Feigned innocence

Recently I made a reservation on an item with a price tag of RM55.81. As that particular item was not readily available in the store, I was requested to pay a deposit of RM20 while waiting for it to get restocked. A receipt detailing the transaction was issued to me before I left in a jovial mood.


RM55.81 - RM20.00 = RM25.81

It was a few days later that I caught the following discrepancy in the receipt:

Estimated / Actual Cost: RM55.81
Deposit: RM20.00
Balance: RM25.81

Putting moral values aside, what would you do in this very scenario?

Storekeeper realized the miscalculation but you insist on paying only RM25.81 since it was stated so in the Balance column of the receipt?

You proactively inform the storekeeper about the mistake in the receipt and volunteer to complete the remaining payment of RM35.81?

As long as the storekeeper is not aware of it, you pretend not to notice the missing RM10 and proceed to pay him RM25.81? After all, you did not play any role that caused him to screw up in the first place.

Will your decision change if the amount unaccounted for is any number larger than RM10? RM100?

What about RM1,000? You can certainly do a lot with an extra RM1,000 in your disposal.

ABCDE # 1

Hesitation is such a nuisance. One moment I was dressed up, ready to go and the next thing I knew, my jeans were halfway down my knees.

Look, the sky is kind of cloudy. It will probably rain later.

What about the fair on this coming weekend? Give it a miss again?

What is the point of having the ingredients when the barbeque pit is not ready?

-sigh-

I finally managed to drag my sorry ass out by convincing myself on the need to wash some eyes... only to discover that my favourite machine malfunctioned. Not one to be intimidated by such an insignificant obstacle, I pushed myself on and flabbergasted at my capability to comply with the list that I had drafted earlier on.

Up and down I went, throwing irrelevant points out the window only to end up doing something that I have never intended to; treading blindly onto a foreign path.


Small Beginnings Come Greater Things.

Pray for no potholes, anyone?

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Transforminators

I recently watched the Terminator Salvation and boy, was I disappointed that it did not live up to the hype it garnered. Fine, I admit that it was pretty OK but I expected much more than that especially since we are talking about the Terminator series and it even starred Christian Bale, arguably the most popular actor at this point in time.

-sigh-

With the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen just around the corner, a digital studio by the name of Black20 released a mash-up video combining these two totally-unrelated-yet-similar-themed movie series into one nice yet hilarious hybrid trailer.



I recommend you to watch the video in HQ and scripted below is the excerpt that I managed to make out for John Connor's commentary:

This is John Connor.
We've been fighting for a long time.

It was bad enough when we were fighting the Terminators.
Then the Transformers came.

Now we just call them the Transforminators.

They used to shoot at us.
Now they turn into sweet cars.

They're taking human prisoners.
Replicating human tissue.

And worst of all...
... eating all of our sand.

I nearly burst out laughing when John Connor shouted Why are you trashing my scene? You ARE trashing my scene! Don't shut me up!

However, I must say that hearing Optimus Prime uttering the Terminator's famous hasta la vista line sounded a little Protoss-ish to me, or maybe it was just me being a StarCraft fanboy. :P