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November 23, 2004
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"What have I done, to deserve such disrespect ?!"
- Don Vito Corleone.
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November 10, 2004
Ghost Bus
Thanx to "study" sessions accompanied by Ghalyoon, Poker, Chatting, Gossiping, Alchohol, Tea, Photography, Calligraphy, Eating, "Learning" and other things that for the sake of some people's security and "aabroo heysiat" I can't mention, I took this picture.
Unfortunately it was not appreciated by some, as much as it deserves. So to make the photo happy, I will post it here, please be nice to it and make it proud of itself. It's a long exposure photo of a Ghost Bus passing the streets. That's how photos of aliens and UFOs are reported by people.
For those of you who don't see the bus, I have to say it's because it's a ghost bus. But you can see its lights (parallel to the street, not the two big street lights) and that proves there IS a bus there. I saw it myself too. But since it was a ghost bus, when you take pictures of it, it won't appear there. I hope you're now convinced. Thank you.
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November 03, 2004
Diaries of Nobody 1: Chinese Simplified....
I woke up this morning and I could read/write/speak chinese fluently. I wrote a poem too:
"chian shung tao, chin jung zhen - wun zi yuan !, tinzu wan chen".
It means:
"it's morning, how wicked is the weather - bartender! pour us some wine, and we'll drink it together".
Now I can actually understand what some of my profs/friends say when they're talking to me. Some day/night I will wake up and will know spanish and italian too and will understand people in general and a few specifically, who talk in these cool languages...and then I will write more love poems and share them with the world :)
For those of you who are dying to learn chinese, I've got good news ! A friend of mine sent me a very good source and I being a generous soul, will share it with you:
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November 02, 2004
How do you read this question ?
The answer to the question "How do you read this question ?" is "How do you read this question ?.". (1). First of all what I just said is wrong logically, at least if our brain was extremely logical and would try to evaluate everything completely and not partially. In this case, it wouldn't even be able to finish reading that question in the first place, because to answer the question "How do you read this question ?", you have to first know what "this question" is. But "this question" is "How do you read this question" in which again "this question" is "How do you read this question" and so you have to go on forever to actually fully define what "this question" is and then try to answer it :) which obviously would take forever and you wouldn't even be able to see what the question is in the first place, let alone answer it.
This is an example of a question that would take you infinite time to answer.
Now what is the answer of "How do you read the answer of this question ?" ? In order to answer this question, you have to first be able to know the answer of the whole question first, then try to read it, but you don't know the answer of that question and so you won't know how to read something you don't know ! So the answer to this question is undefined !
This is an example of a quesiton that can not be answered, not because it takes you forever to understand it or answer it, but because it's just not answerable.
To make things more confusing, what is the answer of "How do you read the answer of "How do you read this quetion ?" ?" ?
This is an example of a question that would first take you forever to finish reading it and also the answer to it is undefined, meaning it can not be answered.
I leave further extensions of this to you, of course if you've survived reading this ;)
(1) Note that we need both the question mark and the period, the question mark shows when reading the question, how your tone of voice should be, and the second one shows that the whole sentence is a factual sentence in which you're stating a fact (i.e saying how you should read that question).
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