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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Tidak perlu maths

Dari 49 750 orang pengundi...
32 000 orang pengundi berbangsa Melayu
11 500 pengundi berbangsa Cina
 5 500 pengundi berbangsa India

This makes 750 pengundi lain-lain...

 70% undi Melayu : 22, 400
30 % undi Melayu : 9, 600

So, undi Cina dan India tak perlu...
Undi 30% Melayu pon tak perlu...
Jumlah undi yang tidak diperlukan : 26, 600

Perbezaan undi : 4200
Kalau ditambah dengan undi lain-lain?
+/- undi yang tak betol...

Pasti kerh undi Cina dan India tak perlu lagi?

Brada, lulus maths or not?

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Cohesion

I was attending my biology homework when I came across a question regarding the transportation of water in xylem vessels.


“Explain what is meant by cohesion”

I look up in my Latin dictionary once. The word ‘cohesion’ comes from the Latin word ‘cohaerentia’ (ae).

In chemistry, cohesion (or cohesive forces) is a sort of a physical property of a certain substance, due to the intermolecular attraction between the same molecules (or like molecules) within a substance that that acts to unite them. The attraction of water to the sides of your measuring cylinder is an example of cohesion. Water is like strongly cohesive towards each other, forming four hydrogen bonds with other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration. So, there are strong Coulumb forces between the molecules!

But what rings in my head is the word cohesion. There’s cohesion of what so many other bullshit out there!

When I was 10, my dad got me a book about landslides. In geology, cohesion is the shear strength of a rock or soil. That’s all I’ve ever knew, until my dear Cikgu Azmi told me that cohesion in soils is caused by root cohesion (ya, we blaja in geo form 4 kan!). So, if you continue logging, burning trees down and such, the soil loses its cohesion, because no friggin plant is going to suck up water and keep a certain perfect volume of solution in the soil. Another is the electrostatic forces in firm, over-consolidated soil. In geology, consolidation of soil happens when soil decrease in volume, you know when soil is packed more tightly; the bulk of its volume is reduced. Another way is just the cementing of the entire crap by calcium carbonate or natrium chloride (this soalan will never keluar).

In the context of language, or more specific, linguistics, cohesion is the relationship between grammar and lexicons in a sentence. It binds and holds the text together, giving it meaning and expression. Like using exophorics to describe something without knowing what they really are (When English class get a little too boring...)

According to my ‘beloved’ Politics for Dummies, cohesion can also be used in the world of political science, mainly to refer to the bonds that brings people and communities together, something known as ‘social cohesion’

This post reminds me of the conversation I had with my dad two years ago. The word ‘Dress’. You can refer it to clothing, to put clothes on, to dress a horse, a barber dressing his customer, to dress the surface of a material, a costume, DRESS syndrome, to dress a salad, etc...

Are Speedos ‘cohesive dressings’?

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Fight With Tools

We need heroes
build them
Dont put your fist up,
fill them
With our hopes, and our hearts and our hands
We're the architects of our last stand.

Will release my cover soon guys, probably on YouTube...

Friday, October 1, 2010

Pease Porridge Hot

Me papa used to read all Mother Goose's  rhymes with me,
I could practically recite almost every one of them
One of my favourites was "Pease Porridge Hot"...some books go "Pease Pudding Hot"
(Although my most favourite is Old Mother Hubbard, I had a wonderful pet dog)
It goes like this:

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,

Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;

Some like it hot, some like it cold,

Some like it in the pot, nine days old.
 
The origins of this rhyme remains unknown...
Pease porridge is also known as Pease Pottage (yums) (middle english, again)
It's also a  game,  children play it with pairing,clapping their hands (ask me and I'll teach you how)
Arwah Tony Curtis stars in "Some Like It Hot", a film by Billy Wilder (1959),title taken from this rhyme...
The song's traditional english, so if you would like to know how it sounds,
refer to Roud Folk Song Index no.19631 (imma Brobdingnagian..)
 
Want to know which one's Pa's favourite?
 
"Needles and pins, Needles and pins,
 
When a Man marries, His troubles begin"
 
I Love my childhood
:)