Looking Back In Time

It is possible. All you have to do is just look at the stars above you in the night sky. Or the sun.

What's the science behind this?

We are only able to see an object when light is reflected or emitted from the object into our eyes. Now, let's say a star is 5 light years away from Earth. This means that it takes 5 years for the light from the star to travel to our Earth.

So when we are looking at a star that is 5 light years away from us, we are actually looking at the star as it is 5 years ago. The star may have suddenly disappeared 3 years ago, but we wouldn't know until 2 years later, when the last of the light from the star reaches our eyes.

So everytime we look at the heavens, we are actually taking a look back into the past.

In case you were wondering, it takes 8 minutes and 18 seconds for the light from the sun to reach our planet. That means that if the sun were to suddenly cease existing for whatever reason, we would only notice the absence of sunlight 8 minutes later.

This isn't actually rocket science and anyone who knows about how we can only perceive things when light from the object enters our eyes should know all that I've stated above, but I still find it interesting regardless.

Again

Its seems like the footballing gods have a wicked sense of humour. Champions League semi-final and who do we draw again? Chelsea. Three times at this stage in the last four years and the only year we didn't draw them in the semi-final, we got them in the group stage.

Oh well, it will surely guarantee us fans a whole lot of drama, though not necessarily good football. Anyway, for a change, this time around Anfield will play host to the 1st leg. I'd rather have it the other way around but at least playing the 2nd leg away means that every goal you score counts as an away goal and can potentially be worth two goals.

The Price of Getting What You Want

Is getting what you once wanted.

We all want what we cannot have. Why? Who knows, it could even be just because we want to know how it feels like to own the thing we want.

Whether we still want it after we get it though, is a different matter altogether. Be careful what you wish for, for the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

So we have what we want. We are happy with it, we treasure it and we carry on with our life.

But sometimes, in getting what we desire, we no longer want it. The quest for the unattainable, the thrill of the chase, whatever it was that made us desire it in the first place, is no longer there. And then we discard whatever it was that we used to covet, throwing it aside like a broken trinket.

And what of those sacrifices that we make in our effort to get what we want? We may had thrown away friendships. Destroyed. Betrayed. Killed. All for what? To obtain something you really wanted but didn't really want in the end.


"The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted."
~ Dream, Sandman #19

Audio Hosting

Can anyone recommend me a free and reliable file hosting website where I can host my mp3 files? I used to have one courtesy of me being a member of a forum, but the privilege was rescinded after complaints were received from the domain master about too many forum members hosting licensed materials.

In other news, my social circle is dwindling. Everyone is leaving Kuching for further studies. I may or may not be leaving Kuching. I don't even know if I want to leave or not. With all my friends leaving soon, the next few months are going to be the last few pages in this chapter of my life with my current group of friends. The next chapter and my next group of friends will be when I enter college/university. With it comes the excitement of meeting new people and the apprehension of the challenge of fitting into a new social circle, just as expected.

Oh well, nothing stays the same. Changes are inevitable. As someone once said, nothing is constant, the only constant in life is change itself.

Amazing

Amazing. Fucking amazing. Another dramatic night at Anfield, another European win for Liverpool.

For a minute, Walcott and Adebayor thought they had become the heroes of the night. Literally so. A minute, it only lasted a minute. And that's all it takes for ecstasy to turn to agony. A single minute. Bloody hell.

If they were any heroes, I thought Skrtel was incredible. He was a rock. How many clearances did he make? I lost count. He has settled down very quickly at Liverpool. And then there was Gerrard. Nerves of steel baby...nerves of steel. And need I mention Torres? He's on the highway to cult status at Anfield, if he isn't there already.

Next stop, Chelsea. Can you believe it? Bloody hell, three times in the past four years at the semi-final stage. Well, we've done it twice, let's make it a hat-trick. And the past two times we've played against them, we've made it to the final. Good omens.

Commentators were saying Arsenal were hard done by the penalty. It was a penalty in my opinion. There wasn't really that much contact, I've seen penalties not given for more contact than that (Kuyt in the previous leg springs to mind, but that's a different story which I'll touch on later). But at the pace Babel was going, that amount of body contact is going to make him lose his balance. Penalty.

As for Kuyt who almost gave away a penalty in the previous leg, my opinion is that it should have been given. Liverpool were lucky on that occasion.

The Godfather Liverpool - Arsenal Trilogy

Part I and II of the trilogy which ended in draws has set the stage up for a exciting Part III and conclusion to the Liverpool - Arsenal trilogy.

Two draws at the Emirates Stadium and with the last leg at Anfield has left me fancying our chances of making it to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Liverpool can't take things for granted though, as Arsenal have shown in the last round against AC Milan that they have what it takes.

Winning at the San Siro is no easy feat and Arsenal will be boosted by that fact going into tonight's game with the conditions pretty similar to their previous round against AC Milan (1st leg home draw, going into the 2nd legs as slight underdogs and at an intimidating stadium) but this time it's not the San Siro that we're talking about (despite it being an intimidating stadium in its own right). Instead, this is Anfield.

A FA Cup and League Cup match at Anfield last season has Adebayor saying he knows what to expect at Anfield tonight. Oh boy. He's in for a surprise. FA Cup, League Cup and Premiership matches are nothing compared to European nights at Anfield. European nights is what Anfield is all about.

Let's hope Anfield can produce another one of those magical European nights again.

Suicide Note (April Fool!)

Seeing that it's April Fools' Day today, I thought it suitable to post this up. Haha.

I posted this 'suicide note' way back in 2004 on a forum that I frequent a lot. I was a daily poster at that time and during Dec '04, I had to attend our school's Red Crescent's Annual Gathering Camp, leaving me without internet access for the next few days. I decided to pull their legs a bit so on the day before I left, my last post on the forum was the 'suicide note' (which I might add, is an original and written by myself..haha.. ;P ). I even posted up two pics for good measure.

Best of times, never will I forget
Acheron, river of woe, my soul approaches my target
Charon the Boatman, patiently awaiting his toll
Keenly reaching for, my silver obol

Finding my way across, the dark empty void
Racing past the shades, hordes of ghostly humanoids
Icy grip of Hades, forever I cannot avoid



In the beginning, they greeted it with skeptism but after the 2nd or 3rd day, they started to worry. Haha..I finally got back and told them I was just taking the piss. In fact, I had left them a clue in the poem indicating it was all fake. Around 10 of them for 5 days, and they didn't spot it. Can you one up them and spot it?


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La di di da da da


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*tumbleweeds*

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Here
Is a
Clue


Got it?

No?

Read the first letter in each line, from top to bottom.

Back Fri

Haha..I was coming back on a Friday hence, 'Back Fri'.

Now, if I ever have a need for a suicide note, I already have one in hand. Haha.

Happy April Fools' Day, fools!

;)