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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Airbus at Kuching Waterfront

What??!!

Sorry for the unusual title, but I had to grab your attention. I was taking a walk along the waterfront with my uncle just yesterday, taking photos, when I noticed something rather unusual.

 

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There’s just something about the name that I don’t get.

Is it a bus? Check.

Made by Airbus. Definitely a no no.

Nothing like the real thing:

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I wonder why the bus company decided to put an ‘Air’ there. Should call it ‘Road’ Bus la…

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Invasion of the ‘Happy Thing’…

The ‘thing’, or better known as, the ‘happy thing’, has,  over the recent years,  successfully covered just about every facet of our digital lives. It knows no boundaries. It is merciless in it’s choice of propagation. It infects the living host, and floods the individual with emotions that subdue the consciousness of the host,  and consequently encourages it’s spread. This ‘happy thing’ is notorious to the point of invading into every text space known to mankind, every email, every word processor document, even spreadsheets, and well, just about anything attached to a keyboard.

This ‘thing’, while seen as nothing but a pest to some, is seen by many (myself included), as the ultimate expression of sincerity, friendship, passion, and even love. The ‘happy thing’, as implied by the word ‘happy’, is supposed to convey joy, and of course, ‘happiness’ (duh).

The ‘happy thing’ is pictured below.

 

 


smiley-face

Cute and dangerous… :-)   (don’t you see why now?)  :-D

 

Yes, you have got that right. The ‘happy  thing’ is really just a smiley face. Oh wait! I don’t just mean a smiley face, but it’s the smiley face. Read on to find out why.

 

Variations and Themes of the ‘thing’

Yes, the unassuming smiley comes in many forms and shapes. Commonly ‘written’ as a:

 

:)

 

Mr. Smiley was eventually changed to look more ‘complete’, with a ‘nose’:

 

:-)

 

The ‘very happy thing’:

 

:-D

 

The big-‘eyed’, happy ‘thing’:

 

=D

 

The ‘winky thing':

 

;)

or…

;-)

or…

;-D

 

Uses of the ‘happy thing’…

In spite of it’s cute look, the smiley is tremendously useful when used correctly, but like all good thing, abuse can happen. Below are some of its uses in Live Messenger.

 

‘Good’ Uses:

1. To convey excitement:

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2. To convey agreement:

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‘Bad’ Uses:

1.  To convey ‘bad intentions’:

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2  To convey sarcasm:

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See? The ‘thing’ does afford us the power to choose between ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

With great power, comes great responsibility, so use the ‘happy thing’ wisely!  :)

 

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‘Define: Google’

It’s hard to believe that it just happened. In fact, it’s so hard to believe, that only after years of ‘Googling’, I had just ‘discovered’ one of Google’s most powerful search operators: ‘define:’.

image Go ahead and try it! It works like a charm… =)

Now, I am not writing this article to tell you what late bloomer I am. It’s just that instead of scouring the web, conducting dictionary searches and performing cross-searching across multiple sites, I found that a way to get the ‘best of both worlds’, was to simply use the search operator ‘define:’. In short, Google gets to do the dirty work (nearly all of it), with sleeves rolled up.

The result can be seen below.

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Too good to be true right? It’s no wonder Google has such immense sticking power.

Let’s just try another keyword to define….

 

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And what do I get?

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Hmm…sad, obviously nothing to shout about, except that my name being popular among the folks in Britain at one time.

 

And another…

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Hmm..nothing very interesting, looks like Google hasn’t exactly moved with the times…

So we need to be a little more specific with Mr. G (Google!)…

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Ahhh…that’s better. Have fun defining!    

 

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