53 years old... just in time for Midlife Crisis

Take a dump for half an hour, earns 5k

Rich but unhappy? Either you are not rich enough or you aint doing it right

The age old question which was the sort of last bastion of consolation for poor people... "Can money buy you happiness?" finally fell to some breakthrough in scientific research recently. Watch CNN's Does money equal happiness? for the full details.

It would appear the key issue is while money does not bring you happiness itself, it ENABLES one to choose his or her experience freely which is deeply tied to one's happiness. Meaning if you are rich and still not happy you are not spending it right, so there you have it! There goes the last bastion and consolation for being poor.

Something about Life and a box of Chocolate?

Today is no special occasion or anything, but we at Brick Lives would like to show case the accumulated strips about an old plastic man and his friends sitting on a bench talking about the happenings around the world for the past 2 years. The very first strip of Brick Lives series is inspired by a certain very "Gumpy" movie so hence the poster.

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.

The Results Speak for Itself

Following the saga of this and this we couldn't resist to do a bit of street research ourselves so we did the natural thing which any street geek would do: an online poll.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the vote! Oddly, the result althought just a tiny sampling in the backwater part of the web, is anything but the officially reported "majority of the public reacted positively to the price hike". The truth is out there some where...

Sometimes the truth just ain't Romantic

Screw Up Massively and become a Millionaire

Yeah as a layman I will bet you heard of stories of workers getting salary cut, laid off and fired when he or she screws up big time. But as the story goes the top side aint playing fair at all, by real life example if you are on the top side after you screwwd up big and have to resign you still get paid big time -- I mean, why don't you and I have jobs like that? Read more in BP's Hayward to get £10.8m pension if he steps down.