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
 

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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.

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.

Kobe City has posted a short tourism anime short clip on their website and YouTube. Very simple short but it has already made me wanna go and visit Kobe on my next trip.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Update: After posted this, I feel much better already. lol

Today I feel a little miserable. When misery comes, it is time to fantasize.

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 actual web address with the prank web address (for example, http://bacolicio.us/http://www.google.com) to my colleagues and my boss.

Within an hour, my boss freaked out. He called everyone in the office to check including some colleagues who did not receive my prank email (this made him more panic than ever).

Boss: “Did you see the bacon on our website?”
Dude X: “No. I didn’t see anything. The website is fine.”
Boss: “!!!!”

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.

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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 for being part of the consulate.

I was wrong.

The staff that served me shattered my imagination. He was seated behind the glass wall and for the sake of security, conversations where done via the mic/speaker and a small slit hole to pass documents. I digressed. Let’s get to the point.

He looked like a typical asian movie gangster; dark skinned, wearing a thick chain necklace, semi tight ’business’ shirt with exposed chest and crew cut hair. When I approached him, he almost like he wanna pounce on me and whack me good. I guess there is a reason why the glass wall is installed.

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