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It’s a Friday kind of thing…

Well, maybe it’s a week of sleep deprivation or what but it does feel a bit weird today. I’ll probably take some time tomorrow to catch a movie but I hope it’s entertaining enough that I don’t fall asleep. I also noticed over the course of the week that Malaysia has a lot of idiots that have no freaking clue how to use an elevator. They tend to ride it down to go up and to press the up and down buttons to call the car. This was so irritating that I remarked to this particular idiot that if he wanted to go up, he’d get there faster by waiting rather than riding it down with me to B2. Oh, well, time to get back to my breakfast and coffee.

When you want to go down, press down, not UP and DOWN

The tipping point

You know how they say that how the small things can change the world…
Well, it’s the small things that sometimes have the biggest impact! A small gesture of kindness that ripples through society. Like a simple small lunch cooked out of love. Nothing special. 99% ordinary ingredients, but 1% love poured out. When we keep chasing happiness in big successes, we forget that if you find joy in the small things, you’d find joy in the big things.

When the trains collide? KL Monorail

Life is a highway…

When you get on to the onramp of life, welcome to the real world. Cars whizzing by, some going faster, some going slower. After a while, the cars around you get familar, you remember that black sedan cruising steadily or that red sports car overtaking you over and over again. These are the familar faces in our life. Some choose to pull into the next rest stop, some continue driving on. At the rest stop, we meet more different cars. Some have been there for quite a while, some just a quick stop. Likewise, in some rest stops, we’re hardly there for couple of minutes. In another stop, we linger on. At different stretches of the highway, we have different companions. Sometimes, we drive solo. Afterall, there are many routes on the highway of life and it’s the journey, not the destination that matters. Once in a while, at a fork in the road, we find someone to fall in love with. Some people avoid that road while others speed into it. Among all the routes on the highway of life, remember to sometimes stop along the way, take the unfamilar road and when the onramp to the highway called love appears by surprise, get on it. It’s worth the miles even if you run out of gas halfway or you get engine trouble. Some highways are more scenic than others…

Billboard Insanity

If you had RM100,000 (US$27,000) what would you do?
Re-phrase the question: you have RM100,000 and want to convey how much you love someone and that you’re getting married.

Not a good use of $$$!

Granted telling someone how much you love them is very important but to spend RM100,000 on a bunch of billboard that last a couple of days or weeks is ridiculous. Is that the price of love? Just RM100,000? I would have given it to the National Cancer Institute or something.

icon_ltgray_open_quote Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned. icon_ltgray_close_quote
~ Song of Songs 8:6-7

Life is a journey. Enjoy the trip.

icon_ltgray_open_quote These are good folk around here who care about one another. When is the last time you cared about something besides yourself, hot rod? icon_ltgray_close_quote
~ Doc Hudson

Some people say the storyline is cliched and weak. Some say it’s a horrible movie and all it’s got going for it is talking cars. How un-original. So what? Have they forgotten about just clean fun? Car fans however will probably rejoice about the attention lavished on the details and small aspects of each and every car.

Perhaps most viewers also missed the few morals and lessons that the film has under all that slick ray-traced glorious animation (which by the way takes 17 hours on average to render a frame!) Pixar is famous for. What lessons you ask? Well, how about “in life, the journey is its own reward” and “slow down and live life”. I’m going step off the soap-box now and let you go and watch it on your own. Draw your own conclusions.

For more production stills, go here. More info here. There’s also an article here detailing the models the cast of cars were based on.

Cars Poster

Rushed products – A Sony Ericsson rant

Just because I had a Java newsreader running when an SMS arrives does not mean a phone’s firmware MUST be corrupted beyond repair! Late night firmware upgrades and flashing does not help so I’ll have to go to the service center on Monday. What a drag and not the first time too! What’s more, this phone is not older than one year!