The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

Don't think of the book as "evil" just because of the title. If you think that Dawkins purposely sensationalised the title, you are wrong. It is highly informative, touching several aspect of religion in the society and also relationship of religion and science. Dawkins also mention several common misconception about science and religion such as the use of the word "God" by several scientist such as Einstein. The book mainly focused on argument on the existence of higher being and his whether he influence human lives. Something very controversial that the church prefers we know nothing about it. The book might pissed of readers whose faith challenged by its content. Those who are easily offended better stay away from this book!

Neo-sexism? Maybe?

I find the issue of gender equality intriguing with many complains of unequal treatment, not in nations like Afghanistan or Pakistan where Woman's Right is not that respected. I'll focus my area on modern country like Japan and Sweden. I'm not being sexist here, but just showing how what called "gender equality" had gone in the pursuit of it.

You guys might had often heard about rampant train groping in Japan. There is a lot of such cases is not a fact, but something made up by the women to extort money from the so called "groper" or just some misunderstanding. Once a man is accused as train groper (also known as chikan), he is assumed to be guilty unless proven innocent (You are in deep shit if someone suddenly accuse you doing it). It is not that easy to prove yourself innocent given that most of the incident happen when the train is so full that you will feel like squashed orange inside (how the camera can show your where your hand is). It is true that police had given male passengers advice on how to prove their innocence by holding the rails with both hand and put the baggage above the seats (but please, at that time the train conformed to be so full that putting your baggage above the chair might cause you to miss a stop and there might be no space for you to hold the rails). It is true that there is women only carriage in Japan, but interestingly they are underused. Recently men are complaining the transportation authority about the missing men only carriage. What was their reason for complaining about it? It was about high frequency of wrong accusation.

I think that this applies to many country. Women are not to be charged of raping men unless underaged boys even if the men don't give consent of doing  XXX (only rape not other kind of crime might be related to raping, such as kidnapping or torture). Even our senior who currently doing his service as police tell me this. If woman rape man, the man can't bring the woman to court, since to do it the man's XXX must be XXX so the man's XXX XXX is a sign of consent (get the reason?) but if it is the reverse, there is a high chance the man will end up in jail (if this is the way women can get away from being charged of raping, why men can't use similar argument?).

Recently, there is an outrage among otaku community, because of what? Ban in loli. Even though previously the ban was cancelled there is a new surge of activist who wan it to be banned, not long after a group of feminist who call themselves Equality Now (ironically they are not advocating equality but over-protection of women that will make man in deep shit if a woman decide to bring him to court even if there is no sufficient evidence. What is more stupid is that they advocate protection of non-existent girls in manga, anime and games after they failed to protect real girls in those traditionalist states like the Arabs where women might be treated as property.) I wonder why they only advocating the protection of loli characters but not shota when both are quite often used in echi. What I can't believe is that even UNICEF stepped in to pressurize Japan to ban loli, but not shota.

If you notice it, the law of of the nature itself is sexist. Men are physically stronger than women but it doesn't mean that men are superior to women. Without women, the humankind will perish. Strangely in some animals, we can witness female only organism or virgin birth. Certain species of reptiles are female only. Some sharks had been witnessed giving virgin birth. Maybe there will be one day women no longer need men, even for preserving human species, but it will be a long way to go. The day of men and male dominance is numbered. The Y-Chromosome in men are slowly disappearing, scientist predicts that if the rate goes on, men will be no more in thousands years.

Freaking Prelims Final Update.

History

The result is quite bad, a huge drop since SA2. Well, actually I kinda expected that. Fatigue and exam panic was the reason. I did the stupid mistake of not answering the question directly and get carried away with it. The facts, I already know more than needed and put too much example without explaining its significance. DARN IT!!! It is a good essay lesson nevertheless.

Verdict : More SBQ exercise. AIM FOR 20/25. Write more essay, target for essay is 16-17/25. I WANT MY A!!!

Overall result is like crap only 2 H2 passes and not an excellent pass.

Freaking Prelims update

Physics

Well, like what the teacher said, this paper was quite unfair. Some chapters are totally scrapped off. Paper 3 was quantum dominated and one of the question was killing almost the entire cohort. Where is my nuclear physics, where is my thermophysics, and what pissed me of the most is that LASER is not there (spent quite long trying to memorise the requirement for laser). A D-Grade is not enough for me.

Verdict : Time to consolidate Quantum and Electricity. Get the answer of VJC 2008 from any teacher I can ask. Finish RJC 2008 Paper 3 by THIS WEEK. Then do the rest like no one's business.

Tomorrow might be the last update. The last paper, my freaking 4 long essays should be returned tomorrow.

Saber Lily

At last this figure comes after a long wait. It was enough to burn a hole in my wallet. I have not opened it as I don't have proper storage yet. I have to wait 2-3 years for the glass cabinet (for my gundam models also) if dad manage to get a property in Singapore.

If you guys want to see how Saber will look like outside the box, scroll below to see the official picture.

Looks nice and fresh isn't it?

Unlimited Paper Works

I am the bone of my result
Distinction is my body and competition is my blood
I have completed over a thousand papers
Unknown to failing
Nor known to passing
Have withstood boredom to finish many questions
Yet the brain shall never absorb anything
So, as I condemn, "Unlimited Paper Works"

Basically now the school trying to make us do the prelims paper. I find it crazy that they want us to do like 10 papers a week. It might work to pump our grades, but how efficient?

*Parody intended

Freaking Prelims updated

Chemistry (updated)

I gonna say that this is one of the worst paper.I'm not the only one who did badly for this paper, the entire school does. For you info, the average grade is S. But, there is no excuse to did badly. Izumi and Abe passed the paper, not in flying colours though, so why I can't do the same? What make me upset is that there is too many stupid mistakes being made. Like missing elements when I know (obviously) that it should be there. It might be caused by exam panic. So what now? MUGGING TIME!

Verdict : More practice needed to reduce exam panic. Time to eat the thick stack of notes and finish all the papers available.


General Paper
Even though my tutor said that she was impressed with my essay, I gonna say that I'm not satisfied at all. I made no improvement in this essay. DARN IT. There is overall improvement thanks to the paper 2. But, I'll ignore it as performance in Paper 2 is fluctuating. Overall failed by half mark. T.T

Verdict : Read more stuff to study how excellent writer or debater like Dawkins present their point. Read more information to help boost AQ also.