@#%$ Monday!!!

Mondays are bad, we all know that but this one is exceptionally bad! Began the day with stressful problems that required running here and there, calling this and that, phone calls streaming in from left, right, center, and found out about something important involving external parties that was not communicated. I think tonight I will be dreaming about some of these, too.

Gosh. If this is a sampling of what's to come, I'd be totally burn out in no time. I will be shouting goodbye cruel world and, hopefully, land on some really evil baddy's head who will break my fall.

Good thing that there's this blog here which I can voice it all out. Now I am feeling a tad better. Aaah... deep breath, deep breath. Oh, lunch time is near. Goody.

Blardy Queue Jumping Car

This is happening a lot lately. My last post about this kind of shit was some months back and it so happened yesterday that everything was well and safe to take out the mobile phone and snap this #%$#@:

Ingenious Smart Eaters

Yup. This is how most of us smart people eat. We gobble and then we stop when there's only one piece of the stuff left.

Ada Air Kah? Got Water Or Not?

Dear fellow blog readers from Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya,

While checking out SYABAS' website for water disruption in my area, I found out that SYABAS (Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn. Bhd.), through its PUSPEL customer service thing (correct me if I'm wrong because I really don't know what PUSPEL means but from the website, it seems to be customer service), actually provide tweet updates of water related issues in the above areas.

Fascinating.

ps. Here's their Twitter site: http://twitter.com/puspel <<<<< Embarrassing of me to have forgotten to include this link on my first post.

So much bad luck...

Did you know that (besides the usual suspects)

• putting your left foot on the floor after waking up from bed (???),
• walking under a ladder,
• spilling salt (!!!),
• opening an umbrella indoors,
• leaving your purse on the floor (?!?),
• seeing an owl during the day,
• dropping a knife and picking it up (!?!) and
• placing a hat on the bed

all contribute to bad luck? No wonder our world will end at the end of 2012.

Digital Camera Innovation - Modular Ricoh GXR

Thought Micro Four Thirds would be the only technological innovation for digital interchangeable lens cameras? Not anymore. There's a leak about Ricoh's upcoming modular digital camera where the whole lens-cum-sensor is interchangeable. In the following video, the dude changed from a 24-70mm lens with a 10 megapixels CCD sensor capable of only recording VGA video to a 50mm macro lens with 12.3 megapixels CMOS sensor that could record in HD! Another advantage will be dust free despite many change overs. Rumours of rumours say that Ricoh also plan to attach a printer and/or a projector so that the body itself could print and/or project without any lens and sensor.

And if you think it's expensive, you are right! The camera body retails for US$703, while the macro and zoom lens + sensors cost US$1,004 and US$502, respectively. Innovation sometimes come at a price... in the beginning, at least.

via Crave.

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.