Flying Ass

Courtesy of www.straitstimes.com =P
Don't forget to try imagining it. =P

'Flying' donkey shocks many

MOSCOW - RUSSIAN beachgoers got a shock when they saw a donkey soaring in the blue skies over the balmy beaches on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia last week, police said on Tuesday.
Attached to a parachute, the animal screamed in fear as it circled over heads of holidaymakers sunbathing on a beach in the Cossack village of Golubitskaya in the Krasnodar region last week.
A regional police spokesman said the donkey ended up in the skies as a result of an impromptu advertising campaign by several Russian entrepreneurs to attract beachgoers to their private beach.
Instead, they attracted the attention of regional police who learned of the flying donkey earlier this week and launched a probe.
'The donkey screamed and children cried,' regional police spokesman Larisa Tuchkova told AFP. 'No-one had the brains to call police.' Instead, she said, people reached for their cameras and bombarded a local newspaper with phone calls.
'It was put up so high into the sky that the children on the beach cried and asked their parents: 'Why did they tie a doggy to a parachute?' the newspaper, Taman, said this week. -- AFP

Taken from http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_555690.html

Engineers....BEST CHOICE!!

Today's lesson - Girls must be convinced, so learn to promote yourself - convince them that 'Engineers are the Best Boyfriends'. Let me tell you why girls should eventually marry an engineer over a Law, Management, Arts or Medical School Graduate. He has three distinct advantages over the rest of the graduates.

Advantage 1: Secure lifestyle
An engineer boyfriend can provide you with a secure lifestyle. At 27 years old, an engineer probably has a respectable, stable job that gives him a high income to own a car, invest, have a comfortable life, and get married and buy a house too. Law graduates are still working as a lowly apprentice in a law firm, most management graduates have just failed on their first business plan, the arts graduate is still looking for a job, and the medical school graduate is still living in a hospital.

Advantage 2: Unmatchable industriousness
An engineer boyfriend will dedicate an unimaginable amount of his time and effort to understand you. Engineers strain really really hard to understand their work. You can believe that they will try really really hard to understand women too, just like how they understand their work, once they believe that you are the one. So even if they don't understand you initially, they will keep on trying. Even if they still do not understand, they will figure out the correct method to keep you happy (e.g. buy diamond ring = 1 week's worth of happiness.) And once they find out the secret formula, they will just keep on repeating it so that the desired results appear. Unlike the Lawyer who will argue with you, the Management graduate who will try to control your spending, the Arts graduate who will 'change major', and the medical school graduate who will operate on you. And you know what, it's really so easy to make engineers believe that you are the 'one'. Say that you like one of their projects and they will be hooked to you forever.

Advantage 3:
An engineer boyfriend will never betray your trust. Let me first tell you what is wrong with the rest of the others - the lawyers will lie about everything, management graduates will cheat your money, the arts graduate will flirt, and you probably just look like another cadaver to the medical school graduate. Your engineer boyfriend is either too busy to have an affair, and even if he does, he is too dumb to lie to you about that.

Hence, an engineer is the most secure boyfriend that you will ever find - rich enough, will keep on trying to understand and please you, has no time for affairs, and too dumb to lie to you. So girls, why procrastinate? Get an engineer as your boyfriend!

(Note: Not my article, just another forwarded mail.)

What are you?

Just for fun.... =P

LOOK UP YOUR BIRTHDAY AND SEE WHAT YOU ARE.

January 01 - 09 ~  Ass January 10 - 24 ~Slug January 25 - 31 ~Cockroach	February 01 - 05 ~  Parasite February 06 - 14 ~Bullfrog February 15 - 21 ~Skunk     February 22 - 28 ~  Snake	March 01 - 12 ~   Ape March 13 - 15 ~ Cockroach March 16 - 23 ~  Slug March 24 - 31 ~  Parasite
April 01 - 03 ~     Ass April 04 - 14 ~  Snake April 15 - 26 ~  Slug   April 27 - 30 ~  Skunk	May 01 - 13 ~  Slug May 14 - 21 ~  Bullfrog May 22 - 31 ~ Cockroach	June 01 - 03 ~   Slug June 04 - 14 ~   Skunk June 15 - 20 ~   Ass June 21 - 24 ~   Ape June 25 - 30 ~   Parasite
July 01 - 09 ~   Slug July 10 - 15 ~   Ass July 16 - 26 ~   Bullfrog July 27 - 31 ~   Parasite	August 01 - 15 ~   Ape August 16 - 25 ~ Slug August 26 - 31 ~  Skunk	September 01 - 14 ~   Bullfrog September 15 - 27 ~   Parasite September 28 - 30 ~   Ass
October 01 - 15  ~ Ape October 16 - 27 ~   Skunk     October 28 - 31 ~   Snake	November 01 - 16  ~Cockroach November 17 - 30  ~Parasite	December 01 - 16  ~   Ass December 17 - 25  ~ Ape December 26 - 31  ~ Bullfrog

 If you are an Ass :  A very loyal and sweet person.  Your loyalty can never be doubted.  You are quite honest and sincere when it comes to your attitude towards working.  You are a very simple person, indeed.  Absolutely hassle free, humble, and down-to-earth!!  That explains the reason why your friends cling on to you! You have a good taste for clothes.  If your wardrobe is not updated with what is trendy, you sure are depressed.  Popular and easy-going.  You have a little group of dignified friends, a! ll of them being quality-personified.

If you are a Slug :  Always up to some sort of a mischief!  The mischievous gleam in your eyes is what makes you so cute and attractive to everyone.  You are an extremely fun-to-be-with kind of person.  No wonder people seek your company and look forward to include you for all get-together's.  However, you are sensitive which is a drawback.  People need to select their words while talking to you.  If someone tries to fiddle around and play with words while dealing with you, it is enough to invite your wrath.  God bless the person then!

If you are a Cockroach :  Quite contradictory to your name, you are a peace loving person.!  You best try to avoid a situation wherein you are required to fight.  An outdoor person, you dislike sitting at one place for a long duration.  You are a born leader, and have it in you how to tactfully derive work from people.  You love being loved and when you receive your share of limelight from someone, you are all theirs!!!!  Well, well...  Hence some people could even take an advantage, flatter you to the maximum and get their work done.  So be careful.....

If you are a Parasite :  An extremely lovable, adorable person, sometimes shy, with a passion for quick wit..  At times, you prefer quietness.  You love exploring various things and going into depth of each thing.  Under normal circumstances you're cool but when given a reason to, you are like a volcano waiting to erupt. You're a fashion bird.  People look forward to you as an icon associated with fashion.  Basically, you mingle along freely but don't like talking much to strangers. People feel very easy in your company.  You observe care in choosing your friends.

If you are a Skunk :  You are near to perfect and nice at heart.  The examples of your kindness are always circulated in groups of people.  You, too, love peace. You wouldn't like to retaliate even to a person who is in the wrong.  You are loved due to this.  You do not wish to talk behind one's back.  People love the way you always treat them.  You can give, give, and give love, and the best part is that you do not expect it back in return..  You are generous enough.  Seeing things in a practical light is w! hat remains the best trait of you guys.

If you are a   Bullfrog:    You symbolize a very happy-go-lucky approach in life.  Whatever the surroundings may be, grim or cheerful, you remain unaffected.  In fact, you spread cheer wherever you go.  You are the leader of your group of friends and good at consoling people in their times of need.  You dislike hypocrisy and tend to shirk away from hypocrites.  ! They can never be in your good books, no matter what.  You are very methodical and organized in your work.  No amount of mess, hence, can ever encompass you.  Beware, it is easy for you to fall in love....  

If you are a Snake :  You are mysterious.  You are someone who can handle pressure with ease, and can handle any atmosphere without going berserk.  You can be mean at times, and love to gossip with your selected group.  Very prim and proper.  You like all situations and things to be in the way you desire, which, sometimes is not possible.  As a result, yo u may lose out in some relationships.  But otherwise, you love to help people out from difficult and tight spots when they really need you.

If  you are an Ape :  Very impatient and hyper!!!  You want things to be done as quick as possible..  At heart, you are quite simple and love if you are the center of attraction.  That way, you people are unique.  You would like to keep yourself safe from all the angles.  Shall your name be dragged or featured in any sort of a controversy, you then go all panicky.  Therefore, you take your precautions from the very beginning.  When you foresee anything wrong, your sixth sense is what saves you from falling in traps.  Quite a money minded bunch you people are!!

Life as an egg...

If you think life is bad... How would you like to be an egg? You only get laid once. You only get eaten once. It takes 4 minutes to get hard. Only 2 minutes to get soft. You share your box with 11 other guys. But worst of all. The only chick that ever sat on your face was your mother. So cheer up... Your life ain't that bad!

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The drama of Shifting

Yesterday I finally managed to shift to my new place after soloing the moving efforts of packing and ferrying my essential stuffs such as my PC. Lots of drama but I THINK I've finally settled down a little more calmly...

Although I'm in the computing industry and I know that the computer is dumb and its just a box of electronic chips and circuits, sometimes my PC tends to let off some kind of "fear" aura which makes me think its got a mind of its own and its out to play a fool of me! I have HORRIBLE experience in "Migrating" PC's from 1 physical location to another physical location. (Note I used physical because I'm not referring to my divestment project when I migrate machines across domains!).

In all my experiences of migrating desktops physically, every time they arrive at their destination, they would almost certainly refuse to start, or would start and crash! From JB to INTI Hostel, it refused to start because the RAM was loose. Ok, thats simple to diagnose and fix. Then from INTI Hostel to Desa Casuarina house, it refused to start again. This time, it was the power supply, so I have to replace it. And then from Casuarina house 1 to house 2, it refused to start again. If i remember correctly, I think the Graphic card was loose.... And that was my Hyper Threading PC, the blue I-Cute casing.

So okay, when I started work at Shell, I bought a new PC as well after a couple of months. This time I changed to a Cooler Master casing, in hope that I don't get "Loose" problems. When I was moving my PC to my new place, I thought to myself... "damn... got a feeling the PC's gonna screw me up again...".

And damn I was right! Stupid PC! After several hours of messing around my PC, I managed to fix my OS, fix my DVD Rom, fix my display.. However.... I have to declare the death of my Leadtek Nvidia GeForce 8800GT...

Thanks for serving me the last 2-3 years and wasting my 800 bucks! >.<

Drunk Parrots aka Lorikeets

Source : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7142337.ece

It is usually the locals who go ‘troppo’ during the tropical wet season in Australia’s Northern Territory, however this year it is the native parrots.

‘Drunk’ red-collared lorikeets have been found stumbling around, falling out of trees, or simply passed out around Darwin after being struck down by a mystery illness which causes them to display classic signs of human drunkenness.

Concerned locals have discovered the ‘pickled parrots’ all over Darwin’s roads, yards and parklands and taken them to The Ark Animal Hospital in Palmerston, where veterinarians have been treating up to eight birds a day for the past few months.

“They act quite like a drunken person would,” Lisa Hansen, a veterinary surgeon at the Ark Animal Hospital told The Times.
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“They stumble around and are very uncoordinated. Some have even fallen off their perches in the aviary.”

Earlier today one of the lorikeets was found in the bottom of an aviary at the clinic leaning up against the mesh.

“He looked just like a drunken person leaning against a wall to keep himself upright,” Ms Hansen said.

Another glassy-eyed bird was lying on the floor of a cage, looking like he had just had a big night out. Others have been found with their heads under paper seemingly trying to block the world out, or wandering aimlessly around in an apparently intoxicated state.

Ms Hansen said another symptom of the bizarre illness which is similar to human drunkenness was the change in attitude of the usually “obnoxious” birds, which suddenly become “really friendly and jovial”.

They also appear to suffer hangovers – including headaches, disorientation, lethargy, and feeling generally unhappy – for a few weeks after they are sick, and some take months to recover. Others have died from the illness.

Ms Hansen said there are many theories about the cause of the mystery illness – which Darwin vets have dubbed the ‘drop lorry’ or ‘drunken lorikeet’ disease – including fermented nectar from a plant they are eating, or an outbreak of a mystery virus.

Veterinarians at the Ark Animal Hospital, a community clinic which is seeking donations, feed the lorikeets the equivalent of avian hangover food: sweetened porridge and fresh fruit. They then care for the birds until they are ready to be let back into the wild.

According to Ms Hansen, the drunken lorikeet phenomenon regularly occurs at the end Darwin’s wet season, which typically lasts between November and May each year, however this year there has been an increase in the number of birds that have appeared sick, with over 200 treated so far.

Red-collared lorikeets are a native bird of northern Australia and are a sub-species of the better known Rainbow Lorikeet. The red-collared bird, which is distinctive for an orange stripe over the nape of its neck, is found in the Northern Territory, the north of Western Australia, and far north-eastern Queensland.