A new work by Yggdrasil. It’s a miniature replica of Van Gogh’s Starry Night on a 47mm dial of an Italian Navy styled watch.
Now that’s a work of art to be worn on the wrist.
Close up.
The actual Van Gogh work.
Beautiful work, don’t you think?
IWC will be presenting six watches of the new Vintage series at the 2008 SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie), as homages to six legendary IWC timepieces of the past. This is to celebrate 140 Years of IWC Schaffhausen.
I really like these two:
Aquatimer – Homage to the first IWC Aquatimer 1967. In platinum or stainless steel with 80111-calibre automatic movement. Measures 44mm x 14.5mm. AR-coated front sapphire with a sapphire display back. Silver-plated or black dial, and is water resistant to 120 meters.
Da Vinci – Homage to the first (electronic) Da Vinci 1969, but with the 80111-calibre automatic movement. In platinum or stainless steel and measures 42mm x 13.5mm. AR-coated front sapphire with a sapphire display back, and is water resistant to 30 meters.
The other vintages are…
The old… and the new…
(Picture taken from watchprosite.com without permission)
Found these amazing musical animation shorts on YouTube… I like especially the ones titled “Pipe Dream” and “Pipe Dream 2”. Excellent arrangement of musical sounds synchronized with the movement of… balls.
Enjoy!
It wasn’t a movie I’d pick to watch on my few evenings spent back home in Singapore, but it was still the reason why I watched it as well. We just got back from a long stay in Malaysia and a short visit to the factory in Indonesia. I wanted to spend some time with Annie so we made dinner plans and she suggested going for a movie. She chose this local movie ‘The Leap Years’. Since it also starred Ananda Everingham, who acted in (the Pang Brothers’) Shutter, Sunsun’s keen to watch it as well.
My first reaction during first 15 minutes of the movie… unrealistic. The plots are largely wrong and lots of things don’t make too much sense. Then I decided I should stop trying to make any sense of the movie. It’s a romantic story and romance isn’t supposed to make any sense. That helped.
I actually enjoyed it. It wasn’t a regular romance where the hero saved the day or the heroine finally declared to the man she loves. It’s a ‘feel-good’ movie… a simple love story that makes girls cry throughout the plots then smile at the end. Sounds cliche but overall still rather good with some twists toward the second half. Happy ending, nevertheless…
It wasn’t until the end of the movie when I found out… that it’s based on a Catherine Lim story “Leap of Love”. No wonder.
This weekends, we…
... skipped gym
... stayed home most of the time
... did nothing but cooked, ate and watched DVDs
We did, however,...
... check out new mattresses
... do the laundry
... shop for grocery
... packed for the factory visit coming Tuesday
So that this still count as an unproductive weekends?
It’s a potential Russian/Swiss contender to Panerai and U-Boat.
According to Volna official website, the brand is clearly marketed as a Russian:
A radical ZeroPointZero concept design of a digital wristwatch by product designer Luis Beruman. This bangle watch that is shaped like a pair of hand cuffs breaks away from conventional flat display panel, with a wicked yet subtle hint of BDSM. Looks great on a slender wrist.
Other pics (click to view):
Stalks of light come from the ground, when I cry there isn’t a sound.
All my feelings cannot be held, I’m happy in my new strange world.
Shades of green grasses twine, girls drinking plasma wine.
A look at love, a dream unfolds, living here, you’ll never grow old.
Don’t you hear me call?
– by Steve Harris in Iron Maiden first album Iron MaidenOne of my favorite songs during the days I enjoyed metal bands like Iron Maiden. It’s actually a slow sad tune but at the same time with a relaxing tone in the voice. The words sort of depict how one can escape to his own ‘strange world’ at the lowest of his mortal state, by means of self intoxication or the irreversible end. What do you think?
Back to work in KL. The week didn’t start off well. Got a arthritis attack on my foot due to gout. The medication I got from the pharmacist didn’t work. Had to take Tuesday off to relief the affected area from any footwear.
The solubility threshold for uric acid is approximately 6.7 mg/dl; above this threshold crystals may form. Healthy subjects in the Normative Aging Study who had serum levels of uric acid over 9.0 mg/dl suffered a 22% incidence of gout over six years, compared to less than one percent for those with 7.0-8.9 mg/dl. The average uric acid level in men is 5.0 mg/dl, and substitution of a purine-free formula diet reduces this to 3.0 mg/dl. A purine-restricted diet lowers the level nearly as much (1-2 mg/dl).A diet low in purines reduces the serum level of uric acid, unless these levels are caused by other health conditions and not as responsive to dietary changes. For notable sources of dietary purines, see “Foods to avoid” section below.
Protein is a crude proxy for purines; a more precise proxy is muscle. Apart from the notable dietary purines above, the main source of dietary purines is DNA and RNA, via their bases adenine and guanine. All sources of dietary protein supply some purines, but some sources provide far more purines than others. Meat (particularly dark meat) and seafood are high in purine because muscle cells are packed with mitochondria, which have their own DNA and RNA. In a large prospective study, high consumption of meat and seafood were found associated with an elevated risk of gout onset (41% and 50%, respectively). High consumption of dairy products, high in protein but very low in DNA and RNA, was associated with a 44% decrease in the incidence of gout. Consumption of the more purine-rich vegetables or a high protein diet per se had no significant correlation.
Men who consume two or more sugary soft drinks a day have an 85% higher risk of gout compared with those who drink less than one a month.
Consumption of beer is associated with a 49% increase in relative risk per daily 12-oz serving. By contrast, consumption of spirits was associated with only a 15% increase in relative risk, and no association at all was found with consumption of wine.
I don’t drink much soda, so the culprits have to be mutton curry, cold crab and beer.
