The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Part 2)

Later he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could "Wolf! Wolf!"

But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again so they didn't come.

At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep.

They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping.

"There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out,"Wolf! Why didn't you come?"

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village.

"We'll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm on the boy, "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Part 1)

There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep.

To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!"

The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces.

"Don't cry 'wolf', shepherd boy," said the villagers "when there is no wolf!" They went grumbling back down the hill.

Later the boy sang out again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!"

To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away.

When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don't cry 'wolf' when there is NO wolf!"

But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more.

To be continued...

Smile...

Did you know that a smile is better than a frown?

Haha...you probably did. The fact is, it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. It also takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body - the heart. There are more benefits of a smile than we can ever know!

It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. It makes you special in your own way. Anytime, a smile may bring you friendship, influence, beauty, goodwill, and joy. To some it means love, acceptance, forgiveness, appreciation, and approval.

A smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something of no value to anyone until it is given away. Wherever you go, remember to wear that happy, smiley face. You'll never know the blessings it will bring your way.

From:

You're Worth It (Daily Devotional)

Fossil fun...

Yesterday, a pastor came to our church to preach. His name is Timothy Standish. He is a scientist at Geo-Science Research Institute in Loma Linda University. During church service he preached on the topic of "What makes God God?" He said that God makes God God because He created us and all living things on Earth.

Now, after church, everybody had lunch and went back to church to attend a seminar Mr. Timothy was holding. At the seminar he explained The Door to the Universe and why evolution is cannot possibly open it. He explained that everything could not have happened by random chance. Everything is so complex that someone really intelligent must have made them all. I can't give you every detail cause I forgot most of it. What I really wanted to show you today is this:

After the seminar, he invited to go up front and look at some of the fossils he brought with him. The pictures above is a fossilized Ammonite. It supposedly looked like this.

Here's some more.

This one's a Trilobite, meaning "three lobes". Because they are divided into three.

I think you probably know this one...

This is a Brachiopod. It looks like a clam but instead of being divided horizontally, they are divided vertically.

This fossil is from a whale. I think it's like their hearing device. It is located in the upper part of the jaw to feel vibrations.

Can you guess what this is?

The Bombardier Beetle

Did you know that a bombardier beetle can blast a hot, foul-smelling gas to protect itself?

The bombardier beetle's blast spews from two pipelike structures in its tail. The blast of hot gases reaches a temterature of 100 degrees Celsius (212 degress Fahrenheit). The beetle produces two chemicals that, when mixed together, cause a violent explosion. You might ask, "What keeps the beetle from blowing itself up?" The beetle produces another substance that inhibits the chemical reaction. The two chemicals and the inhibitor are stored in special tanks without the danger of exploding. When a predator sneaks up behind it, the beetle releases the three chemicals into its tail tubes. A fourth substance, called anti-inhibitor, acts to block the inhibitor, and the chemicals explode from the cannon.

A bombardier beetle

Evolutionists claim that the bombardier beetle and all other insects evolved gradually over millions of years from less complex animal forms. These changes supposedly happened to make the animal more fit to survive. Can you imagine the bombardier beetle evolving over millions of years by a series of accidents? First, a beetle would have to develop the two explosive chemicals. Once it developed the two chemicals, it would have blown itself up because it would not know it needed an inhibitor. Can you imagine countless beetles blowing themselves up for thousands of years trying to find a way to control their explosive chemicals? The beetles would have blown themselves into extinction long before a controlling substance evolved.

Let's suppose that some beetles did finally manage to develop the inhibitor. Then, when the beetle tried to blast the predator, nothing would have happened, and the poor beetle would have been gobbled up by the predator. You see, because it had not yet developed the anti-inhibitor, the beetles would have been eaten into extinction. A beetle would also have had to develop the cannon tubes and the sense to know just when to mix the chemicals. In no way can the complexity of the bombardier beetle be explained as a result of accidental, gradual evolutionary change. All the steps necessary for the "fire-bombing" process could not have developed one at a time over millions of years. God created the bombardier beetle with its "fire-bombing" capabilities absolutely complete and functional.

In writing of the possibilities of evolution by gradual change, Sir Fred Hoyle wrote, " The chance that higher life-forms have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble the Boeing 747 from the materials therein.

From my Science subject...

A lizard's head...or at least I think so!

Yesterday afternoon, while I was looking at the sky, I saw a shape of something that looked like a head of a lizard. A really BIG lizard. Here it is.

Believe it or not...

Did you know that there is an artist that makes pictures using packing tape?

Hehe...yup! It's packing tape!

Mark Khaisman creates these gorgeous portraits with packing tape. Here's some of his artwork

http://www.khaismanstudio.com/#

 

(from Ripley's Belive It or Not!)

 

My Bee Wise is a little short today.

I apologize for my absence. I keep forgetting about my blog. But I will try my best to remember and to keep posting new things.

Sponges

When you hear the word sponge, do you think of a squishy object for scrubbing a car or perhaps for washing your face? Did you know that that squishy object may have been alive at one time? Although most sponges commonly used around the house are man-made, a true bath sponge was once a mass of cells and fibers living on the bottom of the ocean.

Sponges live in warm or cold, shallow or deep water. Most sponges are gathered in warm tropical water at a depth of a few feet to 200 feet. The tissues of this sponges are allowed to rot in the sun. Then the residue is washed out and only the soft, porous skeleton is left. The skeleton is made of a tough, flexible protein called spongin.

A living sponge.

Sponges belong to the invertebrate phylum Porifera, which consists entirely of sponges. About 5,000 species of sponges in many colors, shapes, and sizes decorate the ocean floor. Sponges vary in color from gray to bright shades of red, yellow, and purple.

 A red sponge.

All sponges are aquatic animals, and most live in a marine (ocean) environment. Sponges do not swim freely as do fish but attach themselves to rocks and other objects on the ocean floor. Because sponges are unable to move about freely, biologists describe them as sessile, or stationary animals.

A green sponge.

Last but not least, Spongebob.

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A Message to Share...

"It is amazing to realize that living in simplicity gives true contentment. We go as we come to this world...In the end, nothing is ours to keep...So let's share what we have...smiles, knowledge, hugs, good words, time, love...

 Love more,
 Hate less,
 Ignore critics,
 Live LIFE"

- Unknown

Safe in His hands...

Did you know that you don't have to worry about your needs?

All you have to do is to "Have faith in God". He knows your need. He has all power. His infinite love and compassion never weary. Fear not that He will fail of fulfilling His promise. He is eternal truth. Never will He change the covenant He has made with those who love Him. And He will bestow upon His faithful servants the measure of efficiency that their need demands. - From my devotional (March 6 - A Promise is a Promise)

Sorry for the late post. I...um...uh...I forgot. Well, better late than nothing. Hehe!

Message of the Day...

"A nice philosophy in life:

'Everything always ends up alright...
So, if things are not alright,
Then it's not yet the end.'"

By: Unknown

(My cousin sent this to my family by sms)

Snakes

Did you know that anacondas and pythons are the biggest snakes?

Both can reach a length of over 30 feet (9 meters). One python measuring 33 feet (10 meters) has been recorded. In 1944 an anaconda 37.5 feet long (11.4 meters) long was reported to have been shot. However, it recovered and escaped before it could be preserved.

A python

Did you know that a bite from a cobra can kill a grown man in minutes?

Their venom is neurotoxic. Which means that it damages the nervous system, especially the optic and respiratory systems, causing blindness and breathing difficulty.

 

 An Indian cobra

 

I learned these in my Science subject.

P.S.

Sea snakes use neurotoxin fifty times as deadly as the venom of the king cobra.

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My workplace

 

 This is where I do my schoolwork everyday.

Here I am doing my work.

It's nothing special.

It's just a corner where I do my work.

This is also where I learn new things.

It's actually........really boring.

Hehe.

Sharks

Did you know that a shark does not have a single bone in its body?

• A shark does not have a single bone in its body, instead it has a skeleton made up of cartilage.

Other interesting facts about sharks:

• A shark can smell one drop of blood in a million drops of water.

• A particular shark, the Great White, has an enormous liver that can weigh up to 24 percent of its entire weight.
• A Shark can hear a fish in the water from more than a mile away.

• A shark's skin is covered by small, razor-sharp teeth called denticles. These can be removed from the shark's body. Once removed, the remaining skin is made into strong leather.
• The Whale Shark is the biggest fish in the world.
• The smallest shark is the Dwarf Lanternshark. They grow to a maximum of 17 centimeters.

• In one year, a single Great White consumes about 11 tons of food.

 

A mean-looking Great White.

I got these information from these sites:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-sharks.html
http://www.wereyouwondering.com/what-is-the-smallest-shark-in-the-world/
http://sharkfacts.org/
http://sharkfacts.org/great-white-shark-facts/

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Old drawings

 Here are some of the drawing I drew in the past.

The Joker

Nightwing (Costume 1)

Wolverine (inked)

I used to draw comic style (American) drawings. But recently, I got interested in manga (Japanese) because a friend of mine draws manga style. So I decided to try it out. I'm still learning. While I'm doing that, I wanted to post something here in my blog, so I posted my old drawings. Here they are. Enjoy.

I'm sorry I haven't been very active here because I'm very busy with my school work, or very busy practicing my musical instruments, or I have nothing interesting to post at all. But I will still be able to do Bee Wise every Friday.

Bats

 

Did you know that there is only one mammal that can truly fly?

The bat is the only true flying mammal. It is a member of the mammalian order, Chiroptera, which has over 1, 100 species. Chiropterans, or bats, fly with wings of membrane stretched over elongated finger bones.

Did you know that bats can navigate in total darkness without the need to see?

Bats navigate by producing high-pitched sounds called echolocation and then listening for the echoes. Bats use their "earsight" to avoid flying into objects and to detect and capture insects.

 

   The Common Pipistrelle

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Ocean depths...

Did you know that the deepest spot in the ocean is called the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific?

It is more than six miles deep (10 km). Sunlight never reaches the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The lack of the sun's warmth at that depth causes the temperature of water to be just above the freezing point (37.4 degrees Fahrenheit).

The location of the Mariana Trench

Creatures that live in the deep blue sea.

 The Giant Isopod

 and The Anglerfish








Did you know that no mountain on Earth is as high as the ocean is deep?

If the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, could be lowered to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the top of the mountain would still be one mile beneath the ocean's surface. It's that deep!

 

Here is a picture of Mount Everest.

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Another drawing...

Here is another drawing I made this week. Hope you like it! I'm going to post new ones soon.

Cells, chromosomes, etc.

 Did you know that the body is made up of smaller living things called cells? A cell is like a small factory that manufactures more cells just like itself. It continues to manufacture cells until the body is at full growth. A full grown human body is composed of about 100 trillion cells.

Do you know how much information a SINGLE cell contains? If all the information contained in the genes of a single cell were written in books, that information would fill a thousand books of six hundred pages each.

(Cells)

Did you know that each cell has a nucleus and in the nucleus are chromosomes that contain your genes? Now, consider this. If all the chromosomes of an average body were removed, they could be placed in a cube of only one cubic inch in volume. However, if the chromosomes in the cube were uncoiled and laid end to end, they would reach from Earth to the sun eight hundred times, a distance of seventy-five billion miles (121,000,000,000 km).

 

Here is a chromosome.