Musical Fountain Galore in Dubai

This could yet be the best musical fountain I've ever seen... not that I've seen many... in fact, I don't remember seeing one... but yeah, this is the best yet. And interestingly, it was filmed using a professional Canon DSLR - the 5D MkII. The clarity of the video was great. The best got better halfway through. Enjoy. :)

via Dark Roasted Blend.

Taylor Swift and President Barack Obama - Motions Captured!

I should be sleeping but because my body is tuned to working the graveyard shift, I am still here blogging... something which I've not been doing much lately. I think it could be the Bad Ass Coffee working or it could be the long, deep sleep I had for the most part of yesterday.

I'm proud to say that I've found a rare similarity between Taylor Swift and President Barack Obama - they both got fitted with billions of motion sensors on their bodies:

President Obama photo via the ONION.

The Inglorious Bad Ass Basterds

At last, after a long lapse of movie-less weekends, tonight I managed to catch Inglourious Basterds with my buds and I was quite impressed with the movie. In fact, I've always been impressed with Quentin Tarantino movies. My favourite one is in fact the one with him in it, with a hole in his hand. I went in to watch the movie expecting the usual kind of ending (spoiler ahead, skip the red italics if you don't want your movie experience to be a potong steam one) that one would expect of attempts to kill the Fuhrer but came out pleasantly surprised.

Coincidentally, as if basterds is not vulgar enough we had some Bad Ass Coffee before the movie and that, too, was quite impressive:
Quite a masterpiece of a night, actually. :)

The Need for Handsfree

To start off this post, I would like to share with you my experience in the male toilet earlier today. As I went in, I saw a bloke skilfully balancing an opened laptop with his left hand while at the same time (I assumed as I did not go any nearer to investigate this matter) holding his wee wee with his right hand at the urinal. Besides proof that he is right handed (I learnt this from the movie Gattaca), it is also obvious why there are articles that say keyboards (in this case, the laptop keyboard) have plenty more germs than a toilet seat.

If he had to work while peeing, obviously, plenty of us would need to Google hands-free style. The brilliant people at Google Mobile have just the solution for us all - voice recognition search:

Very gently, 吃香蕉

I used Google translator to translate the above title using the English version of eat banana. And people, don't laugh, this is my not very successful attempt in making a couple of bananas with Blender:
Initially, it was a white background but that didn't work out. Did the texture myself with Gimp. Ok, ok, you can stop laughing now. HMPH! YAK CHIU!

J. Co Goes Pop

Accidentally discovered something new while passing by J. Co donuts - the J. Pops baby donuts:
There are 12 flavours, 2 each and cost RM17.15 before tax. I was expecting all of them to be sweet but nope - some are salty. I must say, I didn't like all of them. I did not even know which flavour was which. :P

Jeans are in, but for the future it's...

A good many decades ago, jeans were synonymous with labour but the comfortable trousers soon become fashion until today. Who would have predicted this? And who would have predicted that leaders around the world are wearing jeans for official meetings? What is next after jeans?

Lets do some analysis here:

1. Men have been exposing their moustaches for centuries and are labeled sexy.
   
2. Some even have beards.
3. There is the issue of global warming.

Concluding here, exposing facial hair is good, so why not expose hair from the legs, too? And wear shorts? Yes! I predict that up next, people will meet in shorts, exposing their (hairy) legs (some men do not have hairy legs and some women do, so this goes for both sexes) in official functions.

Discover The Other Side

Have a look at the other part of this world where we normal people would almost never have known existed. From a praying mantis eating out of a hummingbird to a hawk against a whole army of bats, from the nasty river full of humanity's work to a dead bird's stomach full of our creations, and, not the least, our genetic experimentation on mice versus nature's mutation on a pig, you most definitely would like to skip your lunch. Enjoy the strange, the odd, and the gross.
via treehugger.

The Ingenious Dynamic Duo

I'm totally embarrassed to admit that I was too lazy to come out with this latest ingenious post about our top two representatives of this country's Chinese community. From what I recalled (stand to be corrected), the two guys sort of made a pact to act professionally after they won their seats in the party (fyi, their dislike for each other is common knowledge). They promised to bring back the confidence that the community had lost in the party.

So, we thought all went well until some months ago, the number two got fired for being an ex-porn star. Then, the top guy became the fall guy when conspiracy after conspiracy dragged him to a no confidence vote during an urgent extraordinary meeting. A week later, these two released press statements that they will now work together for the greater good of the party. I was like... huuuuuuuuh? That is ingenuity I could not comprehend because their action rendered the voting committee in the party useless. Tsk, tsk, tsk...

On the bright side, I suppose they should be happy that they do not have a carnivorous dude in their party.

Women in World War II

Here is something we seldom hear or read about but well worth the mention: the contributions of women in WWII:

You Do It Myyyyy Wayyyyyy...

What is the secret to serenity? Your way is the wrong way because you really should do it my way which is not your way and you are sure to be confused your way because my way is not your way but THE way.
via Non Sequitur GoComics.

The Smart Bump

USA Today thought that speed bumps are common in Mexico - wait till they come check out suburban Malaysia. A challenger has emerged! Anyway, as a general consensus, speed bumps are meant to reduce vehicle speeds and occasionally amuse us when a vehicle would fly over one (and with us as the driver or passenger). The article seemed to raise a similarity, too, about residents in Mexico and Malaysia that got fed up and built their own speed bumps.

Because of the terrible wear and tear of braking upon deceleration and the greenhouse gases that cars emit after passing the bump, a company in Mexico developed smart speed bumps. These intelligent ones will flatten itself if the approaching car is within speed limits but will not hesitate to rear its evil hump if the car is over the limit.
via Fast Company via USA Today.

Ultraman Movie!

I suppose those that I grew up with would know the Japanese Ultramen. The huge superheroes that fight against equally huge monsters would crash into hills and buildings that appeared to be kinda real during my childhood. I was totally surprised at how fake they were when I occasionally revisited the series.

I am glad that the franchise still exists, though I do not know what incarnation it had gone through. It was interesting to find out from dannychoo.com that an ex-Japanese prime minister voiced Ultraman King in the latest Ultraman movie called Ginga Densetsu.
It was also a pleasant surprise to see that the movie is graphically superior to what I always thought Ultraman to be:

Do you like chatting with people wearing dark sunglasses?

Just had this idea to blog about after a Twitter chat with someone I followed. It all began when all the people that I was following in Twitter do not have their profile pictures showing. I somehow managed to use "talking to people who are wearing sunglasses" as an analogy.

Over my lifetime, I've talked to many people who are wearing sunglasses at that time. Sometimes, it is ok, but sometimes, I felt awkward. I never knew if they were looking at me or were looking some where else or were sleeping and I had this image in my mind of them without their sunglasses, talking to me but looking elsewhere at all times. Do you get the drift? However, I don't seem to mind if we were talking under bright sunlight (probably because I could see their eyes in that condition) but if we were talking in a shaded area or in a room... even Horatio doesn't do that!

What do you think? Got a little poll on the sidebar of this blog for you to click.

IonBuck and His One Minor Success at Subang Airshow

After so many fail photos of heads, exhausts and mighty camera phones, here's one that I have to like (to console myself that at least I got a keeper of sorts):

@%#$@%!!! I blame it on the crowd, I blame it on the slow focus speed of my camera, I blame it on the slow electronic viewfinder. Aaaah... after complaining, I am feeling better now. Time to dig a hole and hide. Ta!