holy microsoft freaks! i was wondering why my browser seemed to be acting up lately. i thought my antivirus didn't work or a spyware was causing all the problems.
apparently, these weren't the culprits.
it's microsoft.
a couple of days ago, i installed microsoft's monthly security patches, which included this patch for internet explorer.
with this patch, activate all activex controls first before you can use its functionality. so flash banners and other embedded dynamic web content won't automatically work. you have to click on them twice - first to activate the damn thing, then second to click on the link.
i can't understand what the whole reason was about. some licensing or lawsuit microsoft is facing i read. but all i know is that it's a bummer in terms of user-friendliness.
besides, it screwed up my pluck rss reader. i did think the pluck software got corrupted or something. but it wasn't. all i had to do is download a patch to make it work again - and hopefully it will.
security update
it's show time!
okay, so i'm not exactly passionate about my company. i gag and puke at the mere thought of professing loyalty to it.
but, i must say, after seeing the setup of our largest-ever and very first trade show in hk, i'm really really excited.
the venue, asiaworld expo - literally just a stone's throw away from the hk airport - is simply massive. i won't be surprised if it's just as big as the airport.
in fact, it took us at least 2 minutes just to get from the east wing to the west wing (normal walking speed if i may add). and with large column-less exhibition halls, the possibilities for signage, onsite marketing and booth setup are just endless.
and on top of a fantastic venue is a huge exhibition - featuring almost 2,000 booths. all we are now praying for is a large buyer turnout to make everyone's effort really really worth it.
so whereas before, i was trying my best to avoid visiting the show during the easter holidays, i'm now very much anticipating a morning trip tomorrow - to the other end of hk - just to see how things turnout.
now, i only have to worry about where to get at least a foot massage afterwards - my legs hurt!
cut sleeve boys
... seems like a very very hilarious gay movie!
SYNOPSIS: MEL and ASH are two british chinese gay men who studied and drink lychee martinis together.After attending the funeral of GAVIN, a closet case from their university days, they startexamining the crow’s feet on their faces and questioning the meaning of the labels in theirwardrobes.
Mel, an aging scene queen with the ego of Norma Desmond, believes life is a beauty pageant with him always the winner. He rejects the love of Todd, a provincial boy from the Welsh valleys who moves to London to be with him, in favour of quick-fix Botox sex to fight his insecurities. But how long can he sashay down the catwalk when his eye bags are bigger than his Gucci bags? And who is going to be waiting at the end of the rainbow when there is no place like home?
Ash is tired of the jaded gay scene where steroid bodies and the Atkin’s diet are the only offerings on the menu and all the macho posing only reveals a Farah Fawcett in the bedroom. He meets Diane (a.k.a Dan) a transexual from their college days with a butch, sexy and straight looking ex army boyfriend, Ross. Ash decides the only way for him to find a real man is to click on those Jimmy Choo’s. Will his foray into the wonderland of tranny burrows and tranny chasers bring him his dream man?
Not to be upstaged, the dead but not forgotten Gavin has a posthumous secret up his leg of mutton sleeves waiting to explode!
With witty one liners, underground drag club, sex in public toilet and an all male production of the Miss Pacific Rim Beauty Pageant, CUT SLEEVE BOYS is a quirky stir fried journey of self discovery and ultimately, a makeover of the British Chinese gay experience.
view the TRAILER here.
special exclusive hk screening on april 22nd. g magazine is giving away some free tickets, joined the raffle. hope i win!
ritual humiliation
so what have i been up to lately?
as mentioned in a previous post, it's been a very busy week. apart from work, i had been having dinner appointments on each and every night from monday to thursday, then tonight, and i've got one more left on sunday night.
friday night was our company's annual dinner. nothing special - just a typical multi-course chinese meal. well not really. of course, since it's a company dinner, there has to be a raffle draw and games.
yes, the game. it was awful. if there was a word (or two) to describe it, that would be "ritual humiliation". why so? it involves shouting off the top of your lungs (well, theoretically that was what they wanted us to do) "i love [our company name]!!!"
see i couldn't even type it up! working for a selfish overbearing company enough, but to kiss-ass-ly declare that you actually love this selfish overbearing company, it's just too much. never! not even in the afterlife.
then tonight (well early morning), just as i got home, i caught the final segments of the cnn talk asia interview with the ceo of our arch nemesis in china - alibaba.com's jack ma. and i can't help but compare them with our own ceo. and i must say, i would gladly exchange our ceo for jack ma.
why? because i saw the sincerity in him. i saw that he's not your regular business person who doesn't care about employee's mental and psychological well-being. i saw that he is a true person with a good heart. i saw that he inspires people and doesn't have to blugeon them to action.
and our ceo, well, sad to say, is the opposite. he is just about business. he deals with everyone as a cold-hearted bitch that sees his employees as mere numbers, statistics and percentages. he doesn't really care about anyone else as long as what he wants is followed - no matter how illogical and absurd they are.
case in point, our taxi design that's like a pig's dinner Vs. alibaba.com's taxi design that's short sweet and direct to the point.
so rather than breeding happy employees who are inspired to do their best because they really love and are loyal to the company they work for, he - and the people around him - end up stirring truckloads of discontent and frustration throughout the ranks. and we have seen good people come and go because of this.
so why am i still with this company? i don't know. but i'm starting to find it hard to work for a company whose principles and work ethics i don't subscribe to.