A wonderful paragraph pointed out by Shanks caught my attention;

Professor Langdon?” A male student in back raised his hand, sounding hopeful. “Are you saying that instead of going to chapel, we should have more sex?”

Langdon chuckled, not about to take the bait. From what he’d heard about Harvard parties, these kids were having more than enough sex. “Gentlemen,” he said, knowing he was on tender ground, “might I offer a suggestion for all of you. Without being so bold as to condone premarital sex, and without being so naive as to think you’re all chaste angels, I will give you this bit of advice about your sex lives.”

All the men in the audience leaned forward, listening intently.

“The next time you find yourself with a woman, look in your heart and see if you cannot approach sex as a mystical, spiritual act. Challenge yourself to find that spark of divinity that man can only achieve through union with the sacred feminine.”

The women smiled knowingly, nodding.

The men exchanged dubious giggles and off-color jokes.

Langdon sighed. College men were still boys.
- The Da Vinci Code

I can’t help chuckle and ponder at that notion for a while. Yeah, go ahead and laugh at me, all you women. I can never figure you out :p Ever.

I’ve been wearing a pair of rimless spectacles for almost two already and have this to say about it. It totally, completely, unmistakably, definitely sucks. At least, mine was. Mine is a single-screw mount frame. Which means the lenses are attached to the frame by only one screw on each end. This means, if that screw is loose, your lens will swing around, dangling on the frame. And that kind of shit has happened to me countless times for the past two years and I’m fucking sick of it.

So last week, I went to local optometrist to get myself a new pair, since it’s already been two years since my last optical check-up. Of course, I intended to rid myself of that fucked up pair of spectacles I mentioned earlier. The results were pleasing as I was told that there was no need change in lens power.

I browsed around the shelves and I was interested in a pair of half-rimmed frames. It was quite pricey though, but I did manage to get a discount for it. Don’t ask me how :p it’s a skill passed on to me by my mom. So anyway, I was thinking of getting myself a dark green and black tinted pair of lenses to go with it. It was then I realized that in a dark lecture, I wouldn’t be able to see much should I don those tints. Before getting the rimless, I was conned [long story, too lazy to tell] into getting a pair of frames that have those little magnets to be used with clip-on polarisers. Those were pretty damned fussy and at one point those polarisers broke in two at the bridge. Worthless pieces of shits.

And my mind crossed upon the not-so-new entry of lenses that can change change its tint depending on the surrounding light conditions. To which I inquired the shop, and they told me about the things called Transition Lenses. It seems they’re just regular lenses ingrated with some particles that are sensitive to UV light. The attendant pulled out a sample just to show me.

They take about 3 seconds to go from dark to clear and likewise. However, they don’t get as dark as polarised lenses you would get on shades [about 85% opacity], and they don’t get as clear as regular lenses [about 95% clarity]. They’re very expensive, as I got my pair of transitions for RM400, lenses alone.

I chose a nice hot sunny afternoon [today] to go pick up the glasses. I gave it a shot, and tried it on outside before paying for them. True enough, I can’t sense the lenses turning dark, so under the bright sunlight, I took them off just to see if there was any difference and WHAM, my eyes hurt like hell. I was pleasantly surprised by this effect and paid off the rest of the bill.

They really mean what they say when they said I would only sense comfortable vision, because that’s the only thing I felt, lol. Things don’t get as dark as shades would and the transition from clear to dark is virtually unnoticeable. When I got home, I Googled to see just how do these things work. It seems the photochromatic particles inside the lenses works as a function of UV intensity and is reflected into the lens opacity. Which simply means the higher amount of UV exposed will make the lens turn darker and likewise.

What surprised me more were the consumer testimonials of the Transitions on blogs and health forums. It seems that there are plenty of people who dislike the Transitions for reason that they don’t get as dark as they hoped and that they take longer than expected to turn dark. However those were testimonials were almost year ago and I was told earlier that mine was the latest edition where they improved upon those kind of feedback.

Maybe it’s my own excitement of landing myself yet another new ‘toy’ but quite frankly I’m starting to like my new transition lenses. I’ll give it a few months to see if it really sucks as these people say. Are you wearing a pair of transitions as well? What do you think about it?

Confusion is humour on its own.

This game seems to be pretty interesting, so I asked Asmadi to interview me. So here are my answers:

1. If you must change one great history event, what would it be and why?
Since natural disasters are out of mankind’s control, I think I’d like to prevent the Crusades. It’s a stupid war fought by stupid greedy people who fought for wealth and glory and blamed God for it.

2. Would you consider posing nude for Playgirl?
No. I don’t have much a beautiful figure, yet.

3. What is your most memorable childhood memory?
When I was 6, my cousin and I rode a bicycle into a rubber estate to find some biji getah. While we are foraging the seeds, we heard a rustling sound. We turned to the direction of a bushing shaking around in odd directions. So we decided to rocks or something hoping to fish out whoever it is hiding with the intention to ambush us :p It was then we heard a snort. A loud snort. We threw more rocks and the snorts got angrier and louder.

And we realised there was a boar inside the bush.

We quickly got onto the bicycle and sped off, but not before the monster leaped out of the bushes and started to chase us. My cousin cycled like mad, but the boar was gaining on us. I then remembered what my uncle said and told me cousin to cycle in a zigzag motion, which he did. He went zigzagging, threading through the trees and the distance started to grow again.

The boar had short legs so making sharp turns was pretty difficult for it. At one point, its legs tripped on itself and fell off on its into a rolling mess. We cheered victory as we continued our way home.

4. Vanilla or chocolate? Why? (This counts as one question ok :D)
Vanilla because chocolate can get too rich sometimes.

5. What is the most horrible thing you have done to a friend?
I broke someone’s nose, once. He pissed me off so badly I lost control of myself. I don’t like to hurt people physically. I really really hate doing it.

The Official Interview Game Rules (copied to be passed on)

1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying ?interview me.?
2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person?s will be different.
3. You will update your journal/blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

So, anyone?

I have torrented several GB sized anime packs before, starting from 1 GB, to 2 GB and then 5 GB, 6 GB and 8 GB. Since last week i have been running a torrent for a 12 GB pack worth of Taiho Shichauzo [You're Under Arrest] season 1, all 52 episodes of them. Yeap. I’m expecting to have it done by the time the holidays are over :D At the same time, I’m also torrenting for a lesser 4 GB of season 2 of the same anime. However, I have watched those on AXN, albeit missing out on several episodes. Being only 4 GB I’m expecting to have those done in a week’s time.

Hopefully screamyx won’t screw up again until then :D