Slow Fast Food

 What do you call fast food that takes forever to serve? No idea? Neither do I.

*shrug*

Photo by Mustafa Bashari on Unsplash

Embrace Every Drop of Water

Water is a very important resource that was once available in abundance but now becomes less accessible. Pollution renders water useless. Embrace water now! Stop the pollution!

Warning from Our Own

You know you’re screwed if the warning is coming from one of your own.

Largest Ever Group of Scientists Issues Humanity an Urgent Warning: Time Is Running Out

HaLLoWeEn! 2017

Happy Halloween!

#BookLoversDay

Books are awesome stuff and nowadays they come in electronic forms, too!

Selamat Hari Raya

Selamat Hari Raya...

... and happy holidays!

Rooster's Sunset

Today marks the 15th day of the new rooster lunar year. Known as Chap Goh Mei, it's also widely known to be the last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations. It's always sad on the last day of a celebration but let's look forward to a great year ahead. :)

Family of 3

A family of three - rooster, hen and a baby chick.

2016 Marks Record Rising Temperature 3 Years in a Row

Uh oh...

Average surface temperatures over land and the oceans in 2016 were 0.94 degrees Celsius (1.69 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average of 13.9C (57.0F), according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

But there's hope...

At a conference in Paris in late 2015, governments agreed a plan to phase out fossil fuels this century and shift to renewable energies such as wind and solar power. 

They agreed to limit warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial times, while pursuing efforts for 1.5C (2.7F). By that yardstick, the rise stood at about 1.1C (2.0F) in 2016.

via Reuters.

Identity Theft Possible If Portrait with "V" Peace Sign

High resolution digital cameras. Portrait of people showing the "V" peace sign or any other way with fingers facing the camera. Identity theft possibility. That's how technology had advanced to and how people misuse it. :(

via DPReview.

11 Malaysian Words Recognised!

In the midst of all the bad press in the international scene the past few years, I'm proud that my country has got 11 of its commonly used words recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary. I've not been to a mamak nor a kopitiam lately but these are just two of the 11 words that I've grown up with as a Malaysian and been using unashamedly in my English sentences.

The other words are ang pow (can't wait for the next Chinese New Year holidays!), bodoh (stupid!), char kway teow (just had it for lunch last week), chicken rice (I shall have this for lunch today to celebrate such an auspicious moment), aiyoh, aiyah (both used to express a sigh, disappointment, distress when forgotten something, or etc, etc. stuffs like that), atas (up), balut (wrap) and rendang (another yummy dish).

via The Sun Daily.

Gold Fish, Gold Fish

Inspired by this article about very evil pet owners dumping their gold fishes into rivers after they grew tired of these lovely and joyful creatures. DON'T THROW YOUR FISHES INTO RIVERS OR THEY WILL GROW BIG AND COME BACK TO EAT YOU!

Happy Father's Day!

Two sketches of the same thing using the always awesome drawing app Paper.

The Superbug Evolution

Based on what I understand from two articles that I read on the same day (one from Reuters and the other via Forbes), the American superbug has evolved and is now resistant to antibiotics while another superbug - this one created - will consume hydrogen and carbon dioxide to produce fuel.

One deadly and the other beneficial. I have faith humans will overcome the deadly bug soon.

Friends

Friends without borders.

Happy 2016 Earth Day!

Have a great day, Earth. Don't get too stressed despite the fact that it's kinda hot and a little hazy here. Rest well and fight again tomorrow.

"Underwater World"

These are actually decorations of a Baskin Robbins ice-cream cake. I had way too much time waiting for the staff to find a box to put one of the larger ice-cream cakes in so I just went and snapped away some of the decorations on the cakes and this is one of 'em. In the end, I saved my money because the staff came back (after what felt like a few hours) about 20 minutes later to inform us that they were out of boxes. That's not business, is it?

WhatsApp - Abused and Misused

Seriously, there's really nothing wrong with WhatsApp (or any messenger apps) but it's how society abuse it. Had I complained about this before? I can't remember. If I had this shows how much I really hate how some people use it.

A little background: WhatsApp had become THE messenger app of the century because of its popularity in the mobile world. I had tried others such as Line, Viber and WeChat and deleted all of them except WhatsApp because I can't stand all the notifications coming from everywhere.

Since smartphones conquered the world, people had resorted to WhatsApp instead of SMS because mobile data, though most of the time finite, is still perceived to be cheaper than charges per message (I guess to the point where telcos had started to offer unlimited calls and SMS in their packages). Wifi is generously available everywhere, too.

I can't begin to complain about how e-mails were abused but that was the past. The present invasion of mobile messengers is a much more pressing issue!!! Since my nature of work deals with a lot of projects simultaneously, co-workers and bosses have this love to create group chats for each project, sometimes even duplicates because they forgot they created one in the first place! Imagine my battery life wears out by noon just because of these chats!

As if calls way after work hours and weekends were not enough, messages about work just keep popping up in the notification center. Argh! And this prompted me to create the following parody of a real scenario. Poor victim of society tried to quit one of those above mentioned group chats but keep getting invited. Well, at least I had fun doing that.

ps. I never knew Apple's "Do Not Disturb" mode could come in so darn handy these days! At last, peace on earth once again, even if only for just a few hours. I am sane again.

It's all about the sloths

When I first saw this Zootopia trailer I couldn't help thinking how familiar things are with the government agencies (I'm sure this IS the intended message) albeit a little exaggerated. The movie's got awesomely 99% fresh the last time I checked Rotten Tomatoes.

Pressed for Freedom

It's not easy.