things u never tot u wld see...

lazy ass me... never blogged for so long... hehehehe... however i must put this particular photo up... it was the mid-autumn festival here two weekends ago and besides the mooncakes (ngee ann city is THE place for that...) kids get to play wif lanterns... battery operated ones or the simple "light a candle and hope ur lantern dun burn" kind...

so i was juz shopping around my place when i chanced upon this lantern which defies any description... wonder which parent would buy it for their children! -_-" i almost collapsed frm trying not to laugh out loud when i saw it... who is the designer har? i know that the festival encourages family reunion.. but this is juz too overt!

keeping clean...

this has been something i've wanted to blog about for a while... but lazy lah.. ahhaha

every morning i would take the bus to the interchange to wait for my (ex)company transport... and every morning i would see various degrees of this:



sometimes its pretty bad.. this was juz one of the better days i guess... styrofoam cups... containers... plastic bags.. everywhere u turn ur eyes.. u could see litter on the ground... people takeaway their breakfast to eat the the side of the mrt station and becoz there isn't any dustbins anywhere near the vicinity of the stations (well either that or the pple din bother looking) the rubbish gets left there...

so at the end of the morning rush hour... its the cleaners that go around and tidy up the place...



i'm thinking the cause of the litter is the lack of dustbins in the area.. coz i've seen dustbins that are packed full... and sometimes it can get irritating when u've a piece of litter in ur hand and u juz can't find dustbins!!! grrrr... i rem so many times where i would be at city hall.. grabbin a snack.. walking towards the mrt.. and by the time i reach the station... i realised tt there are no dustbins and i either have to walk back up to the shopping centre.. or hold the rubbish till i reach my destination... -_-"

so let us applaud the cleaners that make singapore the clean and green city she is... =P

frm my mailbox...

juz saw this today in my emails...

Your job search agent titled "Designer Jobs" matched new jobs based on your search criteria. Listed below are the top 1 match(es)... (Just click on the job title to view a job.)

1. Sep 7, Microsoft Powerpoint Designer, ...

well in my experience wif powerpt... they do need someone specialised to the job.. but to put a person to just do tt... hrmmm... so being curious.. i clicked on the link...

"We are looking for Graphic Designer or DTP Artist or Creative PA who is familiar with Microsoft Powerpoint. You will need to create a 50 slide presentation including images, graphs and charts. This is a 1 week freelance assignment on site with our client in Toa Payoh."

ah okay... -_-"

(btw i'm not lookin for a job at the moment.. just lazy to switch off the recruitment emails... very happily employed as a [graphic] designer and i suck at powerpoint... =P)

oh my god... i'm a south park character!

check it out!! =D ahahah very fun man... i never tot i would be a south park character...

go and customise your very own okay and post it up on ur blog... at South Park Studio (link via mr brown)

thing is.. you can't just save the character so u've gotta do a print screen, stick it in a photo editing software (photoshop) and if you post it up online you just need to link back to his site... all flash based okay... fantastic... =D

alrightes... i'm all psyched for the day.. ahahahhaha...

'waiter, there's a fly on my bread!'

'waiter, there's a fly on my bread!', originally uploaded by i am yj.

been wanting to blog this for a while.. juz hvn't found the motivation to do it... ahhaha

this was taken at breadtalk in city link... u know they have the open view section where u can see all the breads being prepared? well i was waiting for my friend there when i notice this pretty disturbing 'thing'...

lady baker was cutting the breads at the side (big machine wif many loaves of bread waiting... almost all covered)... on the other end of the table.. was this tray of glistening breads waiting to be cut or packed... and it wasn't covered... which is fine until u realise that there are FLIES around the place.. and up to three of them were sucking (yeah they suck...) on the surface of the uncovered breads...

i had to resist yelling 'FLY!!!!!' when i saw the first of them landing on the bread and moving around slurping up all the goodness on it... i know that there's always flies whenever there's food... but i reckoned if you have an 'open' kitchen.. the least you could do was to cover the food and not let potential customers look at flies hving a nice time on the breads that they could be buying!

i was totally grossed out (yah lah i'm one of those city people...) not becoz of the flies on food (i understand it happens elsewhere too..) but by the fact that they had trays of breads (the ones waiting to be cut) that were covered and this particular one was just left open... i'm sure the staff knew that there were flies........... right? can't they juz cover everything? sigh...

the saga continues... this time round they weren't at fault...

after being grossed out.. i was still attracted to the idea of 'pork floss mooncake' to go and take a look (free sample also helped... ;P)

so i was mulling around the mooncake counter thingy.. and this chinese lady was in front of me.. blocking the entire counter trying out the samples... nevermind.. i patiently waited my turn..

the sales person den came up to both of us wif the usual 'how can i help u'... the lady in front of me behaved like she was caught stealing samples... hand poised above the samples somemore... until her friend came and loudly said 'come and help me pick bread!'

AND THEN......... she threw the toothpick she was eating BACK INTO THE SAMPLES!!!! (insert super shocked look) like natural reaction lor... i was juz staring at the toothpick in the samples until the salesperson (apologetically) removed the toothpick... i wanted to like glare at the lady lor... grrrr...

dunno whether to go breadtalk in the future like tt.. ahhahaha... =P

weird products...

there are weird packaging.. and there are weird products that seem to have not much of a use (or a funny purpose)...

this particular product is a good example...



wat in goodness gracious me is that?! specs wif holes?? supposedly helpful to short-sighted blah blah people? well i tried it on (it came in different sizes and designs and i chose the most ugly one.. ahahha) and i have no idea how it'll help improve my eyesight... simply becoz:

1. spent too much effort tilting head to focus on an object through the mini holes...
2. holes were too many... had double vision of objects...
3. eyes were too stressed out coz dunno where to look thru and dunno how to look...

perhaps that's why they threw in a 'how to use their product to achieve the results' class? and this isn't some cheapo product okay.. it was sold at guardian for almost 40bucks! the only thing i liked abt it was the finishing.. it was a nice matt feel to the frame and the 'lens'...

do let me know if you have this specs and it did work for u... i'm still wif the view tt if u wanna make ur eyes better den wear contacts.. however i'm not too sure how accurate that bit of info is!