Yet another month end

We have come to the end of September and also the end of another quarter. Sigh and I've been blogging lesser and lesser these days. Not that my posts had been very interesting but I kinda like to talk rubbish and post them online. :P

Unfortunately for me my current job doesn't seem to permit enough time to blog these days. Have been running around rushing this and rushing that and travelling south almost every week chasing for dunno what! Not very healthy but at the same time, due to all these life's been on the fast lane.

Advantages - not a boring job and can be exciting at times. Looking at the end result produces some form of satisfaction.

Disadvantages - time passes by really fast and I have hardly enough time for my personal stuff. The stress can be overwhelming and happens all too often.

That's all for this time. Until the next dunno when time, bye!

Peace Hotel @ Taiping

Peace Hotel
Originally uploaded by IonBuck.

Was in Taiping for work around couple of months ago and was on the way for breakfast when I saw this Peace Hotel. Immediately, I started to wonder if this was related to the Chow Yun Fatt movie way back in 1995.

- Taken with the HTC Desire -

Buried

Am rather curious about the upcoming movie Buried starring Ryan Reynolds. Would like to see how a movie is made with majority of the scenes inside a coffin. Based on what I can make out of the trailer on the official website he is kidnapped for ransom while being buried somewhere in a coffin. He has a lighter, a cellphone and 90 minutes of oxygen (but later in the trailer, he has a pocket knife which the kidnapper commanded he use to cut his finger(!!!) and also a torchlight). Below is another trailer I found on YouTube:

Vaguely, I think the buried is being filmed and posted on the web... which reminds me of the double CSI episodes directed by Quentin Tarantino titled Grave Danger.

I also like the posters from the official website and here is one of them:

Donkey Democracy

A donkey transporting ballot boxes to remote villages before parliamentary elections in Afghanistan:

via Eyewitness.

Day Tracks

Love this photo. It's a combination of various railroad tracks including the express train from KLIA, electric train track, etc. The blue sky with clusters of clouds help to enrich the colours of the photo. Also like how the way the tracks curve and lead towards the horizon intersected by a bridge.

- Taken with the HTC Desire -

Delightful quotes from scientific legend Stephen Hawking

I like these couple of quotes from Stephen Hawking about how intelligent we humans are as a species and the impact we made:

"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach."

"I think computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive."

via @Time.

Messy Dirty Dirt

When website called TheDirty.com apparently posted a picture of Sarah Jones (a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader while at the same time is also a high school English teacher - how?) and reported that she had an affair with a player and had contracted two venereal diseases, the cheerleader-cum-teacher sued. The only thing was the website mentioned in the case had a missing "y" to it. TheDirt.com did not respond and was ordered to pay $11 million!

Now TheDirt.com is considering suing while TheDirty.com is asking for an apology for falsely reporting that it had lost the lawsuit when it had not even been served.


via TechDirt thru Slashdot.