Today, I met up with Chun Sean for CNY over at his house...His parents asked me over for CNY. I didnt know the parents actually remembers me though I have not been in touch with him for 3 years...
Chun Sean really change alot and is totally a different person...I am amaze by it.
Well...there are certain issues he talked to me about and i hope i can turn back time to let him undo his mistakes.
But well...There's always turning point in life. Through bad and good experience, we learn and grow...
His parents was suppose to bring me for dinner but then his Dad is still working and his mum happen to not be back. So His mum told him to bring me out for dinner...We ate alot...the BILL is really HIGH! As usual, he paid for it...
Thank YOU!
I really enjoyed myself playing Mahjong and House of the Dead 3 with him...Totally Cool!
Basically, I enjoyed myself...
He is well updated with the things going around us...and seriously he still do remember everyone...I am glad he does...
May my Lord,Jesus, protect him...
^__^
Rapunzel
In the Brothers Grimm story of Rapunzel, a witch holds a beautiful young woman captive in a tower. Rapunzel is blessed with a lovely singing voice and long, long blond hair. One day, her voice enchants a prince passing through a nearby forest. They fall in love, and Rapunzel lets down her hair so that the prince may use it to climb the tower to meet her. This chain of events begs readers to ask a question. Can human hair support the weight of another person?
On average one strand of hair can support about three and one-half ounces, or about the weight of two candy bars. Each strand of dark hair is generally thicker, and therefore stronger, than blond hair.
But, alas, Rapunzel must make do with blond locks. Given that blondes generally have about 140,000 hairs on their heads, her hair should easily support the weight of many, many princes. However, there is more to this story.
If Rapunzel simply let down her hair and the prince started climbing immediately, her hair would not break, but it might rip out. Also, the rest of her body might not be able to support the weight. Thankfully, there are strategies that she can use to help reduce the strain on her head and body.
Nathan Harshman, Assistant Professor of Physics at American University in Washington, DC, suggests Rapunzel would be safer and more secure if she tied her hair around something before lowering it. “The whole idea is that you can use the friction of the hair against itself in the knot, and whatever it is tied around will support the weight of the prince.” That is a much better idea than making Rapunzel’s scalp the anchor point.
The Little Mermaid
In the Disney version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, Ariel (the mermaid) asks a witch to make her human because she has fallen in love with a human prince. The witch bargains with Ariel and takes her voice in exchange for performing the transformation. For a considerable part of the story Ariel cannot speak, which is a problem because the prince can only recognize her by her incredibly beautiful singing voice. Later, she recovers her voice and wins the love of the prince (sorry to spoil the ending).
In the story, Ariel loses her voice because of a curse. However, a less skilled sorceress could use a different method to silence a singing mermaid. Scientists have figured out a way to bend sound waves around an object and, can even prevent the escape of all sounds created inside a given area (important for keeping a transformed, singing mermaid from being heard).
Recently, Steve Cummer, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University announced that it is theoretically possible to create such a sound shield. Building on research demonstrating how light waves can be bent around an object to make it appear invisible, Cummer and his collaborators used mathematical analysis to show how to do the same thing with sound. They established that it is possible to create a material that bends sound waves around walls, pillars, or any enclosed area, where the sound waves emerge as if nothing had been in their way. It would be like someone in the bedroom being able to hear what someone in the living room said, but as if there were no wall between them.
A side effect of this discovery is that sound waves generated inside the enclosed area would never escape. If the witch had been extremely clever, she could have built this material, and there would have been no need for a curse. Or maybe she did, and a transparent sound shield based on these principles was what enveloped Ariel until her love for the Prince melted it away, finally releasing her melodious voice for the Prince to hear.
I think sometimes people either got nothing better to do or they just got to put their hands to something...
I mean...It's just a fairy tale. Why go and think about such stuff...
Anyway, I read this up in one of the articles in Yahoo...
It's interesting though...but who would really have the time to really be bothered with all this scientific prove. It's after all fairy tales...
TaiYoukai Sebastian
May the Lord Bless me and my friends richly...
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