Remembering that it is essential to post about Animal Farm, I have decided to do this in addition to something I had wanted to post but did not want to make my post too long so I have decided to post it in a new post which is this one (try saying this sentence in one breath) and post some other things (e.g. multimedia).

Firstly, lets discuss about Animal Farm. It seems to be very lame to summarise this story which has been summarised so much times it is more abridged than an abridged dictionary (what?) so i have decided to talk about the flaws of all the animals which caused the downfall of Animal Farm as it transformed back to Manor (Man or) Farm even though it turned out to be very prosperous with the farmers commenting on its efficiency and cruelty.

So let us start with the top baddies, Napoleon and Squealer. Napoleon was obviously too greedy for power and thirsted for money, therefore bringing Animalism to an end, by adopting the vice of the lust for money by humans. Besides, he was the one who brought the collapse of Animal Farm so he is the main culprit.

Squealer is just Napoleon's mouthpiece and an eloquent way of turning Napoleon's unfair actions into great deeds that show Napoleon's "love" for the animals. Besides, he was the one who changed all the commandments to suit his own needs and explained away all the breaking of the commandments, thus corrupting the values of Animalism. This led to th collapse of Animalism as an ideal and the colapse of the "brainchild" －Animal Farm.

Next are the ignorant animals. Boxer was instrumental in keeping the power of Napoleon in check as his own motto was that "Napoleon ia always right", thus showing the way he blindly followed and worked his way into a knacker's van. This loyalty was obviously not appreciated as Boxer was done away after he got injured. 

Some of the other animals, such as the chickens who were directly affected did rebel but it was futile and more of the other animals who realised they were heading in the wrong direction suicided by confessing to "crimes" with Snowball. However, Snowball easily deflected these threats by weaving untruths with his glib tongue.

Benjamin was the most useless one, not doing anyhting constructive to make the animals realise what was happening. However, it was clear he wanted to stay silent or risk his life, or he just saw no point in doing anything because based on him, poverty and starvation were the unchangeable way of life.

Clover did realise something but was too late, and her memory was rendered useless as she never trusted it, instead trusting Squealer and his false truths.  Therefore, Animal Farm collapsed.

The dogs were in the same league of Napoleon and are not worthy enough to be discussed.

So that is all for the discussion of Animal Farm and surely this is longer than 150 words.

Just some miscellaneous multimedia for something we watched today but could not catch the last part－斗琴,

I wanted to post a maths question but it seems that there is no time...

well here it is:)(For those who read this post be4 10.31 a.m. 9 may 2009, you will not see this because I edited this post at  10.32 a.m. 9 May 2009.)

Find the nth term of this sequence and predict the 6th term...

19, 4, 1, 4, 7, ?

Any ideas? Your answer can be counted as a comment and to make it over 50 words, I can give you an idea to lengthen it. You can post like:"In a response to Yi Pin's post about Animal Farm (after he remembered that it is essential to post about Animal Farm)which is in addition to something he had wanted to post but did not want to make his post too long so he had decided to post it in a new post which is this one (try saying this sentence in one breath) and post some other things too(e.g. multimedia), I have an answer to his maths question :" So heres how you can do it.

Stumped? If you want the answer, I can post it in a new post, but I hope someone will try it. And if you really can't think of anything, you can relate to Mr Tan's pattern and another hint is that the 6th term is 4 for those who really 放弃了.

So bye!

Yi Pin.