how to rule the universe in 21 days

Nothing to see here

2006-05-12T08:55:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I've posted. Every once in a while I'll think of something I want to write about, but life gets in the way and by the time I have some time, I've forgotten about it. At any rate life has been fairly busy recently, I've completed one of my main things, and made some important decisions about up and coming things. Hopefully this means that my direction for the next year or so is set now, I've made my rocketship and now I've got to fly it. And well, if the rocketship gets shot down by aliens, well, then I'll just have too build another one and fly, fly again.

In a while I'm going to be heading over to see an interesting pitching competition where teams will be pitching their business ideas before prominent venture capitalists in a bid to get funding for the companies. Last years pitches were pretty entertaining. There was one pitch for anti anti spam software, that would help spammers get their message out by detecting anti spam software (including pop up blockers etc) and disable them. Not an idea likely to be voted most popular, but pretty creative. I haven't been involved in the organisation this year so I have no idea what sort of things will come up.

Before I leave I'm going to be talking with a potential teammate for my next project. This guy is really good at what he does, and should be an asset to the team, although technically we dont need particularly specific skills for the project. But more than u need is always good, I'm hoping he'll have some innovative ideas to push this thing along. If he's definitely in then I will spend the next couple of months laying down the groundwork in preparation for when the rest of my teammates finish their coursework (I've been lucky enough to complete mine way ahead of time).

Anyway all of the above is probably gibberish to everyone other than myself, so in other news the weather here has been pretty good recently, nice, sunny and warm. In fact, a little too hot but never mind. Everyone is out and about, even though most of the students are having exams, at least they get to study in the gardens. It's amazing the difference a bit of sun makes in this country. Back home we take it for granted... most days its sunny. But over here, when the sun comes out people genuinely seem to feel happier. Things look nicer. Birds sing more. People are more active. All until it rains again the next day.

It'll be nice when the weather does finally settle down into proper summer mode, because at the moment no one knows what to wear. Either you dress up and face the prospect of roasting in your own jacket, or you go out in a t-shirt and risk getting frostbite and drenched in freezing rain.

Anyway time to go now, got to talk to that guy.

Luck

2006-05-03T04:47:00.000-07:00

Is anyone here any good at winning stuff? I have friends who win lucky draws and competitions on a fairly regular basis. One of my friends has recently won a hush puppies signature contest followed by the grand prize in a magazine contest.

Unfortunately, whilst I may be incredibly lucky in most aspects, in terms of lucky draw type things I'm probably as big a jinx as you can find. I can't remember ever winning anything at all. I don't win cheap door prizes at dinners, nor slogan contests... not even give away prizes... its depressing really.

Usually I dont even bother entering these things, but once in a while I'll forget and get excited and suddenly enter everything I can for a day or two, especially when I think I can tip the odds in my favour in some way. And then every time I enter, I'm almost certain that I'm going to win. And so I wait for the congratulatory notification that never comes.

Some people say that people like me are fated to have to work for their money but that money from working will come pretty easy. But I refuse to accept that and I'm going to work hard to break this curse. Except that that would be working for it. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't.

The night before, I stayed up till 6 a.m. specifically to enter a pepsi contest to win an xbox 360 at www.pepsi.co.uk. I dont particularly want an unmodified xbox, as I dont have a tv and do not wish to spend over forty pounds per game but I thought it would be a nice thing to win, and more importantly, I thought that my weird sleeping times would give me an edge.

the contest was giving away one xbox every 90 minutes, so obviously entering at 4.30 in the morning is bound to put u in a slot with relatively few contenders (possibly none in the whole country i thought satisfiedly to myself in my most wishful moments). I even went through the recycling bins to get more entry codes to maximise my chances. So at 4.30 I started sms-ing these codes in, all 5 of them, spreading them out slowly till about 5.30. And then I waited for the victory announcement. Which of course never came. I was pretty tired by then so at 6.15 I just went to bed, only to be woken up a few minutes later by an SMS arrival. Leaping out of bed was unfortunately a waste of time.

I'm not going to give up though. I will win something one of these days. Even if I have to rig a competition of my own making.

HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY

2006-04-28T04:34:00.000-07:00

Asian girls are my favourite kind of girls. If I wasn't Asian myself, I'd have an Asian fetish. It's much more to do with their culture and attitudes than it is about their looks though. Whilst I like my caucasian girl friends, I can't imagine going out with a single one of them; you can accept a lot more things in friends than you can in a partner.

But one thing that irritates me about Asian girls is the 'Hmph, I'm Too Pretty/Smart/High And Mighty To Look At You, Or Be Looked At By You' glance-turn-and-incline-nose move. We've all seen it -- when any guy walks down the street where there are Asians, and happens to come across some girl and glances at her, even momentarily, even if by accident, at least 30% of Asian girls immediately launch into HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY -- their faces contort into a haughty expression, their necks snap to the right, and their noses incline to 45 degrees with an error bound of less than 5 degrees. Their eyes meanwhile make a big show of conveying that their sole purpose of existing at that moment in time is in fact not to look at you and that they would prefer not to have your dirty eyes on them either thank you very much.

And the weirdest thing is, the key word in the above paragraph is ANY. it doesn't matter at all whether the girl is actually pretty/smart/miss universe or a normal average girl, or even in fact if she is mind numbingly below average, 30% of ALL Asian girls do this. It's especially infuriating when you aren't even trying to look at them, but they just come into your field of vision by virtue of walking in the opposite direction and immediately HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY baby! Even worse, when you haven't even looked at them but they execute a preemptive HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY anyway just to be safe. Worse still, when you catch them checking you out but they pull a HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY instead. It doesn't even matter who the guy is even, everyone seems to experience their own 30% of HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY, although not necessarily from the same girls. The most intriguing thing is it is apparently a reflex action. Even if the girl is internally thinking, 'hey cool looking guy, i wish i had more friends like that', outside she might be executing HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY automatically.

Anyway I wish I had a picture of these expressions, but if I took a picture of them it would probably elicit an ultra HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY. This is the closest picture i could find:

Anyone out there have good HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY experiences? I'd be interested in hearing the female perspective on this and whether you fall within the 30% of HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABYers.

By the way, it pleases me to possibly be the first person to ever come up with the letter combination HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY in the universe. Another great distinction to add to my list of accomplishments. A short list, but a list nonetheless. In case you're wondering why I have used the word HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY so many times in this post, it is in preparation for the hordes of people googling HITPSHAMTOLAYOBLABY.

Greek mothers

2006-04-23T13:56:00.001-07:00

So here I am rewriting this post which just disappeared for some stupid browser reason.

Anyway, recently my Greek flatmate has had her mother over to visit.

The mother doesnt speak a word of english and she isnt very good at charades either. Whenever she tries to gesture something, none of us can understand what she means. The first time I met her she was cooking a fish and as soon as she saw me she began gesturing frantically to the fish. In the end my best guess is she was trying to say 'dont eat my fish'.

She isnt really the most friendly person I've ever met. The first few days I tried to smile whenever I saw her in the kitchen, but after getting blank stares in return every time I've decided to be a good boy and stop bothering the nice lady with my vicious facial expressions.

For someone visiting her daughter, they seem to spend a huge amount of time apart. In fact, most of the time the flatmate seems to stay in her room whilst the mother sits around in the kitchen doing nothing. At first I wondered if it was a culture thing, but now i suspect that theirs is a unique relationship. They've had a couple of parties since she's been over, all cooked for and prepared by the mother, and fully enjoyed by the daughter and all her friends (all 3 of them). The mother joins in the parties too but spends most of the time staring into space with a bored look on her face. Then after the party, you see her cleaning up the mess, all alone. I feel kind of sorry for them, having such a relationship. I wonder if theyre actually fighting or if this is normal for them.

Another thing is that the mother seems to like sitting around the kitchen doing nothing in the darkness and a couple of times I've wandered in to grab something without turning on the lights and suddenly noticed this figure sitting there silently. Fortunately, the curlers make her look less menacing.

Anyway, in other news, I did not manage to bump into the important guy last week, but the good news is I have a meeting set up with him this Tuesday, albeit at an incredibly early time, way before my usual wake up time, i.e. 10 am. But a guys got to do what a guys got to do to rule the universe. And I have another important meeting set up for Thursday, this time at a reasonable hour, but quite far away. Anyway hopefully these will yield good results. In the meantime I also have to decide a strategic time to hand in my homework. I finished it a long time ago, but if you hand it in too early the lecturers may interpret this as meaning 'please give me more work'.

Wish me luck.

Waiting

2006-04-19T08:14:00.000-07:00

So here I am.

Waiting.

Patience is a tedious but necessary virtue. In my quest to rule the universe I have had to wait a lot. Theres always something to wait for, the next project, the next assignment, the next party, the next vacation, the next big thing. Waiting is especially important when you are relatively low on the food chain. The rule seems to be that the more important you are, the less people you have to wait for, and the more people have to wait for you. Its a stupid rule really.

So anyway, here I am, waiting.

At the moment I am waiting to see someone pretty high up. I dont even know if he is going to turn up today, I'm just waiting here on the off chance he appears. Thats how high up he is. (or how relatively low down I currently am). This guy is a billionaire, the founder of a number of successful companies, and a prominent academic to boot. He is also my official advisor, although unofficially I've spoken to him less times than I have fingers on one hand. And I'm not even one of those circus people with 20 fingers on a hand.

I'm trying to meet him to get his advice on my next step plan on taking over the universe. I'm hoping he'll be able to provide some good advice and possibly some good contacts so that I can push forward with the plan, which I have been working on for some time now. If not, I'll just have to find some other advisors. Anyone want to help me with my diabolical plan to take over the universe? Anyone at all?

Ok, I'm popping over again to see if he's in yet. Peace.

Haircut

2006-04-18T10:44:00.000-07:00

Today I went for a haircut.

The past weekend was a long weekend holiday for the UK, with both Friday and Monday off. Obviously most people had been spending the time vigourously coaxing their hair out of their scalps for the barber shops were bustling with business. When I got to my regular barbers there were two people being served in the chair, plus another four waiting - pretty busy for a Tuesday afternoon. Of the two barbers at work, one of them was new to me, while the other had butchered my hair twice already, something which I didnt want happening again.

The barber system here is pretty efficient; whenever a chair is freed up, the next person in line simply goes up to fill it. In this way the line is kept moving and there is never any downtime. The downside is you can never choose who cuts your hair, unless you are willing to sacrifice your place in line. Fortunately, luck was with me today, and I finally got my seat with the new guy who was Italian.

I told him I wanted a number 3 sides and back, and shorter all around. Over here the barbers use a numbering system to indicate how much of your hair you want shaved off. First timers from overseas are often caught unawares by the system.

Essentially number 4 is neat but still long, number 1 is smooth like a babies butt and 2 and 3 are somewhere in between. Kind of like this picture here. But not really.

Anyways, this new barber had some kind of water fetish. You know that spray thing they use to wet your hair? He had cunningly modified his (or it had broke) so that instead of the usual gentle spray, what came out was huge spurts like from a water cannon. He seemed blissfully unaware of this fact and pulled on the trigger repeatedly as if he had just escaped from a Tarantino movie until my face was literally dripping with water. I actually had to blow out of my mouth to get rid of the water seeping in. He seemed unhappy unless he had a 100% liquid environment to work in.

Then when he actually started cutting my hair, there was so much excess water that the hair slid all over my face and stuck there, so that I looked somewhat like king kong but without the hairy ass. I began noticing passers by staring at me curiously. Its hard to faint nochalance when you have a face full of hair and are dripping liquid, but damn it, I did my best. The one thing I couldnt do was whistle, as I would have blown out puffs of hair.

Anyway, in the end the hair cut turned out ok, for a price of £10.50. I hear in London you can get cheaper cuts in China Town, but around here, this is about as good as it gets.

So there you go. Done for another year.

Human For Sale - Home - How much are you worth?

2006-04-17T07:24:00.000-07:00

Human For Sale - Home - How much are you worth?

Bausch & Lomb Double Standards

2006-04-14T15:26:00.000-07:00

As I was reading the papers today, I came across some news about Bausch & Lomb, a leading contact lens solution manufacturer, issuing a product recall in the US for its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution.

The product had been linked to a number of cases of a rare fungal infection. Without eye-drop treatment, which can last two to three months, the infection can scar the cornea and blind its victims. Symptoms can include blurry vision, pain or redness, excessive discharge and increased sensitivity to light.

Not only are the products being pulled from all retail shelves, but a comprehensive ad campaign will take place to advise consumers to stop using the products, and a refund system will be in place for people who have purchased the product.

Sample news stories can be seen here:

Bloomberg.com: U.S.

CNN.com - Maker says not to use contact lens solution - Apr 14, 2006

Reuters Business Channel Reuters.com

Now thats all fair enough, except that the same South Carolina plant that serves the US also supplies three Asian countries, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. And the first incidences of infections occurred in these three countries, dating back to early 2005.

However, unlike in the US, the company did not rush to address the problem, nor has it taken any such steps to date, according to the meagre information I was able to obtain from thestar.com.my. The most recent local article I could find on the subject was on the 18th March where it was reported that:

'Bausch & Lomb has said it will not withdraw its ReNu multi-purpose contact lens care solution from the market as it has not received any official statement from the Government.

Its public relations officer said: “We have confidence in our products. There is no evidence to show that ReNu is the cause of fungal keratitis infections.”'

Since then I understand that they have stopped shipping products from the US to Asia, but they havent initiated any recall (the government has banned the product themselves though) nor have they tried to inform the general public about the possible dangers.

Why the double standards? Probably a big reason would be the class action law suit filed against them in a country where suing people is a grand old tradition. But is there anything more than that? Multinationals have a history of providing substandard service when it comes to less developed countries, and more often than not, the reason is simply because they can get away with it. Of course, we're guilty of the same thing in reverse, manufacturing our cars to a much higher standard for export than for domestic use. So there! That's sticking it to them.

Anyway, if you want to get your money back, the good news is you don't even need to prove you bought a bottle. Just go here, fill in the form and they'll send you a voucher for a new bottle (from a differnt line).

The bad news is you can only get this if you are in the US, and even then theres only one per household allowed which means that you might as well use your ten box collection to clean your car.

This whole recall exercise smacks of lip service, whatever the CEO says. I suggest everyone just dont do anything to spoil your eyesight, then corporations wont be able to exploit us anymore.

p.s. as I'm not in Asia at the moment, I may be missing something so let me know if I am

p.p.s. I have perfect vision, so this doesnt really affect me. I'm just bored from doing work. Really bored.

For all you wonderful readers!

2006-04-12T17:01:00.000-07:00

For all you wonderful ruler readers out there!

An Ode To You

Learning from animals

2006-04-12T12:46:00.000-07:00

I'm watching a documentary at the moment about animals. There is a great deal to learn from observing animals -- either by humanising animals or by animalising humans. An amazing amount of similarity between humans and other animals exist when you think about it. Or even if you don't.

That's why I liked March of the Penguins. When you observe the dedication of emperor penguins in parenting their young -- braving harsh cold, starvation and dire circumstances for the survival of their one lone egg, you can't but help draw a human parallel, and imagine that you too would do the same if you had to. Although you probably wouldnt really last long standing in -50 degrees weather with an egg balanced on your feet.

As an aside, I don't know if anyone has actually seen March of the Penguins or any other penguin documentary, but in harsh weather the penguins tend to mass up in a huge huddle to keep warm and take turns to be on the outermost layer. My point is, has anyone else had a strong urge to dive into the huddle to see how warm it really is? Must try that the next time I'm down in Antartica.

Then again there is the hummingbird. With a heart that beats 1200 times a minute and wings that flap so fast theyre almost invisible, these guys live hard and live fast. Size for size, they consume more energy than a jetplane. You can find plenty of hummingbirds in the human population, energetic and positive, with a seemingly inexhaustible source of energy and no need to sleep. I have a friend like that called J. He's over in the US right now, working with a nanotechnology company.

Finally, we have the sloth. Spending 80% of its lifetime sleeping, this is one guy whos safe from being picked for dangerous missions, or any mission at all. When I see a sloth, I think of an old friend. She had an amazing ability to sleep. Day or night, rain or shine, the moment there was any downtime, off she went. Doctors should examine her to find a cure for insomnia.

bored

2006-04-10T12:16:00.000-07:00

I'm so bored...

Meet my friend.

Will the real slim shady please stand up?

2006-04-10T11:37:00.000-07:00

Just to check if my 3 loyal readers are still around, if you are reading this blog, could you leave a comment or a message somewhere?

Top 10 blogger contest

2006-04-10T08:03:00.000-07:00

It has come to my attention that this blog has been nominated in a top 10 blogger contest hosted by http://laksadiaries.wordpress.com/

And to my surprised delight I find that I am currently, by a huge margin, in last place, with 51 votes!!!

The surprised delight is of course more because of the 51 votes than the last place bit. How the hell did I get 51 votes when I only have 3 readers? Admittedly, I did try clicking on the voting thing a million times to bring myself to the top but unfortunately that didnt work so the 51 votes are a mystery to me. Perhaps this is why George Shrub managed to get voted in twice despite being the most hated candidate in recent history.

At any rate, thanks to you if you really did vote for me. Win or lose, and I stress lose, I'm happy enough that anyone bothered to vote at all! For anything!

The full list of nominees (from http://laksadiaries.wordpress.com/) are

Nominees for Top 10 Male Bloggers

Ah Pek

C-Doodle

Chin Kian

FH2o

Howsy

Jacky

Jeremy C

Justsomeguy

Kenny Sia

Laksa

LinPeh

Robin

Sisuahlai

Tigerjoe

Wingz

Wuching

Mahagurusia

Vote for your favourites at :Nominees for Top 10 Male Bloggers

Nominees for Top 10 Female Bloggers

5xMom

Che-cheh

Fashion Asia

Fire Angel

Hedonistics

Helen

King's Wife

Luxferi

Melancholy

Pelf

Samm

Scorkes

Siao Char Bor

Stargazer

Suan

Ylang

Vote for your favourites at : nominees for Top 10 Female Bloggers

Results will be announced next Monday. By then with luck I'll have at least 52 votes.

Quarterly Results

2006-04-09T19:36:00.000-07:00

Breaking news:

Well into its third week of operations, the world shaking new blogging sensation 'how to rule the universe in 21 days' has just released its quarterly results.

As of 10th April 2006, 'how to rule the universe in 21 days' now boasts a total of 3 avid readers, with an astounding average viewing time of 38 seconds, a record 300% boost from the previous quarter.

Commenting on the results, justsomeguy, Chief Blogger explains “This quarter’s results continue to demonstrate that blogging is a complete waste time. Whilst we did not achieve our previously forecasted results of 100 billion page views, we remain hopeful that people forgot about those projections. There are several reasons for missing our projections including an outage of power at our primary blogging site, which conceivably could have cost us at least one viewer, the continued poor quality of the writing on the site, high oil prices, and readers' inexplicable demands for interesting posts.”

Revenue growth was flat at $0, compared to $0 for the previous quarter. Exclaimed justsomeguy proudly, 'This is a promising sign as it indicates that we could pretty much write about paint drying and we would earn no less.'

Looking forward, 'how to rule the universe in 21 days' remains optimistic of hitting its long term goals. Exactly which long term goals these are remain a secret for competitive reasons, but justsomeguy assures readers that there is no way to go but up. In addition, as a responsible corporate citizen of the world, 'how to rule the universe in 21 days' will now be published only using 100% recycled materials.

UAP

Tall, pale, skinny, hairy men

2006-04-07T16:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday night my flatmates and I were making dinner in the kitchen when in walked The Other Flatmate.

TOF is originally from some eastern european country but raised in london. he's a relatively mature student at 30, making it all the more amazing that he's never come across the concepts of manners or consideration. he's disliked by all as he tends to leave messes, make lots of noise at all times of the day and night, and steal food.

when he first moved in we were a little puzzled as he seemed to be angry all the time, slamming doors, throwing his plates around and generally enfusing every move with aggressiveness. since then we've decided that he's probably not actually angry 24/7, he just never learned that its not nice to slam doors at 5 am every morning.

he's also not very subtle at stealing food. instead of 'borrowing' a bit of milk or bread like most people, he simply moves the entire item to his own fridge or cupboard. however, a master of playground defense techniques, we have been unable to bring him to justice. when confronted with irrefutable evidence of his crimes, he simply looks down guiltily and says 'it wasnt me'. which is pretty ironclad really.

anyway TOF is pretty tall, well over 6 feet, but thin as a rail. he's also pasty white, and very hairy. and yesterday, just before dinner, we witnessed the horror of TOF in tight clingy shorts and a singlet, leaving nothing to the imagination.

this guy is much more attractive.

Web Sudoku4

2006-04-06T21:21:00.000-07:00

Web Sudoku - Billions of Free Sudoku Puzzles to Play Online

Star Wars in 2 min

2006-04-04T10:23:00.000-07:00

For those too lazy to read books, there are movies. For those too lazy to watch movies, there are gifs.

Star Wars IV: A New Hope

Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

update: this post would be much more meaningful if the animated gifs were working

Parasitic Advertising

2006-04-03T10:48:00.000-07:00

Parasitic Advertising - a photoset on Flickr

250,000 bouncing balls

2006-04-03T08:43:00.000-07:00

Amazing quicktime video of a TV advert consisting of a quarter of a million colourful bouncy balls bouncing down the hills of San Francisco.

I have two questions though, how did they clean up the mess and how did they not cause a major traffic accident? Imagine sitting in your car at the base of a hill when 250,000 bouncy balls come rushing at you.

Sony BRAVIA - The Advert

Mobile blog

2006-04-03T08:36:00.000-07:00

Speaking of blogs, this guy has combined commuting with blogging to produce a weekly video blog, shot entirely from the driver's seat of his car. He has guest stars (people bumming a ride) and co-hosts (his wife). Also exciting segments like 'What's in the trunk?'

DriveTime

if u cant find a ghost, make one

2006-04-02T21:07:00.000-07:00

haque :: design + research

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy� | contest

2006-04-02T20:26:00.000-07:00

Check these photoshopped anime-celebrities out.

Worth1000.com Photoshop Contests Are you Worthy� contest

Intellectual Pee

2006-04-02T20:18:00.000-07:00

Statues that pee in quotes

David Cerny - uplne oficialni stranka

The world in 100 people

2006-04-02T15:09:00.000-07:00

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of exactly 100 people, with all the current human ratios remaining the same, then there would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Westerners
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the USA

80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer

So if you, the reader, are able to read, are reading this from a computer in a comfortable house, are not too hungry to be reading, are alive and kicking, and have gone to, will go to, or are going to college, congratulations are in order, you just beat out most of the world.

Blogs

2006-04-01T09:22:00.000-08:00

Blogging is a fascinating phenomenon.

Many years ago, when men were men but before blogs were blogs, people would keep personal sites where they wrote down their thoughts and stories without ever realising they were actually blogging. How foolish they must have felt when they found out!

And then blogger and its hundred counterparts came into being and everyone else and their grandmother decided to start a blog.

I've been reading blogs for a long time now, since I was a wee teenager and just learned to read. I started out with the aforementioned non blog blogs and then moved on to blog blogs. My blog bookmark list is now almost as long as something that's really really long. I don't have the time to read a tenth of the blogs I'm interested in, but I do anyway.

I read all sorts of blogs by all sorts of people. I read financial blogs about business, I read political blogs about politics, I read technological blogs about technology, I read humour blogs about humour, I read personal blogs about people and redundant blogs about how to stop being redundant. I learn a lot from these blogs.

In terms of personal blogs, I've been surprised at how active the Malaysian and Singaporean blogging scene has been. Blogs from those countries are my favourite amongst personal blogs; they help me keep up to date with whats happening at home.

Here is a small sample of the Malaysian & Singaporean personal blogs that I have read, in no particular order, with no particular descriptions, for no particular reason.

http://www.galnexdor.blogspot.com/
http://www.kennysia.com/
http://audree.blogdrive.com/
http://tabulas.com/~lainie
http://impossiblemelody.blogdrive.com/
http://www.fireangelism.com/
http://kyspeaks.com/
http://tok3tok4.blogspot.com/
http://lindachia.blogspot.com/

Frankly, I'm amazed anyone has the time and patience to blog.