6 years since my last virus infection in university and finally I snagged one. It was just after I installed the latest version of Opera and I hopped on over to the site blogcatalog and bam! the next thing I knew there was a popup coming from an alien icon on my taskbar saying that my computer was infected. The weird thing is I do not remember installing any programs which uses that icon!
an alien icon on my taskbar
My phone rang while I was having my lunch.
I picked up the call and was greeted by a man speaking broken English in a heavy Chinese accent.
“Good afternoon, is this Mr. Yen?”
“Yes, I am. May I know who is on the line please?”
“Hi Mr. Yen, I am calling ah to inform you of business opportunity with an Ahmerican company. I came back from Australiah and I am setting up a company in KL to trading with this ah company. May I know ah Mr. Yen if you are located in KL?”
I was kind of interested on what he has to offer but at this point things were getting kinda fishy since he did not introduce himself.
Have you ever wondered how you can do perform tasks differently? What about making dull tasks interesting?
Have you ever thought of adding some fun to your life?
Volkswagen came up with 3 videos where they added the ‘fun’ factor into three different tasks – climbing the stairs, dispensing used bottles in a recycling bin and also throwing rubbish. Yes! Even throwing rubbish can be fun!
It was interesting to see how the ‘fun’ factor actually affects people. It makes them more engaged and brings out the child in them. I myself didn’t realize that I was actually smiling to myself while watching the video!
You can view the video at the Volkswagen site TheFunTheory.com or view all three of them here.
Come on! Add some fun to your life!
The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes – this YouTube clip popped up in one of my Facebook feeds. It is about the degrading environment and what our governments are NOT doing to prevent it. For the delegates, listening to it is just like a smack to the face. They must be thinking that environmental issues are trivial and there are more important issues at hand but what they do not realize is that without Mother Earth, there will be no more governments and no issues left for them to bicker about.
Click on the image to watch the full video.
en·gi·neer (ěn’jə-nîr’)
n. a lowly paid individual who is trained and skilled in the meticulous design, construction and operation of man made objects either tangible or non-tangible for, but not necessarily the betterment of mankind; usually seen tinkering with objects and rendering them useless or non-operational afterwards
block (blɒk)
n. a solid piece of substance which annoyingly gets in the way of everything which is not limited to objects but used to illustrate humans as well i.e. blockhead
en·gi·neer’s block (ěn’jə-nîr’s blɒk)
n. commonly known in the engineering world as a condition where the engineer is unable to perform his/her duties unless given increment, incentives and alcohol; symptoms include the inability to operate CAD, twitter-ing like a twit, facebook-ing all day and fiddling with blog settings.