Sweet Patronus

*sigh* I think I got the Rui Yun mania… This means I’m going to be addicted to drama series. Bad thing… I remembered when Kah Sin got that illness, her gradies are falling…. Oh no… I think I better banned myself from watching them…
Anyway, I got to go now. I need to send my beloved violin for repairs. Bye!

Yay… Jian Yi and Yoyo are together, finally!!! The bad news is that Rui Yun told me that next week Jian Yi will be in love with Xiao Qian and they switch partners… Xiao Qian and Jian Yi. David and Yoyo. And then Jian Yi kisssed Xiao Qian in front of Yoyo… How can he do that to Yoyo!!! I’m upset! I think all 4 of them get into the Octoko competition and I’m sure Jian Yi will love Yoyo again. They will surely be together again. Just like any love story produced by Mediacorp… Like laprasnite (see my offline blog) had said, we should not be too excited about a drama series… Life still goes on… Well, I can only say that there’s a generation gap between both of us. I’m glad that I predict correctly. I predicted that Jian Yi will like Xiao Qian but in the end he will still go back to Yoyo. Then end of story. As simple as that. If only life is as simple as that…

Events
1545 - Council of Trent begins
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage
1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1862 - American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.
1937 - Battle of Nanjing concludes with the Japanese victory and the fall of the city which became the site of the Nanjing Massacre
1938 - 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg
1939 - The Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval battle of World War II, begins.
1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem
1959 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus
1972 - A chartered Spanish airliner crashes on takeoff from the Canary Islands, killing 155
1973 - Rael, leader of the Raelian Movement meets an ET named Yahweh, during a UFO encounter in Puy de Lassolas,France.
1974 - Malta becomes a republic
1977 - A United States government aircraft DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team
1978 - The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation
1979 - The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons.
1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland
1989 - The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidarity Party, is published in Sweden.
1996 - Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2000 - The Texas 7 escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree.
2001 - Parliament of India attacked by armed militants. Attempt foiled.
2002 - The European Union announces the addition of ten new members, effective May 1, 2004.
2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
2003 - The most-attended basketball game in history, between Michigan State University and the University of Kentucky at Ford Field.
2004 - A moderate 5.4 Richter Scale earthquake is felt all over Portugal.
2004 - Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal.
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Births
1521 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1640 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (d. 1696)
1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1724 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
1804 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1813 - David Spangler Kaufman, American politician (d. 1851)
1816 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
1836 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
1854 - Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
1856 - Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (d. 1920)
1864 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
1874 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian-born pianist (d. 1944)
1883 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (d. 1950)
1887 - George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)
1887 - Alvin York, American soldier of World War I (d. 1964)
1897 - Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969)
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (d. 1993)
1906 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968)
1906 - Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996)
1910 - Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)
1911 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1911 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
1913 - Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998)
1915 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (d. 1982)
1915 - Ross Macdonald, American-born author (d. 1983)
1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1923 - Larry Doby, baseball player (d. 2003)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
1927 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
1934 - Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer
1936 - His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, Shia Imam
1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player
1948 - Ted Nugent, American musician
1948 - Brian Wilson, British politician
1950 - Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa
1953 - Ben Bernanke, American economist
1953 - Bob Gainey, Canadian hockey player
1957 - Steve Buscemi, American actor
1957 - Morris Day, American musician (The Time (band))
1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson American figure skater and actress
1959 - Nadia Russ, Ukrainian-born artist
1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, British-born composer
1964 - Matsumoto Hideto, Japanese musician
1965 - David Windsor, Canadian actor
1967 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, German guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
1975 - Tom Delonge, American guitarist (blink-182)
1981 - Amy Lee, American singer (Evanescence)
1983 - Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
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Deaths
1048 - Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
1124 - Pope Callixtus II
1204 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
1250 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
1404 - Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
1466 - Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386)
1516 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)
1521 - King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
1557 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician
1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
1603 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)
1621 - Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
1716 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
1729 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)
1754 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696)
1769 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715)
1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
1784 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
1814 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
1863 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (b. 1813)
1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (b. 1838)
1883 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
1930 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1931 - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian artist (b. 1866)
1947 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1874)
1955 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
1961 - Grandma Moses, American artist (b. 1860)
1983 -Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b.1933)
1993 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b. 1972)
2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (b. 1967)
2002 - Zal Yanofsky, American musican (The Lovin’ Spoonful) (b. 1945)
2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1921)
2004 - Andre Rodgers, baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 - David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
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Holidays and observances
Republic Day in Malta (1974)
Catholicism - Saint Lucy’s day.
In the Irish calendar the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following the Feast of Saint Lucy were observed as Quarter tense.
St. Lucia Day in Sweden

Some candid pictures of Katie Leung…
http://leung.sugarclouds.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=11

http://leung.sugarclouds.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=16

http://leung.sugarclouds.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=20

Turn out that my sister’s boss cancel her business trip… *sigh* Makes me so sad. Guess I have to see her for 5 more days… *cries*

Thanks to danradcliffe.com for the pictures!

Press Conference

My sister will be on a business trip to Korea for 5 days. I won’t tell you when… She must be good because she only worked less than 6 months in the company and is going to be sent on a busiiness trip. Impressive, huh? I think it will be a good thing because no one will bother me in these 5 days. That’s a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, she’s not on a business trip for 1 month. If not, that will be even more wonderful!