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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Who Has The Biggest Brain?

So who has the biggest brain for now?

Prologue

I was about to go to sleep when I noticed that my sister was playing this game. I asked her what game is that. She said, she was suppose to make a feasibility study but instead, she just played a game--Who Has The Biggest Brain?. Hearing the title already made me interested. I like mind boggling things such as puzzles and brain teasers.

During my first try, the best score i had was only 1900-ish cm3, which is the volume of my brain according to the game. I kept on playing until I reached 2800-ish cm3. I was ranked 2nd among my friends. Boy was I proud. Until this guy called Edward beat me to it. He had 2989cm3. I played harder and got 3003cm3.

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The game is very addicting. All you have to do is follow click with your mouse or type numbers with your keyboard numpad. The main challenge of the game is that you can compare your score from all your buddies in facebook or from people around the world (You will never get into the Top 100). Other than your brain size, you can also earn lots of trophies by having remarkable scores in each test type.

The game is divided into four types of test that will surely make head numb after some tries. The four types are analytical ability, calculation, memory and visual processing. You have 60 seconds to get the most rights for each test.

[ANALYTICAL ABILITY]

Analytical ability is the first of four parts of the game. In this part, you have to take one of these two tests: heaviest item and number of boxes. The selection of test is random but it's sure that it will be one of the two that i mentioned. You can either have the heaviest item test were in you have to choose which is the heaviest item using your mouse or the number of boxes test where you just have to count the number of boxes or cubes present.

[CALCULATE]

In the second part, you have to use your mathematical skills for you have to calculate simple mathematical sentences. There are also two kinds of test that will be randomly chosen. You may have the test that will require you to click the appropriate operation in the equation or the other test that will require you to input the correct answer.

[MEMORY]

In the first type, you have to memorize the cards facing up before you click anywhere to start opening pairs consecutively. There are times that cards are swapping, so pay attention.

In the second type, you have to memorize certain objects in order then you have to click them in the same order.

[VISUAL PROCESSING]

This is the last of the four tests. In this part, the quickness of your eyes and brain processing will be measured. You will be asked to find the missing piece of a puzzle or an easier way is if you will be asked to click the asteroids, which contains numbers or letters, in order.

[END]

At the end of the game, you will see a web graph of your intelligence and then, your score will be added. The size of your brain will be the result. If you played good enough, you will see your picture jumping over other players you defeated which I enjoy seeing. It's some weird fetish. 

So why blog about this?

There's always a reason and the reason is, I got a HIGHER SCORE!!! Or maybe it's because I finally beat my sis.

And when I tweeted about it, I didn't realize my tweets would be featured on Playfish. Until I accidentally stumbled on their site.

Me! For now.

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