Friday, February 29, 2008

Paranormal.

Not long ago I was rifling through some 200 year-old maps in a private library when I chanced upon this letter, from this ang moh lady who grew up in Singapore more than half a century ago, to the library's owner. All names changed! Amazing stuff!:

May 18, 1989

Dear Mr Lin Hong Joo,

Thank you very much indeed for sending me a copy of your book, Traditional Houses in Singapore. We are delighted to have it and I am so pleased that my [illegible]. My mother is the woman in white on p. 130 & 195, and my father is also just visible. My mother on p. 195 sits surrounded by furniture which I now have in my drawing room. On this page you can just see me in the [illegible] which took me to the excellent little school at the Tanglin Club grounds. We also had an Arrol Johnston car and I had a pony.

When showing me over Glencaird (name of her estate in Singapore) in 1985, Mrs Hudson told me that the house is haunted by the ghost of a woman in white, seen by many people over the years. I said in my day, I am sure there was no ghost. Mrs Hudson said one of her staff often heard a voice calling 'Jenny'. They had no previous knowledge that my name is Jenny!. When this Chinese woman brought in the [illegible], she copied this call and it sounded exactly like my mother calling me! I was ASTONISHED! Told them that if it were my mother's ghost, it must be a very happy ghost, as we were all so happy in Glencaird. I asked them to tell 'the voice' that I had come back, but that I was not able to stay.

Is it possible for me to buy two more copies of the book? I have also in a letter asked Mrs Lin about this. With many more thanks,

Yours Sincerely,
Jenny Benn

jOhn thought at 2:46 PM

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Tesla

Inventor Tesla's 'sensational' statement in an article for a magazine, in 1908:

"As soon as completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind. More important than all of this, however, will be the transmission of power, without wires, which will be shown on a scale large enough to carry conviction."

Ooh. Prophetic!

jOhn thought at 2:26 PM

...

These two years, I have been working extra hard, because something happened back in the first year that motivated me to push myself here in school.

So now I'm sitting on a very very good 3-year run here in academia, and a biological age 30 years older than my body wishes it to be. I don't disagree when anyone says, I'm in bad shape...

So now I must get it all back!

Now that school's over, I shall resolve to eXeRcIsE and eat healthy!!

Okay of course I'll still allow that occasional sinful indulgence....

Waha.

jOhn thought at 2:25 PM

Saturday, February 23, 2008

YOG

All websites of each YOG 2010 candidate city!

Singapore!


Moscow


Bangkok


Athens


Debrecen, Poland

jOhn thought at 2:00 AM

Friday, February 15, 2008

Everytime.

It was 3a.m. when you woke me up
And we jumped in the car and drove as far as we could go
Just to get away
We talked about our lives
Until the sun came up
And now I'm thinking about
How I wish I could go back
Just for one more day
One more day with you

Everytime I see your face
Everytime you look my way
It's like it all falls into place
Everything feels right
Ever since you walked away
You left my life in disarray
All I want is one more day
It's all I need: one more day with you

When the car broke down
We just kept walkin along
Til we hit this town
There was nothing there at all
But that was all okay
We spent all our money on stupid things
But if I looked back now, I'd probably give it all away
Just for one more day
One more day with you

Everytime I see your face
Everytime you look my way
It's like it all falls into place
Everything feels right
But ever since you walked away
You left my life in disarray
All I want is one more day
It's all I need: one more day with you

Now I'm sittin here, like we used to do
I think about my life and how now there's nothing I won't do
Just for one more day
One more day with you

Everytime I see your face
Everytime you look my way
It's like it all falls into place
Everything feels right (Everything feels right)
Everytime I hear your name
Everytime I feel the same
It's like it all falls into place
Everything feels right

You walked away
Just one more day
It's all I need, just one more day with you...

jOhn thought at 3:50 PM