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Right, what's next? Will it colder than my heart?

Never get DRUNK.

The moral of this story is never get drunk.. but if you do get drunk, try and remember where exactly you live or get someone you know to send you back, but if you are drunk and forgotten where you live, knock on a door and wait for response or go find a local police.. 

Just in case the video won't loads, here's the link!

When this will be ever able to happen in UK or in Malaysia??

Apparently in UK, if there is some drunken bloke try to break into your house, and if you have a gun (either legally or illegally), you can't shoot that fella, nor even use a knife to stab or a hammer to hack the person, what you can do is dial 999, pray that they will come in time, lock yourself or hid yourself praying that the bloke won't find you.

If you shoot/stab/hack or whatever that had wound or killed the fella, you may be charged for Actual Bodily Harm or Grievous Bodily Harm or even Murder, even though the bloke came to you.

In UK law of self defence, the two key things are Necessity and Reasonable. Where Necessity is found at here when the bloke is breaking in, but Reasonable states that since the fella did not use a gun, you cannot use a gun.

If he has a gun, and you conveniently has a gun as well, you can shoot if he opens fire. But since he has nothing, the only self defence is with your bare hands.

Welcome to the Criminal Justice System.

牛年初一

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone that is celebrating where ever you are! Wish everyone of you will have a prosperous new year! Those who is studying will get good results, those who is working will get through the financial difficulties, those who is not studying and not working will keep on enjoying their life!

Start to use Flikr rather than using the photo album provided by google because don't know why you just can't click on it after it is posted in the blog.

While everybody is busy going here and there getting Ang Baos, I spend almost the whole day in lecture theatre.... 

领带

新的学期开学了，没有什么特别好，坏事就一样接一样。去了 town 和朋友走走，看见 Tierack 减价，其实全部店都在减价，有人问起进去 Tierack 买领带干吗？我想想，得空拿来吊一吊颈...

Very strange but true coincidental events

The Taxi Killer:

A man riding a moped was killed by a taxi driver in Bermuda in 1975, exactly a year after his brother had been killed by the same taxi driver in the same street carrying the same passenger....and he was riding the same moped.

Wicked???

Bingham & Powell:

Three men travelling by train in Peru one day found that they were the only people on the train. Introducing themselves, they found the first one's surname was Bingham, the second's was Powell and the third man's name was Bingham Powell.

Any Lee's here???

Baby Boom:

Joseph Figlock was walking down a street in Detroit in the 1930's when a baby fell from a window onto his head. A year later the same baby fell from the same window onto him...they both survived !!

Where is the mother???

The Killer Coat:

Jabez Spicer was killed by two bullets in the attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield in 1787. At the time he was wearing the coat his brother Daniel was wearing when he too was killed by two bullets in 1784. The bullets that killed Jabez passed through the holes made by the bullets that had killed his Brother.

So many places for the coat, the bullets chose to go through the 2 holes that had been made before? As if they doesn't want to destroy the nice coat...

The Slow Bullet:

In 1883 Henry Ziegland jilted his sweetheart, who then killed herself. Her Brother tried to avenge this by trying to kill Ziegland, but the bullet only grazed Ziegland and embedded itself into a tree. The Brother believing he had killed Ziegland, then shot himself. In 1913 Ziegland was cutting down the tree with the bullet in it. Being a tough task he used dynamite which when it exploded sent the bullet through Ziegland's head, killing him !!

Lesson from this story, justice will always finds you, in any blurdy way justice could find. And who on earth will be blurdy smart to use dynamite to cut down a tree? and if you are really using a dynamite to blow up a tree, make sure you are in a really safe place.

Greenberry Hill:

On the 26th November, 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. Their last names were Green, Berry and Hill.

Greenberry Hill is now known as Primrose Hill, where quite a few of the famous people lives there, my aunt's flat is near there as well.

Ruptured Buddies:

On a June night in 1930, police patrol man Allan Falby, from Texas, had a car crash and ruptured an artery in his leg . The bleeding was so severe that he would have died if it wasn't for the intervention of a passer-by called Alfred Smith. He applied a tourniquet to Falby's leg, and saved him. Five years later, when Falby was back on the beat, he was called to the scene of a car crash. There, he found a man with a ruptured artery in his leg. It was Alfred Smith, the same man who had rescued him before in identical circumstances.

This gives me a feeling that if I perform CPR on somebody that is going to die, one day if I have a heart attack, I might have to wait till the same person to be back.........

Mark Twain:

Born in 30th of November 1835, exactly 2 weeks after Halley's Comet came, have a quote saying "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' ", and he had a heart attack on 21st of April 1910, the day after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1910.

The Deadly Wedding:

When the princess Maria del Pozzo della Cisterna wed the duke of D'Aosta, son of the King of Italy, on 30 May 1867, the festivities were marred by such a tragic tangle of events that the royal family suppressed the truth lest the very news bring misfortune to the couple's life.

The ominous events began before the wedding when the bride's wardrobe mistress hanged herself, prompting the superstitious princess to order a new gown. The ceremony itself was delayed twice. First, the mounted officer appointed to lead the wedding procession from the palace to the church suffered sunstroke and collapsed. Then the palace gates failed to open for the matrimonial procession. The gatekeeper was found nearby, lying in a pool of blood.

Fate tendered a reprieve during the ceremony but minutes later the best man — probably ineptly handling his ceremonial weapon — shot himself in the head. Eventually the bride and groom were escorted by a procession of carriages to the railway station where the royal newlyweds were to board a train for their honeymoon. More trouble dogged their footsteps. The officer who had drawn up the marriage contract suffered a stroke and the anxious stationmaster fell under the wheels of the approaching bridal locomotive.

King Victor Emmanuel, by now dishonoured by the series of misfortunes and convinced that the ceremony and everything associated with it was jinxed, refused to allow anyone aboard the train and tried desparately to return the procession to the safety of the palace.

But it was not to be. Riding alongside the bridal carriage, the count of Castiglione fell from his horse underneath the carriage's wheels. The count died when the weight of the wheels drove a splendid medal through his uniform into his chest.

The Presidents:

During the American War of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was the author of the 'Declaration of Independence' and John Adams was one of the chief promulgators. Adams eventually became the second President of the United States and Jefferson became the third President.
Both men died in the same year, 1826, and on the same day, July 4th, exactly 50 years to the day of the Independence of the America. It is said that Jefferson willed himself to live until this day, and before he breathed his last breath he asked whether it was the fourth of July.
Adam's last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still survives." although he actually outlived his compatriot by five hours.

President John F Kennedy & President Abraham Lincoln:

There are enough weird theories surrounding President John F Kennedy to fill an entire bookshelf, but one of the more amusing is that he was connected to President Abraham Lincoln, by unusual coincidence. The first, and most simple observation, is that both the names Lincoln and Kennedy have 7 letters. While President Abraham Lincoln was shot in a theatre, and his assassin ran to a warehouse, the opposite happened to President John F Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald (if he was the assassin), shot from a warehouse and then ran to a theatre. Another coincidence is that President Abraham Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, while President John F Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln. Each wife of the president lost a son while they were living at the White House. President Abraham Lincoln became President of the USA in 1860 and President John F Kennedy became president exactly 100 years later 1960. Both men were killed by a bullet that struck the back of their heads. President Abraham Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theatre and President John F Kennedy was killed when he was a passenger in a Lincoln convertible car made by the Ford motor company. Both Presidents were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson, both of whom were Southern Democrats and former Senators. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908, exactly 100 years apart on the same day. President Abraham Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth was born 1839 and President John F Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939, both exactly 100 years apart. Both killers were Southerners and both held extremist views. Both assassins were themselves murdered before they were brought to trial. Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each have a total of 13 letters in their spelling. John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald both have a total of 15 letters in their spelling.

What's next???

EFit-V vs E-Fit

Christmas break is till this Sunday, Monday will be starting the Spring term, but I had been spending almost everyday in this week on campus, I will be either in the EFit-V and E-Fit course or in the library, trying to get everything done but getting nowhere.E-Fit course had been running since 5th of January, while EFit-V course is only 3-day course, so its only starts from last Monday. Well, the course is not for students, but I got myself into the course anyway, by asking to be general helpers for this course. This course is actually for legal enforcement, mainly for police, especially for those Facial Identification Officers, but some participants are from Universities, either teaching Forensic or Digital Forensics etc. This course is provided by VisionMetric, a spin-off company of the University.

I'm quite lucky actually, I choose to be general helpers, but they ask me to come and act as witness for EFit-V as well, got the chance to be a "witness" of a crime, and "interview" by the police officers and describe what ever face the "suspect" are. The day after the EFit-V witness day, I got a call from the organisers early in the morning, not even have my breakfast yet, to ask me to come for the E-Fit witness day due to some people chose to "fly some airplanes". I got the chance to be a "witness" to both of the software!!!

Well, enough for the story, I'll introduce this software here. Because I do not have the licence for this software, so the software interface that I got it from the lecture notes will have some part been pixelate. I just doesn't want to get into any legal problems, although they would be happy somebody advertise their products for free.

E-Fit, is a composite-based computer software that had been used for quite some time already, maybe a decade or so, it replaces the old detective kind of facial composite called PhotoFIT where the features are printed on paper and the detectives will have piece those composites together and will look like this.....

E-Fit is kind of the computer version of PhotoFIT, which has a large library in the software, while the witness will choose the best feature that resembles the suspect. This takes a hell lots of time, when I did this interview, it took the officer more than 2 hours to get information from me, process it, finalise it using photo editing tools, and have some paperwork of it. This software has it's negative part is where people that have poor memories like me will have a very difficult time remembering the face and features of the suspect in a nick of time. How often do you have a "good hard look" at somebody face when he slap you and leg for it? Honestly, I can recall the face of the "suspect" that day because the "mark", which is the person our lecturer had ask us to remeber, had been sitting there and not hitting our "victim", while 8 of us that is the witnesses stares at the "mark" from time to time. Note, the "mark/suspect" is just some random people that for no reason marked by our lecturer. Our lecturer is the Director of the company that sells this program, cool huh???

Back to topic, now, EFit-V, this is a feature-based program, where we use recognition more rather than memory, which I like the most. People tends to recognise people rather than

 remembering their faces and features. For example, how many people that reads my blog,

 remember every single detail of the face of your parents? or partner? Does your parents or

 partner have thin/thick or long/short nose? Colour of eyes? Size of lips? Shape of ears? Colour and style of the hair? Length of beard/moustache/stubble? I dare you, 1 out of 10 here can't give any details of this, but when you walk in the street, and you bump into each other, straight away you knew the person, due to recognition. Don't blame yourself yet, your brain is not a

 computer, nor any digital cameras that can store megapixels of images. By choosing what you felt the image looks like or similar to, the computer generates some random faces, with the mutation of the images becoming lesser and lesser, the witness able to select the face that

 resemble the most likeness of the suspect.

The images below are either from the internet or my lecture notes, none of them are made from real person pictures, but from EFit-V.This image is released by Kent Police on the appeal of Ashford robbery.

Due to not a real person, sometimes EFit can go something wrong.... Here is an EFit-V released by Norfolk Police. The news goes here!

This is the user interface of EFit-V, but there are a lot more functions in it.

No prize for correct guessing, assume everyone knows who this man is.

Well, we sure doesn't want anyone got caught innocently, don't we??? This is an EFit released by Thai Police in a case of bank robbery. Well, I believe that's the only lead the police have, they follow the lead anyway.

I believe that later in this year, I will be using this software in one of my assignment, might be playing around with it if I'm free.

More icy pictures from my University

London Tower Bridge & Freezy Little Venice

That day, I went out alone for a walk, to clear up my mind, and really do give myself a break. A walk, really means a walk, a walk from Charing Cross to London Tower Bridge.

Once again, I ask myself, is this a sunset? or a sunrise?

The place where London Mayor works..

I just found out that when we are small,

we used to sing the song "London Bridge is falling down..", all of us will think the London Bridge is this one, but it is not. This is called Tower Bridge. London Bridge is the other one, don't believe me?? Google it or Wiki it! So, shall we change the lyrics to "Tower Bridge is falling down, falling down....."??

And as if my days is not miserable and depressing enough, the weather starts to play with me. It's been sudden cold this few days, though it didn't snow, but the temperature is -3 degrees celsius during midday, while it drops till -10 degrees celsius at night, what else can be worst than I had been?

A view at the Little Venice of London, it is covered with a thin layer of ice. Just imagine how cold it is.

For more photos, please click here!

彩虹

哪里有彩虹告诉我
能不能把我的愿望还给我
为什么天这么安静
所有的云都跑到我这里

有没有口罩一个给我
释怀说了太多就成真不了
也许时间是一种解药
也是我现在正服下的毒药

看不见你的笑我怎么睡得着
你的声音这么近我却抱不到
没有地球太阳还是会绕
没有理由我也能自己走

你要离开我知道很简单
你说依赖是我们的阻碍
就算放开但能不能别没收我的爱
当作我最后才明白

有没有口罩一个给我
释怀说了太多就成真不了
也许时间是一种解药
也是我现在正服下的毒药

看不见你的笑我怎么睡得着
你的声音这么近我却抱不到
没有地球太阳还是会绕
没有理由我也能自己走

你要离开我知道很简单
你说依赖是我们的阻碍
就算放开但能不能别没收我的爱
当作我最后才明白

看不见你的笑
要我怎么睡的着
你的声音这么近我却抱不到
没有地球太阳还是会绕会绕
没有理由我也能自己走掉
释怀说了太多就成真不了
也许时间是一种解药解药
也是我现在正服下的毒药

你要离开我知道很简单
你说依赖是我们的阻碍
就算放开但能不能别没收我的爱
当作我最后才明白

Eye of London at 31st and 1st

I did not planned for anything for the New Year's eve, maybe because I still used to going out with some friends for our annual dinner when I was still in Malaysia, but this is my 2nd year celebrating New Year "alone". Last year I do went out to the Embankment for countdown with my Aunt, but due to the weather, we can't see a thing after 5 seconds past midnight.

This year, however, some friends from Malaysia had came over to UK for student exchange programme, they are mainly from my seniors of prefects when I was still in secondary school. Well, since I'm free, why not?

I went out towards to Embankment around 6pm, it's already total darkness, and the photos below is from Regent Street and Trafalgar Square.

This Christmas tree is given by Norway every year during Christmas.

The view of London Eye at about 7pm, when it wasn't that crowded.Another view of London Eye.

My final standing place for New Year's Eve, just imagine in that period of time, how far I had been walking around to get good shots of the London Eye.

The famous Big Ben of London, just not far away from London Eye.

I still don't know how this picture got into my camera, but it's artistic and I like it!

The Eye of London.

10 seconds to 2009.The last second of 2008.

After 10 long minutes of fireworks display, it ended with a series of bangs, not end with a bang, but a series of bangs. A few hours of patience, dancing, chatting, and most importantly getting a cold, I'll let the pictures value whether it is worth it or not.

For more pictures, click here.

My 2009 wish, kinda lot. One of them I do hope that I won't get terrible results on my Scene of Crime assessment, my marks on the Law Essay Plan had came out and it wasn't that good. Alright, I think it's time for me to get back to my assignments and lab reports before the holidays end.