Sunday, February 11, 2007

Reply To Jasmine's Blog Quiz

This blog post is a reply to a quiz on Jasmine's blog entry on the 10th of February. Italics texts are quoted directly from her, while non-italics text are my replies.

Then there was another talk show... and some quizzes. For example... (translated from chinese to english but my translation may not be that accurate)

1) You went to a very grand restaurant. What type of cup would you expect to use?

- Crystal cup
- Wooden cup
- Paper cup

Its mainly about what you look for as a partner.

If you choose crystal cup means you care about people's appearances, you prefer good looking ones...
If you choose wooden cup means you care about inner beauty and prefer to see the personality of the person...
If you choose paper cup... wah... this is the worst kind. Who will use paper cup at a restaurant sia...


I wouldn't choose a crystal cup. Crystal is a very precious and delicate material. It is often very rare and expensive. If I use it, the cup would have to be washed. If the unlucky washer happens to break the cup while washing it, and as you know, he or she has to end up as a washer for a job because he or she is most often poor and needs income, then he or she would have to pay for the crystal cup, thus making him or her poorer.

I also would not choose a wooden cup. Wooden cups, like all materials made of wood, are made from logs chopped from trees. Trees play an important role in this world. Please refer to this Wikipedia entry on why we should not cut trees. Thus, as many of you would already know, logging is a controversial activity due to its environmental and aesthetic impacts. If I choose a wooden cup, I would just be encouraging woodcutters to cut more trees down. This contributes to terrible events like global warming and depletion of ozone layer. We do not want that.

And I would not choose the paper cup either. Paper cups have an environmental impact. Although the cups themselves are made from renewable resources (wood chips), paper cups actually consume more non-renewable resources in their manufacture than cups made of polystyrene foam, since converting the wood chips to paper pulp requires energy. During their life cycle, the only significant effluent of polystyrene cups is pentane. In contrast, the manufacture of paper requires several inorganic chemicals and creates large amounts of water effluents. Similarly, recycling polystyrene cups has less impact than recycling paper cups. Paper cups are, however, more biodegradable than polystyrene cups, with the caveat that in an anaerobic landfill paper cups will generally remain undegraded for a long time.

So how? I'll just drink from the bottle directly. ^_^"

2) You were on the streets when you saw a performer and a very fine monkey. You paid the performer $10 and he asked what you would like to see in their performance.

- The monkey cycling a bicycle
- The monkey dancing ballet
- The monkey playing with the sword

If you choose the monkey and the bike, you are a very nice person, and you are simply satisfied and okay with almost everything.
If you choose the money dancing ballet, it means you care about how people present themselves as... whether they are gentle or rough... have manners or not... and so on.
If you choose the money playing with the sword... this is the worst answer...


I would like to see the monkey cycling a bicycle. It is rare to see monkeys cycling a bicycle, and of course to see it would be an eye-opener. Want proof that monkeys cannot cycle bicycles? I have one perfect example. There is a monkey I know that cannot cycle, he is in my class and his name is Vernon. [Fear the shifty eyes!]

I would also like to see the monkey dancing the ballet. It is nothing special when the monkey is a female, but it would give me a chance to roll on the floor and laugh out loud if it is a male. Imagine a male monkey dancing ballet in the street. World record for funniest scene, anyone?

I would also like to see the monkey playing with the sword. Worst answer, considering I'm a swordsman? O.o

So how? I'd rather have my ten bucks back to spend on games. XD

3) After walking past a lake, you came to a house, you went in, it was filled with darkness. Suddenly, there was light coming from somewhere. You looked at where the light is coming from. How many candles do you expect to see?

The number of candles represent how many people you can like at the same time and shows how devoted to your partner you are!


Yami no hikari...!!! O.O [Means "Light of the darkness" or "Light in the darkness" in Japanese]

I scrolled downwards and accidentally read the answer before I can answer the question, thinking it too is part of the question since the two before were MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions).

Thats about all for those quizzes. My answers to those quizzes was crap. Lol.

"Were", Jasmine, not "was". :)

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