LOST : How to get on and off the Island ?

There have been a few ways to get on and get off the Island

1. fly in at a particular time through a particular direction. ( not space but direction ) Usually a violent vibration will occur when you cross between the worlds. Hence may cause the plane to crash. So far only Frank can fly in and out without crashing.
2. take a submarine. People in the sub need to take some medicine before crossing between the worlds. This is how the Dharma Initiative people get in and out quite frequently which later taken over by Ben when he leads the Others.
3. turn the wheel down in Orchid station to leave the Island. You will appear in a middle east desert. Unlike the other 2 methods, this is only one way. You can't get to the Island using this method. This is also called 'expel' by the Island.
4. Mind travel. When getting close to the island or near the entrance, a person's mind may get confused and flash back and forward in and out of the island and also time. This eventually lead to death if a 'constant' is not found.

It may aslo be worth mentioning that the Island exist since 1954 when USA was conducting bombing activities there. At that time, there should be no time differences between the Island and our world yet.

My New Year Hair Cut

I thought my hair was fine and ready for new year but most don't think so ...

So I wet my hair and gave them a new look. No one fall for that trick and people still think I need a hair cut before new year ...

So I had to do it.

And they don't let me cut botak neither. *sigh* so much about social life huh ?

DIY Dog Food Dispenser

Recently I just realize I have no one I can rely on to help feed my dog if I leave home longer than usual. Due to incapacity to fund a dog food dispenser tool myself, I had to come up with something from nothing.

... and I made this at last minute. Once my dog finishes eating his portion, the food will automatically dispense more portion slowly. I adjusted the height so that the auto dispense portion is just nice for his appetite.

The dog eating motion will automatically shake the container to dispense too. Everything works ... relatively fine. And there is no training required to the dog. Everything works under mother nature (gravity) and instinct.

Methods I used

• Take an empty water container,
• Cut the bottom out with a knife, ( don't throw away, I used it as a lid later )
• punch one hole at the center of each side of the container
• use 2 ropes
• each rope goes through the adjacent corner holes ( not opposite nor cross )
• tight each rope somewhere higher
• test put some content in it and see if it works
• adjust the height so that the portion is as desired

I did all these in less than 10 minutes at first go. So it shouldn't be too tough a job. I spent most time in testing the portion size with height.

It works best with water.

You can add a one-flip-lid to the opening too. In that case you don't need to adjust the height. But then you will need to train your pet how to open the lid herself. I didn't have time so I skipped that part.

Hope this helps just in case there is such person in this world so poor and so lonely who can't even find someone to feed his dog.

Have you ever lay down on naked grass ?

Have you ever lay down on naked grass ?

The tickling of the mother nature on your skin may at first irritate a little bit. But when you fully let go off your body to the land's contour, you will have a sense of belonging.

At first the splashes on your face may scare you a little bit but soon you find out you can tilt your head a little bit and you can open your eyes looking front instead of just straight up to the sky.

The thundering sound puts you on guard, wondering if the next strike will be on you. Scaring the loud sound, scaring the sudden strong light, scaring uncertainty, scaring death ...

If you wake up and leave at that moment, that will be the end of your experience. But if you choose to keep laying there, you may soon realize you have been scare for too long. You have no more energy to be afraid. You start to really look into the lighting. You can tell how close or how far the thunder is by its first reach. You can finally look straight up to the sky and rain drops aren't that scary after all.

Eventually ... sun came. Its the sky, the breeze, the birds ... I can close my eyes now.

When enough is enough, nothing else matters. What you have now is what you have. Its really a choice of guarding yourself against it or letting yourself be part of it. If everyone stay long enough, we will all reach this stage. Its just a matter of sooner or later.

Have you ever lay down on naked grass of a thunder night ?

Why Global Warming matters to you ?

Well, if you don't care ... then by the time you have money to visit Antarctica, you won't see these views anymore ...

Migration and Immigrants

I am a middle age Malaysian. 2nd generation Chinese born and raised in Malaysia. That means my grand father came to Malaysia from China. Many of my friends are like me - raising a middle income family. I happen to have many foreign friends working in this country too. I can't help to notice how people move in and out of our land.

Most of my friends have migrated, are migrating and planning to migrate. Almost all of them are happy with the new environment. There are always some minor draw backs (usually home sick, emotion etc.) but almost always the purpose of their migration reassure them they have made the right decisions, indeed they are. The new lands are safer and has better living standard.

Most of my foreign friends turned out to stay in this country for good. They find here safer and has better living standard. Sometimes they find themselves home sick but the excitement in new environment quickly settle them in.

Almost every single bad and good thing I heard from my friends about the new land, I heard it too from my foreign friends about our own land. Every curse my friends made about Malaysia, I heard it too from my foreign friends about their own countries.

Sometimes I wonder ... why do my friends disgust on my foreign friends while they are so much alike. My foreign friends are begging for fair treatment as much as my friends in their new lands.

I just hope one day I can just call all of them friends, without the word 'foreign' anymore ... because they are just the same ... Its just 2 different political locations.

More Lost Season 6 Premier

Parallel Universe ? NOT !

So did the bomb blast everything back to where they started ? Well, yes and no. The funny thing is human always look at the world from one angle and assume thats it! Its either this or that. Sometimes we forget it can be both and it can be none and most of all, it can be so many other choices too (as shown in life paths article). What will happen if the plane didn't crash ? Well, this episode will tell you some, and enough that you should be able to see how the story will go ( if didn't crash ).

It also projects a sense of 'no matter what you do, you will end the same' unless or until you take that one single significant action. Much like Desmond's repeated explosion of the hatch he was looking after. But there are no clues given that the story will be just that.

Many people commented that is alternate reality. Generally alternate reality has been denied in the show before and this is definitely not one of them. Their timelines are different. One occurs before ( on the plane ) and the other one occurs after ( on the island ); according to the time line of the story told of course ie. season 1 to season 6. They don't happen at the same time, ie after the bomb went blast.

Smoke Monster

Actually there isn't concrete evidence that the identify of black smoke is revealed. But if season 6 is the finale then it should be it. They have no time to come back to revert this hint. So now we know who is the black smoke. The immediate notion should be .... we also know who will be the white smoke. Or most likely white clouds.

why I said the smoke monster's identify is not necessary be revealed ? For one, the new Locke went in an internal side corner but the smoke appears from the outside entrance. Then the new Locked appears from the side corner again. In season 5, there was once the black smoke appeared as his daughter and asked Ben to obey the new Locke but the new Locke seems like not knowing that Ben has already agreed to obey him with no question asked. The meaning of 'me' becomes interesting in "I am sorry you have to see me like that".

IT Works!

This is what Juliet wanted to say before she ... Sometimes the world has changed but because all your surroundings look the same so you didn't even know the world has changed. This is especially true when some other stuff has occupied your feelings. ie. you feel very sad or very happy and therefore you didn't notice those little differences that have already been in place. Much like No.5 in the life paths article.

Nothing is Irreversible

This is what Jack said to Locke. This is one of the few 'bright' messages shown in this premier. This may also give a hint how the story may end. Will Jack finally be getting something right ?

I don't like the taste of English on my tongue

I don't know where this comes from. Is Lost trying to please the rising eastern power as the successor of great America in this century ?

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there you go, this should be enough for those of you who haven't watched yet. I am sure the show will become more interesting if you watch again.

Lost Season 6 Premier - Life Paths

Everyone have their own life paths. If we start looking at any one single point, ie. as shown in below the triangle tag with 'YOU' (1), many paths are laid in front of you (2). Depends on what you do on that particular point (cause), you will head to a different path (effect); as in causal.

Different path may leads to different endings as in (3) circle and (4) a square.

Sometimes the paths get so close to each other as in (5) that we couldn't tell what the differences are in the beginning. But eventually their differences will show by themselves. As in you tell a white lie.

Our life paths are connected to each other in dash lines. As shown in below, no matter which of the 3 right most paths you took, you will meet a He.

Sometimes life paths cross each other like (6) giving you a chance to change path. At that particular cross, all the things you did in the past didn't matter, you feel like you ended at the same place anyway. But not for long.

Sometimes there may be one special path that can cross all the other paths (7). You may have realized life and become special spiritually or it could just be a high EQ and IQ thing in relative to your ecology that you are able to do some super human being stuff.

Usually this power comes to existence after you have gone through some special experience as in (8). There is a blue line on the left side drawing from top to down. The right side of the blue line represent 'normal'. It could mean human, earth, common sense, consciousness. The left side is something special like god, heaven, sub-conscious etc.

Sometimes this super power allows you to create a path that goes opposite direction as in (9). As a result you may cross another path at reverse time. As time travel explained in details in Season 5 Episode 11.

Don't forget at any point of any path, a new spread of paths can occur depends on what you do at that point. Hence, the whole path thing may look complicated.

So far all above are just lines drawn on a piece of paper, a 2D world. In fact the world we really care about is 3D. Hence the paper can be fold and therefore carry out other type of possibilities.

And at times, the paper can be fold many times in very unique way ...

Many others just mentioned alternate reality but I think this life path explanation can cover a bigger area for this story. I am not sure if this is adequate to explain why and what the experience of Oceanic 815 passengers are going through but this is basically what Episode 1 gives.