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 [...]

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; [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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! [...]

A Super Mario gameplay with a crossover of some good old 8 bit console games characters. I enjoyed on the creator’s commentary more than the game itself.

A mate of mine sent me this awesome web trick to play a prank on some poor non-IT souls.
http://bacolicio.us/
By adding a website of your choice at the end of the web address above, you’ll be “superimposing” a bacon image on the chosen website. Of course I picked my employer’s website and sent an email via Outlook, masking the [...]

Came across this when I was browsing my Google Reader. The post has been removed but it was still in their RSS.
Ozbargain Ad

Update: Awww, they’ve fixed the mistake minutes after I’ve posted this.
Some one item for sale a day website (for this site, it’s 3 items a day) misprinted their price.

(Source)

I have an upcoming visit to Guilin, China next year and it is required to have a visiting/tourist visa so I took the liberty to apply for one during the Christmas break week at the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne. For the record, I always assumed the staff will all dressed up to their best, presenting a good impression [...]

This ad has been playing on TV every night while I was in Japan. So mesmerizing, it almost brainwashed me to buy that junk food. Till now, the tune is still ringing in my head.

[Official website]

Some random stuff I found in some forums:
 I don’t know about you guys, but I play my games with a scanner all the time! I write “shoot” on a piece of paper, scan it, and in Counter Strike Source it’s like “BOOM HEADSHOT!!1!!111!”

My colleague was building a PC for another colleague of mine. When he’s done assembling and installed the drivers, he told me to shove in my personal thumb drive to test if the USB front ports are working.
That fried my thumb drive, extra crispy.
Apparently my colleague accidentally plugged the USB front ports to a firewire connector [...]