life's like this - avianto's journal

• is the number that has the meaning “good will always triumph over evil”
• is the code for international direct-dial phone calls to France
• is the age of Alexander the Great when he died
• is the atomic number of arsenic
• is a significant number in modern numerology, one of the master numbers along with 11 and 22
• is the title of the first episode of the new Battlestar Galactica television series
• is the number of vertebrae in a normal human spine
• is not the answer to life, the universe and everything. It’s still 42.

is also the number of years I’ve been breathing on this planet today.

Re-quoted my favorite poem:

“As through the calendar I delve
I pause to rejoice in April twelve.
Yea, be I in sickness or be I in health
My favorite date is April twealth.
…”
“Lines in Praise of a Date Made Praiseworthy Solely by Something Very Nice That Happened to It”,
by Ogden Nash

After a meeting with Ministry of Communication and Informatics yesterday night, I am still amazed about how linear, short-sighted, narrow minded and low self-esteem my government is. From the discussion, all of those attributes were coming out one by one and it scared me. A lot. Self-Esteem If I burn the barn just because I can not catch one rat, I believe people will call me stupid, absurd or even idiot. But that was what happened with YouTube case. I don’t know who was behind the idea of blocking YouTube, the Minister said it was coming from the President, just / Read more …