What a hot day ...

A freaking hot day .... 42.5 degrees ....

My university vice-chancellor is being voted South Australian of the Year ....

Spent the day surfing the net and watching movies on the PC.....

Got to meet up with friends later for a meal ....

What have i done today ???

Slept till 11 am and got waken up by the neighbour kids playing outside the house .. Instead of scolding them , I smiled at them ... you can the see the happiness and joy in their faces ... playing their worries away ...

Been travelling around the camping stores in Adelaide... desperately searching for a Brazilian army hunting knife which my grandma mistakely thrown away when moving home 2 years ago.... saw quite a number of 'Made in China' imitation ... The one i used to have was bought from Rockhampton in Queensland during exercise Wallaby....
It was unique as it made of surgical steel and never need sharpening ... Had a wire cutting and a saw built in ... I need it for my camping , hiking ,canoeing etc .....

Saw a German AK 47 bayonet in one of the store in the city... Had a saw, wire cutter and best of all able to combine with the scaboard to form a scissor .. but not very strong and will rust as it is made up of mild steel...

Fixed a friend PC ..... hardware is pretty alright but i just hate the software ....

Weather report is 37 degrees today ..... warning for bushfire....

Been attending quite a number of pre and post xmas meals .. eating and drinking my way through ... need to exercise to burn away the calories....

Xmas had passed and New Year is on its way ...

Happy New Year... May 2006 a better one for everyone of us ...

Volunteering ..... Is it worth the effort ???

Everywhere in this world where there is human around .. there's bound to be trouble .... in form of disaster, war ...

Everytime these mishaps happened ... there will be a group of people unselfishly gave up their comfortable life, time with loved ones and volunteered their services to those in need ....

2005 had ended but the unfortunate events still stuck in our mind .....

Bali bombing, tsunamis, Hurricane Katrina....

In these incidents , many aids in form of financial , medical , food came pouring in .... people seen to be more interested in sudden disaster than those which had been existed for decades...

In another part of the world , in Africa which is historican called the Old World.... There are many unrest which are still happening today ....

In Kenya, Sudan , Ethopia , Congo ... civil wars had caused misfortuante for many decades .... it is such an irony that the UN (symbol : Olive branches symbolize peace. The world map depicts the area of concern to the United Nations in achieving its main purpose, peace and security. ) which is set up after the World War II never step in to help instead it is the aid volunteers who sent their ' troops ' in ...

Aid volunteers are being killed (http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46935) while trying to help ....

If the UN and the american cared so much about humanitarian .. why don't they send any troop into sudan, kenya, Congo, Ethopia, Nepal, North Korea... and the best of all , send the B2 bombers to the Golden Triangle to destroy all the poppy plants ( used to make opium and heroin)...

In South australia... the incident of last year Enyre Peninsula bush fire has not been rest... The volunteers of Country Fire Service (CFS) are beening sued for not doing a good job (inadquent equipments etc) ....

The Howard government and Mike Rann state government rather allowed $$ to be spent on the lawsuit against the volunteers than spending them on rebuilding and allocating to the victims of the bushfire....

The Howard government , Rann state government and Australian red cross were not heavily involved till everytime is over....

Breakaway

KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway

Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I just stared out my window
Dreaming of a could-be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray (I would pray)

Trying not to reach out
But when I'd try to speak out
Felt like no one could hear me
Wanted to belong here
But something felt so wrong here
So I pray (I would pray)
I could breakaway

[Chorus:]
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish Take a chance Make a change
And breakaway

Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway

Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane, far away (I will)
And breakaway

[Chorus]
Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging around wild indoors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away, breakaway

I'll spread my wings
And I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I gotta take a risk
Take chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from
I gotta take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway

Sleeping child

MTLR Sleeping Child

The Milky Way upon the heavens
is twinkling just for you
and Mr. Moon he came by
to say goodnight to you

I'll sing for you I'll sing for mother
We're praying for the world
and for the people everywhere
gonna show them all we care

Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
but you've build your own paradise
That's one reason why I'll cover you sleeping child

If all the people around the world
they had a mind like yours
we'd have no fighting and no wars
there would be lasting peace on Earth

If all the kings and all the leaders
could see you here this way
they would hold the Earth in their arms
they would learn to watch you play

Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
but you've build your own paradise
That's one reason why I'll cover you sleeping child

I'm gonna cover my sleeping child
Keep you away from the world so wild

Adelaide. .. Coober Pedy .... Uluru( Ayer rock)

Travelled almost 3000km thru and fro in the red desert drive ....

Places visited were Port Augusta, Coober Pedy ... Curtin Spring, Uluru, Mount Olgas etc ....

It has been a wonderful experience for me .... to be able to visit one of the great wonders of the world....

There is still more to explore but just not enough time ....

Three cheers for Richard and V.G for organising such a 'Bella' trip ....

Shoulder dislocation and exam

Dislocated my right shoulder on Sunday morning ..... while working out in my morning execise ....

Admitted to the Royal Adelaide hospital emergency department and had to perform 6 X-rays ...

DR pushed back the joint and discharged me home with a arm sling ....

.....

exam ..... 5 exams ..... Solid state and semiconductor device, Electromagnetic, Digital Signal processing , Radio engineering and Real time processing .....

Can't wait to finish them all and relax in the sun

Spring is here ....

Sound of chirping bird, the lovely smell of flower..... the day is longer .... Spring is here ....

London Aftermath

Footnote from one of my friend Nadia who was at London on the day which the tragedy happened.

" Yesterday(07/07/05) I left Paries for London by eurostar at about 7:15am and arrived London at about 8:55 am . I only stayed London for a day for filming by BBC See Hear, when I reached London, the director Joe the Rubberhand sms me that i have to take taxi to meet them instead tubes or buses so I met them at Hyde Park, The Queen Elizabeth gate. While we were filming , one of the team listened to the radio about the terrible news on Aldgate, King Cross and Edgeware Rd tubes and informed us that there are all the tubes are closed. After filming, I supposed to meet my friend , Deepa at Wembley PArk, I was waiting for the bus for ages but the bus haven't turned up so I walked to MArble Arch near Edgware Rd. I saw many security guards stood outside the tubes to inform everyone that there are no bus or tubes so i asked them them how I get there to Wembley Park but they told me that it was far to travel and have to stay for safety. I was thinking that I live in Paris so how can I stay in London, even in shops are not safe as well. Somehow I thought of my aunty Pat who lives near Oxford St and Edgware St so I quickly walked to there , of course I saw many polices , ambulances and some people with black smoke all over them, it was awful not none of us are panic, which helps us to calm and think what can we do.

I reached my Aunty's apartment, she was surprised to see me and she told me that I was sensible to think to visit her to feel safe.

I have to return to Waterloo to catch eurostar to go back home in Paris at 6 pm, we all knew that there were no transports apart taxis and cars so we decided to walk there. While we walked, there are too many peoplee to walk even old people and again nobody is panic but concerned.

When we reached the bridge to cross the river, there were many people got on the boats for returned to their homes but i was crowded same as Waterloo station, lots of security guards to check people before go in. I got on the train and left London at about 6:45pm. I safely arrived home at about 11 pm. "

Exam ... exam ....

Can't wait to get over with exam .....

Too many things to study yet too little time...

Red cross Australia is a profitable non-profit organisation

On 21st April 2005, thursday afternoon at around 11 am , i received a call from one of red cross Australia representative telling me that the Unley family store that i am volunteer in will be closed on 22nd April 2005.

Damn it ... no even a one week notice, the reason she said is the store is not making profit and the rent is too high .... there will be another 2 stores to be closed ...

??? Not making enough profit ????? that is a nonsence... everyday at least a 800 hundred dollars ... the most of the stuffs are donated .....

Many people around the area turned up on Saturaday and Sunday not knowing the store had closed .... Not a even a newspaper publication ....

red cross australia treat their volunteers as expandable and their customers as insignificant.

Where have all the $$$ goes to ????? going the pocket of those managment ???? or going to paid rise of the CEO ????

The recent misusing of Bali bombing donation fund by red cross have not resolved yet ...
www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/22/1053585646417.html?oneclick=true

To me , red cross is just like another National Kidney Foundation (NKF) in Singapore . NKF have more than 3 millions dollars in their surplus and yet they are still asking people for donation .... they spend huge $$$ on advertisement and hiring manpower to 'harass ' people for donation .....

While the Australian branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)(MSF) ask donors to stop pledging money to its tsunami appeal.
It paused its appeal after reaching its $1 million target as any donations beyond that limit could not be used.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Deluged-with-money-charity-says-stop/2005/01/03/1104601300088.html?oneclick=true

To me , MSF is the truely non-profit charity organisation while red cross Australia and NKF are profitable non-profit organisation.

With so much $$$ in their surplus , yet they are asking people for more donation .... in which area are they going to spend the $$$ in ????

the true red cross people is risking their lives in the war torn and natural disaster area helping the victims , they have not enough food to eat and clean water to drink while the management in red cross Australia is eating beef steak and drinking red wine in a high pose restaurant ....

i responded to the volunteer service after the tsunamis disaster but i have regret now as i have made a wrong choice to a wrong organisation ...

Australia Red cross .... is nothing but a profitable organisation.

Volunteer have to pay for their first aid training while St John Ambulance Brigade offered it free to their volunteer ....

No coffee will served if you visited any of their office saying that you want to leave a will to the red cross ....

Australia Red cross have put the name of Red Cross and Red Crescent to shame ...

Missed Opportunities

The other day I ran across the story of a man who had a great
opportunity that he missed. His friend took him for a ride one day
way out in the country. They drove off the main road and drove
through groves of trees to a large uninhabited expanse of land. A
few horses were grazing, and a couple of old shacks remained. The
friend, Walter, stopped the car, got out, and started to describe
with great vividness the wonderful things he was going to build. He
wanted his friend Arthur to buy some of the land surrounding his
project to get in on the ground floor.

But Arthur thought to himself, Who in the world is going to
drive twenty-five miles for this crazy project? The logistics of
the venture are staggering.

And so Walter explained to his friend Arthur, "I can handle the
main project myself. But it will take all my money. But the land
bordering it, where we're standing now, will in just a couple of
years be jammed with hotels and restaurants and convention halls to
accommodate the people who will come to spend their entire vacation
here at my park." He continued, "I want you to have the first
chance at this surrounding acreage, because in the next five years
it will increase in value several hundred times."

"What could I say? I knew he was wrong," Arthur tells the story
today. "I knew that he had let this dream get the best of his
common sense, so I mumbled something about a tight-money situation
and promised that I would look into the whole thing a little later
on."

"Later on will be too late," Walter cautioned Arthur as they
walked back to the car. "You'd better move on it right now."

And so Art Linkletter turned down the opportunity to buy up all
the land that surrounded what was to become Disneyland. His friend
Walt Disney tried to talk him into it. But Art thought he was
crazy.

--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale
House Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 389.

Bush walking and me

Bushwalking in Aussie term meant treking.... Being in here in Australia especially South Australia, nature park is abundent...

Being sick of living in city, i made a point of living at the outskirt which is near any nature park ...

Close to me is Waterfall Gully, Horsnell Gully and Morialta conservation park ...
My favourite is Morialta which feature three waterfalls ( will appear in winter)

Being a hyperactive person, i made an effect to jog almost everyday .... bushwalking or cycling on alternate weekend...

I managed to grap some people who share the same interest as me ... it will be boring to exercise alone ...

I have place the photo i have taken on the link .... more will be posted ...

Indeed i find bushwalking fun and enjoyable ... meeting close with kangaroo, bandicoot, koala , cockatoo, kookaburra etc not in the zoo but their native home...

Autumn is coming

Autumn is coming .......

Trees are red , sky are blue .... (can't wait to see )...

Autumn is coming

Weather is getting warmer but it will last only about in a month time..

Color of the red is coming .... it is so beautiful .....

Movie review - Two brothers

Filmed using real life tigers together excellent actors like Guy Pearce and Freddie Highmore ....

Story about two tiger clubs, Kumal and Sangha separated when young after hunters killed one of their parents and captured both of them...

Raised and trained individually in the circus... eventually the evil of money lured human to train them to be 'gladiators'...

But blood is thicker than water .... the two tigers realised their brotherhood and together fought their way to freedom...

p.s ... recent fashion trends of animal fur made me sick.... imagined one of your pet dog and cat as your coat.... yuck!!!

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=fur_farm

Winter Summer

Since after the tsunamis incident, weather in almost all parts of the earth had gone chaotic .....

Here in adelaide, for the past years, february supposed to be a very hot and dry period but not this year...

Rainfall and cool temperature in some days had caused a disruption in consistency.

Haulstorm had even occurred ...

So this year summer is a 'winter' summer ..... very cold at night and unpredictable temperature during the day...

Mother Earth is now sick .... very sick...

Weird Weather

Waking in the morning at around 0830 feeling very cold ... Looking at the window seeing that the ground is wet.. it is raining last nite...

Gripping my coat , i made my way to the city. at around 1100 .. the sky is raining haulstorm ... it only lasted for a couple of minutes ... and Mr Sun show his smiling face again ... it is warm again..

At around 1600 hour... the sky turn groomy again .. rain started to fall....
how long it last.. i am not sure ... but i felt once again cold and bitter...

Perfect weather for Zzzzz

Port Lincoln Bush Fire Tragedy

on 26th Dec, Tsunamis struck in Indian Ocean ... but on 11th January 2005 also known as black tuesday by the local,another natural disaster struck.

This time is much closer to where i live ...

Bush fire which very common in Australia especially in summer.

But this time, it had gone way beyond the human control taking 9 lifes and 4 were children.

Some time, i asked myself, is our good old God deaf or is it our retribution.

In another side of the world , landslide, flood and avalache in America ..Famine in Africa... War in Sudan ... in Ginza region etc ... it just keep on coming .





Four children among fire deaths
By staff writers and wires
January 12, 2005

NINE people have been confirmed dead in South Australia's worst bushfires in 22 years.

Out of control ... the fire takes hold in South Australia.

Four children were among the nine people confirmed killed in the bushfire on the lower Eyre Peninsula.

The children, aged between two and 13, and their relatives perished in cars as they tried to escape the deadly flames.

More than 100 others were injured.

Another three people remained unaccounted for tonight.

The charred body of popular schoolteacher Helen Castle was discovered today in a shell museum adjoining a house at North Shields, where residents yesterday jumped into the ocean to escape the massive blaze, which burnt through more than 48,000ha of the lower peninsula.

Eight of the dead were from the peninsula and the other a tourist from Adelaide, police said.

Formal identification of the bodies was expected to take days because of the horrific nature of their burns.

"The deceased are severely burnt and it's very difficult to tell male from female," SA Police Assistant Commissioner Gary Burns said.

"Whilst we believe we know the victims, before we actually do forensic analysis we won't be able to confirm names."

Eight people were killed in vehicles as they frantically sought to flee the blaze, which broke out in temperatures of around 40 degrees and was fanned by winds approaching 100km/h.

Jodie Russell-Kay and her children Zoe, 11, and Graham, 13, perished after their car hit a tree at Poonindie, the crash most likely caused by poor visibility from the choking smoke.

Adding to the tragedy was the discovery that their home was spared in a town where many others were razed.

Frank Wesner, a godfather to one of the children, said Ms Russell-Kay sent him an SMS message on his phone shortly before she died.

"I only received a text message from Jodie Russell that she didn't know what to do," Mr Wesner told the Nine Network.

"She was very worried about the fire coming at the speed it was, and she just didn't know what she was going to do.

"Jodie was a very caring young mother."

Jack and Star Borlase, aged two and four, and their grandmother Judy Griffith died in their car at Wanilla, while Judy's husband Wayne took another car and survived.

"Wayne and Judy didn't have any idea of what was on the other side until it really came up over the hill and just engulfed them," the children's other grandmother, Diane Borlase, told Nine.

The Nine Network also reported that friends Neil Richardson and Trent Murnane perished in their car at Wanilla, north-west of Port Lincoln.

Prime Minister John Howard has expressed shock and sadness at the deaths, saying they were "a terrible reminder of the ever-present threat of bushfires and their devastating effect on this country".

Officers have appealed for calm from relatives and friends of people still missing in what the State Government today described as South Australia's worst fires since the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983.

The peninsula fire has been declared a major emergency, with aid and recovery teams to remain in the area for the next 48 hours.

South Australian Police Commissioner Mal Hyde upgraded the fire's status after yesterday declaring it a major incident.

The new declaration requires emergency aid and recovery to be provided for 48 hours. A major incident declaration provides aid for 12 hours.

Mr Hyde said a recovery committee had been established following the blaze.

"Due to the ongoing need to manage a more protracted recovery process, I have declared the situation a major emergency under the Emergency Management Act," he said.

"This provides a greater length of time to manage the event over the next 48 hours."

In an exhaustive exercise today, police and State Emergency Service personnel visited fire-damaged properties, locating a dozen people who were earlier missing and feared dead.

Hospitals on the peninsula treated 90 people for minor fire-related injuries and a further 14 were hospitalised with burns.

At least three of the most severely burnt victims were sent to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where their condition was described as serious.

In addition to the loss of human life – the greatest number in a bushfire in the state since 28 people were killed in the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires – huge amounts of property and stock were also lost.

The number of people homeless as a result of the blaze remained unknown, with damage estimates of property and stock also uncertain, Asst Comm Burns said.

"This will have a severe impact in a lot of ways in regard to this district, ranging from the emotional trauma right through to the financial aspect,"he.

North Shields resident Russell Puckridge said he had finally paid off his home in the new year but his family was now left with only the clothes they were wearing.

"When we came out of the yard here, there were red cinders everywhere and we couldn't see 10 feet in front of us," Mr Puckridge told ABC radio.

"We had about three minutes until we seen it, from the time we seen it, (then) the house was gone.

"I was sitting in the car underneath the carport there and next minute all I seen were 20 foot waves of fire coming up over the hill.

"My missus couldn't even grab her handbag. (We've got) nothing – no money cards, nothing."

The fire moved with incredible speed, up to 70km/h, injuring many people, destroying homes, vehicles and stock, with one farmer reporting at least 500 sheep killed.

There are fears the fires could spread more destruction this week.

While cooler conditions have made the battle easier for South Australian firefighters today, a blaze is burning out of control in western Victoria and there are still danger areas in New South Wales.

CFS chief executive Euan Ferguson said: "This is a classic situation where there is no force known to man that can control a fire burning under those conditions."

Last night at the tiny farming settlement of Wanilla, 40km north of Port Lincoln, there was nothing left.

Fire fight

As strong winds fanned across the state yesterday and temperatures soared above 40C, 450 firefighters rushed to the Adelaide Hills after reports of a major fire at Mount Osmond. Adelaide-bound and outbound traffic on the South Eastern Freeway was diverted to give firefighters a chance to get to the seat of the blaze.

The blaze ripped through the caravan park at North Shields, destroying cabins and caravans. Residents of Louth Bay, were forced to evacuate and seek refuge on a beach.

Other towns and areas threatened by the blaze included Edillilie, Wanilla, Wangary, Koppio and White Flat. Refuge centres were set up for fire victims who needed accommodation, including the Port Lincoln cinema, Port Lincoln High School and Cougars Clubrooms at Cummins.

Power was out in several areas last night, with about 1000 businesses and homes hit in the Cummins area.

"The fire and emergency services of South Australia are excellent and are responding magnificently," Mr Howard said. "I have indicated that if any Commonwealth support is required to augment the South Australian response, it will be readily available."

Extracted from news.com.au

Quantum and General Relativity

Been reading the physic book "Quantum Theory" and "General Relativity"
Einstein, the inventor of general relativity was always disagree with bizarre world in quantum...

Most of the present mathematic and scientific calculation is based on quantum mechanic ...
Its chaotic environment has confused me a lot ... proving very useful in predictation like in weather forecasting .....

In another hand , Einstein's general relativity looked at the world as a big picture ..... our solar system is resting on an imaginary space fabric... with sun in the center and planets always in rotation by the centrifugrual force induced by the sun.... very useful in especially for GPS to work...

An effort to unified the two theories in one ..... String theory .....

Phew ... lucky for me for nt requiring me to study in depth of physic ....

For me .... theory is just a theory .... me still prefer practical .....