my mom's new bike

yo we gotta get this one
they have it for as cheap as around 200 bucks
it is foldable and it is pretty light so i don't have to worry about stupid bus boys stealing my bike in NY and I can keep it indoors

Hong ik uni

In front of all the big universities they have markets, shopping, stores,, karaokes.. bars.. bla blah but this university had some really cool stuff in front of it namely.. .SHOESSS

Elizabeth and Michael Sitting In A Tree...

As US swimming sensation Michael Phelps sets his sights on more gold medal wins at the Beijing Olympics this weekend, the BBC's Michael Hirst examines the part an extraordinary diet has played in the sportsman's remarkable success.

If it is true that you are what you eat, then here is the suggested intake if you want to become history's most successful Olympian:

MICHAEL PHELPS' DIET

Breakfast: Three fried egg sandwiches; cheese; tomatoes; lettuce; fried onions; mayonnaise; three chocolate-chip pancakes; five-egg omelette; three sugar-coated slices of French toast; bowl of grits; two cups of coffee

For lunch: half a kilogram (one pound) of enriched pasta; two large ham and cheese sandwiches on white bread smothered with mayonnaise, washed down by energy drinks.

For dinner: Another half-kilogram of pasta, perhaps with a carbonara sauce, followed by a large pizza and more energy drinks.

That combination may not sound very healthy, and at a staggering 10,000 calories, would feed five average men for a day.

But the menu is reportedly all in a training day's eating for champion swimmer Michael Phelps, who won six gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics and is aiming for eight this time round.

"Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do,"

said the US swimmer, after winning his 11th Olympic gold.

Judging by the amount he eats and swims, that is not altogether surprising.

Barbara Lewin, a nutritionist who has advised international athletes on their dietary health for almost two decades, thinks "Health-wise, if he were eating like this long-term, he'd probably be having to see a cardiologist regularly. She recommended cutting out the egg yolks, replacing the white bread with whole-wheat, throwing some fruit and vegetables into the mix, and spreading the food out over the day with regular snacking.

But while the quality of the calories consumed by the six-foot four-inch (1.93m) swimmer may not seem healthy, Ms Lewin suggested there are good reasons behind Mr Phelps' diet.
"I've worked with more than 1,000 endurance athletes - swimmers and runners - and one of the most common problems they have is glycogen depletion - the result of not getting enough carbohydrates," she said.

"Nine out of 10 times the reason an athlete doesn't reach their personal best is because they're not getting enough carbohydrates and that's what your muscles need for food."

The Phelps diet is not recommended for everyone. Due to his muscle-intensive physique, the swimmer's metabolism - the process of converting food into energy - far exceeds that of a more average man, said Jeff Kotterman, director of the US National Association of Sports Nutrition.
"It's a combination of peak performance coupled with the fact that he has an enormous metabolism - he burns more calories sitting at a desk than a lot of people burn walking," Mr Kotterman told the BBC.

He suggested Phelps, with an estimated 8% body fat, probably burns 1,000 calories per hour during his swimming training, compared to the equivalent exercise for an average person - vigorous walking - that would burn between 170 and 240 calories.

But then again, Michael Phelps - who has now won the 400m medley, 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 4x100m free relay, 4x200m free relay and the 200m medley in world record times - is clearly no ordinary man.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7562840.stm

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Century Old Friend

'Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed.'
- Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

A baby hippopotamus

that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has
formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal
facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650
pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced
back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26,
before wildlife rangers rescued him.

'It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male
tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy
with being a 'mother',' ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of
Lafarge Park , told AFP.

'After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had
to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on
the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep
together,' the ecologist added. 'The hippo follows the tortoise exactly
the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the
hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,' Kahumbu
added.

'The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by
nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for
four years,' he explained.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away.
This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much
when we need the comfort of another. We could all learn a lesson from
these two creatures. Look beyond the differences and find a way to
walk the path together.
Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate

And to think that there are still humans who insist that other animals besides us have neither emotions nor intellect but simply live according to instinct.....

It's crazy that the current world state we have created led to a century old tortoise and a baby hippo becoming friends.

It's like the mass extinction is causing completely different species to reach out to one another in a last attempt at FAMILY because there is no one left! Thank goodness God created a world that even a hippo and a tortoise can be friends FOR REAL, despite all ecological adversity around them. The tsunamis are pulling nations apart and this is a definite sign that the bio-organism is being pushed to its limits and is reacting back. It's occuring on so many levels, animals, nutrition, weather, art, death.

Gosh I really wonder what the tortoise is sensing.

art exhibition

they had a contemporary art exhibition at coex... it's like.. the convention center in korea.
they also had one painting by Murakami which was cool.... but the coolest part was the video installation, there were robots, houses, walls, and rooms made out of tv's.. ... marshall mcluhan style... ... the medium is the message... we are.. subjects of machinery... TAKING OVER.... ... GET ME OUT OF THE MATRIX!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME RED PILL!!!!!! or the blue one? I forgot.. he should have just taken both.

arcade- asian style / Mall

aquarium

i actually took some good videos but it seems to take forever to load. maybe i'll do that later
they had pretty much everything.... even BATS? that whole bat cube was filled with poop

and they had penguins... mmmm







they had very weird rooms where they tortured fish in.... .. machinery? they even put fish in a laundry machine
I think they thought.. it looked cool? but it just seemed.. tasteless
but anyway amusing enough for me to take pictures..