A Connected World

'One Laptop Per Child'

The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC) is a non-profit organization, created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, set up to oversee The Children's Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 "$100 laptop".

"The goal of the foundation is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. To that end, OLPC is designing a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with otherwise unavailable technological learning opportunities."

"OLPC espouses five core principles: (1) child ownership; (2) low ages; (3) saturation; (4) connection; and (5) free and open source."

The laptops are intended to be sold to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of “one laptop per child”. The operating system and software are localized to the languages of the participating countries.





The initiative is a multi-million dollar pledge by several conglomerates to make this world better connected.

When the scientists and industry giants start having a conscience, OLPC is what you get. :)

Criticisms are expected:
1) Production at such a massive scale will mean there is an unspoken and unfathomable environmental impact waiting to happen.

2) Predominantly aimed at the poor Third-World Nations in Africa and South America to aid in education and connectivity to the WWW for the under-priviledged children. But some have criticised how this 'American mentality' project intiative 'demonstrated misplaced priorities' where in poverty striken regions, normal folks are stuggling just for basic survival needs such as food, water, health problems.

3) A cultural backlash. For people of more developed nations, it took us many years to be where we are when it comes to being IT ready and WWW-Savvy. Just imagine the cultural and social impact it has on people who never saw a television in their lives, to suddenly be exposed to computers and all that the WWW has to to offer.


No matter what,

>"This is an Education project, not a laptop project.",says chairman Nicholas Negroponte.

Cheers & Cheerios

'Bei bei Jing jing Huan huan Ying ying Ni ni '
To all the Beautiful, Gorgeous, Fabulous and Fantastic people I've met or haven't met and are simplying reading this and are NOT Beautiful, Gorgeous, fabulous or fantastic, same-o same-o ,

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU !!!!

May your next 365 days be filled with some joy, some wealth, some happiness and certainly lots and LOTS of GOOF.


Cheerios n PEACE out !!!! :OP

In 2008.... Looking forward ^^

Yum....


I just want it. So that when you have it, you can flaunt it. :0)


Vitamin C should be singing her big hit 'Graduation'.


A captain of my Road ahead; in control


Being Inspired. Product (RED).

Things I'm looking forward to in 2008.

OMG Sadie !!!!

'Living Dead Dolls' Sadie was beheaded and poked in the eye and

has become a Pencil Sharpener.

You , stab the pencil into her eye. There is a pressure point on the back of her neck that pushes the shavings out of her mouth.

As you can see,Sadie Spits . Not Swallows. :p


Whatta Gruesome-ly nice Psychotic b*tch she is. :o)

PINK mobile

In the recent past, PINK was a color for someone 'batting for the Other Team' or a blatant display of a European Playboy lifestyle or meeting the whims of a spoilt heiress;

a color of decadence and lacking in social normality and conformality.

Indeed , PINK is a color of love, sensuality, angst, rebellion and maverick-ness.

Like , Orange, it is a modern color of very recent history.

Hardly surprising then, it is a color that society still takes some getting used to.

The following PINK rides were made to ferry and compliment the iconoclast beings that their 'owners' were (Pink Panther, Barbie and Lady Penelope Cruz).


The Pink Panther car is a 7 m long , 1.8 m wide limo with a 70000cc engine, it’s a drivable stretched-limo sports car but with boudoir like furnishings within to make it the coolest Love Wagon. No seats, just a day bed to Romanticize your Other or waft away to dream land in the pad-lounge with caviar, champagne and chiffon, as your chauffeur lets the world zoom past.
It's on auction sale now. The price? If you need ask, you're not in the league for running.




The New Beetle Barbie Edition will have a limited run of 13 units, which will be distributed throughout Volkswagen's dealer network. Every detail is carefully thought out .The special edition Bug costs 262,500 Mexican pesos (US$24,171 or €18,807), in other words, almost 5 times more expensive than a bog standard B (Itself ain't cheap to begin with). For the confident, independent and trendy only.




A heavily modified Ford Thunderbird replaces the previous Pink Rolls Royce, this 10m long supercar-limo is an 'everything for any situation car' ( a.k.a a glam-Bat Mobile).For sale at Auction or for Hire only (so you're either very rich to afford one or very rich and still can't afford one).


Parker enjoys the supercar-drive. Lady Penelope Cruz lavishes in sheer luxury with blistering pace and space.

A Pink Ride for different occasions: FAB1 Thunderbird supercar limo to arrive in style after a trans-continental traverse, the FAB2 Thunderbird sports car for thrills and spills and FAB3 Ford Streetka roadster for punting care-freely along the country side.


For the rest of us brave, poor folks, you can at at least sleep on it and dream.^^


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Lovely Boxes

'Tis the Season to be Jolly and Safe.

Tis the Season to fall in love with

LOVE BOX

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>Funky Impression: 'Designed for Fashion-conscious people who look for maximum sensitivity during love making. '


>Energetic Sensation: 'Designed for Stylish people who are fun seeking and experimental,and those who look for extra stimulation during love making. '


>Urban Freedom: 'Designed for modern, liberated people who look for maximum security and safety during love-making. '



Cheeky Chic.

The various designer tins (at least 24 at last count) are collectibles as they change each season. Woo.

Safe-Sex has never been more 'IN'.

(Prezzies for your closest. Wink*)
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Happy Pills

The Stresses of doubt on the Impending new year ahead get's one allCRANKY.

What's bothering?

Hmmm let's see, I've got my second attachment, 1 final pesky sem before I graduate from university, getting into my new job, getting my business rolling, getting a new car.... a lot?!

With so many idiots bumming in and out of my life ever so often and the constant struggle of will-power, physical strengh, mental endurance , personal aspirations and obligated reality, it's such a Hassle.


B'cos Life's A Biatch so ,

What I need now is lot's of tea to sooth the soul,
chocolate to lift the mood, sex to erm... and Anti-depressants to stay high.

Happy Pills, where do you get them???


Above: Brand X
Below: Brand Y

Which pill is Happier? :OP

La Vie En Rose

And I thought Smoking was bad and Chemistry, boring.
Burning the right chemicals and having a great photog does wonders creating

Brilliant Roses. :-)

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NU-di-ty

Notice how all the top brands and designers like D & G, C K , YSL and Tom Ford (below)are dressing their models in NOTHING.







Anyway, on the topic of NU-di-ty:

Would you appreciate a single Nude hottie....
(Designer indulgence b'cos Sex Sells or Porn; because it IS a multi-billion $ industry itself?)



Or A Sea of Nu-Di-Ty?
(Art! I prefer to call it Aaahhh-rt. )

When NU-dity is the NU Black.

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IRONY the Contrary

Look at this cake...


It represents Such Irony....

Something bad which I want to leave behind this year.

And

something positive which I am looking forward to next

.

Figure. :oP

This year was such prep for more things to come. And I'm READY.

So for all you Gorgeous Phuks out there... Either you're Gorgeous. Or you're a Phuk. :)

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Red Light Flashing

Top 5 Yucks of 2007:
1)Had a traumatic first Attachment; I, like, totally lost myself.

2)Meeting Bastards, Bitches, Bulls, Boars, Baboons and Bodohs, in every conceivable situation and imaginable place. (Getting Robbed on ZO-2007 tops the list)

3) Getting an Undeserved Bad Grade for a Module.(This TOPs it ALL; B*tch!)

4) Too much Aspiration too little inspiration

5) Getting Older.



Top 5 YoooHOOs of 2007: :

1)Getting into a New Modelling Agency and a sweet Booker.

2)Meeting Gorgeous People (like Falling in Luuuuuuuvvve)

3)Seeing my hard work and commitments pay off on my kiddos

4)Getting Older and Wiser (Don't know if it's proportionately so,though)

5)Renewed Aspirations and blooming inspiration.

.... Looking forward to a BIGGER AND BETTER Yours Trully. :-)

" A clean Golden slate,
thinking Red and big, looking good
and feeling Gorgeous." :OP
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Mount Chocolate

I guess when one's depRessed, all they can think about is FOOD. :<

And nothing lifts moods the way Chocolate can.

Chocolate is NOT BETTER than Sex.

CHOCOLATE IS SEX.

(What in the world is Better than Sex, anyway?)


Dark Chocolate Fondue


White chocolate Fondue

Indulgence keeps one happy... as long as they continue to.

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It's Macarons , not Mac Carons.

Why are sliced potatos bits called French Fries when the French didn't invent them?

On that note, why will the Statue of Liberty be All-American when it was the French who gave it as a gift?

If these cuties look like burgers with a sweet-toothed twist, indeed.

True-Burgers are an American savoury.

So these, Macarons, are like French Burgers.

Twisted. LOL LOL

The pastel-colorful pastry is light and melts in your mouth.
The cream within, is flavour-dependent and is always sinfully SWEET.

You won't have extra calories popping a few . But you'd probably have diabetes at the end of two.

So yeah, sold in small packs, they are so for a reason.

So this being a season of Giving, SHARE. :op

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Merry Christmas & a Happy FAT year .

"We wish you a Merry Xmas (X 3) .... and a Happy New year. "

Well, 'less you're planning to booze and gorge and become an unhealthy slob this festive season, Your NEW Year will not likely be Happy.

'Da Fei Nian' Getit?

So reach for a Carrot instead.





....Ok, wait a second... you can pass me that Chocolate cake... yeah. :P

I'm definitely voting for Pro-choice next year. :O)

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Great Pretenders

If you want to be SNIDE and PRETENTIOUS, go ahead.

Just don't expect me to be COOL wit ya should we ever meet.

In fact, you'd wish we never MET.

Good Luck. And a Happy new Year ahead. :)


(Happy, only if you dont ever cross my path. Ever. )