tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post7203127724134333817..comments2024-03-28T12:38:11.434+08:00Comments on Singapore Man of Leisure: Is Snow Water?Singapore Man of Leisurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-19990071454972913382012-04-11T10:12:06.630+08:002012-04-11T10:12:06.630+08:00Aloha! quirkyhill the sweet tooth,
I am so glad I...Aloha! quirkyhill the sweet tooth,<br /><br />I am so glad I've asked you what are suffixes and prefixes ;)<br /><br />Blogging is so much fun! I am discovering many people with varied tastes and interests. <br /><br />I am learning so much, inadvertently, while having fun!Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-90866018399654976592012-04-11T01:20:44.610+08:002012-04-11T01:20:44.610+08:00haha i see my name mentioned.
anyway le papillion...haha i see my name mentioned.<br /><br />anyway le papillion is not quite accurate. yes, each of the inuit languages have words for ice. however these languages add suffixes to root words to create new 'compound words'. and of course this can be done to root words for ice, resulting in dozens of compound words which are really derivatives of the same few root words for ice. and that was how the myth came about. :)<br /><br />check out these links:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow<br />http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000405.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-1962880683326555132012-04-05T20:14:50.248+08:002012-04-05T20:14:50.248+08:00Ah!
Asking money for water!
I think Adam Cheng ...Ah! <br /><br />Asking money for water!<br /><br />I think Adam Cheng and Lydia Sum acted in one movie in their early days where a scene like that happened ;)Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-30147848749946123842012-04-05T19:47:36.976+08:002012-04-05T19:47:36.976+08:00Ha! Ha!
This dialogue is punting on the word water...Ha! Ha!<br />This dialogue is punting on the word water and money in Cantonese dialect. So it should be spoken by firemen to the residents of whose houses were on fire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-24858370700317308502012-04-05T19:04:23.772+08:002012-04-05T19:04:23.772+08:00Lemme know if you need any other things explained ...Lemme know if you need any other things explained about light in nature :-) It will give me more ideas about what science cartoons to draw!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-85375222947626714822012-04-05T18:43:48.313+08:002012-04-05T18:43:48.313+08:00Temperament,
I give up! I've asked mom and sh...Temperament,<br /><br />I give up! I've asked mom and she don't know either.<br /><br />If I have to guess - Feng Bo Bo?<br /><br />I learned my Cantonese by watching her B/W movies in the 70s ;)Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-12049622285813848542012-04-05T18:38:15.461+08:002012-04-05T18:38:15.461+08:00Ronian,
Thank goodness you didn't explain it ...Ronian,<br /><br />Thank goodness you didn't explain it via mathematics!!!<br /><br />Now I know why white toilet paper turns to grey when wet!<br /><br />I was very intrigued by your post on why is the sky blue when first visiting your blog. <br /><br />Discovered the learning from my photography days on why the sky is blue and why clouds can be light and dark were very superficial.<br /><br />But thanks to this superficial knowledge, I can relate to what you write. I paint with light using optics ;)Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-82848210374544009102012-04-05T13:44:15.922+08:002012-04-05T13:44:15.922+08:00Hi Jared,
Yes that's approximately right - Tr...Hi Jared,<br /><br />Yes that's approximately right - Transparents things look white because of the refraction and reflection going on in them, but they must be small relative to the eyes and there must be many of them. White hair strands look whiter when there's a whole bunch of them together. As a side note: Toilet paper is definitely white, but they look grey when wet with water. The reason is because when paper is wet, the voids between transparent fiber strands are now filled with liquid which now makes the entire collection of fibers mold together as if they're a complete solid medium. Whenever this happens, when we look at the fibers, they no longer look like fibers. They looks like a continuous medium like glass, and then it becomes more transparent, which makes the wet paper look grey (e.g., dark rainy clouds look grey compared to white puffy clouds because of the same reason). Believe it or not, there's a complicated way to express all this in mathematics and I've never learned how to do it even though I've read about it a million times in the journals and textbooks. But ok, enough of my nerdiness for the day!<br /><br />PS: Botak is cool. I'll get there someday with my hair loss problem. Then we can have kopi and celebrate botakness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-24618382901498024682012-04-05T09:03:24.338+08:002012-04-05T09:03:24.338+08:00Crude Translation:
Got water, got water,
No water,...Crude Translation:<br />Got water, got water,<br />No water, no water,<br />Got water, give water,<br />Give water, got water.<br /><br />Clue: i think above is a dialogue in an old Cantonese film.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-36109642337780799492012-04-04T23:22:55.076+08:002012-04-04T23:22:55.076+08:001) Ronian,
That's interesting!
If it's ...1) Ronian,<br /><br />That's interesting! <br /><br />If it's transparent, the reason we see it as white is due to refraction and/or dispersing of light as it passes through the hair?<br /><br />Cool.<br /><br /><br />2) CW8888,<br /><br />Hmm... Making fun of me. Never mind! The botak look is "in" now :)Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-56828320630474301522012-04-04T23:11:18.189+08:002012-04-04T23:11:18.189+08:00Botak how?Botak how?Createwealth8888https://www.blogger.com/profile/08563834016250153049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-15972221606841954412012-04-04T22:57:27.964+08:002012-04-04T22:57:27.964+08:00Speaking of water and ice crystals, here's a l...Speaking of water and ice crystals, here's a little geeky tangent topic: Did you notice that all white things are made of tiny transparent things? Example: <br /><br />Snow = tiny transparent ice crystals <br /><br />Clouds = tiny transparent water vapor<br /><br />Salt = tiny transparent Sodium Chloride crystals<br /><br />White Paper = tiny transparent processed wood fibers<br /><br />Polar Bear Hair = thin transparent fibers (really, there is a scientific journal optical physics paper studying the use of polar bear hair as optical fibers for UV to visible light)<br /><br />White Paint = tiny transparent particles embedded in a transparent liquid medium<br /><br />So it follows that if you have white hair, it is actually transparent hair (and it is! Try plucking one out and looking at it through a microscope or magnifying glass)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-27549907783086893542012-04-04T22:43:26.642+08:002012-04-04T22:43:26.642+08:00Eh... Got the Chinese characters?Eh... Got the Chinese characters?Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-36531427143242819252012-04-04T21:50:07.691+08:002012-04-04T21:50:07.691+08:00yeow shui, yoew shui,
mou shui, mou shui
yeow shui...yeow shui, yoew shui,<br />mou shui, mou shui<br />yeow shui, quo shui,<br />quo shui, yeow shui.<br />Who said the above?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-29478338094386472912012-04-04T21:02:13.114+08:002012-04-04T21:02:13.114+08:00CW8888,
My small humble tavern is bring your own ...CW8888,<br /><br />My small humble tavern is bring your own drinks kind<br /><br />Got money, no money never mind<br /><br />We all can sit down and shoot the breeze together<br /><br />Sing a few songs, have a few lagers<br /><br />Experienced ones talk about days gone by<br /><br />Young ones talk about adventures yet to try<br /><br />After all the merry-making full of laughter <br /><br />We go home separately mumbling tomorrow will be better!Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-81475771913978706362012-04-04T20:29:33.860+08:002012-04-04T20:29:33.860+08:00No money. No talk.
When you can come here and ta...No money. No talk. <br /><br />When you can come here and talk it means that you have money or else you are busy looking for money and not talk. :-)Createwealth8888https://www.blogger.com/profile/08563834016250153049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-18884991212071206802012-04-04T20:20:28.300+08:002012-04-04T20:20:28.300+08:00Thanks Temperament!
Waited one whole day finally ...Thanks Temperament!<br /><br />Waited one whole day finally someone saw the link between my word play ;)<br /><br />Shui wei cai!<br /><br />LOL!Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-38947424643022646312012-04-04T20:10:14.699+08:002012-04-04T20:10:14.699+08:00For the Cantonese's slang, water means money.D...For the Cantonese's slang, water means money.Does the Cantonese slang means just like water, money can be in many different forms, to different people/cultures?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-38160805578901136922012-04-04T15:19:53.611+08:002012-04-04T15:19:53.611+08:00"Just make sure we are not wearing white. We ..."Just make sure we are not wearing white. We may raise the temperature in the room" <br />LOL!!!!!!! <br />For a very brief moment I wondered what politics has to do with it. And then I got it. <br />Naughty boy! :-)Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13279368221859540562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-25038843607829607822012-04-04T15:12:47.791+08:002012-04-04T15:12:47.791+08:00Jules,
A poor soul your professor... A pedant mas...Jules,<br /><br />A poor soul your professor... A pedant masquerading as a free spirit. No wonder he is melancholic!<br /><br />I take it you too have water poured over you ;)<br /><br />Ah... Refreshing! <br /><br />Just make sure we are not wearing white. We may raise the temperature in the room ;)Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-50709885212480744002012-04-04T14:49:29.068+08:002012-04-04T14:49:29.068+08:00Almost 2 decades ago, when my almost always melanc...Almost 2 decades ago, when my almost always melancholic philosophy professor told me that water is not "wet" because "wet" is not one of the properties of water ("wet" is merely what water feels to us - to be precise, "wet" is what we become after water is poured over us...), I decided to use my brain as little as possible from then on. ;-)Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13279368221859540562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-58471659464042306892012-04-04T11:42:00.368+08:002012-04-04T11:42:00.368+08:00Coconut,
The are lots of opportunities in swing t...Coconut,<br /><br />The are lots of opportunities in swing trading - both on the long and short side. I'm vested on both sides.<br /><br />As for the big one, every 4 to 5 years I've tracked that a brown bear will emerge from it's hibernation ;)<br /><br />Traders like to post charts on their entry an exit positions; while investors like to reveal their holdings.<br /><br />I prefer to write about fluffy philosophical stuffs!Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-43857161550628509052012-04-04T11:31:37.042+08:002012-04-04T11:31:37.042+08:00Coconut,
Got it!
Forgot you have a mind of your ...Coconut,<br /><br />Got it!<br /><br />Forgot you have a mind of your own. <br /><br />Ha ha!Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-46557952539887719902012-04-04T11:29:31.529+08:002012-04-04T11:29:31.529+08:00Panzer,
Indeed. Money is sometimes vilified, and ...Panzer,<br /><br />Indeed. Money is sometimes vilified, and I agree it's not everything.<br /><br />But money can also liberate and do a lot of good!<br /><br />At the end of the day, it's back to what's within us. How we see the world and ourselves. <br /><br />Some call it EQ, some call it genetics, some call it karma, some call it...Singapore Man of Leisurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13774067113884418001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897513886211197509.post-53685429234683843632012-04-04T11:08:42.324+08:002012-04-04T11:08:42.324+08:00whats the big one you referring to? sounds like yo...whats the big one you referring to? sounds like you are waiting for investment opportunity right?<br /><br />for trading, as long as there are changes in prices, there are trade opportunity.coconuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09479603768240288905noreply@blogger.com