Category: General

A good song is like the fireplace on a cold winter night – it warms the heart and soothes the soul. There are songs that we have listened to a thousand times but never knew who the singer is. These are songs that we can relate to, either because it tells the story of our love, a memorable incident in our life or it is simply pleasant to listen to.

I love songs that have down-to-earth lyrics, one that is simple to understand and meaningful. I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song is one of them. Great mellifluous vocals and excellent guitar accompaniment makes this one of my easy listening favourites.

I did not know who sang it until I did a web search. I have never heard of Jim Croce. Nevertheless, his vocal is rich and comforting. He had such an honest voice that it is heartwarming listening to him sing. Jim Croce died in an airplane crash in September 30, 1973 at the age of 30. His legend lives on in www.jimcroce.com.

… is a dangerous thing. When you think you know bits and pieces more than everybody else does, that does not make you smarter than them. It will only give you the confidence to mess up big time and make you look like an idiot.

My digicam have been eating up rechargeable batteries like no tomorrow. I read in the manual that you have to put the batteries through several cycles of discharging and charging to enable them to reach full capacity.

The charger that came with the camera did not have a discharge function. The manual recommended that I discharge the batteries by leaving the digicam LCD on until the batteries are exhausted. But I had a better idea. I went out and bought a flashlight to discharge them.

My logic, I told Wuan, was that I could totally drain the batteries, fast and cheap, without having to buy an expensive charger with a discharge function. Unbeknownst to me, these rechargeable batteries should not be totally drained because that will irreversibly damage them. That I didn?t know until I had ran through two discharging cycles.

Are the batteries damaged? I do not know because I never had them working long enough to take more than ten shots from the time I got the digicam until now. But what I do know is I am not as smart as I thought I was.

Now I am planning to get the new Sanyo 2100mAh NiMH rechargeable batteries and the Maha MH-204F Smart Charger that can separately charge and discharge 2 sets of batteries at the same time. Have I learnt my lesson? Time will tell.

I have almost forgotten about his on-stage caper at the 75th Annual Academy Awards until I came across his web site. This man is unpretentiously vociferous and boy, has he got balls! Instead of giving a run-of-the-mill acceptance speech after winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for his film “Bowling for Columbine,” he ticked off the President of the USA for invading Iraq before his peers in the Kodak Theatre and a worldwide audience from 157 countries watching the live telecast. Go read more of what he has to say about George W. Bush at www.michaelmoore.com.