Quote of the Post: "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." - Leo J. Burke

Word of the day: "catamites"

Random Playlist Song: Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 3 in D min, Op. 30 - II Intermezzo: Adagio

It may not be very tuneful, but at least it isn't harsh and dissonant like many of his pieces for piano.

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Packing is so much easier when my mother isn't involved.

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Seetoh went back to camp yesterday, and though the proper people weren't around, he was able to cajole them into giving him his IC. Good for him :)

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Men are less endeared by the "playing hard to get" routine in a prospective mate than women are.

The smell of freshly baked cinnamon buns or pumpkin pie is more likely to arouse a man than Chanel No. 5.

According to some studies, up to 30% of kids are not the biological offspring of the man who is believed to be their father.

Random Facts

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"LOL
Lots of Laugh or Laughing Out Loud. This abbreviation indicates something is really funny. Unfortunately although very common, that term became uncool a long long long time ago. Other alternatives that you can use instead are "hehehehe" or "hahahaha" which aren't the best but are more hip. ROFL should also be avoided to appear cool."

"hehehehe"

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One of the strangest paragraphs in Gamebook history:

"You are indeed right to shake at the sight of the Minotaur, for, after all, your brother, a distant relative of the beast, was not spared its wrath. Theseus was probably in fact only your half-brother (have 1 Shame point), with Poseidon as his true father. Although the origins of the bull which sired the Minotaur are shrouded in sea-spray, according to the most reputable sources Poseidon had a hand in its conception. The bull ravished Minos' wife, Pasiphae, who gave birth to the Minotaur. Theseus was thus the half-uncle of the Minotaur. For unravelling the genealogical complexities of the situation at such a stressful moment, have 3 Honour points, and return to 394."

(The Cretan Chronicles, Book 2 - At the Court of King Minos)

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fruit fly fight club - "Researchers bet on fruit fly fights to expose underlying biology of aggression. Round by round, move by move, video replay of 75 fruit fly fights reveals statistically significant patterns of normal fighting behavior"

Vanessa Tiegs ::: Menstrual Paintings Journal - Don't look at me. I didn't unearth this. How paintings containing menstrual blood can be "personal spiritual practice", I have no idea.

Suzhou: Sino-Singapore bid fails test - "This proves that being able to speak the same language and having an ethnic affinity with the Chinese does not necessarily mean that Singaporean investors have an advantage over Western investors operating in China in the areas of communicating with and understanding their Chinese counterparts"
"Learning Chinese is important so you can do business in China!!!" What hogwash.

Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of Ronald Reagan: 'Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian language had no word for "freedom." (The word is "svoboda"; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault) could be recalled once launched. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Ronald Reagan professed to be annoyed when people called it "Star Wars," even though he had ended his speech on the subject with the lame quip, "May the force be with you." Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the "End Times" foreshadowed in the Bible. In the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan told Yitzhak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, on two separate occasions, that he himself had assisted personally at the liberation of the Nazi death camps.'