Here’s an acoustic version for the hippity-hop song Sakuranbo Kiss sang by Kotoko (I’ve Sound).

The OS-tan intro OP parody

I attended a Kyushu-based taiko troupe at the Palms in Crown Casino last night. Calling themselves TAO, these awesome people gave me a extraordinary, sounding  performance. It beats my heart away, so to say. : ) I heard about them before and a few  years ago they were in Melbourne to perform; I missed it.

What set them unique is they orchestrate a fusion of modern and traditional beats/music/score along with well choreographed dances and moves, not to mention the rippling muscles plus the sweat too. I sat on the second row from the front but thank goodness I wasn’t hit by the rain of sweat. XD

A couple weeks ago, I sprained my lower back when I was doing some heavy lifting. Initially my sis worried it might be a slipped disc so I was advised to see a GP. As usual the old procrastinating me, wish I heeded her words then. I thought I’ll just leave it to heal by itself until a couple of days ago, I got a really painful stiff at night.

Anyways, I went to see a doctor. Good news was, it’s only a sprained lower back as suspected and it’ll take a bit of time to heal. In the mean time, she suggested me a few back exercise techniques to speed up the healing and maybe consult a chiropractor. Before I left the medical centre, I was just asking if there is a possibility of a slipped disc. She scoffed off the idea and said if it really is, my legs would be very weak and feel some tingling sensation (like Spidey?).

She ended up the conversation, “Don’t worry, it’s just mechanical”. For a split second I thought I was consulting a  robotic engineer and felt like a cyborg. Medical jargons, huh.

I’ve just signed up PennyTel for my VOIP service. After topping up some credits,  I decided to give it a try this morning and called for an appointment. Here’s my first VOIP encounter experience.

Lady A: “Good morning, XXXX. This is Lady A speaking”
Me: “Good morning, I would like to make an appointment.”
Lady A: “I’m sorry sir; you are in Sydney. We’re based in Melbourne.”
Me: “Um, I am residing in Melbourne.”
Lady A: “Sir, but your number is in Sydney.”
Me: “Oh, I’m using a VOIP phone. Think it points the call from Sydney.”
Lady A: “Huh?”

This is classic. Anyways, I managed to make that appointment after clearing up the confusion.

I have a colleague that is so cheapskate on buying his own tissues and instead he helps himself one every now and then from my teammate’s tissue box.

You’ll see him strolling happily into our department, greets us, invades to my teammate’s table and grabs a piece of tissue. He’ll blow his nose with a loud “pfffft” and walks away. Sometimes you may hear a “thank you” echoed in the corridor.

This arvo, there was a power outage in a few buildings, including my office. Big boss has decided to spend us lunch at a pub nearby since we were roaming around freely without anything to do.

I had myself a nice lamb rump and at the end of the lunch, the big boss said if the power was still out, we could call it the day. Excitingly we headed back to office and when we were about to get into our respective cars…*pop* the power came back on! 

We were so close! If we’d cut our chat 5 minutes short and left, we could’ve escaped from the claws of the big boss.

Alas, back to work, yer dweebs.

I have been playing Drupal CMS for a couple days of late and with all the bells and whistles, I’m tempted to merge this blog and my portfolio into one single entity. Having said that, I have yet fully researched the full extend of features and compatibility that I’m seeking.

Will take some time before the migration takes place. : )

After months of procrastinating, I took the liberty to upgrade WordPress to 3.0. Took an hour to backup my database and content with a lot of minor installation hiccups.

Just wanna let it off for once. Let’s call this lady woman Fatass.

In the office we have a car stacker that holds two cars on each platform and we, at times share the same level. The car stacker is a little space constrained, therefore when two cars are parked side by side, we barely have enough room to move in/out of the platform hence the office made a rule that one of us has to park facing in while the other facing out. I am the former and I always make sure there is some space left on the driver side so that the other occupier is able to get out as well.

This morning, this Fatass found the opportunity to inform tell order me to park my car closer to the corner of the platform next time and the tone wasn’t that friendly. And ohhh, that confrontation ended with a very cold “Thank you….”.

From that conversation I presumed either she was:

Speculation A: showing off her big, wide new Toyota that invades more space than my puny second hand.
Speculation B: having trouble to reverse her car in (à la poor parking skills)
Speculation C: can’t get her uber fat backside out of the car.

My take? I’m for C.

Any advice from a parent is always worthwhile to listen to. I heed them all the time.

Over the weekend, my mum called. Usually, there is at least a hint of advice embedded in her usual 15 minutes plus conversations. This time it was short and pretty much random.

Mom: “Son, I just want to let you know this. One, do not talk on a mobile phone when you are driving. Two, do not talk on a mobile phone when you are crossing roads”
Me: “Uh, ok.”
Mom: “Pass this message to your sister as well. That’s it, bye”.

Thanks mom.

Still waiting for Episode 3 (if there is one…). But in the mean time I found someone that made use of the soundclips in the game itself and illustrated with simple hand drawn art. Very cute.

(Source:Kotaku)

My big boss was on a business trip to UK a couple of weeks ago and returned last Friday. For the past two weeks, everyone would be clocking in to work after 9am or later and clock out before 4.30ish (or better still, they’ll be “working from home”).

And behold, today is Monday morning and everyone is at work by 8.30am! Surprise surprise.

Like the saying goes, “When the cat is away, the mice will come out to play”

Another nendoroid in my wish list. Think this will take a loooong time for me to acquire. Reimu Hakurei from Touhou Project
 

(Source: Good Smile)

A very foggy morning today. For a moment I thought I was teleported into the dreaded Silent Hill when I stepped out of my home.

Fog + Low visiblity + Morning rush hour = Trapped-driver-with-two-hands-free-to-take-a-photo

P.S. How I wish my office route was on the other side of the road.

Some time ago, Google posted a speed test demonstration of how fast their Chrome web browser was.
 

Opera didn’t want to miss this out. They have their own parody of Google’s speed test.