Everyone hates busus when they are full.

A full bus means that you’ll have to stand for the whole journey, and it sucks.

Imagine you’re a working adult without a private vehicle, you’ve been working for a whole day, waited for the bus for half an hour (standing!), and finally when the bus came, you thought that you can finally sit down and rest a bit, but then you realized that it’s full and you had to stand all your way home! Really sucks, right?

Anyway, I went to 1 Utama and I happened to see this bus, I can imagine that it will be the ‘nightmare bus’ for most people, especially busy people.

*The words on the bus are NOT Photoshoped in, they were really there on the bus!

A bus that is SENTIASA PENUH!!! Dude!

If I were the working adult that I described just now and I see this bus coming, I think I would really cry!

For those who do not understand Malay, the bus company is considerate enough to have an English translation on the other side of the bus, so that everyone can understand!

Driver: Eh, don’t bother to come up lah, this bus always full 1, ok!

Perhaps they did that to prevent the disappointment that you might feel when you realize that the bus is full after you board it, by warning you of it the instant you see the bus approaching!

Just kidding lah! I guess it’s only that RapidKL is very confident towards their services! Good for them!

Damn, I really need a car!

Chinese New Year is approaching and as usual, the Chinese Language Society (CLS) of MMU is making a hell of a fuss out of it.

Well, that is to be expected since CLS is known to organize very impressive and sometimes over-exaggerated events that involve hordes of members and tons of publicity work, usually forcing many other clubs into rescheduling their own activities when they’re unfortunately held at the same day and time as CLS’s. What a monster club!

And speaking of monsters, we encountered a real monster in campus today!

ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!

This is umm… Possibly the mascot for the CLS’s Chinese New Year events for the year? As far as I can tell, it is made out of painted dry leaves, and I have to admit that it looks kinda scary when looked at from some angles… Imagine waking up in the night and seeing this thing’s head hovering outside your window… OMG….

But scary things later, today is CLS’s Chinese New Year Food Feast, it is said to be a food exhibition and sampling session, but I think anyone also can tell there’s some hidden intentions… You’ll know why later =).

CLS members were walking all around the campus all day getting people to go to the hall as there are, what they called, ‘free food’ there. FREE FOOD! That’s something not to be missed!

Entering the hall, you’ll arrive in this red-lighted ‘food tunnel‘ where different kinds of Chinese food samples are displayed along with their descriptions:

Stepping out of the tunnel, we arrived at the main area, where the ‘feast’ is held. Immediately, you will be surrounded by groups of salesmen, NO, I mean committee members, greeting you and inviting you to try their food!

You’ll be shown all around at all the different stalls err… displaying different Chinese foods.

I must say, the stalls are pretty well-designed and decorated, just like this so-called ‘Dragon Door Restaurant‘. As expected from CLS, big performance all the time!

Then, you’re shown to other stalls and offered free samples to be tested, you start to wonder, “why are they sooooo good and eager to show you around and offer you food, all for free?”

But who cares? They’re the Chinese Language Society, that’s their job, I guess.=)

But then after you started testing the foods and gave complimentary remarks about them, you’re told that you’re supposed to buy and take some home, since you liked them so much! And you’ll be persuaded with great insistence and skill to buy from them! I must say, sometimes I do think that CLS members make GREAT salespeople, and that’s a sincere compliment!

Anyway, I knew it, it’s not that much of an innocent food exhibition with free food as we were told!

I guess any food exhibition and sampling session always comes with sales, anywhere; but it’s pretty normal, since they can’t be doing this for nothing and lose money right?

I think it’s more like a Chinese New Year food promotion fair, but very great effort and performance from the Society! I guess they spent mountains of time and work on this event, and that’s really remarkable considering the fact that they are not getting paid to do it!

Windows XP is getting obsolete!

After more than 2 years hearing about its rumours, the monster has arrived! Windows Vista is here!

For those of you that are not really into technology, Vista is the latest version of the Windows operating system series by Microsoft, and an operating system’s basically the thing that controls and organizes your programs and files in your computer.

In the future, Windows Vista will most likely take over the Windows XP that you’re using now. With spectacularly enhanced graphics and various improved features, well, why not?

My friend and I purposely went to Low Yat Plaza today for this event! I’m not that much of a tech geek, but I know that Vista is really something gigantic.

Here’s the main exhibition area:

Once you step into the area, you will see huge LCD screens showing-off their latest interface and graphic abilities, leaving not even one pixel out of your sight for your own inspection.

Two great graphical features that I really like are the AERO interface and Flip 3D mode.

With the AERO interface, objects on your desktop become translucent, so you can see clearly what’s on your desktop at a glance even if it’s littered with dozens of opened folders and applications.

The Flip 3D mode can sort of organize your desktop objects in a superrealistic 3D line as you choose which to work on. I’m sure this will require no less performance from any video card since it is simply so-so-so cool!

You can even experience all those on the spot with these demo PCs:

Damn, even transferring files can win you prizes here! You can win up to RM1000 worth of prizes by signing up to this contest to test Windows Vista’s speed of file transfer using a thumbdrive! The guys at Microsoft are really confident at their product…

And OMG! There was an O2Jam competition!!! It started yesterday, and the finals is today!

Well, since O2Jam is a program by itself, I wonder if there would be any difference playing O2Jam on Windows Vista, I mean, would it be nicer or faster or something?

Although I really wanted to, but we didn’t have time to hang back and watch the competitions since we had to go to Sungei Wang to buy some stuff, then rush back to Cyberjaya before 6PM for an appointment. What a waste…

But anyway, we each got a free copy of HardwareMag and a bottle of Windows Vista mineral water before we left, at least! Wakakaka!

Man, really wanna change to Windows Vista soon, but aiks, better let them check out the bugs and security loopholes first, who knows, it might be like Windows XP all over again… =)