Friday night at the Esplanade…

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My church friends decided to have a night’s off at the Esplanade on Friday evening and after dinner at City Hall, we went to the Esplanade to look at the art pieces on display there and also listened to / view some of the performances.

Here are the few pictures of what was there with my Nokia 7390. The first three were of the visual arts on display. The images were all created with ONE continuous line, with none of them intersecting one another. The remaining three were of a group of South Korean performing artists making music with parts of cars and simple every day objects like plastic containers and bottles.

All in all, it’s an enjoyable night.

Social Engineering Calls

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Caller: “Hi, I am Johnny Peabrain of the New York office and I am on vacation here in Singapore.”

Tech Support: “Sorry? You are… ?”

Caller: “Yes. I am Johnny Peabrain. Can you help me find out who is on the same team as Mervin Leahy? I need to send them things pretty urgently.”

Tech Support: “I am sorry. I need to do a verification to know who you are.”

Caller: “But I just told you. Can you just tell me who are the people on the same team? Because I have done part of the work and I need to send it to them urgently if not they will have to work backwards to find it.”

Tech Support (thinking to himself): “Wait a minute, you are on vacation, and you need to send them something urgently?”

Tech Support: “You do know I cannot reveal information to you on the phone?

Caller: “Sure. You can email to me… J.Peabrain@..”

Tech Support: “No. I cannot email this to an external email address.”

Caller: “But you see I don’t have my laptop with me and I need the information now.”

Tech Support (thinking to himself): “So how are you gonna to send this to them even if I let you know who they are? You think I am stupid or what?”

Tech Support: “In that case I’ll need to do a verification to confirm you are really who you are. Can I have you employee number please? (Attempting to be diplomatic, having no idea if this guy is genuine. No reason to offend anybody.)

Caller: “But I just told you I don’t have anything from the company with me. How am I supposed to know that?

Tech Support: “No problem. Can you tell me who your line manager is?”

Caller: * hang up *

For goodness sake, you are on vacation, Johnny. And if it was so important that you need to get on this ‘work matter’ in the middle of the vacation, all the way here in Singapore, then come to the Singapore office!

And if you do not even have information of your line manager right off your fingertips, then who the hell can believe you are really who you are?

Furthermore, you already know who one of the guys is in that team. Can’t you just tell that one guy whatever he needs and have him pass the information?

Some people never thinks. And while the Tech Support line is the best line to get some information, don’t take us for idiots, will you?

*** Names are changed so as not to reveal any company relevant data here.

America’s only solution to Iraq…

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Rambo IV trailer

Do not laugh!! This maybe Warmonger Bush’s only solution to the quagmire in Iraq.

All he needs to do is send America’s most powerful one-man army into Iraq. And if he won’t, one of the presidential hopefuls should suggest it!

John Rambo – America’s salvation. Watch his latest exploit stopping genocide in… Burma.

Watch out Al Qaida, you will soon get your butts kicked, and know the true face of death.

Well, I didn’t know the Nazis are running Burma…

Asian Civilisation Museum

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I went to the Asian Civilisation Museum around 3pm today to view the Beauty of Asia Exhibits and and I wasn’t even aware that it’s International Museum Day!

What does International Museum Day mean to me? That simply means, admission is FREE – whippeee!! – for ALL museums today, worldwide! And so, I get to view all the exhibits for free when normally I would need to pay $8.

I didn’t take a lot of photos, because we were not sure if we are allowed to do so. It was very much later when we saw tourist snapping away, that we realised that well, unless it is explicitly forbidden – where there is a ‘no photo’ symbol on the exhibits themselves – we can take photos. By then it was too late, we were down to the last exhibit hall on South Asia.

Anyway, the photos are blurry because I turned off the flash feature on the camera. Somehow I didn’t see anyone taking photos with the flash on and I decided to do the same. Unfortunately that automatically turns on the ‘slow shutter’ feature on the camera, and thus, when my hands aren’t steady, the photos comes up blurry. * sigh *

But all in all, it was a worthwhile trip, even if I had paid $8 for it. However, the exhibits are a little too few, when compared to what I have seen in the Shanghai Museum. But again we really can’t expect much when these exhibits are sometimes donated, or brought in from overseas. I’m just grateful I get to see the few which are there.
Crab in the Bowl.

A South Asian Monument

More South Asian Artifacts.

Water Spout in the Straits of Singapore…

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It is quite an exciting afternoon when I looked out of the window of my office today.

It’s a water spout and it was hovering around the south of Marina Bay for a good 10 – 15 minutes. So I took some photos of it while I could, and it didn’t seem to have done much damage to the ships anchored there in spite of all it’s ‘glory’.

The last one which shows half of it isn’t because I ‘photo-shopped’ it, but it was really that way. I suspect it was nearing the end of its ‘rampage’ and the reason maybe it’s just getting to close to shore.

After all, it’s a water spout. Not a twister or a tornado.


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