I know that President-Elect Barack Obama used to live in Indonesia for few years, but I don’t know that his ‘twin’ is still living in Indonesia until now. I can’t stop laughing to see the skinnier version of Mr. Obama

I wonder if FBI agent read this post and hire him as Obama’s twin

I went to IKEA this past weekend and noticed that there are literally hundreds of clock are set to 10:10. I was so amazed with that and began to wonder why clock manufacturers set the clock to ten past ten.

It turns out that there are many speculations and reasons why clock manufacturers display the hands of the clock at 10 and 2

• It looks better, aesthetically and practically.
• it resembles a ’smile’ on its face
• it resembles a ‘victory’ sign (v)
• to put the company logo in between the ‘frame’ and hence not blocked by the hand and well displayed
• to make your eye naturally follow to the through and thus bringing your view right to the trademark

The opinions I’ve read tend toward framing the maker’s name on the clock face. Viz: when the logo is placed above the center, the hands are at 10:10 but when the logo is below the center, the hands are shown at 8:20 framing the maker’s name. Wristwatch advertising follows this trend.” - Les Lesovsky…

Most manufacturers trademarks are just above the center pipe, and having the hands at 10:10 causes your eye to naturally follow to the trough, thus bringing your view right to the trademark….’ and often the Model name is centered under the center pipe, ruling out any hand more or less straight down (between 5 and 7). Date windows most often are at 9 or 3, and subsidiary seconds usually at 6. For aesthetic reasons you want the two hands neither nearly covering each other nor nearly in a straight line. By default the 10h10 looks pretty good.” - Fortunat Mueller-Maerki…

The answer is probably quite simply that it looks better, aesthetically and practically, as the clock has a ’smile’ on its face (not just a marketing gimmick, it really does look better than a ‘down turned mouth’ at 8.20) and, as others have said, because it keeps the hands clear of signatures and other subsidiary dials. I note that not every firm uses that position in their marketing though. Synchronome, for example, appear to depict their dials at 3.00.’ - Jonathan Betts

I too have heard the ’smile’ theory, which makes some sense from the emotional marketing perspective. Equally likely is the fact that most manufacturer’s trademarks are just above the center pipe, and having the hands at 10:10 causes your eye to naturally follow to the trough, thus bringing your view right to the trademark.’ - Tom Frank

The hands on timepieces are placed at ten-ten so the company logo on the face on the face will be framed and not blocked by the hands. Timex says the industry standard used to be eight-twenty but that looked too much like a frown and created an unhappy look. Timex also says in its ads, the clock hands are placed at ten-nine and thirty six seconds, exactly.

2 Interesting quotation from Mahatma Gandhi

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.  If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end up by really becoming incapable of doing it.

If I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Very powerful quotation indeed. Nothing is impossible if we keep trying and pray. Ora et Labora

Sometime, if you want to remind your self to follow up about email that you received, you might mark the email as unread. However, when you receive more than 300 emails a day, the unread email can be easily buried.

Thankfully, gmail can display all unread email in box. How? In the search box at the top of the page, type the following:

label:(unread inbox)

Then, click search. All of your unread emails will be displayed.

Today is one of the hottest days here in columbus but yet, I still managed to go out and walked around a beautiful garden in Westerville. The garden used to owned by sisters that donated the whole 37 acre of gardens to the state.

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This morning, I read a very interesting quotation from “the naladiyar”, an ancient text:

Learning is the best of all wealth; it is easy to carry; thieves cannot steal it, and tyrants cannot seize it; neither fire nor water can destroy it; and far from decreasing, it increases by giving

It is very powerful and encouraging. I still remember how I feel when I was in elementary school. I always wanted to get done with school and learning so that I can have some fun and do nothing. But now, after I graduated from college, I found out that there are a lot of things you can do after college. Interestingly, all of them involve learning and I enjoy it so much. Really, searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins

The company where I’m currently working for requiring all of the employees to take StrengthsFinder test. They believe that in order to make a good atmosphere in a corporate world, one need to know his strength. Therefore without further ado, here is the top 5 strength I have:

Beautiful poem that apparently is being used in Harold and Kumar 2. This poem is actually a real poem and was written by David Kleinberg. Enjoy!

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

 

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

 

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

 

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

 

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

 

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

 

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

 

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

 

I went to my Nick’s birthday party yesterday and I took the a picture of a wild random grass. Spring is indeed coming

Recently I took Myers-Briggs test, a famous personality test, and Jungian test, a personality test tailored more for programmer. Interestingly since Jungian is actually based on Myers-Briggs, I got 2 different results that is actually very close and related to each other (of course both tests were taken by me). It turns out that I have ENTJ (Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging) personality on the Myers-Briggs test  and ESTJ (Extroverted Sensitive Thinking Judging) personality on the Jungian test  

Based on the test, the following is the recommended career path for me for both ENTJ and ESTJ

ENTJ - Business executives, CEOs, organization founders, business administrators, managers, entrepeneurs, judges, lawyers, computer consultants, university professors, politicians, credit investigators, labor relations worker, marketing department manager, mortgage banker, systems analysts, scientists. They are born to lead and can steer the organization towards their vision, using their excellent organizing and understanding of what needs to get done.

ESTJ - Military, business administrators, managers, police/detective work, judges, financial officers, teachers, sales representatives, government workers, insurance agents, underwriters, nursing administrators, trade and technical teachers, mafia dons. Natural leaders, they work best when they are in charge and enforcing the rules.

Woahh..  both ENTJ and ESTJ are cool. If I really have ENTJ personality, I will be a CEO or else if I really have ESTJ personality, I will be a MAFIA DONS. Hahahahaha I can’t stop laughing. What is yours?