Teaser #4

'Cos #3 is on Twitter (see Twitter Feed on right).

Not much to 'tease' actually. I am so busy trying to finish all that I need to do before jetting-off on my Big Adventure that I don't even have the time to do more planning and be excited. Instead of enthusiasm, I have been on tenterhooks lately. The kind of stress where you get nightmares about your work when you are asleep.

That's fine. The excitement will come on Friday evening. Just hope the pent up excitement doesn't explode inappropriately.

Apart from the long-haul flight, I look forward to having a guy holding my name on a sign at the airport when I arrive (note to self: try to get a photo of that on that day). Also I wonder if I would be sharing the same cabin with anybody famous? You know, like this:

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Teaser #2

Did you know that you can view the interior of the largest passenger aircraft in the world by last year's best airline worldwide on Google Street View?

Have a virtual tour of the upper deck of the Emirates A380 here! You will begin your tour at the Onboard Lounge at the back end of the aircraft. If you go all the way to the front of the plane (into the First Class section), look for the Shower Spas and see if you can spot the camera :)

I found my long haul seat! *gets excited*

Photo: Google Street View

This is a teaser to Part 1.3 of my Big Adventure. 35 more days to the big reveal ^_^

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Teaser #1

Hello everybody.

It's been an extremely long time. The blog went into hiatus because there was nothing exciting worthy of documenting. Life fell into a rut: work-eat-sleep. Work is interesting but who wants to write about work when one has to write a lot at work? Also there's this risk of accidental breach of confidentiality.

But now, the blog will be revived for an exciting, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which I've come to call "Li Ying's Big Adventure".

Next month I will be off from work for two weeks on my Big Adventure - Big City, Big Apple, Biggest passenger airline in the world! 

And I want to document everything here.

36 days till excitement ensues.

Stay tuned!

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Hello

It's been eons and epochs.

But a *teaser* will be coming up and I thought I'll revive this blog again.

Just a note: the banner at the top of this blog is rather inaccurate as the revival won't be about any adventures on either side of the SCS. In fact it is obsolete but it has a nice background of Mount Kinabalu - which I most probably have lost the original photo, so there it shall remain.

Before the excitement of any teaser, I would like to ramble a bit. Take it as a...warm up to writing again.

A random thought: One of the most difficult question I find to answer is "What do you do exactly?" when asked about my job.

I've been at it for almost three years, and there are times I love it, and there are times when I just want to crawl into a cave and not wake up early to go to work. But that's normal. I think anyone who constantly rave about how much they love their job is not being completely honest.

Back to the earlier question. How do you explain to people what you do when for the most of it, people are not even aware that what you do exist?

"I model and analyse effluent loads in a river to estimate the pollution impact of a project."

"I carry out studies to draft policies and guidelines."

"I help draft management plans of protected areas."

However, I think people in general have this built-in need to not feel dumb, so they don't question much when they are bombarded with things they don't really understand. Big, important sounding words usually stop them from asking further. Then they leave me alone.

Complicated as it might be, imagine being an SAP analyst in an MNC.

"So...what do you do?"

"Erm...I work in the toothpaste factory. You know, computers."

A jibe to AJ who is far away *evil grin*

Stay tuned for the real teaser!

Pre-teaser #1: Yellow cabs and fire escapes! Photo: AJ

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I really don't care. Really.

I think people complain too much. WAY too much.

And with the rise of social media, these complaints spread farther and wider. Out of 10 people, 8 people have no choice but to have knowledge of a complain which they don't give a shit about.

Here are some simple rules to be a better human being:
1) If you don't like it, FIX IT.
2) If you can't fix it, ADAPT.
3) If you can't adapt, STOP USING IT.

So if you don't like the new Facebook layout, you can either
a) Mess around with the settings/hack/whatev to make it what you want.
b) Get used to it.
c) Stop using it. Go find an alternative if you "can't live without it".

I could be meaner and say these people should just die if they are so dependent on something as inconsequential as this.

Stop spewing hatred. The world has enough negativity as it is, don't make it worse with trivial matters. Also because I and at least 7 other people don't give a shit about you hatin' on the new layout.

It would do everyone a whole lot more good to spend less time on your anti-social gadgets, stalking on the social network (such an irony, really) and spend more time with the REAL people around you. There are more worthwhile things out there to be done, more worthwhile problems to be solved.

Life does not revolve around Facebook. Seriously.

"Sole" mates

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Of being smart(er) and zombies

I haven't been blogging for a very, very, VERY long time. Precisely since I moved back and started working. It's not that there aren't any juicy stuff going on (besides, I've always been random, so it doesn't really matter if I have something interesting to write about or not), just that, there wasn't really any urge to write.

I usually get a lot of ideas of daily stuff to talk about when I'm stuck in traffic jams or traffic lights, but after I got back, everything becomes "meh".

Tonight is different though. I have to fast tonight as I have a health screening tomorrow and since I can't have the munchies, nor is there any point of going out and can't have munchies, I thought I'd ramble a bit to distract my stomach from realising that it's a monster with a bottomless pit.

I've noticed that of late, I am getting weirder by the minute. For instance, today I wrote a note of warning and posted on my Facebook wall. The warning was for my phone. Perhaps tomorrow I shall warn some of my shoes to suck it up and stop being stupid. I know they are all plotting to fall apart at the same time. I also grudgingly have to agree that there is a direct correlation between the price of a pair of shoes and its quality. However things like Quiksilver/Roxy flipflops and my Nike tennis shoes do not abide to this theory. Especially the overpriced flipflops.

There is also this one thing that is kinda going on but THANKFULLY is not (yet?) a full-fledged idiocracy that bugs me. However, I will try to rant about it as nice as possible as there are some people whom I love that did it and so I have to forgive them and not scream insults to the general public.

One of it is that, it would be much appreciated if everyone would just check the facts of stuff before reposting and creating a brouhaha over nothing. End-of-the-world-warnings: Not Cool. If you believe it so much, please proceed to sell off all your assets and head over to China to fight for a place in the arks. Tsunami/earthquake/nuclear fallout warnings: I know you mean well, but please understand that there are a number of sick evil people in this world who have nothing better to do than to create unnecessary panic and chaos. There are also many silly people who would repeat, or worse, blow the evil maniacs' chaos out of proportion. Please don't be either of them.

The other thing is stupid "trends" disguised as awareness campaigns. For instance, how exactly do suggestive statuses promote something (usually breast) cancer related? Birthdates made scandalous into "I like it on the kitchen counter" or "6 inches" ... don't make people more aware and carry out breast self-examination. They make people talk about what a skank someone is. Creating a buzz as if you are pregnant, it only makes people speculate about "shotgun marriage coming soon?" or "so cheap, can't even afford condoms?". Maybe it promotes safe-sex awareness but then the message said something about breast (again) cancer, thus it is utter rubbish. Also there is this theory that all these are tactics cooked up by identity thieves, but I'm not so sure about that. Also, what is this obsession with breasts in particular? Try coming up with a campaign for liver cancer or is that not sexy enough?

So I shall end this with I'm 451 weeks and craving monkey brains.

You see, I am promoting zombie simian awareness.

Beware of zombies that look like monkeys/monkeys that are zombies. Bananas can't help.

This is supposed to be a monkey zombie. I suck at drawing with MSPaint.
I think it looks kinda like a discoloured Hello Kitty with road rage -- and air pollution.

I can't draw with MSPaint like how awesomely Allie Brosh can.

Have a good weekend!