Once upon a time, there is this little bug named Kumbang Mi staying in his Buggieland, happily with his other kumbangs- Kumbang La, Kumbang Dan, and many other fellow kumbangs. They also share the same Buggieland with other Buggites- Rama-Rama, Semut, Nyamuk... They live happily in this Buggie Land. The Buggie land is a wonderful nation too. They have a great king Raja Kumbang and he is very wise.
Raja King wants his children to know more about the things outside the buggie world. So he sent many of his children out and let them go and explore the wonderful world. The king also sent other Buggites out to learn. He wants them to teach young Buggites in return.
However, being wise too, the king warns them about the excitement they will find and also the potential threats that they will face. He gives them advice so that they may not trap easily. He also encourage them so that they will not give up half way. So, Kumbang Mi, Kumbang La, Kumbang Dan, Rama-Rama Sa, Semut Pi, Nyamuk Ju...all of them are ready to leave the Buggieland. Some for the very first time.
Nyamuk Ju is very impatient to leave this place. She wanted to settle elsewhere because in Buggieland, she is not allowed to suck any of the kumbangites and other buggie's blood. She has to rely on the supply of her family source and drink blood silently. During the journey, she met another Nyamuk named Ades. Ades is very goodlooking, he has wonderful strips like zebra and Ades is very charming too. So, together they fall in love at settle by the lake and Nyamuk Ju never comeback to Buggieland.
Semut Pi is very scared. Since he never leaves his people and this is his first time going out without his huge families, he is in fact nervous. Nonetheless, he met many wonderful friends especially Kura-kura. Kura-Kura offered him shelther and invited him to stay at his place. Semut Pi help them with chores. Semut Pi heard many new stories about Kura-kura. He stayed for a little longer and go home. He even manage to convince Kura-kura to come home and stay in Buggieland. Kura-kura likes Buggieland too but he missed kangkung, his favorite snacks. So he went home after a month and promise will come visit again.
Rama-Rama Sa loves flowers. She visits many flowers. Some are new and some are the beutiful ones she sees everyday in Buggieland. She befriends Lebah and together they learn more about honey. Rama-Rama Sa manage to create new honey from new nectar that she never got to taste. Although she almost got trap at labah-labah nest, she is glad that she manage to learn new things. She also learn many new honey making technique from Lebah. After sometime, she goes home and brought home some new flower seeds. Buggieland has more beautiful flowers and nectar.
Kumbang Mi however refuse to make friends. He stayed in his nest most of the time. He is smart because he reads a lot in Buggieland. Kumbang Mi knows a lot of wonders too but he chhose to stays in his nest. Kumbang La and Kumbang Dan sometimes ask him to go meet people but Kumbang Mi just said he is not too free for the day. Sometimes, Kumbang Mi is surprised at the friends that Kumbang La and Kumbang Dan made- bugs like Belalang Hop and Lalat Fli. They are so different from the kumbangs. Especially Belalang, Buggieland makes it forbidden for Belalang to cross the boundary as the Raja Kumbang is afraid that Belalang may attack his children. Nonetheless, Kumbang La and Kumbang Dan and Belalang Hop are good friends. Belalang didnt attack them. Lalat too is viewed as nasty citizens in Buggie. Many Buggites would never friend lalat but kumbang almost never associate themselves with lalat. Lalat is among the dirtiest bug in Buggieland. Nonetheless, Kumbang La and Kumbang Dan are friends of Lalat Fli. They come to Lalat Fli's Dirty Dancing Party and other events. Kumbang La and Kumbang Dan had a wonderful time.
After sometime many other Buggites went home with new knowledge, new insights, and make new friends. They also get to know other Buggites better and other bugs that are so new and interesting. Of course, nyamuk is nowhere be found and Raja Kumbang is a little disappointed with her.
After sometime, Raja Kumbang died. Majority of Buggieland citizen choose Kumbang Mi to be Raja because he is very intelligent. He is renamed Kumbang Shah. Kumbang Shah still send buggites out because that was the a move started by Raja Kumbang.
However, more and more buggites are adventuring out of Buggieland. Some changes occur in Buggieland. More tress are planted and Buggieland is more beutiful. Semut clan is trying to plant kangkung. Others try to make friends with Belalang. Lalat is beginning to be accepted. They even brought some of their extended families to Buggieland.
Many of the kumbang is worried. Other bugs are worried too. Therefore, Kumbang Shah reduce the number of buggites allowed to go for adventure and with only strict rules observed. So, fewer bugs are bringing home friends like Kura-kura or Lalat and Belalang is absolutely not allowed within the soil of buggieland.
Some bugs commented on the rules but most bugs are fine with it.
So, Kumbang La's idea of negotiating with Belalang clan is fiercefully objected. Kumbang Dan is sometimes excluded by many other bugs but Lalat. Rama-Rama Sa wanted to go out to get new seeds but it is not Kumbang Shah said they have quite a lot of honey already and that should be enough. Semut Pi remains the worker in the semut clan but he didnt grow kangkung in large scale anymore.
Of course, Nyamuk Ju is staying by the lake and never know that Buggites in Buggieland are talking bad about her. She couldnt care less anyways. She has too many kids to take care of.
(In case you find this helpful: Kumbang- beetles/ladybird, Semut- ants, Rama-Rama- butterfly, Nyamuk- mosquitoes, Lalat- flies, belalang- grasshopper, kura-kura- tortise.)
I was reading my good friend's short article (Sept 10 entry)about a love story. This is the direct response to his story as I dont want to take up a full page of his comment to write it. Plus he cant take out this huge load of crap theory in MY BLOG! Quote my friend wrote "Why is it such simple idea of two persons falling in-love can be so complex and intriguing?" Let's see the Math involving 2 souls falling in love with each other.
Here we assume the case of falling in love between homo sapiens (intraspecies) and betwen Male and Female.
We have to define our functions and constants and variables;
Definition Act of 2 souls falling in Love = L Response from Male = M Response from Female = F
Since 2 souls involved in assumption are Male and female, L therefore is M and F dependable.
Classical point of view: M likes F; M dislike F; F likes M; F dislike M. We can assign values to each case: M = 1 ; M = -1; F = 1; F = -1 Therefore Outcome L = M + F; At L = 2, the two souls will fall in love.
Normalized you will get L = c(M + F) = 1, with c = 0.5
note: if none has feeling ie never met, assign value = 0
If girl likes guy, F = 1; guy likes girl, M = 1; L = 0.5 x 2 = 1; which means they would fall in love.
or
If girl never meet guy, F = 0; guy likes girl because she looks hot in poster, M = 1 L = 0.5 x 1 = 0.5; which means they wouldnt fall in love.
It is discrete, which means they would only fall in love only if L = 1; nothing would happen if L = 0.8 or 0.9.
This is the simple Love equation that is everyone's knowledge. I just put it in Mathematics language. In addition, love is blind, therefore, other components such as financial status, physical appearance (Length, Mass, Temperature)... are constants and once you normalize them, L ended up as the same ratio at same t, time. Unless F = M = 1 happens at t, only will the act of falling in love happen.
However, our friend's observation here stated that, after sometime, the girl changes her mind. Which means F = 1 only at t. Here we assign t = t0. Since the M = 1 not at t0, L therefore is no longer 0.5 x (1 + 1) but 0.5 x (0 + 1) = 0.5 not = 1
This is an interesting observation that show that L is indeed time dependant. Hence, we should wirte L = M(t) + F(t). It is consistent with the classical view of love.
In the bible, 1 Corinthians 13 : 7 sums up Love nicely, "Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail." All the mentioned components (faith, hope, patience, never give up) are time in the long run, which means t is not in terms of an instant but accumulation of some time. So, our L is no longer t at an instant, but a sum of M(t) and F(t) at given instant. Those constants that I mentioned also will influence M(t) and F(t) value as they are not time independent. (You may strike loterry out of the blue and that changes your 'mating partner's F(t) value.) In general, integrate them and divide it with t observation. You would be able to find the mean or average value.
What is important is that M(t) is no longer a simple 1/0 value but a decimal of values. M(t) = 1 or F(t) = 1 only if the test subjects are constantly falling in love which we know it never happen. Unless both knows the existance of the other at early age. However, people are falling in love regardless. We can only conclude that L is not a discrete value, but a probability.
But as it is in quantum physics, it is just a probability. Even at L = 0.99 value, who knows if girl is married and that 0.01 may due to that reason and thus no act of falling in love happen. Besides, the longer the time period the more accurate it is.
As mentioned constants are also time dependable and therefore changes from time to time which will eventually alter the discrete value of M(t) and F(t). Actual value of M(t) or F(t) are in decimals to make calculation easier we simplified it by rounding up the value. So, I like you, +1 and I hate you, -1. I dont know you, 0.
This theory depends on how seriouly you take the quote from 1 Corinthians 13 : 7. You may find other quotes but I think it will still lead to the same argument.
However, assume that you have no argument with my source of quotation, it leads to an important finding, Love at first sight could never be true...how sad.
Besides, if you didnt realize, this theory doesnt include interspecies (ie beastilty), intragender (ie homosexual) and multiple partners.
To further help you understand, here is an example case.
In simple 100 days observations- Guy: day 1 - day 30, guy likes girl; day 31 - day 60, guy busy; day 61 - day 100, guy likes girl Girl: day 1 - day 30, girl dislike guy (maybe he's stalking her); day 31 - day 60, girl likes guy (lack of attention); day 61 - day 80, girl busy; day 81 - day 100, girl likes guy
M(t) = (30 x 1 + 30 x 0 + 40 x 1) / 100 = 0.7
F(t) = (30 x -1 + 30 x 1 + 20 x 0 + 20 x 1) / 100 = 0.2
L = c( + ) = 0.5 x (0.7 + 0.2) = 0.45
So we can conclude that they might have a 45% chance of getting hooked up if someone put the two together after 100 days observation.
If you think you understand, try this.
In simple 12 months observation, the following significant events happened-
month 1: girl transferred to new school month 2: guy taught girl how to play tennis month 3: guy's birthday, girl send present month 4: exam, study together month 5: term holiday, their home far far away month 6: school starts, take classes together month 7: got girlB hit on guy, guy went out for a month month 8: girl's birthday but guy forget month 9: guy broke girl's precious vase month 10: girl felt sick guy visited her month 11: exam, but didnt study together -different classes month 12: they both bought each other Xmas present
So, what is the probability of L at month 11 and month 12?
Wait, do you all think that I took this comment too seriously?
I am playing Romance of three kingdoms X. I had been playing that series for a long while, including III, IV, V, IX and other versions- RPG, monopoly, street fighter style…
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Among the many character, Lu Bu is not my favorite. However, I’d decided to write about him. Let’s see how he might have looked like. (I wanted him with his red hare!!) Isnt he cool!
To begin with, Lu Bu might be my ancestor. Seriously, since we bear the same surname and Lu is not really a very common name like Lee, Chan (or Chen, Chin…) etc he might be my ancestor. Alright, he came at the Northwest province of China but still, it is a very possible outcome. Let us not be too skeptical and analyze this possibility with reliable technology- gene and with that, let’s see what my great-great ancestor had left me with.
1. He’s the greatest warrior at that period of chaos. Hence, no doubt, he will be tall and muscular, not to mentioned, handsome to a certain extend. I think I am relatively tall compared to girls, I have enough muscle to show off my bicep, handsome enough that girls shy away from me.
2. He’s quite stupid. If you played enough of those games, you’d realized that he’s one of the stupidest characters you could find, quite useless and literally will fall for any traps. I wouldn’t say I am stupid, rather intellectually challenged. I would try to frame others but ended being caught or found out…
3. He is a martial art specialist. He’s proficient in many weapons, not to mention a good archer. I am good with weapons too. Seriously. I don’t have preference for any weapons when I played counter-strike. I can take anything as long as I am financially allowed. Besides, I will have strings of headshot…only if I am not ‘headshoted’ first.
4. Last but not the least, he’s easily tamed. Just give him an extremely beautiful lady and he’ll do anything for you, including murdering his godfather. Oh I forgot, his godfather didn’t use girls to lure him to kill his ex-godfather. So, show me some pretty girls and I will anything for you…No I don’t think so…I am not easily tamed like he does.
Maybe that concludes that he wasn’t my great-great ancestor afterall.
