The Man of Water Droplet Photography

"Amateur photographer Heinz Maier is making a splash with his water drop art. He uses high speed photography to capture the moment droplets hit the surface of water. The factory plant operator from Stuttgart has only been taking photographs for less than a year and pursues his new hobby in the evenings, when his job and his family allow. But already, Heinz's work has been causing a buzz online, getting 600,000 hits in a matter of months." - The Telegraph

 This is what you see when you type "german photographer heinz maier" in the Google search engine.

And considering he's just an amateur and all links are about him, I say he's pretty much all the buzz on the Internet.

His water droplet photography is AMAZING.

All of his photographs are almost surreal.

Here are a few of his photographs.

Okay, it's not exactly a FEW, but yeah, this is work so far.

 



This last two are my absolute favourites of all. They're pretty stunning. And I love the mixture of the colours. :D

This is the setup for all of Heinz Maier's photography shoot:

 So my guess is that the bowl all the way down there contains water..? And from way up there, multicoloured water droplets are erm dropped (? Sorry, I really can't think of a suitable term for it.).

And in that split second that the water droplets hit the surface of the water in the container, he captures the moment. See? That blurry translucent piece of board seems to be the backdrop of every photo.

But that's just my guess.

I can't find any article that actually explains how he does it.

Until next time!

Yours with a cherry on top,

Qi Cheng.

Jelly Belly Melly Delly! :D

Before I begin, you HAVE to watch this music video of the song "In Your Arms" by Kina Grannis.

Then only you can understand what I'm about to say. (:

And a little spoiler from me: This music video is Capital-A Awesome. You'll see.
If you're interested in how this video was made, you'll just have to scroll down further! xD On the way, why don't you check out my previous posts if you haven't done so...

Notice anything special about it?

"This video was made using 288,000 Jelly Belly jelly beans and 1 Kina Grannis."

Ok well, to be completely exact: This video was made using 288,000 jelly beans, 2460 frames, 1357 hours, 1 Kina Grannis... and 1 earring!

Yes, in the whole video, Kina was only wearing one earring.. wonder where the other one went..?

In all her videos and interviews, she always only wears one earring. Must be a belief system or something. Anyone wants a go at it? :D

It is absolutely AMAZING the way this music video was made.

In total, it took up nearly two years for a video that is only a little longer than three minutes. Now THAT is called dedication.

Now, WHO IS KINA GRANNIS?

Kina Kasuya Grannis (born August 4, 1985) is a Japanese American guitarist and singer-songwriter. She is of Japanese, English, Irish, French, Welsh, Dutch, and Scottish descent. (Wow, the best of uhm, 7 worlds.. Well, 7 IS a lucky number :D)

Grannis was the winner of the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest. As a result of winning, she earned a recording contract with Interscope Records and had her music video played during the commercials of Super Bowl XLII. She recently won Best Web-Born Artist at the 2011 MTV O Music Awards.

She has released a total of 6 albums since 2005 and has had 4 singles.

"In Your Arms" is the 5th track on her re-released 2011 Stairwells album and the 2nd track on her previous 2010 Stairwells album.

I've never actually heard of Kina Grannis before this, have you?

Recently, on the 22nd of November, she was interviewed by the E!News channel about this music video, and that's how I came across it.

So erm, credits to E! i guess... :D

It's really mind-blowing that everything in this video is not animated with a computer programme system or anything.

Real people actually handmade the sets for each frame.

"Some frames we can build in um 5 minutes, some frames have taken as long as 3 hours."

Wow, just wow.
So here's the video of the making of the music video "In Your Arms"! Enjoy!





And Kina is wearing only one earring again. xP

Yours with a cherry on top,
Qi Cheng.

What the McMuffin?!

Seriously, this shyt is like, for real.. ?

The latest in Wii technology: video game urinals. o_____o

Visitors at The Exhibit Bar in Balham can now play one of three games every time they use a urinal. (For guys only, obviously. Sexism? *rolls eyes*)

The video game has been trialled in a bar in Cambridge since mid-July and it has proved to be both popular and profitable.. (uhm. how?)

One of the game's co-founders, Gordon MacSween, was not sure how the public would react to the game initially. But as soon as he saw the game on trial at a bar in Cambridge he knew he was on to something good. (T_T)

The game was designed to create a valuable media opportunity from the 55 seconds the average male spends while he pees just staring at a blank wall. (Technology -- Takes advantage of you when you're peeing .__. Is nothing sacred?)

There is an advert played before and after the game promoting a drink you can buy at the bar. (Is this really wise? I mean, you're in a toilet here =.=)

At the end of the game, players are encouraged to post their scores via mobile to Twitter and to a live leader board so they can compete with their friends. (Is this something to be proud of? :O)

The units will be officially rolled out in certain venues across the UK in 2012.

*NOTE: The words in brackets are my own personal thoughts. Hope they're not offensive in any way.

Turns out that SEGA had already came up with this idea in January this year.

In the early ’90s, Sega held 65% of the US video game console market, had millions of fans, and was considered one of the premier creators of modern gaming entertainment. Today, they are helping you play with your pee. The Japan branch of the multinational company recently announced that they are testing their Toylets male urinal game at select locations around Tokyo. Toylets uses a pressure sensor located on the back of the urinal to measure the strength and location of your urine stream. A small LCD screen above the urinal allows you to play several simple video games including a simulator for erasing graffiti and a variation on a sumo wrestling match. At the end of a game, the screen displays advertisements. Normally when I see something like this I would reach for my enormous "WTF, JAPAN?!" flag, wave it around a few times and then return to my life without giving it much further thought. However, I can’t seem to get Toylets out of my mind, because I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s secretly brilliant and maybe even a sign of things to come. Whether you find the concept hilarious, disturbing, or disgusting, urinal video games are simply another way that interactive media could invade every part of our lives. It also shows that no space is safe from digital ads.

Don't like graffiti? Who does? Use your urine to wash it away, and compete in this time trial.

First, let’s have a big round of honesty here. How many guys out there have never made a game out of peeing? (Liars.) Sure, it’s childish, but maybe it’s part of the male psyche. Now, look at Toylets. Very weird, very childish, but…c’mon…if it just so happened to be in the bathroom you were using you would play it, right? The game could be enticing to that silly part of you that finds peeing fun, and it definitely is trying to appeal to its (presumably) male audience. According to Sega and Akhibara News reports that the four types of video games on the Toylets include:

“Mannekin Pis”: a simple measurement of the urine produced.
“Graffiti Eraser”: where you move your urine back and forth to remove paint
“The North Wind and Her”: a game where you play the wind, trying to blow a girl’s skirt up. The stronger you pee, the stronger the wind blows.
“Milk from Nose”: A variation on sumo wrestling, where you try to knock the other player out of the ring using the strength of your urine flow (shown as milk spraying from your nose). The record of your pee is saved and used as the opponent for the next player. So the game is sort of multiplayer. Toylets even lets you save information onto a USB drive!

The Milk from Nose game lets you compete against past users for strongest flow. Pee, pee for victory!

Getting men to enjoy using a urinal is simply one side of the equation, however. Making money is the other. Digital signs are already in many bathrooms in major cities in the US. I remember seeing them in New York back as far back as 2007. Mostly these ads were ignored like all other things in the Men’s restroom. But what if that ad was part of a video game…you might pay more attention to it then. Making advertisements interactive is one of the ways in which the marketing medium is evolving, and you can see that phenomenon everywhere on the internet from Facebook to pop-up ads. The other big innovation, making ads personalized, is also creeping from the digital world into reality. Considering that Toylets allows you to save data to a USB, there are chances we’ll see the same sort of customization available there as well.

Oh, sure, you'd want to save your high score... WTF, JAPAN!

Shucks, I gotta get this outta my head... T_T

Yours with a cherry on top,

Qi Cheng

Post-turkey Day

"The sun goes down
The stars come out
And all that counts
Is here and now
My universe will never be the same
I'm glad you came"

Love love love this song. It's a perfect mix of everything! :D
Today's Black Friday. All over Twitter, not so much on Facebook, but that doesn't change anything!
A lot of people think that Black Friday means Friday the 13th. But this time round, it actually means the day after Thanksgiving, when all the prices of almost everything are slashed and amazing discounts and offers are sploshed practically everywhere in shopping malls all over the US.
This year it falls on the 25th of November, which is today and some stores in the US are even opening at 4am to tempt bargain hunters.
Last year, more than $45billion was spent by American shoppers on Black Friday, and reports suggest 2011 could see record numbers hit the shops.
If you're hell-bent on being stuck at home, well them, do check out the online version, dubed Cyber Black Friday.
The US National Retail Federation expects 152 million people to hit the shops this weekend-up 10.1% from last year.
The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term started before 1966 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black".

Personally I don't understand how these people can come out of their houses just to get squashed by thousands of people in a limited amount of space and breathe the humid, de-oxygenized air.
Doesn't sound like an ideal holiday to me.
Hmm.. maybe that's not up to me to comment on anyway (:
So.. Happy Black Friday everyone!

Yours with a cherry on top,
Qi Cheng.

APPLE (:

Hello, old world.

I miss my own lonely banter, considering the fact that this blog is still kind of a newcomer, so it's just mostly me and my thoughts... (:

I'm currently rediscovering Twitter now, so if anyone has a Twitter account come, search me at @qicheng9481. Thanks! :D

And oh yeah, just watched "You Are the Apple of My Eye" yesterday.

I would give my comments in Mandarin but this computer doesn't have the right software for that.

So I guess I'll just be doing this in English then (:

For one, I've never actually finished the book.

For two, I don't actually HAVE the book.

For three, I'm currently reading it from an iPod/iPhone app (:

For four, so far it's really really good.

For five, there is no for five, I just wanted to keep the momentum coming...

Anyway the movie is rated 18+, but aside from the masturbation scenes and some fairly mild cursing, it's actually quite harmless and quite romantic.

You Are the Apple of My Eye (那些年，我們一起追的女孩) is a 2011 Taiwanese romance film based on the story of the same name by Taiwanese author Giddens. Giddens also made his directorial debut when he self-directed this film. The film stars actor Ko Chen-Tung, who plays Ko Ching-Teng, a prankster and a mischievous student who eventually becomes a writer. Actress Michelle Chenalso stars as Shen Chia-yi, an honor student who is very popular amongst the boys in her class. 

This movie has broken records in China's movie box office, beating CJ7 which previously topped the list.

There's lotsa buzz flowing around about this movie, basically because it really is THE movie, the one that makes people stop and think: HEY, I DID THAT ONCE!

It's something that we can all relate to, simply and beautifully etched out onto film.

This movie mainly revolves around the lives of a group of teenagers who go to school, worry about exams, fool around, rebel against teachers and fall in love (and masturbate .___. , but let's not talk about that...)

Personally what did it in for me and made me cry the most of the second half of the movie where the conversations between Ko Ching-Teng and Shen Chia-yi.

Some of the things they said were epic and really tear-jerking, so kudos to Giddens for the stuff (:

Here are some of my all-time favourites...

1. 我想成为一个很厉害的人, 让这个世界因为有了我而有一点点的改变。而我的世界，不过就是妳的心。

2. .沈佳宜: 谢谢你喜欢我。

柯景腾: 我也喜欢当年喜欢著妳的我。

3. "沈佳宜，你相信平行时空吗？或许，在另一个时空，我们是在一起的。”

4.  “你不懂了，如果你真心喜欢过一个女生。你就会发现真心祝福她跟别人永远幸福快乐根本是不可能的事。——对啊，像我们这种背后放箭的才叫做真爱。”

5. “我错了，原来当你真的真的真的非常喜欢一个女孩。当她有人疼，有人爱，你会真心祝福她永远幸福快乐。”

6. 分手，只需要一个人同意，但“在一起”，可是需要两个人同时认可才能作数。恋爱就是要这麽不确定才有趣，不是吗？

And my absolute favourite...

沈佳宜：“柯景腾，你特地办一个比赛，把自己搞受伤，你怎么会这么幼稚阿!”

柯景腾：“对幼稚，就是幼稚，很幼稚!”

“我就是幼稚，才会喜欢你这种努力用功的女生。”

“我就是幼稚， 才有办法追你追这么久。”

沈佳宜：“那你就不要追了阿! 笨蛋!”

柯景腾：“对啦!我就是笨蛋啦!”

沈佳宜：“大笨蛋~~~!”

柯景腾：“对啦! 我就是大笨蛋才能追你追那么久!”

I mean, do guys like this even exist? o.o Okay, I'm sure they do, they just have husbands.

Y'know, the whole time in this movie, the girl is always the grown-up one, and the guy is the immature one...

But I'm starting to wonder, maybe the world's not like that anymore?

Sometimes guys don't feel so much, don't emote so much that they have the time to really think things through, and maybe, maybe they're the mature ones.

And girls well... me, maybe I'm the one that's living in the bubble of my own world, the one where I think everything is lovely and I smile and pretend to smile even though everything's so not fine.

Ugh, I'm derailing again.

I'd seriously recommend this movie to everyone who's anyone who knows Mandarin. Seriously, try it.

It may blow your socks off :D

It certainly did for me, not that I was wearing any socks. Figure of speech (:

And ohmygoshhhhhhhhh, the official soundtrack for the movie is beautiful. It perfectly describes the whole situation in the movie and can really be related to when in bad times.

又回到最初的起点 记忆中你青涩的脸

You hui dao zui chu de qi dian ji yi zhong ni qing se de lian

我们终于来到了这一天

Wo men zhong yu lai dao le zhe yi tian

桌垫下的老照片 无数回忆连结

Zhuo dian xia de lao zhao pian wu shu hui yi lian jie

今天男孩要赴女孩最后的约

Jin tian nan hai yao fu nuu hai zui hou de yue

*

又回到最初的起点 呆呆地站在镜子前

You hui dao zui chu de qi dian dai dai de zhan zai jing zi qian

笨拙系上红色领带的结

Ben zhuo ji shang hong se ling dai de jie

将头发梳成大人模样 穿上一身帅气西装

Jiang tou fa shu cheng da ren mo yang chuan shang yi shen shuai qi xi zhuang

等会儿见你一定比想像美

Deng hui er jian ni yi ding bi xiang xiang mei

**

好想再回到那些年的时光

Hao xiang zai hui dao na xie nian de shi guang

回到教室座位前后 故意讨你温柔的骂

Hui dao jiao shi zuo wei qian hou gu yi tao ni wen rou de ma

黑板上排列组合 你舍得解开吗

Hei ban shang pai lie zu he ni she de jie kai ma

谁与谁坐他又爱著她

Shei yu shei zuo ta you ai zhe ta

[Chorus]

那些年错过的大雨 那些年错过的爱情

Na xie nian cuo guo de da yu na xie nian cuo guo de ai qing

好想拥抱你 拥抱错过的勇气

Hao xiang yong bao ni yong bao cuo guo de yong qi

曾经想征服全世界 到最后回首才发现

Ceng jing xiang zheng fu quan shi jie dao zui hou hui shou cai fa xian

这世界滴滴点点全部都是你

Zhe shi jie di di dian dian quan bu dou shi ni

那些年错过的大雨 那些年错过的爱情

Na xie nian cuo guo de da yu na xie nian cuo guo de ai qing

好想告诉你 告诉你我没有忘记

Hao xiang gao su ni gao su ni wo mei you wang ji

那天晚上满天星星 平行时空下的约定

Na tian wan shang man tian xing xing ping xing shi kong xia de yue ding

再一次相遇我会紧紧抱著你

Zai yi ci xiang yu wo hui jin jin bao zhe ni

紧紧抱著你

Jin jin bao zhe ni

Repeat *

Repeat **

Repeat Chorus x2

I think my favourite line is is "曾经想征服全世界, 到最后回首才发现, 这世界滴滴点点全部都是你" (:

I raped the YouTube Replay button for this song .____. Seriously.

It's too too too too too good.

I'm trying to find the piano score for this song.

This is the nicest so far, posted by Isabel on Facebook (:

Time's running up! I'm getting going, if that makes sense...

Yours with a cherry on top and seriously in love,

Qi Cheng.

Bring on the KUH-CHING!

Okay, this time round, the holidays are actually quite boring.I think I'm on the way to fully turning my brain into mush by watching at least 8 hours of television per day... o.o I hope my eyes don't burn. -,-
Anyways, a few days ago, I watched a movie on Diva Universal (Astro 702 xD) called "The Bling Ring".
It's actually based on a true story but the characters are slightly different, but on the whole it's pretty much identical to a string of crimes that occured throughout 2008 and 2009.
When I watched the movie, it hadn't really occured to me that it was based on a true story.
Because, well, I thought these things were pretty impossible.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Lemme explain.
The Bling Ring, true to its name, was a group consisting of mostly teenagers who bulglarized the homes of several celebrities.
In total, their activities resulted in about $3 million in cash and belongings, most of it from Paris Hilton, whom they robbed several times.
First of all, I'd like to give some comments:
1. Ok LOL, these are teenagers we're talking about, and if they can break into celebrities' houses, in those kind of "high profile" neighbourhoods, what does that say? I mean, c'mon, is the security THAT bad?
2. Okay, is Paris Hilton or dumb or retarded or something? -,-

Okay moving on...
RACHEL LEE
There were a total of six ring participants, and the alleged ringleader of the group was Rachel Lee.
Lee is the daughter of divorced immigrant Vickie Kwon, originally from North Korea and David Lee, originally from South Korea. Both parents own successful businesses. Lee lived in Calabasas with her mother, who owns a franchise of Kumon, a tutoring company. Her father is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lee and her older sister Candace had a privileged upbringing, and she drove a white Audi A4 to school, where she was named "Best Dressed" in the 2007 yearbook. When she was in her early teens, her mother remarried, but she and her stepfather did not get along. She attended Indian Hills, an alternative school, because she had been expelled from Calabasas High School, and upon graduating was awarded a creative arts scholarship. A year after graduation, she was fined and put on probation for a petty theft incident in which she and Diana Tamayo stole $85 of merchandise from Sephora. According to Prugo, Lee was obsessed with reality television. Towards the end of the crime spree, Lee moved to Las Vegas to live with her father, which is where she was eventually taken into police custody.

NICK PRUGO
Nicholas Frank Prugo was reported to be a shy and friendless teen prescribed Concerta for ADHD and Zoloft for anxiety, who was transferred to Indian Hills high school after being expelled from Calabasas High School for excessive absences. In 2003, Prugo had a role as "Kenny" in Little Lost Souls: Children Possessed, a made-for-TV quasi-documentary about theexorcism of children whose parents believe them to be possessed by evil. Lee befriended Prugo after he arrived at Indian Hills, and introduced him to most of the other people who would eventually join the crime spree.^[7][9] The two initially bonded over their love of fashion, and Prugo claims to have been infatuated with her. After being accepted into her circle of friends and participating in their nightlife activities, Prugo became hooked on drugs, and began stealing from his parents to support his addiction. Their first home robbery together occurred during the summer after tenth grade, when he claims that Lee suggested they rob an acquaintance from Woodland Hills whom Prugo knew to be out of town at the time. Prugo claims to have been reluctant, but didn’t want to risk losing her friendship. During that first burglary, they discovered $8000 in cash hidden under a bed. They split the money, and the next day went on a shopping spree on Rodeo Drive. Prugo and Lee began checking the doors of expensive cars parked in their neighborhood, to see if they were unlocked, on an almost nightly basis. They would take credit cards found in the cars, and go shopping the next day in areas like Melrose Avenue. They would be dressed well, and according to Prugo, merchants never questioned their use of the cards.

(Okay, wow. The storyline of the movie really matches the real incidents. Good work! )

ALEXIS NEIERS
Alexis Neiers had been part of Lee’s social circle at Indian Hills. At one point, she was kicked out of her home by her mother for, according to police, smoking OxyContin, which she denies. Prugo took her in, and she claims that although she knew her circle of friends were committing the crimes, she only became inadvertently involved when, while drunk, she unknowingly accompanied Prugo to what turned out to be a burglary of Orlando Bloom’s home. She claimed that police searched her home and found nothing. However, police reported that they found stolen items in the possession of Neiers, her sister Gabrielle, and their sister, (through adoption), Tess Taylor, and that she was caught on camera leaving the scene of the crime with stolen bags in her possession. She initially denied any wrongdoing, but later changed her plea in court to no contest.

DIANA TAMAYO
Diana Tamayo was, in 2008, the student body President at Indian Hills, where she had been voted "best smile", and been awarded a $1,500 "Future Teacher" scholarship after graduation. She was also known for getting into fights, and according to police was an illegal Mexican immigrant. However, she was apparently affluent enough to own a Lincoln Navigator. Along with Lee, she had been fined and put on probation for engaging in petty theft. According to Prugo, her entire wardrobe consisted of stolen items. Her small size was utilized during one robbery in which she gained the group access to a home by crawling through a dog door.

(WTH??? A DOG DOOR? SERIOUSLY?!! -,-)

COURTNEY AMES
Courtney Ames, whose stepfather is boxer Randy Shields, was a Calabasas High School student and an "old friend" of Lee’s. It was through Ames that the others met Lopez and Ajar, her boyfriend.

JOHNNY AJAR
Ajar, a former convict nicknamed "Johnny Dangerous", is not believed to have participated in the burglaries, but was recruited by Ames, his girlfriend, to sell some of the stolen items for cash. He was raised in housing projects around Reseda, outside of the group’s community, the son of a father who was a career criminal and drug addict. He had previously spent 2 years in federal prison, having been convicted for drug trafficking in Wyoming at age 22. Ajar first met Ames and her friends at a nightclub called The Green Door, and allowed them access even though they used fake IDs. At the time of the burglaries, he worked as a promoter for club Les Deux Café.

ROY LOPEZ, JR.
Lopez and Ames had worked together at a restaurant and bar in Calabasas. Ames had recruited him as a reseller, and he also participated in burgling at least one victim, Paris Hilton, from whom he is alleged to have stolen $2 million in jewelry, which he carried out with him in a Louis Vuitton bag. He was unable to sell off most of it.

Reported victims include Paris Hilton, Audrina Partridge, Rachel Bilson, Orlanda Bloom and Miranda Kerr, Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox, and last but not least, Lindsay Lohan.
Wow, these people sure have good taste.
Anyway, in the movie, Nick Prugo I'm guessing is a character named Zack Garvey, which by the way, is WAY TOO CUTE for the likes of Prugo, who is just.. ick.
But y'know, movies have to look good. -,-
Okay, that's it from me.

Yours with a cherry on top plus lovin' the luxuries in life,
Qi Cheng :)

Original Bling Ring



"Rachel Lee" and "Nick Prugo" but in the movie their characters are Natalie Kim and Zack Garvey.



TOXIC

Recently I've bought a book called Toxic Panda.

And yep, I have it beside me right now (:

"TOXIC PANDA is more than an extraordinary novel; it is a treasure map that leads you across Asia to a series of cash prizes without having to leave the comfort of your armchair.

AMAZINGLY, THIS NOVEL DOESN'T CONTAIN A SINGLE LETTER E."

On top of being an extremely mind-boggling piece of literary work to read, it also contains numerous puzzles that need to be solved to proceed to the next chapter where there is another chapter awaiting.

And if you manage to solve the puzzles, you can log on to the book's official website and submit your answers to win cash prizes. But only the first person to submit answers to each chapter will be rewarded.

So far I think almost half of all the chapters have already been solved, so I guess I'll be working them out just for fun.

I'm at Chapter A.

And I've already solved the first part of the first puzzle which is a nonogram

What is a nonogram?

Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Paint by Numbers, or Griddlers, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. In this puzzle type, the numbers measure how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column.

It's actually quite easy once you get the whole idea of it, and it's been turned into some kind of leisure game by some people. Y'know, like Sudoku.

Anyway, I've solved the first part of the puzzle, but the second part says I'm supposed to put the letters into a matrix?

A matrix is a complicated mathematical object generally represented as a set of numbers.

Some people use it to make codes to send top-secret military information and that kind of stuff.

So softwares to create or inverse it are practically non-available just by Googling.

I found one yesterday but it's only really basic and purely for mathematical purposes, not for turning sets of numbers into letters for a coded message.

I've read the explanation of 'matrix' on a few sites, and I've got to say, it's quite a complicated mathematical operation.

So I'm currently killing my brain cells trying to figure out how to inverse the matrix code I've got in this book.

I think I would have no problem CREATING a matrix code, but decoding it is another thing, and INVERSING it would just make my brain crack into half.

So for now, Imma just gonna wait for a while and check back to Google later >_<

I know I know, it's cheating. But the author of Toxic Panda, Adam Adams already released SOME spoilers in his book.

And oh, I just got a brainstorm.

But I'm not gonna say it here xD

So I'll just leave now. Hehe.

I've actually got loads to talk about and pictures, but I have to go off in about less than 10 minutes. So maybe I'll be back tonight.

Ciaos.

Yours with a cherry on top,

Qi Cheng.

seconds.minutes.hours.days.weeks.years.decades.centuries.

As per usual, my life is not very interesting. So really, I don't see the point in sharing every little detail.

Ok fine. I don't know why, but I'm kinda down today.

I'm starting to find it annoying when people bug me on Facebook.

And well, as all things I find annoying, I feel like punching these people.

But hey, we can't all have what we want.

Especially if those people don't understand what kind of moods I'm in.

So yeah. Got a haircut today.

Shorter than I anticipated, but still hanging in there.

Probably gonna get another round of rebonding by December, 'cos all my 'rebonded' locks have already been chopped off. T_T

I don't know actually, I kinda like my new hairstyle.

It's short, but it just reaches my shoulders, so I guess it's not THAT short.

It's bouncy, and really fun to fling around, not that there's much to fling, but it's still fun. :D

Ugh, I just hope it doesn't become a nightmare when I wake up tomorrow.

My hair just doesn't really work well after a night's tossing and turning, dreaming and screaming ...

Gosh, I sound goth.

HAVE TO CHEER UP *forces smile* Okay, maybe not the best idea ever, but worth a try...

It's taking FOREVER to upload the photos of 11/11/11 on Facebook.

T_T

Apparently the leftover uploading time stands at 5 minutes now. ticktockticktock!

4 minutes.

I've just Googled interesting facts 'cos I was bored and I found this website and clicked on World Facts.

One that interests me is the topic Mystery Missing Dates.

Apparently, the days/dates between 2nd and 14th September in 1752 did not exist!

So that means, people would fall asleep on the 2nd, and wake up the next day.. and the date would be the 14th of September.

This actually happened because 1752 was the year that the calendar changed from the Julian (as in Julius Caesar) calender to the Gregorian (as in Pope Gregory XIII) calender and because the Julian calendar did not have any leap years, they had to cut out dates to make the years correct for the new calender.

So the people literally lost about 11 days of their lives. (But hey, they got a full month's pay from their jobs, so it's a good thing righte? Less work more money...:D)

But it seems as if this is not the only case where days or dates have gone missing.

Apparently dates have also gone missing in France in the year 1582, Austria in 1584 and Norway in 1700.

I tried Googling this but it kinda backfired.

Instead a song called Missing popped up, so.. FAIL. -.-

OH AND YES I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY SOMETHING.

Let's do it... xD

Let's Google Google.

I mean, like seriously.

If you are already on Google.

And you Google Google.

Google just pops up in your results list.

Which equals just opening Google again.

So what's the point of even Googling Google?

Geddit? :D

Haha, Imma just being random.

I should really paste this in the Random Team. xD

Yep, just did. :D

Okay, I think I've just about crapped enough today! (:

Catch you later ma bibbles!

Yours with a cherry on top,

Qi Cheng

Happily Ever After

Not to say that I'm happy or anything, because I'm anything but.

Needless to say, this has been the best year of my life. (Not to say that I've lived a long life and all, but I'm just speaking the truth.)

I've laughed, shed tears, grown a little, lost a lot, but it was all worth it.(:

I know it's already at the end of the year and all, but I've JUST realized that sometimes... It MAY be lovely to fall into the dream of trustworthy people all around you... but reality is.. people fend for themselves.

I'm not saying that people don't give a crap about others (if that were the case, NO ONE WOULD DONATE TO THE POOR HUNGRY CHILDREN OF SUDAN!! OHMYGOSH!), it's just people think about themselves first, right?

Ok, everyone does something because they WANT something out of it.

Like.. Even if I do my best to save the children of the Sudan, it may not be because I want fame or power or money or anything..

But it doesn't really mean I don't want anything right?

I want to feel satisfied by saving them. That's what I WANT.

So there's a difference.

Okay, I've gone from theorizing to doing charity.. O_O Sigh..

It's always been hard for me to share my feelings and thoughts... and well, even though SOME people say that they're open about their entire lives... it's just. Not true.

They share what they're doing daily, but have they ever sat down and told someone what they FELT.. really felt at that time?

People rarely do.

And I guess that when the time comes when one is willing to open up, the other person freaks out and runs off.

So okay, I don't wanna be a bummer.

So let's recapture today's festivities!

2A1 FOREVER *heart*

Had a class party at 10 am this morning, lots of laughter, lots of fun, lots of scandals, and LOTS OF FOOD!!! FML...-.-

Yi Qiong and I ordered RM150 worth of fried stuff for about 50 people.. So yeah.

Hey I thought we could manage. I mean, technically.. Those kind of food is not really filling right?

WRONG. o_o

Okay, after stuffing down as much food as possible, we started playing Truth or Truth.. which is technically just truth.-.-

At first it was just us girls with nenma and nenba but then the other guys joined in.

Ohmygoshhhhh, first time the guys are willing to play this game! DAMN HAPPY! :D

Hahahaha, ZI HENG AND YEE TENG! *HEART*

Seriously we laughed until we almost suffocated today. Well, at least I did!

Hehe, brought my camera to school, though I was kinda afraid to use it :x

Damn shocked weih when Mr Sin came to our class and Wei Kee and I were using it.

Still, at least we captured some memories.

My most favourite picture would have to be the one where Michelle does her yeng pose... non-purposely! (yeng then yeng already... cannot say purposely also ...)

Then back in class we continued out game.. AnnQi HuiEr WeiKee YuZhen JiaYu YieRuey Zhendonq (: Ahahaha. Awesome right? :D

HAVE TO PLAY AGAIN SOON. AND THIS TIME MORE PEOPLE!!!!

Let's plan an outing!

I can't wait to see you guys.

Thinking back about today... I realised I'm getting less and less sad and more and more happy.

It's all about perspective I guess. (;

It's about wanting to look through to the smog to find the beautiful colourful rainbow (:

THE END...

And I lived happily ever after,

Qi Cheng

P.S. I STILL haven't found the sh*tholes that stole my notebook, be warned:

I'LL FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE! DON'T THINK I CAN BE EASILY FOOLED.