Teddy on the New Year's Fraud

It is loosely defined as the time-span taken for our particular planetary dwelling to make one complete orbit around its particular star. That's common man's definition.

Of course, perhaps in light of new advancements in science (pardon the pun if you see it) it has been redefined to approximated 365.2425*24*60*60 = 31557510 seconds, where a second is defined again (currently) as the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.

Which all could be rubbish if I manage to prove that space time is nothing more than an illusion.

What is one year, then, in significance to the universe? Nothing. Nothing, apart from a mild random significance peculiar to one particular planet in one particular star system in the entireness of the galaxy.

Unless you, as common to your race in general, insist on being the Center of the Universe.

WHICH then merely gives reason to feel that the particular planet and star system in mention were not chosen at random.

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Now for the sake of argument, assume that indeed, the time span 1 year bears significant importance (i.e. assume that Earth is indeed the most significant and important planet in existence) - reductio ad adsurbum.

Then why do we define tomorrow as New Year's Day? Why not the next day. Completely arbitrary.

Now there are those who might argue (with a teddy bear???) that perhaps there was universally significant events (perhaps even the big bang) that would have been given the date 1st of January (i.e. the big bang occured on the 1st of january, XXXX B.C.E) - reductio ad adsurbum.

EVEN if we assume that to be true, how would that have lasted through endless corruption over the centuries.

And dont be so bold to argue that this may not occur.

if it didnt occur. we'd have no conflicting religions and no language differences. simple.

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So when you wish each other "Happy New Year", you are merely celebrating a random date set by some random person hundreds of years ago, and even then corrupted over the centuries to where we are now.

Now, i've got work to do. I still acknowledge today as a public holiday - much like labour day, or teacher's day - an arbitrarily set date.

Happy 1st of January - from the three of us (Harry, Elmo, and Teddy)

As a sidenote i'll also add that 1st of January has little significance from a financial perspective, taking in the fact that the fiscal year starts on July 1st (Australia); April 1st (UK); October 1st (US). Also, the Catholic Church's Liturgical Calendar begins in the beginning of advent - which is in November. There may be other organisations that do not acknowledge the 1st of January as New Year's Day and I haven't mentioned them. For that, I apologise.

P.S. come next year, there will be another guest blogger here at inanimatevoices.

P.S.S i'll put up our photos on this site soon.

Teddy on Exams

First a heartfelt congratulations to all you students out there who have just completed your O levels and A levels. Even if I personally find the A levels a horrible misnomer. I mean, seriously people? Advanced?

Not to be demeaning, but there's still a load more of advancement that one can go for. After A levels.

I also take note that not all of you people have finished your exams. I am referring to certain tertiary students.

Elmo on US Open

hello everybody!

elmo thinks its time for elmo to make some nice noises on the WWW!

firstly, elmo would like to show you ALL how elmo goes to sleep every night!



this is elmo's friend, (who also is a good friend of colin), who sings elmo to sleep every every night.

okay, elmo is lying. it was only one night.

okay elmo is still lying. that's elmo's more famous cousin there.

but mr. bocelli is really colin's friend. actually i think he's colin's understudy. (hehe...)






elmo was told to say that.






elmo was told NOT to say what he just said. oops.






anyway, elmo is watching the US open on TV now. Elmo has to watch it cos elmo's eyes are soo wide open and elmo can't go to sleep like elmo's cousin can in the video up there..

elmo thinks roger federer is going to win. elmo thinks rafael nadal is scary. elmo wishes elmo can close his eyes to prevent himself from seeing the big-butt scratching neandanadal. unfortunately, elmo doesnt have any eyelids so elmo can't do that.

elmo wishes one day he'll be as clever as teddy, then he can go sue his manufacturer for all they got.

okay time to say goodnight. goodnight everybody!!! =) elmo wants to sleep.

Pilot

Hi. My name is Theodore a.k.a. Teddy Bean-Kurt (Ph.D in Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, Medical Research, History of South East Asia, etc.)

Despite all my achievements in the fields of Research (obtained from the Soft Toy Foundation University i.e. the S.T.F.U.), people still tend to confuse me with my more illustrious cousin. You might know him too. He's an actor in the popular TV series "Mr Bean". Personally, I don't think
I fall that far behind my cousin, at least not in terms of looks...

In any case, I have decided to be the front runner among all the soft toys in the world, in establishing a WebLog (blog). Hopefully this starts a trend among my fellow inanimate voices. Be heard, comrades!

Here in my more-than-humble abode, I have inspired my two fellow stuffed entities to take up the pen, and start making themselves heard among the millions of denizens of the World Wide Web. Their names, and you will be hearing more from them since I am busy working to solve the Earth's energy crises among other things, are Harry "the Horse" Pegasus, and el Mo a.k.a. Elmo.

As a parting note, I would like to thank the animate personnel i.e. Homo Sapiens residing at the above-mentioned dwelling for giving us this opportunity to access the mass media that is the WWW and propogate the products the musings of our cotton-based grey matter to a global audience.

Also thanks to Soft Toy Foundation University (STFU) and to other University where I research, Soft Toy University of Protein-based Information Databases (STUPID).

Again, be heard, comrades!

Posted by Teddy