function at 100% efficiency at birth. You should also state your age, and your current lifestyle/health conditions. To input your answer, leave a comment, or use the poll (which I hope works).

For example, I am 24yrs old, average build, simple workout around 3-4 times a week. Lazy student lifestyle.

I think my kidneys are functioning at ----

: )

Pik Han's Wedding Part 3: The Dinner

3 days ago, I attended my cousin's wedding dinner. Maybe it is because I have been feeling down lately, or just tired, but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Wedding dinners can be very boring. The only times I remember enjoying wedding dinners are when I am free to do whatever I want and go wherever I want. This means I stopped enjoying wedding dinners after I reached a certain age...

Whatever the case, I enjoyed this one. But here I would like to voice an opinion I think quite a few people had: Why did Pekin put us next to a rowdy, noisy company dinner that included BELLY DANCERS and whatnot???

I particularly enjoyed taking part in the Yam Seng thingy. I never did it so enthusiastically before. This time it was personal. I like to believe we got back at that Company Dinner. At each dinner table, it seemed more and more people from previous tables joined in.

Yes. This was war.



More pics... ehehe..

 

The entrance

Waaaaa...

Receptionists.

Babynappers.

-_-?

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??????????

These candles were just tempting little kids to blow them out (Jerald and Di-di).

They moved very fast and it was very difficult to catch them. The 'blur' is ---

Joven. Shown here with Lee Yang. I consider this a golden shot. Both were sulking practically the whole time.

Pik Han's Wedding Part 2

I wonder why we must light the loud red crackers before the bride comes. I find it funny. There was a lot of smoke after that. A lot of people were coughing. I wonder why. I was standing outside near the crackers too, but I didn't feel like coughing. Maybe they used their mouths to breathe and found out that the nose does work better after all. Some of the children were just coughing for fun. How do I know? They were fine until they saw people coughing. Then they began coughing in an exaggerated manner.



Now for more photos...

 

OOoooo.....

 

I don't have the photo, but after this shot, Jerald gave a manic grin. 

 

Waseh...

  

 

IDENTIFY THE BABIES


I dunno why but he's always sleeping...




And this one's always staring somewhere far off...

Pik Han's Wedding Part 1

This will be an unusual series of posts.

I shall record a bit of Pik Han and Joey's wedding here. I wonder whether I got the name right....

 

Milo kept coming over. Sibuk. Wag tail at everyone. Tell him to go home, he come again. Haiyo.

The bridesmaid. So cute Lee Yang. But for some reason looked sien...

This picture looked so nice. But I didn't know how to take photo properly.. sigh.. Maybe need to photoshop...

Siew Ling jiejie, Jayden, A-sim(like that can ah?), and Joven. Look at Joven later at night hehe.

 Family gathering.

Two pretty young ladies.... umm... Ahem.

What I Did Today... (2 days ago)

I decided to write about something that I did today (2 days ago) because I have been thinking about it and also about what to write other than some unrelated thing. So I will write about it because it came up when I was chatting with a friend online.

"Today, I transformed some E. Coli cells. They should now be resistant to Ampicillin. This is the first step in my grand plan. I will create a breed only I am immune to, and will hold the world hostage.

"Today, Ampicillin-resistant E. Coli. Tomorrow, I shall rule the world. WAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!"

Then I started thinking about how it would backfire if they got the better of me. What if they laid waste to everything before I could do anything? For example, what if they killed off all the game programmers??? Then I wouldn't get to play new video games anymore!!!!

This made me worried. But then I thought of a smart plan. I will give selected people immunity on the condition that they serve me. MUAHAHAHAA. I make a good evil overlord. >:)

Then I started thinking. What if they evolved to get me, their creator? What if they mutated and I was no longer immune to them?????

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I decided to use my (soon-to-be-acquired) power for good rather than evil. I have turned over a new leaf.

Soul - Vibrations??HAHA ----- Getaran Jiwa

I decided to write about something because I felt that writing two consecutive things about poker is not healthy. But I didn't know what to write about because nothing came to mind really. I've just been feeling pretty shitty lately...

So I read a blog to pass time. Then the subject came to folksongs in Malaysia. It made me remember the simple but very nice songs I grew up with. I don't really get the current local Malay music scene. But it brought to mind a song I really like.

Ooooo... They celebrate P. Ramlee now like a hero. I wonder what it would have been like for him if he were around. The religious guys would have him for dinner. His movies would get cut up very nicely. It is sad how my home country seems to have changed so much. Or has it always been an illusion? A dream?

(All statements made are off the top of my giddy head and did not have much thought put into them. Mainly I am lamenting the fact that I have not been moved yet by a local homegrown artiste as much as P. Ramlee... )

(I blame narrow-minded idiots who want political mileage, or just plain narrow-minded idiots.)

(Now I feel like a narrow-minded idiot. Rats.)

Poker 2

Another night of poker. Is it a new addiction? I hope not.

So many foul-mouthed, perverted, childish, immature, arrogant, ignorant people out there in Zynga Poker. Both male and female. Si beh kuailan. Rasa macam ---- teringin sangat belasah mereka. If I were their parents I would spank them to hell and back and back to hell again. Kick their arses so hard they kiss the moon. But then again, that they would end up like this says something about their parents.

I am not a person who ventures into the outside world much. If this is the outside world, it is sad.

Once on vacation in Desaru, at a resort swimming pool, I had an encounter with a young boy of around 5-7 of age and his father. The father was trying to help his son into the pool, and the kid got annoyed and called his father something I never imagined I would hear a kid calling their parent - especially not from kid that age. Then the kid sulkily goes into the pool himself.

And guess what the dad did?

"Be careful", says dad worriedly, with a worried look on his face. And he stands there, meekly, about 2 metres from the pool.

After a few seconds, the kid realises something, and screams "OII!!! COME AND HELP ME LAH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? QUICKLY COME!"

And daddy comes to the rescue.

"WHAT WERE YOU DOING!? WHY SO SLOW!?"
"Sorry lah sorry lah..."

-_- ......

Forgive me for saying this, but I would like to just grab that kid and throw him into the middle of the pool. As for the father, I felt like kicking his sorry arse.

Sorry-my-foot!

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If this is the outside world, it is very sad.