Legend of Zelda

Worlds most pek chek game. Only played it for 8 hours, needed to refer to an online walkthrough 3 times. But although its angrifying, it is also surprisingly addictive. *swing swing stab swing*( with the wiimote.)

Got hustled on friday at Kpool. Actually i knew i would be hustled but i still go and let them hustle me.. For me, its about enjoying a good game of pool with an expert. Realized that my pool skills have deteriorated.. Must train from now on.. I shall go into seclusion for 2 months to practice the secret shooting arts of Tian.

THE SECRET SHOOTING ARTS OF TIAN:

- ART ONE
The Aimingless Technique; practice to a level that you can shoot intuitively without even aiming. Reverse cut shots, dun even have to look, your mind will tell you where the pocket is. A shot executed with this skill takes less than 2 seconds.

-ART TWO
Spirit Breaks; Meditate and release mental and physical energy when breaking. The Qi released will be converted into sound energy that can be detected by a human a hundred metres away. The total sum distance covered by all the balls will cover a length of a swimming pool. Beware of this dangerous technique, as the shockwaves can result in permanent tissue damage.

-ART THREE
Heaven's draw; Also known as Tian's screw, This involves keeping your cue at the perfect angle, then using a wavy technique to exert the most bottom spin on the cueball using the least momentum. In a dead on shot, the cueball should spin back with the speed of a motorcycle and traverse at least 27 feet, 3 times the distance of the table, before coming to a stop.

-ART FOUR
Railway Masse; Hone the skills of a curve so accurately that the cueball can travel down the length of the table, and just when it is outside the pocket, curve away towards the oposite pocket and pot any hanging balls. This skill can be trained to the degree that the player can discard the use of jump shots, kick shots and even bank shots. The curve is controlled so well by the player that it seems to be travelling on a virtual railway in the player's mind, hence the name.

-ART FIVE
Infinite Patterns; Train the player such that his knowledge and calculation of the angles are perfect. A branch of trickshot theory, this ultimate skill allows the player to spot and execute shots that would normally not be seen by another player. This can be advanced to the level where an impossible combination shot would be regarded as a straight pot for the user. A player with this skill can end the entire game of nine ball in less than 3 shots, thus eschewing the need for positioning and safety.

These are thus the five secret art of Tian that i have decided to practice. Wish me luck XD.



Random maths


" Now, i is a very proud number. It is aloof and doesn't care to mix much with the other numbers. If I add 3 to 4 I get 7; the 3-ness of the 3 and the 4-ness of the 4 disappear, absorbed into the 7-ness of the 7. If, by contrast, you add 3 to i, you get ... 3+i. It's the same with mutiplication. When you multiply 5 by 2 the 5-ness and 2-ness are swallowed up by the 10-ness of the result, and vanish without trace. Multiply 5 by i, and you get ... 5i. It's as if the i can't let go of its identity; or perhaps the real numbers know that i just isn't the same kind of thing they are."

-John Derbyshire; Prime Obsession-


Cutest way to put it.

Cooking master boy!

Been watching this anime lately. Very cool. "The goal of a chef is to spread happiness through food" Which i really agree with cause good food can really make people happy and satisfied XD.

Culinary is really an amazing art. When you eat something, you not only sense the flavour and the smell or the texture, but you can actually feel the emotions behind the dish. (If you put your heart into it, and not just eat to survive.) Which is why I think that fast food sucks cause all they do is dip everything into oil, and use crazy amounts of seasoning whithout a single good intention. Any Motherfucker of a cook can do something like that.

But when you eat for example home-cooked food or even food from a good hawker, you can feel the effort and heart poured into the food and it warms you up from within, leaving you with a sense of satisfaction and happiness.

Many people think that food is all about the taste and the smell, but the thought and spirit of the dish are equally important. Think about Ba Kut Teh, Pork bones boiled till the fats and juices in the bones degenerate into the soup and spiced up with pepper and garlic to whip up your appetite. Chicken rice, steamed rice first stir fried in chicken fats to soak in the aroma of the chicken, then boiled in chicken stock, coupled with fresh naturally-tenderized chicken with an amazingly tangy chilli sauce. How about prawn noodles, yellow noodles soaked in that otherworldy chicken-beef broth served with chilli oil.

Of course thats not to say that deep frying is not a respectable form of cooking. Deep frying in fact takes a lot of skill and experience. But when you look at that light and crisp breading of a good tempura prawn, or the flavourful, golden covering of a fresh red snapper in an expensive chinese restaurant, and then you look at the thick, starchy flour that mcspicy is covered with, and the fat filled oil is seeping out from the chicken itself, you will know that there was absolutely no skill involved. Food that is well deep fried is actually surprisingly light and NOT oily.

Thus I'm going to lead a mac revolution! Please vot on whether mac is good or not. I'll be the first to vote, mac suck my C#(K!

Wines.

Alright went to sakae sushi yesterday night at wheelock place. Wanted to go to the expensive jap restaurant upstairs, but then i suddenly saw the sushi banner and had a sushi crave :)

Seems like the prices of many hotel restaurants have gone up. We wanted to go eat buffet yesterday but everywhere was like $40++ which amounts to bout $180 after all the taxes..

The food at sakae sushi is well... Okay i guess.. Just remember that the sukiyaki is horrible.

Pics! Sorry i forgot to switch my phone camera back to normal mode after taking an mms-intended picture. Thus the quality is low.

Jap food is 40% presentation, 40% soya sauce, 20% about schoolgirls in kimonos fighting off pervertic aliens.

Damm the red plates which cost $5.59++ each!

This one is fucking worth. Chawanmushi with SHARKS FIN OMFG cost only $2.29++!!! Hiwamari sells it at $5.00++ without sharks fin. Steamed egg is the best. Soft and silky, comfortably wet and savourily sweet, its as good as a french kiss.

See the brown blob on the table right. Its damm good, rice cake. Its called Okonomiyaki and tastes exactly like the the small flour balls called takoyaki. Really good, one of the top national dishes of japan. Remember its called OKO-NO-MI-YA-KI. Remember to order it the next time you eat jap food.

And at the end right we ordered...
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Sake!

Hot somemore. Very shiok man, because its warm right it goes down your throat and sets it right on fire lol.. After drinking for a while you get a warm and fuzzy feeling. Goes well with the food but its a bit costly at $10.99++ for such a small bottle. Alcohol content is average at 12%. But i guess because its hot, it tastes much stronger than cognac. Shiok though, just swallow it!

I drank bout half of it with my mum, dad din wanna drink, just took one sip. And i became like erm.. Really high?? haha XD

So thats it. Weekend dinner at Sakae.

And erm, I'm not trying to be smart or anything, but can someone tell Cat she has her probabilities wrong...

The problem is actually non-elementary, The probability that in a group of N other people someone else will get the same result is actually 1-(15/16)^N . Thus if there were only another person doing the test, the odds would be 1/16. [Not 1/16 squared as claimed] But this rises quickly as shown below...

#of other people : % of match
1 : 6.25%

2 : 12.1%
3 : 17.6%
4 : 22.8%
5 : 27.6%
6 : 32.1%
7 : 36.3%
8 : 40.3%
9 : 44.1%
10 : 47.6%
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20 : 72.5%
30 : 85.6%
40: 92.4%

This non-intuitive result is called the birthday paradox. Not that it is mathematically unsound, but that it is extremely non-intuitive.

Thus it was not really that "fateful" :X

kbox

Yeah and as you know if you've been reading, i went to kbox last friday with darren. As i don't have permission (yet) to upload the audio clips, I shall upload this solo by me.. Its Jacky Cheung's Qing Shu. And you can hear Darren swearing at the front XD.




K la i know its not my best voice-.-

maths...

Went to play pool with Darren and YH yesterday. After that went Karaoke with Darren alone. Darren has a better voice than me. Damn.

There was a Math problem last post.

a^x = -1
a^2x = 1
a^2x = a^0
2x = 0
x = 0

sub into first equation

a^0 = -1
1 = -1

Okay the error is really simple.

In secondary school you probably learnt that
if a^x = a^y, then x=y
this is, in general, not true.

For eq,
(-1)^6=1
(-1)^8=1

Thus (-1)^6 = (-1)^8
But that certainly does not mean that 6=8.

In general, if a^x=a^y
then y=x if you can take the logarithm of both sides and reduce the expression to x=y.

For example in the first example of this post,

a^x = -1

From this, it follows that a is negative, since a positive number to any real exponent would be positive.

then a^2x = 1
a^2x = a^0

But since a is negative, we certainly can't take the logarithm of it and thus the equation cannot reduce to 2x=0.

You might be wondering, how about the equation
1^6=1^8

In this case we can take the logarithm of both sides, since ln1 is defined, but doesn't that mean that 6=8?

Well no, lets do out the formal maths

1^6 = 1^8
ln(1^6) = ln(1^8)

bringing down the powers,

6*ln1 = 8*ln1

Realize that at this point, we cannot simply cancel out the ln1's because ln1 is zero. Doing so will mean doing a division by zero, which is simply undefined in mathematics.

In other words,

6*0=8*0

doesn't mean that 6=8.