You are not wrong to say that you have never felt this cold before this morning as a record low temperature of 8.3 degrees is the coldest November minimum in more than a century.
I turned blue, was shivering, teeth chattering and having goose-bumps upon goose-bumps.
Just walk out from your house on the weekend to make sure you are not in your winter gear, as weather is expected to be fine and sunny, with temperatures ranging from 25 to 27 degrees.
If you are Tom Cruise's wife, what kind of promise of provision would you expect to hear from him?
Heaps of money? Diamonds? Cars? Mansion?
When Tom Cruise marries Katie Holmes this weekend, like many a devout Scientologist, he may promise to provide her with "a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat".
The formal wedding of the Hollywood stars in Italy on Saturday is shaping up as not only the celebrity wedding of the year, but as the most famous Scientology wedding since science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard founded the church in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago.
"A photo of a Scientology wedding usually has a bride wearing a white dress and the groom wearing a dark suit and the party behind them. It is a joyous affair," said Church of Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw.
In the old-fashioned language that marks the Traditional version, the groom is reminded that "girls" need "clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat" and is asked to provide them all.
The bride, in turn, is told that "young men are free and may forget" their promises.
So much for saying for the sake of saying.
I listened to a podcast about Scientology today, they mentioned about the story of Xenu and his Galactic Confederacy.
The main role of Scientology is to "rehabilitate" the thetan (roughly equivalent to the soul) to regain its native state of "total freedom."
According to Hubbard, only high level believers, who have attained Operating Thetan (OT) level III will be shared on the teaching of Xenu, who was as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs.
Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. The alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans.
Hubbard called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans". It is crucial for high level Scientologists to isolate them and neutralizing their ill effects.
What the? You too think this is ridiculous? Ask other devout stars like John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Beck and Isaac Hayes.
Another big deal must be the one about Silent Birth.
Hubbard stated that the delivery room should be as silent as possible during birth because birth is a trauma that may induce engrams into the baby.
What the?
Hubbard asserted that words in particular should be avoided because any words used during birth might be reassociated by an adult later on in life with their earlier traumatic birth experience.
I don't remember a word the doctor said in the Mout Alvernia Hosptial ward when I was delivered. Do you recall anything?
The mother should use "as little anesthetic as possible". And babies should not be bathed after birth.
Right. You can't scream when you are in pain and can you imagine not taking a bath for 9 months? Eww...
Breast feeding should be avoided. "Barley Formula", made from barley water, homogenized milk, and corn syrup or honey in his words, provide "a heavy percentage of protein" should be used as an alternative.
I bet he didn't know that most commercial corn syrups are high in fructose, and modern medicine advises that honey should never be given to infants.
Super size me one more time!
Killer: Zune
Operation: Pluck Apple off the tree
Killer application: Wi-Fi functionality. The official range is 9m but tests were done beyond 15m. Users can detect who has a Zune in range and then transfer songs, entire albums, and even photos to other Zunes.
A Zune mobile phone is also in the development stage.
Let's see if Microsoft can beat Apple this time, following up more punches after Creative Technologies.
This is an interesting case because Windows could finally be run on the new Macs with Intel chips, after so many years of compatibility issues.
Who knows? Maybe iPod will run with Microsoft technology again in the portable music department too in the near future.
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