Bad Travel Day

So yesterday, I left the job site at 6.30am EST to travel 220 miles back to my office. I reach the office at around 9am and then I get a phone call from my boss, informing me that there was trouble at the job site. Great.

So at 11am CST, I drive the 220 miles BACK to the job site to investigate what happened. Turned out that the troubles occurred at 4am EST. If they had called me BEFORE I LEFT, it would have saved me 6 hours and about 500 miles on my car...

And to top it off, when I was leaving last night (for the last time), I traveled about 35 miles before realising I HAD LEFT MY INVESTIGATION NOTES AT THE JOB SITE. So that added another hour to my travels.

Grand total travel distance yesterday - 3x220 + 2*35 = 730 miles
Total time spent on the road - 8 hours
Total (waking) time spent in a plant/at home/at office ~ 6 hrs.

What a bad travel day...

I'm Your Medic

Remember the uber-cool Soulja Boy TF2 MTV I posted awhile ago? No? Well, here's another cool TF2 themed MTV. This time it's completely original and uberly uber cool.

Without further ado, I'm Your Medic.

To my TF2 pals who read this blog, I expect this kind of medic proficiency from you guys in the future. Practice harder!!

The common folk always pay...

I was reading a couple of articles about the current financial crisis in the US and the over-riding message I'm getting is that if you are in the IB (Investment Banking) world, you get to play dice with other people's money. You rarely rarely lose.

Take big risks and win, you get a fat bonus, take big risks and lose, you lose other people's money AND get bailed out by the government to boot! (which then increases the taxpayers' burden!!)

It's really quite depressing for me. Where is the justice?? Thank god I don't have a family of my own else the burden on me would be even greater. We pay cos the government has to lower rates to encourage spending/borrowing and that leads to my savings giving a measly 2% return and the fixed deposits doing even shittier. I want to invest in the stock market but everything seems to be on the downturn and in-flux. I need to do more research but how I wonder.

To lighten the mood of this rant, I am posting NBA Superstar Dwight Howard's audition for the host of the (ESPN) ESPYs.

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Should be this cool.



And all half-time shows should be as retro as this.

I like how the cheerleaders choreograph their moves to the song but I like the weird signs they hold up even better.

Murphed Called...

And really messed with my day.

So I'm back in central Nebraska where the cows and goats roam and you can see cornfields until your eyes go green. And I'm here because there is some testing to be done at a facility.

The equipment has been running for about 2-3 months without any major issues. However, since last night (when it rained for about 6 hours non-stop), the equipment has malfunctioned 9 times. We need our equipment to be up and running for about 2 hours to ensure testing conditions are met, but we waited the whole day just to start and stop the thing. For some reason, the burner would keep dying on us and there would be no alarm records, no indication as to what failed. It was a very frustrating Tuesday...

And to make matters worse, the long awaited anniversary party for my company has been canceled. It was slated for early next month but now the next thing to look forward to would be the date the timer on the upper right corner is counting down to. *Hint Hint*. Oh well, enough complaining, let me get back to my work.

Way too cool

Someone has invented their own Sentry Gun! OMG! Without further ado, here is the video.


I know whose house to avoid late at night now.

The Irritating Things

There are many things that irritate people in life. Today, I just saw two things that bugged me. The first was this email I received this morning.

What a fucking joke. I didn't really know to laugh or spit at the email. If I ever get another Lenovo again, it will be to beat the fucktards that built one of them.

The second thing I encountered today was a case of stupid people. I was at the beach (freshwater beach!) today and there was a group of black people there. Everytime I walked past them, one of them would say stupid things like "Egg Chow Fun", "Foo Yong Dan" and then there would be a stupid black girl laughing. I wanted to say something to the effect of "MMMMMMm-mmmmm, I love me some FRIED CHICKEN". But I decided that they were just spastic idiots and should be deserving of sympathy... 臭黑人真笨，连嘲笑也做的这么烂。怪不得不能成大事。。。

I need recommendations

For some reason, my TV is fried. I suspect that the power outage during my vacation is the cause of death but now I am faced with a conundrum. I want to get a new LCD TV. My budget is around 350. But I also want a new electronic keyboard (full keys). That's probably gonna run a little higher. Thus the economic question is which should I get?

New TV in time for the NBA season? Or an electronic piano to complement the guitar? Decisions, decisions, lack of money, lack of money... I need a bigger bonus. Haiz. Haha.

Movie Reviews!

So, I just went to California and spent a whole week for vacation. And it was FANTASTIC. Even though the Lakers couldn't win the Celtics, the weather was still gorgeous, the people still handsome and the food was oh so mouthwatering.

I don't have many pictures with me right now as I really relied on other people's cameras alot but I did see 3 movies in that one week. So instead of talking about my vacation, I'll talk about movies.

The first movie I watched was Kung Fun Panda. From Dreamworks.

It's an animated comedy about furries who know kung fu. If that idea appeals to you, go and watch it. If not, then you might want to watch it for the various movie stars who voice this show. Jack Black and many others do a good job of giving their characters life. It is believable that if the actors were animals themselves, they would symbolize the animals that they voice. So go and watch it. If not for what I said already, at least to hear the secret of Mr Ping's secret noodle soup. The one thing I didn't like about the movie was that even though it did not have the gestalt-ish movie movement in most children shows (e.g. power rangers), the ending of the movie was pretty lame.

The 2nd movie I watched was Wanted.

It's a movie loosely based on the graphic novel of the same name. And it's a good summer movie. No depth of thought, lots of action scenes, nifty special effects and Angelina Jolie. ANGELINA JOLIE. HOW CAN YOU NOT WATCH ANGELINA JOLIE?! That said, if you don't really like action films or want something deeper like A Beautiful Mind (or, if you like, The Cube) you might want to pass on this one. But then again, ANGELINA JOLIE! ZOMG!

W.A.L.L.E (I don't know how to do that circle font thingy).


It's G.O.O.D. If you like robots, who can have a romance, and when the guy speaks like 20 variations of the 3 words throughout the whole movie. If you don't like that, I would say go watch it if you have nothing better to do. It's a touching movie and although the story meanders somewhat, the animation is top notch and the crazy robots will make you smile. If you were considering between W.A.L.L.E and Kung Fu Panda though, I would say go for the practitioners of furry fury.

That's it for now. I will update more when I get the pics.