Your Online Ivy League Education

These are a couple of youtube channel links that I have bookmarked overtime. You can get your American Ivy League education online now!  Basically, there's a trend of american universities uploading their lectures onto youtube. Watching these videos is almost like being right there in class, only you cannot ask the prof questions, and you don't have to do homework! In concert, these youtube channels really provide a vast reservoir of knowledge that stretches across diverse disciplines -- everything from american lit to cognitive psychology, astrophysics to ancient greek history, from global business strategy to quantum entanglements. The UCTV channel is amazing, it has more than 3000 lecture videos on it.

HBS

Stanford

Yale

Knowledge@Wharton

Wharton

Dartmouth

UCTV

UCBerkeley

UCLA

UMinn

MIT

Purdue

USC

UNC-CH

Wesleyan

Youtube - EDU

Get ready for some full-on mental stimulation!

Putting these links up for my own future reference.

Beatle Juice

Thirst-quenching Beatle Juice in four deliciously psychedlic flavours! Apple McCartney, John Lemon, George Pearrison and Mango Starr. Very clever marketing tool. I've love to get my hands on these -- not for the drink, but for the sheer novelty. Notice how their faces are in the actual shapes and colours/colour gradients of their respective fruit! The mango face is hilarious.

Extreme Sheep LED Art

This video is nuts!! You guys SO have to watch this. I had no idea you could train sheep to do this kinda thing. It's seriously like ??!?! these people boggle the mind!

This video has to be seen to be believed. Some guys strapped LED covered vests on sheep and then had the dogs herd them in specific patterns to create ridiculous art on a hillside in Wales. They even play a game of Pong and recreate the Mona Lisa using different colored LEDs on sheep in a pen. You just have to watch it to understand. Then, I think we'll all agree, sheep: not just for sex anymore.

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Sheep-Powered LED Display Lights Up Welsh Hillside [gizmodo]

Thanks to Grey and Kim, who have never gotten tender with sheep. OR SO THEY SAY!
-- Geekologie

Hairloom and Caramel

Hairloom and Caramel salon-cafe-home at shaw towers, an eclectic cafe set up by 4 men. Quite difficult to not give off the gay vibe, which they do, very strongly. All cupcakes baked by one of the guys too, who learnt to bake from his mother and grandmother. Initially i thought it was just another one of those pretty cafes set up by people who frequently read Decor8 and OhJoy!, one of those people who go around looking for eclectic furniture in an effort to give their cafe that mish-mash look which is so popular and so pretty but kinda unoriginal now. But after visiting their blog, i'm even more impressed with them! Turns out they did source for old furniture, but more than just being fortunate (or rich) enough to find all those pretty chairs, they actually had them upholstered and repainted! Kudos for the taste and vision then =) Don't have a photo of the chairs, but you can see the before and after at their website. Amazing, even though i know they probably had it done, but still, amazing =)

Cupcakes all handmade by that one guy in a pink tshirt. They do lunch and dinner too. And pricey haircuts at the adjoining salon.The guys painted the wall behind themselves!THE BEST tiramisu to be had there, we've got to go sometime =)=) Smooth, creamy and baileys-soaked, so glad i didn't pick a cupcake. Although the cupcakes were really gorgeous too.Most photos from Aramia. Thanks, hope you don't mind.

PS. Another giant rainbow! Photo is unedited this time, cos it wouldn't have been an improvement, haha. But this felt really close this time, because I was on the ground level, almost as if walking further front, you'd walk yourself closer to the rainbow. Outside raffles city, so pretty! =)

Adam Lambert

I've never really been a big fan of American Idol. Good idol participants come and go. Some are really good, but I usually don't like their style or voice. People like Clay Aiken or Carrie Underwood or David Archuleta. But this season...there is the greatness, GREATNESS, that is Adam Lambert. (I think the last time I ever liked a reality show star so much was Lukas Rossi from Rockstar Supernova. But Adam owns Lukas, no question about it).

Adam Lambert auditioned for American Idol in San Francisco, and made an insane risk by singing one of the world's greatest songs, Bohemian Rhapsody. It's such a waste that the judges stop him when he's only about 20 seconds into the song. Nonetheless...it's an amazing rendition. And you've definitely gotta give props to anyone who chooses Bohemian Rhapsody as his audition piece. 

Then 2 weeks ago, he decided to sing Rolling Stones' Satisfaction on stage. Which is ALSO amazing, considering it's only like their first week in Hollywood. His ending note is O_O. Whoa.

And in the latest episode of American Idol, he sings Michael Jackson's Black and White. Sexy mindblowing stuff. And his confidence on stage is amazing.

His vocal range is nuts. He dresses nice and from what I see on screen, he has a really nice personality too. I hope he goes really far...like not just in American Idol, but that he stays in the music industry for the long haul (instead of fizzle out like some other idols).

Also, I think he looks a bit like Elvis Presley...it's the eyes! 

Make love with the lights on baby

Lights On by the Pierces
Addictive song!

Eh, don't bother watching the video, just listen. It was the best version i could find on youtube, cos the person who videoed the only live performance was really REALLY annoying.

I could see all 7 colours, seriously!

I've never seen such a huge rainbow in my life, and it could have been bigger in the photo except that i didn't want to step out into the drizzle. Of course, i tweaked the photo a little to make the colours more obvious, because grey isn't really the best background for these ephemeral things. But the moment was magical, and even more so because it only lasted long enough for me to take this picture. It started fading away in a matter of minutes.

I find it very strange that something so pretty can only be seen in such grey skies (not even dark stormy grey, just a very mild grey). The combination doesn't seem ideal. Is the muted effect supposed to accent its evanescence? I bet something very philosophical could be made out of this.

Best News All Week

Grade Item	Final Grade Weighting	Result	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Percentile
Midterm	-	70.00 / -	- / -	- / -	- / -	56.76

These grades may not appear spectacular to you...but they are really the best news I've heard all week. Business processes is the bane of my current school term (I actually secretly enjoy the commonly detested computer as an analysis tool). BP is like the physics of business, and I never liked physics. I would have been so so so grateful for even being average in class...so now, above average (by 6%) is like :) YAY! Especially when you're in your prof's smarter section with idiot GPA 4-ers. Lucky thing, I'm good at math! I think for this module, I'd be happy with a B...a B+ would be a bonus! Banking on other more interesting modules to pull my gpa up.

I really just had to post this before I sleep. That's if I can even get to sleep now with the awesome news -- Maddy is above average in BP. Woohoo.

Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog

LOL I have no idea why, but this, this is super funny! Had no idea this could happen to dogs. Love the part where he knocks himself awake on the wall then walks around pretending it didn't just happen.