Man, I can't really believe my eyes in the first place. Alright, I know it's not really the real McCoy doing the reading, but I sincerely hope it's true though. For these past few months, I haven't been really blogging regularly or spending time on social nteworking sites like Frienster, MySpace or Facebook. I can safely blame it all on StumbleUpon. It's a website where you can go to to sigh up for a free account, download the StumleUpon toolbar on your internet browser. Along the way, submit the topics which you are interested in, save it. Then you can click on the Stumble button on your browser and start Internet Channel Surfing. It's good in a sense that it really show you sites that you might not have thought of looking for in the first place. Living wise, StumbleUpon did help me a lot though.
And so, when I finally have the chance to check out my MySpace blog and tinkered around the site, I suddenly decided to click on the link that says "My Readers" and guess what I found...
A really simple way to give your USB device a background image, instead of the usual boring plain white background that you see all the time. And guess what, it's only a simple, easy, painfree few steps process:
1. Copy Paste the following code in the notepad and rename that notepad file to desktop.ini (Just make sure when you paste this code, the Double Quotes are in Notepad format otherwise type the Double quotes manually from your keyboard.)
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image=“back.jpg”
iconarea_text=”0xFFFFFF”
2. Choose any image of your choice and rename it to back.jpg (Recommended size of image is 800 x 600)
3. Copy Paste both these files (i.e. desktop.ini and back.jpg) into your USB device.
Who fed ice-kachang to the cat???
I'm pretty sure I would want one for myself too. Who else feels the same as me?
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires
Wow, I'm MTV's March Blogger Of The Month. That is a nice and pleasant surprise. Considering that the past few days for me was rather lousy, this is really good news. Well, when I first stumbled onto MTV Asia's website a couple of years ago, I "accidentally" found the Blog page and I initially thought that it was purely by invitation by MTV Asia for people from all walks of life to blog about everything and anything. Well, it seems I was erm, totally wrong and really short-sighted. Back then, I was thinking like "Wouldn't it be nice if I could have a blog on MTV Asia as well?". And back in March, I realised that I could sign up for an account to blog... (Ok, I know it sounds really "outdated" to realise this after so many years...) And when I first signed up for a blog account, I did kind of noticed the "MTV's Blogger Of The Month" thingy going on, but my mind was not really about winning anything at all. It's like, having a blog about talking about my life, what's going on, what's happening around me is almost like a testament that I existed in this world. That I am not just another nameless person going about his or her business, and that I want people to know who I really am and also to know me better. I admit that my face does put people off. And as I myself have realised, "My face looks pissed without me feeling pissed" and that itself might have inadvertently offended a lot of people without me realising it too.
Well, let me talk about this incident that happened on 6 April.
I was supposed to work the afternoon shift and I ended up reporting to work close to 10 minutes late. I seldom report to work late and I try not to. And in this case, it's already a bad start to the whole day. Anyway, I went to my work station and everything went on fine as per usual with any other day. Then, this idiot (sorry for the choice of words here, but this rude ass is only worth called "An Idiot!!") asked about our store membership card. And as I was already serving another customer, I had to leave this idiot for a while before I could attend to him. When I did finally managed to get back to him, he seemed a little impatient. And he asked about our membership card renewal process. Anyway, this is how the whole conversation went:
You know, sometimes when you go clubbing (or pubbing) and you see all these people at the clubs (or pubs) and you can't help but notice that they tend to fall into 2 categories. Those who can dance (either they are born with the talent or they work hard at it) and those who can't (seriously, ever seen any guy who dances like as if he's throwing Son Goku punches??). Fret not, PuNiaoPuNiao is here to help by teaching you how to dance to a Spanish tune. Check out this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgvsD5hn_y0 and if all fails, get a few guys and dance to this music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afpI1azqMhQ and hopefully, the crowd would be (slightly) impressed??
Anyway, stay happy folks!!
I know, it sounds like some big bad joke gone wrong. Especially on April Fool's Day itself, with our store Stock Take taking place. I wonder how many customers came down with the intention of doing some book shoppin until they drop, only to realise that we're closed today for our annual stock take. It definitely sure will leave quite a lot of people with a sour taste in their mouths...
Cheryl & Ben chilling out before the action begins
Our store manager looking very casually dressed
Pre-Stock Take gathering and briefing
Fadli updating his stock data
Taufiq, scanning and posing at the same time~ ~
Fadli counting his physical stock after scanning the items
Mark, looking "splendid" in his market shopping best
There will be a stock-take on 1 April, commencing at 8:00am. I will update again, with more pics too. Stay tuned!! Meanwhile, you can check out my other daily life postings at http://SexyBlueMaMe.blogspot.com
And before I post off, here's something interesting I found out about my Department head. His ears prick up at the mere mention of this word "Cam-whore!" How did I know?? Well, there was this morning we were both on the same (AM) shift and he was grumbling about our store manager "This XXX, nothing better to do, always taking photographs here and there!" And in reply, I said: "Don't you know he's a cam-whore?" And at that instant moment, my Deaprtment head started smiling happily to himself...
Hmm, in the 80's, if you utter the word cam-whore to anyone, you'll most probably get a frown, provided people knew what the word "whore" meant in the first place. Now, mention "cam-whore" and everyone claims not to be one, but in secret, everyone would love to pose for the camera just for publicity. Well, I'm the "cam-whore" in a sense and my subjects? They are the ones doing the "cam-whoring" to my camera...
So, you readers, enjoy the pics I am uploading from now on!!
P/S: And when I say "enjoy the pictures I am uploadin from now on!!", I really meant it!! 'Cos I don't like to do things halfway. If I am going to get started, I will carry it on until the end. Reason? I've clicked on the "Next Random Blog" above and I kept getting directed to blogs that are not updated at all. And it does sucks when people signed up for a blog and yet leave it lying around to rot and get mouldy. It sure takes up bandwidth, am I not right in that point?