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mallanhead
Since there is another thread about 80's song, do you remember that :
You know you're a child of the '80s if...
You remember Don Johnson when he was "cool"
You know who shot J.R
You remember when Michael Jackson was actually considered something of a sex symbol
You practice getting in and out of your car through the windows
You owned at least one skinny leather tie.
Your first Walkman weighed 10 pounds and was the size of a brick.
You wore L.A. Gear tennis shoes.
You know the meaning of Wax on/Wax Off
You're always "in the mood for dancing"
If you can "See Better" with sunglasses that have paint splattered all over the lenses.
You can feel St. Elmo's fire burnin' in you.
You need a shopping cart to carry your personal stereo with you.
You remember what Michael Jackson looked like before the surgery.
You go rollerskating every Friday night (not to skate, but to 'hang out')
You still want to take Karate...(after you move to California)
You watch NYPD Blue thinking, "Well, they're no Crockett and Tubbs, that's for sure".
"Outrageous!" is the term to describe something neat and cool
You think that Garbage Pail Kids are your children's worst enemy
You had a poster of Bo, Luke & Daisy Duke
There was nothing to question about Bert n' Ernie living together
The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.
You went out and purchased the sound track for 'Miami Vice'
You remember the magazines of song lyrics
If you think Hulk Hogan is the best wrestler of all time.
If the best non-slasher movie in your opinion is An American Werewolf In London.
Two words: The Clapper.
Six words: "This is your brain on drugs."
You want to live in 'the Valley'.
Ferris Bueller was your idol.
You watched 'Star Search' on a regular basis.
Every now and then, you blurt out: "Ooh noo, Mr. Bill!!!"
If you had an entire wardrobe of Esprit clothing (or coveted one.)
If you know the words to the "Oscar Mayer" theme songs
Your bangs are teased perfectly to 7 inches above the rest of your hair.
Have multi-colored earrings that touch your shoulders
Played Upwords, Boggle or Trivial Pursuit (the original) on a rainy afternoon
You wore lace gloves with the fingers cut off, bangle bracelets up to your elbows, bright red Reebok high tops and parachute pants to a school dance
You're still bitter that WHAM broke up
You know whose phone number is 867-5309
You drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to
You still watch things on Beta tapes
You have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts
You never go out for a night on the town without frosted blue eyeshadow and feathered bangs
Everything in your wardrobe is either pastel or fluorescent
People are constantly gagging you with spoons.
You know all the words to "I'm just a bill, sitting up on Capitol Hill" and "School House Rock."
The feeling in your thumb is only now just returning after holding down the Atari joystick to control the racecar in Enduro Racer
You still can't believe that Milli Vanilli was deceiving you all that time
You can sing all the words to "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head, and now you understand that it is about chess.
You still wear a bandana tied around your leg and/or a ponytail off-center on the side of your head.
You know who Martha Quinn is.
You still carry your boom box on your shoulder
You think David Hasselhoff was awesome in Knight Rider but sucks in "Boob Watch."
When you saw luging at the Winter Olympics you poured water down your driveway and tried it yourself.
A piece of folded paper and two hands could tell your fortune.
Knickers and leg warmers were cool
You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your room.
You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding
You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.
You thought a Commodore 64 was the highest technology available
You wanted to be "The Hulk" for halloween
You want to be "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
'A Different World' kicked butt
Remember "Dancin' to a Big Mac at McDonalds!"
You know who played Magnum P.I
One Phrase, "The Plane, The Plane"
You can name at least three members of the Brat Pack
Still think banana clips were a godsend
Still wear Wet n' Wild makeup
If your idea of hi-tech toys is still the heat-sensitive color-changing sticker on Transformers
If you remember Bruce Willis from Moonlighting, not Die Hard
You still wear your "Members Only" jacket.
You still have a couple of those barettes made of woven ribbons.
You had snap bracelets
You remember when Pee-Wee wasn't a pervert.
You had had five pairs of socks on at any given time
You still think Donkey Kong can beat Mario up
If you still have your scratch-n-sniff sticker collection
If you remember when you heard that drinking soda and eating Pop Rocks would make your stomach asplode
If you ever used Lee Press-On Nails
If you wear jelly shoes
You still play with that CASIO SK-1 Keyboard
You're still hoping for a New Kids on the Block reunion tour
You still argue over who was better: Tiffany or Debbie Gibson
Every time you hear the "OH YEAH..." song you think of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
You still watch tapes of Stingray, McGyver, and Airwolf
I got it from
http://www.80sgrooves.com/
meaning...someone born in the early or late 50s, 60s or 70s? :)
meaning someone who's born in the 60's 70's and growing up knowing things and enjoying things and do the silly thing in the 80's. I was a teenager back then.
What? No mentioned of Madonna's "LIke a Virgin" video which sparked off the MTV age?
Boy, some of those statements are so true, typical of American culture in the 80s. :p
Additions:
You remember JJ Jackson(deceased), Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood(the sexy one) and the other blonde guy who were the original MTV VeeJays
Your first laptop weighted 14lbs, runs on an Intel 80286 processor, and you developed a bad back from carrying it around.
orchipalar
Err...how about these...?
You thought you be scared to death by...Friday The 13th... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080761/) :eek:
You wouldn't know whether to love or hate...John McEnroe... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McEnroe)for beating Bjorn Borg...n Jimmy Connors...when on March 3rd 1980...he became No. 1 in the world ranking as the BEST ever tennis player of all time...n would go on to win a total of 7 Grand Slam titles :)
You wouldn't dispute that...Bo Derek was the most beautiful woman in the world...a perfect 10... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078721/) :o
Err...you dream of owing your first cellular hand portable phone...Motorola DynaTAC...which would look n weigh like a brick...at a whopping 30oz... :D
Well, I had a crush on Nick Rhodes, Morten Hacket (A-Ha) and Barry Manilow? :p
I also know how MJ looked like before his nose fell off? sorry..nose fell off?? and we had 'Beat It' dance moves happening in school..
and yes! remember who Max Headroom is??
Dallas was my aunt's favourite show on tv. But couldn't remember who shot JR??
And all I had in my room was my radio cassette player and lotsa cassettes..
and thought Disneyland was the greatest place to be..:p
I never said 'Duhhh..'
I wore some pretty cool torn jeans..with holes and bleached. I remember my mum's tight slap on my buttocks :D
Rayban sunglasses was the coolest for boys then..:cool:
and my best friend looked like a Sheena Easton & Cindy Lauper cross.:p
...more to come later
Oh yes.. :D I had a crush on Danny Chan too..the deceased Hong Kong singer?
hhmmm....i love ghostbusters.....missed the time when the lifestyles is so simple...
reminds me 'gremlins' and wax on...wax off..:p
You had to watch Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and then Late Night with David Letterman on NBC before sitting down in front of your desk to work on your English 101 assignments. :p
You remember Bruce Willis when he still had Hair! :D
....step by step.....oh baby.....(i think jordan knight did make a return last few years but i guess luck just not on his side)
It's Hammertime! Remember the baggy Arabian pants?
and guys who thought growing a 'tail' was cool and wore a shirt outside their t-shirts? :D so jialat hot!
McDonald first came to malaysia back in the 80's too. Can't remember exactly year it was. But we used to lepak in A&W in Jln Tun HS Lee after school. At one time, we had orange julius, white castle, wendy, and not to forget popeye fried chicken. it give me bad tummy ache.
I used to watch movie like thank god its friday, ET, poltergeist. And when we were watching poltergeist, my school friend bought the cheapest ticket and sit right infront and scream our head off. That was b4 all those current cinema.
And any of you remember Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shield and Chris Atkin.
do you know that A-ha is still doing concert. I love Mag.
I used to have a very very thorn jeans. Thought it was so cool man, that I wanted to wear it to my trip to Brunei. My mama stopped me. I think back then brunei is still to conservative.
Jaytea
McDonald first came to malaysia back in the 80's too.
back in '87, during bulan puasa, Mc D had the rm2.99 (yee kow-sap-kow in canto) deal, which comprised of a burger (Big Mac range, not the McMuffin range), fries and drink.
i can still remember the yee kow-sap-kow, yee kow-sap-kow ringing in the ads.
every friday, i would make my way to mcd's sect 14
:o aiyoh... so many years ago!!!
I think that back then we have more variety of fast food and for pizza.
GreenBug
.... and Tuesdays were Coney Dog days at the A&W Drive-In next to King George V School in the Seremban Lake Gardens area, only RM1.00 then! Can bring favorite school GF there for a treat too.... share the A&W Float loh... :D
.... and the dream bike to own was a Yamaha DT250 Scrambler.... or maybe the Yamaha RD350LC street-racer! Cool man! :D
.... and dedicating "How Deep Is Your Love? Bee Gees" on Saturday morning's Kee Huat Radio Facts & Fancies with Patrick Teoh was also a cool thing, man!That was when Patrick's "Blue Skies and Everything Nice" phrase caught on! :D
Scrambler are the one that purdey of "The avengers" rode. isnt it? Another TV programme that I like to watch is 'The Saint' and The Minders. Both are british.
Scrambler are the one that purdey of "The avengers" rode. isnt it? Another TV programme that I like to watch is 'The Saint' and The Minders. Both are british.An the car used in "The Saint" Simon Templer was a Volvo P1800. A classic especially when in the original off-white Volvo paintwork! Used to own one which took me 2 years to refurbish but the car is now at a pte. collector's classic car museum in Sg. Buloh! :rolleyes:
Err...how about anyone also remembers...Apocalypse Now...? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/) n...Star Wars Episode V...The Empire Strikes Back...? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/) ahem...it was a norm that many folks bought cinema tickets...from the black market... :rolleyes:
Err...those early 80s days in KL/PJ areas...got NOT as many shopping complexes to lepak around though...err...about the only other places that pull a crowd were...the Sungai Wang...Pertama...Campbell...n AsiaJaya complexes etc :)
Teeque
Star Wars - best films of all time - enthralled moviegoers and set the special effects sci-fi standard of the era.
Superman was the only superhero on screen.
Drew Barrymore was just a cute lil kiddo, not the wild child we know now.
Breakdance - a hip new dance form hit the streets, flipping and turning bodies and using hands to dance, instead of the feet.
Pac man and Space Invaders were the 'in' computer games at that time and the monitors had only 1 color - green.
There was only 1 TV channel and 1 English radio network on Malaysian shores.
Fonzie of Happy Days was the coolest dude with the slick hair and leather jacket.
The coolest dressing look was the Don Johnson look - blazer over colored t-shirt.
You know who Mr. T is.
Roger Moore was the most popular Bond.
You went goo goo gaa gaa over Samantha Fox and found out what Page 3 is. :rolleyes:
And then you found out what is a Playboy Bunny. :D
The Howard Jones / Duran Duran hairdo was the trendy hairdo look of that time. Remember those Ah Bengs with baggy pants in Sungai Wang?
Live Aid was the coolest, biggest, wide scale world wide concert. It was reborn this year again, 20 years on.
Maradona was still a football maestro who mesmerized World Cup TV viewers with his skills on the field with Argentina.
Air Supply and Chicago serenaded lovers.
And Victoria Music Store was where we searched for the records / cassettes. It was the biggest and most well stocked music store of that time.
The backpack bag was born and caught on us teenagers.
The moonwalk was born.
Another form of dance also appeared - dirty dancing, popular with lovers...hehe.
For PJ ppl, Taman Jaya was a lovers haunt, a short walk across to the only A&W drive in, also a favorite with lovers.
Robin Williams shot to fame with his famous greeting 'Nanu nanu' as Mork, the first smallscreen alien in human lifeform.
More to come if I remember them... :cool:
.... and MU undergrads (we were not rated 169 then! :D ) used to hang out at Glass Bubble discotheque at Jayapuri Hotel (now PJ Hilton) and ice-skating at the Asiajaya Complex..... :D
.... a Honda CB100 was the much-desired bike from the run-of-the-mill Honda C50/C70. (Even Honda C90 was not available yet in the 80s). :D
.... installing a "CARTRIDGE" in the car player was the coolest thing :D
.... a BMW2002tii was a far-fetched dream :D
.... owning a Malaysian-made "ACCENT" Portable PC (40286????) with "amber" screen was also cool :D
..... and nobody wants to stay in Subang Jaya because afraid one of the aeroplanes flying in and out of Subang International Airport would drop a wheel on their roof-top :D
Its cool in the 80s if you .....
- have your haircut at Lee Bernard
- wear a TEXWOOD or AMCO jeans
- smoke Salem and carry ZIPPO lighter
- carry a fabric sling bag
- a Timex watch
- drive a Ford TX3
Imagine, the SONY Walkman was almost as big as a brick using cassette some more... :D
Hahaha, I remember that one! LOL :D
Yea, I had a Suzuki TS185ER "scrambler" in high school, and used to literally smoke the CB100s :D Didn't realise it was that cool back then and didn't capitalise on it to get many chicks, a few only lah... :p
I was away from Malaysia most of the 80s, missed out all the fun at home, huh? :o
I used to have a very very thorn jeans. Thought it was so cool man, that I wanted to wear it to my trip to Brunei. My mama stopped me. I think back then brunei is still to conservative.It still is mallanhead, no alcohol. no entertainment and no lucah dressing mencucuk mata ok! :rolleyes:
We had joy
We had fun
We had 'Seasons in the Sun'
But the joy
and the fun
and the Seasons have all gone :cool:
Err...Orchi thought...having a St.Dupont("Ting")...or at least a dunhill lighter("cluck")...would be the order of any nightclubs...:D
Ahem...for the cardi...Orchi thought...driving a Ford Lazer Sport 1.5S(twin keihin carbs)...would beat any Alfsud(s)...Escort 1.6Sport...or Accord 1.6(hatchback)...n would even give them PDRM's old beaten Alfetta(s)...a run for the money...at every traffic lights...:D
CCY
I would vouch for that . Having zoom up to Genting with 4 guys in their 20's then in a Laser S sometimes on full throttle and down with smoke trailing on the brakes sure upp..ed the adrenalin. Think about it now...hey goose pimples is zooming up...phew what a daredevil then n that's some of the eighties....:p
Err...those days...should Orchi clock 45 minutes...from Gombak toll until the entrance of the carpark at the Genting Hotel...ahem...sudah kalah muka liao...
Ahem...su kiaw bor su bin...:p:D
I guess u guys are my senior but then again , i remember watching Ghost, Ghostbusters and yes, gremlins ..
Ermm .. if i can recall that, Danny Chan is a gay? oh yea, i remember i had a torn jeans too .. until my friends can't stand seeing me wearing that jeans .. it was totally torn off 1 side of the jeans is as short as bermuda .. :o
During that time, Sam Hui & George Lam was a hit that time .. and Sam Hui hit movie that time is Happy Go Lucky!! :D jz luv that movie ..
Err...by 1973 n after the Bruce Lee era... (http://www.allbrucelee.com/) there wasn't anyone who could 'resume' the role of the legendary kungfu actor idolized by millions of chinese film viewers...until the later discovery of Jackie Chan...since the early 80s (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000329/) :)
Signs that you are a 70s' baby:
You grew up watching G-Force, He-man, Transformers, Thundercats, Silver Hawk, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget Ninja Turtles, Mask, Smurfs and Voltron too.
Girls watched Japanese cartoon like My Little Pony, "Xiao Tian Tian", "Hua Xian Zi" etc.
You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in primary school after recess time.
Remember the days when the school nurse, comes with a list for the dentist appointment, the sound of the drilling when your friend has a fill in his tooth.
You remember the packets of milk we get in primary school to encourage us to drink more milk. (It is only cost 30 cent per pack)
In secondary school, girls go to the library to borrow their favourite romance storybook.
In secondary school, girls altered their school skirt to shorten it and guys will go to the school appointed school uniform tailor shop to tailor make their school trousers to the then fashionable "baggy pants"!
During primary school days, the teacher will punish you using a ruler to hit your palm.
A bowl of noodles soup cost only 30cent in primary school days.
When you were in primary school, girls like to go to the bookshop to buy cute stuff such as animal erasers, various shape sharpeners, colourful notebook etc.
Hankyu Jaya, Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favourite hangout for families during weekends.
In secondary school days, you buy the Bata BM Turbo or Pallas Jazz school shoes.
Some guys like to wear those china made ankle high shoes. Some even like to wear those very thick socks with their school shoes.
Internet? E-mail? What the hell is that?
So you thought a decade or more ago, your friends don't have pagers or handphones in school.
CDs? What's that? Cassette tapes were the norm. Movie tickets used to cost less than $5 last time.
The goodies from Mama shop used to be Chickerdis, Mamee , Kum Kum, UFO, O-Ya, Ding Dang chocolate balls with toys in the box, colourful hard "egg", "cigerette" bubble gum, KIKI Bubble Gum, pink bottle of bubbles c/w a small tubes with yellow sticks to blow "more lasting" bubbles that you can pop more air in or slam it on.
You never forget 'Ti Kam'.
When exams are over, the board games (e.g Monopoly, Donkey, Transportation Comparison Card) & held video games will be all over the class room.
Your favourite sound is the bell!
For it's the homemade ice cream man. The cream that tops Haagan Dazs!
And the other peddler you love is the old lady who sells juicy Muah Chee and thick olden syrup rolled in a balloon the tip of a chopstick stick.
Another bell is the recess bell, a time to get away from school work and to eat.
Another time when there is no bell but all guys will anxiously wait for it...The PJ (Pendidikan Jasmani), PE time (time for football)
Your favourite childhood games were playing "gu li"(marbles), five stones, five bottle cover, zero-point, catching, "Pepsi-Cola one two three" and/or "Police & Sentry"!
The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colourful ice tubes you can buy from provision shops for only 10 cent. To eat them, break the tab and suck while holding the freezing tube!
All gals have a girl doll/strawberry shortcake/my little pony/pound puppy, while all boys have a soldiers figurine (combat) or a rubber band catapult that shoots folded paper!
Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valueable items, then came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights.
Some boys made their own guns from wood, and used 'Bacali' as the bullets.
Some even used matches to shoot and burn kids'lanterns during MoonCake Festival.
And your favourite holiday was Lunar New Year! New clothes, Ang Pows, shopping, junk food and family outings!
Let's see, the majority of students in universities today were born in 1982 / 83.... They are called "youth".
For them, they have never heard of the song "We are the World, we are the Children..." And the "Uptown Girl" they know is by 'West Life' but not 'Billy Joel'.
For them, there have always been only one Germany and only one Vietnam.
AIDS exists since they were born.
CD exists since they were born.
Michael Jackson is already whitened.
John Travolta is always round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.
They believe that Spiderman and Incredible Hulk are just new films.
They can never imagine a black and white screen for a computer.
They never know what is Atari or 'Game & Watch'.
They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and they don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.
And they never understand how we can go out without a mobile phone when we were in university...
Let's check if we're getting old...
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. Most of your secondary school friends are getting married.
3. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computer.
4. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
5. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends daily.
6. When you meet your old friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again and again all funny stories you experienced together.
7. Lastly, having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other old friends. You think they will like it too.....
Hahaha!.... Yes! We are getting old too...........
Brings back old memories huh?
Cheers to the 70s babies!!!
Hahaha...Jericho ...you sums it up well. Miss anything else. Where's my fighting fish ..... Nostalgic eh and a real sign of getting old ah.
Remember this....
Saya Charlie Chickadee
Yang ranggup enak sekali
Cuba nak lagi
Saya Charlie Chickadee!
I remember when kacang putih was sold rolled in paper for 10cents ....
I remember when they sold condensed milk in little triangle like packets for 30 cents. I lurrved those!
I remember when I absolutely must have that checkered luggage looking bag as my school bag.
Eh....hang on....these are 70's memories!
I was in the teens during the 80's.....
I remember buying my first cassette tape in 1983.
I remember saving money for a year to buy my first mini-compo for RM240.
I remember buying every magazine with Duran Duran articles - to cut and paste in my Duran Duran scrapbook. This was later replaced with A-Ha.
I remember my poster of Jon Erick Hexum above my bed.
I remember writing an English essay explaining why I loved to watch MacGyver.
Ahh.....so many other things I remember......
I remember having a crush on the LaSalle boy who was in the same school bus as me.
Err...how about Fast Freddie Spencer... (http://www.motorsports-network.com/articles/Freddie.htm) ahem...anyone remembers him?...about the only person in history to have won the double motor GP championship in 250cc n 500cc class...both in the same year...:)
Ahem...off the saddle of one(250cc championship win)...n goes on to ride n win the next 500cc championship race.... :)
Err...not even Kenny Roberts...Valentino Rossi or Michael Doohan...could achieve that...
Err...not even Kenny Roberts...Valentino Rossi or Michael Doohan...could achieve that...JOEY DUNLOP won 7 Isle of Man TT and died in his attempt for the eighth. Ron Haslam, Malaysian-based, tried for the Isle of Man and died in his first attempt, crashed into the hotel at Turn 6.
Everybody loves Kung Fu fighting.... (remember the song Orchi?) :D
JOEY DUNLOP won 7 Isle of Man TT and died in his attempt for the eighth. Ron Haslam, Malaysian-based, tried for the Isle of Man and died in his first attempt, crashed into the hotel at Turn 6.
Err...there has been a couple of versions...including a disco dance version...n one by WangChung(offtracked):D
Here's could be the original version by Carl Douglas...which went to #1 for 3 weeks...n stayed at the chart for 13 weeks...in 1974:D
Oh ho ho ho.....
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
For they fought with expert timing
They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up, they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and a-kicking from the hip
There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip, now we're into a brand knew trip
But they did it with expert timing
Keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on,
Make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning
Keep on, keep on, keep on
Here's could be the original version by Carl Douglas...which went to #1 for 3 weeks...n stayed at the chart for 13 weeks...
Ha... Ha... Ha... Orchi... you're amazing. I sang the whole song in one breath... yes! I was a 70s and 80s man! :D And thanks for the memories!
... and may I add that in the 70s and 80s, we had UMBC, Kwong Yik Bank, Southern Bank, Lee Wah Bank, Chung Kiaw Bank, D&C Bank, Bank Bumiputra, Perwira Habib Bank, Malayan Banking, Hock Hua Bank, Ban Hin Lee Bank, Boon Siew Bank and... and... the big and friendly [ :mad: CHATAR BANK! :mad: ]
I used to wear badminton master from bata to school. Since when they stop producing it huh? After reading this thread I feel like grandmama already. It has been 20 years++ since I left school. Wah so long mah.... and so tua... Luckily hair not grey yet.
Remember the BMX bike craze in the early 80s? We rode everywhere with it, including to school, so much so my school built a special shed for BMX bikers which will be locked during school hours. This prized possesion is top of the stolen list back then.
There was only one highway back then - Federal Highway! No PLUS, NKVE, KESAS or LDP. When balik kampung, we had to travel on the old federal roads or kampung roads. No need to pay toll!
The tallest building in KL was the Menara Dayabumi.
No Penang bridge til late 80s. Had to use the Penang ferries to ferry vehicles across.
Yep, Asiajaya had the only ice skating ring in town. There was also Shah's Bowling Alley, next to Shah's Motel and A&W PJ. Now no more.
Besides Hankyu, Metrojaya and Yaohan, I still remember a Printemps deparment store.
Err...dear Teeque:)...IF not mistaken...there was a tolled PLUS expressway from Seremban to Sg.Besi...since 1977 or so...ahem...50sens at Labu toll...n 100sens at the Sg.Besi toll respectively...for cars...n double for trucks...or something like that...
Ahem...on the old trunk road...from North...need to pay toll(one way only) at Slim River...n soon later...need to pay toll at Senai...before going into JB town...ahem...for something like 100sens...for cars...n double for trucks...or something like that...
Err...those days...there were still plenty of river crossings done by...freaking so called tongkangs or ferries...hoisted across by diesel powered winches...
Err...used to be...had to wait for long queues...just to get onto them freaking tongkangs or ferries...before the river crossings...ahem...why?...coz they would allow 'official' vehicles such as from the army or some gomen departments...or some big balls...n etc etc...or trucks carrying fresh produces...to cross first... :rolleyes:
Err...how about windows on them freaking old buses n train coaches?...ahem...the frames were made of wood leh...:D
n speak about buses...surely NOBODY could forget about the experiences...having to ride in them freaking MINI buses...???...or them extinct bus companies lika...toong fong...foh hup...len sen...len hup...n of course NOT forgetting them freaking...Seri Jaya n Mara buses!...plying the busy roads everywhere around Klang Valley???
But...come to think of it...ahem...they were more buses available n ON schedule!!...err...most of the times....as compared with what we got these days... :rolleyes:
Good for Nothing!...buses run by them freaking so called Privatized Consortiums hor... :rolleyes:
Ahem...coming to supermarkets or departmental stores...err...seems like...everybody forgotten about Kimisawa ar?...how about cold storage the Weld...or Emporium???
Err...remembering cinemas going(hopping?) days...ahem...with friends or just being alone...which were your favorite cinemas?
Err...Cathay...Pavillion...Odeon...Rex...Capitol.. .Sentul...Paramount...State...or Sentosa?...or was it the one at Brickfields...what's the name?
Err...how about the ones at your kampungs or home towns in other parts of the country...what's the name of your favorite cinemas or theaters...back then? :)
n speaking of the names of your favorite bookstores...anyone remembers the Antonian(sp?) at Brickfields?...how about in other parts of PJ or KL?...hehe...sorry hasn't gone to school much those days...so don't have much clues about names of the famous bookstores leh...:D
Orchi,
The PLUS highway only came online late 80s ler, i think 88/89. But the Slim River toll was there all the while but not sure why got toll tho...lol.
Fav cinema would be Cathay and State. Cathay for their state of the art sound system, at that time ler. Got Dolby sound haha.
Fav disco - Scandals. For tea parties - Piccadilly's.
Fav bowling alley - Shah's Bowl lor, where else.
Ahhh yesss ... those memories, seems like yesterday only ... :)
Anyway, during that time, there weren't any toll from Shah Alam to PJ / KL or even any toll from Shah Alam to Klang. Everything was so cheap then and affordable by many.
Seafood is fresh and cheap ... terminal 3 right all the way in , there are so many selections ..
Everyone is wearing Power shoes ... it was a norm
I still remember there use to be a very nice park in Shah Alam where it's now a Business centre and public swimming pool in Shah Alam :(
With a population increase from 11+ mil then to 23+ mil now we can see that vast amount of changes. Think about it if our gomen really going for 70+ mil..:(
during the 80's, i was still in school. i remember the weather was nice and cool (a lot more trees then), i think the economy was booming, no protons on the roads and most of all, life was simpler.
Piccadilly's at Damansara? My hand is up. Used to frequent there during my early 20s. The Helmi & Gimmick band were quite hot then. And we would Beetlenut after that :p and have nasi lemak at Kampung Baru.
peterkkchong
Totally agree with you, and i miss weather of those days. Nowadays wake up also can sweat.
Piccadilly? I remember the band of "Fred and flinstone" and Zainal Abidin ex band, it it call Freedom? Beetlenut, the chinese DJ who always like to tell dirty jokes happen to be my schoolmate.
Yeap, those days morning weather was jz nice & breazy .. feels like back in Cameron ... now i guess even there won't have such feelin' in the morning anymore ..
Err...anyone still remembers...the rubic's puzzles... (http://toys.listings.ebay.ie/Jigsaws-Puzzles_Rubiks-Puzzles_W0QQfclZ3QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQloglZ1QQsaatcZ9 9QQsacatZ19187QQsascsZ2QQsocmdZListingItemList) ahem...Orchi being a retard could NEVER figure one out before...:D
Err...Cathay...Pavillion...Odeon...Rex...Capitol.. .Sentul...Paramount... State...or Sentosa?...or was it the one at Brickfields...what's the name?Lido? across from the YMCA? He He mostly Tamil movies there lah orchi.... :D
Piccadilly? I remember the band of "Fred and flinstone".During the "MERDEKA" dinner organised by the Persatuan Warganegara Malaysia (PWM) in Brunei in OGOS 31, 2003, we had "FRED & THE FLINSTONES" lah... :D Oh boy, was it nolstalgic... really good time with wifey but had to tell her too I used to have good time with another in the 80s lah when FRED & THE FLINSTONE was hot in Piccadilly.... :D
we were all excited about tv3
and now that i-forgot-which-channel is showing the taiwanese tearjerker "heaven knows my heart", whenever you see snippets of it, your heart somehow mellows a bit, recalling the kids and you find yourself humming the theme song
xaviers
Chow Yuen Fatt - in the Bund and Brothers
Zico, Socrates - the shorts that they wore - micro compared to todays standards
Tottenham Hotspurs - Glenn Hoddle
Err...on the international political scenes...Times magazine called him...as the man of 1979... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayatollah_Khomeini) which also saw the end of the rulings by The Last Shah of Iran... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi_of_Iran) :)
Err... The 39th President of America... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter) in his terms in the oval office...he was impotent n still plagued by...many domestic economic issues...as well as the international affairs like the...Soviets invasion of Afghanistan... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Afghanistan) n the Iranian crisis...both happened in 1979...until 1981...when the American public voted in A Hollywood Cowboy...to take over the oval office... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan) :D
Err...on May 18th 1980...the Mount St. Helen erupted... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens)
Aiyoo...orchi.. I kena 'chow yau yue' in oct'86 wor.....:D
Err...buddy CCY:)...where did ya get fffffrrrrriiiieeedddd?:D
Its Betelnut, and Patrick Teoh did dj there for awhile too.
Zainal's band was Headwind (for kepala angin :D ). Freedom was another band who also shot to stardom, forgot the hit song's name liao...aiya. Yes, there was Fred. Also, dun forget the famed Alleycats!
Oh yes! Freedom's hit song - Mulanya di sini, i think...lol.
As seen with my avatar, I'm a Liverpool fan here, and all Reds fans worldwide will never forget the Heysel Stadium disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_disaster) on that fateful day on May 29, 1985. 39 ppl died when one of the walls of the stadium collapsed due to crowd trouble in that European Cup Final match. Juventus won the match 1-0 and British football clubs were banned frm European competitions for 5 years. And I really shed tears when I saw the whole event shockingly unfolded before my eyes on TV that day.
Coincidentally, Liverpool and Juventus met for the first time again since then, on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, in a quarterfinal European Champions League match this year. The game began in a sombre mood, with both team captains of the then '85 teams carrying banners of reconciliation into Anfield stadium. When a minute of silence was observed in memory of the tragedy 20 years ago, Liverpool fans held up placards in the stands bearing these words 'Amicizia', which means friendship in Italian. As I watch this, I felt a feeling that the ghosts of this tragedy has finally been buried. And again, I shed a tear.
Liverpool went on to win that match by an aggregate 2-1, beat Chelsea (by then EPL champions 2005) 1-0, and conquered AC Milan (last year's European Champions) in the Final, to be crowned Kings of Europe again. Well, the rest, as they say, is history (or history in the making). Again, I shed tears. But this time, they were tears of joy.
http://www.myteamtalk.info/uploads/av-127.jpg
You'll never walk alone.
Another anecdote of coincidence regarding Liverpool FC's European exploits.
The last time they won the European Cup in 1984, the then Pope died and Prince Charles was married.
Well, lo and behold, this year, Pope John Paul died, Prince Charles remarried, and Liverpool FC were crowned European Champions again. Spooky coincidence?
Err...dear GreenBug:)...how can anyone forget about those freaking shameful banking history...:rolleyes:
Err...remember BMF scandal...? (http://blisdemo.bernama.com/article.phtml?SN=0e273ec6447607fbf8650ea2f365c258&s=12&p=82407) n Lorrain Osman... (http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/legan/legan015.pdf) ???
Speaking of banks, wHen I was little, Standard Chartered bank came out with Disney piggy banks. I had a Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Dumbo piggy bank. .....Aiya!.....these are 70's memories not 80's....sorry.
BTW, its not Fred and the Flintstones....if I'm not mistaken, its FREDO and the Flintstones.
Err...dear In:)...yes Orchi had it too...but these days...banks are NOT like what they used to be...seldom one sees the bank encouraging kiddies opening up any savings account...:(
JackRyan1975
Those are nice. Was fascinated by those wire-and-seal caps they used back then.
Then Pee Bee box came with the plastic cap, along with the pungent rubber-plastic smell when you open it.
Best was the Arab-Malaysian camel which actually sheds hair as you stroke em long enuff. :D
The earlier piggy bank that I have was front stand cart. A yellow pig. I still have it. Got it when my mama after my birth day. That was such a long time ago. many many many moons and stars ago.
Vixey
aiyoh...so many 80's kids here ah?
all this nostalgic trips down memory lane making me feel old old old....!
but i loved that whole...Girls Just Wanna Have Fun era with the big hair, bright belts and colorful plastic big earrings!
Err...where have all the heroes gone to?:rolleyes:
Err...we used to have battle heroes lika...Rambo... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/)n Casey Ryback... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105690/)or even...John Matrix... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/)who could make minced meat out of the World #1 Public enermy...
Ahem...the Americans also have the The FBI... (http://www.fbi.gov/)...n CIA... (http://www.cia.gov/)the Russians have got the KGB... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB) but none so far...could even find ONE freaking villain...Osama Bin Ladin...? :D
Err...in the famous tagline from The Commando..."Somewhere... somehow... someone's going to pay!"
Some of my fav programmes on TV were :
Hawaii-Five-O starring the late Jack Lord (Book 'em Danny!)
Mannix (cannot recall the main star)
Ironside starring the late Raymond Burr on a wheelchair
Kojak (the late Telly Savalas.... godfather to Angelina Jolie!)
Petrocelli - a series of a lawyer defending the hopeless cases
... errr I think some are from the 70s lah! :eek:
VeeJay
Yup...even Cameron now is very much hotter...during early 80s and mid 70s, when we drove in Dad's Bug, at night, he used to turn the car heater on for us...it use to be really cold, to an extend that we carried blanket in the car! :)
The cool thing about the beetl;e is that it has build in heater like how we have air-con now.
Night after 10 and morning driving use to be very misty...the fog was so thick, and the visibility would be less that 50 feet...gone are those good old days, when the gomen started to cut down trees in the name of development!
My fav. Series would be
Starsky and Hutch
Knight Rider,
Man from Atlantis
Space 1999 (remember maya?!)
Logun's Run
What is the title of the Robert Redford series.? Cant seem to remember
Definitely Ultraman
Machine Broster (not sure of the exact cartoon name)
And yes Nano Nano
Donny and Marrie
Payton's Place/Dallas/Dynasty
I bet there are many more..which just need recollection…dah tak boleh ingat...kena sembang dengan member to recall
That would be mission immpossible to quote that in one go....
ah i remember this show, it is mork and mindy...................pls don't forget :
1) high chapperal.
2) combat.
great shows.............
..... and who could ever forget to watch those SIARAN LANGSUNG matches between SELANGOR VS. SINGAPORE football games with the likes of Mokhtar Dahari, Arumugam, Dollah Salleh, Soh Chin Aun, Santokh Singh and gang.... well football standard then was good. Now? Dunno what to say lah.... :(
Err...Orchi hopes to be of some assistance...
StarTrek
Cosby Show
Happy Days :)
Susan Anton
.... all were 'big' stars then too :eek:
Mid 70's to 80's - Chopper bicycle
80's to 85's - Shimano racing bike
84 till now - BMX bicycle
I think mountain bike and roller blade came into picture in the 90's.
One interesting factor on school shoes...has always been Bata! :)
Hmmm gambar lagi
Chips /Charlie's Angle / Simon Templer/Adventures ( or was it The adventures, cant remember which came first)
Soccer Boots, used famous soccer player names..like Socrates, maradona, rummenigge, zico, etc Puma, Adidas was the famous brand name. Somehow Puma has lost its glamour…its I still my favorite brand though…
AS for badminton rackets… Carlton, Yonex was the bigger player, but majority msian was using Aeroplane, Dunlop…yup wooden rackets! Swallow shuttlecock was the popular brand….
AS for badminton rackets… Carlton, Yonex was the bigger player, but majority msian was using Aeroplane, Dunlop…yup wooden rackets! Swallow shuttlecock was the popular brand….Errr 'ello VeeJay, you sure you're with us in the 80s or not? Looks like you're in the 60s lah???? :D
As Greenbug said, wooden racquets belong to the 60s actually. But in the early 80s, I still see wooden racquets hanging proudly in many homes in their grand tight frame (to prevent the racquet head from bending out of shape). The 80s were the the Carbonex 7 and 8 glory days. Panda brand was for the cost-conscious. :D
Errr 'ello VeeJay, you sure you're with us in the 80s or not? Looks like you're in the 60s lah???? :D
:D LOL
What I meant was that in the 70s wodden racket was still in use...I used it too, but in the 80s, yes metal, carbon shaft (semi carbon) and then full carbon sharft was made...racket become lighter and lighter...infact my first metal racket was Carlton (something, was it 88)? tapi really berat! :)
SunwayKid
First peek of Marlon Brando.......no, not the Godfather series, but Last Tango in Paris. Too young to appreciate it in the 70s. :D
Err...the Late Marlon Brando... (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=B8070)when he starred brilliantly as Lt. Fletcher Christian in...Mutiny on the Bounty... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056264/)in 1962...
The Godfather... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/)was first released in 1972...
Apocalypse Now... (http://www.imdb.com/Title?0078788)in 1979...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando
The Last Tango in Paris... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Tango_in_Paris) in 1972...
Err...passed away on the 1st of July 2004...Marlon Brando...left behind one of the greatest legacies from any American actors...:)
In his 1976 biography "The Only Contender" by Gary Carey, Brando was quoted as saying, "Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed."
All three wives were pregnant when he married them. The number of children he had is still in dispute, although he recognized 11 children in his will; they were (ages as given in 2004):
* by his marriage to actress Anna Kashfi:
o Christian (46)
* by his marriage to actress Movita Castaneda:
o Miko (43)
o Rebecca Brando Kotlinzky (38)
* by his marriage to Tarita Teriipia:
o Simon Teihotu (41) - the only inhabitant of Tetiaroa
o Cheyenne (committed suicide in 1995 at the age of 25)
* by adoption:
o Petra Brando-Corval (32), daughter of Brando's assistant Caroline Barrett
o Maimiti (28)
o Raiatua (23)
* by his maid Christina Maria Ruiz:
o Nina Priscilla (15)
o Myles Jonathan (12)
o Timothy Gahan (10)


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A New Framework to Quantify the Wetting Behaviour of Carbonate Rock Surfaces Based on the Relationship between Zeta Potential and Contact Angle
Sina Rezaei Gomari, Farida Amrouche, Ronaldo Gonçalves dos Santos, Hugh Christopher Greenwell , Pablo Cubillas
SCEDT Engineering
School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies
This study introduces a new framework to quantify the wettability of powdered carbonate rock from existing correlations between zeta potential and contact angle. The new framework has the potential to be faster and cheaper than conventional approaches and could increase confidence in surface wetting quantification, since the results are insensitive to the inherent heterogeneity of rock surfaces. The obtained results from experiments were used to develop a set of equations for determining the carbonate rock contact angle from streaming potential data. The equations were validated for the evaluation of changes in the wettability of carbonate rock using different stearic acid oily solutions. The contact angles calculated from the proposed equations were then compared with measured values on the calcite surface. The results show that the proposed framework was able to quantify the wettability of carbonate rock with an acceptable range of error of about 4%-14%.
en13040993
https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040993
E-pub ahead of print - 23 Feb 2020
Funding: This research was partially funded by Royal Academy of Engineering and the APC received no external funding.
© 2020 by the authors.
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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Wettability Mathematics 100%
Wetting Mathematics 80%
Zeta potential Engineering & Materials Science 79%
Contact Angle Mathematics 77%
Carbonates Engineering & Materials Science 63%
Contact angle Engineering & Materials Science 61%
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Rezaei Gomari, S., Amrouche, F., Gonçalves dos Santos, R., Greenwell , H. C., & Cubillas, P. (2020). A New Framework to Quantify the Wetting Behaviour of Carbonate Rock Surfaces Based on the Relationship between Zeta Potential and Contact Angle. Energies, 13(4), [en13040993]. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040993
Rezaei Gomari, Sina ; Amrouche, Farida ; Gonçalves dos Santos, Ronaldo et al. / A New Framework to Quantify the Wetting Behaviour of Carbonate Rock Surfaces Based on the Relationship between Zeta Potential and Contact Angle. In: Energies. 2020 ; Vol. 13, No. 4.
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In the latest round celebrity dating rumors, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton is reportedly romancing Detroit Tigers pitching ace Justin Verlander.
According to Detroit Free Press, the high-profile duo were spotted together recently at an Aerosmith concert joined by Kate's gal pal, model Lizzy Glynn, and Justin's bud Frank Viola, Jr., son of Minnesota Twins pitcher Frank Viola.
After the show Verlander and Upton were seen at a bar that has a mechanical bull and later at another hot spot having cocktails.
On Saturday, Upton and Verlander further fueled romance rumors when the buxom blonde model was seen by many fans watching the event from Verlander's private suit at the Palace of Auburn Hills, writes the Huffington Post.
Besides their off-the-field endeavors, the two also worked together: co-starring in a series of commercials together for the MLB 2K12 video game, one of which features Verlander disguising himself as former MLB ace Randy Johnson in order to gain access into a private club where only individuals that have pitched "perfect games" can enter.
Despite the ongoing allegations of their potential romance, Verlander, 29, the starting pitcher for the American League during the 2012 MLB All-Star game and Upton, 20, who was born in St. Joseph, about 190 miles from Detroit, but spent the majority of her childhood in Florida, haven't commented publicly on the topic.
The IBTimes adds that while Upton has been single for some time, after being linked to New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez earlier this year, Verlander has a longtime girlfriend named Emily Yuen.
"She's the one, but I'm not ready," Verlander said of Yuen in Men's Journal back in April.
Readers let us know what you think: Do Kate Upton and Justin Verlander are actually dating or is this just another example of the media blowing a friendship out of proportion?


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As the barriers to CPU scaling have risen with each successive node shrink, the number of scientists looking for alternate methods of driving higher performance and/or saving power has also steadily risen. We recently covered three of the most intriguing areas for boosting compute performance, including adopting new methods of CPU cooling, new semiconductor manufacturing technologies, and the use of entirely new types of CPU cores. One other idea — and something we've touched on before — is the idea of using circuits that are intentionally manufactured to be inexact and imprecise; circuits that are deliberately allowed to get things wrong, some of the time.
That's exactly the opposite of how computers are typically built. Semiconductors today are manufactured to tolerances of a nanometer or less, fab air quality is controlled to the point where contaminants are measured in parts-per-trillion, and we're working on building chips using wavelengths of light just 40nm wide. But it's precisely because manufacturing to such tight tolerances is so difficult that scientists are working to find ways to build chips that can handle failure gracefully — and in some cases, even embrace imprecision.
From an earlier project by Rice University. The chip on the right uses 1/15 the power of the chip on the left.
First, the good news. If an application can tolerate "3.14″ as opposed to "3.14159265358," you can save quite a bit of power in computation. In some cases, you may be able to improve performance by leaving off significant figures, though this is highly application dependent. Power savings is the major goal — and simplified circuit design. Today, a great deal of work is done to ensure that circuits will return the proper results every single time. Since chips are extremely complex and defect densities are notoriously difficult to control, engineers compensate with additional circuitry that adds die size and reduces the performance and power consumption benefit of moving to a smaller process node.
Intel's Ivy Bridge prefetches one instruction every 43 cycles. Sandy Bridge prefetches two instructions per clock cycle.
AMD claims Bobcat and Jaguar can decode up to 32 bytes per clock cycle. In reality, the two chips top out at 16 bytes per clock cycle.
Intel's 45nm Atom, which debuted in 2008, has always had an FPU bug. Two consecutive FPU instructions fail to pair and instead are executed with a delay of one clock cycle between each instruction.
AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver handle 256-bit AVX instructions very poorly. Piledriver has a latency of 17-20 cycles when storing 256-bit AVX instructions.
And these are just a handful of the high level problems. Both Intel and AMD errata manuals contain pages of documentation on even lower-level bugs that occur in every version of a chip.
One way of fixing these bugs is to intentionally create imperfect designs, but where the imperfections are placed extremely carefully in areas where humans can control the final output. The problem with allowing imperfection is that chips have to be capable of detecting the difference between a "good enough" answer and a wrong answer. There are a huge number of areas — GPS navigation, autopilots, robot-assisted surgery, spreadsheets, and scientific computing, for example — where "good enough" simply isn't an option. Crucially, however, there are an equal number of areas where "good enough" might be just fine. Audio/video playback, web browsing, gaming, and other casual uses all involve trade-offs where people might choose good enough as a way to improve battery life.
Intel, as Enz notes, has explored the idea of a variable FPU that can drop to 6-bit computation when a full eight bits isn't required. This kind of power saving option relies on circuit gating to be able to save power by shutting parts of an individual function unit off effectively, rather than power gating a larger element, but it's emblematic of the approach. I suspect we'll start to see this kind of approach soon, driven by coprocessor development from companies like Apple and Google, both of whom have been talking up the additional chips inside their latest SoCs.
How much fidelity does Apple's M7 or Motorola's X8 need when detecting a single voice command to activate? How much accuracy are consumers willing to trade if the end result is a 10-15% increase in battery life when operating in that mode? Finally, just how much accuracy can be traded for better power consumption?
What's likely to happen is that we'll see a GE (Good Enough) core implemented alongside conventional chips, with the conventional ARM/x86 CPU handling all fallback computation. There needs to be a flag for programmers to trip in order to tell the chip "Perform this on the main CPU" to ensure that accurate computation is always available. But, provided that such particulars can be developed, there's real promise to this kind of design for many of the basic functions that people perform with a smartphone or tablet.
The work done by Enz is a continuation of the Rice University research we've also reported on, and a further refinement of the techniques used there, with a long-term goal of bringing these capabilities to shipping silicon.
The flesh-and-blood, created-by-evolution human brain is a prime example of "good enough" computation.
Although this is not my general field, it's worth noting that biological systems are nearly by definition designed to be "good enough." The myth of humans as perfectly rational figures is blown apart by the enormous list of cognitive biases and misconceptions we fall prey to, or summed up simply in the old adage: "Common sense isn't very common." Nevertheless, there's a larger point — human brains work extremely quickly, and draw very little power when doing it. Part of the reason is because brains are excellent at three tasks: pattern matching, extrapolation (the projection of known values into the future), and interpolation (finding values that fit within other known values). All of these are often formed in "good enough" terms.
The ability to be gracefully wrong is part of the brain's underpinnings. We can tolerate a high signal-to-noise ratio while still seeing patterns or events in the visual field. Duplicating some of that ability in silicon could be critical to designing computer systems of the future that use less power, while still being capable of delivering conventional, full-fidelity results.


Opening in 2015, Smoke BBQ restaurant has been providing what brothers Roland and Michael Feldman call "Elevated BBQ." This "Elevated BBQ" concept brings together the Carolina culinary tradition of smoking meats with the artistry found through using fine dining techniques. We interviewed Chef Roland who told us about his lifelong exposure to smoking meats, his own cooking style's evolution and what it takes to pursue a culinary career.
Chefs of Carolina: Were speaking with Chef Roland Feldman, co-owner of Smoke BBQ. How are you today Roland?
Roland: I'm great, thank you.
Chefs of Carolina: Roland, tell us a little about your background.
Roland: I was born and raised here in Charleston, growing up on the Stono River, being exposed to some of the natural elements of South Carolina, and Charleston in particular. There I developed a love for hunting and fishing and smoking meats. I attended Johnson and Wales University in Denver, Colorado and worked with some extremely talented chefs. Jennifer Jansinski was really my first true influence. After working in Denver for about five years in Denver, I returned to Charleston and worked with Graham Dailey at Peninsula Grill. That's where I learned I lot about French technique. Sometime after that, I was about to change career paths when we started the Smoke BBQ food truck. We thought that to make an impact here in Charleston we needed to apply all those fine dining techniques to BBQ, maintain the simplicity but make it a little more colorful, a little more vibrant.
Chefs of Carolina: What is the first think you remember cooking or helping to cook?
Roland: Smoking beef ribs with my dad. Probably because I loved it so much, that's what I remember.
Chefs of Carolina: Is that where your love of smoking meats comes from?
Roland: Well, I always considered myself as a campfire kid. When I was young, my dad would take us camping and we'd smoked meats such as trout and when I'd come home, I wouldn't shower for a day when I got home because I wanted to go to school smelling like campfire. I love the smell of oak and hickory burning.
Roland: Yeah, the "Elevated BBQ Concept" is keep things simple, is time loves smoke, is keeping with Carolina and Southern tradition, but applying fine dining techniques to make the best BBQ. We do things like basting our meats through out the day with (Eastern) North Carolina sauce, which is a nice pepper vinegar sauce, to moisten the meat. We put those little extra things like that and feel like the love we put into our product makes it radiate and makes it taste better.
Chefs of Carolina: What are some of your locally sourced ingredients?
Roland: When we do whole hog roasts we go up to Burbage's Meats and I've worked with Thomas Legare (Of Legare Farms) a lot. So we get a lot meat from Thomas, who is a really great guy or from Burbage's Meats out in Ravenel. We get some of our produce from GrowFood Carolina, especially for catering and we use Limehouse. We also use Geechie Boy Grits and Brown's Court Bakery, which is the best bread. But I'm always careful not to label Smoke BBQ as farm-to-table. You have to balance practicality, seasonal availability, space to work in, certain ingredients and cost into making a viable business.
We do source our wood here in the Carolinas. With our BBQ we use primarily hickory wood that we source from Gabby's Firewood in Batesburg-Leesville, SC. They drop off massive pallets to us and they're great! And I love hickory and hickory is my first choice for pork any day. I think if hickory is used properly has the sweetest, most prevalent flavor and that's something I really appreciate.
But I do think that mesquite from Texas is God's gift to beef.
Chefs of Carolina: Tell us about your BBQ spice that you use in the red sauce and on your homemade pimento cheese sandwich.
Roland: The foundation of BBQ spice is chillies, dried and ground, unsmoked and smoked paprika, garlic, cumin, mustard seed, celery seed and of course we have our own variation.
Chefs of Carolina: Roland, you use a bit different technique with your chicken wings. Can you elaborate a bit on the process?
Roland: We confit chicken wings here with a process of brining them, smoking them, then cooking them in their own fat and then we flash fry them to order because that is the best way to treat the wing and keep them moist. We tell people our wings have no choice but to behave because of how we treat them.
Chefs of Carolina: Ha Ha. That's funny.
Tell us about your Brisket Hash. You put it on your grits rather than what's traditional, which is rice. I've tasted this hash and it's incredible with the grits.
Roland: Yeah, a lot of BBQ restaurants are able to utilize some of the scrap into making hash. Essentially you take what I call the delicious parts, the gristle, the crispy fat, the skins, the edges that got a little too dry and you grind it up. We harness a really rich meat juice from all of our bones, any bones, pork bones, chicken bones, any bones that come through this restaurant we use. We make a stock with the bones than reduce the stock then we add the ground product and you simmer it down which is really more like a stew.
Then in the end we spike it with our homemade ketchup and increments of our red and mustard BBQ sauces.
Also, don't get me wrong, rice is great, but we use Geechie Boy Grits milled on Edisto, it's just better and which like you said is incredible.
Roland: We needed a new sandwich and I was thinking about what ingredients we had in house that we could use for the sandwich and then I thought, everybody loves a good sloppy joe. So we set out to make our sandwich extra sloppy. And since its Smoke BBQ, we decided it needed Brisket Hash to which we added the slaw, then we put pickles on it to tie it all together. But it still needed a sloppy cheese element to it so we put the pimento cheese on it to take it over the top.
We ask people to fasten their seatbelts before they indulge in this sandwich. Really, I love seeing these bachelorette parties come in and the girls are all incognito and on their girl-time mission and want to be bad so they all order Sloppy Smokes. It's really a beautiful thing for us and them.
Chefs of Carolina: What is the process for your smoked beef brisket?
Roland: Give credit where credit is due. Texas is the king of brisket BBQ and we play to that by smoking brisket at a very low temperature upwards of twenty hours with a black pepper based crust. We baste it with a pseudo-demi glace made from the drippings, then we basted it with those drippings again right before we serve it.
Chefs of Carolina: And you incorporate this beef brisket into your Beef and Chedda sandwich. How is that sandwich put together?
Roland: Yeah, our brisket goes on our Beef and Chedda and we put a little of our red sauce on it along with the cheddar ale sauce and house made pickled jalapeños.
Roland: We take a lot of pride in the Pastrami Brisket. We take a corned beef brisket and then we smoke it for upwards of 12 hours, then we shave it and crisp it on the flat-top. Then we get to use this great meat, shaving it for out Pastrami Rueben.
Chefs of Carolina: And what do you pair with the pastrami in the Rueben?
Chefs of Carolina: You like myself grew up on Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce, but do you have certain sauces you like to pair with certain meats?
Roland: Well, we like to consider our meats to be a "Sauce Less BBQ." Through the brining, the rubbing and the love we give to meat, it doesn't need a sauce to dominate it.
I hear the question all the time, "What kind of sauce?" and it makes me feel that if your meat is not moist or juicy enough not to need a sauce right off the jump, then you didn't do it right. It's an expensive commodity, the protein, so it needs to be smoked at a low temperature for a long time while maintaining its juiciness and flavor.
That being said, we make great sauce. Our red sauce is reminiscent of Kansas City. Its our homemade smoked tomato ketchup spiked with molasses a little orange juice, BBQ spices. Now that sauce I prefer on brisket. We make an outstanding pepper vinegar sauce, very lightly using our homemade smoke tomato ketchup. It is very reminiscent of the traditional classic sauce but we are layering flavors with our homemade ketchup.
One of my favorite sauces is our classic Carolina Mustard BBQ sauce. Now the mustard BBQ sauce I like on chicken and I like it on pork.
Chefs of Carolina: Sounds like you're a firm believer in dipping sauces rather than slathering.
Roland: That's the way it should be. If you take chicken wings that are put through our process of brining, smoking, confiting and flash frying them, why would you toss them in a sauce? When you spend all that time smoking brisket for twenty hours, why would you immediately lather it in sauce?
Chefs of Carolina: As a chef, what is your favorite culinary utensil or tool?
Chefs of Carolina: What is your favorite food and beverage pairing here at Smoke?
Roland: I think the best pairing here at Smoke BBQ is a local beer and BBQ. I personally don't drink anymore but I know that nothing goes better together than a great local beer and one of our rich sandwiches.
Chefs of Carolina: What's your favorite thing to eat at home?
Chefs of Carolina: Ha. That's funny but you're a salty guy, growing up on the river, so that makes sense.
What's some advice you have for aspiring chefs?
Roland: Put your ego aside and absorb everything you can and understand whether or not you can relate to it at that moment You can often apply it later in life. A lot of information you get at one time you didn't think was important becomes extremely important at a later time. And be patient. And if you want to pursue having a business, be incredibly consistent and honest and open. Set the dream in your head and take steps toward it in a confident manner. Always be able to adapt and expect people to want your attention all the time because if you choose this path you are obligated to serve a lot of people. So if you're not ok with that, go ahead and choose something else to do.
Chefs of Carolina: Do you have advice for home cooks?
Roland: As far as BBQ, make sure you know you're in it for the long haul. You're going to be smoking at 225 degrees or less for at least 12 hours. Be committed to that process and fall in love with that process. Just don't try to rush the BBQ or you'll end up wasting a lot of money on your meat.
Chefs of Carolina: Thank you Roland, we appreciate it.
Roland: Thank you. It was fun.


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DisturbLabel paper approach, yet another regularization technique prevents overfitting. Unlike other regularization methods such as weight decay, dropour, or DropConnect, DisturbLabel regularizes loss. The TLDR version of the CVPR 2016 paper is: deliberately add noise (wrong labels) to small portion the ground truth labels in each minibatch during training and it helps overfitting. Therefore, the generalization of the network improves and the test set accuracy improves.
Adding label noise contributes to: 1. A noisy loss. 2. A noisy gradient backpropagation.
Authors state that DisturbLabel is equivalent to combining a large number of models trained with different noisy data.
$$ groundtruth-label = [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] $$ $$ P(\alpha) = [0.01, 0.01, 0.91, 0.01, 0.01, 0.01, 0.01, 0.01, 0.01, 0.01] $$ So the new label for that particular data is drawn uniformly from $P(\alpha)$ with a command like numpy.choice from numpy. Consequently, the label will be the same as ground-truth label most of the time, but few times during training the data is assigned with a wrong label. In other words if $\alpha=10$, you would expect that 10% of the labels are assigned with a wrong label for each minibatch.
### effect of noise: - The algorithm has better performance for small noise rates such as $\alpha=10, 20$. The algorithm performance degrades for larger noise rates such as $\alpha=50$.


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The Arabic Origins of Common Yoruba Words
I am taking a break from English grammar this week to discuss a fascinating 22-page article I read on the Arabic roots of many contemporary Yoruba words. Titled "On Arabic Loans in Yoruba," it was written by Professor Sergio Baldi, a well-regarded Italian linguist, who presented it at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics in California, USA, in March 1995.
The article lists scores of common Yoruba words that are derived from Arabic sometimes by way of Hausa, at other times by way of Songhai (Zarma and Dendi languages in present-day Niger, Mali, and Benin republics are examples of Songhai languages), and occasionally directly from Arabic. (To read the full article, click here).
In this essay, I isolate only words that, from my modest knowledge of Yoruba, enjoy widespread usage and that are not limited to the vernacular of Yoruba Muslims. It is noteworthy that different versions of many of the words below are also used widely in Hausa, Kanuri, Igala, Ebira, Batonu, Nupe, and many Niger-Congo languages in northern and central Nigeria. In fact, "wahala," a common Nigerian Pidgin English word, has Arabic origins, as you will see shortly.
1. Abere. This Yoruba word for "needle" traces its etymology to the Arabic "ai-bra," which also means needle.
2. Adura. This is the Yoruba word for prayers. In fact, there is a popular syncretic Christian sect in Yorubaland that goes by the name "aladura," meaning "people who pray" or "praying people." Many other northern and central Nigerian languages have some version of this word to denote prayers. It is derived from the Arabic "du'a," which also means prayers.
3. Alubosa. This Yoruba word for "onion" was borrowed from the Hausa "albasa," which in turn borrowed it from the Arabic "al-basal."
4. Alufa/Alfa. This is a widely used word for a Muslim scholar (and occasionally any Muslim) not just in Yorubaland but in Nupeland, Borgu, Igalaland, Ebiraland, etc. It is now increasingly used by Yoruba Muslim women as a term of respect for their husbands.
Surprisingly, the word is absent in the Hausa language. It came as no surprise therefore when Professor Baldi suggested that the word came to the Yoruba language—and many other central Nigerian languages—through the Songhai. It is derived from the Arabic "khalifah," which means a "successor" or a "representative" (of the prophet of Islam). It was first corrupted to "Alfa" by the Songhai who later exported their version of the word to western and central Nigeria—and to other parts of West Africa. Many Songhai were itinerant Islamic preachers who traveled all over West Africa.
5. Atele/itele. It means "following" in Yoruba, and it is derived from "at-talin," which also means "following" in Arabic.
6. Amodi. It means "disease" in Yoruba and is derived from "al-marad," the Arabic word for disease.
7. "Amo." It is a conjunction in Yoruba, which performs the same function that the word "but" performs in English; it introduces contrast. It is rendered as "amma" in Hausa, which is the way it is rendered in its original Arabic form.
8. Anfani. This Yoruba word for "utility" or "importance" also occurs in Hausa, Batonu, and many northern and central Nigerian languages. It is derived from the Arabic "naf," which means "advantage, profit."
9. Ara/ apaara. The word means "thunder" in Yoruba, and is derived from the Arabic "ar-ra'd."
10. Asiri. It means "secret" in Yoruba, Hausa, and in many other Nigerian languages. It is derived from the Arabic "as-sirr" where it also means "secret."
11. Barika. This is the Yoruba word for "congratulations." It is rendered as "barka" in Hausa. The word's original Arabic form is "al-baraka," which means "greetings."
12. Borokinni. It means a "gentleman, respected man in a secure financial position." The word is also found in many Borgu languages, such as Batonu and Bokobaru, where "boro" means a "friend." It is derived from the Arabic "rukn," which means "support, corner, basic element."
13. Faari. It means "showing off" or "boastfulness" or "ostentatious display" in Yoruba. It has the same meaning in many Borgu languages. It is derived from the Arabic "fakhr," which means "glory, pride, honor." (Note that "kh" is a guttural sound in Arabic, which is close to a hard "h" in English. That sound was dropped by Nigerian languages).
14. Fitila. It means any kind of lamp. Its roots are located in the Arabic word for lamp, which is "fatil."
15. Ijamba. Professor Baldi defines this word as "bodily harm," but the meaning of the word I'm familiar with is one that associates it with cunning, cheating, deceit. It is derived from the Arabic "danb," or "danba," which means "sin, crime." (Note that Arabic frequently dispenses with end vowels (that is, a, e, i, o, and u) in words, whereas many Nigerian languages almost always end words with a vowel—and add them to words they borrow from other languages if such words lack an end vowel).
16. Imale. This is the Yoruba word for "Muslim." I read previous interpretations of this word from Yoruba scholars who say it is Yoruba for "that which is difficult" to underscore the difficulty of Islamic practices like praying five times a day, fasting for 30 days during Ramadan, etc. Other Yoruba scholars said the word initially denoted "people from Mali" since the Songhai people who Islamized Yoruba land in the 15th century were from Mali.
But Baldi argues that "imale" is the corruption of the Arabic "Mu'alim," which means a teacher. In the Hausa language, the word is rendered as Maalam. It's interesting that "Mallam" has become the synonym for Hausa (or northern) Muslim in southern Nigeria.
17. Iwaju. It's the Yoruba word for "front part." I didn't imagine that this word had an Arabic origin until I read Baldi's article. It is derived from the Arabic "al-wajh," which means "front" or "face."
18. Iwaasu. It is the Yoruba term for "preaching" or "sermon." It is used by both Christians and Muslims in Yorubaland, and is derived from the Arabic "waz," which means "admonition" or "sermon." (The Yoruba language has no "z" sound, so it substitutes "z" with "s" when it borrows words from other languages with "z" sounds).
19. Suuru. It means "patience" not only in Yoruba but in many languages in central and northern Nigeria. It is derived from the Arabic "sabr," which also means "patience."
20. Talaka. It means the poor. It came to Yoruba by way of Hausa, which borrowed it from the Tuareg (where it is rendered as "taleqque" and where it means "a poor woman"). It's also used in Mandingo, Songhai languages, Kanuri, Teda, and many West African languages. Baldi says this word has no Arabic origins. On the surface, this may be true. After all, the Arabic word for a poor person is "fakir" (plural: "fuqura").
However, "talaq," as most Muslims know, is the Arabic word for divorce. (The chapter of the Qur'an that deals with the subject of divorce is called Suratul Talaq). Talaq is derived from the verb "talaqa," which means to "disown," to "repudiate." In times past (and it's still the case today in many Muslim societies) if a woman was divorced, she was invariably thrown into poverty. Thus, Tuaregs used the term "taleqque" to denote a "poor woman." But Hausa, Kanuri, Yoruba, Mandingo, and other West African languages expanded the original Tuareg meaning of the word to include every poor person. This is my theory.
21. Tobi. This Yoruba word for "women's knickers" is derived from the Arabic "taub," which means "garment," "dress," "cloth." Another tonal variation of this word leads to a different Yoruba word, which means "big."
22. Wahala. Well, this isn't just a Yoruba word by way of Hausa; it's made its way into most Nigerian languages—and into West African Pidgin English. It means "trouble," and it's derived from the Arabic "wahla," which means "fright," "terror."
Someone called my attention to the fact that "alafia," which also appears in the greetings of many northern and central Nigerian languages (and which is rendered as "lafia" in Hausa) is also derived from the Arabic "afiya," which means "health."
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THE OCEAN: Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
GERMAN PROGRESSIVE METAL: The Ocean (also known as The Ocean Collective) is back with a full-length sequel to their crushing 2018 release Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic. The new record, Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic picks up where the last left off—at least geologic time-wise—with the new record continuing to explore the nature of deep time as comprised of geologic periods bookended by mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity over the last 541 million years that comprise the Phanerozoic Eon. The first record took us through to the cataclysmic extinction at the end of the Permian period, ending with the song "Permian: The Great Dying." This was a poignant way to end that record, because the extinction alluded to in the song's title, which scientists use as a boundary in time between the Permian period and the Triassic period, is thought to have resulted from the emission of massive amounts of carbon dioxide unleashed by massive volcanic eruptions over a relatively (in geologic terms) short time period on the order of thousands of years. The extinction is the closest parallel that scientists know of to our current situation, with human induced climate change from combustion of fossil fuels bringing about the latest mass extinction—the Holocene extinction (otherwise known as the Anthropocene extinction event)—before our very eyes.
This second volume from The Ocean takes the listener from the bone-dry climate of the Triassic through to another mass extinction, the evolution and reign of dinosaurs, their subsequent annihilation, and beyond to the present climate crisis. As a geologist myself it is just so satisfying to see how the band explores these major events in deep time and links them to the present. But onto the music—the new record is every bit as varied as the previous, with mellow atmospheric moments that ebb and flow into heavy passages that leave the listener with a sore neck. The record opens with the track "Triassic," picking up from the end track of the first record and telling the other half of the story of the extinction. Melodic elements swell and build into distorted guitars and guttural vocals in a massive wall of sound.
The album continues with "Jurassic | Cretaceous," which begins with orchestral instrumentation over crunching guitar riffage. At 13:25 in length, the song is the longest on the record, but that length is not squandered. Instead, the avant-garde nature of their music is on full display, with unpredictable stops and starts and the synth-laden track taking unexpected twists and turns. There are so many awesome moments in this song, but the most powerful is towards the end, when vocalist Loïc Rossetti compares humankind to dinosaurs, "We are just like reptiles, giant rulers of the world, within a blink of an eye, wiped off the face of the earth." This line refers to the massive extinction that took place at the end of the Cretaceous, when a massive asteroid impact wiped out 75 percent of all life.
The remainder of the record is quite varied, with melodic tracks "Eocene" and "Holocene," and instrumental interlude "Oligocene," giving a brief reprieve, while louder tracks "Palaeocene," "Miocene | Pliocene," and "Pleistocene" deliver a major dose of heaviness. "Palaeocene," which refers to the geologic epoch from 66–56 million years ago, is the heaviest track on the album by far and is absolutely menacing with layered high and low screams—fitting for a time period that saw the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea and began with the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (also known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary) extinction event, which wiped out the dinosaurs and paved the way for mammalian evolution and eventually the evolution of humans.
This second half of the two-part Phanerozoic albums is much more freeform in its structure than the first, but is just as satisfying. There is not a single bad track on this record, which is best enjoyed when listened front to back. For a truly enjoyable experience, spin both records front to back in order, the result is mind-boggling! ~ Nathan Katsiaficas
Cenozoic
Phanerozoic II
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