today's the LEAP DAY! 29feb.
watched THE LEAP YEARS with pgd alr! nice show=)
February 29, 2008
The year 2008 is a leap year. If you look at a 2008 calendar, you will see that February has five Fridays–the month begins and ends on a Friday. Between the years 1904 and 2096, leap years that share the same day of week for each date repeat only every 28 years. The most recent year in which February comprised five Fridays was in 1980, and the next occurrence will be in 2036.
Why are leap years needed?
Leap years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the earth's revolutions around the sun.
Which years are leap years?
1.In the Gregorian calendar, the calendar used by most modern countries, the following three criteria determine which years will be leap years:
2.Every year that is divisible by four is a leap year;
of those years, if it can be divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless
3.the year is divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year.
According to the above criteria, that means that years 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500 are NOT leap years, while year 2000 and 2400 are leap years.
Other leap years facts
1. The Gregorian calendar has a 400-year cycle until it repeats the same weekdays for every year–February 29, 2008, is a Friday and February 29, 2408, is a Friday.
2. The Gregorian calendar has 97 leap years during those 400 years.
3. The longest time between two leap years is eight years. The last time that occurred was between 1896 and 1904. The next time will be between 2096 and 2104.
oh! and in the year 1712, there's FEB 30!
ciao!
you are missed, at 11:54 PM
it seems like i'm going to do some reflections..haha.
before this, i was watching One Litre of Tears (movie) as well as One Litre of Tears (Special).
movie was rather boring, Special was nice and touching.. thou is more of flashbacks.
still, somehow it made me cry...haa.
i love this drama. very much. maybe because it's a real life story..and maybe because thru this show, i learnt alot of things. i can't and don't know how to spell out exactly how i feel while watching it/after watching it. but as i was watching, i did alot of thinking.. thinking..if someone ard me, or even myself, were to get some kind of diseases.. what would i do?
treasure everything now, note everything dwn.
life is unpredictable.
so let's stay strong, live life to the fullest!
PS: it's really a great show..it brought across meaningful messages and encouragements. a real life experience. so grab a copy and catch it now! you may even want to pass it dwn to your generations. haha.
somehow i'm really glad this drama exists. =)
alright, time to sleep. nights!
you are missed, at 4:09 AM
I WNA WATCH THE LEAP YEARS ON THE LEAP DAY -29FEB!
and 4years later to the next leap year. hahaha.
oh, and i found out that leap years that share the same day of week for each date repeat only every 28 years. and so, 2008's a leap year, which the month FEB begins and ends on a Friday..and there's 366days this year!
I WNA WATCH DEATH NOTE SPIN OFF: L CHANGE THE WORLD TOO!
hello. ytd had been a great day. meet up with Fion and Christel and headed down to town, Fareast. shopped ard, chitchats and gossips. heheh. aft that dropped by at Taka, wanted to visit Huimin at work, but she wasn't there. Eugene and Boongwee was there. Eugene was super dao! but not his fault la(: cause we went at the wrng time..haha. so walked to PlazaSing afterthat, meetup with Jolyn. saw Tinghui in GG5 working..then when Christ saw her, she shouted. LOL. she didn't notice her you see. hahah, funny. meet up with Ailing, and went dwn to Basement for dinner. ate at Bao Luo Wang Xiang. crap and joked there. we were super noisy! hahaha. super funny also. laughed alot :D i like this kind of feeling, heheh. and after that, Jessica came to meet us also. laugh and laugh, lol. pay up and went for shopping again. the food's nice there! worth trying! no GST or service charge or whatever charge too. and finally after a whole day of shopping, i bought something..heels! haha. FINALLY. i've been wanting to get myself a heels for months! since 07 you knw. haha. and that's the only thing i bought. other's didn't caught my sight at all. no nice stuffs nowadays. boring..(i mean those fashions..lol.) can't they import from those fashion city like Italy? their fashions are pretty!! alright, basically talked the whole day, i love you girls(: heheh. one day MissingTen shall go out tgt! hohoho.
now, for the holiday trip update. if you guys have been viewing, updates on Switzerland is over alr..currently updates is on the Italy part. Enjoy=)
Day06
start sightseeing with a visit to the Duomo Square, walking tour to Victor Emmanuel II Galleria and La Scala Opera House. Leave for Venice after the tour. Enroute orientation tour at Verona and photo stop at Juliets' Balcony.
La Scala Opera House.
:D
Duomo Square. (take note of ALL the shop's signboard, black background with golden words)
grand, majestic, beautiful, complicated, huge, and unbelieveable building. It's a Catholic church.
it's all made of marble, and the whole building is full of carvings. how proud can it be if Singapore has this kind of building..haha.
Victor Emmanuel II.
pidgeons everywhr.
i'm super impressed. haha.
this door is made of bronze and every single square had diff carvings which has diff meanings..note the well polished leg of one of the carvings..and some parts are broken due to the dunnoe what war when this place was being bombed.
it is said that you will be blessed when you touch the leg.
inside the church. the 'windows'.. again, every square represents diff things. and those are the only thing that allow light to enter to brighten the place. i suddenly rmb there's like no lights, lamps inside.
prayers in progress.
afterthat, we bought tickets and went up to the top(roof) of this majestic church.
note all the vandalism outside of the house, signboards, door, wall, EVERYWHERE that can be reached. vandalisms all by couples who've been there.
spot those vandalisms?
see! (outside)
see! see! as you walk in, the whole stretch of the wall is FULL of sweet, love love notes!
saw the Juliets' Balcony?
Juliet. see her shiny, polished right breast? touch it and you'll have beautiful love story!
her balcony..
the telephone which tells Romeo and Juliet's story.. 1EURO.
and so, one of the couple in our tour grp put in the coin and our tour guide put the phone thru the mic and the whole grp of us listened thru the headset. we're using headsets for the tour you see, so that tour guides doesn't have difficulties talking to us as we walk.. I EURO for 32 humans. hahaha.
jian right?
the brightest heart, outside Juliets' house. Romeo and Juliet is a fairytale started from the people of Verona anyway..so in order to make this fairytale seems real, they built this Juliets' house and balcony, and even Juliets' tomb! but of course it's empty inside! lol.
that's all, ciao! :D
you are missed, at 10:49 PM