omfg I’VE DONE THIS!!

I was skimming through this not-particularly-interesting article in the NY Times, about Americans and their inferior rice cooking methods, when I came across the following paragraph:
Ms. Tokuji has even baked a sweet, buttery loaf of bread in her rice cooker, based on a recipe from a popular television show about a superhero’s quest to develop [...]

The worst example ever

Here’s an excerpt from one of the readings I have to do for management:
Picasso’s blue period can be called a personal blue strategy , since there was consistency in his use of colour across a sequence of his paintings. But did Picasso ‘decide’ to paint blue for a given period of his life, or did [...]

Hooray for YouTube

YouTube joint-account-users vlogbrothers are brothers in real life who vlog (video-blog) to each other almost every day because they live in different states. One brother, John Green, has a book. It’s called An Abundance of Katherines.
Hooray for YouTube because it helped me find the book. Which sounds cheesily nerdy. Which means that it tries very [...]

If the author of Pinocchio wrote poems.

Then went and had a love child with Spike Milligan and that child grew up so overwhelmed by his parents’ popularity with children across the nations that he ended up hating kids and decided to write this poem.
A Cautionary Verse, Dennis Lee
My child, do not exaggerate,
Lest you incur a horrid fate—
As ancient oracles relate,
And modern [...]

My mother has a blog

She updated it today. I won’t post up her address, just in case she doesn’t want me to. But here’s an excerpt. Embarrassingly, it’s a bit like something I would write.
Best cheese dishes? Raclettes are wonderful when you have it melted over thin slices of beef and bread. To die for. Then my own dish [...]

From my exam preparation notes…

Exam Technique: Some suggestions
DON’T PANIC
Never thought I would say this, but it looks like my lecturer’s a man after my own Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-loving heart.
Also,
The exam is divided into 3 unequal parts called Questions.

New accounting ingenuity

Will the hilarity never end?!
Activity elimination: This approach assumes the activity is utterly unnecessary
I suppose it doesn’t help that I keep reading everything with slightly scornful tones. So that when I actually read something that fits the scorn it becomes damn hilarious.

My readers are really damn psycho

Here’s a new quote from my reader:
Remember that time is money (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin must be right.
LOL! WTH! HAHAHAHAHA

So bitchy Gadget Lab!

You might think that Sony’s priorities around now would include perfecting a non-exploding battery design and concocting some compelling gaming advance to compete with Wii. Silly outsider. The company has wisely decided that its true breakthrough will be helping customers with their noodle location needs.Hence X-Ramen Radar, a free Japan-only Windows application that echolates [...]

lol

Today, this girl, about my age, told her mom “I’m going to the toilet”. Her mom then said “okay, be careful” and like every other foolish “don’t tell me to be careful” teenager, she snapped back with “for whatttt”. For what. For what?! You ignorant ignorant girl. The female toilet is a dangerous place. The [...]