Tuesday, January 15, 2008

uhh.

My current mood ; Lazy.

I just got back from the damn lab. Before that, I had the Engineering Drawing class. The lecturer is a wise man ( I really think he is ) although he talks a lot ( A hell lot). Yeah so i was having the class from 2-4 and around 3 oc he gathered all of us and said this ;
' Its time for General Knowledge!! '

And I practically said ' Uhhh ' quite loud ( and caught some attentions ) cause i thought he was going to blab about Sh*ts.

But oh well as usual, I was wrong.

First thing, when all of us were in front of his eyes, he asked, ' Does time exist? '

Woww, what do you think?

And my classmate answered, ' Nope. It does not '. And yeah it is true because time really does not exist. Why? Because we human created it. ( Dont know when) You see, god never mentioned something like ;- when the sun is right about your head, its 12 o'clock. No. Never.

the say we clocks are common need in life.



And of course he did a very interesting speech about this topic( I told you i was wrong ) saying that we take things for granted without knowing anything. So after he bla bla bla for quite some time, I actually believed that we DO take things for granted. Let me share something with you guys. Lets take 2 different countries now. Ummm, I say Malaysia and United Kingdom. Ok.


I assume you guys know what longitude and latitude are so picture this. Both Malaysia and U.K are not on the same longitude. And thats the reason we have different time zones. Countries that are located on same longitude have same time zone. Assume time now in Malaysia is 12 p.m and U.K is 4 am. So start doing this, take two fingers, hit Malaysia and U.K ( on earth globe ). Move further north ( follow the longitude) Further and further north until you reach a same bloody point. And sh*t you not, you'll end up at North Pole. So you tell me now, does North Pole shares same time as U.K and Malaysia? How is that even possible? Ha-Ha and i guess North Pole is the only place guys can say this to their girlfriend. ' Anytime baby.. Anytimeee ;) '

So conclusion, North Pole has no time.
yeah. hahahaha

So what is this thing all about? Its mixed up now and we do not have any problems? Well i guess there are 6 billion peeps in this world and most of them live near the center of the earth. So there; no problems we need to have different time zones.

Okay now, lets talk about the international date line. What is it actually?
The International Date line or IDL

It is a north-south line that runs through the Pacific Ocean. It generally follows the 180° line of longitude. Interesting ain't it?

If you want to cross the line, there is a major thing you have to consider. Days will not be same after you crossed the line.
Crossing the line traveling east results in a day or 24 hours being subtracted, and crossing west results in a day being added. Get it?

So how funny it is if i eat my breakfast when im on the left side of the line and then i shift to the right side and eat my dinner?
ha!
And isnt it weird if a guy sails his ship like this?

Think about it. Maybe we do take things for granted. heh


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