| Disorder | Rating |
| Paranoid: | Low |
| Schizoid: | Low |
| Schizotypal: | Low |
| Antisocial: | Low |
| Borderline: | Low |
| Histrionic: | Low |
| Narcissistic: | Moderate |
| Avoidant: | Low |
| Dependent: | Low |
| Obsessive-Compulsive: | Low |
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information -- | |
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
I couldn't believe this test!
I mean, just because I don't trust ppl much don't mean I'm self-centred!! Is the information even believable? -.-
~Book review~Johnny Depp : a kind of illusion, Denis Meikle.
You can rely on Denis Meikle to pry out every inkling of Johnny's biography, from youthful rebel in The Kids rock band to the humourous-sad telling of Ed Wood's life, to the frisky Jack Sparrow. The book never fails Johnny or the reader.
It reads almost as an entire narrative, barely chaptered tho, and in chronological order of Johnny's line of work. From on-screen movie synopses to off-screen snippets of conversations between famed director Tim Burton and him, read this edition like a book and Johnny, his own protagonist.
The author digresses once in a while and leaves you hanging tho, but he makes up for it in his intricate research and spontaneous comments. I rate this book: Only for Johnny Depp fans! Woots!
It is available in SP Main Library, Main Colours Lending (lvl 1)... reserve it, grab it, drool all over it!~~
Monday, 3 May 2010
The Power of Nuclear--written for SP Environment club
By: Chia Kylie 21 April 10
The news in recent days has had its fair share of issues on nuclear power potential; from exploitation of nuclear power for weapons of mass destruction to research for clean energy in power plants.
Obama held the Nuclear Security Summit 2010 last week in order to expound on the dangers of nuclear threats. ‘Today, we are declaring that nuclear terrorism is one of the most challenging threats to international security,’ said President Obama on April 13.
Following that, the Iran Disarmament Conference extended publicity on a worldwide policing of nuclear-armed countries.
Just five days before, after the Summit, PM Lee even played with the idea of Singapore turning to nuclear power to reduce reliance on foreigners in empowering our economy.
So what’s the big deal about nuclear power?
Here’s the low-down: it replaces coal and natural gases in power plants from a ratio of 20 metric tons of nuclear fuel to 2 billion metric tons of fossil fuels! That’s a lot of CO2 to almost no CO2 and little radiation released into the atmosphere. Plus all that steam used to rotate turbines which generate electricity are re-used. The rest of the steam that are released are non-pollutant.
A very clean fuel indeed.
It works using multiple Uranium atomic particles being split into halves by a Uranium neutron approaching at high speeds. And upon impact, this Nuclear Fission releases approximately 200 MeV (million electron volts).
That is not much. The splitting of an atom releases an incredible amount of heat and gamma radiation, or radiation made of high-energy photons. However, packing 0.45 kg of Uranium together would provide the desirable result you see in the bombs when they were dropped over Nagasaki and Hiroshima (or, in a less crude fashion, it is equal to the energy of a million gallons of gasoline).
On the other hand though, building a nuclear power plant and to keep it air-tight from within would mean lots of cash, more than it takes to have a coal-fuel power plant. Also, the effects of a Chernobyl accident could mean lose of countless lives through exposure to high-level radioactive waste and cancer. Thousands died while 30,000 became homeless when it occurred in 1986.
Radioactive waste stored in power plants will have to be decayed till their radiation emissions reach safer levels, but that would mean tens of thousands of years. And until then, they have to be sealed away and not be let fallen into the wrong hands: nuclear fuels can be re-used in warheads.
The gravity of the downside to nuclear energy is hefty, and consequences are long-term.
And so, when it comes to clean energy and saving the earth, now that you are that bit more knowledgeable on nuclear power, would you peruse it? Is it really worth it to have our very own nuclear plant right smack in our island because everyone else has it? Where do you stand on this when it boils down to us to decide? It might not be long now.
The news in recent days has had its fair share of issues on nuclear power potential; from exploitation of nuclear power for weapons of mass destruction to research for clean energy in power plants.
Obama held the Nuclear Security Summit 2010 last week in order to expound on the dangers of nuclear threats. ‘Today, we are declaring that nuclear terrorism is one of the most challenging threats to international security,’ said President Obama on April 13.
Following that, the Iran Disarmament Conference extended publicity on a worldwide policing of nuclear-armed countries.
Just five days before, after the Summit, PM Lee even played with the idea of Singapore turning to nuclear power to reduce reliance on foreigners in empowering our economy.
So what’s the big deal about nuclear power?
Here’s the low-down: it replaces coal and natural gases in power plants from a ratio of 20 metric tons of nuclear fuel to 2 billion metric tons of fossil fuels! That’s a lot of CO2 to almost no CO2 and little radiation released into the atmosphere. Plus all that steam used to rotate turbines which generate electricity are re-used. The rest of the steam that are released are non-pollutant.
A very clean fuel indeed.
It works using multiple Uranium atomic particles being split into halves by a Uranium neutron approaching at high speeds. And upon impact, this Nuclear Fission releases approximately 200 MeV (million electron volts).
That is not much. The splitting of an atom releases an incredible amount of heat and gamma radiation, or radiation made of high-energy photons. However, packing 0.45 kg of Uranium together would provide the desirable result you see in the bombs when they were dropped over Nagasaki and Hiroshima (or, in a less crude fashion, it is equal to the energy of a million gallons of gasoline).
On the other hand though, building a nuclear power plant and to keep it air-tight from within would mean lots of cash, more than it takes to have a coal-fuel power plant. Also, the effects of a Chernobyl accident could mean lose of countless lives through exposure to high-level radioactive waste and cancer. Thousands died while 30,000 became homeless when it occurred in 1986.
Radioactive waste stored in power plants will have to be decayed till their radiation emissions reach safer levels, but that would mean tens of thousands of years. And until then, they have to be sealed away and not be let fallen into the wrong hands: nuclear fuels can be re-used in warheads.
The gravity of the downside to nuclear energy is hefty, and consequences are long-term.
And so, when it comes to clean energy and saving the earth, now that you are that bit more knowledgeable on nuclear power, would you peruse it? Is it really worth it to have our very own nuclear plant right smack in our island because everyone else has it? Where do you stand on this when it boils down to us to decide? It might not be long now.
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Weekly Haiku III
on good books,
Words leap out at you.
Dreary weather keeps you in,
snuggle into books...
Words leap out at you.
Dreary weather keeps you in,
snuggle into books...
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Monday, 5 April 2010
Weekly Haiku I
on handphones:
raucous ringing tones,
loud vibrations, shrill alarms;
phone contacts with wall
Inspired by Peach, writing.com
raucous ringing tones,
loud vibrations, shrill alarms;
phone contacts with wall
Inspired by Peach, writing.com
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Safety Starts with Me writing competition
all writers, photographers, video people, multi-media talented peeps! WSH Council has this silly competition that starts now and submission ends 31 March 10... a lot of the works submitted previously, if you read them on the website, are all melodramatic and almost essay styled. However, the winning story for the tertiary category was a poem, a hilarious outtake on the life of a man who went thru some intriguing mishaps that occured in the factory or in the field.
try try try!
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