When is Your Birthday Again?

I have a friend whose birthday fell on an ... interesting date. Working in a field which gets to know a lot of people, jokes and youthful shenanigans can get out of hand when it comes to his annual celebration of surviving another trip rotating around the sun. Being a guy who likes to maintain his image of a dude who is made of sterner stuff, he blunders some strong words on social media. As a friend one can only oblige.

Poor Man's air con since the beginning

The hot evening or afternoon when one opens the fridge door and in a small instance... experience the pure joy of cool air relieve. Be warned though prolong period of open fridge door is bad news for the food inside. Credit of the fridge design goes to the talented flickr user nolnet.

Again in Bahasa, always loved short and sweet comic strips, so easy to translate and keep to the spirit.

I Used to be Active in Blogging, then I took an arrow to the knee

Hi folks, those of you who followed my blog will undoubted noticed lately I went completely offline. Well, a few months ago I was doing the usual midnight surfing and was hit by an excruciating headache. I went to bed and next thing when I woke up, half my body was numb...in a way, getting an arrow to the knee might have been a better deal.

I have since got better, but not witthout some side effects. After some deliberation, I finally came back to blog my beloved brickworld, for life must go on, and so is the chronicling of our stories.

Tight budget, Big meals

Just an observation in my current office.

Everything look small from a Distance

Anyone else have this experience?

Going Round and Round

One moment you are up, the next you are down; it goes round and round, better stick around, until fortune are found.

The Universe Trolls

I don't know about you guys, but for me on and off this sort of things happen which somehow suggesting the inner workings of the world is more than meets the eye.

Truely trolling on a cosmic scale.

They say they are sorry

I was knocked off the internet few days ago, the monopoly ISP we have cut me out without warning via little time frame and was some what slow to reconnect me back after the bill was paid. 10 over freaking years as their customers... their machine said they are sorry, well yeah I am sorry too for I have no choice.

Slogan VS Reality

Ever stuck in situation when you believe things should be much better? Shout out loud some political slogans and see the irony rings for eternity.

Again in Bahasa, many thanks to the individuals who oversee the hopefully, proper translation.

A Time for Reflection

Cruel Ironies are raw materials not to be Wasted

Viva Bricklink

From Bricklink,

We regret to announce the sudden and unexpected passing of Dan Jezek, owner and founder of BrickLink.com. Dan will be greatly missed by all of his family and many friends at Bricklink and around the world. A memorial fund is being set up and will be announced at a later date. If you wish to send condolences, you may do so via e-mail to condolences (at) bricklink.com and they will be passed on to his family.

The website will continue under the ownership of the Jezek family. Eric Smith, owner of Northstar Computer Systems, will act as BrickLink Administrator. Northstar has been the host for BrickLink for the past decade. The current BrickLink moderators for the various aspects of the site are all continuing in their roles. Troy Ceferatti is resuming his role as Community Overseer.

The site will continue operating without interruption and all Bricklink users – buyers and sellers – can be reassured that the policies and fee structures will remain as before. Please remember Dan in your thoughts and prayers.

Please visit his memorial page here

Eric Smith
BrickLink.com Administrator

By the way should you be asking what is the Bricklink site all about, well all I can say is it is quite possible this blog would have not existed without it. Bricklink has been credited as the main driving force connecting all the crazy fans of LEGO and their beloved bricks and made all the awesome creations you see online possible and feasible, thus resulting the LEGO golden age we are in now.

The Modern People

Life not Moving Forward is Backward

Take a dump for half an hour, earns 5k

That was No Way to call a Lady

From our reader who blog in "A Malaysian Girl's Search for Herself" come another hilarious story where she received a call from a stranger. Her original story can be read in "Hello? Hello?".

We are also announcing the decision to use stories from our readers on random from time to time and making them into comic strips. The condition for this to happen is very simple, it is either you are a registered follower or have contributed linkage to our site and you have a blog of your own with materials which we think is suitable for our content. When a comic is made we will always try to link it back up to your original posting.

Sometimes the truth just ain't Romantic

Rest Well, Buddy

The process of making a com ready to retire is always like a time trip to the past as you browse through all the files and it was like "oh man! These stuff is like from another life time..." when it was actually just 4 years ago. But then year 2006 definitely sounds like another age now.

You also get to realise a lot of stuff which you thought were important is actually junk in the long run, but ironically a lot of other stuff which you might have thought to be junk are now cherished memories.

Mamak in the 21st Century

Based on a true life event, if you are a foreigner and have the chance to visit Malaysia... be sure to visit one of the Mamak stall here, it is part of the embedded local culture.

Past Tense Indeed

Recent survey would tell you as a normal citizen who wish to retire in a city with comfort you would need a huge amount of money. By simple math it will show most people simply cant reach that figure. Read yahoo's latest How to retire with a million dollars. It recommends "By age 55, your retirement portfolio should be at $400,000".

Let us assume you have 20 years to get the figure from scratch, $400,000 / (20x12) = $1666.66 pure savings a month, now I won't know if that number is a coincidence, but for a normal joe it is simply a piggy bank too far to reach. At any rate by the time you are really 55 (assuming 20++ years from now) one can really doubt if a million dollars will be enough for you to retire in style.

In short, 95% of the world's population can't really afford to retire.