May 15th, 2009 | Published in Blog
This is an internal e-mail circulating amoung Student Council members of Taylors University College. As usual, I’m the devil’s advocate. Read the story below and see how it goes!
April 22nd, 2009 | Published in Blog
In my earlier post, I wrote:
Life is like a game of dice. 6 possibilities, everybody on earth has an equal chance. Breaking down the math, yes, there are various variables and environmental factors. Whatever your roll was, there are about a billion people just like you. Its what you do with your life and the ways you impacted this world that will be remembered by history.
Here’s a graphic on what I mean by the above.
Take some time to digest the above information. Ready?
I guess it is pretty self explanatory. However, the proportion of people for different cases and scenarios might not be the same. There are close to 2 billion people born poor; right off the bat. Only 1,000,000 are born to Royalty, Prime Ministers and prominent figures.
My model might be incomplete. If you got suggestions, I’m really open to it.
But my theory remains that, hey, we are just the same.
Pop trivia: Graphic design wise, what is so special about the above graphics? Hint: Something to do with Photoshop.
April 3rd, 2009 | Published in Blog
Refer to lukas.foo regarding legality of a Catan move.
I do love a healthy lively debate, so here goes!
First off, upon execution of the move, you let out an unusual giggle and barbaric laughter. That itself shows the dubious nature and intent of your move. But that’s ok, lets prove it with some logic.
Secondly, your source is Yahoo! Answers. The “chosen answer by asker” probably was in a situation like you. I feel its like a medical surgeon citing wikipedia on how to remove a growth in a patient’s testicles. If you wanna put $100 on whether you’re right, heck.. i’ll take the time and set up catan-official-club.com with a forum with manipulated results saying I’m right.
However, if you already had your own road built past your opponent’s settlement like below, then you would be able to continue on. It’s just that you would have a more difficult time regaining/holding on to Longest Road since you can only add to your LR requirement from one side at a time and not by building roads from either end.
(this was the quote)
To me, the move doesn’t make sense. Orange (you) build your road towards the port. Blue chops your road, thus leaving your 3rd segment an orphan. Access is essentially cut to the “port”. If you still insist on building that port, you’re essentially placing a settlement that is NOT connected to your first 2 settlements (of the game).
We know in the rules that once a road is “chopped”, it doesn’t count to your longest road BECAUSE it is not connected. How then, can you continue expansion on a road that leads nowhere. Its like Malaysia decides to build a road from Johor, to Woodlands to Jurong. uh-oh.. Singapore chop off Malaysia’s road at Woodlands. HOW THE HECK can Malaysia build at Jurong, just because we have a small piece of road over there?
I’ve got much more to say about this issue, but its almost 8am. Don’t make me set up catan-official-club.com ;)
