Haze is killing me...

ARGH!!! Whole day feeling so sick. Can't stand the haze. It's affecting my health quite badly... Recently, I just noticed something that quite tickled me. There's a sign in NUS at the entrance that says "NUS is a smoke free campus... blah blah", supposedly to ask people not to smoke in NUS. If only NUS is really a "smoke free" campus...

Photos of Sentosa trip

Was just looking at the photos that me and my dear took during our Sentosa trip not too long ago. It really amuses me sometimes how the two of us are already into our 20s and we still behave like kids around each other. That's what makes us so fun, I guess. It also never fails to amaze me that we've been together for more than 3 years. We still find new and fun things to do. :)

We had picnic, with food prepared by my dear.

OK. I know I should start training up. Not as fit as before.

Just a couple shot.

And a really silly couple shot. Just for fun.

Why are snooze alarms have an interval of 9 minutes?

I thought that it was only with my Sony Ericsson K700i that had this strange thing, but after mentioning it to Gladys (for those of you who don't know, Gladys is my girlfriend, and I also refer her to my dear), I learnt that her Motorola L6 exhibited this behaviour as well. Did you realise that when you set the alarm on your handphone, and press the snooze function, it delays the alarm by 9 minutes?

I was wondering... Why 9 minutes? Shouldn't 10 minutes or 5 minutes make more sense? So I just typed a search in Google for the answer, searching for "snooze 9 minutes". One of the best links I found is this one from The Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a991126.html Apparently, this 9 minute snooze thing is in all digital alarm clocks. Out of all the explanations they gave, I find that the most plausible one is the last one, which had to do with the older mechanical clocks. They believed that the clock makers in the past had difficulties with the mechanical parts like gears etc to make the snooze function work at exactly 10 minutes, so they made the snooze function work at approximately 9 to 10 minutes. And this had affected the design of modern alarm clocks to have a snooze interval of 9 minutes.

Sometimes "traditions" are just formed this way. There are certain practices which we might not understand, and even prove to be impractical in this modern world, but we just follow them. Is this a good or bad thing? I don't know. What do you think?

Maybe sometimes we should just pull ourselves out from just being in this society and actually questioning certain practices and behaviours of our society, of what we have just been taking for granted.

My other blog

As mentioned in the previous post, I have another blog that had some of my experiences in Canada. I still think it's quite an interesting blog, so do drop by to read my experiences and some of my thoughts while I was in Canada:

http://clldavid.blogspot.com

Random Ramblings

OK. I admit. I'm just too bored and tired of school stuff, and just feel like posting something. I realised that I don't actually have a blog to just post my random ramblings of life. I only have a blog that documented some of my experience in Canada. So I just created a blog just to contain whatever I want to blabber about. Don't expect frequent updates. I'm just going to post whatever and whenever I feel like just blabbering nonsense, thus the title: Random Ramblings of David Chan.