<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788</id><updated>2012-02-01T02:46:09.599+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mikedot+</title><subtitle type='html'>evoking passion</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>204</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-285524852661804318</id><published>2012-02-01T02:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T02:46:09.607+08:00</updated><title type='text'>dear gin</title><content type='html'>I love you, lets go :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-888016600848793480</id><published>2012-01-04T03:00:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T03:00:29.793+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Chaos in the network</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;There was a chaos in the network&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;One was salvaging a belief&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The other was trying to reveal the ugly truth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Both are of different intentions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;There were not right or wrong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Disapointed i am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;to the one who does not repent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;does not admit and apologize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;giving reasons and deceptions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;portraying great selfishness to the public.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Better yet, friends were automatically categorised&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;as true and false,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;an hasty act,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;act of childishness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;For once in my life,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I would like this dispute to settle,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;As a friend,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I don't think i can sit down,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;and watch any longer,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;one asked to talk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;but the other might refuse to listen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;which would cause more dispute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;than bring bonds &amp;amp; peace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;one might need to reconsider&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;as telling might not always be the solution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;sometimes truth prevails itself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;may one finds the courage to let go, and live in peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;may one finds the strength to forgive and live in peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;and may one finds wisdom and not bring suffering to life of dear ones ever again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2059944650633116392</id><published>2012-01-01T20:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T20:41:32.994+08:00</updated><title type='text'>My first post of the year! :D</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-10bicoaOV1w/TwBQJmchk7I/AAAAAAAAAsQ/lDdgmMHjvUY/s1600/20122011532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-10bicoaOV1w/TwBQJmchk7I/AAAAAAAAAsQ/lDdgmMHjvUY/s640/20122011532.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It’s the time of the year where all past should be at the past and all the times ahead is a new beginning! Here I would like to recap the events that marked the most interesting events of my life at 2011. In terms of work,&amp;nbsp; I’ve got a new head of department who becomes a bridge between us and the management. Thanks to him, a lot of projects and assignments were delivered in a well planned manner. In addition to that, I’ve got Lydia in a team now, which would not only reduce the work load but increase the efficiency of whatever we are gonna do from now onwards :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H7tzRpz0Xtg/TwBQI6MiZmI/AAAAAAAAAsI/FbAsTQaB2qQ/s1600/09122011529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H7tzRpz0Xtg/TwBQI6MiZmI/AAAAAAAAAsI/FbAsTQaB2qQ/s320/09122011529.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;As a second year to the relationship, 2011 is considered the year that shapes and strengthen the bond between me and gin. We had tons and tons of arguments,&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; big&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; war of&lt;i&gt; bitchery&lt;/i&gt; and so on. We went through each conflict one by one with understanding and willingness to improve for each other. As a result, we became really sensitive and caring to each other. My life has been really adventurous and wonderful with my life companion with me. &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Love you for that Ginny :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5oa9cGw7XT4/TwBT5uFJj-I/AAAAAAAAAso/tOSf70G_-T8/s1600/P1550528_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5oa9cGw7XT4/TwBT5uFJj-I/AAAAAAAAAso/tOSf70G_-T8/s320/P1550528_2.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I’ve started to look into financial investment, and ways to save and allocate money for the future. While doing so, I get a new friend who is willing to share the knowledge and experience on that field. Contradicting that, I’ve been spending a lot on 2011 December till a point I can feel a &lt;i&gt;“coin drop silence”&lt;/i&gt; in my bank account :P. Gin and I has made a pact to cut down expenses and shop less on the years ahead, which is our primary resolution for this year! XD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hGKhRSWwHDA/TwBPf0V7prI/AAAAAAAAArQ/gBeg4mkhRUg/s1600/409204_10150539445160901_633150900_11267993_1593090514_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hGKhRSWwHDA/TwBPf0V7prI/AAAAAAAAArQ/gBeg4mkhRUg/s320/409204_10150539445160901_633150900_11267993_1593090514_n.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JbTyPmG2GAo/TwBQHzyQgrI/AAAAAAAAAsA/AfpiUITCGdw/s1600/09122011522.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This year might be a year of opportunity for me to step on a higher level for my carrier. I would need to vow for better performance and reliability at work. I might need to polish my leadership skills to face the challenges ahead when I start to lead this midyear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I’ve always been negative and skeptical in the past when it comes to decision making. But during the year 2011, I’ve encountered situations that needed me to be the positive one to sustain and motivate my other half. That moment taught me about the power of persistence. As long as we do not give in to what we seem to perceive as failures, persistence will overpower any challenges that comes in its way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ip6dy4Lc50/TwBPzyzJD3I/AAAAAAAAArc/-6obxJ9OSq4/s1600/P1000497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ip6dy4Lc50/TwBPzyzJD3I/AAAAAAAAArc/-6obxJ9OSq4/s640/P1000497.JPG" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;My birthday in year 2011 was a rather adventurous one. There was a whole lot of adventure ranging from lovely romantic ones to getting a pirate ship! :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I also received a handmade photobook for our 2 year anniversary :D It was a work of an artistic hand, mainly because she has been associating with creative people for almost 2 years :p (I can hear some groan of disapproval from somewhere lol)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZOAWl9ypWE/TwBQHL0-9eI/AAAAAAAAAr4/tdZk-kFp3o8/s1600/407754_10150352438284058_586024057_7146077_1133712142_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZOAWl9ypWE/TwBQHL0-9eI/AAAAAAAAAr4/tdZk-kFp3o8/s400/407754_10150352438284058_586024057_7146077_1133712142_n.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Another moment that left a mark would be bro Jon finally opened up to me, to tell me things just like how we used to me. Hopefully his days ahead would one filled with peace and wisdom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Come to think of it, having gin along with me for 2 year has been a total different relationship experience. This was the first relationship which I actually look forward to every single day, and love every single thought of how it would be in the future. Throughout the years, there are people who are skeptical about us and even advice us to break apart during our hard times.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Advice like those did not make me have negative thoughts towards them but instead would like to thank them for giving me a point to consider. At those moments when I was really negative, I took the advice and thought to myself, which one was easier to do? : to break up and suffer long term or to fight through the short terms suffering and enjoy the love. It was clear to me that, leaving would be the hardest option for me. Thus, all the skeptical people who advised me to break up actually trained my mind to be clear of what I really want and make confirmed decisions :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gCW4Ytn6JBI/TwBTcFXLrwI/AAAAAAAAAsg/QPEST8GuIbE/s1600/318530_10150352835246553_111911571552_8445288_184147581_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gCW4Ytn6JBI/TwBTcFXLrwI/AAAAAAAAAsg/QPEST8GuIbE/s320/318530_10150352835246553_111911571552_8445288_184147581_n.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;As a new year resolution, I would like to tone up my body to a healthy shape and let my gears working again.(im sick of feeling fatigue and weak all the time) I do not get much support on this matter sometimes because, most of the people around me thought that I’m going to go on steroid mode and built a friggin gigantic muscular body -_- (blame the tv for showing all exaggerating stereotypes) All I want is to feel agile and in proper control of my body’s movements. Oh yeah, talking about that, on the 2011 I got myself a motorcross bike!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pvD-rqc78l0/TwBP5qpJIOI/AAAAAAAAArk/rzObJFbqyYU/s1600/P1000085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pvD-rqc78l0/TwBP5qpJIOI/AAAAAAAAArk/rzObJFbqyYU/s640/P1000085.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It not only brought excitement to my life, but also increased my strength. It’s heavier than a normal bike, takes more energy to maneuver, tackle cornerings, grabing on the clutches and brakes. As a result, my body frame was slightly larger at the end of the year. Moving a cub bike is like pulling a bicycle to me now. With the bike, I’ve learnt the importance of maintenance, and taking care of things. I’ve met a good foreman named Ah Ming, who was willing to share all the tips and clear all the myth and taboos that sly foreman uses to drain cash from their victim. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Mrt7hZ4sUg/TwBPfSjHo5I/AAAAAAAAArI/rJw-x5-Rvsk/s1600/396440_10150539446100901_633150900_11267998_1202686056_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Mrt7hZ4sUg/TwBPfSjHo5I/AAAAAAAAArI/rJw-x5-Rvsk/s200/396440_10150539446100901_633150900_11267998_1202686056_n.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Next resolution would be saving up to fund for a house! Yeaps, a house Is an investment and a vehicle is always a liability :D Therefore I should make the first step to at least own a property :D.&amp;nbsp; Somehow I felt that I’m not to old and neither too young to start thinking about owning a property and getting married. Gosh, what has gotten into you Mike. Guess being with a person you love, really triggers these actions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lastly, I would wish that the myth of the world ending this year does not become a truth. I want to live to see how my plans and determination succeed, I want to have a beautiful family with my girl, I want to retire and hang out with old friends, have a few pints of beer and whiskey. I want to be a leader of an organization, spreading education and build characters. I want to celebrate every achievement of the people around me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I want,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;A happy,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Happy New Year :D&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wdoDAjcbD-s/TwBPeHhqOpI/AAAAAAAAAq8/bfSqAT6acU0/s1600/382800_10150461330866378_525766377_9188681_562725309_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wdoDAjcbD-s/TwBPeHhqOpI/AAAAAAAAAq8/bfSqAT6acU0/s640/382800_10150461330866378_525766377_9188681_562725309_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-2059944650633116392?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/2059944650633116392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-first-post-of-year-d.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2059944650633116392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2059944650633116392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-first-post-of-year-d.html' title='My first post of the year! :D'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-10bicoaOV1w/TwBQJmchk7I/AAAAAAAAAsQ/lDdgmMHjvUY/s72-c/20122011532.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2695795121756487240</id><published>2011-12-17T23:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T23:17:45.530+08:00</updated><title type='text'>yayyyyyyyy~</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Call me a kid, or and old boy, but i was so friggin happy today because i finally got my thousand sunny :D:D&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;It was a birthday + Christmas give from dear ginny, seriously no girls have ever brought me a toy before, and this is just something that makes me jump up and down and got me really excited after all these years lolxxxxx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;it actually got me more excited than when im havin my bike lolx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A5XBKweKtKc/Tuyxz78cTcI/AAAAAAAAAqw/BRNEzCzXpO0/s1600/image201112170001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A5XBKweKtKc/Tuyxz78cTcI/AAAAAAAAAqw/BRNEzCzXpO0/s1600/image201112170001.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-2695795121756487240?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/2695795121756487240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/12/yayyyyyyyy.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2695795121756487240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2695795121756487240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/12/yayyyyyyyy.html' title='yayyyyyyyy~'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A5XBKweKtKc/Tuyxz78cTcI/AAAAAAAAAqw/BRNEzCzXpO0/s72-c/image201112170001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8849635568725440811</id><published>2011-12-09T10:45:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T10:45:57.056+08:00</updated><title type='text'>somewhat true :D</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G6cq_nNthCI/TuF2U6sDPFI/AAAAAAAAAp4/X3SdYX90vNs/s1600/2aec85e48fe9e554dc13d6ef2a032aea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="576" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G6cq_nNthCI/TuF2U6sDPFI/AAAAAAAAAp4/X3SdYX90vNs/s640/2aec85e48fe9e554dc13d6ef2a032aea.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8849635568725440811?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8849635568725440811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/12/somewhat-true-d.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8849635568725440811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8849635568725440811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/12/somewhat-true-d.html' title='somewhat true :D'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G6cq_nNthCI/TuF2U6sDPFI/AAAAAAAAAp4/X3SdYX90vNs/s72-c/2aec85e48fe9e554dc13d6ef2a032aea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3413348786495893822</id><published>2011-11-26T16:15:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T16:15:11.411+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;I MISS YOU LIM WEI GIN!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3413348786495893822?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3413348786495893822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-miss-you-lim-wei-gin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3413348786495893822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3413348786495893822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-miss-you-lim-wei-gin.html' title=''/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7042106683579006313</id><published>2011-11-26T16:13:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T16:13:57.362+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Latest Addition!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is gonna make a lot of purist hate me, but oh yeah, i love all these new addition on my bike, it's just visually pleasing :D&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25Ve3WmqaZo/TtCfma2wPGI/AAAAAAAAApw/af1QGOvDGyo/s1600/page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25Ve3WmqaZo/TtCfma2wPGI/AAAAAAAAApw/af1QGOvDGyo/s640/page.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7042106683579006313?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7042106683579006313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/latest-addition.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7042106683579006313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7042106683579006313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/latest-addition.html' title='Latest Addition!'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25Ve3WmqaZo/TtCfma2wPGI/AAAAAAAAApw/af1QGOvDGyo/s72-c/page.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7155322216315748679</id><published>2011-11-26T03:23:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T03:23:56.683+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Proud of models</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This batch is consist of 9 students, all girls and 1 boy. Timothy skipped college today basically because he is trying to finish up his technical drawings at home. So only a few turned up today. Either way, the girls were really havin fun with their model showcase. This photography session is a celebration of their&amp;nbsp;hard work&amp;nbsp;and effort, one which would impact them dearly when they look back at it again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jZ14OzBbiyI/Ts_pkz8pcpI/AAAAAAAAAoY/TcLOVDURQcs/s1600/P1560277.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jZ14OzBbiyI/Ts_pkz8pcpI/AAAAAAAAAoY/TcLOVDURQcs/s400/P1560277.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Borj5HEV61Q/Ts_plmr2ObI/AAAAAAAAAoc/J0bt6favx04/s1600/P1560279.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Borj5HEV61Q/Ts_plmr2ObI/AAAAAAAAAoc/J0bt6favx04/s400/P1560279.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;This semester I've given the students a task which requires them to make an installation along the stairway up to our studios. 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x5NGRkA8BNY/Ts_kCCDeM2I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/MTt6CovtK5E/s1600/valve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x5NGRkA8BNY/Ts_kCCDeM2I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/MTt6CovtK5E/s640/valve.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I was jumpin up and down when i finally saw the source of the petrol smell from my bike! It was the leakage on the filters.Got so mad and frustrated with the leakage i went back to my main distributor and they replaced the boring white filter with a pretty and trasparent one! now i can see the pretty petrol colors before they go down to the carburetor!~ :D:D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8137103809850014231?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8137103809850014231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-was-jumpin-up-n-down.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8137103809850014231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8137103809850014231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-was-jumpin-up-n-down.html' title='I was jumpin up n down'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x5NGRkA8BNY/Ts_kCCDeM2I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/MTt6CovtK5E/s72-c/valve.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-4916339848213134973</id><published>2011-11-26T02:51:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T02:51:22.104+08:00</updated><title type='text'>HATERS GONA HATE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PPsYASQ0-WY/Ts_jhnhLzGI/AAAAAAAAAmI/-1eb24raJZk/s1600/327949_253784874680406_100001466856125_721200_243529380_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PPsYASQ0-WY/Ts_jhnhLzGI/AAAAAAAAAmI/-1eb24raJZk/s640/327949_253784874680406_100001466856125_721200_243529380_o.jpg" width="438" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-4916339848213134973?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/4916339848213134973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/haters-gona-hate_26.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4916339848213134973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4916339848213134973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/haters-gona-hate_26.html' title='HATERS GONA HATE'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PPsYASQ0-WY/Ts_jhnhLzGI/AAAAAAAAAmI/-1eb24raJZk/s72-c/327949_253784874680406_100001466856125_721200_243529380_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2702544111960350523</id><published>2011-11-25T10:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T10:57:43.397+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Students that makes you feel proud</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I am currently teaching this bunch of students who are really silent in class, but very enthusiastic in their work and studies. 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Will be taking pictures and post it up here :D&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Basically lotsa&amp;nbsp;achievements&amp;nbsp;this year, students makin me really proud :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It's a happy life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-1829752899654184219?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/1829752899654184219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/many-things-happening.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1829752899654184219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1829752899654184219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/11/many-things-happening.html' title='Many things happening'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-1555521092202602977</id><published>2011-11-20T22:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T22:42:03.031+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zjnh7xlfygE/TqzQwDLPp5I/AAAAAAAAAig/yleZ7-xhaSM/s1600/PMS-Guide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zjnh7xlfygE/TqzQwDLPp5I/AAAAAAAAAig/yleZ7-xhaSM/s1600/PMS-Guide.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3269846740835077952?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3269846740835077952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/10/somewhat-true-p.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3269846740835077952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3269846740835077952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/10/somewhat-true-p.html' title='Somewhat true :P'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zjnh7xlfygE/TqzQwDLPp5I/AAAAAAAAAig/yleZ7-xhaSM/s72-c/PMS-Guide.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-5933733441489169874</id><published>2011-10-15T23:41:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-15T23:50:32.187+08:00</updated><title type='text'>TENGU!!!!!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;IT was raining hard, and i was on a third gear when i reached te cornering to my housing area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;i took a &amp;nbsp;brake and it skidded,release and brake again, and still da same, no more time, reaching curb, as it hits the curb, i leaped out of the bike,i jumped forward, and try to stop my body from falling wit the remaining momentum, managed to stop it after four steps, and successfully stay in balance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text" style="background-color: black; 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font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;THANKS TO THIS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;TENGU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-5933733441489169874?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/5933733441489169874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/10/tengu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5933733441489169874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5933733441489169874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/10/tengu.html' title='TENGU!!!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RAEOWubsvOA/TpmnQ-Kt2RI/AAAAAAAAAiY/96OKdsLA8Do/s72-c/tengu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-5090550706052795254</id><published>2011-10-15T23:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-15T23:38:44.300+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;ohh, i brake and it skidded,release and brake again, and still da same, no more time, reaching curb, as it hits the curb, i leaped out of the bike,i jumped forward, and try to stop my body from falling wit the remaining momentum, managed to stop it after four steps, and successfully stay in balance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RAEOWubsvOA/TpmnQ-Kt2RI/AAAAAAAAAiY/96OKdsLA8Do/s1600/tengu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RAEOWubsvOA/TpmnQ-Kt2RI/AAAAAAAAAiY/96OKdsLA8Do/s320/tengu.jpg" width="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;THANKS TO THIS!TENGU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-5090550706052795254?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/5090550706052795254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/10/ohh-i-brake-and-it-skiddedrelease-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5090550706052795254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5090550706052795254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/10/ohh-i-brake-and-it-skiddedrelease-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RAEOWubsvOA/TpmnQ-Kt2RI/AAAAAAAAAiY/96OKdsLA8Do/s72-c/tengu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7771331722679276959</id><published>2011-09-20T20:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T20:44:03.405+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bless you Indian lorry driver.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://static6.depositphotos.com/1017146/540/i/950/depositphotos_5402084-Cement-Lorry..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://static6.depositphotos.com/1017146/540/i/950/depositphotos_5402084-Cement-Lorry..jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;A hero is discovered today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;He was a humble indian man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;A big ass cement lorry driver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This was how he became a hero today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I was riding out of the bike shop along the NPE highway,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;As my gears switched from 4th to 5th,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The chain suddenly went off the sprocket,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;immediately jammed my rims, causing me to land on an emergency brake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photogallerys/rk-chain-sprocket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photogallerys/rk-chain-sprocket.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Cars starts to slow down and overtake my idle bike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I couldn't push my bike off the road as the chains were stuck.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;All i could do was trying to put my chain back to the sprocket as soon as possible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Under this high stress condition, and afraid that i would be hit my speeding cars,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Suddenly there was a gigantic shadow cast right on the area where i was idle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I did not have the time to look but tried to push my bike several times but failed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Cars were honking and the vehicle behind be refused to move,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Out of&amp;nbsp;curiosity, i took a glimpse, and i saw an indian man on his late 20s,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;smiles at me, and greeted with his right arm, assuring me that, he will not move his lorry till I'm done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In the end, i took the time to put the chains back on and started my bike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I took a last glance at the back, and gave him a wave of gratitude,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;touched by the action, of his heroic act despite being honked by people who passed by.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.decaldepot.net/bmz_cache/3/3c704f9c8d9eebead27731df5d909d76.image.166x220.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.decaldepot.net/bmz_cache/3/3c704f9c8d9eebead27731df5d909d76.image.166x220.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;You have my respect bro. Bless you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7771331722679276959?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7771331722679276959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/bless-you-indian-lorry-driver.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7771331722679276959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7771331722679276959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/bless-you-indian-lorry-driver.html' title='Bless you Indian lorry driver.'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2825890528972812783</id><published>2011-09-17T01:05:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T01:05:45.514+08:00</updated><title type='text'>WE FINALLY CAME TO AN UNDERSTANDING</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;TEEHEE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-2825890528972812783?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/2825890528972812783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/we-finally-came-to-understanding.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2825890528972812783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2825890528972812783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/we-finally-came-to-understanding.html' title='WE FINALLY CAME TO AN UNDERSTANDING'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7425599385934384328</id><published>2011-09-16T01:16:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-16T01:44:13.120+08:00</updated><title type='text'>FTS</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Since nobody reads this shit, ill just let it all out here tonight. Why do i stopped blogging? Where does all the fun stuffs and stories go to nowadays? To A GIRL! I told everything to a girl!She's. the only one i want to tell, and after i tell her, i have the sense of satisfaction and that is why i never bother to fill them in here anymore.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;But guess what? Why the fuck am i back here today? YES! BECAUSE NO ONE IS LISTENING TO THIS SHIT TODAY. I have no clue how a person can be so fucking selfish with their mood sometimes. Why is it that, when i am so fucking tired, and yet i will do whatever it takes to make someone feel comfortable before i leave them to sleep, and when the time i am feeling fucking down, all i get is ME SOLVING MY OWN PROBLEM because you are too tired and need to get some sleep. DO I NOT EVEN DESERVE TO BE CARED AT ALL WHEN YOU ARE TIRED? AM I BEING SELFISH FOR ASKING FOR JUST A LIL ATTENTION OR WORDS OF CARE WHEN YOU ARE TIRED?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;I ALWAYS HAVE MY PLANS AND I HAVE TO CARE ABOUT EVERYBODY'S FEELINGS! WHENEVER I WANA DO SOMETHING, I AM TOLD WHAT I SHOULD DO! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THIS IS? MESSING UP MY BRAINS, TELLING ME WHAT I DO IS WRONG, INDUCING GUILT IN ME FOR THIS N THAT. SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT I HAVE MY THOUGHTS! AND THAT MY&amp;nbsp;DECISIONS&amp;nbsp;WERE MADE WITH QUITE SOME CONSIDERATION! I AM NOT YOUR SIBLINGS OR FRIENDS WHO NEEDS TO BE TELL WHAT TO DO COZ YOU ARE SO FUCKING RIGHT!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;I THINK AND WORRY AND CARE ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL DAY AND NIGHT AND FUCK THIS IS WHAT I GET AT THE END OF THE DAY. IS THIS A WAY TO EVEN TREAT A HUMAN? YOU ARE FUCKING SERIOUS WHEN YOU SAY YOU TREAT UR DOG BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE. NOW I GET IT. YOU MEAN IT FOR REAL.I SHOULD HAVE SEE THAT COMING&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;if you happen to read this&amp;nbsp;don't&amp;nbsp;get hurt, because this is not meant to be read by anybody. I just need a space to let it all out. I got no one to talk to. I've restricted myself to open up my emotions to you, and now,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;i build my own trap and fall on it.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;points to ponder:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;We get into a relationship so that we have a company for the ups and down.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;If so, what do you call it when you feel like shit, and you still have to solve it alone ?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;I FUCKING HATE THIS FEELING RIGHT NOW!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sleeping it away tonight.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thanks.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7425599385934384328?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7425599385934384328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/fuck-that-shit.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7425599385934384328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7425599385934384328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/fuck-that-shit.html' title='FTS'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-5556072701141407091</id><published>2011-09-01T23:22:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-01T23:22:27.869+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Freudian Inventory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table style="color: black; background: #BACABC" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="270"&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="color: black; background: #eeeeee"&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;Freudian Inventory Results&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oral&lt;/b&gt; (63%) you appear to be overly passive and dependent, wanting things to be given to you instead of working for them.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Anal&lt;/b&gt; (46%) you appear to have a good balance of self control and spontaneity, order and chaos, variety and selectivity.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Phallic&lt;/b&gt; (60%) you appear to have a good balance of sexual awareness and sexual composure.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Latency&lt;/b&gt; (43%) you appear to have a good balance of abstract knowledge seeking and practicality, dealing with real world responsibilities while still cultivating your abstract and creative faculties and interests.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Genital&lt;/b&gt; (66%) you appear to have a progressive and openminded outlook on life unbeholden to regressive forces like traditional authority and convention.&lt;br&gt; 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background: #999899" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="270"&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="color: black; background: #eeeeee"&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;Maslow Inventory Results&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Physiological Needs&lt;/b&gt; (44%) you appear to have an adequate supply of basic necessities.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Safety Needs&lt;/b&gt; (64%) you appear to have a very unsecure environment.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Love Needs&lt;/b&gt; (40%) you appear to be semi-content with the quality of your social connections.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Esteem Needs&lt;/b&gt; (34%) you appear to have a high level of personal competence.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Self-Actualization&lt;/b&gt; (45%) you appear to have an average level of individual development.&lt;br&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/maslow.html"&gt;Take Free Maslow Inventory Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com"&gt;personality tests by similarminds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-1766590915817631908?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/1766590915817631908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/maslow-inventory-test.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1766590915817631908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1766590915817631908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/maslow-inventory-test.html' title='Maslow Inventory Test'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3457334592274617664</id><published>2011-09-01T22:56:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-01T22:56:23.427+08:00</updated><title type='text'>My personality disorder lolx</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table style="color: black; 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&lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt;78%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder_info.html#borderline"&gt;Borderline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt;42%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder_info.html#histrionic"&gt;Histrionic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt;58%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder_info.html#narcissistic"&gt;Narcissistic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder_info.html#avoidant"&gt;Avoidant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt;42%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder_info.html#dependent"&gt;Dependent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt;34%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder_info.html#obsessive-compulsive"&gt; Obsessive-Compulsive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt;38%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder.html"&gt; Take Free Personality Disorder Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html"&gt;Personality Test&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/"&gt;SimilarMinds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3457334592274617664?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3457334592274617664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-personality-disorder-lolx.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3457334592274617664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3457334592274617664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-personality-disorder-lolx.html' title='My personality disorder lolx'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8809747945125497264</id><published>2011-09-01T22:17:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-01T22:23:12.078+08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Personality Test Results :D</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#dddddd"&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="250"&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="black"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENTJ&lt;/b&gt; -  "Field Marshall". The basic driving force and need is to lead. Tend to seek a position of responsibility and enjoys being an executive. 1.8% of total population. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/embti.html"&gt;Take Free Jung Personality Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com"&gt;personality tests by similarminds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;!-- 3.12 / 4.81 --&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="240"bgcolor="#e7e4e4"&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="50%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Main type&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Variant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="50%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.similarminds.com/3.gif" border="0"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.similarminds.com/sxspso.gif" border="0"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.similarminds.com/embti.html"&gt;Take Free Enneagram Personality Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html"&gt;Personality Test&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://similarminds.com/"&gt;SimilarMinds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table style="color: black; background: #eeeeee"border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee"&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;Enneagram Test Results &lt;table style="color: black; background: #dddddd" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" bgcolor="#dddddd"&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Type 1 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Perfectionism&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 53% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Type 2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; Helpfulness&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 63% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; Type 3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; Image Awareness&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 90% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Type 4&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Sensitivity&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 80% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; Type 5&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; Detachment&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 53% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Type 6&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Anxiety&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 80% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; Type 7&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; Adventurousness&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 56% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; Type 8&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Aggressiveness&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt; ||||||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 70% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; Type 9&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Calmness&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50"&gt;||||||||||||&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="30"&gt; 50% &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Your main type is &lt;b&gt; 3&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Your variant is &lt;b&gt; sexual&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.similarminds.com/embti.html"&gt;Take Free Enneagram Personality Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://similarminds.com"&gt;personality tests by similarminds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instinctual variants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The instinctual variants of the enneagram, the self-preservation, sexual and social instincts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to the Enneagram type, people are also considered to be one of three instinctual variants (also called subtypes). The self-preservation instinct (dealing with oneself), the sexual (dealing with another person) and the social instinct (dealing with a group) can be most pronounced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Self-preservation variant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People of the self-preservation variant are generally trying to be comfortable and independent. Their well-being is very important to them, so they pay much attention to their health, house and financial position. They are less interested in interpersonal contact, and are typically less spontaneous and don't show as much emotion as people of the other two subtypes of their enneagram type.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexual variant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People of the sexual variant are very much interested in one to one contacts. They are looking for intimacy and this may show in sexuality, though not necessarily. Being in a relationship is very important to them. They are the most passionate of the subtypes, being temperamental and having more energy. They have less of a problem with getting into a fight and care less about rules and responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social Variant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People of the social variant prefer to be in groups or teams. They are more interested than the other subtypes in the position that they and others have in a group, and are consequently concerned with status. Wanting to be accepted, they try to fit in and be nice.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8809747945125497264?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8809747945125497264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-personality-test-results-d.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8809747945125497264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8809747945125497264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-personality-test-results-d.html' title='My Personality Test Results :D'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2153750847320019277</id><published>2011-08-22T13:37:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-22T13:37:57.967+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clouds disappeared, revealing the ever glowing sun.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F18zYiWP_c8/TlHplF9tawI/AAAAAAAAAhA/54PPJdxBu6A/s1600/P1540082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="360" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F18zYiWP_c8/TlHplF9tawI/AAAAAAAAAhA/54PPJdxBu6A/s640/P1540082.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The dark clouds that looms the week has finally picked up it's pace and shifted. Efforts of repairing what's broken, and patching up injuries were initiated with consistency and&amp;nbsp;perseverance. A pact was made, what's in the past, shall stay idle and never be repeated in the future. Sealing promises.Staying close again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-2153750847320019277?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/2153750847320019277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/08/clouds-disappeared-revealing-ever_22.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2153750847320019277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2153750847320019277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/08/clouds-disappeared-revealing-ever_22.html' title='Clouds disappeared, revealing the ever glowing sun.'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F18zYiWP_c8/TlHplF9tawI/AAAAAAAAAhA/54PPJdxBu6A/s72-c/P1540082.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-5270976518990170134</id><published>2011-08-19T01:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T01:27:46.428+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Romantic August the 19th</title><content type='html'>It's been a long time ever since i post something on this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been an even longer time i posted something positive on this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a...okay, i was juz kiddin, I just want to jot down these simple yet meaningful details that I've went through today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;I was grumpy as hell as i was so late, boost my way up to 80kmph on a slow moving traffic, pushing my disc brakes to their limits everytime a car engaged. The day got worse when the weather was so harsh on me, tormenting me with the heaviest downpour transforming me into a wet, but ugly puppy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While i was stomping my way to find a shelter, i heard a weak sound calling my name despite the heavy rain drops interrupting my ear drums. Standing there, was a girl in white sailor T, underneath an umbrella. She took a glance at me with sympathy, worrying that i will catch a cold with my drenched outfit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the bad weather and my unkempt condition, she chose to continue spending her day with me. I admit that i was a little hesitant to spend the day with her because of how inconvenient things are going to be with my flooded shoes and trousers. Replacing my shirt with my "jackcoat", i was walking along the mall with a bare chested outfit throughout the journey. She got me 2 nice graphic tees, with a swipe of her card, without hesitation or consideration on the 10% processing charges that follows by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trust me, that this is the first time that i wore a pair of jeans that fits, and looked as good as this. Call me ridiculous or what, but on that moment, ironically, i felt that this is the first time i had a relationship that fits, Gin that fits :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, there was this milk tea that i wanted her to try for a very long time. I know that it has a taste that will make her smile, and feel sweet in the heart. A drink worth spending on, as long as it makes her smile again. Indeed, she liked it, and finished almost 80% of it, in fact, she never really took her lips off the straw, which was pretty cute to me :D:D:DD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon, the rain calmed down and the night lurks into the darkness. I was surprised when the composition of tenors,&amp;nbsp;sopranos, counter&amp;nbsp;sopranos, alto, bass&amp;nbsp;and baritones blends so well, making a song feels so divine and meaningful. What surprises me even more is that, i can clearly hear her voice, word by word coming out from her lips, despite the loudness of the whole choir. Her angelic voice definitely soothes the heart of this worn out man that night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before we part, she hugged me and said "We are not getting any better". What was registered in my brains, was her voice tone, the tone that tells me " We are both hurt. I love you, i really do, do you feel me?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That feeling was further enhanced, when our lips met,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which left me the message of " lets meet again soon"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and our last gesture of love was,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;waiting for me to leave safely even when she is in a rush,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and i honked her to cover up her boots&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we bid farewell,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it was a happy day baby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-5270976518990170134?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/5270976518990170134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3030091903469246452</id><published>2011-07-19T23:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-07-19T23:34:52.850+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Once upon a dinner time....</title><content type='html'>.....we were happily finding for a place to eat at bangsar&lt;br /&gt;i was being cheerful&lt;br /&gt;and we changed our mind, hopping between 3 restaurants&lt;br /&gt;and finally settled down&lt;br /&gt;everything started when we ordered the menu&lt;br /&gt;she has this mindset of letting me order what i like to eat, even if she doesnt really like it&lt;br /&gt;i have a mindset of, eating something that we both can eat together, and&lt;br /&gt;yeah, she cant eat beef&lt;br /&gt;so, while i was lookin at the menu&lt;br /&gt;i said that,&lt;br /&gt;the pizzas with beef peperoni looks nice&lt;br /&gt;apart from that, chicken will be rather plain&lt;br /&gt;but i think that we shud order at least vegetarian&lt;br /&gt;or the chicken one so that both of us can eat&lt;br /&gt;but because of my comments on chicken pizza will be plain&lt;br /&gt;she choose to eat the ones with beef peperoni&lt;br /&gt;so i called the waiter to separate it to half,&lt;br /&gt;half with beef and half without&lt;br /&gt;apparently, the other half was lamb&lt;br /&gt;and she also do not like lamb&lt;br /&gt;when she eat them, her face was like not really that happy&lt;br /&gt;i asked her if we shud order salad, or vegetarian pizza or whatever&lt;br /&gt;but she rejected all and choose to order this&lt;br /&gt;and when we are eating&lt;br /&gt;she is not enjohing it&lt;br /&gt;so i felt that i made a mistake by doing that order in the first place&lt;br /&gt;so i told her that, we shud hav ordered sth other that this&lt;br /&gt;if she dun like lamb as well&lt;br /&gt;then she came back to the part where i was biased when i 1st commented that chicken was tasteless&lt;br /&gt;and so its like, after everything is ordered&lt;br /&gt;then i was given to guilt&lt;br /&gt;so yeah.&lt;br /&gt;i start to talk a lot&lt;br /&gt;and she was silent all the way&lt;br /&gt;which made me even more frustrated&lt;br /&gt;coz i felt like im talkin to the wall&lt;br /&gt;i need feedback&lt;br /&gt;there was none&lt;br /&gt;she was alll silent&lt;br /&gt;and i know that, its her style&lt;br /&gt;that when someone is angry she will keep silent&lt;br /&gt;but i was juz way too frustrated that time&lt;br /&gt;and i guess, i talked so much that it hurts&lt;br /&gt;i hurt&lt;br /&gt;she hurt&lt;br /&gt;we all hurt&lt;br /&gt;yeah&lt;br /&gt;just bcoz of food&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;my foolishness is beyond help.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;:(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; color: #465584; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Recently&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;Government tour site was hacked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tourmalaysia.com.my/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.tourmalaysia.com.my&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;as a response of them banning Malaysians from accessing download sites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 id="story_title" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 35px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; color: #465584; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 id="story_title" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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id="google_ads_iframe_News_Story_toptext" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_News_Story_toptext" scrolling="no" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" width="468"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;KUALA LUMPUR: Pirated music has seen a 50% drop in the music industry's revenue over the past 15 years says the Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;According to RIM vice president Norman Abdul Halim, pirated music activities (pirated cd, vcd, dvd) has seen a 50% drop in revenue for the music industry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Fifteen years ago the music industry's income in the country was about RM300mil but due to piracy, we are looking at only RM150mil which is a huge loss," he told Bernama Radio24's Kerusi Panas programme.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Norman who is also KRU Studios chief executive officer said the size of the Malaysian music industry was not big but has the potential to contribute towards the nation's aspirations to become a high income and developed nation by 2020.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;He added that the digital industry had already taken over the physical sales of albums and opened a whole new perspective for musicians to enhance their career in the music industry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"In the past, one will have to buy an album or cassette even to listen to only one favourite song, but now they can download a song through their hand phones for just RM2 or RM3 per song," he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;However, those in the industry must not abolish the physical production of cassettes or cd, he said. - Bernama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thus leads to a chatbox conversation...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Mr.T says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;lolxxx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;well...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;hope this fellas din get caught&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Mr.S&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;to me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;its a tight situation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;i applaud their action&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;but at the same time cannot support them if they get caught&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;they spoke out what they feel is right&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;but at the same time they resorted shady methods&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;i think&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;they d prolly get pissed with streamyx enough to cancel their streamyx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;and go for p1/yes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;i m not sure if p1 can access those websites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;but i ve a feeling the block is only applied to screamyx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; line-height: 21px;"&gt;ppl are gonna shoot tat guy like mad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Mr.T&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;wait&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;i think music industry in msia dropped is bcoz....no one listens to them&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;most of our stuff is downloading songs from out of this country&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;even if they block it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;we will buy original&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;but not local artists songs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;what do they get then?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;isint it the same&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;wahhahahahhahaha&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Mr.S&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;yeah&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;n the stupid thing is&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;they say&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"ppl download songs for rm3 to their hp"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;OF COURSE THEY DO&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;coz the retards in msia music industry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;still thinks CDs are in&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;even US are using freaking itunes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Mr.T&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;and u see, downloading songs is like a good marketing strategy to spread ur fame and create a fan base who will then buy your original if you really inspire them to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Mr.S says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;last time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;metallica or something i forgot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;they lashed out at napster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;the response was massive boycott&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;that happened YEARS ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;has history taught us nothing/?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;dammit dumasses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Mr.T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Do u think these fellas even observe what's happening out there?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; line-height: 21px;"&gt;this is why msia is a third world country&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; line-height: 21px;"&gt;lolx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Mr.S&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;hahahaha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;yeah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;dammit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"&gt;Admit it guys, seriously, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;when will our mentality grow? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Forget&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about building new structures,&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; forget&lt;/span&gt; about innovating new technologies, develop your minds instead, bring forth the stability , &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;only the weak minded&lt;/span&gt; would think of ways to &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;restrict others&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; instead of improving&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. nuff said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_--i-epiV1SM/S_iupxM8HyI/AAAAAAAABeo/VvPsLdj9FrU/s72-c/norman.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7616987933628144109</id><published>2011-06-04T01:45:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T02:07:21.422+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clearer vision, step out view</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://images.cryhavok.org/d/16032-1/Motivator+-+Skeptical+Dog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="368" src="http://images.cryhavok.org/d/16032-1/Motivator+-+Skeptical+Dog.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Skeptical.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"We all have dreams, big dreams that we keep under the bed and left forgotten, only to find it one day on our bed when we are old.."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;After the whole talk about figures and numbers, and persuasive ways of getting to your dreams which sounds too good to be true, those are situations that happens, only when everything happen in the most ideal way. What are the odds?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bettingblogger.com/files/2010/09/odds-in-your-favor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://bettingblogger.com/files/2010/09/odds-in-your-favor.jpg" width="172" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mr Ooi said " No harm finding out what is it all about"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I talked to&amp;nbsp;Farha, and she told me that she was in it before, but she quite later on because of the push they give in to fit certain quota. She said the products are of good quality but there is a need for a lil hard work in it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsUz5Ullmek/TaQdnQmb38I/AAAAAAAAARM/u7RKwwDdpLA/s1600/social-network-business.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="205" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsUz5Ullmek/TaQdnQmb38I/AAAAAAAAARM/u7RKwwDdpLA/s320/social-network-business.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The temptation for me was simple:&lt;b&gt; I am still young&lt;/b&gt;, and Rm89 will be paid for "following a business man for internship to learn the ways of business, to open up my view, for a good experience." and also " to get to know more people, of different job, to &lt;b&gt;build connection&lt;/b&gt; for future business opportunities"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tulsanetworkgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/business-networking-ma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://tulsanetworkgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/business-networking-ma.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Which means, even if im not doing that&amp;nbsp;business, but at least i know a sum of people, who might be rich one day, doing projects and renovating their houses, shouldn't be that bad right?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In other words, RM89 to build a connection/business network for my future interior design firm sounds pretty good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xqt2HpOiQ28/S-WvpwqTTGI/AAAAAAAABHw/lVUb7NVYtKc/s1600/network.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xqt2HpOiQ28/S-WvpwqTTGI/AAAAAAAABHw/lVUb7NVYtKc/s320/network.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In other words going for a roller coaster ride of the business world, with an emerald as a tour guide, for that price, is quite worth the experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Spoken to Claire, and she also said the products were really good as well, just that it's a little more expensive. She told the experience from her part, which is about the seminars they attend, and the mom is more of a consumer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;At these point, i was really fickle minded,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.wikia.com/mrmen/images/5/5c/Miss_Fickle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://images.wikia.com/mrmen/images/5/5c/Miss_Fickle.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;and all i need was a person to pay for my ride, as a&amp;nbsp;kick start. I want the experience but i am &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;stingy&lt;/span&gt; to pay for the ride. That is me, the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;poor &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;minded , the&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; indecisive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/414421581_5fdf5c87c1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/414421581_5fdf5c87c1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hL4_DkhpkV4/TZm2Z0l4evI/AAAAAAAAAFM/E4R3GMDwrBM/s1600/indecisive.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="153" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hL4_DkhpkV4/TZm2Z0l4evI/AAAAAAAAAFM/E4R3GMDwrBM/s200/indecisive.gif" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Went home, and i talked to love. Love told me about her bursting passion for a &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;blogshop&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, it was really exciting, and i felt that it would be nice if i aid in the areas where my expertise can be used. If i really generate great income from that business, perhaps i can fund her passion in blogshopping too! :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X_TmczLf2aE/Ta8Ym9ynA3I/AAAAAAAAAyw/nr6bmgess8I/s320/blogshopping.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X_TmczLf2aE/Ta8Ym9ynA3I/AAAAAAAAAyw/nr6bmgess8I/s320/blogshopping.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;She asked about my day, and i told her halfway. I did not get to go to the part where i was&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;afraid, fickle, and fragile&lt;/span&gt;. I did not talk about my &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;skeptic&lt;/span&gt; point of view and my &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;temptations&lt;/span&gt;. I did not get to do so because, i have projected an image that i am totally believing that this would work and that i am already blinded with all the projection of dreams created by the people who i met this afternoon at HQ..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mlmcored.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/a96753_a488_indecisive.jpg?w=450&amp;amp;h=299" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://mlmcored.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/a96753_a488_indecisive.jpg?w=450&amp;amp;h=299" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it's 2am&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and i am still here&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;stuck&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;no conclusion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;only insecurities to share, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;with my own shadow.......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;.why me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ubim.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/depressed-person.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.ubim.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/depressed-person.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7616987933628144109?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7616987933628144109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/06/clearer-vision-step-out-view.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7616987933628144109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7616987933628144109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/06/clearer-vision-step-out-view.html' title='Clearer vision, step out view'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsUz5Ullmek/TaQdnQmb38I/AAAAAAAAARM/u7RKwwDdpLA/s72-c/social-network-business.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-6257254578316692947</id><published>2011-06-01T19:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-06-01T19:48:04.091+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Crazy people gets crazy jobs</title><content type='html'>I was approached by a friend to mentor a business module to groups of people&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, i was appointed to make a big sculpture right in front of Sg Wang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the crazy things ahead?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-6257254578316692947?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/6257254578316692947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/06/crazy-people-gets-crazy-jobs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/6257254578316692947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/6257254578316692947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/06/crazy-people-gets-crazy-jobs.html' title='Crazy people gets crazy jobs'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-5425711099043105956</id><published>2011-05-23T16:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-23T16:59:07.494+08:00</updated><title type='text'>One fine day.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9Qv6vUJi4E/TdoXJ5bBwCI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/_eoGOXHJVUI/s1600/P1510980.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9Qv6vUJi4E/TdoXJ5bBwCI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/_eoGOXHJVUI/s320/P1510980.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"The picture was taken, as he poses shamelessly in the concrete tunnel on the big rainy storm."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;After a week off, im back to the ocean again, meeting new waves of young pirates who wants to learn the skills to fight in the sea. The day started of with a big welcoming rain on the way to&amp;nbsp;headquarters. Gosh, it really made my day, appearing that the jetty with wet jacket and a pair of wet socks. After settling down, i gave a long briefing,*yeah, ironically, a brief which is not that brief* to my 1st division pirates, telling them the necessities in order to get a good sail. I feel that I've caused them much confusion looking at the blank look on the face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AjUPd3685ew/TdoXFVnRWgI/AAAAAAAAAgM/bJWNBR1TQes/s1600/P1510828.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AjUPd3685ew/TdoXFVnRWgI/AAAAAAAAAgM/bJWNBR1TQes/s320/P1510828.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"At this moment, im thinking about the undone shoes that is already left untouched for 1 week.Just missing some golden lines..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The noon sun approaches strong, making feel like pointing a middle finger to the clouds for drenching me in the morning when the weather is supposed to be sunny. I am but a practical joke to the solar system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waiting at the deck was General Inevitably Noob who&amp;nbsp;came to pick me up for some miniature seafood oriental dish. The moment our eyes met, feelings starts to flood in, a great sense warmth and&amp;nbsp;happiness filling the atmosphere As usual G.I.N has a fetish of picking out all the prawns and give it to me. She has a phobia of prawns eversince she battleship got attacked by a Giant Lobster during the 1818 Atlantic Ocean War.Guess it still haunts her till this day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A moment out with her really makes the day beautified.&lt;br /&gt;it's an experience like no other,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;She's my cup of tea,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;my can of ice cream soda,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;and my bottle of heineken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"&gt;Drink up~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-5425711099043105956?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/5425711099043105956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-fine-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5425711099043105956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5425711099043105956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-fine-day.html' title='One fine day.'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9Qv6vUJi4E/TdoXJ5bBwCI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/_eoGOXHJVUI/s72-c/P1510980.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7297291749842337415</id><published>2011-05-20T20:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T20:22:54.428+08:00</updated><title type='text'>5 Things a girlfriend shouldn't tell a boyfriend. by MIKEDOT T, ORIGINAL FROM MA BRAINS.BITCH</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;There's always better ways of saying things but some people just loves to screw things up just because of a momentary glory. This is my version of 10 things a girlfriend shouldn't tell a boyfriend. It might sound harsh, but believe me, it was a experience worth laughing at the end of the day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;#01 The All Knowing Genius&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Boy: Hey dear, did you know that the news.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Girl: I know i know i know!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~you don't have to tell me kayy...i already know*show bitchy face*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE VERDICT:&lt;/b&gt;DID YOU JUST SHUT YOUR BOY UP?HE's TRYIN TO SHARE SOMETHING WITH YOU AND THIS??YeahYeah, god has bestowed you with ample intelligence and knowledge. But sometimes, you just don't know: sit , shut up and listen bitch. Let yo boy finish what he gota say before you conclusively think that you know.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;IMPROVEMENTS:&lt;/b&gt; Listen, even when u think you know it, if it's exactly something you know, then good, you've confirmed your intelligence. If you know more than that, bring it out and discuss, and you will have a good conversation with your boy, and better yet, he'll get impressed by you over and over again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;#02 The Egoistic instant Feedback&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Guy: *Insert advice that is hard to tell.*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Girl:You make me feel like you're my father / pastor or something~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE VERDICT:&lt;/b&gt; WHAT THE FUCK? the guy cracks his brains and tries to tell things in a nice way and hope that it will improve something and all you say is THAT???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;IMPROVEMENTS&lt;/b&gt;: Open up, and stop being defensive, if it sounds like your father, it must be something important..so...just....stop being a bitch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;#03 Making it big.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Girl give guy food&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Boy took a bite&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and da next thing ya know&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;GIRL: HEY!WHY DID YOU EAT IT? WHY ARE YOU SO RUDE? WE SHOULD EAT IT TOGETHER?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;VERDICT: All right, all right, maybe its ma fault, but over reacting like that? Im rude coz i ate the food that u put right on ma hands? I remember buying you food not for display but for you to eat it while its hot. Isin't it the same when after i bite, you bite it? what u mean biting it at the same time?Are we gona bite all the twisties together the next time we eat it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;IMPROVEMENTS: Rude is just not the word dear. Food is for eating. The purpose of buying it in the first place, is to eat together, no matter who takes the first bite. Don't argue about food, it's childish. Just don't over react, talk with a smile, it works better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;#04 The Threat of Pride&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;GIRL buys clothes for Guy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*at cashier counter*&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Girl: Are you happy or not?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Boy: Hap-&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Girl: If you're not happy im not gona buy it for you&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Boy: O___O&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;THE VERDICT: Your boyfriend has been through so many shopping sessions with you, buying tons of clothes and gifts and did he ever said something like that? I wonder.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;IMPROVEMENTS: He's not a kid, don't treat him that way. A gift from you touches the heart, but the words that comes with it, ruins all the effort you originally put up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;#05 YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOW&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Guy did a mistake (big/small) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Girl: YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOW *insert things that he really don't know sometimes*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;THE VERDICT: A little bit of patience goes a long way my hun. Sometimes we make mistakes, telling us that we should have know is like rubbing it in. It's like you write something in a wrong spelling, and u realized it, and wanted to correct it, and meanwhile ur annoying classmate come and tell you, hey you should have know that the right spelling is like this, so then you do not need an eraser. Just gime the damn eraser dammit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;IMPROVEMENTS: Empathy plays a really important role here, someone has done wrong, felt guilty and wanted to change. What they need is encouragement and motivation to correct the wrong, not more and more blames. It's just annoying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;No matter who is wrong, by the end of the day one should calm down and give in no matter who is right or wrong. More importantly we try to talk our heart out,and solve those problems with respect, a vital element of a relationship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Everyone wants to buy a car, but do not want to learn how to maintain it,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Same goes to a relationship, people want all the goodness from it,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;But never want to go through the problems when time comes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Humans are selfish, they look at the importance and significance of what they stand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;If they open up and listen, a lot will be realized,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;as love is not just about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;all the good stuffs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7297291749842337415?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7297291749842337415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/5-things-girlfriend-shouldnt-tell.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7297291749842337415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7297291749842337415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/5-things-girlfriend-shouldnt-tell.html' title='5 Things a girlfriend shouldn&apos;t tell a boyfriend. by MIKEDOT T, ORIGINAL FROM MA BRAINS.BITCH'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3993530551468771137</id><published>2011-05-15T01:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T01:56:16.118+08:00</updated><title type='text'>If that's okay with you</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; 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line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="lyrics" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal verdana; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;If that's ok with you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3993530551468771137?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3993530551468771137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/if-thats-okay-with-you.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3993530551468771137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3993530551468771137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/if-thats-okay-with-you.html' title='If that&apos;s okay with you'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-1289007810339174093</id><published>2011-05-01T20:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T20:04:21.714+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm a happy man :)</title><content type='html'>She made me smile. da whole day. :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-1289007810339174093?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/1289007810339174093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/im-happy-man.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1289007810339174093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1289007810339174093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/05/im-happy-man.html' title='I&apos;m a happy man :)'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2443478857948062670</id><published>2011-04-15T01:32:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-15T01:34:39.647+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sola Otra Vez</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;"When i dial the telephone.... nobody's home....."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/295287101_fd541f3e4d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/295287101_fd541f3e4d.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photogallerys/yukio-kagayama-suzuki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photogallerys/yukio-kagayama-suzuki.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I ride home happily waiting to reunite with my dear tonight, and as i reached home, she was already offline, possibly because she has already fell asleep after&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt; studying hard &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;for her IELTS exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I went to dig everything i can access about her online, and found nothing in my mailbox, her blog, my blog, our blog, and found out nothing was updated, and i told myself, she is busy for her exam, and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt; it's just logical &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;to not update.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&amp;amp;d=20091008&amp;amp;t=2&amp;amp;i=11883081&amp;amp;w=&amp;amp;fh=&amp;amp;fw=&amp;amp;ll=460&amp;amp;pl=300&amp;amp;r=2009-10-08T151804Z_01_BTRE59701UX00_RTROPTP_0_USA-HOUSING-FORECLOSURES" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&amp;amp;d=20091008&amp;amp;t=2&amp;amp;i=11883081&amp;amp;w=&amp;amp;fh=&amp;amp;fw=&amp;amp;ll=460&amp;amp;pl=300&amp;amp;r=2009-10-08T151804Z_01_BTRE59701UX00_RTROPTP_0_USA-HOUSING-FORECLOSURES" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Suddenly i caught a glance of title change on her skype today, it was&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; Sola Otra Vez, &lt;/span&gt;which also means&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; "All by Myself" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;in Spanish&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;I called her for literally more that 50 times, but couldn't went thru.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Im so disturbed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/40556-shocked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="306" src="http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/40556-shocked.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;I can't sleep tonight.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.that-dj.com/wp-content/uploads/image/Insomnia_by_yourgayneighbour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://www.that-dj.com/wp-content/uploads/image/Insomnia_by_yourgayneighbour.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fmmlmrd74OI/SsDYdMYPzcI/AAAAAAAAB3U/D1AyZ67RMJY/s400/sad-child.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-2443478857948062670?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/2443478857948062670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/sola-otra-vez.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2443478857948062670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2443478857948062670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/sola-otra-vez.html' title='Sola Otra Vez'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/295287101_fd541f3e4d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7050912067508925166</id><published>2011-04-14T00:09:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T00:09:59.765+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;:) &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;lt;3&lt;/span&gt; (:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7050912067508925166?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7050912067508925166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7050912067508925166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7050912067508925166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3526601129290708273</id><published>2011-04-13T00:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-13T00:20:19.129+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Torn apart. Twice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;There was a child that was given so much that the child starts to get bored of all the toys owned. It is then, the toy starts to be boring, and will be thrown into the bin anytime because there are always newer and better merchandise out there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;" What if i tell you, that the only reason i would like to stay this long, is so that i lasted longer than your ex?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;"It does not feel like it used to.It feels like we are just friends, and that we are together just because of physical needs"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The film rolls and jump and re-roll again,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and it says,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;im just an old toy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3526601129290708273?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3526601129290708273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/torn-apart-twice.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3526601129290708273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3526601129290708273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/torn-apart-twice.html' title='Torn apart. Twice'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7679458850089762347</id><published>2011-04-08T23:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-08T23:26:42.617+08:00</updated><title type='text'>If everyone shared and swallowed their pride</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"&gt;"If everyone cared and nobody cried&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If everyone loved and nobody lied&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If everyone shared and swallowed their pride&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;Then we'd see the day when nobody died"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Lyrics from: If Everyone Cared-Nickleback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Swallowed by pride, the friend who i thought was mature enough to really read and listen to what i was saying, cut me off just to prove his points right. Hasty blades were thrown out from his lips, triggered by the ego and naiveness that played the strings of his cognition like a puppet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Since there was no reason to fight back, i just delivered my points in the most controlled manner, and sweep the dirt off my shoulders.Hopefully he realize and reflect upon his actions today. Maybe he never will. But i shall hold no grudges to these nonsense.It's just a small matter mate, forget it :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7679458850089762347?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7679458850089762347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/if-everyone-shared-and-swallowed-their.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7679458850089762347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7679458850089762347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/if-everyone-shared-and-swallowed-their.html' title='If everyone shared and swallowed their pride'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-906291813435255102</id><published>2011-04-06T11:42:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T00:38:43.842+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Supernumerary Throe</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://darntheworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/crossroads.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="221" src="http://darntheworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/crossroads.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ending up at the same crossroads, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;the fool thinks that new beginnings and planning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;would be an exit to this maze of endless throe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Identical pattern of event and feeling pops &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;spreading like an incurable epidemic. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images/3275658/542300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="317" src="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images/3275658/542300.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Fine line between &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;blissful paradise and emotional turmoil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;is just&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;a flip&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;switch away&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Like a simple drop of oil pastel on water based paint&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;spreads uncontrollably in the canvas of thoughts, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;ruining chronological frames that he wish he didn’t.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hell-lake-of-fire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="464" src="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hell-lake-of-fire.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Passion that incinerates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;like wild fire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;burns off faster than glowing coals. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Incomplete fragment of errands squeezes the sponge dry in exhaustion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;A legacy is incomplete because of the challenge it face&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;or was it deteriorated by delaying reasons?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-906291813435255102?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/906291813435255102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/supernumerary-throe.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/906291813435255102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/906291813435255102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/supernumerary-throe.html' title='Supernumerary Throe'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-4757069478882134554</id><published>2011-04-02T00:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T00:13:25.891+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Suspended</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xDpX3R4JNlI/TZX5Z3XADXI/AAAAAAAAAgE/UfNDrQqYKpk/s1600/39563.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xDpX3R4JNlI/TZX5Z3XADXI/AAAAAAAAAgE/UfNDrQqYKpk/s1600/39563.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-4757069478882134554?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/4757069478882134554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-suspended.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4757069478882134554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4757069478882134554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-suspended.html' title='Blog Suspended'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xDpX3R4JNlI/TZX5Z3XADXI/AAAAAAAAAgE/UfNDrQqYKpk/s72-c/39563.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8854343020148946662</id><published>2011-03-23T10:00:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-23T10:04:58.994+08:00</updated><title type='text'>De Big Ol Sub till De  InstaCarpeDiemachine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.subwaywow.com/images/Italian_B.M.T..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="95" src="http://www.subwaywow.com/images/Italian_B.M.T..jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Things are getting better, the hectic planning and rushing phases are over for now. Was able to sneak to get a full outing with the double G sisters.&amp;nbsp;Fun factor of the trip begins, when i meet up with the spice of &amp;nbsp;life, the petite G. We walked and dined in the subway, half a sub each, pushed to consume the Italian Biggest Meatiest Tastiest because it was simply just the best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_art/lineage_2/pirate_ship_in_cave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_art/lineage_2/pirate_ship_in_cave.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big G called as her cruise arrived at the deck, and we both hop in as the rain pours heartlessly.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Big G, i was allowed to board on the cruise for a round of adventure that i'll never forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fecielo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sunset-over-ancient-egypt-pyramids.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.fecielo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sunset-over-ancient-egypt-pyramids.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In search for the InstaCarpeDiemachine, we embark to the Pyramids where we roamed and fight our way through piles and piles of printed cotton materials, stopped by for some historical Ireland cuisine &amp;amp; finally end up at the Treasure&amp;nbsp;chest box. Damn it was hollow! Someone was here earlier than us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2008/06/16/bc/16bc243992edd8e65b026d6720df5590.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="411" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2008/06/16/bc/16bc243992edd8e65b026d6720df5590.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Off we go to Good Ol' Leisure Island to try our luck there. There, we met a few pirates who was selling the&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;InstaCarpeDiemachine away for 299bars of golds. We asked for a bargain, and de Ol' Nasty Pirate raises his volume rudely saying "WHAT BARGAIN DO YOU WANT YE DUMB SCUM? THEY SELL THESE FOR 599BARS OF GOLD ON SHORE!" When the G sisters negotiates, one of the underlings exclaimed "THERE IS A GIGANTIC STORM IN THE EAST! YOU'LL NEVER GET THESE THERE!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/229/4/3/Ugly_Pirate_by_caiomm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/229/4/3/Ugly_Pirate_by_caiomm.jpg" width="141" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Absurd as it is, with our years of experience on the ocean, we know that these pirates are just a bunch of bullcrap. So we left and walked away from that island dissipating our heat of dissatisfaction while petite G was regaining her original&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;neutral sense&lt;/i&gt;.Much arguments were made with petite G's will of going against the flow putting more fire into fire instead of extinguishing flames.Hilarious indeed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8698/ship1at6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="466" src="http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8698/ship1at6.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There we sail to the shores of Seoul where the&amp;nbsp;Koreans&amp;nbsp;were grilling meat with red glowing bamboo charcoals. What's more fun was on the dining table, Petite G started a game, and it all turn out to be a confession session where all we felt about each other was poured out generously. Entitlements like, comedian, gay, mild-control and insensitive basically summarizes the kind of captain i am. Petite G got the most attacks basically because she is the most interesting and cared for crew in our ship. Love it or not, she is the silliest, most funny character you can have on board. Big G was described as a warm and cozy person, due to what we feel through her action and speech. Like it or not, there was big laughter, and off we went to a final destination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3533/3935484889_886e604b33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3533/3935484889_886e604b33.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Thanks to Big G again, for willing to brought the ship to the Middle Valleys, where we finally found the cheapest&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;InstaCarpeDiemachine for 249bars of gold! We flagged and mark the spot as a benchmark to obtain the machine.Hopefully, after we take a look on the nearby continent, we will get a cheaper one, or we will just cruise back to the valleys to get it there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new quest begins this Saturday, only me and pesty G this time, to the place where i grew up at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisislandtrading.com/images/pirate_ship6_ogbr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://www.lewisislandtrading.com/images/pirate_ship6_ogbr.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8854343020148946662?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8854343020148946662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/most-fulfilling-week-after-some-time.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8854343020148946662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8854343020148946662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/most-fulfilling-week-after-some-time.html' title='De Big Ol Sub till De  InstaCarpeDiemachine'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3533/3935484889_886e604b33_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7190831517847717799</id><published>2011-03-22T09:21:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T09:28:15.878+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Music Composer de Epic~</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Here is one to cheer you up for today, i really did not expect this, most probably you guys will get what that means, unless ure born in a completely new era and never watch the Terminator before XD&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3NnZGmrVH2A/TYf4Z5P6jyI/AAAAAAAAAfc/v6c_hWnSk8s/s1600/39315.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3NnZGmrVH2A/TYf4Z5P6jyI/AAAAAAAAAfc/v6c_hWnSk8s/s1600/39315.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7190831517847717799?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7190831517847717799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-this-how-you-want-to-live-your-life.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7190831517847717799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7190831517847717799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-this-how-you-want-to-live-your-life.html' title='Music Composer de Epic~'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3NnZGmrVH2A/TYf4Z5P6jyI/AAAAAAAAAfc/v6c_hWnSk8s/s72-c/39315.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7524448577529832269</id><published>2011-03-20T22:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-20T22:16:15.340+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Phase to go</title><content type='html'>Despite being the latest to hand in the proposal, our department was the first to execute the plan and transformed our room right on time enabling us to leave early on that night. It was one of the most hectic event of my life, trying to co-ordinate the plan while being major part on the production. On top of that, i was chosen as the MC of this year's graduation night. Farha invited me to be her Co-MC, but ended up spraining her leg on the last hour, leaving me alone, with my guts on stage. There was no rehersal, it was all impromptu. Technical glitches on the sound system makes everything even worse. Things were rescheduled so frequent that it renders the script useless. Versatility and&amp;nbsp;spontaneousness&amp;nbsp;is the 2 best character that summarizes my experience that night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/196621_159688707423357_100001466856125_346634_7749320_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/196621_159688707423357_100001466856125_346634_7749320_n.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Me on Lecturer's Cape. Feel so mighty awesome with it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/197003_159682820757279_100001466856125_346566_3624943_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="258" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/197003_159682820757279_100001466856125_346566_3624943_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Before and.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/196155_160114260714135_100001466856125_348958_4746005_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/196155_160114260714135_100001466856125_348958_4746005_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;After! Room is transformed into an ID OPEN DAY GALLERY~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So, here we go, so much planning just for 2 days of exhibition and we gota strip that off, and what is worse? we are going to put it back : / again next weekend. This is absurd.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7524448577529832269?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7524448577529832269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/another-phase-to-go.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7524448577529832269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7524448577529832269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/another-phase-to-go.html' title='Another Phase to go'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7627649576117621207</id><published>2011-03-11T01:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T01:34:45.597+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Forget not</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Finally, i managed to execute the plan and gave her a birthday she will never forget! :D&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1POxQh6-8C0/TXj9yCGcb3I/AAAAAAAAAe4/kf75kVJPEds/s1600/P1500084.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1POxQh6-8C0/TXj9yCGcb3I/AAAAAAAAAe4/kf75kVJPEds/s320/P1500084.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9W55zAUXfuk/TXj9sHSlA9I/AAAAAAAAAew/ZFG1JwbKmNs/s1600/P1500066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Can't believe that, it took around 3 months to plan and prepare for something that is going to happen on just one single day. I will not deny that, it took a lot of determination when it comes to times where some part of the plan seems to be not working, or some de -motivations from external source and so on. There was also a need to find a balance between the plan and work. Every day after work, i am usually exhausted, but i will take a cold bath to wake myself up for some time, look at the plan, and try to make the presents piece by piece. Some things that i need to prepare, falls behind schedule, and i will have to compensate it with another day.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;There were also a couple of arguments involved while i was in the preparation of this plan. Sometimes, i tend to reply slow, and sometimes i tend to sound like i am out of focus, and i could not reveal to her that, i was doing something for her. It was a rather great challenge and i think, i've learn a couple of new things along this birthday plan.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s4-4cDLCH3M/TXj9vd0D6WI/AAAAAAAAAe0/qDd0nvsko-8/s1600/P1500075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; now realize that, there is a lot of things that will not go your way, and that you always need a plan b, or at least, an alternative to replace parts of your plan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I also realize that, when you are determined to make something happen, no matter how short the time you have, or how bad the situation seems, if love is your driving force, you will be able to make it.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s4-4cDLCH3M/TXj9vd0D6WI/AAAAAAAAAe0/qDd0nvsko-8/s1600/P1500075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s4-4cDLCH3M/TXj9vd0D6WI/AAAAAAAAAe0/qDd0nvsko-8/s320/P1500075.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I also learnt that, no matter how much a person makes you unhappy that time, all you need to focus on is, to deliver what you've promised yourself, and that, on that day, it is going to be a good day.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On the day i executed my plan, she was really surprised and did not know what was coming next. I've created a multiple layer of surprise that would not be so easy to decipher and figured out within hours. Or else, this 3 month plan, would have gone to waste.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9W55zAUXfuk/TXj9sHSlA9I/AAAAAAAAAew/ZFG1JwbKmNs/s1600/P1500066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also thanks to my girl, for believing in me, and letting me take charge of everything that day. Or else, it would have been a big mess.After all this babbling, i think the person who read this is going to be quite impatient, wondering what the hell am i talking about, so yeah, the story starts like this. The night before her birthday, her siblings executed operation "sticky ninja" successfully, giving her the biggest surprise she ever had when she opened her eyes.From the feedback of her siblings and herself, it was something that cheers her to euphoric levels :D.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On her birthday, I was having a full class tutorial.Therefore, i was only able to have dinner with her after work............&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;LIES :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I moved the assessment to the next day, enabling me to appear on the afternoon and surprise her. Her friend overdid the inception and gave her such a big idea she was looking forward to, till a point when i appeared, she wasn't really happy and called me to get back to work. I was a little upset, but the plan shall not be ruined just like that. So i stick to the plan, and despite her being a little bitchy and unhappy, i know that, there is something big i've planned for her, and she has to experience it. At this moment, i have a self doubt " Should i just let her hang out with her friends, so that she will be happier? Is my plan something that I thought is something that will make her happy, but the fact is,it might not be what she really wants?"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-awY9Agz5Ih8/TXj-AKFyDlI/AAAAAAAAAfI/fTy82zBwn5I/s1600/P1500285.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-awY9Agz5Ih8/TXj-AKFyDlI/AAAAAAAAAfI/fTy82zBwn5I/s640/P1500285.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Despite all doubts, i grabbed her, and off we go to the next spot. It was a rather frustrating drive to the restaurant, i tried to bring her there without letting her know where it is, but failed. At this point, i felt a little stupid because i should have test drive that location before even executing the plan. But i was too occupied with work and was too tired.*bad excuse, i know*&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9W55zAUXfuk/TXj9sHSlA9I/AAAAAAAAAew/ZFG1JwbKmNs/s1600/P1500066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9W55zAUXfuk/TXj9sHSlA9I/AAAAAAAAAew/ZFG1JwbKmNs/s400/P1500066.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I finally tell her the venue, and she asked her friend who lives nearby.Thanks to her, we reached that place, quite late, but still available. My friend Michiko, was kind enough to spare us a private tatami room, and made her chef produced an artpiece : The mini sushi cake. I was surprised by how "mini" the cake was, it was bigger plate than the sushi set we ordered. What's best, we got it for free! That was really something that blew my girl's brain off, and seriously, i am thankful to Michi &amp;amp; Chef for lending their hands into doing this. It's a blessing, and may they be blessed for their good will.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the room, there were a couple of games we played, it was the highlight of the day because that were the things i was planning and preparing for the past few months. From silly games like, in "7 ways show me that you love me without uttering a single word" to romantic ones like the "tongue twister". I believe that, the moments in the room would be the most unforgettable moment of our lives, as we stay together.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-10Uh3cgaq1s/TXj986vqxoI/AAAAAAAAAfE/wNzaLTCU6L0/s1600/P1500208.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-10Uh3cgaq1s/TXj986vqxoI/AAAAAAAAAfE/wNzaLTCU6L0/s320/P1500208.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;After that fine fine dining, we drove to Bangsar where another ambush was about to be initiated. On the way, i showed her the video compilation that I've managed to complete a night before. On the night before, she was complaining about my reply speed, and i couldn't really explain to her. So she got all the license to bitch that night. Back to the part that, she was watching and smiling at the video and all of a sudden i hear a sulk. I tossed by head to the left, and saw tears rolling down her eyes,uncontrollably. On that instant, i told myself that&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;" The only girl who would feel for this simple compilation of visuals,is the girl who truly feels for me, definitely the choice of my wife to be."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--t3dA0gbl8s/TXj96iDgfJI/AAAAAAAAAfA/bvj9H2Vv-t0/s1600/P1500102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--t3dA0gbl8s/TXj96iDgfJI/AAAAAAAAAfA/bvj9H2Vv-t0/s640/P1500102.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It was after that we landed at BSC, and i was not able to control the situation well. I was out of games, and there was too much time before everyone was ready for ambush. I did not planned for this! It was due to the request she told me a few days before " I would like to celebrate with my friends all around me". The moment i hear that, my heart was crushed, because i sense a threat to my months of planning. But not to be selfish, i insist to myself that, "If this is what it takes to make her happy, i will make it happen."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Therefore, on last minute, i created a group and adding the closest friends she has. Some was not able to make it, but it was no force. I want it to be a positive thing, as positivity will bring good luck into this plan. For this girl's plan, i even trusted luck.pfft....so un-mike&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-q9HR4HYP45Q/TXj-Kn3xxzI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/UhwDiP19rBE/s1600/P1500357.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-q9HR4HYP45Q/TXj-Kn3xxzI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/UhwDiP19rBE/s320/P1500357.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As unprepared as i am, I tried to drag the time by walking her around the mall. The momentum kinda went down, and she was all gloomy and moody. I had no one to turn to, i am left with myself to face this moment. I kept questioning myself " What did i do wrong in the whole plan? Why is this girl so down? Is there something else she wants for her birthday?Was i on the wrong track?" No matter how i question myself, i know it doesn't help at that moment. I kept myself focused on making her feel that she should cheer up for her birthday. Maybe she just wants to celebrate with friends, and i took that off from her :(&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;So in the end, i was able to raise her level of cheerfulness by a bit, and tried to play the blindfold game with her. She has already expected that there will be people surprising her, but i don't care, because the real question is "WHO?"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;She will never guess that, the moment she opened her eyes, there were not only sunday school close mates, but also a group of college mates appeared. I am sure that the people who attended that day, was totally out of her scope of imagination. Thanks to the people who attended, she was really cheered up that night, and the gifts we a sign of love and generosity. The way these people give and celebrated her birthday, tells me only one thing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"It's a reflection of how she treats people, and that the people loves her"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TsMXC7CMxWY/TXj-PvPad0I/AAAAAAAAAfU/XT-xCx4wyHk/s1600/P1500424.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TsMXC7CMxWY/TXj-PvPad0I/AAAAAAAAAfU/XT-xCx4wyHk/s640/P1500424.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;So it was complete, FOOD, GIFT, LOVE, &amp;amp; FRIENDS. i gave her everything she wished for this birthday. Alright, maybe not everything she wished for, but i guess it was pretty complete for a short day. I was proud that, i wasn't being too selfish about the plan and give a slot to friends to come in, and cheer her up. In fact, i think because the friends came in, her birthday was really complete, and it really left her smiling for the rest of the night. Thanks to the beautiful friends, who is there for her, and save the moody situation where we were in.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I am tired,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;i am exhausted,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;but i was the most&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;contented being&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;on earth that night.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It was all about her,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;it was all for her,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;and i've learnt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;to be the most&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;selfless person&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;and made my biggest&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;act of giving that night.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Swear to god,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I HAVE NEVER DONE THIS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TO ANYONE IN MY LIFE BEFORE!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NO ONE!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; know i might be exposed to the risk of being put on a higher expectation and might dissapoint one day. But for all that i know, this is a day that she should&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;forget not.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-q9HR4HYP45Q/TXj-Kn3xxzI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/UhwDiP19rBE/s1600/P1500357.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TsMXC7CMxWY/TXj-PvPad0I/AAAAAAAAAfU/XT-xCx4wyHk/s1600/P1500424.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7627649576117621207?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7627649576117621207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/forget-not_2981.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7627649576117621207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7627649576117621207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/03/forget-not_2981.html' title='Forget not'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1POxQh6-8C0/TXj9yCGcb3I/AAAAAAAAAe4/kf75kVJPEds/s72-c/P1500084.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2102789091263283845</id><published>2011-02-09T20:19:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-09T21:52:37.701+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nobody said it was easy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Im a bunny, so gime my special wishes lalalala~ Thanks.bye&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-4699103274654944549?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/4699103274654944549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/02/chor-yat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4699103274654944549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4699103274654944549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/02/chor-yat.html' title='CHOR YAT!'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-6258315333818402673</id><published>2011-02-03T17:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T17:42:37.421+08:00</updated><title type='text'>30th Day OF THE YEAR</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUpzqSQhMWI/AAAAAAAAAdw/-gA1ranhVZg/s1600/P1490008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUpzqSQhMWI/AAAAAAAAAdw/-gA1ranhVZg/s320/P1490008.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;IT IS CALLED ‘30th night of The Nian’ hehe. pardon my poor command of mandarin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;For my family, we have some very random dish like fried fish, fried rolls and some clear soup, simple!~ Parents can't really take stuffs which are too salty n stuffs, so it's really good enough. Down with a bottle of Skol we sat and laughed at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Round Table&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt; that was already there since i was born.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I did not have any yam for dinner that night, but i believe it's&amp;nbsp;gonna&amp;nbsp;be a good start as well :P.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp0NtZrguI/AAAAAAAAAd0/xPuzw-lligY/s1600/page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp0NtZrguI/AAAAAAAAAd0/xPuzw-lligY/s320/page.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;As a tradition, we will make our CNY prayers and&amp;nbsp;transference of&amp;nbsp;merits :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Maybe i was stuck in the room for too long, i never noticed that mom had made a small lil garden with lil buddha statues in it. Was fascinated and took a few shot of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1UPVz1LI/AAAAAAAAAd4/bbU3qpY3A2M/s1600/page1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1UPVz1LI/AAAAAAAAAd4/bbU3qpY3A2M/s200/page1.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1xwJN6kI/AAAAAAAAAeA/orEXSm9CMFk/s1600/P1490027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1xwJN6kI/AAAAAAAAAeA/orEXSm9CMFk/s640/P1490027.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Before heading to 3rd uncle's house, we had a quickie of Tang Yuan~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp10aqQAGI/AAAAAAAAAeE/KIqGQyIHm5Y/s1600/P1490029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp10aqQAGI/AAAAAAAAAeE/KIqGQyIHm5Y/s640/P1490029.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Pic above: The 2 brothers with welcoming smile&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp126TZ_RI/AAAAAAAAAeI/KHWU5Fqs6u0/s1600/P1490031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp126TZ_RI/AAAAAAAAAeI/KHWU5Fqs6u0/s640/P1490031.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Like what that is quoted by the wise : babies are always going to be the highlight of the event. Everyone will focus on the small little ones, including me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp14dpvryI/AAAAAAAAAeM/HuFV26moVIY/s1600/P1490033.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp14dpvryI/AAAAAAAAAeM/HuFV26moVIY/s320/P1490033.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is 3rd uncle's 3rd Son (no pun intended), dressed to look supercute&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp15_vJdcI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/gDh5TXy8d6U/s1600/P1490034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp15_vJdcI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/gDh5TXy8d6U/s640/P1490034.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is the most lengzhai cousin i ever had from dad's side, like seriously, damn lengzhai lolxxx&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp18yCvyKI/AAAAAAAAAeU/wmeKjhffarA/s1600/P1490036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp18yCvyKI/AAAAAAAAAeU/wmeKjhffarA/s320/P1490036.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is my another cousin, Food.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1-nvL6qI/AAAAAAAAAeY/n5UQCJbiwVg/s1600/P1490041.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1-nvL6qI/AAAAAAAAAeY/n5UQCJbiwVg/s320/P1490041.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This baby up here is my lil nephew!! smiles a lot, and very soft spoken, does not screams or cry when you carry him, but when you take the camera in front of him....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2BVsVEgI/AAAAAAAAAec/XX0teafWqpo/s1600/P1490042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2BVsVEgI/AAAAAAAAAec/XX0teafWqpo/s320/P1490042.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;he will stop smiling immediately. talkin bout camera shy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2Cym67tI/AAAAAAAAAeg/Mz7Qqgk_vPc/s1600/P1490047.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2Cym67tI/AAAAAAAAAeg/Mz7Qqgk_vPc/s320/P1490047.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Creating mess on the floor is the 1st artistic&amp;nbsp;expression&amp;nbsp;of a baby&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2EsrnYZI/AAAAAAAAAek/2dtAqAiKhLM/s1600/P1490049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2EsrnYZI/AAAAAAAAAek/2dtAqAiKhLM/s320/P1490049.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Cousin with his dragon ball, like how the ball glows in front of his well shaded silhouette&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2GTc8wcI/AAAAAAAAAeo/Vbi201zOc7w/s1600/P1490051.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp2GTc8wcI/AAAAAAAAAeo/Vbi201zOc7w/s640/P1490051.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oh yeah, managed to catch this by surprise, he smiled after the lantern's strings tickled his bald head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Art work produced this year, belongs to my sister, on her finger nails, whoever is interested in getting your CNY Bunny LIMITED EDITION art work on your fingernails, please contact me at 1-1800-iwanbunnynailsplsplspls-500 and bring your own nail polish and some cash from your red packets thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1utrk2zI/AAAAAAAAAd8/vVYm9aYGC5c/s1600/P1490020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUp1utrk2zI/AAAAAAAAAd8/vVYm9aYGC5c/s640/P1490020.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: GillSans, Calibri, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-6258315333818402673?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/6258315333818402673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/02/30th-day-of-year.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/6258315333818402673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/6258315333818402673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/02/30th-day-of-year.html' title='30th Day OF THE YEAR'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUpzqSQhMWI/AAAAAAAAAdw/-gA1ranhVZg/s72-c/P1490008.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7700765936580682501</id><published>2011-01-29T21:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-29T21:35:10.811+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Random quotes and shoutouts that i really want to express right now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;"At the age of 8, me and my brother used to spar, and that was before we joined taekwondo. it was pure fighting spirit. Because of that, we fall quite frequently on our stomachs, leaving us with&amp;nbsp;excruciating&amp;nbsp;pain.We were so scared that our parents will find out, so we never really complained.&amp;nbsp;After all, we had our secret remedy ready before every fight. The remedy WORKS in an unbelievable rate , and it was the things that made us continue sparring even after few times of falls. The moment we fall, we would get in the house and poured a cup of hot water, and drink it. Seriously, it works."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reddragonmaa.com/bruce%20lee%20Side%20Kick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.reddragonmaa.com/bruce%20lee%20Side%20Kick.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"i know everyone has already say it but OMG BRUCE LEE'S KICKS ARE SO FAST THAT I DON'T THINK I WILL BE ABLE TO BLOCK IT EVEN WITH FULL FOCUS! LOLX"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;I kinda feel like training my kicks and punches back! its been a long time XD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7700765936580682501?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7700765936580682501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/01/random-quotes-and-shoutouts-that-i.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7700765936580682501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7700765936580682501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/01/random-quotes-and-shoutouts-that-i.html' title='Random quotes and shoutouts that i really want to express right now!'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7449887661961764262</id><published>2011-01-28T01:17:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-28T01:52:47.567+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Aftermath of Apocalypse</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Starting the post with an infamous painting of Emonaliza :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUGwIllMYiI/AAAAAAAAAdo/H7mBKXe1tcQ/s1600/38014.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUGwIllMYiI/AAAAAAAAAdo/H7mBKXe1tcQ/s320/38014.jpeg" width="214" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Here i am, sitting in my brother's room, typing and typing about the aftermath of those tiring schedules. I did not have a chance to even blog about what are the things that was bestowed upon me, the good the bad, the frustrating, and the stressful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To summarize the events, it started off with me having a big class to handle, working from morning to night to get all the students tutored with attention, given a "surprise" extra class to teach, not great learners, not as motivated as the usual ones, which becomes a challenge to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUGwH16UToI/AAAAAAAAAdk/vf2fHjcPPXw/s1600/38055.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUGwH16UToI/AAAAAAAAAdk/vf2fHjcPPXw/s320/38055.png" width="268" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;At that current timeline, my lover was having her exam, has some de-motivational times, but managed to accompany her and given her the time and space she needs.&amp;nbsp;Even though we&amp;nbsp;didn't&amp;nbsp;really meet, but it was pretty impressive how she is able to fit in some time to talk to me online.Not getting to meet and contact much with her really gives me the sense of losing something big in life.It sorts of made me lose a lump energy source and motivation. Somewhat telling myself that, it's not gona be easy living without this girl.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It was worth it taking the time to tutor the students i am having currently, because they have a lot of enthusiasm in the things that they are doing. Recently, there is a student who seems to be producing models of quite terrible quality.So i made her bring all her equipments today, and call her to make it right in front of me. Soon, i identified that she is missing a few simple steps and keeps her from cutting well. After teaching it to her, it seem to be a motivational point, she brought new blades and wanted to do more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUGnwmgpH6I/AAAAAAAAAdg/VSRdhIFssSY/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUGnwmgpH6I/AAAAAAAAAdg/VSRdhIFssSY/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It was a rewarding experience, changing a person's motivation just by fixing those little steps that they were missing. The student posted one of the small little piece i made her do, and put a little note of gratitude at the description area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It was somehow things that keeps me going despite the tiredness. Motivated students that motivates me back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7449887661961764262?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7449887661961764262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/01/aftermath-of-apocalypse.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7449887661961764262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7449887661961764262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/01/aftermath-of-apocalypse.html' title='Aftermath of Apocalypse'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TUGwIllMYiI/AAAAAAAAAdo/H7mBKXe1tcQ/s72-c/38014.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-1941377987251171664</id><published>2011-01-25T14:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T14:14:18.738+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Inspiring talk at this age :)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;About Adora Svitak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;A prolific short story writer and blogger since age seven, Adora Svitak (now 12) speaks around the United States to adults and children as an advocate for literacy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object height="326" width="446"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/AdoraSvitak_2010-medium.flv&amp;amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/AdoraSvitak-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;amp;vw=432&amp;amp;vh=240&amp;amp;ap=0&amp;amp;ti=815&amp;amp;introDuration=15330&amp;amp;adDuration=4000&amp;amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;amp;adKeys=talk=adora_svitak;year=2010;theme=ted_under_30;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=how_we_learn;theme=unconventional_explanations;event=TED2010;&amp;amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/AdoraSvitak_2010-medium.flv&amp;amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/AdoraSvitak-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;amp;vw=432&amp;amp;vh=240&amp;amp;ap=0&amp;amp;ti=815&amp;amp;introDuration=15330&amp;amp;adDuration=4000&amp;amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;amp;adKeys=talk=adora_svitak;year=2010;theme=ted_under_30;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=how_we_learn;theme=unconventional_explanations;event=TED2010;"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-1941377987251171664?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/1941377987251171664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/01/inspiring-talk-at-this-age.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1941377987251171664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1941377987251171664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2011/01/inspiring-talk-at-this-age.html' title='Inspiring talk at this age :)'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3404679148133528127</id><published>2010-12-31T16:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T16:26:24.237+08:00</updated><title type='text'>WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Happy New Year to everyone!! YEAAAYYY~~ WOHOOOOOooooOOO~~WARRRggghhhHHH~~~~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;OH WAIT!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;WHAT ARE YOU SO HAPPY ABOUT?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Don't get me wrong, i am not trying to give negative remarks or invoke any negative thoughts on such a wonderful occasion. My intention is to let all of us be clear about what are we actually celebrating, so that we &amp;nbsp;can have a meaningful New Year's Day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;So these questions flood into my mind,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Everybody is wishing everyone a happy new year here n there, but really what is so worth celebrating there?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What is so awesome about time &amp;nbsp;ticking in and emerging to the next year?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What is the meaning of New Year?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Why are we so happy about it till we wanna celebrate it?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What are we looking forward into?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What was in the past that makes us anticipate the future?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What is going to improve or getting better?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;Then comes another moronic issue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;There is&amp;nbsp;this&amp;nbsp;trend of celebrating New Year'd Day by spraying foams on people,these things are toxic and you can smell it in the air mixing with the stench and&amp;nbsp;odor&amp;nbsp;of sweaty crowds.There will be people shouting like hooligans, jumping and dancing here and there, waving flags out their their vehicles, trying to make a parade of their own but seriously,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;WHERE DOES THIS STYLE OF CELEBRATION COMES FROM AND WHAT IS THE LINK BETWEEN SPRAYING FOAM ON PEOPLE'S FACE TO THE MEANING OF NEW YEAR?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/3157438380_6c35596948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/3157438380_6c35596948.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;These is when people get to make money by selling all these nonsense to ignorant people who wants to party of the street for multiple reasons of their own.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Acting like hooligans is not enough, so let's spray foams on faces of people we like? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;WHAT?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4312425825_cd72d07cb4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4312425825_cd72d07cb4.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;At the end of the day, cleaners are assigned to sweep all those spray cans from Times Square all the way to Lot 10 to Pavillion, can you imagine yourself sweeping all these cans yourself?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3573/3346335625_54143ef5b4.jpg?v=0" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3573/3346335625_54143ef5b4.jpg?v=0" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How much tax money do we use to sweep these roads clean?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How much tax money do we use to dispose the cans safely?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How does the production and disposal of these foam spray impact the earth?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How green are we? Are we really that green after all?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;All you know about green is buying green merchandise and using bags that write "I am not plastic?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Is that all?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Is that what we are?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Is that who we are?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3404679148133528127?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3404679148133528127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-are-we-celebrating.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3404679148133528127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3404679148133528127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-are-we-celebrating.html' title='WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING?'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/3157438380_6c35596948_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-4161595630930058787</id><published>2010-12-15T00:23:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-15T00:23:18.102+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Year End Post</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Considering that, i've been occupied by many new events in my life, I've always been to tired to post on this blog...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Alright, fine, im lazy..&lt;/span&gt;..-____-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This year has been a year of &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;change&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, there is a lot of changes that has been brought into my life, changes that made me a happier and better person.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;As typical as things are, work and relationship played the biggest role in the &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;transformation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; of my life this year. Through work, i have met new people. People who are generous in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;sharing&lt;/span&gt; knowledge, and people who make me learn things that &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;motivate&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;inspire&lt;/span&gt; me to &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;improve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;There are also people who are highly experienced, which shows me a clear distinction between their mind compared to mine. Encountering people like them, made me &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;realize&lt;/span&gt; and be &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;conscious &lt;/span&gt;about what level i am in now, and that i shall never stop growing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Life is not a fairy tale in work place. Despite the fun and energy when dealing with students, there are a lot of people who likes to take advantage and divert your focus away from your main objectives. These are nothing but challenges to me, as in to deal with them, as a growing process of life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;LOVE,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;who would know that one silly &amp;amp; shameless question could actually mark a significant point of change into our lives. It is going to be a year together soon. Life was an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;adventure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; with this girl. I learnt how to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;adapt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;open up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; my mind to new varieties of taste and activities that&amp;nbsp;I've&amp;nbsp;never done before. I start to learn and experience things that made me realize this world is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; than what we think it is. Despite the times she gets hard headed, and we start to argue about things: down to the tiny bits of detail down to the core. Through that, i have develop a new ability: to really &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"&gt;listen &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;reflect&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; on what are the mistakes i have done, taking away defensive&amp;nbsp;explanations&amp;nbsp;and justifications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This girl has definitely made me more than what i was within 1 year; it has been &lt;b style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;real and honest. &lt;/b&gt;We definitely get ourselves in a new level of understanding on what we need, and what relationship is to us, there is no promise in the future no matter how we express it, but we do know that at the end of the day,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Love can be as simple as making each other smile"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Nobody said it was easy.The simpler the meaning of love, the harder for it to initiate.Disagree? read and re-read till something sparks in your mind :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hope 2011 will be a chapter that strengthen our bonds beyond our imaginations :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TQeZl5Yo33I/AAAAAAAAAdY/VPqro0yVc-Q/s1600/page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TQeZl5Yo33I/AAAAAAAAAdY/VPqro0yVc-Q/s1600/page.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-4161595630930058787?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/4161595630930058787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-end-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4161595630930058787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/4161595630930058787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-end-post.html' title='Year End Post'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TQeZl5Yo33I/AAAAAAAAAdY/VPqro0yVc-Q/s72-c/page.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8928460038061221137</id><published>2010-12-01T02:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T02:16:47.356+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Heart Warming Bday Gift</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="300" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/467873749474" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/467873749474" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight, i got an ang pow from mummy, and this video from my girl &amp;lt;3 a very heartwarming video that is going to keep me smilin all night! XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to all da mates who smsed and wished me in da wall tonite~ it's really awesome to be a part of everyone's lives :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8928460038061221137?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8928460038061221137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/12/heart-warming-bday-gift.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8928460038061221137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8928460038061221137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/12/heart-warming-bday-gift.html' title='Heart Warming Bday Gift'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7654177999467742907</id><published>2010-11-15T23:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-15T23:57:26.845+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rubbles to grind</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;There are some who neglects the blog at happy times and comes by only to leave their emotive chronologies.No matter how much i hate to admit, sometimes negativity arise, and ruins all&amp;nbsp;positivity. Despite the positivity, a series of negativity are able to crushes concrete walls into rubbles render them useless. Ups are the well spoken and witty mindset that summarize a highly motivated stream.Downs are the &amp;nbsp;battle against understanding and tolerance of oneself. Tectonic imbalance is an un-tamable&amp;nbsp;occurrence, yet the foolish thinks he is able to overcome it.What am i and who am i to determine and judge? Insignificance is the only compatible.&amp;nbsp;Independence&amp;nbsp;is a main stream, implement and disconnect. Thus i choose to care, but transformation takes place warping into forms of burden.Naiveness kept thee caged from true intentions, poured down the drain was the drops of blood &amp;amp; sweat. Every detail of the stings that comes by is&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;equivalent to 202.5&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Electronvolt"&gt;MeV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;= 3.244 × 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;sup style="line-height: 1em;"&gt;−11&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;J, i.e. 19.54 TJ/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mole (unit)"&gt;mol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;= 83.14 TJ/kg, something that no one would want to know about.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7654177999467742907?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7654177999467742907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/rubbles-to-grind.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7654177999467742907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7654177999467742907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/rubbles-to-grind.html' title='Rubbles to grind'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7492149053727306781</id><published>2010-11-14T23:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T23:26:09.064+08:00</updated><title type='text'>MSID 5BELAS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Below are some pictures that i took on the MSID 5belas event. For those of you who don't know what is the event about, it is an inter-college and university Interior Design competition that happens every year. This might be the last MSID event, what comes next will be something bigger :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Enjoy the pics and leave some comments on the pic, link below leads to my facebook album of pictures :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16622&amp;amp;id=122116477848765"&gt;MSID PICTURES!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-7492149053727306781?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/7492149053727306781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/msid-5belas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7492149053727306781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/7492149053727306781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/msid-5belas.html' title='MSID 5BELAS'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-6443762795800785889</id><published>2010-11-10T20:22:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-10T20:22:36.949+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Finally, a page is created for good XD</title><content type='html'>&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;I came across this interesting site, that will somehow be a potential ground for me to grow as a designer, check it out guys:&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs461.ash2/73448_122120147848398_122116477848765_138337_3860155_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs461.ash2/73448_122120147848398_122116477848765_138337_3860155_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The intention of this thread is to group and unite fellow Design Students of any practice to guide, share and inspire each other, and take your design to your next level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me introduce a little bit about us. We are a group of Design Revolutionist in the making and we are formed by a group of Interior Designer, Graphic Designer, Event Coordinator, Design Writers and also Design Lecturer in local private colleges .&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreword by the Founder:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically I have great passion of educating people who have came across me, and i have brought many insights and improvements into their lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However,I told myself that, by limiting my passion to only one small group of people is not enough. My passion is bigger than that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is why, i want to extend my passion in design, to help even more people. To be able to help students from any colleges or universities, to upgrade the design industry in Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you imagine that 10 years from now, even a 60 year old auntie would know how to talk about design and look into the details of things? My passion is to work on that, to let the nation know what design really is, so that, all our effort and work will not be wasted. I believe all of us would want our work to be appreciated right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However i have to admit something to all of you, in order for this to work, i need support. I need people who are in the same passion, to join me on this movement. Please be clear that, i am not asking for any money support. All i ask for, is to share your passion with me, and extend it to the whole world. To start small, i will limit this to the Asian community 1st.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can be small and powerless as a designer, but together, a big group of designers can play a phenomenal impact to the world. If you are confident, and passionate, and believe that design got what it takes to change the world to be a better place. Join me &amp;amp; bring your friends along too! ^^&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phenomenal-Design-Empire/122116477848765"&gt;Phenomenal Design Empire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-6443762795800785889?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/6443762795800785889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/finally-page-is-created-for-good-xd_10.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/6443762795800785889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/6443762795800785889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/finally-page-is-created-for-good-xd_10.html' title='Finally, a page is created for good XD'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-9082080229961948771</id><published>2010-11-10T20:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-10T20:04:41.722+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Finally, a page is created for good XD</title><content type='html'>&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;I came across this interesting site, that will somehow be a potential ground for me to grow as a designer, check it out guys:&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;The intention of this thread is to group and unite fellow Design Students of any practice to guide, share and inspire each other, and take your design to your next level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me introduce a little bit about us. We are a group of Design Revolutionist in the making and we are formed by a group of Interior Designer, Graphic Designer, Event Coordinator, Design Writers and also Design Lecturer in local private colleges .&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreword by the Founder:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically I have great passion of educating people who have came across me, and i have brought many insights and improvements into their lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However,I told myself that, by limiting my passion to only one small group of people is not enough. My passion is bigger than that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is why, i want to extend my passion in design, to help even more people. To be able to help students from any colleges or universities, to upgrade the design industry in Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you imagine that 10 years from now, even a 60 year old auntie would know how to talk about design and look into the details of things? My passion is to work on that, to let the nation know what design really is, so that, all our effort and work will not be wasted. I believe all of us would want our work to be appreciated right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However i have to admit something to all of you, in order for this to work, i need support. I need people who are in the same passion, to join me on this movement. Please be clear that, i am not asking for any money support. All i ask for, is to share your passion with me, and extend it to the whole world. To start small, i will limit this to the Asian community 1st.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can be small and powerless as a designer, but together, a big group of designers can play a phenomenal impact to the world. If you are confident, and passionate, and believe that design got what it takes to change the world to be a better place. Join me &amp;amp; bring your friends along too! ^^&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd style="color: black; float: left; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; width: 340px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phenomenal-Design-Empire/122116477848765"&gt;Phenomenal Design Empire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-9082080229961948771?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/9082080229961948771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/finally-page-is-created-for-good-xd.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/9082080229961948771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/9082080229961948771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/finally-page-is-created-for-good-xd.html' title='Finally, a page is created for good XD'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3074318105438042637</id><published>2010-11-04T00:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-04T00:57:16.282+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Down</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Tonight, i closed my eyes, head looking down, and heart feels heavy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"You can't just get what you always want. That's life."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"You can't force your expectations on someone, That's love"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It's either i be strong or die.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3074318105438042637?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3074318105438042637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/down.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3074318105438042637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3074318105438042637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/11/down.html' title='Down'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-783942368963826725</id><published>2010-10-30T09:45:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-30T09:50:50.222+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img class="img" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs160.snc3/18762_299842488331_838833331_4797585_900725_n.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 420px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;-----&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Written by Adrian Tan, author of The Teenage Textbook (1988), was the guest-of-honour at a recent NTU convocation ceremony. This was his speech to the graduating class of 2008.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;-----&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The good news is that they’re wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img class="img" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs160.snc3/18762_299843158331_838833331_4797586_166252_n.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 420px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img class="img" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs260.ash1/18762_299846523331_838833331_4797603_4398827_n.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 420px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The most important is this: do not work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan “Arbeit macht frei” was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img class="img" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs160.snc3/18762_299846148331_838833331_4797600_4337799_n.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 420px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img class="img" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs140.snc3/18762_299844028331_838833331_4797587_5848498_n.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 420px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-783942368963826725?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/783942368963826725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/written-by-adrian-tan-author-of-teenage.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/783942368963826725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/783942368963826725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/written-by-adrian-tan-author-of-teenage.html' title=''/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8261194800454424996</id><published>2010-10-19T17:52:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-19T17:52:47.154+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm tired</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;"I'm tired of being depressed, I'm tired of doing the same mistakes over and over again, i want my&amp;nbsp;happiness&amp;nbsp;back, i just want to stop everything, grab her hands, and drive far away just to lie down side by side and gaze the stars in each others eyes, and smile without a single word uttered."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8261194800454424996?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8261194800454424996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/im-tired.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8261194800454424996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8261194800454424996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/im-tired.html' title='I&apos;m tired'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2946698517293872811</id><published>2010-10-16T22:43:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-17T00:31:58.743+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Time Forgets, Mike Doesn't</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Time Forgets-Yiruma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt; playing from my new laptop as i am typing in this solitary&amp;nbsp;Saturday&amp;nbsp;night. My PC's hard drive died, taking away my important files like,my degree portfolio work, my 2010 collection of photoa albums, and installers. I tried a lot of things, and they dont seem to work. Neither do i want to do anything about i for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set?.out=jpg&amp;amp;id=cn9MrOPF3RGosIc1Buj1YQ&amp;amp;size=l" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set?.out=jpg&amp;amp;id=cn9MrOPF3RGosIc1Buj1YQ&amp;amp;size=l" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"&gt;These 2 days was so silent that, i felt such a great void inside. It's like a person just dissolved into thin air, and you can never hear about them anymore. I still remember that, the moment i &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"&gt;hugged&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"&gt; her along the pavement and refuse to let go, it was for fun, to have us laughing before parting. Come to think of it now, i don't think that i&amp;nbsp;hugged her enough. In fact, i shouldn't even have let her go. Now, all i have in the mind is a missing presence, i want to see this person so much that, i start to feel like time is fooling with me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;I thought i could do things. I thought i could get busy. I thought i could go out and play. In fact, i wanted to go out for a drink with my old school mates in Kepong. But im sitting on the bed, cheering myself up with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt; mom's tiramisu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;, accompanied by the piano melody of a korean love song.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;What are you eating for the past 2 days? I bet the games must be so fun that, you've forgotten to eat. Or maybe it was so energy consuming that, you will eat more than usual. Are you having prawns and rice? Did you make any noob moves again and injure yourself? I hope there's someone who keep a good eye on you there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Since everything in my PC is gone, i got nothing to do, watch, edit, i can't even view back those pictures of us. How cruel eh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Yiruma's piano makes me&amp;nbsp;reminisce&amp;nbsp;bout us&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;again and again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;, i think i have to stop facing the comp now, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;and start painting or something. Oh wait, i'm tired. I need to sleep.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;But i can't sleep.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"&gt;I miss you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-2946698517293872811?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/2946698517293872811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/time-forgets-mike-doesnt.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2946698517293872811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2946698517293872811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/time-forgets-mike-doesnt.html' title='Time Forgets, Mike Doesn&apos;t'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2010056938409334059</id><published>2010-10-13T23:07:00.011+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T23:56:14.897+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Camouflaged</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same.. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed that he did not play well with the other children, that his clothes were messy and that he constantly needed a bath. In addition, Teddy could be unpleasant. It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen, making bold X's and then putting a big 'F' at the top of his papers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the school where Mrs. Thompson taught, she was required to review each child's past records and she put Teddy's off until last. However, when she reviewed his file, she was in for a surprise.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, 'Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh. He does his work neatly and has good manners... he is a joy to be around..'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His second grade teacher wrote, 'Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His third grade teacher wrote, 'His mother's death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best, but his father doesn't show much interest, and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren't taken.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, 'Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents, wrapped in beautiful ribbons and bright paper, except for Teddy's. His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy, brown paper that he got from a grocery bag. Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the middle of the other presents. Some of the children started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stones missing, and a bottle that was one-quarter full of perfume. But she stifled the children's laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was, putting it on, and dabbing some of the perfume on her wrist. Teddy Stoddard stayed after school that day just long enough to say, 'Mrs. Thompson, today you smelled just like my Mom used to.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the children left, she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she quit teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead, she began to teach children. Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive. The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class and, despite her lie that she would love all the children the same, Teddy became one of her 'teacher's pets..'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A year later, she found a note under her door, from Teddy, telling her that she was the best teacher he ever had in his whole life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six years went by before she got another note from Teddy. He then wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four years after that, she got another letter, saying that while things had been tough at times, he'd stayed in school, had stuck with it, and would soon graduate from college with the highest of honours. He assured Mrs. Thompson that she was still the best and favourite teacher he had ever had in his whole life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then four more years passed and yet another letter came.. This time he explained that after he got his bachelor's degree, he decided to go a little further. The letter explained that she was still the best and favourite teacher he ever had. But now his name was a little longer.... The letter was signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, MD.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story does not end there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;You see, there was yet another letter that spring. Teddy said he had met this girl and was going to be married. He explained that his father had died a couple of years ago and he was wondering if Mrs. Thompson might agree to sit at the wedding in the place that was usually reserved for the mother of the groom. Of course, Mrs. Thompson did. And guess what? She wore that bracelet, the one with several rhinestones missing. Moreover, she made sure she was wearing the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their last Christmas together.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They hugged each other, and Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson's ear, 'Thank you Mrs. Thompson for believing in me. Thank you so much for making me feel important and showing me that I could make a difference.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back. She said, 'Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn't know how to teach until I met you.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(For you that don't know, Teddy Stoddard is the Doctor at Iowa Methodist in Des Moines that has the Stoddard Cancer Wing.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warm someone's heart today. . . . .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;pass this along. I love this story so very much, I cry every time I read it. Just try to make a difference in someone's life today? tomorrow? just 'do it'.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Random acts of kindness, I think they call it!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Believe in Angels, then return the favour'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8072407033424285221?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8072407033424285221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/student-makes-teacher-better-teacher.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8072407033424285221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8072407033424285221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/student-makes-teacher-better-teacher.html' title='Student makes the teacher a better teacher.'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8852169748237761049</id><published>2010-10-02T11:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-02T11:11:58.543+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cleared Clouds.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dark.pozadia.org/images/wallpapers/Dark_Angel_by_LordHannu-72619.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="560" src="http://dark.pozadia.org/images/wallpapers/Dark_Angel_by_LordHannu-72619.jpeg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When volcanoes erupt, not many can withstand the explosion and impact of it. Despite the ruckus, an angel dances gracefully in the chaotic scene. A divine light outshines the eruption as she dances and trails the volcano. Gradually, the eruption cools down, toxic clouds on the air faded, revealing a sky with shades of dawn. The beauty of the angel shall bless the volcano through it's lifespan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times Roman;"&gt;" So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times Roman;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;So long lives this,and this gives life to thee,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8852169748237761049?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8852169748237761049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/cleared-clouds.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8852169748237761049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8852169748237761049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/10/cleared-clouds.html' title='Cleared Clouds.'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8030277913035193244</id><published>2010-09-29T09:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-29T09:08:40.238+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Where the dark horses stomp by..</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artofwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/death_horse_f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.artofwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/death_horse_f.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twas, a torturous night, trying to sleep with a mind full of tornadoes. The strong images keeps flashing in, haunting me about the could and woulds.At that current moment, the Devil came by, with an inception,with an evil ideology and plot, i held myself tight and told myself not to succumb to it.It was a long torturing sequel cut short, after enduring the pain and torture, i managed to slip into the opening that sets my mind on hibernation for the rest of the night.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8030277913035193244?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8030277913035193244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/where-dark-horses-stomp-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8030277913035193244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8030277913035193244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/where-dark-horses-stomp-by.html' title='Where the dark horses stomp by..'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-8354649922997160707</id><published>2010-09-29T00:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-29T00:51:15.531+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Brad Pitt, a man of humor</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="300" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6201590&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6201590&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/6201590"&gt;Softbank Sumo&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/weloveyouso"&gt;We Love You So&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-8354649922997160707?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/8354649922997160707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/brad-pitt-man-of-humor.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8354649922997160707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/8354649922997160707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/brad-pitt-man-of-humor.html' title='Brad Pitt, a man of humor'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-679795197705906706</id><published>2010-09-28T13:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-28T13:08:08.533+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Expectations</title><content type='html'>No matter how excited i am today, no matter how much i want things to happen today, i shall not expect. If by whatever means, nothing happens today, then, i'll just have to be strong, and wait for another day :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-679795197705906706?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/679795197705906706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/expectations.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/679795197705906706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/679795197705906706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/expectations.html' title='Expectations'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-2506431542707606839</id><published>2010-09-26T01:52:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T01:52:38.768+08:00</updated><title type='text'>...and Love</title><content type='html'>No one likes to look desperate. I personally, am not a person who likes to show desperation even at the most terrible moments but, I can't help it, that, sometimes, at some moments, you're just terribly weak and helpless.Petty things can get out of hand and amplified into greater forms causing emotional turmoils within seconds.In need of frequent self-battling, for independence, to be stronger so that i would not need to cause suffocation and unnecessary hassles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's hard being a man, consciously,being this weak&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but what can i do, when i AM this weak?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lucky enough, i have her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her patience.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-2506431542707606839?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/2506431542707606839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/and-love.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2506431542707606839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/2506431542707606839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/and-love.html' title='...and Love'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-3751785027797605755</id><published>2010-09-17T21:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T21:45:10.212+08:00</updated><title type='text'>EPIC FAIL</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TJNuiEIxMyI/AAAAAAAAAdI/Ra5yaGAs2-8/s1600/epic+fail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TJNuiEIxMyI/AAAAAAAAAdI/Ra5yaGAs2-8/s640/epic+fail.jpg" width="322" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;The land was soft on both sides...T__________T &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1505243288"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1505243289"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-3751785027797605755?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/3751785027797605755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/epic-fail.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3751785027797605755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/3751785027797605755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/epic-fail.html' title='EPIC FAIL'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TJNuiEIxMyI/AAAAAAAAAdI/Ra5yaGAs2-8/s72-c/epic+fail.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-1853544288390475472</id><published>2010-09-15T01:19:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-15T01:19:17.879+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Perfect Two</title><content type='html'>Recently, I've discovered a very significant experience in my life. It's a discovery of what love can do to a person, and how a person is able to do it for love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tSzTf-bI/AAAAAAAAAcI/qtRAq41Mwy0/s1600/P1340927.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tSzTf-bI/AAAAAAAAAcI/qtRAq41Mwy0/s320/P1340927.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Flashing back, i was attracted to this girl who has an enthusiastic and cheerful personality. She has a generous will to learn and appreciate things differently.Despite the perception on the high standard requirements that&amp;nbsp;I've&amp;nbsp;gave others, it was so easy to fall for such a girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a wide range personality clicks, I feel that, there are high chances to have a beautiful &amp;amp; fun relationship with this girl.So i decided to give love a chance (after a ridiculous incident) and expressed my love to her. Amazing how life works sometimes, she felt the same, and we got together after.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tYwQnAYI/AAAAAAAAAcY/-2wl7oY9k5s/s1600/P1370002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tYwQnAYI/AAAAAAAAAcY/-2wl7oY9k5s/s320/P1370002.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tc0EPTqI/AAAAAAAAAcg/gV_hFyTA7Xc/s1600/P1370003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tc0EPTqI/AAAAAAAAAcg/gV_hFyTA7Xc/s320/P1370003.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So off we go, on a good start, sharing lots of things about each other, she is a keen listener, and fun person to talk with. We share our deepest and darkest secrets as well as the significant things in our lives. We had our first kiss , with a photography taken, in a tunnel which lights were reflected by nature surrounding us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tWTeTRbI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/zClvUb433UM/s1600/P1360032.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tWTeTRbI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/zClvUb433UM/s320/P1360032.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;She was expecting her first kiss to be one that will drain her soul away, but it&amp;nbsp;wasn't&amp;nbsp;as impactful as she expected. Few weeks past, she turned from a virgin kisser, to a phenomenal one. There rise the passion, and also some other things that we didn't want to have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arguments came in bit by bit; clashes of thoughts and principles, impatience and lack of sensitivity all contributed to the negativity of that moment. Some problems are amplified by pride and ego. Some things starts to make us feel that we are not good enough. Some things makes us feel like we are taken for granted. Some things even make her felt like we are incompatible and not meant for each other. Things feels like it's going to fall apart&amp;nbsp;every time&amp;nbsp;we argued.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We tried to hold on and compromise, we made promises and try to talk things through, but somehow, the problem arises again. We started to get bored of the arguments cause of it's repetition. There are times where we left each other for awhile, and came back passionate again, but arguments starts to rise again. Scars were left all over, and it's just too hard to hold on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That night, it started to rain as we burst out on a really big fight that would have break us apart, if ego and pride still takes control. After that night, things changed. Hard feelings which i thought would never cease, starts to heal day by day with the changes that she has made for me. She does not only let go off her pride but &amp;nbsp;she starts to care with sensitivity. She opens up her mind to a lot of things that she was afraid to go for or do not want to. She changed. Like how i changed. We changed, and&amp;nbsp;molded&amp;nbsp;perfectly into one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-uahX6V8I/AAAAAAAAAcw/rTqRrHgdKjo/s1600/P1440750.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-uahX6V8I/AAAAAAAAAcw/rTqRrHgdKjo/s640/P1440750.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't be mistaken by the word perfect here. The relationship between us is perfect, not because we will never argue anymore, but its about how understanding and positive change will take place if we ever meet obstacles again. The girl I'm with now, is a girl who is passionate about the things she wants to&amp;nbsp;achieve&amp;nbsp;in life, and even more passionate when it comes to us. I will never feel like i am striving for love alone anymore because i have her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This girl, is a symbol of hope, as she fought against&amp;nbsp;stubbornness&amp;nbsp;for love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A girl who is capable of making me smile in an instance, no matter how sad i am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl, who made me a&amp;nbsp;man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl who completes me, and made us the perfect two.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-1853544288390475472?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/1853544288390475472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/perfect-two.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1853544288390475472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/1853544288390475472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/perfect-two.html' title='Perfect Two'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TI-tSzTf-bI/AAAAAAAAAcI/qtRAq41Mwy0/s72-c/P1340927.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-691462814922995229</id><published>2010-09-07T19:25:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-07T19:41:11.832+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rainbow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;"The rainbow that shines after the rain"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bad times,are moments where we should treat it with sensitivity, patience, and perseverance. Throughout this week, i've learnt that, no matter how fair or unfair things are, one should give in, out of love. By letting go pride and the mindset of who is right or wrong, it tends to seal the gap and draw us close together again. As long as one party is able to give in willingly, things can be solved at a very early stage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Today is my last day of work until the Raya holiday ends&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I see beautiful days ahead :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TIYkxHk6teI/AAAAAAAAAcA/tpXnaYj7Kqw/s1600/IMG_1647.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="428" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TIYkxHk6teI/AAAAAAAAAcA/tpXnaYj7Kqw/s640/IMG_1647.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-691462814922995229?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/691462814922995229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/rainbow.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/691462814922995229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/691462814922995229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/09/rainbow.html' title='Rainbow'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLbU3rDApk0/TIYkxHk6teI/AAAAAAAAAcA/tpXnaYj7Kqw/s72-c/IMG_1647.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-5280580341990934356</id><published>2010-08-27T22:44:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T22:44:44.259+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;...WAS &lt;strike&gt;VERY&lt;/strike&gt; FUCKIN AWESOME!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/906228656842572788-5280580341990934356?l=mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/feeds/5280580341990934356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/08/today_27.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5280580341990934356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/906228656842572788/posts/default/5280580341990934356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mikerachmaninov.blogspot.com/2010/08/today_27.html' title='Today'/><author><name>Mike Rachmaninov</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12032448215445488121</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VaYvg_4Jhm0/TuV1kYl3grI/AAAAAAAAAqE/t-OO4oNhfSY/s220/10642_1_other_wallpapers_vendetta.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906228656842572788.post-7113500436669713817</id><published>2010-08-24T14:24:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T14:54:57.882+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sibu, the Venice of Malaysia</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;"Don't get me wrong, the only thing that is&amp;nbsp;similar&amp;nbsp;to Venice, is that, there is water everywhere."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs188.ash2/45116_459286221755_646416755_6458346_6190874_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs188.ash2/45116_459286221755_646416755_6458346_6190874_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;...So i was sent to Sibu to cover the (interior design aspect) in a design workshop organized by my college. My slides are ready, my mind is ready, and i'm all set to move and rawk Sibu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs188.ash2/45116_459286226755_646416755_6458347_3290419_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs188.ash2/45116_459286226755_646416755_6458347_3290419_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I reached an hour early at the airport, and it gave me a lot of time to think. I felt a little bitter, as i need to part with her for 4 days. I told myself, hey, it's going to be the same, like when we don't have time to meet up usually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs388.snc4/45116_459286231755_646416755_6458348_7758421_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs388.snc4/45116_459286231755_646416755_6458348_7758421_n.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs388.snc4/45116_459286241755_646416755_6458350_8382997_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs388.snc4/45116_459286241755_646416755_6458350_8382997_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But knowing that i am going to fly across the ocean, and land on another continent, it's just different. I felt that, even if i want to make a spontaneous move to appear in front of her, it would not be easy at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs388.snc4/45116_459286251755_646416755_6458352_4147707_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs388.snc4/45116_459286251755_646416755_6458352_4147707_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Doze off in the cabin, and here i am, landed in Sibu, the land of Swans.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Don't ask me why, they put swans as their mascot). &lt;/span&gt;Simon picked me up from the airport, with a warm welcoming smile. He owns an event company specialized on wedding and education, and surprisingly, he is also a Saitorian a decade ago! The first topic that came up is about dinner. Which was really practical during that moment :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs188.ash2/45116_459286256755_646416755_6458353_6365403_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs188.ash2/45116_459286256755_646416755_6458353_6365403_n.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; Random: Super narrow toilet, with a width that compliments only the urinal.Talk about claustrophobic.&lt;for a="" about,="" actually="" as="" broad="" class="" claustrophobic.="" entered="" environment="" first="" for="" i="" is="" just="" my="" next="" picture="" psychology="" should="" talking="" the="" this="" time,="" toilet="" urinal.="" use="" which="" width=""&gt;&lt;/for&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs372.snc4/45510_459289146755_646416755_6458414_1223790_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs372.snc4/45510_459289146755_646416755_6458414_1223790_n.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;There is a fairly&amp;nbsp;hygienic&amp;nbsp;practice in every restaurants in Sibu.&amp;nbsp;Cutleries&amp;nbsp;are all dipped in a cup of hot water and placed on the table. A practise which all restaurants in Malaysia should cultivate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs187.ash2/45000_459287896755_646416755_6458383_2439129_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs187.ash2/45000_459287896755_646416755_6458383_2439129_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On the first day, i was sleeping in this big room with an empty bed beside me, space was too big for a person, which leaves a big space for wild and horror imaginations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs387.snc4/45000_459287906755_646416755_6458385_6163818_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs387.snc4/45000_459287906755_646416755_6458385_6163818_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Lucky for me, i have friends at Sibu :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John called me out for supper at night, and we had some chatting session with one of his&amp;nbsp;colleagues. He said " in Sibu, there is no nightlife, only this"&lt;br /&gt;It ends at around 12, and everyone goes back to sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that, there ARE clubs at this places, but they are not meant for us. Just colliding shoulders with someone else, might get you involved in a gangster fight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs187.ash2/45000_459287916755_646416755_6458387_5035221_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs187.ash2/45000_459287916755_646416755_6458387_5035221_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Fruit and Ice = FruitIce&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In mandarin, we called it "shui guo bing", basically fruits with lotsa ice and milk and some&amp;nbsp;Jello&amp;nbsp;on top. John said that Raymond will go screaming like crazy if he saw this. So if anyone who knows Raymond here, please kindly forward this picture to him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs387.snc4/45000_459287926755_646416755_6458389_3162828_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs387.snc4/45000_459287926755_646416755_6458389_3162828_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs387.snc4/45000_459287921755_646416755_6458388_5545234_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs387.snc4/45000_459287921755_646416755_6458388_5545234_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs192.ash2/45510_459289161755_646416755_6458417_6305822_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs192.ash2/45510_459289161755_646416755_6458417_6305822_n.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Random: The pic at the side, is a suicidal attempt, architecturally.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs363.snc4/44590_459289766755_646416755_6458432_1959262_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs363.snc4/44590_459289766755_646416755_6458432_1959262_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;What&amp;nbsp;fascinates&amp;nbsp;me on the first day, is the grocery shop on water, in fact, it's a ship, cruising to remote areas and open up for sales.Pretty cute stuff.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I think, by now, you all should be wondering, "HEY, what's with the Venice of Malaysia? i see nothing yet! Well, you are about to see a series of pictures that will blow your mind. Sibu has technology for building almost anything on water!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs135.ash2/40074_459290866755_646416755_6458460_4293900_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs135.ash2/40074_459290866755_646416755_6458460_4293900_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;#01 Typical Water House : A typical row of houses surrounded by water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs135.ash2/40074_459290871755_646416755_6458461_6157797_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs135.ash2/40074_459290871755_646416755_6458461_6157797_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;#02 WaterGirls : Sibu's version of WonderGirls&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs198.ash2/46073_459293806755_646416755_6458640_6302383_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs198.ash2/46073_459293806755_646416755_6458640_6302383_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs292.snc4/40932_459294361755_646416755_6458663_409279_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs292.snc4/40932_459294361755_646416755_6458663_409279_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#03 Sea Rover: A rover which travels on sea. Technology of tires enables maximum grip on water for optimum speed and&amp;nbsp;maneuver&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46073_459293811755_646416755_6458641_72974_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46073_459293811755_646416755_6458641_72974_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;.#04 River fence: To block an separate what belongs to the river, and what belongs to the land.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs312.snc4/40932_459294376755_646416755_6458666_8229518_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs312.snc4/40932_459294376755_646416755_6458666_8229518_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#05 Bench Island : An benched shaped island, surrounded by water, for romantic purposes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs292.snc4/40932_459294381755_646416755_6458667_2858609_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs292.snc4/40932_459294381755_646416755_6458667_2858609_n.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#06 Stairway to heaven: If you have enough of the water, just open the box and touch any of the components inside with a wet hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs152.ash2/40932_459294386755_646416755_6458668_4301098_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs152.ash2/40932_459294386755_646416755_6458668_4301098_n.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#07 River Petrol Station: A petrol station which offers you an effective fusion of petrol and dirty river water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs152.ash2/40932_459294406755_646416755_6458672_223775_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs152.ash2/40932_459294406755_646416755_6458672_223775_n.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#08 Great Entrance : The entrance and border to the Venice of Msia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46121_459294921755_646416755_6458686_5843408_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46121_459294921755_646416755_6458686_5843408_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#09 The Real River: No no you're mistaken! The boats are on an artificial river, me, the cameraman is on the real river.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs398.snc4/46121_459294941755_646416755_6458689_7795618_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs398.snc4/46121_459294941755_646416755_6458689_7795618_n.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#10 Riverbikes : Basically an advanced system of having &amp;nbsp;2 wheels on water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46121_459294956755_646416755_6458692_7118159_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46121_459294956755_646416755_6458692_7118159_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#11 Fisher : Unlike the ordinary fisherman, fishers stays on their floating chair and wait for fishes to come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs192.ash2/45510_459289141755_646416755_6458413_1579080_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs192.ash2/45510_459289141755_646416755_6458413_1579080_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#12 Ice Tea : No! Really!, despite the similarity of to the water in Sibu, they are just a cup of nice tea.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Alright, it was actually pretty depressing to see these water all around, bad drainage system, water level increase due to tycoons cutting down timbers, and soil poured into the river. If you are wondering why are all these happening, think who are those who is supposed to wake up and make the right&amp;nbsp;decisions.Voting for unreliable sources has a big impact to the nation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Now to the best part of Sibu, food. For a price of RM2, you can get a decent meal with quality taste!Warning, the pictures below are not for puasa people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs372.snc4/45510_459289151755_646416755_6458415_8077245_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs372.snc4/45510_459289151755_646416755_6458415_8077245_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#01 Kampua Mee : The local cuisine of Sibu. This should be the logo instead of a swan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs275.snc4/40074_459290851755_646416755_6458457_2913103_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs275.snc4/40074_459290851755_646416755_6458457_2913103_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#02 Black Olives:These black olives are more nutritious than the ordinary ones we see.Ways to cook it, includes, putting them in warm water not more than80degrees&amp;nbsp;celsius till soft and mix with salt,chilli, cili padi in a cup.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs197.ash2/46035_459291306755_646416755_6458477_2076880_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs197.ash2/46035_459291306755_646416755_6458477_2076880_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#04 Sea Cucumber Soup : A texture that you will never get bored of even if you have it for three days in a row.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs258.snc4/40218_459292341755_646416755_6458517_2099703_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs258.snc4/40218_459292341755_646416755_6458517_2099703_n.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46073_459293761755_646416755_6458632_2236223_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46073_459293761755_646416755_6458632_2236223_n.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs287.snc4/40682_459293031755_646416755_6458561_1276649_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs287.snc4/40682_459293031755_646416755_6458561_1276649_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#05 Beer : The beer price is almost compatible with carbonated drinks. Which one will you choose? By the way, the beer on the top picture tasted like cold plain water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs138.ash2/40218_459292351755_646416755_6458519_5977470_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs138.ash2/40218_459292351755_646416755_6458519_5977470_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#06 Foochow fried noodle : One big difference of the noodles here is on the texture. They are somehow elastic in texture when bitten and the burnt aroma of the noodle stands out in the taste bud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs258.snc4/40218_459292386755_646416755_6458525_1991861_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs258.snc4/40218_459292386755_646416755_6458525_1991861_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#07 Siu Mai &amp;amp; Gong Pia: Too bad, i was so full that i did not have the chance to taste this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs307.snc4/40682_459293061755_646416755_6458566_2621548_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs307.snc4/40682_459293061755_646416755_6458566_2621548_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#08 Bakar stuffs by the Bumis: They marinate their food with&amp;nbsp;coatings of honey and burnt to perfection. Among their things they sell, the most&amp;nbsp;bizarre dish was the 'buntut ayam". A skewer of barbecued chicken butt. They taste really good, say one of the locals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs287.snc4/40682_459293071755_646416755_6458568_5423556_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs287.snc4/40682_459293071755_646416755_6458568_5423556_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;#09 Daredevil Stall : I was pretty surprised to see a shop selling parts of pork right in the same bazaar. Ranging from the lean meat to&amp;nbsp;bizarre&amp;nbsp;parts like the nose and tongue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46073_459293766755_646416755_6458633_7107719_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs378.snc4/46073_459293766755_646416755_6458633_7107719_n.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs307.snc4/40682_459293076755_646416755_6458569_6874133_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs307.snc4/40682_459293076755_646416755_6458569_6874133_n.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs143.ash2/40485_459295376755_646416755_6458709_6101442_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs143.ash2/40485_459295376755_646416755_6458709_6101442_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;#10&amp;nbsp;Philippine&amp;nbsp;Pork Leg : This mouth watering tender pork leg with crispy skin texture is complemented with a special sour-ish sauce that will end up, erupting a big explosion in your mouth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40504_459303881755_646416755_6458875_3517171_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40504_459303881755_646416755_6458875_3517171_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now, to the serious business, what i was actually there for.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs143.ash2/40504_459303911755_646416755_6458879_7584894_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs143.ash2/40504_459303911755_646416755_6458879_7584894_n.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;The workshop covers basics of Multimedia, Graphic and Interior Design. The aim of this workshop is to open the secondary student's minds about design and it's exploration. To activate their minds on creative thinking and exploration, i chose to share with them, what i've learn in KBU, the concept model :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs192.ash2/45516_459304471755_646416755_6458893_875102_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs192.ash2/45516_459304471755_646416755_6458893_875102_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs362.snc4/44527_459306001755_646416755_6458961_7451514_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;
