world's greatest business mind...

this is so cool....... so sibeh boi paisay ah!!! ;)

watch the video here...

The meaning of fierce

fierce
adjective, fierc⋅er, fierc⋅est.
1. menacingly wild, or hiong (hokkien) : a fierce act, a hiong act

[chao ah beng]

–verb, fierced, fierc⋅ing, fierces.

1. to do a fierce act: Fierceman fierced Cookie Monster in the toilet.

Words like fierce
Synonyms:
hiong, powerful, strong, terrible, vicious, wild, horrible, barbarous, fiery, frightening

Evidences of fierce - can put here meh? [chao ah beng: simi evidences? put le!!]

fierceman begins

a new superhero is in town... the Fiercesome Fierceman!! while he may be passively trying... to be a good citizen of the society, in truth, he is fiercely f-'ing... ahem... fiercing the fiercees who threaten the lives of the innocent. the Fiercesome Fierceman joins the rank of Bio Man aka Do Man and Cockman as the protectors of Suntec City in their fight against evildoers.

read his profile here... (the embedded link in the flash animation doesn't work, heh!)

brain works when food in mouth? here's why...

according to the article...

The most direct route is the food-in-mouth syndrome: Stressful circumstances (your bank account, your boss) spark cravings for carbohydrate-rich snack foods, which in turn calm stress hormones. (When researchers in one study took away high-carb food from stressed mice, their stress hormones surged.)

Stress hormones also ramp up fat storage. For our prehistoric ancestors, stress meant drought or approaching tigers, and a rapid-storage process made sense; we needed the extra energy to survive food shortages or do battle. Today we take our stress sitting down and the unused calories accumulate in our midsection.

so now you know... :)

why you can't trust 'friends' on Facebook

read the full article here...

beware of scams by your 'frens' on facebook...

memory foods

read the full article here...

and the memory foods are...

salmon

sunflower seeds

blueberries

lean beef

hmm nothing said about ginkgo nuts le...

M.I.T. futurists focus on next-gen multimedia

read the full article here...

The MIT Media Lab has announced its latest endeavor - the creation of a Center for Future Storytelling. The center will use new technologies to make stories more interactive, improvisational and social.

Existing research projects include:

Everything Tells A Story: A project that will enable everyday objects to keep running "diaries," of what happened to them. The information could be used for "personal story creation" by individuals.

Tofu: A robot that uses cartoon-animation style movement to work with kids. The researchers describe it as "LEGO Mindstorms meets Muppets." Future versions of Tofu will allow children to design, program and remotely operate their own puppets to tell stories.

Nexi: A project to create a social robot, or a "synthetic performer." The project combines mobility, dexterity, and most remarkably, sociality. The robot's expressive face is capable of multiple human facial expressions. A video of Nexi can be viewed below.

Programmable Movies: A research project to turn movies into a customized experience based on certain parameters like emotions, place or time. The idea is to let users piece together different images using metadata encoded in the images.

operation spidergirl

what began as a 'friendly gesture to help secure 仙姑's possessions in her cubicle' while she is away on oversea trip became...


... complete with soft toy victims trapped in the web and a dangling spider made from trashed printouts. hahaha!!....

Has our organisation changed name? - how come i don't know

Don't i suay or what. Seems that I always kenna (sit near a person from another department) who like to make a lot of noise. Recently, I thought I am working for the wrong organisation. Apparently there is this newbie who just joined, he was talking VERY LOUDLY to someone on the phone that he works for XXX YYY Agency. - since when did our organisation changed name ???

Also this guy seem to be a Thai as I am hearing him talking to people quite regularly in Thai (or some language, I don't understand) .... stay tuned for more this guy before we say goodbye to level 13... : )

testing - posting through email

just to see that it works! :)

for more info on how to post via email, please read this help entry.

10 immunity boosters

read the full article here...

and the healthy food are...

green tea
chilli peppers (hiam hiam beri shiok!)
ginger (eeek...)
blueberries
cinnamon (yucks!!)
sweet potatoes
tomatoes (yucks! but... 'tomatoes are good for me. tomatoes are...')
figs (simi lai ay??)
mushrooms (reiki, shitake, maitake)
pomegranates

how come no meat one ah... :P

are you left brain or right brain?

take a look at the image below, do you see the dancer moving clockwise or anti-clockwise?

click here to find out what it means...

caught red canned!!

the photos say it all... (credit: ah jek)

operation TTN (tekan the newbie)

(following the style in Wikipedia, based on the entry on Operation Market Garden...)

Operation TTN (March 13, 2008) was a Team ITLian non-military operation during peacetime in the office. Through large scale use of Lotus Notes, SMS, fax messages, its tactical objectives were to secure a series of free lunches from the newbie to help her spend her first month's pay. The strategic purpose was total assimilation - the last rite of passage into the team culture.

The operation was achieved partial success with the barrage of SMSes, Lotus Notes notifications, voice recordings but the overall objective (free lunches) was not achieved at the time of writing due to the fact that she had to attend a lunch meeting on the operation dayand also the absence of several key members of the tekaners - having to attend meetings during the operation.

Background
After showing that she was not as 'harmless' as she portrayed herself to be during the period from 3 to 12 March 2008, the newbie proceed to challenge the ah jek guru to '放马过来'. Over a few lunches and talk cock sessions, team ITLian under the queen and led by ah jek devised a plan to overwhelm her with lunch appointment notifications.

Plan
The plan operation consisted of 3 operations:

1. Lotus Notes calendar entries to pop up notifications at 15 min interval
2. Coordinated SMS and fax to phone barrage
3. Video capture of the entire operation
   

Lotus Notes Notifications (LNN)
LNN would employ all members of the team. The tekaners, under the email coordination of chao ah beng, would create calendar entries into her calendar to schedule lunch appointments with her. Each entry would contain a notification that would pop up on her screen at regular interval together with a audible alert:

Entry Type: Meeting
Subject: Buying [your name] lunch
Date: 13/03/2008
Time: 12 - 1pm

Notification
Check on Notify me checkbox
Alarm will go off [X] hr before (please see note below)
Display alarm message box
Play sound Chime (or whatever sound you like)

We shall do a sequential alarm such that the notification for each of our calendar entry shall go off on her notebook one by one. Please follow the sequence below:

queen - 15 min before
velvet - 30 min before
jaja - 45 min before
do-man - 60 min before
chao ah beng - 75 min before
korean guy - 90 min before
cockman - 105 min before
the guru - 2 hrs before

ah jek guru was self-appointed the overall in command since he was the one whom the challenge was directed to in the first place. ah jek had extensive command experience in cubicle warfare in several theatres, most recently in operation TTG (Tekan The Guru) which he was almost the victim, thus giving him a first hand knowledge of such operations.

To deliver 8 notifications over a 2-hour window to the newbie's screen, chao ah beng had beforehand gained access rights to her calendar and over a period of a week, entries were added into it.

The Newbie
Unbeknownst to the tekaners, the newbie had also maneuvered to counter the incoming onslaught. Having knowledge of the LNN operation (since she could see her own calendar), she executed a preemptive strike by sending SMSes to the team's desk phone 15 min before Operation TTN.

Battle
The preemptive strike was successful and the tekaners had to scramble to call an emergency MSN conference to coordinate a counterattack:

chao ah beng> 12min to notification barrage
guru> lol
chao ah beng> ai take video mai? >P
velvet> bully xiao mei mei
chao ah beng> xmm?? she act innocent la... haha
guru> u take lor heh
chao ah beng> do-man, fr your cube, is there a good angle to video take newbie's laptop screen? wanna capture our notifications as they come in. haha
chao ah beng> 6min to go...
do-man> yes...my side table..... I can shield you if you want to set up
velvet> i dun belive this
do-man> pretend I am reading proposal....

[chao ah beng set up camera at do-man's cubicle]

do-man> all set ah??!!!
chao ah beng> yes set liao

[do-man's phone rang]

do-man> wah lao...why the phone call???
chao ah beng> think she jus sent me a sms via my desk phone
velvet> she damn good
korean guy> I receive the phone call too
velvet> her version of spam!!!!
guru> lol not bad not bad
chao ah beng> arh!!! we kena!!!!
velvet> we shd just activate the fax from email to her desk phone
do-man> spam her....
chao ah beng> CUBICLE WAR!!!!!!!!
guru> and some one says wat ah bully right? kns

[panic set in...]

velvet> how to do the fax
chao ah beng> i dunno wat the msg say. cant make out clearly
chao ah beng> phoneno@sms put msg in the subj
guru> friday plain rice lunch we all kanna invited
velvet> dear friendly and concerned colleagues, you are cordially invited to a plain rice lunch on friday, from your small fry praw or something like that
velvet> okok, can you type out the instructions then we just copy and paste into our email
chao ah beng> send to her mobile using gsms, then also sms her desk phone. hahaha
guru> wat's her mobile
chao ah beng> [DELETED]

[... then confusion...]

korean guy> i thot is fax to her desk phone
velvet> and fax to mobile
chao ah beng> sms to her deskphone
velvet> no need subject right
velvet> fax lah
chao ah beng> put msg in to the subj.
velvet> cos then her phone will keep ringing with the fax beeping
chao ah beng> oic... wah so bad... >P but i like >D
velvet> that's the idea
chao ah beng> so do now?
velvet> not gsms lah, fax
velvet> that's all ?
chao ah beng> no need subj, jus put into the msg body
velvet> [DELETED]@fax
chao ah beng> but doesnt matter, since wat we wan is the fax sound niah niah
velvet> yah lah, no msg needed
chao ah beng> think fax to her desk phone bah
velvet> so [DELETED]@fax
chao ah beng> yaya
velvet> ok let's do it now
jaja> need to intensify
velvet> is she back yet
chao ah beng> she at her cube
velvet> ok can send
chao ah beng> i sending now...
velvet> wrong format
chao ah beng> name@phone no.@fax
velvet> simi name
chao ah beng> think any name can liao

Aftermath
Operation TTN led to heavy usage of SMSes and desk phones on the part of both the tekaners and the victim. The initial objective of free lunches was not achieved at the time of writing as many of the tekaners had to attend a meeting and the newbie had to go for a lunch meeting. Video footage from the hidden camera proved to be too boring to watch so it was discretely destroyed without uploading to YouTube. The newbie also went down in Team ITLian history as the first victim to retaliate against the tekaners.

chao ah beng

ideas for Operation TTCM and TTBMK

More ideas...
10 Cubicles that are Cooler than Yours (1 that isn’t)

Note:
TTCM - tekan the cockman
TTBMK - tekan the big mouht k*** (to protect the identity of the victim heh heh!)

chao ah beng

boliao post of the moment - indian song

indian song with super funny literally translated lyrics. LUP!!

chao ah beng

boliao post of the moment - william tell overture (mum edition)

dedicated to the seasoned mums who may be able to relate to it, to the new mums for a glimpse of things soon to come (muahahah!), and to everyone else who definitely will be able to appreciate it :D

chao ah beng

Do Man chut power!!

Com'on everybody, let's do the twist... Heehee!

chao ah beng