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Archive for August, 2008

It’s Getting Hot In Here!

Our office’s air-conditioning system, again, has broken down so we are sweating heavily since the start of our shift. I can’t understand why one of the air-conditioning units kept breaking down. I think there are only two tower-type air con units that are currently working, both servicing the 100 people on our floor.

How I wish that they put up some electric fans for the meantime. It’s so hard to work when your face kept sweating.

This ain’t right!

This was taken from http://notalwaysright.com/. It made me laugh.

What Is This Culturally Monolithic Country Coming To

Video Rental Store | Savannah, GA, USA

Me: “Good evening sir, how may I help you?”

Customer: “I want a good movie.”

Me: “Of course. I recommend Pan’s Labyrinth… it was excellent.”

Coworker: “You are aware that this movie has subtitles.”

Customer: “What the s*** is that?”

Coworker: “The words at the bottom you have to read. It’s in Spanish.”

Customer: “What the f*** is that? We’re in America, we don’t speak Spanish! I want it in American!”

(He storms off and promptly returns with Apocalypto.)

Me: “Sir, you do know this movie has subtitles, too?”

Customer: “What the f***? What is this country coming to? When did we become another country?! I want a g**d*** American movie! Where are the American movies?”

Me: “The store is full of movies made in America.”

(He walks back up about 10 minutes later with Letters From Iwo Jima in his hand.)

Customer: “This is the movie by Clint Eastwood, right?”

Coworker: “Yes, it is.”

Me: “And it’s really good, too.”

Customer: “Clint Eastwood is a real American. He knows what I like!”

(I give a look to my coworker who doesn’t say anything this time, and we rent him the movie. Too bad Letters From Iwo Jima is all in Japanese with English subtitles.)

Funny Product Description

Here’s a funny but seriously-sounding product description. Read it through and I’m sure you’ll be amazed at the cleverness of its copywriter.


Proporta Keyring with SIM Card Holder and Anti-Loss System

Description

Nhil and I attended the recent Coca-Cola Bloggers Party at Taste Asia at the Mall of Asia (too many Asias!). We didn’t finish the event because we have to go someplace else so we queued at the taxi lane. The line of passengers was considerably long and after quite a bit of waiting, we finally got our turn at the front. Then a foreigner, I think he’s Greek or someone from that region, approached me.

Greek Guy: “Excuse me, how can I get to the airport?”

Me: “Just take a taxi.”

Greek Guy: “Ok. Thank you.”

Then just that, he opened the door of the taxi I was about to board. He went inside the car and the taxi sped off. I was left dumbfounded. When I turned around all the people behind me had the same look on their faces.

They couldn’t believe the Greek guy cheated all of us!

I couldn’t believe he stole my cab!

Funny thing was, although I should have felt angry, the truth is that I wasn’t. I smiled at the people behind me and said out loud, “Well, let’s just be kind to tourists.”

They smiled back.

Koala Family

I posed and took a snapshot of this family of koala during a very, very boring moment in the office.

Boredom really does weird things to everybody.