Anyone Up For It?

Because someone was too lazy to update this piece of crap you might call a blog, I decided to make it interesting.


So I've created a puzzle and if you can figure this out, RM10 and a packet of jelly-worms awaits you.


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Life was never meant to be fair. It was designed to take you furthur from your goals as you strive to achieve it.

I was alone for so long looking for someone, now I know I was wrong cause now if you saw me you couldn't recognize me and I wouldn't sympathize, I'd see you as anyone.

Mysterious. That's what I find interesting in you. Getting to know you more was on the top of my list. Of course, it was never achieved.

So basically you're perfect and I like you. But the problem is that I've never actually met you.

Honesty. Who doesn't want that? It took me awhile to figure it out but the fact is truer words are usually rarely spoken.

I always wondered why we had so much fun together and another time you were all cold at me. I thought the female species was hard to understand or it was a really cruel game she was playing. Boy, was I wrong.

Needing some comfort for having a bad day. Forget it. I consider it an insult. They appear with their sad supportive faces when in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

You meant no harm to me. But I took it too much and started blaming myself for everything.

I thought everything can be fixed. With compromise. But not everybody wants to compromise. Different mentality I guess.

I knew it was never gonna end well, but I still went with it. I thought I could beat the system. Looks like the system gain another piece of metal for it's collection.

None of it matters anymore. How could I know that this would take a toll on me? Maybe it's because everything happened differently from how the flow should go.

Gaining perspective. It's amazing the amount of insight and perspective one can gain simply by putting some distance between them and the chaos. Needless to say, I see so much more clearly now. That's what really matters. Everything else is simply clutter and distractions.

Too hard. There's a hint. But the hint is a riddle. Figure the riddle out.

• Whichever way you look at me, I am something different. Something new and something old you cannot quite name. Blink and I am gone, but still right in front of you.
  

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Kidnapped!!! Pt. 2

Our demands aren't met yet. We are growing restless and decided to make a more drastic action. We've force Mr. Lim to close his blog, temporarily. Yes, you hear us. We will decide whether he gets to continue blogging or not.

Here is a message from him to all of you.

There is no hereafter, no afterworld, no henceforth in this world of blogs. Maybe an eulogy, but I don't feel like writing one.

Thanks for following it through the months gone by.

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Kidnapped!!!

To whom it may concern, We have taken Lim Chin Win hostage. Do not try to find him. Do not alert the authorities. Until our demands are met, he will be held in a really nice house in Sydney where he'll be forced to eat rich foods and watch satellite TV with all the premium channels and pay-per-view. The following are a list of our demands: We must never again receive demand for souvenirs that requests us to go far and wide to find that particular gift. The list of previous souvenir requests will be continued. Sometime, somewhere, in some city, an oriental rug store will have to actually go out of business. All salespeople in nice clothing stores who act like they're better than the people shopping in the store must take acting lessons from people who don't know anything about acting but know a good thing when they see one. This demand also applies to snooty waiters in nice restaurants. You have one-hundred and sixty-eight hours to comply with these demands. Until then, Mr. Lim will be forced to spend his nights sleeping on a very cushy bed that is dangerously close to a snoring neighbour with frequent toilet trips.

Proof to show he's still alive.

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Conquer The World?

Yeah!

View from the bottom

The treacherous route

The climb to the top

Success!!

The end.

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A Peek Into A Geeks Bag

Referring to one of Sek's post. Does everybody lie?

When travelling, everyone packs the general necessities required to just, well, travel.

You have the usual bags.

You have the usual luggage locks.

You have the usual money.

Jon, I counted. AUD9.60. Enough for your souvenir.

And many more usual stuff. But, in a tech geek's bag, there are many more crappy, geeky stuff, or specifically, gadgets.

You have your laptop.

You have your camera.

You have your iPhone and all the mumbo jumbo wires that comes with it.

You have more cords.

1. Your three-prong adapter.

2. Your mini surge protector.

3. Your iPhone charging cord.

4. Your run-of-the-mill USB cord.

5. Your network cable.

6. Well, your nail-clipper. 

You have a spare laptop battery.

You have your notebook.

You have your inspirational GTD workflow chart.

And you have lots and lots of thumbdrives.

I'm gonna exploit Australia's fast Internet speed to download all my torrents. 

Yes. I'm bringing all these for my trip. I'm gonna be the lonely little Asian kid with big fat bags stuffed with all these.

While I was talking with my friends about my solo trip to Australasia, we were talking about what to wear at the airport. And we came up with these.

I'm gonna wear an Armani suit.

And when I reach the Immigration checkpoint, it would probably go like this.

Business or pleasure, sir?

Pleasure.

*Looks at my clothing*

*Thinks*

Are you sure?

Yes.

*Thinks somemore.*

*Sends me to the Detention room."

*Deport me back to Malaysia.*

That's one thing I want to avoid. Casual it is.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

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Faith

Thirty thousand feet in the air. Strapped into a seat that doubles as a flotation device. Thinking about faith. Faith in airplanes. In jet engines. In pilots. Faith that the sullen, unshaven guy across the aisle isn't the mindless pawn of a master terrorist with a deep hatred for America, the Great Satan. Then, assuming a safe landing, faith that the cabbie didn't have a fight with his adulterous wife who hides her deceit behind sly jokes about his unremarkable sexual prowess forcing him to soothe his anguish with that fifth of Jim Beam he keeps stashed beneath the seat. And, of course, faith that the doorknob leading out of the public bathroom isn't tainted with a flesh-eating bacteria that came to Earth imbedded in a small, flat meteorite that some unsuspecting child picked up to skip across the surface of a lake. Yes, faith is a wonderful thing. Without it, this world would surely be a fearful place.

CLP - Vanity Card #42

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I Don't Want To Land Here

Seriously. I don't.

This is Funchal Airport's runway, in the Island of Madeira. It was one of the most dangerous in the world because its runway was just too short for large airplanes. It had to be extended and engineers had two options: Extend the ground base with extra soil and concrete, or build a platform on top of 180 230-foot pillars. The answer just looks spectacular.

And probably as safe as it is scary.

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This airport is just weird?

Gibraltar Airport's single runway is one of very few in the world (and certainly the largest example) to intersect a public road. That's correct: a public road. Operating similarly to a train crossing, traffic travelling along Winston Churchill Avenue in Gibraltar is brought to a halt each time a plane either lands or takes-off, causing the spectacle seen in the photos above.

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This 2 airports are super cool. But this airport takes the cake. Just watch the video.

Ah, Engineering. Where the noble semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream... Hello Oompa Loompas of science.

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The Gadget Buyer's Decision Making Flowchart

How many more days?

Yet another flowchart.

Not sure about whether or not you should invest in that new gadget? It's a well known fact that flowcharts are the most reliable decision-making tools in existence. Consult the flowchart. Believe in the flowchart. You can't go wrong.

9!!!!

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Tough Day?

A friend is going through a tough time. I'm worried. I try to cheer her up.

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Good Night, Sweet Dreams

What do you know?

Getting a good night's sleep is actually a lot more complicated than one would think.

Usually, the trouble starts with me having to use the bathroom. I have this habit of drinking water right before I sleep.

Another terrible nuisance. Midnight hypochondria. I have diagnosed many sore throats and runny noses as some dreadful disease that would deny me from experiencing the world.

I hate mosquitoes. With all that buzzing and itching, the nuisance they caused is disproportionate to the microdrop of blood they make away with.

If there are mosquitoes reading this, I'm offering you a deal. I'll volunteer an ounce or two of my blood every month. And you can spare me the suffering.

Conclusion?

When I can finally get a nice and comfortable sleep, the most annoying aspect of sleeping comes to me. Dreams.

Even if a night doesn't work out, I can always rely on sleep’s wonderful little sibling: the daytime nap!

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

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