Fuck you Bill "retired" Gates!
Anyway, today’s 2 lectures were interesting enough. The first was by a Japanese professor, who talked about the effects of a dam on human health, specifically pointing out the issues of malaria and schistosomiasis. He showed a 30 minute video on malaria in Africa, and it’s pretty tragic. Poor Africans, it’s amazing how resource rich they are, and yet also cursed with a fuckton of diseases and cultural baggage that makes that continent the worst place on live on Earth.
The 2nd lecture was by a chemist from Yale, named Victor Batista. Cool name, it reminds me of the Batista tecnique used for heart surgery in the manga Iryuu. Anyway, he started off awesomely, giving us a really indepth technical look into hydrogen fuel cells and biomemetic systems of hydrogen production, where only sunlight and water are required to make hydrogen. Hydrogen is of course, hard to carry around and bulky, but we have techniques where hydrogen is bonded to a inert substance and discharged when desired, which would greatly facilitate the storage and transport of hydrogen. I thought of a sci-fi application, andI gave the analogy of blood – imagine a car, powered by hydrogen like how we are powered by glucose. Imagine driving your car to the gas station and having it undergo dialysis, but instead of removing the waste, you just add hydrogen to the bloodstream of your car. Sounds good.
The 2nd part of his lecture was shit though, he got into really deep PhD level stuff about energy levels and the mechanisms of hydrogen production as modeled by different people. Bear in mind that even I, who has taken at least 5 chemistry modules in university, could barely follow, much less the liberal arts people and even non-scientific English speaking people. The last hour was a borefest with nobody actually listening!
After class, one of the Americans had a birthday so a cake was bought and we did the usual birthday stuff. Except a cake in Japans costs a shit load of money, something like 30 US dollars for a tiny round cake. NO WONDER the girls in Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 didn’t get any round cake!
We promised our Christian friends we would attend their house party and this time, it wasn’t all just youths like the last curry party at Yoyogi, which I mentioned on the Day 1 post. There were plenty of old dudes, and it was a bit different from the last time.
There was this rather annoying Chinese immigrant who went to America, lived in Dallas, claimed to have 3 restaurants, a 1400 CC Harley, waist length hair, 100 guns of all types, loads of money etc etc. He was touring Japan, and being a great evangelical pain in the ass. He was invited to the gathering to give a testimonial (or something like that, don’t know what these Christian terms mean) and proceeded to show off his large financial assets. He ended off with something about how he didn’t feel satisfied and gave it all up to look like a homeless Chinaman with Jesus in his heart. OK I paraphrased a little but that’s probably the gist of it. I find that the older Christians, especially the born-again Christians, tend to be more annoying. The Japanese are fine, but it’s generally the Chinese Christians who try to apply pressure on non-believers like us. I had to lie and say I was going to look up the sister church in Singapore, to get out of some sticky situations.
It’s fine though, because there were nice people to counteract those evil forces. The gathering was hosted by this Japanese family, with 2 daughters, one was in middle school year 2 and the younger one was in elementary school year 4. The younger one is really cute, and did weird shit like lie under coffee tables and rolling around like a worm. No fapping please, I hate lolicons. I’ll give you some bloody hilarious pictures.
She behaves like a woodlouse, permanently seeking shade and shelter.
THIS IS NOT A GIANT BONER. OR IS IT?
A lolicon is in the midst!
Oh yeah, the loli is a potential hikkikomori.
Must be her way of coping with stress at school. Is she in a cram school yet?
Erm. Is she supposed to be a subject for some exorcism rite?
I used to do that when I was really young too, that sleep-under-table thing.
Basically, I felt like I had protection within my own fortress and could swivel round the legs of the tables while shooting lasers at enemies.
Alas, my mum replaced the usual four-legged dining table with a centre-pillared kind of platform, and my fortress became a bus stop.
Oh sh—! Crawling loli! XD
No night adventures this day? *sigh*
Shame everybody drinks out of plastic glasses.
clearly, a solid snake wannabe.
anyway, a shame the cake was that expensive though, that explains why they don’t smash couples with cakes in japanese weddings like the westerners do…
“She behaves like a woodlouse, permanently seeking shade and shelter.”
she earthquake-ready or something???
Nice boner bro.
I do believe I have warned you about the charismatic Christians the last time round. -_-
I think he has to worry about the charismatic Loli instead.
That is why I never leave windows to update by itself. Sane people manually update.
You realise you intentionally invited lolicons by posting pictures of a loli?
I’m surprise people didn’t think of TJ as a lolicon for taking quite an amount of pictures of a loli.
But Born-Again Christians are funny like that. Take care not to slight them though, unless you’re itching for a heated debate…
“Di Gi Kazune: That is why I never leave windows to update by itself. Sane people manually update.
You realise you intentionally invited lolicons by posting pictures of a loli?”
Seconded ^^
Hydrogen Fuel is very promising, i only hope that we can mass produce soon enough.`-~
hydrogen fueled vehicles are the best but they are still not widely available.`~~
i think that the best fuel that we can use is Hydrogen, this does not product polluting gases at all“~
i would love to use hydrogen fuel on my car, this fuel is really nonpolluting but is not yet very available ~*.