10-Aug-2009

The Cigarette Smoking Man (abbreviated as CSM, also known as Cancer Man and C.G.B. Spender) is a fictional character on the American science fiction television series The X-Files,played by William B. Davis. He served as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder.

The character is most commonly referred to by this description because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and also because, like other villains on the show,he has no definite real name.

Although uttering only four audible words in the entire first season of the show,CSM eventually developed into the series' primary antagonist.

CSM's silent presence in Walter Skinner's office early on was always a warning thatthe shadowy government attempting to discredit Mulder is again keeping an eye on the nonconformist agent.The Smoking Man oversaw Dana Scully's initial briefing on her assignment to the X-Files to debunk the work of Mulder,as well as her debriefing. The Smoking Man also stole the evidence obtained by Mulder and Scully during theshow's pilot episode, and moved it to a secret, underground storage room at The Pentagon.

09-Aug-2009

Today got one set of German WW2 officer uniform , is ranking as "Hauptmann " , is the same as "Captain" in US Army.

Another one is SS "Obersturmführer " , in US Army is same as "Lieutenant " .

12-July-2009

A*STAR - Biomedical Sciences - NSS(PhD)

Now a day "Scholars" can walking Nude around stree , can be end up no revoke of Scholarship, i wonder what will be next , having SXX in public ? for study "Biomedical Sciences " ?

And this PHD got high IQ , lucky i am stupit , or else a fat pig like me may also walking nude on the stree :)

14 May 2009

死

Ölüm ความตาย Kamatayan Döden

Kuolema 죽음 Paéh Smrt મરણ Смрт Surm 死亡

Morti मृत्यू Død Ölüm Mort Сьмерць

Smertis 死亡 Moirt Chếtموت ความตาย

Kamatayan 죽음 Döden મરણ Death טויט

Smertis ความตาย 死亡 Kamatayan

Ölüm मृत्यू Mort 죽음 Kuolema Paéh Smrt

Soon for every one in the world~ ~ ~

waiting for all of you long long time.

30-Apr-2009

<< 聖杯>>

This afternoon happen to when down Simple Toy , saw a "Indiana Jones Holy Grail" ,

so i got it , Somehow the Holy Grail has made it beyond the Great Seal and the protection of the Grail Knight, to make its way onto your desk at the office (even better if you work in a museum).
Although this reproduction does look exactly like the real thing from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I wouldn't drink from it hoping for eternal life. Just stick to using its magical magnetic powers to keep your desktop free of paperclip clutter or you will have chosen poorly.



*** actualy is a Paperclip Magnet Desk Accessory ***

ok , now back to the oringal "Holy Grail" , below is photo take in Cathedral of Valencia .




The Grail plays a different role everywhere it appears, but in most versions of the legend the hero must prove himself worthy to be in its presence.

In the early tales, Percival's immaturity prevents him from fulfilling his destiny when he first encounters the Grail,and he must grow spiritually and mentally before he can locate it again.

In later tellings the Grail is a symbol of God's grace, available to all but only fully realized by those who prepare themselves spiritually,like the saintly Galahad.

In Etymology the word grial, as it is earliest spelled, appears to be an Old French adaptation of the Latin gradalis,meaning a dish brought to the table in different stages of a meal.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established,late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for "Holy Grail."

In Old French,san graal or san gréal means "Holy Grail" and sang réal means "royal blood"; later writers played on this pun.Since then, "Sangreal" is sometimes employed to lend a medievalizing air in referring to the Holy Grail.

This connection with royal blood bore fruit in a modern bestseller linking many historical conspiracy theories.





The Grail was considered a bowl or dish when first described by Chrétien de Troyes.Other authors had their own ideas; Robert de Boron portrayed it as the vessel of the Last Supper,and Peredur had no Grail per se, presenting the hero instead with a platter containing his kinsman's bloody,severed head.

In Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach, citing the authority of a certain (probably fictional) Kyot the Provençal,claimed the Grail was a stone that fell from Heaven (called lapsit exillis), and had been the sanctuary of the Neutral Angels who took neither side during Lucifer's rebellion.

The authors of the Vulgate Cycle used the Grail as a symbol of divine grace. Galahad,illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine, the world's greatest knight and the Grail Bearer at the castle of Corbenic,is destined to achieve the Grail, his spiritual purity making him a greater warrior than even his illustrious father.

Galahad and the interpretation of the Grail involving him were picked up in the 15th century by Sir Thomas Malory in Le Morte d'Arthur,and remain popular today.

Various notions of the Holy Grail are currently widespread in Western society (especially British, French and American),popularized through numerous medieval and modern works (see below) and linked with the predominantly Anglo-French (but also with some German influence)cycle of stories about King Arthur and his knights.

Because of this wide distribution, Americans and West Europeans sometimes assume that the Grail idea is universally well known.The stories of the Grail are totally absent from the folklore of those countries that were and are Eastern Orthodox (whether Arabs, Slavs, Romanians, or Greeks).

This is true of all Arthurian myths, which were not well known east of Germany until the present-day Hollywood retellings. Nor has the Grail been as popular a subject in some predominantly Catholic areas,such as Spain and Latin America, as it has been elsewhere.

The notions of the Grail, its importance, and prominence, are a set of ideas that are essentially local and particular,being linked with Catholic or formerly Catholic locales, Celtic mythology and Anglo-French medieval storytelling.

The contemporary wide distribution of these ideas is due to the huge influence of the pop culture of countries where the Grail Myth was prominent in the Middle Ages.


Later legend:


Belief in the Grail and interest in its potential whereabouts has never ceased.Ownership has been attributed to various groups (including the Knights Templar,probably because they were at the peak of their influence around the time that Grail stories started circulating in the 12th and 13th centuries).
There are cups claimed to be the Grail in several churches, for instance the Saint Mary of Valencia Cathedral,which contains an artifact, the Holy Chalice, supposedly taken by Saint Peter to Rome in the first century,and then to Huesca in Spain by Saint Lawrence in the 3rd century.

According to legend the monastery of San Juan de la Peña, located at the south-west of Jaca,in the province of Huesca, Spain, protected the chalice of the Last Supper from the Islamic invaders of the Iberian Peninsula.Archaeologists say the artifact is a 1st century Middle Eastern stone vessel, possibly from Antioch,Syria (now Turkey); its history can be traced to the 11th century, and it presently rests atop an ornate stem and base,made in the Medieval era of alabaster, gold, and gemstones.

It was the official papal chalice for many popes,and has been used by many others, most recently by Pope Benedict XVI, on July 9, 2006.

The emerald chalice at Genoa,which was obtained during the Crusades at Caesarea Maritima at great cost,has been less championed as the Holy Grail since an accident on the road,while it was being returned from Paris after the fall of Napoleon, revealed that the emerald was green glass.

In Wolfram von Eschenbach's telling, the Grail was kept safe at the castle of Munsalvaesche (mons salvationis),entrusted to Titurel, the first Grail King. Some, not least the monks of Montserrat,have identified the castle with the real sanctuary of Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain.Other stories claim that the Grail is buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel or lies deep in the spring at Glastonbury Tor.

Still other stories claim that a secret line of hereditary protectors keep the Grail,or that it was hidden by the Templars in Oak Island, Nova Scotia's famous "Money Pit",while local folklore in Accokeek, Maryland says that it was brought to the town by a closeted priest aboard Captain John Smith's ship.

Turn of the century accounts state that Irish partisans of the Clan Dhuir (O'Dwyer, Dwyer)transported the Grail to the United States during the 19th Century,and the Grail was kept by their descendents in secrecy in a small abbey in the upper-Northwest (now believed to be Southern Minnesota).

any way don't drink from my this "Grail" is not Holy yet!

14-Apr-2009

Do you all recall during 80's those of some scary hell movies ?

Hellraiser

Today just got my 1st Hellraiser puzzle Box from a mystery puzzle maker , i wish i can open the portal to other side of the world, may my wish come ture!

Here is the History for the Lament ConfigurationHellraiser Puzzle Box:

Philip LeMarchand was a French architect, artisan, and designer who is posthumously credited as possibly one of the most prolific, if undiscovered, mass murderers in the history of the modern world.

He first became known for his creation of bizarre, intricately designed music boxes which quickly became the rage of Europe.

The boxes, known in some circles as LeMarchand Boxes, were each one of a kind creations which were also puzzles, with the answer to one's ultimate hearts desire as their solution.

At the height of his career, Paris was besieged by scandalous multiple disappearances of noteworthy individuals, a number of whom had purchased LeMarchand's puzzle boxes. Suspicions, though unconfirmed, fell upon the sculptor / architect, especially inasmuch as LeMarchand's apprentice,the son of a respected clock maker, was one of the first to disappear.

Amidst this notoriety, LeMarchand fled Europe without selling his home. Apparently certain that the authorities were closing in on him, LeMarchand discarded his already floundering career. In certain circles,the name LeMarchand is synonymous with dread and horror.

This "architect of the damned" served agents far more sinister than those served by Hitler's own architect, Albert Speer. The atrocities performed by LeMarchand made him one of France's most infamous figures,rivaled only by the DeVincouer family and Gilles de Rais.

It is believed this genius constructed more than 270 of his puzzle boxes before he vanished. These boxes change hands rapidly, as is expected, though there are a few collectors, who are interested in the boxes as objects of admiration, and have no interest in working their wonders.

One of LeMarchand's boxes has even appeared recently on the album cover of the Goth rock group,The Cult of Joseph, showcasing a release entitled Chain of Souls. The agency representing the band recently announced that the band's tour bus had mysteriously disappeared between engagements in Muncie and Gary, Indiana.

Who knows what the consequences of solving it will bring? We know that in order for LeMarchand to create his boxes, he needed human fat, lots of it, so therefore he had to murder a great deal. This he must have done quietly,taking only people whose absence would go unnoticed, for we have no records of any European manhunt during the time he returned to France.

LeMarchand was 94 years old when he checked into L'Hotel D'Arnais. He was never seen checking out. When the hotel management finally entered his room they found it empty except for the furnishings, and one of LeMarchand's own boxes which sat on the floor amongst a great deal of blood.

*** you all don't wish to know the price i pay for , beacuse eternal pain is priceless ! ***

12-Apr-2009

Today goto Market Place , saw a bottle of "Mateus Rosé" it only $27.90 , here is the detail :




Mateus Rose was launched in Northern Portugal in 1942. It is made from a blend of carefully selected Portuguese grape varieties, namely Baga, Bastardo, Touriga nacional, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Pinheira - sourced primarily from Portugal's premium Douro and Bairrada DOC regions.

I first tried this wine almost eighteen years ago when a girl I worked with couldn't believe someone who had been drinking (legally) for eleven years hadn't tried what was her favourite wine, so she bought me a bottle for my birthday.

I duly took it home and had a couple of glasses whilst watching T.V. and from what I remember it was quite pleasant. Until I got up the next morning with a terrible hangover, I moaned all day that the wine must be a lot stronger than I thought, after all I had only had two glasses, the rest was still in the fridge.

After that I never tasted it for years, (you know like when you have too much to drink on a Friday or Saturday night and have a kebab on the way home and then are sick, it puts you off kebabs, well the sickness had kinda put me off the wine even though it had nothing to do with it) then last year when I was stressed out with work, I started to like a glass of wine on a Friday night to chill out after a hard week. As I only really like one Glass and usually only on a Friday, a big bottle of wine was a bit much, theni discovered some cute little bottles of around 250ml. He bought me various varieties and then one day he brought in a bottle of Mateus Rose, I was a little dubious at first but I tried it and I am so glad I did as it is absolutely delicious.

It is a slightly sparkling light bodied wine, with a fruity aroma, it is fresh and fruity with a subtle sweetness, although personally I can't smell the alcohol, my daughter who doesn't drink says she can smell that it is wine so I would say there probably is a slight smell of alcohol. This is a very pleasant drink served really chilled, it certainly chills me out after a hard week at work.

The back of the bottle suggests it is an aperitif or a perfect accompaniment to Italian, Chinese, Salads, Barbecue and Shellfish. I just like a glass on its own, or if I'm being really naughty with a bag of crisps.

The bottle is green and has a very distinctive style, it's round with a small neck, for those of you who remember from the seventies, it is the shape of bottle people used to stick shells on and make table lamps from! For anyone else as it is hard to describe so I have added a picture.

Although this wine is not as strong as I thought it was eighteen years ago it is 11% so if you try it, take it easy as it does go down rather well, and you could finish off a bottle quite easily, which is one of the reasons I stick to the small bottles, the other being the small bottle has a screw cap and is much easier to get into!

Some of this information was sourced from winesoftheworld.com
Thanks for reading :-)