!a toyota!

The Trading With The Enemy Act (1917):

The Trading with the Enemy Act, sometimes abbreviated as TWEA, is a United States federal law, 12 U.S.C. § 95a, enacted in 1917 to restrict trade with countries hostile to the United States. The law gives the President the power to oversee or restrict any and all trade between the U.S. and its enemies in times of war. In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt amended the act to extend the scope to hoarding of gold, which was passed by Congress, and then outlawed gold ownership with Executive Order 6102. These restrictions continued until January 1, 1975. The Act has been amended several other times.

The Trading with the Enemy Act is often confused with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which grants somewhat broader powers to the President and is invoked during states of emergency when not at war.

haha this amuses me because 1. the title of the bill is SO literal and 2. it reminds me of "sleeping with the enemy". 

it made me snigger inside. am in the library now, so i have to snigger silently to myself :(

there's a bunch of guys opposite me laughing at the !xobile joke by russell peters... that's so 2007 and they're not even pronouncing it right! 

According to Wiki:
Kim Jong-il's official biography states that he was born in a secret military camp on Baekdu Mountain in Japanese Korea on 16 February 1942. Official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.


According to North Korean textbooks (don't know if it's real or a joke... got it form failblog):




Also, fun fact:
During his youth in the Soviet Union, Kim Jong-il was known as Yuri Irsenovich Kim (Юрий Ирсенович Ким), taking his patronymic from his father's Russified name, Ir-sen.

i hope it's all not true...

From wiki:
The name of the band derives from the French word pamplemousse, meaning grapefruit.

 last night, mike and i were talking on the phone.

mike: ...the introduction of pigs to australia made the Dodo bird extinct, cos the pigs ate Dodo eggs

me: really? sad. Dodo birds were so cool...

mike: how in the world are they cool, they're fking ugly

me: huh they're two-headed what! not cool meh

mike: how the hell are they two-headed?! wtf??

me: aren't dodos two-headed?!!!

mike: what the... wait. are you thinking of Doduo. the TWO-HEADED POKEMON.

me: oh no ._.




so for the past 10 years, i've always envisioned the Dodo bird as a two-headed, long-necked cute little bird/birds (it has two heads! does that make it singular or plural? o_O). i really wonder when and HOW i mentally registered a pokemon as a real bird... it never occurred to me that having two heads would've been quite impossible.

sigh... still can't get over the fact that Doduo is NOT REAL D: it'll be cool to have a two-headed pet!!


 


"Description: A bird that makes up for its poor flying with its fast foot speed. Leaves giant footprints. Doduo's two heads never sleep at the same time. Its two heads take turns sleeping, so one head can always keep watch for enemies while the other one sleeps."

hmm. while it is cool that its two heads take turns sleeping, i do not see how this wingless bird can even begin to fly, let alone have "poor flying"... just saying.

if you're stressed, watch these ^^ the safer, less traumatising option is to close your eyes and listen to the awesome '80s music.


hit pause at 0:36!! 



and i kinda like this song.

hmm today my jap studies teacher related her experience in new zealand. she's extremely feisty and outspoken, and she's japanese. she speaks english.

there was a music festival going on in the park so she decided to go there, to have a taste of local culture. when she walked in, she heard someone shout, "FUCKING ASIAN". she turned and a group of young boys was staring at her. she was shocked by this, because her new zealander friends were very friendly and she never thought new zealanders would be racist. she walked away, thinking that maybe it's just them. 

over the next half hour, she was called "fucking asian" 4 times. the fourth time was when she was at the parking lot, ready to leave. she was "super pissed", according to her, and when she got yelled at again, she lost it and shouted "FUCKING WHITE" back at them. that group of big nz youths surrounded her and started shouting vulgarities at her. thank God she didn't get beaten up, because she's really awesome. and those youths are fucking stupid. to die by their hands would be an insult. 


this totally ruined my impression of nz, and my day. how can such racist, ignorant bastards have grown up in a beautiful country like nz?! 

well she did go on to explain that chinese people have been migrating into nz and stealing jobs and stuff... and rich japanese people dump their kids in nz to receive an english education. they also give their kids insanely copious amounts of money to live it up, making local kids extremely jealous. 

but i just can't believe they'd physically surround someone in broad daylight. i'm bringing a flick knife when i go overseas.