hello, kelvin

There's something new in our bedroom. It's a Kelvinator ref, beautiful at 7 cu.ft, manual defrosting (a feature I specifically asked for at Abenson) and has wheels. The old ref we had conked out a couple of months back. It wasn't the condenser that went wrong. Something else that a technician might have managed to checkout & repair if it weren't for a sealed back.

So instead of bothering to tinker with it, I simply had two burly men, for a generous tip, carry it out of the bedroom to make way for kelvin over the weekend.

This invention, would you believe, costs less than my mobile phone at 0% interest rate.

Now since I can't make water turn into ice with my Nokia, I've to rely on kelvin to do that job. This only shows that mobile phone tech still has a long way to go.

Hmm... a ref and a cellphone rolled into one?

"Well, my cellphone can store steaks and chill beer."

"Guess what, honey? I just bought us a truck. Now you don't have to worry of dragging your cellphone to the supermarket."

It can happen, you know. Maybe they'll call it the dino-cellphone-saurus.

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We got dumped with a lot of snow this weekend!

That's my bro in WI.

He emailed me that when I told him that we are getting to feel the onset of summer.

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I invited my family over for a Chinese new year lunch on the 18th. It was good and fun. I'm not posting pics anymore because it just might ruin your diet.

Anyway, we served pasta with meat sauce, my mom's fried lumpia, paella from Mingoys and fruits (pears, apples, pineapple, grapefruits, oranges, melon, grapes and pomelo). I'm not sure what else we had. But I remember well the big smile on the kids' faces when they received their ang pao.

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There is recent discovery that diverts my attention nowadays from the elections and the Kris-James-Hope triangle.

Mabuti na lang. At least this diversion appeals to our intellectual/philosophical taste.

The Movie Trailer Of The Lost Tomb Of Jesus - The top video clips of the week are here

I might be missing out on the AI and the Amazing Race All-Star series. That's alright. But this dokyu I really want to watch. Airs on March 4 on Discovery Channel.

Dark.

Dark brown.

Dark dan brown.

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kids should know that...

The Talpiot Tomb is a tomb discovered in Talpiot, Israel, in 1980 that is alleged to have been the burial place of Jesus. The tomb was discovered by a construction crew. Inside were found ten ossuaries with six bearing the inscriptions of names. The bones contained in the ossuaries were buried in unmarked graves following the discovery. Andrey Feuerverger, professor of statistics and mathematics at the University of Toronto, recently conducted a study addressing the probabilities that will soon be published in a leading statistical journal. Feuerverger multiplied the instances that each name appeared during the tomb's time period with the instances of every other name. He initially found "Jesus Son of Joseph" appeared once out of 190 times, Mariamne appeared once out of 160 times and so on. To be conservative, he next divided the resulting numbers by 25 percent, a statistical standard, and further divided the results by 1,000 to attempt to account for all tombs -- even those that have not been uncovered -- that could have existed in first century Jerusalem. The study concludes that the odds are at least 600 to 1 in favor of the Talpiot Tomb being the Jesus Family Tomb. In other words, the conclusion works 599 times out of 600. (wikipedia)