New office! Designed by rockstar architects, styled by holy interior designers and built by mystical dwarves and elves. The union of the brightest minds and the burliest muscles. Ok, that didn’t sound right. But it’s so chic you’ll want to sleep in it.

Pictas!!!!

The view from the front. Nice orange strip. Like a sexy thong.

Behold, the gates to heaven and the 77 virgins promised for my holy sacrifice.

The stairways to heaven. Yeah I know, cliche.

Moar offices!

Glorious mezzanine view.

I will be moving in on Febuary. Anybody jealous yet? Okay okay, stop pouting. Here’s a comic to brighten up your day:

I hate to be anal when it comes to usability, but this coke bottle had just illustrated to me the real cost of not putting any usability into account when delivering your products. Given, it is a problem in QC, but heck, for simplicity’s sake, let’s just generalize it as a usability problem.

The whole idea of the “usability” of a food item is usually focused on its packaging. Simply said, if you want a person to enjoy your food, you gotta make it possible for that said person to open it first.

And today, I’ve just encountered an unopeneable bottle of coke.

It got so bad until I had to literally pry open the cap with a SCREW-FUCKING-DRIVER.

There, see that?

So after opening it, I found out the problem. The ridges in the cap are melted, for some fucking reasons. I’m guessing the people in Jusco didn’t exactly read the warnings on the crate about keeping the drinks in a cool temperature, but c’mon, what does a distributor has to do with the drinks to keep it openeable? Keep it inside a giant ‘fridge? This is just stupid.

An unopeneable coke. The fucking irony.

Horror and sexy bosom nurses do make an excellent match eh?

After the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide, and after hearing all the horror stories of “rescue” personnel doing everything from looting to watching people die except actually saving them, I’ve compiled a “survival guide” in Malaysia.

Flood

When flood hits your house, here’s what you should do first: TRUST NOBODY. If you see a rescue personnel, quickly dive into your house and collect all your valuables and swim AWAY. Prepare a scuba gear beforehand for such emergencies. If you are hurt, and you see the ambulance, swim AWAY. The swim to the hospital is safer than going with the ambulance.

Fire

When your house is burning, the last thing you want to do is to call the police or the fire station. Rouse the neighbourhood and ask everybody to bring their fire fighting tools. If you hear the sirens of a fire engine, immediately send people to blockade the street and PREVENT the fire engine from entering. Because if they do, they will demand payment from you and at the same time deny you usage of the fire hydrant to fight the fire. Same story with the police. Form a human chain if needed.

Landslide

If a landslide happens, IMMEDIATELY remove all your valuables and drive 30 km away and bury them. Nevermind if your relatives and family is buried under. You can’t save them, the rescue personnel are not trained to save them, and they are destinied to die anyway. At least cut your losses and prevent your personal belongings from being ransaked by the rescue personnel, which is their first priority on the scene.

I scribbled this design in Photoshop, getting the image out of my mind.

After that, I asked people of their opinion, and here’s the responses that I get:

 Joey - says:
its about breaking off from being someone that pleases others

Duncan@office says:
adult with fake expression?

Benjamin@ gemalto says:
unmasking/revealing one’s true feelings/identity? what those feelings/identity are is beyond me because i can’t make out an anatomically incorrect facial expression even on a toon….

đes says:
growing up means a lot of complications and confusions where the mind does not meets the heart in many ways.. the masks shows an evilish smile and the human expression is so fucked up

And as usual, my dear friend Chewxy takes the cake with his intepretation.

Chewxy - When it comes to money and tax, the Australian Govt is faaaaaast says:
its a sperm with a happy face

After posting it on LYN, the comments immediately took a bizzare turn.

[+]
when you are 18, being adult you tend to be someone not you? 

conan_cat
when ur all grown up you have to put on a mask and face the world? :/
ironic, really sad. 

xgreen7
emm. when we’re 18, were all grown up, and thus we have to change our lifestyle watsoever? argh wat the..wait wats that underneath that black guy? is it a rock or sumthing? maybe it has sumthing 2 do with the meaning too? hey lol i think i like ‘remember remember the day i posted this opinion of mine’ (10th of december) lol

pinkyd
genesis culture ? then there’s like a war stricken country in the back. Maybe its talking about those group of people. When they grow up, the still don’t know how to face the world. The mask symbolize they are hiding from facing reality because they are just too afraid and are held back. The number 18 also looks like eyes with a blank stare.

booblegum
The bending of his knees look like he’s just unprepared to launch off to his new beginning of 18 years old, and that mask he hasn’t put on shows the lack of anxiety or excitement to become somebody “grown up” and face the world.

LeechFever
A Grey martian with what looks like #18 on it’s face holding a mask, with red crazy cutting of “all grown up” Mohawk hair and squatting on top of a……just my speculation…….tip of a giant Pe***s. Else a mushroom.

bloodvanille
When that martian thingy grown up, it tends to sit on a nipple while holding a mask and using a war background.

Keeping my inspirations alive, I drew another one:

We’ve heard of heroes saving the world and epic stories in Hollywood movies but by far this story that I just picked up from the net takes the cake.

Imagine this - a simple program that once deployed, would shatter the very fabrics of the internet. The attacker would receive unrestricted access to everything online: your passwords, bank accounts, e-mails, everything. And the saddest part was, it was astoundingly simple.

But to be on the safe side, Vixie decided to call Kaminsky. He picked up immediately and within minutes had outlined the flaw. A series of emotions swept over Vixie. What he was hearing shouldn’t be possible, and yet everything the kid said was logical. By the end of the third minute, Vixie realized that Kaminsky had uncovered something that the best minds in computer science had overlooked. This affected not just BIND 9 but almost all DNS software. Vixie felt a deep flush of embarrassment, followed by a sense of pure panic.

Read the whole article. It is spine chilling to know that the trust that we placed upon computer “experts” and security “professionals” can be broken down by one simple hacker.

The Day The Internet Broke

I’ve a phobia on nerds, I just realize. That is actually ironic because I’m one hell of a nerd myself too.

Ru - http://www.rendervault.com says:
right…
Ru - http://www.rendervault.com says:
i hope i don’t see sylar anywhere
Chewxy - Category 4 cyclone headed my way says:
Spock
Ru - http://www.rendervault.com says:
ahh
Ru - http://www.rendervault.com says:
luckily i don’t watch star trek
Chewxy - Category 4 cyclone headed my way says:
I do
Ru - http://www.rendervault.com says:
nerd
Ru - http://www.rendervault.com says:
hehe
Ru - http://www.rendervault.com says:
sorry, that was a reflex
Chewxy - Category 4 cyclone headed my way says:
nw

The world’s going into a recession. The political scene in Malaysia is still in chaos, but the focus is currently on the economy. And everywhere you turn, you see people struggling in the stock market, companies desperately looking for bailouts, and the ringgit malaysia plunging.

And out of nowhere, people like these emerge.

A Malay rights group is demanding MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek pay RM2 million in compensation for allegedly questioning the special position of the Malays.

For morons reading this page or foreigners who don’t understand the situation in Malaysia, after 50 years, and after so many things the “non-Malays” have done for the country, these MORONS come and try to play the racial game.

Mahathir was the fucker who started this whole thing. The father of racism. The father of oppression. The father of all fucked up things that is Malaysia. And these MORONS decide to further this absolutely retarded situation further by this gimmick. What have they done for the country? Segregate its people. What have they done for the society? Tear apart the unity that we have built as MALAYSIANS.

FUCKERS. MORONS. RETARDS. Those are words that are in my mind right now, for all these racists who attempt to tear apart the fabrics of society by such actions.

We are facing much more serious issues here, and could use less of these morons on the papers.

Seriously. They retarded or something?

I believe religion is just another form of discrimination, on the lines of racism, sexism, etc.

All religions, in its most basic and personal form is a beautiful thing, but when it goes beyond the self and person, it becomes corrupted immediately. Allow me to provide several examples to illustrate my point. Read the rest of this entry »

I was listening to a self-help audio track and couldn’t stand the slow “Idiots guide” pacing that it structured on, and soon found myself quickly summing up the track and then followed up by distracting myself with internet surfing while the speaker tried in vain to grab my fleeting attention. Every now and then I could catch some keywords but then they were really nothing more than the same thing from my previous “summary”.

And then I suddenly caught my greatest weakness ever to date. Arrogance.

Yeah, I thought I was too good for their advises, too smart to pay the attention and respect to these hard working people who took the effort to put together such help systems for the unfortunate. And not only does my arrogance manifests in this manner. There are way too many other instances where my arrogance kicks in and I start berating people around me, thinking I-know-best and dismissing all other ideas as unnecessary or below my scope of intellect.

This arrogance will one day lead me to ruin, mark my words.

Gotta keep this in mind.