Lychee Hamlet 荔枝莊

SIDNEY SWEET:

I went there on Sunday, April 24, 2011. It's a campers' paradise. There is a small river running through the camp site, where people get fresh water, wash their food and bathe after swimming in the sea nearby. And a small beach as well... as a jetty where people can go swimming. The water is crystal clear and there are lots of trees offering shades in the sun. The camp site is huge. The trees actually partition the site into small plots where different groups can have their own private spaces. Not to mention one or two local stores where people can buy extra food and other stuff. There's one more thing that's not there at your time. By the sea, it's been turned into a 1.2km long swathe of national geological rock formation park 國家地質公園。What more can you ask for in just one place?

LAICHUNGLEUNG:

I remember the place. I went there with my HS friends. It's a bit crazy.

The Big Bang Theory Theme Song

Barenaked Ladies – The Big Bang Theory Theme Song with lyrics

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait ...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!

"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and pangea
See ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!

It all started with the big BANG!

It's expanding ever outward but one day
It will pause then start to go the other way,
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it won't be hurt
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating why we're here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
It all started with the big bang!

Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!

It all started with the big BANG!

Sultans of Swing by Mark Knopfler

An Extremely Efficient yet Simple Rotary Engine to Charge Cells for Hybrid Cars

Britain's Independent Commission on Banking

Beidou 北斗卫星导航系统

Beidou 北斗卫星导航系统, China's second-generation satellite global positioning system, featuring target location, navigation, positioning, timing and even text messaging communication, will cover the Asia Pacific region by 2012. China is accelerating the construction of her Beidou system to move ahead of the three other global navigation satellite systems. The system is estimated to be able to perform regional navigation and target location on the successful launch of the third inclined geosynchronous orbit (IGSO) satellite at 04:47 on 10 April 2011. The Beidou system is expected to cover the entire world by 2020.

China will break the monopoly of the U.S. GPS system by building the dominant satellite navigation system for the Asia Pacific region, according to Beidou chief system designer Sun Jiadong 孙家栋。

Today's launch of Beidou’s third IGSO satellite gave the system the capability to perform regional navigation and target location, a big step over the current system which covers only China. The upgrade to the third-generation system will be implemented through a tiny chip that Beidou engineers hope to place in every home, car and mobile phone in the region.

With its third-generation version being under construction, America's GPS is way ahead in this field, and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) has recovered from the disintegration of the Soviet Union and is catching up. The construction of the Galileo navigation system is delayed due to a lack of funding from the European Union.