hello blog... may has been an interesting month... work is piling up and my replacement has arrived which means i can finally share my load... plus, and i've been meeting friends at lunch, and it helps cause meeting friends from school and church and talking about things which actually interest you is a vast improvement from the usual complaints and rants that you hear from your colleagues... why can't people just cheer up and smile a little more... one stroll around raffles place during rush hour or lunch time and you will see countless glum self-occupied faces worried about things that they probably can't do anything about... will the people just cheer up so i won't feel so depressed looking at them... i mean i guess it's pardonable for folks like me who look weird when i smile but for the majority of those out there please smile a little more... we might all feel a little brighter and raffles place could be a lot less depressing to look at... a little "thank you" or "morning" wouldn't kill right... i think little "gestures" like that help to make one feel just a little more appreciated and important, and i think it really helps one in his/her overall morale and productivity?

technology is really getting increasingly advanced... i mean how do you improve a device like the keyboard, which already has wireless capabilities and a super ergonomic design for hardcore gamers? i was a funan and i might have stumbled on the answer...



you know how consumerism works right... i roughly do and i think it's about convincing someone that he has to buy something, regardless of whether he really needs it... wow... i never knew anybody really needed that...



i've never really seen it that way before...

anyway, you know how people can sue one another for the silliest things, like i remember from one piece of trivia i heard about from my friends, somebody sued macdonald's for making her overweight or something... to prevent things like that from happening although i understand it isn't so easy to sue somebody in Singapore, people do all kinds of things to cover their own a*ses and put the most ridiculous warnings at places you least expect... i happened to chance upon one at burger king...



okay if you cannot read it please don't start cursing my lousy photo taking skills/your lousy eyesight... it reads "caution may contain fish bones"... i think putting a warning on a burger takes the whole disclaimer thing to a new level and i really believe that macdonald's should just step up their game...

anyway moving on, i have also realised that lots of overseas companies set up branches and franchises here, and don't bother to do research on how their brand names would sell in a country that speaks another language... well i took a trip down "The Centrepoint" with their spanking new "rennovated" premises embellished with an extra word that according to "experts" gives the place a more important sound or something like that... and i saw this...



hmm... at least people would really remember their name...

okay i'm really tired... need to sleep... zzzz