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happiness.                                                                                                         - Chuang Tzu
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apparently, rejection, ROMANTIC rejection, that is, really, absolutely, truly (need i stress more?) does hurt us physically...
need proof? read this:

the pain of rejection
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The Antikythera Mechanism in Lego from Small Mammal on 
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this will be a good excuse for being late... for non-geeks, that is :D
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an A0 sized cork board full of keychains from different places.  i was amazed by the sheer volume of keychains attached to the board that i had to take a picture of it.  i know from our conversations that he has traveled to different  countries 
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I was supposed to go to the mall on the 11th to buy a PS3 for someone who really wants it.  Oh well, just enjoy your flash games for now.

comics from xkcd
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dFynDz2HZwsmXFbU-oJU0OvVZK0/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dFynDz2HZwsmXFbU-oJU0OvVZK0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/JhkA/~4/vApvDvaeD6s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://random-nothingness-steph.blogspot.com/2010/10/ps3.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkUEQHk-eSp7ImA9Wx5UFUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107546286384847079.post-585459534775081666</id><published>2010-10-19T17:28:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-20T23:23:21.751+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-10-20T23:23:21.751+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="love" /><title>Mamihlapinatapai</title><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://random-nothingness-steph.blogspot.com/feeds/585459534775081666/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://random-nothingness-steph.blogspot.com/2010/10/mamihlapinatapai-look-shared-by-two.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4107546286384847079/posts/default/585459534775081666?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4107546286384847079/posts/default/585459534775081666?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/JhkA/~3/xgr3qgkavWo/mamihlapinatapai-look-shared-by-two.html" title="Mamihlapinatapai" /><author><name>Steph</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tgNPtODRklc/Subpnq6KmMI/AAAAAAAAA84/BL0Jc9wQJrY/S220/DSC_1641.JPG" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><content type="html">“Mamihlapinatapai: A look shared by two people with each  wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but  which neither one wants to start.”
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how much progress have you made so far?

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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fwgr9kVrn7hZbr9pIyv78X1Zsho/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fwgr9kVrn7hZbr9pIyv78X1Zsho/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/JhkA/~4/oxJb4Kuyie4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://random-nothingness-steph.blogspot.com/2010/10/disappointment.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkYBQHY4eip7ImA9Wx5UFUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107546286384847079.post-7417118175992078011</id><published>2010-10-16T16:59:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-20T23:22:31.832+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-10-20T23:22:31.832+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="death" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fallen" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="meteor" /><title>Fallen</title><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://random-nothingness-steph.blogspot.com/feeds/7417118175992078011/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://random-nothingness-steph.blogspot.com/2010/10/fallen.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4107546286384847079/posts/default/7417118175992078011?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4107546286384847079/posts/default/7417118175992078011?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/JhkA/~3/WdExYOJvGzg/fallen.html" title="Fallen" /><author><name>Steph</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tgNPtODRklc/Subpnq6KmMI/AAAAAAAAA84/BL0Jc9wQJrY/S220/DSC_1641.JPG" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><content type="html">Fallen from Sascha Geddert on Vimeo.

coming to terms with what life has to offer, however short it may be.
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so i finally bought a new laptop after almost fourish years of using Acer dearie.  the reason being i thought Acer gave up on me already. i was wrong.  oh well, he has served his purpose (well, not really.  thesis is still in the making, hehe).  he's now in the care of my younger sister whose laptop just broke down.
my new travel companion is a Lenovo Ideapad Z360, which i bought at the cheap 
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hmmm... so i work with unexploded ordnance 
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this travel bug will be traveling soon. =D






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it's another lazy saturday.  the skies are gray and it's relatively cool today.  i opted not to go home to the province in hopes of having a good long rest today.  i woke up to the sound of birds chirping (although i live in the city, there is a patch of land in front of my apartment cluttered with trees and shrubs which is home to several birds (and 
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today is Earth Day
I Love You Earth :-*







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photographers have reported seeing these spectacular bolts of lightning which seem to have come from the volcano.
neat huh?
i wonder what the science behind this phenomenon is.

Photo credits: Jon Pall Vilhelmsson, Associated Press; Lucas Jackson, Reuters





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being too lazy to cook lunch, i decided to open up a can of juicylicous SPAM (which has been in my food storage for a while now), cut them into thin slices and then heat them up on the stove.  i didn't use any oil to heat the slices up as the pan i used is non-stick.  look how much oil accumulated inside the pan after all the slices has been 
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refreshing green =)
although i am a big fan of pink, the hue (hot pink, whoa!) that MMDA previously chose for the footbridges is really an eye sore.

repainting the bridges green is part of MMDA's new program, Go Green Metro, which is in line with the celebration of Earth Day this month.  Apart from footbridges, all fences,
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 Now here's another treat from the "Dancing Inmates" of the  Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation  Center (CPDRC)





choreography:  Travis Payne (long time choreographer of Michael Jackson)back-up dancers:  Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid


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today 3/14,  is PI day and Albert Einstein's birthday
hoooray to two of the most famous and important entities on Earth!


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and this is what i've been tinkering on for the past two days
cables  


rusty tools

and copper sulfate porous pots  

i feel like a boy =|

 
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