:(

How valuable is life?
I was suddenly struck by this question when I opened an email forwarded to me. The title was plain and did not give away the graphic contents of the attached video.
In the short clip, a Vietnamese in a police uniform was shown. His arms were flailing about and he kept glancing down in disbelief; if the movie is real, then I was viewing at a person who had just been run over by a heavy vehicle. His lower torso, detached from his body, was a few inches away and flattened.
What made me sad was the way bystanders were treating him like a freak or some circus animal as they stood nearby chattering. One even ventured forward and flicked at the man's hands as if to prove this man is still alive! wtf...
How fucked up we all are inside, to view a clip of a man in deep pain in the light of entertainment? Something is just not right :(

To pray that the man would be a survivor would smack of hypocrisy. After all, I, too, was guilty of having stolen a few moments of entertainment.
God help us all..

2010: will it be a better year?

So we bid adieu to 2009 and may I say good riddance, as 2009 is largely a period of turbulence and instability.
2010 starts with a price hike in sugar and bread - doesn't look too good. I can only pray that 2010 will be a better year.
Goodbye 2009, hello 2010!

Google is taking over my (online) world

Help!!! Google is slowly invading my life!!

Chrome is my primary web browser.

I have scores of blogs, some maintained, mostly neglected, in Blogger. When I am in the mood I can delve into the narcissistic world of blogging and only emerge after hours.

I use Google as my dictionary and translator. I use Google Docs to collaborate, Webmaster to monitor.

I'm too lazy to go through news site so I use Google reader.

I check out YouTube all the time.

My GoogleWave is on all the time and I get excited over every logo change in Google.

I am waiting for the chance to get my hands on the googlephone (nexus) as soon as it's available.

The only non-Google presence equally important in my life is my Twitter feed. But then a lot of my sources' tweets also seem to be Google-related in one way or the other...

Pathetic. LOL

my m4sh3d up life

Let's see. How many users out there go by the profile of m4sh3d? I did a Google this morning and found out a number of matches in the gaming community.

Testing to see whether this site appears as number 1 in Google :P

playing around with pottery

We've been taking pottery classes for some time and the time has come to reap the fruits of our 'labor'; finally we get our chance to fool around at the wheel ;)

Last week the basic ceramic bowls were already created and left to harden slightly. Now it's time to, ahem, refine the shapes.
Before transformation - a set of sorry looking bowls.

Some random picture inserted here :x

Finally, our completed babies - a marked improvement

Earlier we 'sent' a few items for glazing and this is the finished product. Nice teacup set. Not-so-nice plate set.
Still a long way to go, towards mastering the art of pottery. sigh.