Day +946 : Egg of LiChun (立春立蛋)

I am fine today.

My wife called from school yesterday noon time, saying that it was particularly easy to make an egg stood up during that particular time because it was LiChun (立春). The teachers in the school were demonstrating this to her.

What is LiChun? Quote from Wikipedia:

The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms (節氣). Lìchūn (pīnyīn) or Risshun (rōmaji) (Chinese and Japanese: 立春; Korean: 입춘; Vietnamese: Lập xuân; literally: "start of spring") is the 1st solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 315° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 330°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 315°. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around February 4 and ends around February 18 (February 19 East Asia time).

I rushed home from office after receiving the call to balance an egg, but no matter how I hard try, the egg didn’t stand up :-(

I told my wife that I couldn’t make the egg to stand. She said that the right time to balance the egg had passed. Even the teachers in school had difficulty to balance the egg again.

However, my wife asked someone to take the photo to prove that it worked that time.

The photo taken in school
The newspaper also reported this (click to have a larger view)

But according to Wikipedia, balancing an egg is not particulary difficult at any time of the year. And as far as science knows, no physical influence of other celestial bodies on the egg can affect its balance as required by the folk belief.

You can read the article "Egg of Li Chun" here.

I am still trying...

See you next post :-)

Day +450 : Scam the scammer - Life Recordings (4)

I am fine today.

My brother Richard reminded me that I missed to post the last telephone scam recording. It is the most splendid recording of all. When Richard fooled around with the scammer, she realized that Richard was in fact playing game with her.

“Are you having fun doing this?” she questioned.

“Of course!” answered Richard :-)

Richard also told the scammer that he already received the money, but the scammer couldn't believe this as they knew that nobody ever received money from them. In the end, Richard said he would like to give the money to the scammer :-)

And there were many more interesting conversation that make the scammer very irritated and finally passed the line to her boss :-)

You can listen to the conversation here.

Part 9 - Click here to download the file.


After this conversation, Richard received a call from her questioning why he had to do this. Since Richard never anticipated this, so he didn't have a chance to record down the last conversation.

See you next post :-)

Day +443 : Scam the scammer - Life Recording (3)

I am fine today.

I will continue to post the last two parts of the recordings today. I hope with this you will know how to play game with the scammer.

Just in case they telephone you one day to congratulate you for winning a big price, pretend to be ignorant and follow what they say. You can do whatever they say, but one thing I have to warn you : "Never bank in your money to their account".

In this case, Richard had done a very good job by tempting them to reveal two Maybank accounts . He told me he called Maybank and asked them to investigate and freeze the accounts because the accounts were used for swindling purposes. The more account you can "cheat' from them, the better it is. Actually, the scammers purchase Maybank accounts from Malaysian especially the students.

Part 7 - Click here to download the file.


Part 8 - Click here to download the file.


See you next post :-)

Day +442 : Scam the scammer - Life recording (2)

I am fine today. Continue to post the recording...

Click the blue play button below to listen to the recording. If it does not play the recordings at the first click, try a few times. Alternatively, you can download the files.

Part 4 - Click here to download the file.


Part 5 - Click here to download the file.


Part 6 - Click here to download the file.


Let me know if you experience difficulty in listening to the recordings, I will email them to you. Have fun listening!

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +441 : Scam the scammer - Life recording (1)

I am fine today.

I promised on my Day +428 blog (A wonderful lesson for the telephone scammer) that I will post the recordings for you to enjoy. I hope you will learn the technique to scam a scammer :-)

Here come the recordings. Click the blue play button below to listen to the recording. If it does not play the recordings at the first click, try a few times. Alternatively, you can download the files.

Part 1 - Click here to download the file.


Part 2 - Click here to download the file.


Part 3 - Click here to download the file.


Let me know if you experience difficulty in listening to the recordings, I will email them to you. Have fun listening!

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +428 : A wonderful lesson for the telephone scammer

I am fine today.

Few days ago, a Chinese newspaper reported that a man fell prey into telephone scam and lost RM1,700,000.

On the same day, my brother Richard brought me a series of recording that recorded his telephone conversation with the scammer. Based on the slant, I realize that the scammers are from China, but operating from Hong Kong.

They contacted Richard and congratulated him for winning RM120,000, but in order for him to withdraw the money, he needed to bank in some fee to a bank account which surprisingly is a local Maybank account.

Richard was one of the most naughty and playful boy in the kampong :-) When he received the call from the scammer, he was very happy, not because of the amount of money that he was promised, but because he found someone to play with :-)

He started to beat around the bush with the scammer, and skillfully made up many stories to make the scammer believed that he was working very hard to bank in the fee.

I believe not many people can have such a quick mind under the situation – conversing with the cunning international scammer.

When listening to the recording, I would say that Richard is more “cunning” than the cunning scammer. I could not refrain myself from laughing while listening to the recording. Finally, the cheater get cheated :-)))

The recordings are definitely a fun to listen. I would publish them later for you to enjoy :-)

See you next post :-)

Day +427 : Cola + Mentos = Fountain?

I am fine today.

I believe every one of you heard of volcano eruptions, but any of you ever heard of Mentos eruptions?

Just in case you never eat Mentos before, here is a photo of different flavour of Mentos. My cousin forwarded an email to me about two months ago with photos showing Cola-Mentos reaction. The mail also said that two boys died after eating Mentos and drinking Coca-Cola together. I told her I would do an experiment to see if it is true.

On Monday, We did our first experiment by dropping two Mentos into 1.5l of Coca-Cola. We were very disappointed because the reaction was too small to generate a fountain. I suspected we didn’t drop in enough Mentos to generate a fountain.

We did another experiment yesterday and even called my sister’s children here to witness the great Mentos eruption, but my nephew managed to drop 3 Mentos into the Coca-cola. The rest of the Mentos were stuck in the Mentos wrapper. So the experiment failed again :-(

We don’t give up. This evening, we repeat the experiment again after much practice. In order to drop 11 Mentos into the Coca-Cola fast enough, we wrapped them in a paper tube that we made. And this time, we manage to drop all the Mentos into the bottle within a split of second and finally we get the much awaited fountain :-)

I am still very excited looking at this majestic fountain that we produce :-) Click any of the following photos to get a larger view.
More than half of the 1.5 Cola-Cola was gone.
See the amount of Mentos that we put in.
The happy experiment crews and audiences :-)

Judging from the amount of Mentos that are needed to create an eruption, it is very unlikely it can cause death to children. Who can swallow 11 Mentos within a split of second?

The experiment proved that I am no genius but quite persistent :-) I would try until I get to see the fountain :-) If I were genius, I should get the fountain in the first experiment and spent only one-third of the cost of experiment. For you information, the total cost of experiment is RM12.00 (3 bottle of Coca-Cola RM3 each + 3 bar of Mentos RM1 each).

If you engage me as consultant for the experiment, you only need RM4 for the experiment because I would make sure that you get the result in the first attempt :-)

Please let me know if you would like to repeat the experiment and need my help, I am more than willing to be your consultant :-)

See you next post :-)