Spotify 2019 wrapped up

mamao — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:30:51 +0800

hows your 2019 music taste?

German streamer gets sent literal shit

mamao — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 22:00:08 +0800

[YOUTUBE]dMJ30eAnJnE[/YOUTUBE]

germans and their cussing

So i went to Plaza Merdeka,Kuching

mamao — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:22:25 +0800

nothing much.just boring snap some pictures only

used to hear tis song long time ago

mamao — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:10:40 +0800

[YOUTUBE]nC-hRW91A94[/YOUTUBE]

i feel like

how to keep in touch wif frens?

mamao — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:54:23 +0800

Tips for decoding body language

mamao — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:35:46 +0800

50 ribu ayat tanpa huruf 'e'

mamao — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:27:57 +0800

A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E”
by Ernest Vincent Wright

If youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.”A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.

Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. “You can’t do this,” or “that puts you out,” shows a child that it must think, practically or fail. Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of “status quo,” as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today.

But a human brain is not in that class. Constantly throbbing and pulsating, it rapidly forms opinions; attaining an ability of its own; a fact which is startlingly shown by an occasional child “prodigy” in music or school work. And as, with our dumb animals, a child’s inability convincingly to impart its thoughts to us, should not class it as ignorant.

Upon this basis I am going to show you how a bunch of bright young folks did find a champion; a man with boys and girls of his own; a man of so dominating and happy individuality that Youth is drawn to him as is a fly to a sugar bowl. It is a story about a small town. It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary “fill-ins” as “romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road.” Nor will it say anything about tinklings lulling distant folds; robins carolling at twilight, nor any “warm glow of lamplight” from a cabin window. No. It is an account of up-and-doing activity; a vivid portrayal of Youth as it is today; and a practical discarding of that worn-out notion that “a child don’t know anything.”

Now, any author, from history’s dawn, always had that most important aid to writing: an ability to call upon any word in his dictionary in building up his story. That is, our strict laws as to word construction did not block his path. But in my story that mighty obstruction will constantly stand in my path; for many an important, common word I cannot adopt, owing to its orthography.

I shall act as a sort of historian for this small town; associating with its inhabitants, and striving to acquaint you with its youths, in such a way that you can look, knowingly, upon any child, rich or poor; forward or “backward;” your own, or John Smith’s, in your community. You will find many young minds aspiring to know how, and why such a thing is so. And, if a child shows curiosity in that way, how ridiculous it is for you to snap out:— “Oh! Don’t ask about things too old for you!”

Such a jolt to a young child’s mind, craving instruction, is apt so to dull its avidity, as to hold it back in its school work. Try to look upon a child as a small, soft young body and a rapidly growing, constantly inquiring brain. It must grow to maturity slowly. Forcing a child through school by constant night study during hours in which it should run and play, can bring on insomnia; handicapping both brain and body.

Now this small town in our story had grown in just that way:— slowly; in fact, much too slowly to stand on a par with many a thousand of its kind in this big, vigorous nation of ours. It was simply stagnating; just as a small mountain brook, coming to a hollow, might stop, and sink from sight, through not having a will to find a way through that obstruction; or around it. You will run across such a dormant town, occasionally; possibly so dormant that only outright isolation by a fast-moving world, will show it its folly. If you will tour Asia, Yucatan, or parts of Africa and Italy, you will find many sad ruins of past kingdoms. Go to Indo-China and visit its gigantic Ankhor Vat; call at Damascus, Baghdad and Samarkand. What sorrowful lack of ambition many such a community shows in thus discarding such high-class construction! And I say, again, that so will Youth grow dormant, and hold this big, throbbing world back, if no champion backs it up; thus providing it with an opportunity to show its ability for looking forward, and improving unsatisfactory conditions.

So this small town of Branton Hills was lazily snoozing amidst up-and-doing towns, as Youth’s Champion, John Gadsby, took hold of it; and shook its dawdling, flabby body until its inhabitants thought a tornado had struck it. Call it tornado, volcano, military onslaught, or what you will, this town found that it had a bunch of kids who had wills that would admit of no snoozing; for that is Youth, on its forward march of inquiry, thought and action.

If you stop to think of it, you will find that it is customary for our “grown-up” brain to cast off many of its functions of its youth; and to think only of what it calls “topics of maturity.” Amongst such discards is many a form of happy play; many a muscular activity such as walking, running, climbing; thus totally missing that alluring “joy of living” of childhood. If you wish a vacation from financial affairs, just go out and play with Youth. Play “blind-man’s buff,’’ “hop-scotch,” “ring toss,” and football. Go out to a charming woodland spot on a picnic with a bright, happy, vivacious group. Sit down at a corn roast; a marshmallow toast; join in singing popular songs; drink a quart of good, rich milk; burrow into that big lunch box; and all such things as banks, stocks, and family bills, will vanish on fairy wings, into oblivion.

But this is not a claim that Man should stay always youthful. Supposing that that famous Spaniard, landing upon Florida’s coral strands, had found that mythical Fountain of Youth; what a calamity for mankind! A world without maturity of thought; without man’s full-grown muscular ability to construct mighty buildings, railroads and ships; a world without authors, doctors, savants, musicians; nothing but Youth! I can think of but a solitary approval of such a condition; for such a horror as war would not, —could not occur; for a child is, naturally, a small bunch of sympathy. I know that boys will “scrap ;” also that “spats” will occur amongst girls; but, at such a monstrosity as killings by bombing towns, sinking ships, or mass annihilation of marching troops, childhood would stand aghast. Not a tiny bird would fall; nor would any form of gun nor facility for manufacturing it, insult that almost Holy purity of youthful thought. Anybody who knows that wracking sorrow brought upon a child by a dying puppy or cat, knows that childhood can show us that our fighting, our policy of “a tooth for a tooth,” is abominably wrong.

ur best childhood jokes?

mamao — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:38:45 +0800

actually too many to list out.maybe /k/ can share-share lah

Do all lengluis high maintenance?

mamao — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:17:36 +0800

Are they?
unless u richfag then no problem

inb4 ada wang ada amoi

what ur parents doing rite now?

mamao — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:08:27 +0800

when live far-far away somehow makes me wondering

Password semulajadi

mamao — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:53:12 +0800

Saintis berjaya mencipta sistem keselamatan baru. Sistem ini menggunakan denyut seseorang untuk dijadikan password dan denyut jantung tiap orang sangat unik iaitu berbeza kepada setiap orang.

Saintis di China menemui cara untuk mengenalpasti secara matematik denyut seseorang secara segera dan menggunakannya sebagai password.

“Kerana signal elektrokardiogram setiap orang berbeza-beza, ini boleh dijadikan pengenalan biometrik,” kata pengkaji di National Chung Hsing University di Taichung, Taiwan.

Ketua saintis Chun-Liang Lin menggunakan dua alat pembaca ECG dari telapak orang untuk menentukan properti matematik unik denyut jantung mereka. Hasilnya, mereka menemui angka ini boleh digunakan untuk password, dan sistem ini sangat selamat.

Sistem biometrik menggunakan cap jari boleh dirakam menggunakan gambar namun sistem denyut ini tidak. Kita tunggu saja kalau-kalau jadi kenyataan.

sos

1 month wif rm50 only

mamao — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:21:47 +0800

as uni student enuff or not with rm50?checking my wallet just now

the best lollipop u eat?

mamao — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:21:16 +0800

chupa chups?

midnight chill and wonderful songs

mamao — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:23:10 +0800

i know some ppl surf /k/ while listening to song

kemon la share2 pls

today so cold tiap2 hari hujan

mamao — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:53:57 +0800

wanna cook megi or wat?

i wan tis kind of kittens

mamao — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:44:26 +0800

[YOUTUBE]LcWKpCPTH3Q[/YOUTUBE]

or any breed similar to this?

pls help wat reasons to give?

mamao — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:53:26 +0800

last thursday i escaped my 8 am physics class.now tomorrow the same class,i need a very very good and logic reasons to tell my lecturer

inb4 ts is lazy person dun wan to attend class

come here /k/

mamao — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:06:40 +0800

regarding to this thread,
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2134544

experience>uni>skills>cgpa>language(engrand company/chinaman)>attitude>resume>~~race~~>attire

wat comes 1st?

constructive talk pls.no serious ~~talk~~ troll

Bio-oil

mamao — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:12:57 +0800

how much it cost?

doubt to buy it .any users here??

wimmenz in engineering

mamao — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:10:34 +0800

i leave /k/ to discuss about tis

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