Requests

I got tagged by Huiwen, and here it is.

a) Answer the questions below, do a Google Image Search with your answer, take a picture from the first page of results, do it with minimal words of explanation.
b) Tag 5 other people to do the same once you’ve finished answering every question.

1. The age you’ll be on your next birthday:

2. A place you’d like to travel to:
3. Your favourite place:
4. Your favourite food:
UGLY CHICKEN PUFF WOO.
WARM CHOCOLATE CAKE \m/

5. Your favourite animal:
The Siren

6. Your favourite color:
Yes, its a color now.

7. Your favourite piece of clothing:
8. Your favourite song:
No looking at the file name and cheating, you have to play it out.Have Fun
No looking at the file name and cheating, you have to play it out.Have Fun

9. Your favourite tv show:
10. First name of your significant other / crush:
Nothing like her, but ah well, rules are rules.

11. The town in which you live in:
I couldn't resist when i saw "TOWN" hahaha

12. Your screen name / nickname:
couldn't find anything distinctive. they all link back to my blog and my friends/family's blogs. funtimes. i love being unique.

13. Your first job:
Yup.

14. Your dream job:
\m/

15. A bad habit you have:
16. Your worst fear:
Make a smart guess, considering i love coffee.

17. The one thing you’d like to do before you die:
ON THE FUCKING STAGE.

18. The first thing you’ll buy if you get $1,000,000:
By my count, $1,000,000 may not be enough.

I tag:
Marion
Kenneth
Yi Ci
My Mum
uh.. adeline?

Hit me like a train

WHY TELEPORTATION AS A REPLACEMENT FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

There are a few factors to this. first, we must analyze what makes our current public transport system so effective.

THE CONCEPT AT HAND

we must understand that for a public transport system to be effective, revenue must be gained from its use. therefore,

cost to operate < total fares collected

REALITY CHECK

let us take a look at a real world example. how much does it cost to operate the MRT system in singapore?

lets say $2 million daily.

how much is earned daily?

well, lets assume the average fare to be $1.50; according to wikipedia, the average daily ridership is 1.435 million. that means, $2,150,500 worth of fares are collected daily. thats a $150k profit daily. thats $4.5 million in revenue, monthly.

conclusion. Public Transport Systems, (PTSs) exist when revenue is generated. revenue is generated when ridership is high. ridership is high when capacity is high.

greater capacity = more people = greater income

now, on to the matter at hand.

TELEPORTATION AS A PTS

Teleportation will NOT take off as a PTS as, hypothetically, the running cost of such abstract technology should be at least $100 per trip. that would mean each traveller must pay a fare greater than $100. this makes teleportation a highly unpopular form of travel, as it is impractical to spend $100 a trip commuting daily. this is assuming each teleportation trip has a capacity of one person and luggage.

However, there are two ways to solve the issue at hand.

1. Reducing the operational cost.
2. Increasing the capacity per trip.

1: REDUCING OPERATIONAL COST

considering the breaking down and reassembling of molecular mass to be highly abstract technology, this solution will be difficult to implement and will likely only come with time.

2: INCREASING CAPACITY PER TRIP

this is the more practical solution, but may increase operational costs. however it is important to note that, even for a fare of $10 each, 10 people must be able to commute at once, and only to the same place. the cost to increase capacity to such a scale may not be practical


CONCLUSION

Teleportation as a Public Transportation System will not be successful nor implemented in the near future, unless as a government initiative.

FEEDBACK

if you have any points to argue, just leave a comment and i will try to address it.

dude, that's sick

my worst posts come when im down. i hope ya'll hate reading this post because its a bad post. you know what, just stop reading now. this is a horrible post because im going to talk about myself. its horrible because im talking about me being sick. this post is awful because its going to be about how bad i feel right now, and its going to be about the presistent pounding in my head. this post is the worst post ever because im going to tell you about the waterfall in my nose. im going to tell you about the fire in my eyeballs. you dont want to hear about the deafness in my ears, the sneezing bouts i get. nope. dont want to hear about my constant puking, my aching muscles...


..thank you; for reading. and now here's something you do want to read:

DOREEN IS BACK FROM AUSTRALIA. i can finally say it out. "you must come. its FREAKING EPIC." i had to tell everyone that to get them to come for the starbucks meeting last night. it was really cool. everyone gathered there, then doreen came in, pretending to be all casual like. 'oh-hey-guys-sorry-i'm-late' casual. then everyone was speechless for awhile and i was smiling at everyone.

when true friends meet after a long time, this.. aura; is projected. you just KNOW. im sure last night. all of us felt this. the table across us, the people sitting behind us. they all knew. last night they all felt happy for us.




ANYWAY. last night was geek night. we had rubik's cubes, sudoku, C++, blogs, laptops, etc. uber.

want another opinion? http://swirlsandtwirls.blogspot.com

Starbucks Night

EDIT: AHem. sorry about that. okay.

phew. last night was interesting. the most freaking random starbucks night ever. as usual, i left home at the meet time, which was 8. but naturally, i wasnt the last, since keith would be joining us. and quite ironically, he was the one to organise it.

well. details are sketchy, now that im no longer caffiene high, but the highlight of the night must have been the random word thing. 2 words each person. the rule is that the sentence formed must make grammatical sense. logically, it doesnt matter. for example, two guys have this exchange:

"I Like"
"Used Syringes"
"When they"
"Are USed"
"As Weapons"
"Against Most"
"Inuits in"
"the Sahara"
"Desert place"

which would form:
I like used syringes when they are used as weapons against most inuits in the sahara desert place.

which make sense, in a creepy kinda way.



SO ANYWAY. we had our own little version, where 7 of us went in a circle, forming sentences. not sure who said what. but lemme give you the sentences. (OFFENSIVE CONTENT, not for the sensitive [Racism, Sexual Connotations, Inappropriate Language. Read on of your own free will])

SENTENCE NUMBER 1:

"Starbucks Coffee is artificially raping me." (we love starbucks)

SENTENCE NUMBER 2:

"I love Subway cookies and things that are smelly and really really like indians"

SENTENCE NUMBER 3:

"Cotton candy from hell with belle are very fluid and continuosly raping and raping flying cows and nuns made in cow factories from china from indians by indians with flying shit out of your ass."

SENTENCE NUMBER 4:

"Who starts flying shit and shat into the glass cup which is going to become indiands who eat flying cows."

there's one more sentence i dont have written down, but i think it goes something like:

"Corn soup is really nice when used under a something" can't really remember.



hm huiwen had an awesome tee. the best part was that it only had les pauls on it. it was this white shirt with black sihllhouettes(SP) of guitars, amps, and drums. ALL THE GUITARS WERE LES PAULS. not that i have anything against fender, but les pauls look teh sex.

and i think im gonna get this picture:

printed on a t-shirt. as soon as the owner says yes, hi res ripped from http://swirlsandtwirls.blogspot.com

mebbe i'll get epic-house =p.

there you have it. hm. post idea just came in, check back later tonight.