Blind Date. GO or NO-GO?

Image courtesy of http://www.ehow.com/.

What will be your first reaction when asked for a blind date? A worthy go or just a waste-of-time no-go?

Young adults and teenagers are now more open-minded than people who were in the 60's. With the luxuries of internet and cell phone services, they get in touch more frequently and easily, anywhere and anytime.

The question is, how safe is blind-dating via Facebook/Friendster/Orkut/online-dating-sites or any of the engines with immediate-account-readily available on the net?

From ehow.com, there are few guidelines to make sure of your safety during the date.

• Choose a public place, preferably the one you know well.
• Do not give out too many personal details before meeting in person.
• Although it is called a blind-date, do not believe a person blindly.
• Talk to parents/friends, just in case something goes wrong.
• Inform parents/friends by call/text messages as the date progresses.
• Do not drink beyond your capacity.
• Do not take these dates too seriously. Try to have fun.

Now, I've tried one of these and to my surprise, I actually enjoyed it! Well, maybe because she was a friend's girlfriend that I've never met. Now we did.

As to you readers, what do you think? Would you go for it? If you had been to one, comment and share your experience. Some people might be thankful for a little more guidance!

Air France Flight 447 (Updates)

Brazil navy races to pull Air France wreck from sea

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian navy divers rushed on Wednesday to reach the wreckage of an Air France jet and start the grim job of pulling debris from the Atlantic Ocean, where the plane with 228 people went down in the airline's worst disaster in its 75-year history.

Full article here.

www.reuters.com

Image courtesy of http://images.mirror.co.uk/.

Famous Places

I did this quiz some time ago on Facebook and I find it quite interesting. Yeah, beautiful places always catch my attentions. Now, if you have yet to answered them elsewhere, let's not cheat and see if you could identify all of them correctly!


Question 1
1. big ben (✓)
2. large tom
3. little ben

Question 2
1. moulin rouge
2. eiffel tower (✓)
3. eiffel bridge

Question 3

1. the pentagon
2. the white house
3. taj mahal (✓)

Question 4

1. gremlin
2. kremlin (✓)
3. creplin

Question 5

1. mount gushmore
2. mount faces
3. mount rushmore (✓)

Question 6

1. the sphinx (✓)
2. the lynx
3. the spanx

Question 7

1. bronze gate bridge
2. golden fenced span
3. golden gate bridge (✓)

Question 8

1. the circle
2. stonehenge (✓)
3. stone circle

Question 9

1. great wall of china (✓)
2. hadrians wall
3. mass of wall

Question 10

1. chrysler building
2. empire state building (✓)
3. the changging tower

Question 11

1. the taj mahal
2. the kremlin
3. the vatican (✓)

Question 12

1. niagara falls (✓)
2. the berlin drop
3. alice falls

Question 13

1. long wall
2. dartmoor brook wall
3. hadrians wall (✓)

Question 14

1. grand canyon (✓)
2. grand ravine
3. chedder gorge

Question 15

1. eiffel tower
2. big ben
3. blackpool tower (✓)

Question 16

1. statue of freedom
2. statue of liberty (✓)
3. statue of power

Question 17

1. buckingham palace (✓)
2. the white house
3. house of queen

Question 18

1. londons wheel
2. london eye (✓)
3. tamar eye

Question 19

1. the pentagon (✓)
2. the hexagon
3. the octagon

Question 20

1. taj mahal
2. acropolis
3. coliseum (✓)

Question 21

1. granite arch
2. marble arch (✓)
3. granite wall

Question 22

1. mulan rogue
2. milan rouge
3. moulin rouge (✓)

Question 23

1. the white house (✓)
2. the bleak house
3. the pentagon

Question 24

1. acropolis (✓)
2. apocalypse
3. coliseum


P/S : IF the background of this blog is still WHITE, highlight the whole POST to confirm your answers. Otherwise, you would have seen them all the way, already.

To take the quiz from Facebook, click here. Enjoy!

Tiger Beer : Limited Editions

STAND OUT!
WITH TIGER AND NUFFNANG

Date of Event : 6th of June 2009 (Saturday)
Time : 7pm till late
Venue : HQnine, TTDI Plaza, KL, MALAYSIA
Dress Code : Standout

Be a standout in the party and show us what's unique! Come as a million dollar princess, a snowman, a milk bottle, clown or whatever you can think is unique and is your style. If you do stand out enough, you'll be rewarded significantly during the party!!

Standout in a CROWD! Or should I say, of all the BEERS? There will be a party to showcase these three limited-edition Tiger beer designs soon! Wanna "crash" the party?

Click "NUFFNANG" under the "PERK(s)" column, on the upper-right side of this blog to find out more! Now, here comes the best part! You could win some expensive/cool/SEXY gadgets!

The Dollar Sign

Read: I SERVE NUFFNAGNᵀᴹ ads.

But, in reality, do I? Seriously? Yes. You'll be surprise. If you have not yet, you need to do some "homework" in advertising, trafficking and blogging!

GAME ON!

Speeds

I was surprised to see my download speed got that high (682.4 kb/s) and I was so close to missed this screenshot. Well, the speeds remain there for a few hours and then they went low, like usual.

So you might ask, how the hell did I get high download speed like that? It's simple. Just remember a few lines when you're using your P2P engine(s) to download stuff:

• Sharing is caring. Do not set your download limits too high and upload's too low.
• Give and Take. Try to be a little more selfless. It's unfair to others if you want the best/most just for yourself, you leechers.

Actually, that's all. You'll be surprise to see improvements if you stick to these "rules."

P/S : I have no idea why my upload rate was low (92.3 kb/s), compared to the download rate. It happens, it happens.

Twilight Saga?

Weeks ago, I was looking for some important books in a bookstore but unfortunately, I couldn't find any. After that, I passed by this corner of new-arrivals and they were promoting "New Moon" by Stephanie Meyer. Not just that, there were packages made for her complete Twilight Saga consisting Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Like usual, even though I not such a super fan of novels, I bought them... Picture above shows the four books. Sigh... I did the same years ago when the Da Vinci Code came out as movie. I bought Dan Brown's package of four novels, included Angels and Demons. Hehehe, I knew the movie was gonna come!