A Very 38 Snowflake

Haha. All 38cm of it.

Google Doodle as seen on 28 January 2012.

125 years later, Google pays tribute to the largest snowflake that was ever observed, documented and placed in the world records. (This is an attempt to show you the relevance of my snowy Christmas blog theme that's still up on the 7th day of CNY. Harhar. =p)

But first things first! Question: How could a 38cm snowflake ever possibly come to being?? Secondly, why did anyone bother measuring and recording its size? And thirdly, how could anyone ever believe the fella who said he found it!? Wouldn't the snowflake have melted by the time the world record authorities arrived??? @_@ Hmmm... #suspicious

Cool doodle though. =)

p/s: Yes, I'm back from my CNY hols and am ready to blomit (that's blog-vomit) my heart out. As soon as I get motivated enough to go through all the pictures I've snapped, that is. All 3 gigabytes of it. *faints*

Happy Chinese New Year!

I realise that Tinki Talks isn't exactly dressed for the occasion so... do me a favour and imagine that the striped red and white Christmas present with the big, red bow in the header is a super red ang pow with a super big Chinese character in glittering gold on it, alongside big, juicy mandarin oranges. Imagine that the daintily falling snowflakes are pretty, pink cherry blossoms floating down. And finally, imagine that there's super loud, super Cina tong chiang Chinese New Year music playing in the background. Cos that's what I'm doing!! Hahaha. Sorry lah, dudes and dudettes. Best I can do from Muar at the moment without a comp. Haha. I'll make it up to you with a post-CNY update later, ok? With pictures and all! (Lau gi na. =p) Anyway, last but not least...



HUAT AH! HENG AH! ONG AH!

Different Feeling Leh...

Spent a good part of the morning stuffing

hard earned money into red packets.

Not that I've never done it before, of course. I happened to grow up being that kid who forced her mother into sharing ang pow-packing duties since the day she learned how to count. Just cos money felt good in my tiny, little hands and it made me feel very "adult" to do so. Haha. How silly a young mind thinks. =p

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Funny but this year, the whole ang pow-packing process

just seemed a little less fun to me. I wonder why... =p

Tiny Little Blueberries

I've never ever eaten them. Until today.

These tiny, little, blue-black, fingernail-sized, round balls of fruit are surprisingly tasty and good to eat! In fact, they make good pop-into-the-mouth-with-little-effort snacks. Haha. A little like cherries but much, much easier to eat because of their lack of seeds. #lazybum Which reminds me... I have a cherry story to tell you guys. One I'll share tomorrow when I'm less tired. It's been a looong day. -_-'

All Hail Japanese 100 Yen Stores!!!

They appeal to the inner child (and super aunty) within in me and I could literally spend hours and hours on end just browsing through the stuff they've got to sell. Found a big-ish one at 1MK called TOKUTOKUYA and ended up trolling its colourful aisles for an hour after lunch yesterday. Haha. It's no surprise that I ended up going home with a big bag of nonsense and a little less money in my pocket. =p

Bought some storage boxes

and plastic cartons to keep stuff in and...

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A PACKET OF COLOURFUL SPONGES!!! Wheeee!!! =D

 

Me and my rainbow sponges!!


And here's another picture of it cos that washed out
Photobooth pic just does the colours no justice.

Ahh, the kitchen shall be my happy place from now on. <3

Copywriters, The Infographic

Via The George Report

Wikipedia 24-Hour Blackout

Wikipedia's 24-hour blackout homepage. The blackout

began at 0500 UTC on Wednesday, 18 January 2012.

 The header floating atop every Wikipedia page before the blackout.

You probably read about it online. On Google, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Mashable – on some site, somewhere. Probably even paid the blacked-out Wikipedia homepage a visit to see it for yourself. You may have hated the fact that you didn't get to run your search or get any work done. But you have to admit that this blackout? Well, it achieved what it set out to do. That is to help you see, experience, understand and realise...

...that knowledge shared is everyone's gain,

and knowledge withheld is everyone's loss.

Just one day without our trusty Wikipedia and we grunt and grumble like we're stumbling around in the dark. (Personally, I'm thankful I didn't actually have to Wiki anything yesterday. =p) But sadly, it's kind of true. What the proposed US legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate wants to do WILL bring us backward, and into the Internet dark ages.

If you don't know how big a deal this is, or how great an impact will be left if SOPA and PIPA are approved, read this. Cos if these people in high places get their way, you might as well say "goodbye" to freedom of the net. And that, will be a sadder and more depressing day than just 24 hours without Wikipedia.

Finger Update!

So remember how I very carelessly poured bright red blood all over my left index finger yesterday? No, wait. That's not how it happened. -_-''' ANYHOO... I finally removed the band-aid this afternoon and GAH!!! It looked like Frankenstein and I had some ugly misunderstanding at the gym (like I go to the gym – HAH!) and accidentally swapped finger pads cos...

GAH-GAH-GHASTLY!!!

All wrinkled, white and... lifeless-looking!

After that, I just sucked it up, went naked-wound,

and ditched the Band-Aid altogether. #toughnut

1 dinner and 2 hours later...

Dang! No wonder it hurt like a b*tch! T_T