Silliest Coffee Cup

Doesn't really look like there is anything wrong... right ??

Well.... not until you try to pick up your coffee cup.

You can't.

You can only really grip with handle with two fingers. So its too flimsy to be able to hold properly.

Not with a full cup of coffee anyway.

And don't try to hold it like a mug either. Its way too hot. That little loop handle is too small to even fit your pinky finger inside !

There really should be some written guidelines about design and usability.

Countdown - Day 2

Two days left before I get out of here. I've spent most of today going through my Inbox trying to clear out my junk email (mostly from friends) and other stuff which are totally non-work related.

Been doing the same with the My Documents folder. Didn't know I had so much junk.

I did find something interesting though. Check these photos out.

These are taken from my office on lvl 43 of ASQ

Feels like my office is in the clouds.. :P but unfortunately its not like this everyday

Yep.. I guess we have a fog issue in Sydney too.

Oh and this one below is a panorama attempt from my SE phone

*sigh** I know one thing already I will definately be missing... my office views.... :(

Clueless

Its been raining cats and dogs the whole night. So much so that it totally flooded the road that I have to walk through to get to my train station. Perfect excuse to not go to work. But it didn't happen, as Pete offered to drive me instead.

However, even he wasn't prepared to drive his car through knee-deep water (we saw this guy trying to ride his bicycle through - but he stacked it), so instead of dropping me off at my usual train station, he drove me to the next station along my train line.

And this is where I remembered this shop. We have probably driven past here everytime we go and eat shanghainese food. This shop was probably first pointed out to us by Mon, and everytime we drive pass it, we said we will blog about it. But both of us never realy did, (Sorry Mon, but I couldn't resist testing out my new camera phone). Yes, thats right, I finally got my new phone ~~ ! The Sony Ericsson K800i. The camera is so cool.. 3.2 mp ~~! And I can even blog straight from my phone to blogger. :)

Anyway, enough about my new phone, I'll talk more about that later.

Here is a photo of the shop in question:

I guess only the people who can read chinese will find this funny. The shop itself is supposed to be a hairdresser (no idea who would actually go there to cut their hair), but they used the wrong chinese words on their sign. The words used, actually means somewhere around the lines of 'ILLEGAL SHOP'. The pronounciation still sounds the same as 'hairdresser shop' - atleast in Cantonese it is. I'm not sure about Mandarin.

The first character means something like 'Not' or 'Non' when used in a sentence. The second character means 'Legal' or 'Law'. The third character means something like shop. So putting it all together, you get something around the lines of "Not-Legal-Shop'. Or Illegal Shop. (Pls correct me if I am wrong, I've never really learnt chinese and all I know now is from playing online chinese games).

This is the chinese character for hair - 髮

It took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to type that, so if anyone else knows how to type out the chinese equivalent for hairdresser, pls post it in the comments section... thanks.

And no, I don't live in an Asian country. This would probably never occur in an Asian country. With a name like that, the shop will probably get raided by police everyday. Only in Australia would you see something like this. Although I can't be too sure, if the owner of this shop knows which country he is in.

Take a look at this...

Before anyone actually says that this is the Australian flag. Let me just say it isn't. The Australian flag has only 6 stars. This looks more like a cross between the Australian flag and the American flag.

So either the owner of this shop is completely clueless, or maybe they are just trying to convey a political message.... That Australia will one day become the 52nd state of America ???

I hope not.

Comments in Code

Following my Users post a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across some weird comments found in some software code (an application my company uses). The application had somehow failed to work, so I decided to take a look at the code and work out which module had died. This was not the first time I had to debug someone elses code. So while I had seen some pretty non-informative* comments before I was still pretty surprised when I saw these ones.

It probably may have been 'ok', to see comments like these in testing or development stages, but this is an application in Production.

Its stupid alright ... but after reading the code I'm still not sure which 'stupid update thingy variable' the programmer is referring to.

Nasssty.... humm.. too much LOTR ?? Myyy PRECIOUSSS.......

hahaha... 'No Comment'.

However true this statement maybe... this guy has got to stop using the 'S' word.

Gets messy ?! why ? where ? how ? if it is Messy, why isit still included in here ?!?

Riigghht... Um. I'm not sure what they are trying to say here though.

Nassty...wicked bad programmer ! Servants of Sauron ! Myy PRECIOUSSS..

I hope so too.

Great. Nice to know if it doesn't end, then we will have a major problem. WTF ?!?

There is more where these came from. But I think I should stop for now. Hope you enjoyed these as much as I did. :)

*non-informative comments : Comments (in layman's terms) are added into programming code to make it easier for other people who read the code to understand what the code is actually trying to do. Therefore, unlike the ones above, comments are supposed to be Informative.

Coles Shopping Moment

I saw this while doing my grocery shopping last night.

1 x Indo Mee Noodle Packet = 39c

A Packet of 5 Indo Mee Noodles = $2.49 (?!?)

You go do the maths.....


N.B: All Indo Mee packets in the 5 pack were of the same size and packaging as the single packs.