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恭喜發財/Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy Chinese New Year!

May the year of the Fire/Golden Pig (once every 6 decades) bring you lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of everything!

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Well, I guess I couldn’t ignore AGLOCO anymore. AGLOCO is the new and easy way to make some cash while you are surfing the web, with zero catches. AGLOCO is just a simple tiny toolbar which you install onto your browser and it displays some small ads which you can ignore and never click on. You see, you are not being paid for clicking on the ads, instead you are paid per hour for just surfing the net with the toolbar installed. Yep, as simple as that!

AGLOCO employs a pyramid scheme in which if you refer someone to AGLOCO, then that someone refers someone, and so fourth, you get to make some cash from every one of your referrals in your pyramid! And there is no limit on the number of referrals that you can get paid for, and your referrals do not lose anything in the process. I bet Amway rings the bell, huh (it does for me cuz I had a Chinese lady trying super-hard to recruit me 13 years ago. She came to see me literally daily! And no, I didn’t join)?

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The Japanese dudes from the Awashima Marine Park, earlier this week captured on film a rare primitive shark from the pre-historic era with ugly proportions, known as the Frilled Shark, while it swan close to the surface near Japan.

Surprisingly, these things still exist today (I didn’t know) but are rarely ever seen because they live 2,000ft or more below the ocean. If anyone is lucky enough to spot one, it is usually dead therefore having a live one captured on film is a thrilling thing. Sadly, this one captured on film, also died shortly after being moved to a seawater pool for observation.

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I was just watching a nature TV program about whales which reminded me of something I thought was funny (or maybe, dumb). About 4 years or so ago, my ex-employer started introducing a personality and IQ test for potential new employees. Before the tests were finalised and rolled out, my employers decided to gather some data from existing employees as a benchmark for which the new potential employee’s marks would be judged against. And yes, I happened to be one of these existing employees who had to take the test.

The test had 3 parts to it (but is really 2). The first part is the personality questionaire, second part is the IQ test, and the third is basically repeating the personality questions but re-worded with different scenarios to try and catch you out. Oh, also it had to be done within 30 minutes. Anyway, I won’t go into all the details, I’ll just get straight to the question that caught me out. The question was:

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May the year of the Boar bring you all you deserve and wished for!

Happy New Year!  明けましておめでとうございます!  新年快樂!

I only just realised that my beloved car maker, Aston Martin, released the convertible V8 Vantage Roadster. I’m all for a convertible Aston Martin but I’m not sure about it being a version of the V8 Vantage despite it’s beautiful and clean lines. I think a convertible version of the DB9 would be better.

For me personally, I love the Vanquish S for its meaner body lines. That thing is a beast! Actually, the new DBS featured in the new James Bond movie would do nicely for now, Santa… pleeeeeeeeeeeeease……..

V8 Vantage Roadster 

The V8 Vantage Roadster embodies the qualities that are integral to Aston Martin: Power, Beauty and Soul. Representing the essence of pure driving pleasure, the new Roadster is a compact sports car that offers an astonishing blend of performance and exhilaration, a car with two distinct personalities: Open and invigorating, or closed, cosseting and protective.

“Using an array of technology, the images reveal what until now has been a secret - exactly how animals develop in the womb. Each one amazing and now, thanks to these remarkable pictures, they can be seen for the first time.

Programme makers also reveal the moment at eight weeks when a baby dolphin learns to swim while in the womb. During the next few weeks, it develops flippers, a tail and a blowhole before being born after a year, and must be able to quickly swim to the surface to take its first breath of air.”

Incredible! Absolutely amazing! Check it out!

Last night, I met up for dinner with 2 friends whom are visiting from Hong Kong. One of them had this BlackBerry device (supposedly very popular with business people in US?) which has to be the least ugly model I have seen. It’s a little wide but its not so thick nor long and the screen is nice. But don’t ask me which model this is, I wouldn’t know to save my life (this is the first one I’ve ever touched).

Despite all models being… well… ugly, they do seem rather convenient having the whole keyboard layed out. But I’d very much prefer not having the keyboard just thrown onto the body like that - more thought should have went into the design. This brings me to the Japanese equivilents, namely Wilcom’s W-ZERO3 and Softbank’s X01HT. Much better thought out and sexier in appearance, don’t you think? This is design…

Sticking in the daggers

• “A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”
  Winston Churchill
• “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
  William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
• “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
  Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
• “He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
  Abraham Lincoln
• “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend… if you have one.”
  George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
• “Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.”
  Winston Churchill, in response

Hahahahaha… the rest are here .