These wife cakes aka sweetheart cakes (老婆饼) my uncle brought are fantastic!
He got them from this Kee Wah Bakery (奇华饼家) in Hong Kong. They're fragrant and is only has a light sweetness. I don't know about anyone else but I prefer my food to be not too sweet unless it's dessert. This is a snack.
Apparently it's a famous bakery there, so this is something to remember when friends go to Hong Kong and offer to buy something for us. Can't go wrong.
Nuclear Dawn finally has a price tag. At the current exchange rate of about 1.2SGD to 1 USD, its usual price is S$30. The current 10% discount would make it S$27.
Not sure if I want that yet. I'll give it some time. Probably get it with NS2 during the Xmas Steam Sale.
Nuclear Dawn is basically like the Marines from Natural Selection. Two sides fight against each other, one player on each team plays RTS as the commander while the rest play FPS. Apparently the structures are different on each faction. No idea how different.
As for NS2, I guess it's going to take some more time. After all, they only have like 5-6 people working on it full-time.
Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew said on Thursday that more competition within the public's transport industry could have negative implications for commuters in the long term.
LOL!
I can't even begin to describe how full of shit this sounds!
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/technology-addicts-lonely-upset-t-live-deprived-digital-153546407.html
Twenty-four hours without an internet connection or access to a smartphone, computer or tablet is described as "my biggest nightmare" or akin to "having my hand chopped off" by respondents in a recent study conducted by British consumer research specialist Intersperience.
I believe this isn't a bad thing. In fact I believe this is a natural outcome of our technological advances in communication.
Humans want a group mind, or at least, a form of it that allows a small measure of privacy. I still stand by my theory that we've been working towards this goal since prehistory when some hairy dude made a round thing and called it a "wheel".
That was the first step. Faster movement = faster communication, and so on and so forth, until the point where it's far more cost-effective to speed up data transfer rates than the movement of human beings (smoke signals, telegraph and etc) and for now, the wireless broadband Internet.
Next step: wireless broadband with (really) universal coverage and bandwidth huge enough to download whole movies in minutes.
So no, we can't do without some form of internet access in the long term, not anymore.
I'm not saying it's some kind of ultimate destiny for humankind, but more of a tool we instinctively know we have to keep upgrading in order to accelerate our progress. Needing it has something to do with something inside us, something unconscious.
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that humans are social creatures.
Holy crap! This guy isn't even an engineering undergrad!
After watching so many people play Super Meat Boy, I've finally come to this conclusion about the game:
There are only 2 kinds of players - the really good ones and the really angry ones.
Yep, I'm 100% sure about this theory.
This month's National Geographic magazine features a report on someone's search for Cleopatra's final resting place.
Which reminded me of how people in the modern age don't really understand how serious it is when a country loses its sovereignty.
After Octavian successfully conquered Egypt, the Romans did such a good job of wiping out the indigenous culture that we now have a whole new field dedicated to the study and the recovery of it - Egyptology.
It's such a difficult task there is an entire global community focused on it.
That's how thorough the Romans were, and that's how thorough people can still be today.
Even in WWII, the Axis did try to do that by teaching German in occupied European countries and Japanese in Asia. Destroying the native language was only the first step.
If the Americans didn't drop the bombs and had instead signed a ceasefire treaty with the Japanese (it was quite possible since the US had just about run out of public support by then, and the Japanese soldiers were undeniably among the best armies in human history IMO), it is likely the Chinese language would have been in a worse state than what Chinese dialects are now in China.
It wouldn't be too imaginative of me to say that given enough time, the occupying nation could make it as if your ancestors, you and everyone you know never existed. Even now, historians are still unsure about the existence of certain pharaohs.
That must have taken some work. Seriously.
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