Got tagged by spice bear. Tradition and all the bloggy things we do… Here we go.
Rules:
-Post six weird facts/habits about yourself. These cannot be used against you later on.
-At the bottom name the six people you will tag next.
-Leave them a comment to let them know they’ve been tagged and to read your blog.
1. Dishes in my kitchen have to be in groups of 4. If one goes missing (people taking bakshishi’s) I have to remove the remaining 3 of that design and replace them.
2. Same thing with spoons.
3. When i run out milk for cereal in the morning i use juice instead (Yeah i know - that’s uber weird). Its actually lighter than milk. It actually doesnt even matter which type of juice. Passion fruit juice is the yummiest.
4. Cannot stand people who eat while talking on the phone (used to have a job where i talked to alot of people on the phone - it would mess up my mood for the day) Just cant stand it. Double parkers also annoy me.
5. I prefer men’s pajamas. I think they are well designed and are more comfy than womens. Come to think of it, i also like men’s watches, some by Kenneth cole are not too masculine so i can get away with wearing one.
6. I’d rather not eat anything made with Splenda or any other artificial sweeteners.
Now the people to be tagged… Strawberries and Whis (Coz they’ve gone AWOL on us) and if you havent please feel free to share the weird side of you.
2 shows that I enjoyed, check it out if you like…
The first was Nova - Newton’s Dark Secrets. Enjoyable documentary, there was so much more to Newton than i knew, preety interesting.
My little reminder about refraction of light - Swimming in the pool last friday, underestimating the distance to the wall…yeah i have a bump on my forehead. silly!
The second is ‘The Dark Side’ - After 9/11, ‘…the battle between the vice president and the CIA — a battle that many believe has destroyed the CIA.’ More info about the pre-iraq war cabal. You can watch the program on the link above on Thursday June 22nd. (Whis - Where are you?)
spicey I will get to the tag soon 
I noticed that some of the links to solar news items i was saving coincide with some countries that are playing in this years’ world cup. So I am putting two and two together, and i end up with a post.
Before i get started on that, Bankelele reported that in Kenya’s budget for 2006/2007…
- … No import duty on solar equipment (including batteries). Also removed duty on energy saving bulbs
Which is great news. Batteries and panels are still quite expensive. He also added that there is a need for more afforbale solar products and for those products to be developed and introduced in Kenya.
This past week, Thomas Friedman was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. (to watch click on Friedmans pic)He has added more information to the best seller he penned ‘The world is Flat’, and he was excited about the innovation currently going on in the solar tech field, so am assuming the book will now contain some chapters on solar tech. He pointed out that the richest man in China is a solar entrepreneur. Nuff said.
O.k - now on to the solar news.
Via Solarbuzz,
Game: Brazil 2 Vs Australia 0
Perth, Australia: Perth Bid for A$75.3m Solar Cities Initiative Moves Closer
The Perth bid is requesting just $13.7million from the Commonwealth, with another $85 million to be provided from consortium members in cash and in kind.
Link (subscription only - sorry)
Game: Japan 0 vs Croatia 0 (1 point each)
Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Government, Sharp Jointly Bid for Solar Power Generation Project
The Tokyo metropolitan government and Sharp Corp. have jointly applied to construct one of Japan’s largest solar power generation systems as part of a research project.
Link
I am abit agitated right now and almost threw my remote at my tv-watching the ABC pre-game commentary before the mexico vs iran game; just tooo annoying, plus i just wanted to lunge at the dude-Alexi Lalas with the bad mop of hair and pull it all out. ABC and ESPN2 have failed miserably in their coverage of the world cup. Their sportscasters suck. Kabinti - I feel you. She is abit more gracious than i feel about the WC coverage.
O.k i have to admit, i wasn’t very excited about the world cup…something changed. I asked my pal to record the opening ceremony and all of friday’s games since they were telecast in the morning. You know what?! ABC and ESPN did not telecast the opening ceremony. Then during the germany vs costa rica game the sportscaster (am just going to call them casters for the rest of this post) refers to how beautiful and amazing the opening ceremony was. Oh yeah? You are mentioning this now WHY? When you advertise and say that you will be covering the WC why the heck didnt you put disclaimers that you would only cover the things you think ‘American audiences’ would watch? Oh more true to form why didnt you just say that you stomp on the world cup spirit of unity by not even acknowledging or showing it all, better yet, just tell us that you step on daisies wherever you see them. Aargh. Just now, on ABC they show the players entering the field, then they go on commercial. I switch to telemundo, they are showing mexico and iran singing their respective national anthems. ABC doesnt want you to know that other countries have their own anthems that they are patriotic too?(Well, well, i know the ads have to be slipped in at some point…am ranting…) moving along. My cousin mentioned that during the England Vs Paraguay game that aired early saturday, a player was abt to score and the caster was talking about how Beckham is married to Posh spice of the Spice Girls. What?! Someone is abt to score El Stupido, STFU!, and if someone doesnt know who Beckham is married to…well, they should change the blinking channel and do not deserve to watch the WC. After reading Guess’s suggestion on Kabinti’s blog, i decided to check on BBC America to see if that is an alternative to the banter on ABC, Nada, zilch. For now its Telemundo for the pre-game video, back to ABC and ESPN for the live coverage, thank god today’s live-game-casters know a thing or two abt the game and dont talk incessantly about the US team and useless basketball , baseball or NFL american football analogies. Now if they had stretched it to include Nascar analogies…there is no telling what am capable of doing - Screaming soo loudly that glasses would break would be a good start.
Speaking of useless…
The following is a real conversation that took place on a friday (as told to me by cousin C)
A: Oh you know what?! Am excited abt the world cup!
B: What, you mean like golf?*
*How the heck do you confuse the golf classic cup and the world cup?
O.k well Mexico just scored, fans waving sombrero’s…well my rantfest is over. Oh one more thing…another convo during WC match between Germany and Costa Rica…
Girl: Who is that guy?
Boy: Who - the coach for Germany?
Girl: Is that who he is?
Boy: Yeah, Juergen Klinsmann…why?
Girl: Oh he is Cute…
Boy: (exasperated, almost angrily) It has no bearing to the game! If chupacabra was the coach you would hate the team?
Girl: Well yeah…
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