Beard up!

Haha, this is a good one!

“We took 100 soldiers. 25 were Special Forces qualified and had beards, 25 were Special Forces qualified without beards, 25 were regular Army allowed to grow beards for the study, and the last 25 were regular Army without beards. All 100 of these subjects were in direct combat in Afghanistan during the study.”

He continued, “Xegis Solutions had several teams of researchers embedded with these troops to make observations on their combat effectiveness. The results were overwhelming, out of the 50 soldiers with beards, zero were wounded or killed and they had a significantly higher accuracy of fire than the soldiers without beards. The soldiers lacking beards had a higher rate of weapons malfunctions and basically, shit went wrong most of the time.”

Must be something they put in the beard! Or maybe top brass heard wrongly, and it was supposed to be 'beer'

Full read here.

Venus Transit

So, did you manage to catch Venus transitting across the sun?

"On June 5, the planet Venus will appear to pass in front of the Sun as seen from the surface of the Earth. This phenomenon, called a transit of Venus, happens only a few times in 250 years. The next one will be in 2117 AD"

2117.... i'll be 141 years old! :p

Too much D3!

OMG, it's been a while since i last posted, end of may already? Well, another 7 more months till bye bye to this year! A bit too eary yes. :)

Think i've been playing a bit too much Diablo 3! Well, at least the server goes down off and on to give us poor guys a rest and some quality family time too! :)

Durian season here! Shiok. Long time no eat! ;)

Diablo 3!

Just a couple of hours till we're able to play D3!.... Well, not me yet anyway. Was supposed to collect my preorder from a local shop, didn't expect HALF OF SINGAPORE to order from them too! The queue was crazy, it basically stretched TWICE across the whole floor... and no one knew where the queue started!

More rants! Wanted to build a new rig too, and tag it with a new Gfx card that was just released.. APPARENTLY Gfx cards are like, collectible items too, cos people buy multiples for god knows why.. plus the blardy retailers at SLS are like "oh sorry, i don't have that card anymore.. only for new system builds..." PUHLEASE....

Ok, feels good to rant! Which is what this blog is all about! :D

Avengers.... Assemble!

Shanghai - Day 4

View from the meeting room

Day 4 was Sunday, mostly spent preparing the office for the next day's opening. By then the office was mostly spick and span, but heck if the vendor didn't take his time patching the comms rack!

Dinner!

The cafeteria was closed on Sunday, so we wandered to a nearby eatery for nom nom. Nice nom nom actually. They had great noodles, buns and side dishes! After that it was back to office again. Think we stayed kinda late that night. Only knocked off about 11pm. :p

Shanghai - Day 3

On day 3 after work, we went to Lujiazui to look-see their financial/shoppping district. Decided to be a bit more adventurous, so took their MRT there... cheap! Only 4 RMB and pretty fast, bout a 20min ride. :) Their train system is definately as good as ours, at least their signboards indicate the exact time the train is arriving, and the 2nd and 3rd train timings too. Not generic timings like here... :p

Once you step out of the station, the first thing that catches your eye is the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.... really beautiful in the night. Lotsa people taking photos of it. Next time i must go up the tower to the observation deck!

Went to one of the malls (Super Mall) to look for dinner, mostly expensive branded stuff, there's a Lotus at the basement selling groceries, as i mentioned, they close early here! So had to do with whatever eatery we could find. :p