Swine Flu

Thursday, April 30, 2009 at Thursday, April 30, 2009
The latest Swine Flu virus has the latest death toll of 176 in Mexico. Also, a 23-month-old toddler has died from Swine Flu in the United States. This is the first death from Swine Flu occuring outside Mexico. The toddler was Mexican and died in the United States while getting treatment there. The World Health Organisation has declared a Phase five health alert saying that this Virus could quickly mutate to become a rapidly spreading, and a pandemic is said to be imminent. Phase 5 is 1 step short of a Phase 6 health alert of a full scale pandemic, such like that of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS for short. However, an overkill should not be performed and a level of calmness needs to be maintained and this matter needs to be dealt with rationally.

In Europe, four cases of Swine Flu were confirmed - two in Britain and two in Spain - with Austria investigating five suspected cases. Spanish officials were probing about 25 other suspected cases, and potential infections were also being investigated in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Sweden.
Across Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand reported 10 confirmed cases of Swine Flu, and both Thailand and South Korea reported suspected cases. China was investigating several suspected cases. *statistics from google news*

Symptoms of the Swine Influenza Human Strain, influenza A virus subtype Hemagglutinin 1 N1:
Influenza-like symptoms like, chills, sore throats, muscle aches, general discomfort, weakness, headache and coughing. These symptoms are quite like those seen affecting some 14 of my class mates the last two weeks. However, such symptoms are also the likes of the rhinovirus, which is the normal, and usually non-lethal, Influenza strain affecting humans.

Rhinovirus subtypes A and B are the causes of domestic colds. Sporting microtubular Ribonucleic acid chains of the positive sense, this virus thrives best in temperatures ranging from 31 to 35 degrees Celcius, which is the temperature Singapore is generally experiencing. The dettol spray used by Jeremy in our class stops Rhinovirus and disinfects it. However, only conventional medications like Interferon-alpha, which is intranasally effective but causes side-effects like nose bleeding, and Pleconaril, which is orally bioavailable, can stop the virus once it is already in the body.

Autobot Victory

Friday, April 24, 2009 at Friday, April 24, 2009

Here is a short footage of Optimus Prime extinguishing Megatron's spark, ending the 5 million megacycle war between the heroic autobots and the malignant decepticons( Transformers: The Game)

Thursday, April 23, 2009 at Thursday, April 23, 2009
Sigh. Today everyone seems to be sick. 3e2 is very quiet and theres been an outbreak of a bug of some sort. I think its the Flu. It may be caused by the heat, or by a dirty classroom.. Im not sure of the cause. Alot of people in 3e2 did'nt come to school today and a quarter of those that did went home. Jackie didnt come.. Winston went home before recess.. The class was too quiet.. Lets just hope they get well before the examinations..
(its a good thing i dont get sick easy)

I created these yu-gi-oh card that dont exist. Saw some examples on nigel's blog.







Click the photos for close ups.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Saturday, April 18, 2009
TODAY in history:

Today, 4 years ago, my first pet died. Yes. It died. Horribly.

My first pet was a yabby. A yabby is a kind of mutated blue lobster-like thing. No wait. It is a lobster. Only its blue. And its called a yabby. No no no. ITs a SUB-SPECIES of the lobster, yeah. A real lobster would be red or black. However, there ARE BLUE lobsters, but the chances of a lobster being blue is 1 in 10 000 000. ALL yabbys are blue. That's why they're not called lobsters. I hope you get me. And btw he was 3 inches long.

I kept the little guy in a tiny container (12cm x 18cm) and i guess he got fed up of the tiny container. The morning before the day he died, he had shed his skin (call it a shell if you might).
(Lobsters and snakes shed their skins) That night i forgot to cover the container of the little guy. I went to bed. Apparently, what that guy did was that he jumped out of the container. Quite literally. And what's more, the container was on top of my TV. Its like you jumping out of a 10 storey building. AND he didnt die!
HE crawled to my bedroom, which for him is like a mile away, went under my bed, and died from the lack of water. WOW.
The next morning, i woke up for school and i wanted to look at him, like i did every morning. Then i saw he was missing. So frantically, i searched, but i couldnt find him. I went to school. Could'nt pay attention. I came back, and found my mom had found it. As expected, the little invertibrate (it means 'no backbone') had died. UNDER MY BED. It was like he wanted to kill me. I was downcast. First pet. Died. Not even 2 months since i bought him. Myself. For $2. But i got over it. My dad got me 2 authentic lobsters next. Both of them died. Arh! I hate myself for that. I'm never keeping invertebrates again..
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at Thursday, April 16, 2009
Blog post #74

There are many pictures i want to post but don't have time for.

To add to Winston's comment on the coordinates of NAME's location being innacurate, I would like to tell him (if he does not already know) that one's IP (internet protocol) address changes EVERY time the user disengages his modem or disconnects from his broadband or any server he used to surf the net. To manually change one's IP address without compromising on any connections, one should have basic knowledge on command prompts or 'cmd' for short. He would have to know how to run the 'ipconfig/release' and 'ipconfig/renew' commands consecutively via the command prompt application. Due to this constant change, one would be unable to accurately pinpoint the location of the user. Also, even if the user's IP address was kept constant, the 25 mile or 40.2336 km radius would make it virtually impossible to locate the user, unless one has a fix on the proxy server used by the person.
Thank you.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Post #73

Good day to all. Today there is nothing much to dedicate any web logs about. So i shall end with the fact that the earth has a circumference of: 40,075.02 KM (equatorial) 40,007.86 KM (meridional) 40,041.47 KM (mean). The earth is not perfectly spehrical.

NAME:
Hostname: Ip: 220.255.7.239
ISP: SingNet Pte Ltd
Organization: SingNet Pte Ltd
Type: Cable/DSL
Proxy: Confirmed proxy server-- Transparent Proxy
Country: Singapore
State/Region: 00
City: Singapore
Latitude: 1.2931
Longitude: 103.8558
Area Code: SG

Area correct to + or - 25 miles.
25 miles = 40.2336 kilometres (highly innacurate, since Singapore Island's length is roughly 41.8 kilometres)
Thursday, April 9, 2009 at Thursday, April 09, 2009
I love these guys.. BTW if u didnt know them the're the SRMTHFG (super robot monkey team hyper force go!)

SPRX-77 evil within.


Season 2 characters.. No different from season one, except with the new Antari( the one at the top)



SPRX-77 wiht his 'magna-bolt beam splitter"

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