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I don’t know why the hell I find this logo to be so funny (sorry about the blurry picture, I had it enlarged from a 161 x 116 pixel image which is the largest I could find):

Am I the only person who thinks it looks like a woman giving a guy riding on a bike some good old-fashioned strap-on lovin’? Well, the logo is actually from Powerman Malaysia 2005.

…and I must say I enjoy every minute of the experience

I guess it’s time for me to reveal a few more details about my employers. You’d probably would like to know what sort of industry we’re in. Well, it’s a pretty exciting one… and it’s one with megabucks flying in and out of our accounts and balance sheets. We’re in the construction industry.

What type of construction? Well, the usual… residential and commercial. Houses, apartments, condominiums, shophouses… You know the drill. Pretty much brick and mortar type construction. Nothing too overly specialised. We have a few projects running concurrently in the JB outskirts. I’ve seen their progress and must say we build very nice homes indeed

I’m based in the HQ which is basically right smack in the center of Johor Bahru. It’s a typical office building (31 storeys high IIRC), of which my company occupies three floors Did I tell you we’re pretty damn big? Our building is connected to a hotel, and there’s a bank operating at the ground floor as well. Pretty metro setting.

At present, everyone in the company is preparing for an ISO 9001:2000 audit (which is going to be this week). I was told that the auditor will randomly pick a few personnel and ask questions about their position, departmental objectives and the corporate quality policy. I pretty much processed all that information during my first week at work, and thus don’t foresee any problems if I’m picked for the interview

I guess this is pretty much all I’m going to reveal for now. The next update about my job would probably be next month… or perhaps on the day of my confirmation.

At a browser near you… HTNet’s WCS part 8:

• Sloganizer: Create a slogan from any term you enter. Many of the generated slogans do make sense… and some sound very familiar
• wordometers.info: Real-time statistics about the world. The numbers are generated using JavaScript, I feel the algorythm is around the acceptable category.
• Forensic Psychology Dictionary: Know what irritable aggression or insertional necrophilia means? No? Find out here.
• Optimum X Downloads: A collection of (Windows) freeware utilities for command-line network administration, software distribution and login scripts.
• Guess-the-Google: Test your Google images results query guessing skills. Pretty fun game!

Enjoy the links!

Personally, I don’t have any fantasies of living by the sea. This is probably because I’m already living pretty damn near to Stulang Laut anyway. I’ve also bought an apartment which faces the Strait of Johor, so I don’t really fantasize about seafront living… I just live it

However, what I do fantasize about is owning my own cool-looking pod. If I had the bucks, I’d get myself a piece of seafront cliffside land and build myself a Neptus 60 Cliff Habitat. Now that’s a really cool looking house, don’t you agree?

However, the housing refinancing on that beauty would probably cost me a soul and a half

Those darn Swedish insurers sure are creative. Here’s an interesting quote from a Y!News article regarding these insurance policies:

“We believe drivers are under economic pressure and there is no room in household budgets to pay fines. We offer economic protection,” said Dan Glimmeras, head of marketing at Bisso.

Well, if there’s no room in your household budgets to pay fines, then don’t speed or park illegally… plus, you’ll save money on paying your insurance premium. Anyway, aren’t insurance supposed to protect you from unforeseen disasters? Are speeding tickets or parking fines unforeseen in any way?