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Digitally Me

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When was the last time you use the film camera? Never? How about when was the last time you listen to cassette or a CD? 10 years ago? When was the last time you use a catapult? To shoot angry bird?... No Yes. In the age of digitalisation, we has stopped using a few of the pioneers technological product which normally more mechanical. Instead, most of us use it's successor which is more digital. For example, I have stopped using this by 1999 and replace it with my first ever Sony digital camera and it's only 2 megapixel. And now you people are complaining your phone camera pixels not enough while you don't even know the meaning of pixel) and the screen is only 1.0 inch. Damn! It looks something like this except this is the later model with 3.2 megapixel. Music? Ya, of course we have the casette. I remember use to play those nursery rhymes and Chinese New Year music with casette player. Then came the first portable music carrying device from (what els...

Why you shouldn't really da bao/bungkus/wrap up what you gonna eat...

Who says Facebook is useless? I got this article from facebook and thinking back that everytime I ask my roomates to go canteen eat together but refused should really read this. Those, especially students in UMP love to use those polystyrene box to eat their lunch in the hostel room are pretty lame. I mean come on there's something called the cafeteria and the chairs and tables there must serve their purpose and not for display only. Furthurmore, you would only atrract all those ants, cockroaches and other insects to your hostel room. Anyway, here is an article from the Star which I think it's useful to all those who likes to da bao/bungkus their food in the polystyrene box. Is hormonal imbalance creating more male teenagers with breasts, while female teenagers are getting more hairy? Cosmetic and aesthetic physician Dr Alice Prethima said she is seeing many cases of gynecomastia (enlargement of breasts in males) in her clinic. But, she is also seeing teenage girls coming in b...

Mosquitoes vs Science

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Mosquitoes season in Malaysia is back, although it brings irritation and annoying buzz to our daily lives now but recently our researchers have bring new light to our lives. Below are the good news. 1) Flightless Mosquitoes. That day I told my friends about this and he asks how? And another friend answer, by pulling out it's wings... I wanted to tell him that he was half-correct but that will lead me to explain more... Common knowledge: Only female mosquitoes bites. Molecular biologist Anthony James manage to genetically altered mosquitoes to produce flightless females, and said spreading these defective mosquitoes could suppress native, disease-spreading mosquitoes within six to nine months. James's team, including a group from the British biotechnology firm Oxitec Ltd., altered mosquito genes to disrupt development of the insects' wing muscle. The genetic modification grounded only the virus-carrying females and did not affect the males' ability to fly, they wrote in...