Cheese Stick

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Istana Negara Jalan Duta*

Johor got their Economic Developement Corridor, Penang got their second bridge, KLSE surged passed 1,000, and now its time for a gift to our Yang Dipertuan Agong and also a new place KL folks can visit (don't complain KL ppl, at least u have an istana, Kepong only got MRR2, ok!). The government proposed to built a new Istana Negara at Jalan Duta opposite the India High Commission because the old Istana Negara is too tiny for our king. I saw the construction billboard along Jalan Duta, and it reads "Istana Negara Jalan Duta". I used to think that the "Duta" addresses are reserved to ambassadors and dignitaries. Now, even our King has a "Duta" real estate.



In fact, the new Istana is going to be very near the old one. I am sure that there will be people grumbling about the wastage of public funds, bad administration, blah blah...etc. However, i have no comments. Biasa dah.



This is the old Istana Negara. Thanks to Google Earth, i managed to zoom into the Royal Swimming Pool.


The site of the New Istana, its about there, i'm sorry if there's any discrepancies. There's still a problem. Will the city council rename Jalan Duta to Jalan Istana since there's where the future Istana is going to be. The present one would then be Jalan Istana Lama. Hope there won't be Jalan Istana Sangat Lama, Jalan Istana Lebih Lama and Jalan Istana Purba in the future.



*DISCLAIMER: this entry was created based on the typer's own imagination and does not imply directly or indirectly on anything, any person, any body or any laws in any country. the name or indication or description, if any, in this entry is (are) created WITHOUT PREJUDICE OR DEPRIVATION.

Day of the Donkeys

The Mid-term election 2006: Americans voted for their House of Representatives and one third of their Senate. The Democrats got the House, Senates is next.


A lame President is in the making. A lame president trying to be a forest, and failed being a Bush.


WORLD PEACE!

pledge, turn, prestige

The three fundamental steps of magic i learnt from the movie "The Prestige". Its a great movie and i really enjoyed it. I won't elaborate on the title though. The final revelation was shocking and really never have thought about it. Wow! Comparable to Sixth Sense.

Spoiler Warning! (If u decide to watch the movie, do not proceed on reading)






There's one duplication machine in the movie in which Hugh Jackman duplicate himself and killed the other one to perform a magic trick of vanish and appear. Once upon a time, i imagined a similiar machine like the one in the movie which works like a fax machine but it fax objects instead of messages in form of analog signals. It's a really different from the conveyance of message in faxs and emails in which things are analysed and transformed into signals to be transduced to the other end. Its something like a transporter in which an object would be totally disintegrated and the information about the mass and configuration of the object would be advanced to another machine at the speed of the electical signal. On the other side, a machine of rebuilt and reconfiguration of that object would take place. Thus, an object would be shifted from one place to the other just like an email with a click on a button and this would put all the courier companies into bankruptcy. HAHA! Then i thought of human transportation. But the problem is, when u are broken into pieces and duplicated exactly at the other end, is the duplication of u really u? Do i feel like myself like i did before the reconfiguration? It's like dead and resurrected again, just that the resurrection is not on the same body. Will my 'soul' still will be in the new body? If there's a machine like that, will u risk losing yourself in the process, notwithstanding there's another you in existence. And you never really died.... Will u?