Constructive Deconstruction

Project BlogHeart: We don’t just talk, we take action.

Before I go on any further, I’m really excited to have decided to do this. The last time I was involved in short-term project management was when I was in the Student Council back in Junior College. It’s so great to know that you could put in to a few months worth of time and see it bear fruit. Honestly, I’m not sure what i’m going to do…I’m even less sure how i’m going to make money for the whichever charity it’s going to be…But we’re going to do this. For fun, but also for a cause.

This is what I need to do:
1. I need a group of 2 or 3 other people to help me out with the thoughts and all because I don’t have that much time.
2. I need to think of what we, as blogging community can do…chess is what i have in mind, but really…I think some people would be bored of it.
3. I need to think of all the protocols to make sure this is as transparent as possible. Now, i’m not going to prepare financial reports and all that because this is really just a fun thing to do. So don’t sue me. But I will want to document it. I do want to show you who the money is going to. I do want to show the faces of the people that we’re actually helping out with.
4. I need to know which charity to approach!

Ok. I’ve officially named this charity effort thing Project BlogHeart and i’ll start by laying out some help that I need from those of you who read my blog. I’m going to start by asking you for 2 favours…

1) If you read my blog, tell them about this project. Better still ask them to contact me at ridz84[at]gmail.com !
2) Suggest organisations that we can adopt. We’ll only adopt 1 but I intend to email a few to see who best to help…

That’s all for now! Cheerios!

For Charity

Ok…I woke up thinking, that my blog must have a real purpose of sorts - sure i can talk and comment and stuff. But I want it to do something real. I’m do-er. And yes, despite Ivan telling me to slow down(which I will eventually), I want to take this opportunity to do something real. I want to make some small cash via my blog for charity.

Immediately 2 questions pop up in my head, please help me address them if possible:-
1. What can I do? I’m thinking of holding a small chess tournament($1 to take part and overall winner gets a percentage of the total and the rest goes to a charitable organisation)
2. Which charity? I haven’t been a charity person…I hated doing flag days that were made compulsory during school because it felt so fake…so forced.

So here I am. Let’s do something, no matter how small…

I don’t want to sound like i’m managing you…But really
I want to make this one happen.

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Below is a list of possible organisations(i’ll add to it as i receive suggestions)(It should be a Singapore Based organisation):-
1. Club Rainbow

Stressed? Chill out!

If you see a picture of pig smiling at you, you are stressed.

So, are you stressed?

If you are, chill out! Here are the top 10 videos you can watch:-

Wah liew

Wah…I just went over to Xiaxue’s blog and found out she just implemented the Pix Ads thing…it’s even running on the exact same engine that i’m running on!

Wah lau…Damn sad now…

Boohoo…=(

BBC: Lebanon condemns Israel ‘madness’

Source: BBC News

Lebanon condemns Israel ‘madness’

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora says Israel is "opening the gates of hell and madness" on his country.

In a BBC interview, he urged Hezbollah to release two captured Israeli soldiers but blamed Israeli policies for boosting Hezbollah support.

The UN is evacuating all non-essential staff, joining tens of thousands of foreigners fleeing the crisis.

Fresh Israeli strikes have killed 11 Lebanese soldiers, while Hezbollah rockets killed an Israeli in Nahariya.

Israel launched its assault and blockade last Wednesday after Hezbollah fighters captured two of its soldiers.

About 230 Lebanese people have been killed since then - the vast majority of them civilians, but including about 30 soldiers. The number of Hezbollah fighters killed is not known.

Twenty-five Israelis have died - 13 civilians and 12 members of the military.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has reiterated his government’s demands for the captured soldiers to be freed without condition and for Hezbollah to be disarmed.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni held talks on Tuesday with a UN team trying to negotiate a ceasefire, but said the soldiers’ release and the deployment of the Lebanese army in the south would have to precede a ceasefire.

FOREIGNERS IN LEBANON Canada: 40,000 Philippines: 30,000 Australia: 25,000 US: 25,000 UK: 22,000 (inc. 10,000 with dual nationality) France: 20,000

Her comments came as tens of thousands more foreigners were set to leave Lebanon by land, sea, and air.

A British warship docked in Beirut at the start of a mission to transport up to 12,000 Britons and a further 10,000 people with dual British-Lebanese nationality to Cyprus.

The US, Canada and other governments were also organising evacuations by land, air or sea.

In other developments:

• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he expected European nations to contribute troops to a proposed stabilisation force to end the fighting

• The UN has warned of a humanitarian disaster as Lebanese flee their homes, with air strikes on roads and bridges hampering efforts to help them

• Lebanon’s pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud has vowed to stand by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

• Shlomo Goldwasser, the father of one of the missing Israeli soldiers, said he hoped all means - legal or illegal - would be used to get his son Ehud back

As Israel launched fresh cross-border attacks on Tuesday, six bodies were pulled from the rubble of a home in the Lebanese border village of Aitaroun, and another family was killed in the coastal city of Tyre.

The 11 Lebanese soldiers were killed at a barracks east of Beirut.

The Lebanese army has been ordered not to respond to the Israeli attacks. But Lebanese soldiers have now died in several strikes, including one on the port of Abdeh on Monday in which nine died.

HAVE YOUR SAY Hezbollah, Syria and Iran are using our country as a battleground against Israel Nayef, Beirut

In Tuesday’s attacks by Hezbollah, rockets hit the northern city of Haifa, as well as Safed, Acre, Kiryat Shemona, and Gush Halav region near Safed, Israeli officials told AP news agency.

"I was near the bomb shelter, there was a humongous boom, and I saw it was two meters (yards) next to my house, really two meters," Eli Dayari, a resident in Nahariya, told Israel’s Channel 10 television.

"People are panicking and the house was on fire, really big flames, the fire fighters are here."

Israeli military officials say more than 700 Hezbollah rockets have landed in Israel since the crisis began.

I think this is really senseless…Being senseless is one thing…it borders on stupidity. Doesn’t anyone there see what’s happening? 2 Soldiers have been captured - yes. But invading Lebanon and killing civilian merely gives more support to the Hezbollah. By doing that, all the more you’re flaming the ground sentiment. Now, forget about politics. The layman doesn’t care. Their concerns are simple - "you fired rockets or artillery shells into my home and you killed my father. Or son. Or Mother. Or Sister. Or someone I loved. Perhaps you even killed all my loved ones. I don’t care if my government is holding two of your soldiers. I don’t care if my government refuses to back down. You killed my father and he’s a teacher. He goes to work at 8 in the morning trying to earn a decent living for us. You killed him. You killed everyone else. I have no one. Now, I will kill you."

As I see it, the invasion was only justified if you could confirm that the captured soldiers were executed. or on the verge of being executed.

But a mistake is a mistake. Someone has to back down.

There is alot of blood on the hands of a lot of proud people. They’re the ones who should be bleeding right now…

But please, I agree that the 2 soldiers shouldn’t be captured in the first place. But what’s done is done. Right now, the focus should be on the best solution with the least bloodshed. Neither side is winning. Have you watched Saving Private Ryan? Did you know a section worth of soldiers died just to save 1 private. Is it fair? I don’t want to put a value to life…but if we had to make a choice, shouldnt we be trying the path with the least blood before we start considering the option of sending in human sacrifice?…which only serves to strengthen the enemy’s sentiment against you?

This is so stupid. Both sides are losing. And they can’t see it.

Java #2: A simple program

Here’s my answer to the supposedly toughest question in Chapter 2 of the text book:

// Write a program that reads in an integer between 0 and 1000 and adds all the
// digits in the integer. For example, 932 returns 14

import java.util.Scanner;

public class IntAdder{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        int input=0;
        int result=0;
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.print("Enter integer: ");
        input = sc.nextInt();

        while(input!=0){
            result += input%10;
            input /= 10;
        }

        System.out.println("Sum is " + result);

    }

}

Input : 123
Output: 6