Darlie oh Darlie

A Darlie towel, sitting somewhere in a corner of our kitchen for nobody knows how long.

Snoopy!

Creativity is more important than the Earth

Received this a few weeks ago? Bet you did.

Upon seeing this sheet of green plastic, I thought to myself: Who on Earth is trying new stuns for "saving" the Earth? But I am surprised to know that I am totally wrong. This has nothing got to do with being eco-friendly. It merely asks you to be creative.

You want some numbers go green? I give you green numbers. (I did make the numbers green. But it was already green in the first place.)

I received it through the purchase of The New Paper. Estimated 110000 copies are sold everyday. Accompany 1 sheet of plastic for each purchase. Remembered reading on the papers that this sheet of plastic can be obtained through some stores island wide. Just imagine *number* of copies of this green plastic being given out. Definitely enough weight to crush you to death.

Yet, how many people can you get to submit an entry for this contest? 100? 1000? Surely not 10000? Yes. Where to all the extra plastics go to? Maybe like mine, still sitting in the house. Or could already have been thrown away.

These plastics used could well supply us enough free plastic bags on Wednesdays for at least a month or two. Yet we throw them away cause there is only one use for this plastic: that is to take part in the contest. And even if you did take part? You discard it after the contest ends.

Enough. Creativity is more important.

Stacks and stacks of... 2

I am here now because of some idiots who ask me to go away while hogging something of mine. I didn't update for quite long anyway, so maybe its time I should.

If you could still remember my post long ago, I promised to upload other stacks I've done.

This time, its really stacks and stacks of money.


This is the first stack I ever done. It is obviously a bridge, and when I posted up on my MSN display picture, someone came to ask me: What bridge is that? I've never seen a bridge so long, without visible land in the background.


Second. I just stacked it out of nothing. Nothing was on my mind. It was just a random design.


Of course, I don't just stack money. I stack staplets (as seen here) and also McDonald's sauces. Here it is:



Okay, I am going back to see if that idiot wants to return me whats supposed to be mine.

Fake advertisement figures

On my way to return the graduation robe, I saw some advertisements on the train:

Use a fan instead of an air-conditioner and save about $50 a month or about $600 ($650 was the figure shown on their official website) a year.
When using an air-conditioner, every degree raised on the thermostat could save you about $20 a year.

If you think I am crapping, try taking some trains to see for yourself.

So, I proved myself to not be crapping, but the advertiser din't.

Simple mathematics: Lowest you can go on an air-conditioner is 16°. The average room temperature in Singapore is 26°. Lets exaggerate the room temperature to be 30°. A 14° difference, according to the advertisement's figures, can save you about $280 a year. What happens to the other $370? That is a question.

Even considering in the fact that the lower you go on your thermostat, the more energy it will consume, that figure won't work out. Unless you tell me energy consumption increases more (faster) than exponentially.

The media really goes to show how people would go all out, obviously or not so obviously, to reach their aims. Just take a look back to the top. Save $50 a month, or $650 a year.

They seems to be living a 13 month year, their own world, different from ours.