New Year mood!

Chinese New Year is next day. So fast. I went for a walk into chinatown. Surprisingly there isn't much people. Usually on the eve would be very crowded mainly to grab the cheap stuff. It seems some of the stalls was closed. So I don't see any cheap stuffs to get since most stuffs are gone. Too bad the sweets I want are not there.

Bank problems

So you have heard of the unauthorised withdrawal of money from ATMs oversea. Now you get instead, "unauthorised" deposit into a bank account! That guy is now a billionare, except that he can't use any of those money because for some reason, the bank doesn't allow withdrawal. It doesn't matter anyway since the guy is an honest guy and he reported the matter to the bank but the bank although acknowledge such an error, they for some reason did not remove the additional digits from the account.

http://www.conservativerefocus.com/blog5.php/2012/01/19/indian-school-teacher-becomes-overnight-multi-billionaire-due-to-banking-error-nearly-10-billion-deposited

Wikipedia black out

Wikipedia is having a black out on their site to oppose a internet bill in the US. The bill in effect will gives anti piracy more power to block sites. By doing that, the these people seems to make it more simply just a click of a button to block out websites. Currently it seems when pirate contents are found they will send out letters to demand for removal. So if you encounter foreign websites that ignores your letter the best way is to block? It will lead a block off the US internet from the rest of the world. Some lazy bums just decide to use blockage as the ultimate stoppage of having their content freely available. You can block yourself from the world but the world that got blocked still have access to many contents, minus US websites. It would be like a self exile in internet world.

long hair annoyances

What is the most annoying thing you ever encounter in public? Some woman who would flick the long hair. It is annoying and they think their hair is damn clean? It doesn't and at that time it certainly smells. These people just being an annoyance and one day someone nearby may just blew their top and start to give it back at them with a strong verbal response.

Batteries killed my remote twice

How was the new year? It was ok until, well, my remote for my DVD player died. That is the second time. The cause is the battery leak. I am using the GP battery. Why is the GP battery so lousy? Damn. Blame it on lousy luck I guess. I won't be using GP batteries anymore. At least on my remote...