a montage of jupiter and it's moon lo. Jupiter is represented by false colours corresponding to the different infrared radiation wavelengths. The colour blue (representing the wavelength 1.85um) denotes high altitude clouds of above 300 millibars pressure level while the colour red (representing the wavelength 1.59um) represent clouds below the pressure level of several bars.
The red dot on lo is a volcano, captured during a major eruption. The volcanic plumes appears to be blue due to Rayleigh scattering by small particles.
Stand up together, the wish has begin to stir
Whenever, wherever, let's welcome a new journey
The soul which I had lost had awaken, confide in you
Even the uncertain future can be believed in, the testify
The days we spent together, one by one coming together
Hold on tightly to the warmth that has bloomed.
Whenever, wherever, we snuggled up into each other
There will be nothing to be afraid of, even of the darkness separates us two,
Because the throbbing of my heart tells me so
Until we are able to meet again, somehow, keep these emotions together with you.
As I sighed softly of hope, chasing after it rely on you.
In order to erase this anxiety, you met with a tragic fate.
The meaning of being here, I have strongly, strongly contemplated
Burden, fate, stubbornly tied together.
Stand up together, as we hold our hands together
There is nothing to be scared of, even if the light were to be taken away,
Because I am able to remember these intertwined experiences
Until we are able to meet again, somehow, salvation may come for your sake.
Whenever, wherever, we snuggled up into each other
There will be nothing to be afraid of, even of the darkness separates us two,
Because the throbbing of my heart tells me so
Until we are able to meet again, somehow, keep these emotions together with you.
I took off my glasses on the way home today,
a midnight ride along the bright streets.
The lights suffused over my visual field,
the sodium yellow, the happy red,
the living green and the neutral amber.
They exploded over each other,
each like a mini firework the size of a coin
overlapping, complementing, accentuating.
Winking at me as they flirted through
the dense leaves and the slender posts,
urging me to join in their dance.
'twas like a fantasy world,
where colours meld into each other
joining together in a mass of festival
all dreamy-like in the bokeh background.
Thoughts: if only I have conscious control over the focus of my eyes... like the focus ring of a camera lens.
"Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in
which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to
understand things with our hearts when we can't with our minds."
It's been a while since I spent a sick day alone at home, rather quiet day spent napping and recovering from this flu. Good thing it is not so hazy today.
recently I have been seeing advertisements of products touting good performance to gamers, in the form of less lag, less ping, increased accuracy, faster response time etc... with this tagline "gain an unfair advantage over your friends/opponents/enemies" - which led me wondering, why are these services/products unfair? you pay more for your internet connection to get better connections, you buy a better mouse/keyboard to help you aim better... it's not something that your friends/opponents cannot buy, nor is it against any specific rules or ethics of online gaming... It is advantageous to have better hardware to play with, but it is not like using a map-hack, a aimbot or a scriptbot.
in my era (I guess I am old...) when playing as a child, we would shout "Unfair!" if someone was cheating in a game... it usually (almost definitely) has a negative connotation to it. however, if I were to take the marketing tactics into context, youths (/gamers) of today do not think that being unfair or cheating is something bad. In fact, it is a secret desire of them to have an "unfair" advantage over their peers so that they can be superior over them? or how else should I interpret the marketing slogan?
playing games is all about fun and enjoyment. yes I had my share of exploiting exploits... but the fun came from figuring how to exploit the system and not about using cheats and exploits to be #1 in the server... which is why games which are easily exploitable quickly become obsolete from my playing collection... once I figure out the exploits and use the exploits a few times I quickly get bored of the game. On the other hand, skill based games or story based games held my attention much longer than games which just focuses on grinding and grinding and grinding... do the gamers of nowadays think that having the unfair advantage would enable them to derive more pleasure out of the game? I cannot answer for them but my answer would probably be no.
On a side note - I am still very amused by Leticia's insom-nom-nom-nom-nia.
should be a period of time where one recharges and do the things that they want to do but have no time to do in the weekdays, due to work or other commitments.
I think a superior should not give you last minute work (especially if it is their own work), expecting the subordinate to finish within 3-4 hours just because "it is due on the day itself, and I am busy in the lab". And if the subordinate has prior commitments on that day itself, the superior should not ask the subordinate to finish it over the weekend. Several reasons why.
1) It IS the superior's work. The subordinate is clueless about what the superior is doing, will have to spend some time reading about it before being able to start work on it. - It is very inefficient, and even if the subordinate manages to complete the work on the day itself, it will be a lousy job unless the subordinate has full knowledge of the matter.
2) If it is due on the day itself, asking your subordinate to complete it for you at the last minute shows that you a) don't care about the work that needs to be completed; and/or b) have a lack of planning skills, asking someone less well-versed to complete your work.
3) If it can be done over the weekend, why can't the superior do it himself? He is not going to stay in the lab the whole weekend right?
It leads me to conclude that the superior does not care about the work that needs to be completed, nor does he care about his subordinates as a human being - to him, they are probably tools that can be used to complete tasks.
Of course, all of these are in the point of view of a disgruntled subordinate. It is definitely biased, and the whole world can say "welcome to the working world" for all I care. I do not believe in these kind of working habits and environment, especially when they are constantly enforced on the subordinate.
The superior also attended the event that the subordinate was preparing the whole afternoon for, refusing to acknowledge receipt of the subordinate's reply that finishing the work during the weekend is impossible as he has a whole day event on during Saturday. The superior also ignored the subordinate's presence in the event, preferring to mingle in the presence of higher ups.
one day, sitting in a tree i couldn't help but notice you there in the park you weren't like all the others you could fit me in your pocket and just seemed so large
but then you really tried to talk to me we chatted all about your mom and everything and if somebody pointed out the fact you have no wings... wouldn't mean a thing
and like a dream we saw the world together "goodbye" to differences "hello" to each other harmony unity day and night you and me and paradise
met the queen of hearts while out dancing on the lake and she asked us to a party "you can bring some friends but don't be late"
climbed aboard a bus and it drove us to the castle but we didn't have to pay cause the driver was the jester's brother
sadly sighed the king cause somebody took his cake so we gave him some of ours and he smiled so wide he at his plate
he asked you to sing and i won't forget the faces or the awful melody you and jester singing out of key
not a better time could be had for all the moment the king beamed, "allow me please" "let my ballon take you across the ocean" (you and me across the ocean, in his ballon, you and me and harmony)
didin't try to put me in a cage of your convenience like some others have instead you took me to your favorite garden in Manhattan and we had a laugh
along the way i fell in love with you don't think i could ever get enough of you and if somebody pointed out the fact that you can't sing... wouldn't mean a thing
God glorifies himself so that all may come to know him; And that those who claim glory for themselves out of God's hands are not justified in doing so - for doing so would be like a pot claiming that it is beautiful and wonderful, disregarding the skill of the potter's hands that shaped it.
I finally watched (most of) 不能说的秘密. such a lovely film. except for the CG-y parts.
I think I need more sleep. sleeping at 4-5am on fridays/saturdays seem to have become a norm. not good. I don't even repay my debts.
I think emotions is a tool. I might be often seen smiling, laughing, whining, exasperated, but hardly angry. Even when I become angry it is a controlled emotion, or rather a tool, to elicite a certain outcome. Hotheadness anger do not come often for me... or so I would like to believe.
Today I was trying to use anger to get something a child took from me. Being the patient sort at first I endulged in him, playing along with his game of catch. However it went overboard after repeated attempts of him taking my items and lying about the whereabouts (plus other people were waiting for me to go off), I sternly demanded that he return my item. Multiple times. Before I became angry. And threatened to overturn the sofa. And lifted the sofa for show. That was when he finally gave me back my item.
Am I behaving childishly? Maybe. Am I wrong to put on emotions to serve my needs? I don't know. At least my emotions were under my control - I think that is a good thing, especially for anger. I might not be able to do so for other emotions, but those would need further working on.
