Korean Man Married His Own Pillow

by Steven Sentosa on March 22, 2010

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What a crazy world we are living in now. A South Korean man, Lee Jin-gyu, fell in love with his own “Dakimakura”, a large hugging pillow, but this is not just an ordinary pillow though. It is a dakimakura with a picture of Fate Testarossa, an anime girl from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

Lee Jin-gyu literally brings Fate Testarossa anywhere he goes: restaurant, grocery shopping, even to a theme park. I think you would believe me after you see this video.

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ASUS N61JQ-X1 Laptop Review

by Steven Sentosa on March 6, 2010

I was finally back blogging after almost 1 month. Other than my business from teaching, there was one other main reason why I didn’t post anything lately, that’s because my old laptop was broken. I don’t know what happened with it. It just won’t start. It can’t even get to the windows screen. To solve this, I have done some research and also brought my laptop to a computer store to be checked, but so far the only thing they can tell is that this is due to hardware failure. The symptoms was these: black screen and there’s this beeping sound 1 long, 2 shorts. Apparently, my graphic card was busted, according to the POST (Power On Self Test) test. Instead of fixing the broken graphic card, I might as well get a new one because the cost to replace the graphic card was so expensive.

Here’s the spec of ASUS N61JQ-x1: [read more...]

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Leadership Tower

by Steven Sentosa on February 2, 2010

We did a pretty interesting game today in our leadership class. Our instructor separated us into 4 random teams, where each team consist of four people. The objective was simple, create a hang-free tower as tall as possible with a bunch of newspaper, tapes, and rubber band within less than 30 min. Here’s what our team created.

Me, Jerry, Heather, and Andy (from left to right)

With the little time given and poor construction, I’m surprised this tower can still stand.

As we created this tower, there are couple things we observed.

  • Our team was a flat team, meaning there’s no dominant leaders. All of us are leader in our own tasks. It’s kinda weird that we started with no idea on how to make a tower. However, as we progress along, each of us contribute ideas, and ended up doing our each own task to build this tower. Me and Andy were the tower builder. Jerry and Heather were the material maker. We didn’t decide this, we just did it. I guess we acted as our own leader and determined what was the thing I can do the best at that time.
  • Foundation is really important. The keys here are planning and preparation. Without proper planning, we can’t make a tower from newspapers and hoping it will stand still. There will be unexpected things happen as you progress, but the main goal was clear from the beginning, to build a tower using triangular foundation and using pillars to raise the building.
  • You have to know your limit. We can’t keep increasing the height of this tower. There will be certain level where if you add more height, the building will collapse. Don’t let your proud blind you from seeing the reality. We were not the highest tower in the class, but we knew the limit of our building. In fact, one of the team has their tower collapse during presentation. It’s because poor planning and too much weight on the tower.
  • Communication is important. This reminds me of tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-8). Without proper communication, there will be no unity to achieve one specific goal, which in this case to build a tower.

Overall, this game was pretty fun. I wish there will be more of this practical game again in our leadership class.

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