March 2009
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Chik-Fil-A > McDonalds
Fact 1: In 6 McNuggets, there are 17 g of fat. Fact 2: In 12 Chik-Fil-A nuggets, there is 19 g of fat. Fact 3: In 6 McNuggets, there are 14 g of protein.Fact 4: In 6 Chik-Fil-A nuggets, there is 20 g protein. By logic as prescribed by Aristotle and Dr. Phil, Chik-Fil-A is a much healthier choice if you want your chicken nuggets.
February 2009
42 posts
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Have someone who will always be there for you.
(and is nice to hug) By the way, if you stick around B-town, I will be this person for you. And if anything ever happens, I should be your first phone call.
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Air Conditioning is One of the Culprits of the...
There are so pretty compelling (and not-so-compelling) theory related to Obesity Theory, but some of them include artificial sweetners, pollution, viruses, and yep, air-conditioning. [Popular Science] Finding Atlantis would cost $2 billion [Popular Science] The first Transparent Headed Fish caught on tape! The Pacific Barreleye Fish [National Geographic] [Video] (550-990) lb. Stingray [National...
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Avoid Illegal Things
I served on the Purdue Campus Appeals Board…Just trust me on this one. One of my friends replied: “Haha… avoid illegal things. Freshman year would have been boring if everyone was a goody two-shoes. The trick is to be able to run fast or just know how to avoid getting busted in general.” I half agree with this. Both you and I did something wrong in our former lives and run...
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The "Holy Grail" of Comic Books
Rare copy of first Superman comic will be up for online bidding. [Reuters] Collectible experts value it at $126,000. Wow. Saks Fifth Avenue is down $99 million in the fourth quarter [NY Magazine] Bringing the year’s losses to a cool $154.9 million. Youch. Asian supermodel Kimora Lee Simmons hits the jackpot: $40K per month for child support (and full custody) [People] What a shamdoozle....
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I saw something today that I never thought I would...
Seriously. Ever. I was just finishing up my chao and making my way back up to the office after lunch, and I happened to glance at this woman’s ear. She was wearing a belly button ring in her ear. Singapore has some major fashion lows, but this? This “tops” the list. I was in shock for a good 5 minutes.
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Consider joining a book club, or at least, keep on...
One of my regrets was not looking for a book club! You and I love to read books of all categories (well, namely….fantasy. haha!), but I think that I should have taken more time to read books. When I snuck home on the weekends, you and I would hit the Barnes & Nobles for some (look for a pair of seats!) reading. And get your Kindle, naughty.
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The $28 Million Chair.
Wow. YSL chair fetches $28M. [Bloomberg] Upon the second day of sales, they already fetched double the top estimate of the revenues - how I envy Cheska Vallois. UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland reports $34 billion. [CNN] for the year 2008. The more alcohol, the higher risk of cancer in women. [Reuters] I love how they put in a quote from Dumbledore (from Harry Potter). 666th person officially...
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Bunny is Angry at BK
Burger King is have a promotion for 4 chicken tenders as an add-on for $1.95. I go in, not knowing that it’s an add-on promotion and ask for two boxes of them. They say that they can only give me the 6 piece for $3.60. If I want 10 pieces, that means I have to pay $5.55. Yesterday I went for McDonald’s 9 piece McNuggets for $4.65. That means that my extra tendr cost me $.90....
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Electricity Runs Away
Do you see this? I woke up yesterday in the middle of the night and saw this. No, it is not a black box. Everything was pitch black because the electricity had gone away. It came back around 11:30 or so. It wasn’t scary because I had my [stuffed] frog next to me to hold me. It’s a bit intimidating to wake up to a black room. And by the way, work is funny because I can hear the...
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Travaille?
Crazy news: Turkish airplane crashes at Amsterdam airport [CNN] The PLANE BROKE IN TWO PIECES!! Guy is selling drugs through McDonald’s Drive Thru [AP - WJZ] How blasphemous!!!! You can design your own adidas shoes online: MIADIDAS [Adidas] AIG rumored to be bracing itself for at $60 billion Q4 loss [Reuters] Found in suicide “victims”: Childhood abuse can lead to epigenetic...
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Outsmart your friends by challenging them to play...
Exempli gratia (e.g.) (“free examples”): Euchre Monopoly Risk Apples to Apples Scene it Cranium Billiards Ping pong BadmintonOr, if you are keen to donating money to friends, Texas Hold ‘em (and other forms of poker). If you want to make your guys ridiculously happy, have a baking contest with a few friends and have them judge.
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I got Good News for you!
At least, some news: Survey of 47 professional forecasters of the National Association of Business Economists predict a recovery in the second half of this year with a growth trend in 2010. [Reuters] Some laid-off Microsoft employees are asked to return money due to accounting error [Reuters] North Korea to launch a “satellite,” not a longe-range missile [CNN] Obama pledges to cut the...
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My Secret, Secret Love
I recently learned about a Korean martial art called Shim Gum Do (Mind Sword Path). I was telling my friend about it, but I told him that I’m currently halfway in love with Wushu. He asked me what it was. I just wanted to share the Youtube video here: And just for good measure, here is a Youtube video of Shim Gum Do. I think that this is more for novices, but I could be wrong and...
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Science Update - TomatoDNA has moved here!
What is exciting in the genetics world today? The one that I’ve been sadly, absent from for so many months? Scientists have proposed a new mechanism for molecular genetics [Nature] - the evolution of the ribosome. Making neural stem cells pluripotent with the tweaking of one gene Oct4 [Nature] Tumor progression gene not so incognito anymore! [RPI] A gene mutation that may explain the...
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Internet Explorer 8
Oh look what we have here: Windows Internet Explorer 8… So what does Microsoft say? Accelerators They provide instant access to information, such as mabs, searches, translation, etc. You can just highlight a word or phrase and go from there. Visual Search Adding graphics and images to “enrich” the search. Hm… Web Slices Subscriptions to certain portions of websites are now...
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Get Involved with Extra-Curricular Activities
Meet people who are interested in similar things as you. I met a fantastic people that I would have not mean otherwise. Examples: Purdue Innovations was fellow entrepreneurs. Purdue Billiards Club was fellow billiards players Purdue Student Union Board was fellow leaders/achievers Purdue Science Olympiad was fellow scientistsUse your Google Calendar to make time for things!
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My Online Shopping Tips
This post is totally dedicated to my best friend, JTW. Love you!Let’s see here, if I was looking for something specific, where would I look?I love to get ideas first and then look into more affordable: http://www.eluxury.com http://www.bluefly.com http://www.net-a-porter.com/ http://www.shezlabel.com/ http://roem.com/index.asp http://www.bebe.com http://www.overstock.com ...
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News Update
Highlights from my travels through the internet: Slumdog Millionaire Wins 8 Oscars [WSJ] Monday morning explosion in Basque region [Le Monde] Asian countries pool $120 Billion to protect their currencies [Bloomberg] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Urges China to support Obama stimulus plan by buying US Treasury Securities [Bloomberg] Electrocuting Cancer Cells with a Nanoknife [Medgadget] Yves...
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Wrinkly Peaches?
Spoiled rotten —> me Spoiled rotten to the core —> me this weekend Hi Mom, I went for a massage and facial yesterday. After eating a sub-par sphaghetti and meatballs for dinner (which I couldn’t even finish and I sort of felt terrible afterwards for overeating), I went to the National Library and read Michael Crichton’s Congo. I think Tinkers would like it, but she...
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Make time to hang out with your good friends
because more than likely, you won’t see them after you graduate (and grow up). For example: Me. I graduated and moved to Singapore. Hooray me. Make a weekly phone call to a good friend, and/or make a weekly game with a group. You know about my Sunday night Monopoly games, and my allergies to the cat. If you’re awesome, you will find a group of people who love to play Risk or are...
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Mandarin Oranges
GASP: I ATE TEN MANDARIN ORANGES IN ONE WEEK. NEXT WEEK, I AM BUYING TWENTY. I LOVE MANDARIN ORANGES. They are easy to peel and to enjoy. And because I’m not eating in front of anyone else, I don’t mind spitting out the seeds. HOORAY!!!!!!!! HOORAY ORANGES!!!!!!!! For the rest of the world who doesn’t know……I am super picky about oranges. I only take navel oranges...
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Set aside an hour every week to clean your...
I never did this, and my apartment became an endless pit until I couldn’t take it any more. The worst of all the pits accumulated during those hated exam times (which is entirely reasonable), so during the stress free periods, I would clean these up (and play pool, but that’s irrelevant). This is to keep your sanity. This means: no food laying around a visible carpet/floor a rolly...
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Try to Kill Three Birds with One Stone
At minimum, two. This means that if you are majoring in Accounting and perhaps considering also a Marketing minor (or major), look for classes that would count for BOTH. Some classes overlap for multiple majors/minors, so consider these “golden tickets.” This will save you time, grief and money as well. See “Try to Test Out of Everything.”
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Secret Questions
Yeah, there are lots of secret questions that I’ve seen, such as: Mother’s maiden name Father’s middle name Elementary school name Name of first pet City of BirthBut none quite as Singaporean as these: What is your street name? What is your favourite hawker centre dish? What is your girlfriend’s dialect name?ROFL
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What a Wonderful World
Do you know what makes the world wonderful? Perhaps puppies, Louis Armstrong, or pizza come to mind. Well, I’ve got something better than all those - combined. It’s called “Crunchy Time,” and it means that I woke up one day, walked to the bus stop listening to music, heard the most delicious-sounding crunch ever, looked up, and saw the entire sidewalk lined with crunchy...
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Boosting Your GPA
Let’s talk about a word that makes me smile: Minors. Yes, in the plural. Of course, I am assuming that the insertion of minors would not make you study for a longer period than needed. Minors will boost your GPA. The ones that I considered (and some that I achieved) include: Philosophy (worst mistake of my life. DO NOT TAKE A PHILOSOPHY COURSE) Psychology Biotechnology Chemistry...
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Try to Test Out of Everything
At Purdue, in order to pass out of inorganic (baby) chemistry, you just need to take the test out exam (and not necessarily the AP Chemistry exam) and score better than a 60%. This is a D!!! However, if you really did enjoy D-Bake’s class, take the class because they are usually 4-5 credits each and that A that you earn (especially when most people SUCK at chemistry and the curve helps you...
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It is possible to survive a semester with 24...
But only if 9 of those credit hours are language or one of those other GPA-boosters. We always excelled at language, for some abnormal reason. If you look at my Google Calendar post, you will see my 24-credit hour schedule. Jacob K. promised me a candy bar if I made it out alive from 3 science classes my junior year in high school - and I’m still waiting!!! lol Compared to this, it was...
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Sit In on Weed Out Classes Before Taking Them For...
If you find out that you’re going to be taking a weed-out class for next year, try to sit in on it during the year/semester before (depending on whether the class is offered only once, twice, or even three times during the year). Don’t bother buying the textbook because teachers like to change textbooks between years, even semesters. Most weed-out classes, meaning that they try to...
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Valentine's Weekend
Don’t worry, Mom. I don’t have a boyfriend —> my Valentine’s day was spent entirely indoors while you told me that you were eating cua (crab). Thanks a lot. Yeah, stinkerbottom. I don’t like you very much. The next time I come home, there better be one of these bad boys waiting for me on that dining room table of ours. (Just kidding….but like…within...
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My To and From Work
This is my typical day when I’m walking out to the bus stop to get to work! This is my most favorite mango tree in Singapore (the only one that I’ve seen) in the center of the picture. Hooray mangoes! Sidewalk shot. I see that motorcycle parked all the time. There is a big downward slope around the motorcycle, and I call this the valley of the ants. I don’t know why, but there...
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Avoid Drama! Avoid Drama! Avoid Drama!
Avoiding drama at all costs. Be fairly pleasant (nice) to everyone and keep your mouth shut. You may divulge your actual opinions to one or two people who you trust. Keep in mind that the ones closest to you can do you the most harm. Getting involved with drama is a waste of time, and as you know, I am a very outspoken, opinionated girl but did not pay dearly for it in college. Make friends and...
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Google Calendar Saved My Life
I first discovered the miracle called Google Calendar in my sophomore year. I wish I had it in freshman year. Every Monday I would print out the agenda for the next week and carry it around in a binder, making notes, writing down homework, and making adjustments accordingly - then going home and keying it into the computer. This picture is not meant to scare you, yet it does anyways. It scares me...
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Partying
You will be invited to lots of parties. I encourage you to dabble into them, see if they are for you. They were never for me, and I quickly grew to hate them. Yes, they are times of socialization and drunkeness, but I am going to sit on my high horse for 3 seconds and say that a girl who is drunk every weekend (or at all, actually) just tells me that she is distasteful. I then leave. The first...
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Preamble
Hello My Dearest Tinky (Tinkerbottom), Yes, you will never outgrow this assortment of nicknames. A lot of people saw me at the end of my three-supposed-to-be-four-years marathon and asked me for advice. I know that you may have a lot of common sense and will not need some of this information, but I want to give everything that I have thought of to you anyways. The things that don’t apply...
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If I Only Had Three Days in Singapore...
My friend will be accompanying his mom for a business trip to Singapore sometime in March, and since he’s only going to be here for a few days (though I probably will be working during the day), I’m thinking about the things that would be essential to a trip. So to put this into a semblance of an itinerary: Day 1 Morning bike ride/stroll through East Coast Park Katong Laksa for lunch...
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Year of the Ox
I was shopping in Giant and came across this. I furtively took a picture and ran away!!! that is, before anyone could yell at me. :)
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Cyling Sunday
On Sunday, I went cycling with Charlene at East Coast Park - and it was SO much fun! Weather permitting, I’m going to plan to go out there. The deal with the bicycles was great! It was $6 for an hour - you buy an hour, and hour free. Awesome!! So it was only S$12 for both of us (US$9). We went pretty far….from ECP to the Sailing Club. I don’t know the distance exactly, but...
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Seafood Birthday Party
After work yesterday, I went all the way to Casuarina Rd for some Ban Leong Wah Hoe Seafood for a friend’s birthday party. It was SO delicious. It worked out to about $30-35 per person, but the guys were very kind and paid for the girls. So here is my tale of a fabulous seafood dinner. I arrive on time: 7:15 PM. We’re all here by 8:10. Yes, I waited for a very long time, and I had...
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From Big Bang Theory
I recently convinced one of my friends to watch the hit TV show Big Bang Theory, which is about four super nerds, three of which want women. They are attracted to women, but no woman is attracted to them. How sad! It’s hilarious, and if you don’t streaming, go to surfthechannel.com. He agrees that is amazing, so I’m putting into my blog the Big Bang Theory of the ever popular...
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Lunchtime! Oh Cravings :(
I’m thinking of what to have for lunch, and I really miss: Joo Joo (which I heard is closed now. I have to find out how to make assorted fried rice now from Eric) Fazoli’s (oh man. so delicious) Arby’s (I miss curly fries. I miss that nasty re-re-reprocessed roast beef.) Charleston’s Baby Back Ribs (and mashed potatoes) YUM Applebee’s OLIVE GARDEN Chang Fu (rofl. on...
