Finally! Exams are over, and I can breathe again. And oh. I need to shave. I look like a caveman:
ZOMG! I’ve did something where I swear I wouldn’t do! I posted my picture on my blog!
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Yesterday wasn’t exactly a good day. Remember I always have a problem with parking tickets and ATMs? Well, it’s compounded yesterday. Let’s review: First thing in the morning, I went to the doctor’s in the morning. Upon exiting the clinic, I discovered that I had a piece of paper stuck on the windshield – a parking ticket. . . . → Read More: Not Exactly A Good Day In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t been actively commenting or replying to comments on my blog. The reason is this – my finals are really round the corner, so I have to spend some time proving that the null hypothesis is null and void (if you didn’t understand it, it means I’m studying for my Statistics and Law exam). So, here are the things you can do on my blog (and on other people’s blogs) while the hiatus is in place.
This post is to humor Shyuing, who’s been going through hell (I assume) studying for her Macroeconomics. We Chinese have a custom called Qing Ming (清明). It is akin to All Souls’ Day in the west. Qing Ming is a time for us Chinese to honor our dead ancestors, tend to the graves of the departed and so on and so forth. That is of course, assuming that the dead ancestors are buried, and not cremated or something else. Anyways, Qing Ming is primarily a day to remember the dead, for us Chinese who value our customs (but that’s totally another issue). Qing Ming was last week.
Accordingly, the denominations vary from H$10 (H$ = Hell Dollars) to H$8 billion, per note. Now, let’s find out if inflation happens in hell. Continue reading Does Inflation Happen in Hell? Quick question: What are the odds that 2 people with the exact same name have accounts in the same bank branch?
I finally watched TMNT last night, after a few false starts (involving the stupid wrong listings the cinema puts up on their website). Short review – It was an awesome movie. Right. Now let’s move on to the longer, spoilery review. Continue reading TMNT – A Review As most of my readers know, I don’t usually post twice a day. The last time I did was when I posted an article called “Are We Losing Our Freedom of Speech?“, and that was so many moons ago. In continuing with the newspaper theme today, I was downstairs reading the newspaper while breakfasting with my mother. I had a gulp of coffee in my mouth when I caught the headline in the Star, Bloggers May Have to Register. I gave a yelp and shouted “What the hell!” And thanks to that, I have now a coffee stained T-shirt. Okay, I had such a knee-jerk reaction because in my previous Political Nonsense article (Are We Losing Our Freedom of Speech?), I wrote this:
If that ever was a silent prayer, it did come through. Or of course, some idiot could have read this blog and picked my brains. Continue reading What.The.Hell. (With Coffee Stained T-Shirt) |
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Anyways, during Qing Ming, those who stick to old Chinese customs will tend to burn money for the dead, for their continued usage in the afterlife, a.k.a Hell. These money of course, are not real money. These money are known as Hell notes, or Hell Money (Which by the way, caused the Chinese to start using paper money in ancient times). For more information on hell notes, 