Lifejuice and the Tale of the Poor Quality Control

Hi there gang, how's tricks? Today I had an interesting experience with my Fang. It all began with Lifejuice who had a promotion on groupon promoting some kind of goodie bag with numerous bottles of fresh juices.

Upon receipt, Fang opened it with glee to see a neatly packaged goodie bag with six bottles of fruit juices and a jar of salad arranged neatly in a free cooler bag.

 

 

Or so we thought.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

After a few minutes of praises and general satisfaction of the package in the car, Fang began to notice leaking coming from within the bag. It began to slowly leak all her person and on to the car seat. Eventually the whole car started smelling pineapple-like.

Being in a car, this meant clear inspection of what went wrong is impossible. Luckily my workplace was nearby and we decided to drop by and see what is wrong and clean up this mess.

We got out the car and removed everything, it became clear that something was leaking. We temporarily put some tissues to absorb whatever it was that was leaking.

Side note; the juice actually also leaked through the bottom of the cooler bag. Can you imagine? A cooler bag? Leaking?

  

Eventually we found the culprit. It was bottle number 5 (bottom cap in the pic) that was leaking. Because of a poorly constructed bottle cap lid thing.

Comparing the level of juice with the other bottles, it looks like quite a substantial amount leaked out of pesky bottle number 5 (Green Tox).

We then tried bottle number 5 together since it's already "open". Thinking we've tightened the bottle cap properly this time, we shook well as the label instructed only to have it leak some more. 

Well at least the juice doesn't taste terrible. So we have that going for us. Which is nice.

Emergency flood control efforts.

Overall good effort in the juice and packaging but please have the quality control team check your products before you ship them out for 'promotions'.

Wow! Look at all those dead links!

Certainly serves me right for depending on Facebook for an image host!

So hi! I still haven't decided what I'm going to do with this blog. And damn that layout! What was I thinking two years ago?!

I've got a strange suspicion that me, being hopelessly colorblind, unknowingly picked a super hot pink blog template.

Oh well, in any case, it's too late now, I've already made the logo.

While we're at it, here we were yesterday:

 Ugh.















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Arnott's Fungi Filled Surprise Followup - Customer Service Done Right

As some of you may remember, I had an "incident" with a product by Arnott's.



Then I did what any ordinary angsty and spiteful consumer would do, I took photos, ranted about it on a blog, made a fuss, threw a tantrum and moaned about how unlucky I am to be involved in such an unfortunate incident.

Then, seemingly out of the blue, an unnamed representative from Arnott's left a comment




We then corresponded by e-mail in a light atmosphere and much understandings were had.

Location of purchase was questioned and compensations discussed.

Anyway, this arrived pretty quickly and in an URGENT manner.









I was given an RM20 voucher for my trouble and emotional breakdown.



The voucher was later used to buy fruits.

At least I'm honest.

Yuno Shirt

A hero was offering to print Yuno shirts on Lowyat forum.

I took this great opportunity to be cool.





Now I'm cool.

Heartbeat Mug

Was looking at how Deviantart offered to print designs on a lot of things including mugs, mousepads, t-shirts etc.

When I checked-out, the final price totaled to around RM200+

I then thought to myself there must be a better way.

Luckily for el Goog, I managed to find these guys.

Hearbeat.my

I sent them these designs:







And DEMANDED that they be printed to STRINGENT specifications.



Then they sent me these.



Everything went as well as I expected.

Because I know things.

WINDOW SMASHED

Went to a restaurant for food the other day.

Came back.

SAW THIS.



WHAT. THE. FUCK.







A list of stuff I've lost. Not too bad considering my laptop is still around. I seem to often get my things stolen. The biggest pain would probably be the camera. NO WAIT. The hard disk.

Yes. The hard disk had at least 4 years of photographs in it. Oh well. At least I'm wiser now and I'm putting most of my personal media on cloud storage. Using Dropbox at the moment.



My safety tint did nothing to prevent the theft but did keep the shattered glass together.



Went to the Proton service center. They said that the spare part will arrive on the next day and the car would be fine and dandy and for pickup tomorrow.

At least half of their promise came to fruition. The part arrived on the next day. But it didn't fit. What could it be? A Persona window?

I decided to take my car back because the new window will only come 3 days later.



A friend helped me with my predicament. Thanks ESA.

Gadget Kaki

As a future post will clarify. I need a new Samsung Galaxy Tab charger.

I managed to find a nice fellow on the Lowyat forums by the name of ohde selling the chargers for a reasonable price.

Awesome customer service and polite as well.

Shipped and delivered within 3 days.



Here it is before openation.



Packed with a pretty good amount of filler papers as well.



However was slightly disappointed that the charger was a 2-pin head when my original charger was a 3-pin head. There was also no box so there was no exciting unboxing experience. However it was all done to reduce the cost of the overall purchase. I suppose I can live with that.

Thanks ohde for the great support! His thread may be found here: [WTS]SAMSUNG/HTC/SE/MOTO/LG-ACCESSORY [GADGETKAKI]

Graveyards [pics]

This is a graveyard in Miri. I always look forward to graveyard visits. They always bring about feelings of calm and serenity. There is something about the lonely atmosphere as you come here with your family to a seemingly deserted and abandoned area. Not another family in sight. Just you and your closest relatives.

We've come into the land of where the dead come to rest and where nothing is around to disturb them.



Nothing can be heard except for the soft wind blowing and the leaves rustling against each other.



Occasionally, unburnt pieces from the offering papers blow across in front of you, indicating that possibly moments ago, another quiet family like your own came by to pay their respects.



As you walk past grave upon grave, their ornate coloring betray the grimness of their purpose. And yet there is something about the black and white portrait photos on the headstones which remind you that these graves were built in a different time and yet they somehow show no signs of aging.



The story of this broken grave is unclear but the opened coffin which is unceremoniously tossed to one side seem to indicate a grave robbery. I only went close enough to see lumps of matter of uncertain material lying within the coffin slightly hoping that I wouldn't see a skeleton.

Not wanting to have it burnt into my mind that a deceased person was disrespectfully grave robbed and tossed aside, I silently stepped away from the grave.

Probably not the best way to recharge your phone

In the event of a forest fire resulting in half of your house being burnt down, you may be left with few options for plugging in a phone charger.



In such cases, it is not uncommon for consumers to use the most impractical power outlet for recharging purposes.

Thankfully, my house is fully intact and the phone and charger combo was moved to a safer and less ridiculous location.

The Tim Tam Chocolate Product and the Unexpected Fungus Surprise!

I'm not one to buy chocolate for casual eating purposes. If there's any lying around the house I will munch them.



But sooneth did I spake words of mine, TimTams aplenty before me laid spreaded.



Concerned not I of the date of expiry. For time left it has for two months till February.



But oh woe and alas funky fungus sneaked up all upon us.



But time for me t'was not on my side, for sadly by then I've taken a huge bite.

Yes, I butchered poetry.

No refunds.

The best bit was when I thought to myself as I took a big chomp of the thing, "Oh my, what an interesting texture this particular Tim Tam flavour brings to my sensitive tongue."

Then I took a closer look.

Then I spat like a water sprinkler.

Buns of Steel and the Okay-Truck .___.

Buns of steel. (it really is actually a bun in there)



Sad truck. Probably usable in conjunction with Okay guy haha. Found this on reddit. Just slapped on a giant 'Okay' there for impact.

Dog Abuse

Like a BOSS.


Now take said doji then pull its ears back and you get a leeetle seal! Ain't he kiut? Yes she is this fella is, so mmmuch.

Silly Putty

Have you guys SEEN silly putty?! It's ridiculous! Ridiculously addictive to mess around with!

It has strange properties too, it is best-described to be partly solid partly liquid.

Here's the thing, if force is applied suddenly, it's pretty solid. Like if you stretch it out quick enough, it SNAPS. If stretched slowly and gently, it.. um. Stretches.

Sculpt something and leave it, and it starts getting glossy. Yuck. Notice how these sculptures become progressively darker each time.

That's due to the constant dropping or absorbing crap from all over the place.

The Strange Young Man Phlog Update!

Yes I've created a new term! A PHLOG. That's like:

Photo + Blog = Phlog

I am so clever.

Now, enough of my cleverness. Let's see what sort of madness that I've come across recently.




Oh yes. There's the anusface guy. Who thinks he's a Helghan soldier. He maintains that those two white tubes are actually breathing apparatus. Ah~ what a cold joke.



Cow car loves grass.



Some restaurant with an emo-bird-stuck-in-a-birdcage-singing-for-all-theme going on.
This was at the bridging point between Gardens and Midvalley's Megamall.





I never realized how terrifying the control tower was until this point. Bfuwishztt! Schvuwabam! That's dramatic lightning sound effects from the lips, yo.

Clearly too much Redditing

In case you still haven't discovered Reddit yet, you should probably go take a look. Not only are there memorable rage comics all around, but there are also posts on practically any topic that you may find interesting.

It is essentially a site where users are able to share links or thoughts to interesting subjects. The really interesting ones appear on the frontpage.

There is also an interesting section called the IAmA section where individuals who think they are interesting (politicians, former prison inmates) ask the readers of Reddit to practically ask them anything.

I mainly Reddit for the rage comics though.

Which inspired some of these you see here.

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Back in a hometown one day, I came across this delicious sign which describes the fact that:

THEY ARE CLOSE

Besides the surprising fact of their nearness, they also went on to describe the date on which they are close. Namely:

ON THE THREETH

Oh such amusing times.

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This next one is related to the fact that I imitated something done by someone on Reddit with less-than-desirable effects.