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Living and Innovating Sensibly Real World Engineering !

!by C K Yap

01. New ideas for internet users - Social (Facebook)-style browser and non-3G mobile kiosks 02. Autumn leaves, pickling gherkins and baking pies - The Keynesian economy 03. Nuclear fusion - Begging from the stars, beating the breast of Gaia 04. Esoteric superstition meets Metaphysics - Feng Shui may one day rule the internet 05. Visual Relationship Management - QR codes for Indian onion middlemen 06. Even a heart can break - Love your neighbour, you may be saving the world 07. Turing machines of the new century - Fat ties and analog revisited 08. My life’s plan and dreams - Life is like a box of chocolate 09. Warming homes, Korea-style 10. The humble saga - Renewable entertainment for the post-information age 11. Paracord on my wrist - Siri, are you listening? 12. Twilight over Sunnydale - It’s 10 pm and raining - where are you going, young man? 13. Cosmic Synchronicity and a dharma-led life 14. Ginger - The root of all women 15. Uncle Bob’s Buffalo Army 16. My lesson from the iGuru - Steve Jobs’ legacy to food and health 17. Productivity - Cubicles are supposed to turn you all into spies and busybodies 18. Traditions - There’s more to being Mongoloid than eating a lot and keeping long hair 19. My feet - My second heart 20. Synergy in industry - business and investment in a downturn 21. Demystifying UNIX 22. Money - our self worth. Currency - enforced logistics 23. Weird inventions from America 24. Origami and manufacturing 25. 911, September root canal

Living, Working and Innovating Sensibly:Real-World Engineering

ver. 1.06

C. K. Yap, mr

September 17, 2013


01. New ideas for internet users - Social (Facebook)-style browserand non-3G mobile kiosks

Networks Under PressureSearching Bookmarks?

02. Autumn leaves, pickling gherkins and baking pies - TheKeynesian economy

Bureau of Pies and Pie-pansWhen Trees Loose Their LeavesWay of the Sword

03. Nuclear fusion - Begging from the stars, beating the breast ofGaia

Peter, Paul and Mary and the Magic Fusion PestlePrayer and Correct Intent Make the Impossible Possible

04. Esoteric superstition meets Metaphysics - Feng Shui may oneday rule the internet

The Grid Already Exists and People Use It Everyday!Popping the Question


05. Visual Relationship Management - QR codes for Indian onionmiddlemen

Bingo: We Have a Solution!06. Even a heart can break - Love your neighbour, you may besaving the world

Angels in the Architecture07. Turing machines of the new century - Fat ties and analogrevisited

Sophism and the Rise of the Philosopher Kings

08. My life’s plan and dreams - Life is like a box of chocolateThe Colour of Money

09. Warming homes, Korea-styleClouds and Silver Linings

10. The humble saga - Renewable entertainment for thepost-information age

What’s Yours is Yours, Mine is Mine

11. Paracord on my wrist - Siri, are you listening?youTube, iWatch


12. Twilight over Sunnydale - It’s 10 pm and raining - where areyou going, young man?

Creed of Sin

13. Cosmic Synchronicity and a dharma-led lifeThe True Meaning of Words

14. Ginger - The root of all womenHealth and Beauty

15. Uncle Bob’s Buffalo ArmyPublic Enemy, Not

16. My lesson from the iGuru - Steve Jobs’ legacy to food andhealth

Recipe for Success17. Productivity - Cubicles are supposed to turn you all into spiesand busybodies

Productivity is a Moneymaking Industry, not an EducationOpportunity

18. Traditions - There’s more to being Mongoloid than eating a lotand keeping long hair


Mooncaker

19. My feet - My second heartStop the Fight, I’ve lost a shoe!

20. Synergy in industry - business and investment in a downturnYou Can Get a Carry Case for 5 Dollars Extra

21. Demystifying UNIXDesktop Pictures and Screensavers

22. Money - our self worth. Currency - enforced logisticsMy Flexible Friend

23. Weird inventions from AmericaDoes Google play tricks with the Internet?

24. Origami and manufacturingMaster Craftsmen of the Orient

25. 911, September root canalOsama Was a Man on a Donkey Defending his Homeland


Caffeteria-style internet - the last soup kitchen? I

• Getting on Facebook was a culture shock for me. 3rd wavesocial sites like Twitter are a far cry from ICQ or YahooGroups, much less Usenet or IRC that we had back in the day.

• You can get all the news and trending heads-ups on Facebookif you have the right friends and “Like” or “unLike” the rightthings.

• What if there were a browser or internet topography just forFacebooking? - I want more of the same; I want somethingtotally different (off site); I want to find your supporters’opinions (off site).


Internet into Africa I

• Satellite internet is expensive and 3G and 4G networks in the3rd world are still flakey in many places.

• There is a need to respect web servers and your carrier’sbandwidth while tablet-ing or smartphone-browsing.

• The web must be condensed and it isn’t the job of a remoteserver. Caching must be implemented, persisting for a week ormore.

• Images must be lazily loadable and scripts ignored.

• The chrome and flash on Web 2.0 sites have to be stripped offand dumbed down to e-Book functionality.


Give me my library card back!

Figure : Simplified linking and search system


Songs of yesterday I

• Nat King Cole and later Eva Cassidy (who sang it from theheart - she was ill with cancer), are describing the lover theyused to be with. It’s also a tale of humanity and the rise andfall of civilisations, hegemonies or dynasties - even economies.

• Keynesian economics says spending and purchasing bygovernments, companies and regular folks stimulates theeconomy and can help it recover from a downturn.

• How should we spend (invest) and what things should we buyor services should we use?


Songs of yesterday II

Figure : Read and gold of the Canadian maple in autumn


Songs of yesterday III

The falling leaves drift by my window

The autumn leaves of red and gold I see your lips, thesummer kisses The sun-burned hands I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long And soon I’llhear old winter’s song But I miss you most of allmy darling When autumn leaves start to fall


Bureaucracy of laissez faire I

• Keynes defined 3 stages of economic maturity leading toutopian ideals and a breakdown of the free market in a lot ofways as it stands now.

• Pie-cutting supervisors increase over time. But then anindustry forms around helping all of us become moreproductive and less bureaucratic.

• People get lazy and careless and pies spoil, drip or don’t comeout looking like pie and we have a wide selection of“alternative” business activity:


Bureaucracy of laissez faire II

Table : Stages and Breakdown of a Keynesian Economy

cycle of greed(small pie)

superiority(growing pie)

leisure (amplepie)

gherkin (poorlyharvestedcucumber)

burger (other-wise unpalat-able meat)

vegetarian meal(just enoughfood, thanks)

salt dissolving feed the cowsour bread

monk realityshow


Wisdom of the Buddha I

The Window Shopper’s Dream Come True from theAnalects of Elder Brother Yeap

“Going out shopping again, Brother Yeap,” said somefriendly schizophrenics, “Another semi-pointlessamble through the mall with Dad, eh?”

“I’m afraid so,” sighed Elder Brother Yeap.

“What’s good to buy in your country that you buy soseldom yet shop so often?”


Wisdom of the Buddha II

“It is just that the rich are not seen purchasing budgetitems. The poor purchase a mix of good and badthings. The middle class shop mainly for thepurpose of happiness.”

“The best tools are old, some pre-owned, but they aretop-of-the-line. The best things to organize and helpyou through life are cheap and mass produced ordisposable. The thrill of shopping, if you need it, isto find these things. Not to buy reduced price items.The best times to consume are when manufacturerssight the beacons of these forms of consumerism.”


Zen and Tao and better business I

• Lessons of the autumn leaves ricochet throughout man’sendeavours which are earnest including traditionalcabinet-making to the legendary Japanese sword - the katana- a masterpiece of forging mirrored in traditional paper-foldingskills or Origami.

• Like origami paper models, some things are disposable orrecyclable. The Japanese make these simply andutilitarian-wise but with just as much skill and eye for art.

• Look East and West, then East again before crossing the road!


Zen and Tao and better business II

Figure : The perfect sword - the katana?


Zen and Tao and better business III

Figure : Chain dollar stores - the future of retail, here today


Monster garbage trucks and the abominations oftechnology I

• Some things are not meant ever to be invented, used ordiscovered.

• Don’t bring a giant ape into New York. Trust me we know.(King Kong).

• It’s one thing having a nuclear power station 2 miles fromyour neighbourhood. It’s another to have a weapons-testingrange outside your city. Would you like to have a fusiontokamak in your basement?

• Men have strapped on wings, made them with wax andfeathers on a hot day, men think we can make a small Sun(star) on Earth and contain it. Are we wrong or a bit off themark?


Monster garbage trucks and the abominations oftechnology II

Figure : Giant movie ape


Monster garbage trucks and the abominations oftechnology III

Figure : Monster garbage truck


Correlations between the cosmos and our language I

• Obscure 70’s joke: I dug out my stash and put on a record. Ihad the design for nuclear fusion for about a millisecond!

• It’s not amazing that technology (our bodies are technologyand our minds are science) shines through the things wecreate in look, feel and of course function - even in ourcontemporary music or literature.


Correlations between the cosmos and our language II

Figure : Peter, Paul and Mary

It’s the hammer of Justice, It’s the bell of Freedom,It’s the song about Love between my brothers andmy sisters, All over this land.


Correlations between the cosmos and our language III

Figure : Eva Cassidy

Oh, had I a golden thread And a needle so fine I’dweave a magic strand Of rainbow design Of rainbowdesign

In it I’d weave the courage Of women giving birth In itI’d weave the innocence Of the children over all theearth Children of all the earth


Some things are never meant to be but can’t we have alittle? I

• So with the sincere prayer of Eva Cassidy (she loved God andnature) and Peter, Paul and Mary’s 60s “brotherly love” song(they loved togetherness in the arms of our Earth Mother), wecould construct a fusion (miracle energy source) power stationin our back yards.

• Oh, and don’t go to HMV to get your degrees or postgradwork - get down on your knees and lift your hands to yourface in cleansing and humbleness!


Some things are never meant to be but can’t we have alittle? II

Figure : Pestle fusion reactor concept


Algorithms from nature I

• The exact search results algorithms Google uses are secret anddeveloped over time probably spent analysing the internethabits of a typical user and probably also human nature versusdata.

• The internet is now very much a living beast with “organs”forming, not just a tissue of cells (sites). So we have LinkedINand Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, even Tumblr for creativetypes where once artists would make their own web pages.

• Perhaps the net would obey laws of mother nature now, aswell as human desire?


The unwritten intelligence of people and places I

• By “grid” we mean the global energy grid or “Ley” lineswhich esoteric geometry readers say mirrors the wavy motionof celestial forces and their actions on the magnetic field ofEarth.

• Let’s say California (which is on one far-flung Ley line) has anet connection to share with London, on the far side of theopposing Ley line. What would they agree on and disagree onin terms of sites that “like” other sites; people who “friend”each other or forum memberships?

• It’s unlikely they have many things in common except maybeApple Computers for example. Or that some Londoners like tosurf while on holiday.


The unwritten intelligence of people and places II• Sites linking from London to California would get a -1

automatically but those who surf or Mac would get a +1boost i.e. a positive link or an “agree” route on the web grid.

• Swiping across allied or opposing Ley zones would be a goodway to sample the opinion smorgasbord.

Figure : Major Ley lines or energy meridians


Will we marry our fortunes together? I

• What you are is what you see yourself as, what your motherand father or guardians were, and what the people who likeyou know you are - that completes your function in society or“personality” on the energy grid web.

• When coupled with the geographical quirks or culture of yourlocation, weights can automatically be assigned to whether asite agrees or disagrees with your site or page or post.

• Agree or disagree is the new web search, Digg or g+ but itneeds some sanity checks and what better way than to use theknowledge of ancient civilisations and their lay of the land.


Can I have a receipt for my coconuts? I

• We can now pay for food at a cafe with our iPhonesconnected to the cafe’s iPad on an app from Square. Whatabout produce sellers in the 3rd world?

• Yet all the technology of the West and the information on theinternet is still only accessible to the poor throughnewspapers, maybe even just word of mouth from the UnitedNations, once a month.

• Can a special receipt slip, and passing around of such slips,increase coconut harvests, onion sales and other rural marketgoods’ economic viability or seasonal compatibility?


Turing machine for winning I

• The art of making the deal is as slimy as needing to have agod to watch over cheaters, liars, and our target audience:merchants.

• The information needed for a successful deal can’t often beacquired or deciphered without a computer (spreadsheet,CRM, custom analysis software).

• Information can’t easily be compiled by and from illiterates orunderclasses without an organisation or watchdog.

• Standardising the bar chart, defining miniaturisationprocedure, marrying it to QR code technology, colour codingit is the key to having walls of actionable, relayable, relationalinformation in the home of an Indian Onion planter.


Turing machine for winning II

Figure : Visual Relationship Management with(out) computers


Simon says, just do it! I

• Lessons of Lot: For one good man, would God save a city?For one special man, would God destroy a city of good andbad people? For many special and good people, would Godunleash a nuclear strike on a city of sin?

• A broken heart is a dangerous thing - it can kill you.

• A broken mind and a broken heart is a college shootingmassacre waiting to happen.

• Why did the Black Eyed Peas sing at the 911 memorial“Where is the love?”

• Where did it go between a jog and a Subway?


Simon says, just do it! II

Everyone in the mind that night was sad and Abbeybroke out crying. I cried too. Life had been prettyhard and lean over the years and no doubt manyothers felt the same or more so. It’s with a mix ofremorse, relief and hope, that we wish Li Lian tothe next life.

There was a strong aura of Burkhardt House,Manchester, a kind of bare feet on pink and palegreen, tender chiffon quivering over girl skin, and aquizzical dimpled lamp, far away and lost in thelong shadows of a crowded, lonely winter.


Wine dumping: back at you, Europe I

• A broken mind, heart and body leads to drinking, smoking,reckless spending - self destructive behaviour that mayinfuriate and annoy society for a decade - a chronic socialproblem that can flare up as a riot or protest after inevitableaccident.

• Wine and women - classic friendly takeover tools of thecolonials and emperors of the East. Greed makes drugs aproblem and women beautiful. Excesses poured onto theneedy and stricken.

• Shock and horror, they didn’t take it well. The best drug issunshine. The best hypodermic for sunshine these days isheritage-based primalism of soppy-folk rock serenades.


Wine dumping: back at you, Europe II

Figure : Burkhardt House, Manchester


Wine dumping: back at you, Europe III

Figure : The Univeristy Arches


Wine dumping: back at you, Europe IV

Figure : Sparkling and progressive summer skyline of Manchester


Wine dumping: back at you, Europe V

I close my eyes with his hand on my chest, As I try toavoid your eyes; Let you feel every beat as thisheart comes to rest; Now my shoulders are bare ofdisguise!

You gave me the trust, That I so desired; I’ll show youthe smile that you bring. Then you’ll show me theside that’s all wild(!) and inspired, That somedaythis weak heart may sing!


Wine dumping: back at you, Europe VI

Song of Solomon 5:2-6 New American Standard Bible(NASB)

2 “[a]I was asleep but my heart was awake. A voice!My beloved was knocking: Open to me, my sister,my darling, My dove, my perfect one! For my headis [b]drenched with dew, My locks with the [c]dampof the night.”

3 “I have taken off my dress, How can I put it onagain? I have washed my feet, How can I dirtythem again?”


Wine dumping: back at you, Europe VII

4 “My beloved extended his hand through the opening,And my [d]feelings were aroused for him.”

5 “I arose to open to my beloved; And my handsdripped with myrrh, And my fingers with [e]liquidmyrrh, On the handles of the bolt.”

6 “I opened to my beloved, But my beloved had turnedaway and had gone! My [f ]heart went out to him ashe spoke. I searched for him but I did not find him;I called him but he did not answer me.”


Regressing and its benefits I

• Alan Turing saw the conveyer belt and capping machine in abottling or canning assembly line as the ideal model forconstructing a computer that functioned on “yes” and “no”the variables of Boolean Mathematics.

• The ancients had other methods, involving curves, crosses,crooks, string and intersecting circles. Some of thesecomputational tools were borne only by gods.

• Most problems (even “problem” is misunderstood!) can besolved better by these non-linear god-tech. And by the way, aproblem is something we find difficult to consider - most everydifficult problem is non-linear in time or space, informationallyor abstractly (imaginatively).


Regressing and its benefits II

Figure : Turing Machine concept


Thinking in poetry, perfection in beauty I

• When the Greeks started to consider geometry in objectiveterms, even a tiniest of a dot is a geometric construct, theydid so with succinct poetry i.e. correctness of beauty, pursuitof form in solution.

• It is not necessary to completely design or understand anyconcept, problem, science or its application but to describe itwith love. Science Fiction is an example of thinking withoutpain yet presenting an idea palatably and with requisitediscipline. Non-technical, less mathematical people have a lotto share.


Thinking in poetry, perfection in beauty II

Figure : Greek philosophers encounter Bill and Ted


Real choc always going to be brown I

• The thing about life is we tend to ignore what we have or thelot our parents gave us and shoot for the moon. It’s notcommon nowadays to hand down skills or knowledge, muchless to tell the tales of distant past events.

• God told Adam that he would bash stones together for aliving and cause mother nature no end of headache.

• We may have a lot of high and frivolous technology nowadays:a lot of exotic turkish delights but chocolate is always goingto be chocolate - brown.


Apparently, it’s now called yellow I

• The Simpsons are a cartoon family with yellow skin. Despitethe mutual bashing on both sides of the Atlantic, I foundeveryone likes the first family of yellow. It’s a dream if wecould all be the same bug-eyed, spiky-haired, lazy, lucky ...nuclear power plant worker.

• Whatever work we do, the things we feel - that we realiseevery day, it all boils down to a certain streak that runsthrough men and women.

• There are amazing ways to live, work and earn money but wemust be aware of our humanity. Maybe that’s why this song isso odd yet so true.


Apparently, it’s now called yellow II

Look at the stars Look how they shine for you Andeverything you do Yeah they were all yellow

I came along I wrote a song for you And all the thingsyou do And it was called yellow

Figure : Coldplay: What do you think they stand for?


A case for quota restriction theory I

• In a documentary on the people living between the Koreanpeninsula and China, far north where the winters are quitesevere, homes are built for efficiency of heating and ... eating.

• 25% of the world’s energy use and carbon come frominefficient heating and cooling technology.

• What would it take to turn northern Europeans and Asiansinto self-sufficient Korean border people?


I didn’t expect to be paid for that I

• Many older buildings and some newer ones suffer from stuffyheating and bitter airy heating respectively.

• Installing a new boiler or heating system makes a householdhappier but lazier. What would a household be like if theirheating was “free” and dependent on food, laundry and bathwater?

• Would they work harder at home, be more enterprising ormore sociable?


I didn’t expect to be paid for that II

Figure : Built for efficiency


Seeds of change I

• Exporting the Proton Saga was a lesson in economics,engineering design and marketing.

• The family sedan was named after the saga seed and initiallywas only available in bright and shiny saga red. The name wasunique to Malaysia which was sourcing Japanese technologyto manufacture the first Asian car outside Japan.

Figure : Our national car


Seeds of change II

Figure : Bright red and shiny hard seeds of the Angsana tree


Jump the gun if you have the stones I

• Is it worrying for a country with great biodiversity to beclearing jungle to build car manufacturing plants, naming thevehicles after indigenous species?

• Could the same wealth be had every monsoon season bycreatively packing a game played with saga seeds?


Jump the gun if you have the stones II

Figure : The Japanese game of Go


Bodyback for my corpus I

• Wearing a computer is a dream we all have.

• Just like the Bluetooth headsets of yesteryear, this dream iscoming true with iWatch, Pebble and others which will nodoubt follow.

• Can a watch one day replace a smartphone altogether?


Bodyback for my corpus II

Figure : Dick Tracy and his super watch / communicator


Dick Tracy would have been proud I

• Talking into and viewing video on your wrist, gettingstep-by-step instructions or directions while you look likeyou’re checking the time on purpose to speed up service tellsyou something: we’re asking a heck of a lot from an iWatchand we know we’ll never get all of it.

• Wearing a Darth Vader jaw bucket with reflective prompterswould be more comfortable and productive. Smart hoods inpink, green and white - can you smell the money?

• The wrist computer would serve better being a polished steelstone tucked between the weave of a paracord watch band.


Dick Tracy would have been proud II

Figure : Survival Straps’ paracord watch bands


Fascination with blood I

• How many people these days believe in vampires, wizards andwerewolves? Thanks to cinema’s fascination with thesupernatural, many youth are buying into the franchise ofpop-horror. Are they growing up Goth?

• More importantly, are youth today becoming desensitised toviolence as a way of life and daily occurrence?

• Darkness and wild abandon should never be the backbone of amodern society though times are hard.


Fascination with blood II

Figure : Music is about the Hunt so ... feed the flames?


Generation screwed I

• Who can listen to an hour of Metallica? It depends on thealbum. The Black Album was widely panned as toocommercial. It was really ostentatiously depressive.

• Who can watch a Tim Burton matinee? A lot of people,actually. Black humour and sexual overtones along withgadgets, music and cinematography easily turn us towards thelight once the show is over. Maybe with a little more wisdom.

• You won’t need that weapon, tonight!


Generation screwed II

Figure : Scene from the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Jungian slips I

• The 1900s were a decade or time of great spiritualexperimentation and a renaissance period of the ancient artsand knowledge that were suppressed during the originalRenaissance.

• Wide travel facilitated exchange of information of personalnature and a great number of publications were approved,some of which would not be today and if they were, would beridiculed as “old wives’ tales”.

• Carl Jung (Freud’s spiritual half), take a bow. More thanever, humanity is scientifically conscious of being one in themind and under a higher power.

• Therapist: “Hey, didn’t I know you since forever?” come onyou can say it.


Jungian slips II

Figure : Sigmund Freud (left) and Carl Jung (right)


The closet god of C. S. Lewis I

• Being shy or abashed at the multi-dependent mathematics ofthe infinitive, the boundary conditions and loci of a granddesign, turns the intelligent man lyrical and allegorical.

• The lion king of classic English literature emerged from an oldwardrobe and the tatters of war in Europe, over fallencreatures, orc, goblin, servants of the Enemy.

• It’s time to once again objectively consider why a smart mancan ride, swimming in doubt, in a tram on a spring morningand adjourn to a park bench to pray like he never would havedone.


The closet god of C. S. Lewis II

Figure : C. S. Lewis’ Narnia


The closet god of C. S. Lewis III

“I know very well when but hardly how the final stepwas taken. I went with my brother to have a picnicat Whipsnade Zoo. We started in fog, but by theend of our journey the sun was shining. When weset out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is theSon of God and when we reached the zoo I did.”

“I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor ingreat emotion. It was more like when a man, aftera long sleep, becomes aware that he is now awake.But what of Joy? To tell you the truth, the subjecthas lost nearly all interest for me since I became aChristian. It was valuable only as a pointer tosomething other and outer.”


Valkyries in a rune sorority I

• Red hair or orange hair is the mark of leadership, uniquenessand of high desire.

• The penance of “woman” is present in the characters of theancient Chinese script.

• Ginger or orange turmeric and related pungent tonic herbsbear the cross-legged mark of “nu” or “woman”, ginger beingthe “lamb of woman”.

• It’s not surprising that in 1966, the year “God died”, feminismtook off!


Valkyries in a rune sorority II

Figure : Ginger in the Chinese script. Is this holy writing?


Valkyries in a rune sorority III

Figure : Geri Halliwell (a.k.a. Ginger Spice) of the pop group, The SpiceGirls


Valkyries in a rune sorority IV

Figure : Time Magazine 1966 cover


Oh, the burden of women I

• Roughly, the burden of women is described by 3 generalrelationships:

• WomanHealth = FeminismRespectn

× (Feminism +∑n

i=0 Respect)

• WomanRedemption = Beauty of FunctionWrong conduct

• WomanBeauty of Function = Expressed sexuality × Feminism


Oh, the burden of women II

Figure : Female nudity: is it back in vogue after 5,000 years?


Saving private Trayvon I

• It’s not surprising once news of a killing (under suspiciouscircumstances) appears again and again that the public isn’thappy with the verdict or the law that permitted it.

• After some time, it’s apparent that, barring conspiracytheorists, the news media is hoping something bigger thanthat story will occur. A life-changing watershed press momentworthy of a pulitzer. It’s both greedy and useful.


Saving private Trayvon II

Figure : Trayvon Martin who was shot and killed


Nigga’ with an attitude maybe I

• Watching a lot of NYPD and Special Victim’s Unit, you getto see the inner city side of America, New York etc. and it’sdifferent from the crimes in Miami Vice, NCSA or CSI. It’sgritty and depressing and the world in which little Trayvonsand their peer groups grow up in.

• There’s more to a crime than a predisposed demographic. It’sthe interrelations between criminals or susceptible youth thatfuel stereotypes, misconceptions and fear of them.

• When a black man points his gun on top of you sideways, he’sactually hoping a higher power will guide him in pulling thetrigger or not to.

• Cue another P. Diddy talk-over hit.


Nigga’ with an attitude maybe II

Figure : Side grip pistol firing method


Salad days of a CEO I

• Thanks for the beets, Steve. I never thought I’d say that. Butthen Steve flew at me with a Powerbook back in the 90s. Heknocked the glowing Apple logo upside down and subdued allthe critics. He hung it on a shiny steel rod and they campedto get inside.

• He didn’t die looking bad either. Leaving me with a passionfor excellence in health as well as ergonomics. I now eat Beetsas much as I love Macing.


Salad days of a CEO II

“I don’t mean to insinuate that the soul of Steve issomewhere toasty with insufficient light, in theNeXT world, but rather, I just remembered, that hedied after a life ’well done’. I think, having readpirated sections from the un-approved autobiographyof my favourite computer maker’s co-foundersomewhere online, that he was indeed a little moreof a rascal than I am but that he mellowed andmatured into much more than this amateurprogrammer and baker could hope to achieve.”


Salad days of a CEO III

“So, sayonara Steve. I hope I won’t be getting repliessigned with ’sent from my iPhone’, should I forgetand e-mail him. But then again, he did work hardand indeed inspired me to slave over every detail ofmy apps.”


Salad days of a CEO IV

Figure : Apple founder, Steve Jobs


There were only a couple of beets and cucumbers in theback of the shop I

• One beet, peeled and chopped, roasted or toasted until a littlesweet

• A cucumber, diced

• Creamy horseradish dressing

• a spoon of unprocessed honey

• salt and vinegar to taste

• That was the recipe I found on the internet which made beetspalatable to the Asian palette. They aren’t expensivecompared to the nice veg they grow in the highlands and arevery good for you in the heat and stress of Malaysia’s tropicalweather.


There were only a couple of beets and cucumbers in theback of the shop II

Figure : Beet and cucumber salad


The low down on whistleblowers I

• They’re good sorts, whistleblowers. Good for business untilyou offend them. Which is possibly why they had so muchinformation in the first place.

• In a cubicle jungle, everyone spies. Why be shy about it andbreed moles, saboteurs, wusses and bosses’ pets.

• Write on somebody’s iPad. Write on their mousepad. Pin aquote on their cubicle panel. Sit on their desk in a miniskirt ...after office hours.


Be Vulgar about Business I

• Napoleon Hill says that sex is a motivator for success. Howtrue you say in private. How unproductive not to be able tosay so in person!

• “Why not just tell me”.

• “I want you / me to learn”.

• Buy my book. Buy my music. Judge this by its cover - buymy guided scribble-on mousepad.


Be Vulgar about Business II

Figure : Motivational Mousepad


Takeout Chinese Girl I

• Chinese and their culture seen through movies and musicseem to be all about beauty and food. Vanity and gluttonyare major flaws in the Mongoloid race and we are oftenidentified by our “look” (kung fu, coolie, sinseh) and our food(egg foo yong, takeout cartons, fortune cookies).

• Knowing the weaknesses of the China-man, we expect andfind that he relinquishes his country easily to reside abroadand adopt the language and dress of the West. Children bornthus often forget and misinterpret the wisdoms and festivalsof ancient China.

• Is lost heritage important as grandma’s scrapbook? Don’twait 20 years to find out.


Takeout Chinese Girl II

Figure : Edmund Yeo, Singapore used culinary culture as a focal point


Caught you at the Mid Autumn festival, Mr Bond I

• Centuries before the computer, much less Facebook, Chinainvented ... “gunpowder”? Not only that, but we had a richculture of meeting people and a network of information theenvy of the world. Nodes of this Grid were the monumentsand richly celebrated festivals.

• So some festivals were for children, some for luck, health,wealth, bearing adversity. It doesn’t take a fortune teller witha laptop, Facebook friends, or “Asians can Success” seminarsto make the current generation of Mongoloid race toe the linein life, pleasure and work.


Caught you at the Mid Autumn festival, Mr Bond II

“Mother, where is my moon cake?”- T. S. Chong

Figure : Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Cake Festival


Thresholds and tolerance I

• Asians divide their homes, lives and relationships with vigour.

• The Chinese kiss their lovers between closed doors and bindthe feet of pretty women.

• The Japanese apprentice floor scrubbers.

• All apparently to experience the wonders of pure bare feet.

• Nerve-wise, the foot is as emotively healing as the heart itself.


He came nude, he was a hero I

• Bare feet are disarming. So is the posture of the lower legs.As is its effect on the seat of power: the chair / throne /pedestal.

• Having a shoe or footwear which allows manipulation of theseeffects is beneficial to friendship, gatherings, socialising,working involving negotiating (overnight or overtime involvesjust that) and to health of nervous people who could thenpress on the pressure points of the foot instinctively andpolitely.

• Never let it be said that feet are ugly - they tend to look justlike nature made you, wood, fire, water or soil, just like yoursoulmate, just like your heart!


He came nude, he was a hero II

Figure : Nerve therapy pressure points of the foot


Think big or small I

• Having a large product line, diversifying, is a sure way tocorner a market. Not just making a large, medium and smallversion but also making the accessories and finally, owning theretail and distribution rights.

• In a downturn, it’s even more important to diversify. Not tomaximise revenue but to cut costs and to synergize.

• Synergy in industry is ensuring the correct supportingproducts get made cheaply and correctly, even in the samefactory if possible and by the same manufacturing process,with roughly similar materials and tolerances.


Tastes like chicken, may contain nuts I

• Universal food pills aside, what would a synergistic factoryproduce?

• Sports, dates, and toasting (toastmasters) are one synergistictrio of business opportunities. Shoes, attire, rackets andfrisbees, and conversation pieces or expression aids could beproduced efficiently by the same factory and support eachothers’ sales.

• What other trios can you think of and how would theyinteract in the market?


Tastes like chicken, may contain nuts II

Figure : Complementary products


What is a computer, who am I? I

• UNIX has an aura more glamorous than Apple’s Macintosh.Even Steven Spielberg succumbed to dropping the brandname in his hit movie Jurassic Park.

• There are so many flavours of Linux that nobody knows whatto do about the OSS operating system and its hardcore fans.

• A lot of resources seem to go into the hobby of “usingcomputers”.


What is a computer, who am I? II

Figure : UNIX at the Open Group


Let them do Powerpoint! I

• If you change your desktop picture a lot, it could be a signthat you’re a fan and not a user. That your computer is yourpet, not a tool. You could be on the road to medicationespecially if you (flame on) IRC.

• If you live within Powerpoint, it could be that you’re addictedto Windows 2.0’s clean workflow or maybe you’re searchingfor direction in day-to-day work or searching for somewherewhere your work is appreciated.

• If you use awk, sed, perl and tex, emacs etc. you may be amasochist or someone who’s happily doing something (soonto be) very popular.


Let them do Powerpoint! II

Figure : UNIX command line tools


Root of Evil I

• The problem with money is that we don’t know what it meansor stands for anymore. Around 1950, an honest day’s workgave way to taking chances on the road and somehow gettingby on a wing and a prayer or the good graces of faithfuladmirers.

• Money is simply our self worth - the sum of our good bits andclever methods. Dividing up and storing money, taking care ofit so it’s always good depends on being a good organiser andplanner. Planning and organising is also called Investing.


Cash everywhere I

• Being flexible is a dream from American Express commercials.Showing up with nothing but the plastic, out of the jungles ofAfrica.

• Paying with your iPhone or purchasing software throughonline stores is a great convenience. Why hasn’t it caught onlike wildfire?

• Simply, there aren’t enough explorer jobs, good health foodplaces that have Square point of sale boxes and apps thatmake your phone super productive, not just eye candy. That’swhen Bitcoin, moolah and Square are put on the back burnerand we take out cash from under our mattresses.


Cash everywhere II

Figure : Bitcoins: the number one internet currency


April Fool, Patent Pending I

• The lack of inventiveness from Americans is a cause for a lowlevel alert.

• What happened to America’s Funniest Home Videos?

• Are all the children in some Big Brother INGSOC frat clubnow that Bill Cosby is dead?


April Fool, Patent Pending II

Figure : Is this a bar accessory or a periscopic peep hole innovation


iSmell a million I

• The dreams of Smell-o-Vision were an April Fool’s prank orwere they?

• You can stick your iPhone to your car windscreen with atwo-way suction cup but it dangles off-centre most of thetime.

• It looks like the season for scratch-and-sniff stickers fordistempered cats.

• Steal hotel soaps and jerry rig them onto iLoveHandlesbarnacles and maybe you can smell the search results.


iSmell a million II

Figure : Smell-o-vision?


Lessons of the shoemaker I

• The running shoe seems to many people, the most high techpiece of engineering they would ever aspire to.

• It used to be the pocket knife, back in the 20s - 50s. Now it’sthe Nike Lunaron or Adidas football shoe.

• The most mundanely hi-tech gear we have are all made fromflat pieces of material, folded and creased into spectacularcomposite shapes and functions. Just like a ball gown fitsover Taylor Swift.


Lessons of the shoemaker II

Figure : The sports shoe space race


Folds of the katana I

• The dovetail joint was a celebrated discovery in carpentry,relegated to academia by the nail, the pin, and lately, theAllen wrench.

• The chisel and mallet shared the same fate when the sawappeared on the scene. It’s not easy to saw through a thickpiece of wood but the results are good for semi-professionals.If not, there are power saws.

• Why do the Japanese keep alive the art of basic woodworkingand joining? Just look at the Katana - the weapon thatsurvived hundreds of years of wars up to 1945 and is still theexpected turn-up in futuristic movies like G.I. Joe and TheWolverine.


Folds of the katana II

Figure : Traditional Japanese carpentry which uses only hammer andchisel


Waxing lyrical over terror I

• Terror is a new term. Terrorists have always existed. Terrorismhas always gotten results. Ideology has always clashed. JoePublic has never before felt so threatened. What is terror.

• Terror isn’t a bomb going off. Terror isn’t a crippled athleteblown off his wheelchair. Terror isn’t bribing a paramedic toput a wheelchair with a bomb in it on board a plane.

• Terror is standing up for what you believe in and feeling soafraid.


Waxing lyrical over terror II

Figure : “Terror” on the streets of tropical Malaysia, May 1969


Now who’s afraid? I

• It doesn’t matter which side you’re on when it comes toterror. American or Arab, Communist or Democracy. Terrorbreeds in jungle warfare, sleepy third world countries, librariesand basement pubs in the depths of Siberian winters. “Wedidn’t start the fire - it was always burning”.

• Agreeing to disagree is the easy thing to do. Poetry and songare sweet but only the next decade. Graffiti (in its manyforms) is the best - it can even become art once they teardown the walls between our hearts.


Now who’s afraid? II

Figure : Founder of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden

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