Came out from my cave last night. Checked my email and got news that Lisa had passed away. Heart was filled with sadness.
Never met her or spoke to her. Just through our blogs and emails. She always had comforting and encouraging words for me especially with regards to my kids. Sometimes you don't even need to meet the person to know she was a wonderful soul.
RIP Lisa.
I want one.
Japan is bracing itself for bad times after scores of the usually rare, giant Oarfish have washed ashore and been caught in coastal fisherman’s nets.
The sightings started after the ‘quake in Chile and the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan. The rash of tectonic shifting around the Pacific “Ring of Fire” is causing concern that Japan is next, and these gigantor fish aren’t helping.
The Oarfish is traditionally known as a messenger fish from the sea gods, and it’s tidings are usually grim. The fish can grow up to five metres in length and usually found at depths of 1, 000 ft. Long and slender with a dorsal fin that runs the length of it’s body, the fish resembles a kind of steam-rolled snake.
According to folklore, the fish will come ashore and beach itself to warn of an impending earthquake and there are scientific theories that bottom-dwelling fish may very well be susceptible to movements in seismic fault lines and act in uncharacteristic ways in advance of an earthquake – but experts here are placing more faith in their constant high-tech monitoring of the tectonic plates beneath the surface.
Ever wished your Nikon was in a different colour?
This is old but still cool.
Good movie. Good build up. You'll be swinging that nunchuk inside of you against the bully for sure. 12 parts in all, part 1 can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPiKliSaVQ
Spirit of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon a Time in High School (Korean: 말죽거리 잔혹사) is a 2004 South Korean drama/action film. The background of the film was set in a high school in South Korea, 1978.
Hyun-soo, transfers to another school. He is sent to a bottom-rank class and experiences violence in classroom by the group of gangsters in his class, led by Jong-hun, who is a stereotypical Korean bully in school. The teachers are also depicted as authoritarian to the students, using violence to the students for the sake of discipline, as did most Korean teachers in the 70s and to some extent in the modern days as well.
Hyun-soo, after a failed relationship with Eunjoo, decides that he will no longer put up with the conduct of Jong-hun and his boys as well as the harsh and violent disciplinary techniques being put up by the teachers, trained himself up in Jeet Kune Do by himself. His father, a martial artist, frequently resorted to minor violence to discipline his son.
Hyun-soo challenged Jong-hun to a duel one day when he was no longer able to put up with his behaviour.
