Artificial skin that lasts forever

We already have aritificial limbs, however it is not yet accessible to the mass market, but imagine if they ever invent artificial skin that can replace our natural skin seamlessly..and replace our failing organs before they fail..we could theoretically live forever and looking young and feeling healthy forever if we can replace everything in our body with viable synthetic alternatives..from blood to skin..the only thing that might not be replaceable would be our brains but who knows? maybe there is a way to migrate our memories to another brain-like vessel that can replace our brains that will last much longer? I should have been a scientist..it may sound more like science fiction than fact but I have hope, many of the things we considered science fiction has become a normal fixture in our lives, such as cars and cellphones, why not cyborgs and robots as well?

Oranges from China..

I'm wondering, with all the flak about food from China, should we be scared of ALL food from China, including fruits? I'm eating oranges from China right now and they taste really nice and sweet surprisingly. But what concerns me is that they don't look like any oranges I've ever had before..first of all the color is really strong, like fiery orange color, not the usual light orange that most oranges have, and the other thing is the shape, they look kind of like orange colored lemons actually so I don't know whether they were interbred or GM (Genetically Modified) oranges, or whether it has to do with the way they're grown. Regardless, they taste great but I'm just wondering whether they're safe to eat..

Name change..

I just don't understand how people can just change their names..Like on Facebook sometimes I want to look up someone that I haven't really been in contact for ages and suddenly I can't find the person, I thought maybe he or she deleted me from the friends list. No doubt that is sometimes the case but every once in awhile, I'll stumble upon the person but with a DIFFERENT name! Why would someone do that?! What could compel a person to change his or her name unless it was something so horrible for them to face that they had to resort to such exteme measures? Well, all I can say is, it would pay to be careful of these here-today-gone-tomorrow characters. Worse of all if they're your friend, are you supposed to call them by their old name or new name? Whatever!

Excerpts from a conversation..

'..even Snow White has seven men! No she has 7 dwarves...oooh she's so kinky!' this was in reference to how hard it is to get guys sometimes and even Snow White has several! Figuratively speaking of course..

'..lost weight but my bulge is still the same, I didn't lose weight in my bulge..' I said to my friend I lost weight but still retain my bulk and somehow he thought I said my bulge..and he doesn't mean the one above the waist..

'curi makan vs. openly makan' To those who do not speak Malay this means in the context of a relationship to 'secretly eat vs. openly eat' i.e. to cheat or to openly have sex with other guys even though attached..My policy is honesty is always the best..

'bottomfly' something to do with a sexual role..

Intolerable cruelty

I don't understand why old people become cranky bitter crackpots when they're old. Is it because they have it against the world and blames everyone that they don't have their youth anymore? Recently I noticed my mom has become progressively worse in her behaviour, i.e. her nagging and doom-and-gloom outlook on life, in fact nowadays she's starting to swear a lot! It worries me because she seems like a far cry from the woman I used to know when I was a child, I mean she never was like a sweet young thing but still, she had a brighter outlook on things, nowadays talking to her just makes me think that the world is going to end anytime. It's scary and it seems that most of my friends around my age are going through the same thing with their moms! What is it that makes old people just go all cucko when they reach a certain age?!?

Population quantity vs. quality

I think the world population has gotten out of hand. Now there are ever more people to clothe, feed, shelter, educate, etc that I think the whole world has adopted the mass market mentality to the extreme. We of course have the ubiquitous fast food that is still the most popular choice of food, food that has nary any nutritional value but enough to satiate our hunger until the next meal, even so called home cooked style restaurants nowadays cater to the masses due to over demand. Goods and property prices have shot up due to inflation resulting in the ever growing demand for cheap mass produced goods. All over the world more and more pesticides are used to ensure higher yielding crops, less and less quality materials are used to ensure more output and the list goes on. Even education, that most vaunted of life's pursuits, has become so commercialised and financially oriented, they're practically churning out cheap low quality graduates that more often than not means low quality jobs for them with no long term career security. Basically our world has too many people for our planet to sustain, we are running out of resources at an ever compounding rate and it truly is a case of quantity over quality where life is cheap, and minimum appreciation of virtues, where violence, cruelty and disregard or humanity abound. I do not dare to imagine what the future is truly like.

No Facebook in China..

Just got back from China, it was freezing cold there! -18 degrees in Beijing, though I really wanted to see snow but it was ridiculous sometimes, felt like my nose would break off or something, thank god nothing of that kind happened, but it was quite worth the cold to have a winter wonderland feel..anyways, I was shocked to find that there's no access to Facebook in China, the whole world is on Facebook nowadays and China is like totally cut off, so I had to live without Facebook for a week, wasn't that difficult actually, didn't suffer from some Facebook withdrawal or anything..though now that I'm back I have a ton of messages and notifications to go through..well, back to the grind..