lower peirce - sigma 35-70mm, DAL55-300mm

lower peirce reservoir shrouded in haze. he did not play golf this week because khoo and james could not make it. so he had more time to shoot.

here's some of the better ones:

dark matter - a conjecture in the dark

dark matter accounts for 80% of the total matter in the universe. what's dark matter?

scientists are still in the dark.

could it that dark matter is just like ordinary matter, only that they existed not long enough for it's light and electromagnetic waves to reach the earth; so it's not observable?

if that's the case, then all matters were created not at the same time when the big bang happened. after the big bang, new matters were created as time passed by, and when the galaxies expanded far enough, that the light of these new matters did not have enough time to reach the earth to be observed, hence scientists on earth observed a certain far-away galaxy moved in certain way which suggest there were more matters than that could be observed.


NO - conjecture is rejected.

if the phenomenon of the galaxy movement that's obesreved NOW could not be explained by whatever observable matters, the extra unobservable matters MUST be DARK matters as defined, since their em waves also would travel at the same speed as those of the obseravble matters, and they could have reached earth if those observables ones already have.

water - boon or bane?

megi has brought record rainfall in north eatern taiwan, creating an ocean in yeelan province and bring down a places of the su-ao highway. in plain, the rainfall reached 990mm, whereas in teh mountains, it recorded over 1900mm.....

and all this water after wrecking havoc on people's lives, goes to waste.

and we do something to get something useful out of it?

haze - you know

haze is back. the smell, the hazy view, the sauna-like heat make one very uneasy.

he said to his fren, "looks like indonesia is burning again."

his fren said, "burning? no. it's a big-time kretek smoking contest. you know, you know?"

MMs - and the suckers

lee hsieng loong, prince charles and najib were taking their retreat in the island of M&M.... without their wives....

prince charles said, "look i'm a really matured man now.... more than old enough to be king, don't you think so?"

lee said, "ya..."

"but my MaMa just wouldn't trust me to hand me her throne."

lee said, "i'm 57, smart and competent, but my father, the MM still wants to mentor me. najib, your MM still haunts you?"

"me..... hahaha.... you mean our beloved mahathir?"

"no, i mean the murdered mongolian ."