Oh crazy daisy 3rd February 2009
I got this a while ago while surfing YouTube. Although comical in hindsight, it was rather annoying at the time.
A quick web cache flush managed to make that pirate walk the plank.
Archive for the ‘grrr’ Category
Clear your throat 9th January 2009
It’s a situation which I encountered at least once every week. Being highly irritating with the same effects of watching someone yawn, it often causes me some discomfort. Let me elaborate, close you eyes for a minute…
Change of plan, open your eyes, otherwise you don’t be able to read this — Imagine a person having and ordinary conversation with you, it’s intriguing and you lean forward to express your interest, you start to nod your head with points you agree on while making a subtle yet sharp “mm” just to let your neighbor know you’re actually awake. Now the atmosphere is established.
All of a sudden, the speaker’s audibility diminishes as a lump of phlegm or some un-swallowed saliva gets lodged at the back of his/her throat (sorry guys, this speaker’s gender is a tad murky). You think at any moment they’re going to stop and clear their throat, but no! Like a train heading for a concentration camp, he/she does not stop speaking. Soon enough beads of sweat start to form on the end of your nose, as well as a replicated lump of phlem/saliva forms at the back of your mouth.
You start to take matters into your own hands. You start to at first slowly clear your throat by swallowing, but when you find that fails, you start to cough subtly, before breaking out in a raging coughing fit.
And that is the situation explained. In fact, I just experienced it recently while watching this video, and felt it must be documented in this secret diary of mine (which it is in it’s own right, as no one else reads these few pages). So speakers, clear your throat when your voice starts to disintegrate, and in-turn, maintain audience concentration.
Rebranding 28th September 2008
I must under-go rebranding as too many people mis-pronounce my website’s stupid name. It’s ‘be-three-en’ dammit, not ‘Brethren’ - which has been what most my clients have been calling it.
Stay tuned for some fantastically fantastic rebranding sherbet within the next few weeks.
Here’s an update:
Man this is hard - Firstly, I have a stupid as name which takes away credibility from me rather than adding some personal spunk and professionalism. Benjamin/Ben Tan? Pathetic. Moreover, it sounds way too asian which will most definitely work against me.
Therefore I have chosen to create a name for my little ’studio’. This name shall disclude any stupid words such as “studio”, “creative”, “industries”, “designs”, “design” etc. ’cause they’re a bit cliche no-a-days. It has to be perfect - not too long, but also not too short; not too hard to pronounce and not to hard to spell.
A bad example is 31three.com - the owner of the site, Jesse, admits this is not the easiest of web addresses to convey over the phone to a client.
Wow - zero period zero 3rd April 2008
What a crazy week it’s been — hasn’t been my best of weeks either. The sky was definitely falling on my world, and I’m no Chicken Licken. Here’s a quick-fire list of the crazy things which happened — treshna’s Team Fortress 2 server went insane after a server update which incurred an ‘overflow fee’ of $3000, screwed up playing for church band, website didn’t work, domain name didn’t work, had to run to school multiple times because I was late to school, was late because I haven’t got enough sleep lately, which was because there is too much school work to get through (which has become a constant, really).
Yay Wordpress 2.5 is finally out.
My top 5 formatting pet hates 28th January 2008
If I had 5 ‘formatting pets’, they wouldn’t be alive for very long at all. These pet-hates really jingle my bells, push my buttons and get my knickers in a twist.
Before the computer revolutionary-age came about, these formatting-hates of mine would have never existed, simply because it would’ve been too tedious to create them with pen and paper. You see, computers are always the root of the problem. Usually this appears on colloquial blog sites, and over-enthusiastic websites, but lately, I have seen these hideous eye-sores appearing everywhere.
Just in: Sir Edmund Hillary is not dead 21st January 2008
I have just unearthed one of the largest death fakings in the history of fake deaths. There has been fresh photographic evidence that Hillary himself is not dead and is in fact has disguised himself as a mourner at his own funeral. Check out this photograph which has been digitally enhanced to reveal the criminal master-mind:
Source: Stuff.co.nz
Update: Oh, he is dead. Case of mistaken identity.
A lengthy 6 months later 28th December 2007
A new site, a shiny-new Wordpress platform, a new web domain and new content to come (none of those cruddy ‘I hate life’ blog posts). Above all, this site will be much more informative, interesting and coolsome to browse through.
Indeed, this was a crazy hiatus - many things happened while I was hibernating: two sets of exams, my birthday, public holidays; including: labour day and Christmas, and soon enough, we’re going to hit the new year. Being away for such a long time is some-what justified - I’ve been developing this site of course! However, the viewer-base has dwindled since I didn’t post anything so basically I have to regain my audience (which I plan to do by spamming these linky site things).
MySpace and Others 30th July 2006
I’m so outraged at the amount of stupid people who would even care to use the service MySpace. Makes my little website look normal. It is so typical for teenagers now-a-days to post their lives and stuff onto their little space on the website. Honestly, every has one of these spaces. What makes it worse is the number of Goth’s and Emos which use this service — these spaces and YouTube are infamous for blogs of Emos and Goths and their daily corrupted lives. People shoudl try to be different and have rather divide from the crowd and not have a MySpace. I went on this lame band’s my space (we is ninja) and found from there an infinite number of people from my class/school who had accounts on it. Do people think they’re cool setting up such little open books for people to read? Furthermore they think that they’re so cool that they’re cool. I think people could do something more fun than that. Even porn would be better. Another popular service is Bebo - grrrr hate these silly friendship sites. So lame. Whats worse is lame people trying to hook me up to these services. I assure that at least 80% of you have received at least on email a month notifying that a ‘friend’ has joined this pathetic service and is asking for you to join. You disgust me, you evil hooligans.
A new month is fast approaching also, so a new poll thing will be up soon. Site also needs updating all over.
New motherboard 21st July 2006
After carrying out an infinate number of tests, I have singled down the problem to be either the Processor at fault or the Motharboad. I am pushing my luck and saving myself from a hole being burnt through my wallet by ‘purchasing*’ a new Motherboard — Which means time to reformat.
*Disclaimer: I am not actually buying the motherboard but rather just paying for the shipping fee.
13 July 2006 13th July 2006
How lame, oh so quickly the holidays are once again gone - although they felt and were actually longer than our previous holiday which was cut back but 4 or so days compared to other schools. Computer still freezes despite doing umpteen things to it - might try reinstalling Windows again. Or maybe i’ll use Linux, but generally that OS is classified as ‘geek-ware’.
Life is unfair, boring, and unfair. No I am not going to suicide, I’ll just sit in a corner and cry all the salts out of my body.
Oh, the other day was going to obtain bthreen@gmail.com, found out it was taken so today I emailed to that guy “Hi there, cool email address you have - Ben” then it like bounces back to me.
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