The internet has ruined you...

(Image credits to its owner)

Mathematics Hack Part 5 of 5

In the last part of the mathematics hack, here's how you convert Deg F to Deg C and vice versa

(Image taken from the internet and credits belongs to their owner)

For mental calculation, using mutiples of 2 and adding 30 make things so much easier. 

Of course you have a calculator or phone with a calculator, you can get more accurate conversion by just adding / subtracting 32 and multiply / divide by 1.8. 

Mathematics Hack Part 4 of 5

We all know multiples of 10 is easy but one digit before and after 10 is hard. 

So here's the hack how you multiply 9 and 11 

Multiply using 9

Multiply using 11 

Another example: 

63 x 11

6   3

6+3=9

So answer is 693

(Images taken from the internet and credits belong to their owners)

Mathematics Hack Part 3 of 5

Mathematics Hack time again.

Here's the hack how to remember the value of Pi.

(Taken from the internet, image credit to its owner)

Mathematics Hack Part 2 of 5

It's time for Mathematics Hack again.

Bad at multiplying single digit especially the bigger numbers?

Actually, you have it on your hands:

Another example:

6 x 9 (last finger on your left hand touches index finger on your right hand

So below (including the 2 touching fingers is 5 fingers, and this is tens, so it is 50  

And above (units) is 4 x 1 = 4 

Answer will be 54.

(Images taken from the internet and credits belongs to their owners)

Mathematics Hack Part 1 of 5

Happy New Year 2015, everyone. 

To start off the New Year, I will be coming out with a series of useful Mathematic hack. Those mathematic stuffs that you don't learn in school but prove to be very useful in life later.

Here's one to start off with, I have about will update one every 3 days. Enjoy

How to multiply large numbers

(Source: Taken from the internet)

Try it, it works.

I give another example: Say 95 x 95 

So 100-95 = 5 and 5+5=10 

So we know the first 2 numbers of the answer is 100-10= 90

And last 2 numbers of the answer is 5 x 5 = 25

So the answer is 9025.

Airasia Flight 8501 Missing 28 Dec 2014

Just learnt yesterday that flight 8501 from Airasia lost contact with the Air Traffic controllers. 

Our thoughts are with the families of the passengers and the crew members of the flight.

Really hope that there will be a miracle this time. 

Merry Christmas 2014

(Image taken from the internet)

Des-talk would like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas 2014

Wanna own a pet?? Tips from expert on how to own a dog

I know I been blogging a bit about dogs (and cats) but this is kinda important to dog's owners, please bear with me while normal service will resume shortly.

If you are intending to own a dog or already have a dog, I would recommend you to spend some time watch this video.

Watch how Cesar Millan, one of the best dog trainers in the world, guides dog into the correct behaviour and action and explains what is the rational behind what he is doing, not only in human's perspective, but also in the dog's perspective.

(Video credits to its owner)

Heroes for animals [The Joy Truck]

Please watch this video first:
(The video is filmed in Mandarin but there are English subtitles below)

(Video credits to its owner / Mediacorp)

There are at least 2 such HEROES for dogs / cats in Singapore who so selflessly care for unwanted / abandoned four legged friends. I thought I should pay tribute to them

Derrick Tan 
Voices for Animals (VFA)
https://www.facebook.com/VFASIN?ref=br_tf

VFA is a temporary adoption centre which Derrick runs to adopt abandoned / unwanted dogs. Some dogs are 'harvested' for breeding purposes (locked in cages most of their lives) while others are abandoned by their owners and left to fend for themselves. If they are not adopted by kind souls like Derrick, they will fall ill (some has already some diseases before being abandoned) and probably left to die. VFA rescue these animals, nurse them back to health before putting them for adoption to new owners.

Rescuing and nursing these dogs back to good health isn't cheap as their full body check-ups, surgery should they require are all very expensive. Expenses for 1 dog can cost up to SGD 1k. Yet, Derrick did not let the cost deter him from saving more dogs.

Derrick is actively looking for new owners to dogs in VFA, so if you live in Singapore and would like a pet, please check out his facebook for details of the next VFA adoption drive. As he said in the film, when you adopt the dog, you are saving 2 lives, first is the dog that you adopt and second is that you give VFA the opportunity to have another dog because of an empty space. If you are not living in Singapore, do consider a donation to them to help support their expenses.

Please help like and share their Facebook page to your friends.

Mdm Wong
Mdm Wong's Shelter and Friends (MWS)
https://www.facebook.com/Mdmwongsshelterandfriends

Mdm Wong is 68 this year and for the past 40 years, she spends at least 12 hours a day, 365 days a year to care for the animals (mainly cats and dogs) at the shelter. She had never taken a day off and has never went on a holiday ever since she started taking care of the animals.

All the years, she has been paying the cost for the shelters and even exhausted the proceeds from selling her 5-room HDB flat (Over SGD $300k) on these animals. She ensures that the animals get care, get to eat before she does. She doesn't have any money and live simply but she take great care of the animals in the shelter. Many people called Mdm Wong a fool but that's really what she wants to do.  I think she is nowhere near being a fool. She is a heroine!

From MWS Facebook page, I understand that there are running a deficit of SGD10,000 medical bills for the animals and as on 25 Oct 2014, they managed to raise SGD$4621. Although its heartening to see people donating and they managed to cover close to half of the medical bills, they also have another half to go.

Do go to MWS Facebook page to support them and make a small donation if possible. Please also help like and share their Facebook page to your friends.

A dog's life is not as long as a human's, they live at most 15 to 20 years but all dogs / cats have feelings just like a human. Using them to feed our human wants is cruel enough like breeding, abandoning them after their useful period is over is totally unacceptable. We being human have the intelligence to make the world go round, but should we spare a thought for our 4 legged friends who don't?  

More birthdays lately?

Seen somewhere:

If you notice that more people are celebrating their birthday lately,  just know that Valentine day is 9 months ago...

Will you cycle to work in hot, sunny, wet Singapore?

Read:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/10-ideas-to-make/1427468.html?cid=FBSG

With the highs of COEs and heavy traffics on the road as well as on the MRT trains, would you switch to cycling to office?

For me, cycling, NO.

Firstly, my house to office is about 30km and even if I travel at average 30kmh, it will need exactly one hour for me to reach office. And ask any cyclist, to maintain 30kmh and above speed isn't really a easy feat. Trust me.

Secondly, in hot humid Singapore, even if you manage to average 30kmh in the morning, you are likely to end up sweating when you reach office. So unless you have a shower facility at your office or unless you are a gym instructor or a life guard, it's likely you're going to work in sweat-stained skin.

Thirdly, Singapore laws states that you have to ride on the road (not pavement) with the fast moving car driven by anxious, kan cheong, impatient drivers (you get the meaning), so that will put me in a dangerous, to which, sorry, I am not willing to take this risk, not when I am travelling at 20kmh and they are travelling at at least 70kmh.

There is one thing, however, that lure me back to the 2 wheel machine - the electric-ation of bicycles and the introduction of electric skate scooter.

On the electric bicycles, the inconvenience of point 1 and 3 above stays the same but it kinda solves the problem state in point 2. If you do not need to pedal or only pedal when necessary, you are likely to excrete less sweat and hence more likely to reach the office dry (or drier than taking a normal one).

The electric scooters are the interesting ones because they allow for partial journey transportation. Part of my whole journey I ride of the e-scooter and then I simply fold it up and take a train (with it, of course) and then I fold down and continue my journey on the scooter again. Something you cannot do with an electric bicycle. This is extremely good for people who need to walk / take a bus to the mrt station and walk / take a bus from the mrt station to the destination.

Riding to office from home is out for me, but I am still keeping my options open on the electric 2 wheelers to run errands nearby my house or perhaps at the maximum go to the next town.

Des-talk wishes all our Indian readers Happy Deepavali 2014.

Life BEORE and AFTER we have the Internet

(Credits to the producer of the video: TreePotatoes)

This is quite funny, as always from the creative people from TreePotatoes. Do check out their other videos on youtube as well.

Seen: Umbrella Sharing Point @ Yishun MRT

Seen on the floor while walking through the covered pathway to Yishun MRT station. Not sure if this is a new initiative or was this implemented somewhere already. 

I guess generally this is good, it's not so clear what one should do. Do i throw my used umbrella that I don't want in the blue box or do I pass my Burberry umbrella there to a stranger to use after reaching the station, and my contact as well with the hope that the stranger will return the umbrella to me one day. 

   

While I am not serious with the scenarios above, the box will be good as useless until somebody demonstrate or at least explain what the box is used for. I know i sound very Singaporean, everything also need instruction but I don't really can see how this work without.

Having said that, I guess the relevant parties are preparing for the umbrella sharing campaigns and will be pushing them out real soon.