Whiz Kid

This nine year old Malaysian boy in
Singapore wrote a painting application
for the Apple iPhone.

Read here.

Aluminium Furniture and Cabinets Anyone?

I recently paid a visit to an aluminium furniture company, Ideal Imperial, belonging to a friend. It specializes in making customized furniture, closets and kitchen cabinets.

Aluminium glass and fibre glass doors

Kitchen cabinet in gleaming black finish

Made to measure wall cabinets

The aluminium cabinets come in any colour of your choice

An aluminium shelf

A shoe cabinet

A dining table and chairs in black finish

Aluminium ceilings that come in various wood grains

Address:

Ideal Imperial sdn bhd
No. 20-1, Tanjong Laboh
83000 Batu Pahat
Johor, Malaysia.

Tel: 607-4312222
Fax: 607-4324222

Something Different

Alston has been my prolific supplier of information through email - many weird, interesting and informative - that at times I felt overwhelmed by it. However, one of the email that I received illustrates the creativity of designers, what we would call people who are able to think out of the box.

Maybe many of you have seen these pictures. But I haven't and I thought I would like to share them with you.

A Little Town Called....

An email from KKB alerted me to a hamlet in Upper Austria called "Fucking". The villagers are fuming as cheeky British tourists ripped off the town's signboards. The local authorities are making the theft of "Fucking" signsboards difficult by setting them in concrete.

This sign carries the humour even further: "Bitte - nicht so schnell!" is German for "Please - not so fast!" (Snopes.com)

Austrians Not Amused
AFP (Nov 2006)

The local authorities are hitting back with the signs now set in concrete.

British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and blinding by constantly stealing the signs for their oddly named village.

While British visitors are finding it hilarious, the residents of Fucking are failing to see the funny side.

Only one kind of criminal stalks the sleepy 32-house village near Salzburg on the German border - cheeky British tourists armed with a sense of humor and a screwdriver.

But the local authorities are hitting back with the signs now set in concrete, police chief Kommandant Schmidtberger is on the lookout.

"We will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed," the officer said.

"It may be very amusing for you British, but Fucking is simply Fucking to us. What is this big Fucking joke? It is puerile."

Local tourist guide Andreas Behmueller said it was only the British that had a fixation with Fucking.

"The Germans all want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg," he explained. "Every American seems to care only about 'The Sound of Music' (the 1965 film shot around Salzburg.) The occasional Japanese wants to see Hilter's birthplace in Braunau."

"But for the British, it's all about Fucking."

Guesthouse manager Augustina Lindelbauer described the village's breathtaking lakes, forests and vistas. "Yet still there is this obsession with Fucking," she said. "Just this morning I had to tell an English lady that there were no Fucking postcards."

We don't know how severe the stolen sign problem there really is, but Austria is indeed home to a town called 'Fucking' (48' 03"N 13' 51"E). Pronounced "fooking," the little hamlet of Fucking is named after the man who founded the village in the 6th century. His name? Focko.

Stress At The Work Place

Stress at the work place can affect people in unexpected ways. I received two video clips from K K Bu, a friend. He got them from unVideoAlGiorno.com