Showing posts with label status quo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label status quo. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Status Quo: Sineplians and Anigavlians Principle


"Sineplians and Anigavlians Principle"


Publicity: Huh?!?

Status Quo: I learned this from the book that I'm almost (not yet) done reading - Sex, Lies and Stereotypes by Dr. Gary Wood. The Sineplians and Anigavlians story is similar to the men from Mars-women from Venus principle. And if you're clever enough, you could easily identify which refers to which

Friday, May 2, 2008

Status Quo: Not at my desk coz I'm on my seat


"Not at my desk coz I'm on my seat"


Publicity: I was asked how would I spoof the "On the phone" status...

Status Quo: Basically a spoof of YM's default status message "Not at my desk". It's quite confusing though whether I was really at my area or not. In the afternoon, it was spoof and I was at my desk but earlier I wasn't.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Status Quo: The Premier

I've noticed recently that my IM contacts frequently react to my status messages. My cousins for instance would either send me a message or ask me personally on weekends the story behind a certain status message.

Then the idea bulb lit up: it gotta be a regular section here in my blog so that once and for all, people will know about the "Status Quo".





Status Quo debuts with...

"Too dry"

Publicity: A friend who'd relocated somewhere else thought that we're experiencing drought here in the city due to the summer heat while a former classmate left me a rather surprising message - the "f" swear that is. I don't know if that's some spam, or she had mistaken me for some foe, or I've rekindled some bad experience of hers with that phrase, or maybe it's just her way of saying "hi" after a long while.

Status Quo: A fingerprint scanner was installed in our building recently to be tested for timekeeping and we are enrolling our fingerprints to the database. As I was having my left index finger scanned, it displayed the "Too dry!" error message. Eventually, I had my left thumb enrolled instead while for the right hand, it's the index finger