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Current Colour: blue!
Current Music: the hum of the computer
Current Obsession: I didn't know insaniquarium got so many bonus levels!

Okay, i wrote this like an hour ago when my sis wanted to use the line... (Trivia is below)

Today was kinda an unusual day... First it rained cats & dog... but on & off! One minute i'd been looking at the clear sky & loading the wahing machine, the next minute it rained! then when i was half was cooking lunch, it stopped. then when I had lunch it started again! Aaargh!!! I barely could hang the wet clothes! Anyway, after lunch I managed to rush doing the dishes, finish 1 load of laundry, hang them, start another load of laundry, mop the kitchen floor and showered within 1 hour!
Why did I rush to do that in 1 hour? Coz at 2pm I followed my dad to his office to do some work. Kinda to help him out la coz the had some kinda talk/semi8nar/ whatever kinda session the whole day. What did I do? I design a few samples of car passes for the church members! hahaha... yeah, the church is under demolition now for reconstruction. However we still have church services at the parish hall. The passes are for car that dropping off th elderly or for wardens or musicians to load their stuffs... really, this kinda sound complecated to u all izzit? Nah, we just use the other gate ajoining the flat next door but since they've got security guards there, so need passes la. Of course I didn't do that only la.. I made registration forms too! hahaha... actually the initial passes took me about 10 mi8nutes to9 make nya... but then i modified la. Haiya, nothing much la. Just utilising what I learned from My days as a CV-ian (Curtin Volunteers la) and SOAR Advisor. Sorry to say, didn't actually learn much as Student Ambassador.. Most of it I've learned as a SOAR and the rest was biasa la... work behind the counter in the office. hell though coz the other students think we haf 10 hands and can work really fast & know evrything and correct everything even if it's their mistake. hahaha... anyways, that's just crapping about the Good Old Days...

Talking abt CV... Sadly, we've been inform that Abel our Advisor is no longer working in Curtin. Daryll, did you send the email to me by mistake? Anyway, all the best for CV as they now seek for a new Advisor to lead them. I'm sure Daryll and the CV-ians especially the EX-COs would get another dynamic leader to lead them as Advisor. hehehe...Sorry ya, I can't do anything since I'm only th Ex-Officio... hehehe...But whatever problems that exists, I'm sure there are ways to solve it. Been there, done that. Still remember the days when only 3 of us ladies ran CV with a little help from our friends and Abel... Well, CV wasn't exactly started by 3 of us, as the story usually goes. It was 5 of us but only 3 of us remained active in CV up to the day of our 1st major event- Beach Cleaning. And the rest is history.. hmm.. some day I gotta put some of the pics up...
The next year I was put as Event co-ordinator... not that i wanted it but as we were delegating jobs and positions to our first real committee, I was some how left out & suddenly Abel said "Serena, you be the Event Coordinator." Terkejut beruk, dek! Working with the first ever committee was fun, exciting & challenging. Those guy & girls were all friends of our... in fact, we ended being the First family la... SAmeen was the dad & I was 1st wife, my cousin Fiona was 2nd, president Debbie was 3rd, then there was Barke etc.. yeah, there were 'kids', in-laws, grandkids, great grandkids... etc. Don't be surprise u hear ppl calling me grandma or popo or auntie! hahaha...

I love those days & I love u all! hahaha... back then I was way thinner, had a massive crush on some hottie in uni (hehehe... Sunshine. Dunno he remember I'm alive or not), busy juggling my studies & CV, etc etc.. I stil remember walking to uni on a scorching hot Sunday afternoon (2pm!) in black slack, black top & high heels! hahaha... back then I lived further down from where I lived for the last 2 years.. walked there copz there's no bus & I had to got o uni to make sure everything has been se up, kinda have a briefing to my friends and watch footie! hahaha... Managed to bump into the pillar watch some guy! hahaha... even curi curi go to the hostel to change my clothes then emerge to watch the football match & cuci mata! hehehe... Got la something happened 2 days before that... I love rainy days!! hahaha... ;p ;p ade la...

Sigh... how time has passed! 3 years worr!! so long ago!! now getting older la... Kinda bored a lot these days coz lack of things to do. Hmm... John did ask me to9 help with some things tho... hmmm... need to crack my brains to get those info bro... Anyway, enough of reminising (betul ka spelling?), back to business...


OUR TOPIC FOR TODAY IS... FIFA WORLD CUP!

Records and statistic from FIFA World Cup records

• Largest margin of victory: Hungary 9-0 South Korea, 1954; Yugoslavia 9-0 Zaire, 1974; Hungary 10-1 El Salvador, 1982
• Most goals scored in a World Cup qualifier: 31, Australia 31-0 American Samoa, 2002 qualification.
• Most World Cup tournaments, player: Antonio Carbajal (Mexico, 1950-1966) and Lothar Matthäus (West Germany and Germany, 1982-1998), 5
  Most World Cup match appearances, player: Lothar Matthäus (Germany), 25
• Most goals scored, player, career: Ronaldo (Brazil 1994-2006), 15
• Most goals scored, player, tournament: Just Fontaine (France), 13, 1958
• Most goals scored, player, match: Oleg Salenko, 5, Russia vs Cameroon, 1994.
• Fastest goal from kickoff: Hakan Şükür, 11 seconds, Turkey vs South Korea, 2002
• Fastest goal during qualification: Davide Gualtieri, 8 seconds, San Marino vs England, 1994 qualification on 17th November 1993.
• Most consecutive wins by a coach in World Cup finals: 11 Scolari with Brazil 2002 (7) and Portugal 2006 (4)
• Most consecutive wins by a team in World Cup finals: 11 Brazil - 2002(7)-2006(4)
• Youngest player to appear at a FIFA World Cup: Norman Whiteside: 17 years and 41 days Northern Ireland vs Yugoslavia, 1982.
• Youngest player to score a goal: Pelé, 17 years and 239 days, Brazil vs Wales, 1958
• Oldest player to appear at a FIFA World Cup: Roger Milla, 42 years and 39 days, Cameroon vs Russia, 1994
• Oldest player to score a goal: Roger Milla, 42 years and 39 days, Cameroon vs Russia, 1994
• Most cards shown in a match (yellow and red): 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards, Portugal vs Netherlands, 2006 (referee: Valentin Ivanov). Also this was the most red cards given out in a game which was 4.
• Previous record for most red cards given out in the world cup was 22 red cards in 64 matches in the 98' World Cup in France. On June 25 the total red cards in Germany 2006 is 23 red cards in 52 matches.

hahaha...ok... now i've 'educated' everyone on some World Cup Trivia, it's time for me to go to bed... Good nite, babes!

P/S: Tomorrow... Formula One Championship Trivia!

Current Mood: dunno
Current Colour: blue & purple
Current Music: whatever is playing on Channel V
Current Obsession: Insaniquarium

Ok more things to "lower" our IQ... hehehehe... Today we read useless trivia... I got it from here.

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
• The Declaration of Independence (the very official copy in the Rotunda of the National Archives) is written on parchment, not paper.
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" .
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Every person has a unique tongue print. (Like cows eh!)
• The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Irony.
• Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
• Chocolate kills dogs! Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. (U wanna try? PETA wud kill u!)
• Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
• Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales. (Eeew...)
• Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the high costs in California during these years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
• Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".
• The question mark came from a monk habit of writing the Latin word for question, quo, at the end of sentences. Over time, the letters were written vertically to save space and morphed into the ? we write today. Similarly, the exclamation point came from the Latin word "Lo", meaning something important that should be heeded. (Lo and behold...)
• Wellfleet, Massachusetts has the only town clock in the world that strikes ship's time. (Rings every half hour, to a maximum of 8 rings at the end of each four hour period.)
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange, purple, or silver, or month.
• The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. (New or old? Not sure. Probably the old one.)
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.
• Scissors as we know them today (well, pretty much) were invented in Rome in about 100 AD (or CE, if you want to be politically correct).
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot. (Quite sadistic, innit?)
• Most scorpions will glow under black (ultraviolet) light. (really?)
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.'
• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
• The first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
• Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. One should carry a stout pole while travelling in quicksand country...when placed under one's back, it helps one to float out of the quicksand. (Those ppl dat wanna go to Deserts, pay attention!)
• Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
• Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
• In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." For that matter, Sherlock Holmes never existed in the first place. But the address where he supposedly lived, 221B Baker Street, still gets a lot of fan mail. I am told that there is a desk there that has the sign "Secretary to Mr. Holmes".
• An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. (WTF??)
• Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.
• Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. (Ignorant ppl: It's kinda like Halal but for Jews la)
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.
• The number one selling CD in history is the third Beatles anthology. It recently beat out the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits." (not sure wat year this was compiled eh!)
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• If you drop a penny off of the Empire State Building, it will be going 106 miles per hour (terminal velocity) when it reaches the ground. Something moving this fast may actually cause head injuries if it lands on you. (OUCH!!)
• The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.
• Francis Bacon died in his attempt to find a better way to serve food. He caught a case of pneumonia while attempting to stuff a chicken with snow. Ironically, the chicken survived the ordeal.
• Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is German for badgers. (Historically speaking, 1600 was a slow year.)
• Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.
• The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia.
• Laser is actually an acronym for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation."
• The world's first passenger train made its debut in England in 1825.
• If you hate our "QWERTY" keyboard layout, blame Christopher Sholes. He changed it from the original in 1873 to lessen the chances of the keys jamming.
• Napoleon III suffered from ailurophobia, which is a fear of cats.
• Escalator is one of many words that were originally trademarks but have become ordinary words found in dictionaries. Some other words which were originally trademarks and have now passed into common use are aspirin, autoharp, band-aids, breathalyzer, cellophane, Coke (in some areas, at least), corn flakes, cube steak, ditto, dry ice, dumpster, formica, Frisbee, granola, gunk, jeep, kerosene, Kleenex, mace, nylon, ping-pong (also an onomatopoeia: words that sound like their meanings; words that give sound effects, such as "buzz," "hiss," "plop," "pow," etc.), popsicle, Q-tip, rollerblade, rolodex, Scotch tape, sheetrock, spandex, styrofoam, tabloid, thermos, trampoline, yo-yo, xerox, and zipper.
• The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Also, the powder on the bark of a quaking aspen tree works as a mosquito repellent.

So, if u wanna read more... just go to the website... Coz thr's not much to write abt my life rite now, each day or every other day i'm gonna post something new I found online k. Maybe a website, a trivia, jokes, stories, etc... u get it... But, now & then I'd definitely gonna blog abt what's going on around me la... if it is sth to talk abt. For now, ciao!

Current Mood: weird out
Current Colour: blue
Current Music: the hum of d comp & cars outside d flat
Current Annoyance: sleepy, bored
Current Obsession: insaniquarium... last bonus level of bonus level 4!!
Current Physical Ailment: hungry?

Ok... today I'm gonna lower ur IQ with these unanswered qeustions. I love this site that I got it from.. It's crazy! Read more here.

Ok, here's some of it!

• Why do "cool" and "hot" mean the same thing?
• If you sneeze and fart at the same time, does a vacuum form in your stomach?
• Why does triangularly cut bread taste better than square bread?
• Does a baby feel the umbilical cord being cut off?
• Is it legal to name your kid "Anonymous"? (hahaha...)
• Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
• If you have a pet with 2 heads do you have to name both heads?
• Why can't liquor freeze?
• If you dig a hole in the south pole are you digging up or down?
• How come they don't add the time that we were in our mom's to our age?
  
• Why do people squint their eyes when they can't see? Wouldn't that just make it less space to see out of?
• Why do we have to pay a toll on "freeways"?
• Why do they call them pepperoni if there is no pepper in it?
• How old does something have to be to become an antique?
• Can a school teacher give a homeless child homework?
• Why do they say "an alarm going off," if it is really going on?
• Do babies produce more spit than adults? (eew...)
• How come French fries are not considered a vegetable, they are just deep fried potatoes? (Ya, bah!)
• Do cows have calf muscles?
• Why is shampoo clear but conditioner not?
• If conjoined twins participate in sports, do they count as one or two players?
• If a singer sings their own song during a karaoke party, is it considered karaoke?
• Why do mattresses have designs on them when they're always covered with sheets?
• If you died with braces on would they take them off?
• If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?

hahaha... there's more to come tmrw...

Current Mood: bored, sleepy
Current Colour: black
Current Music: something on mtv
Current Annoyance: boredom
Current Obsession: trying not to b bored, insaniquarium to keep me sane
Current Physical Ailment: nothing, just plain bored

yeah, u got it. i'm bored of being bored. what more can I say? Anyway, I'd complete my 'updating' these few days. Something's wrong with my tag board.Planning to start blogging regularly again... that is if something interesting do happen in my boring life right now...

P/S: Do u know:
Nicole Kidman just got married.
David Beckham scored England's only winning goal against Ecuador.
Fernando Alonso won the Canadian Grand Prix.
A few days ago, Cadburry England recalled more than a million specific choclates for fear that they may be contaminated with salmonella or something like that. Read it here.