one_man’s_junk

23 09 2008

we’ve grown up amidst dire warnings of doomsday, war cries to save the ozone layer and petitions to end animal cruelty. can anyone say blind spot?

so, we deduced that perhaps holier-than-thou attitudes of self proclaimed eco-friendly saints in hemp robes just turn us off. because, heck, we were pretty intrigued by this passive (but no-nonsense) display of environmental awareness.

meet sustainable dave, the man who never takes out the trash.

at first glance, we imagined an obsessive compulsive hoarder/hobo (who eventually gets dug out of 20 tonnes of junk, half-eaten by his family of starving cats), but it was in fact a documentation of one american’s experiment to not throw out any trash for the whole year.

“I’m a pretty normal guy — I just keep my garbage in my basement.” is pretty much how he sums himself up.

amazingly enough, dave has scrounged up a mere 159lbs as we head into the final quarter of 2008. for a rough gauge, the average slob sends approximately 1,700 lbs of trash a year to incinerators and landfills.

bib hates preachers as much as the next guy, so we’ll just leave you to your own takeout without any resounding moral.

p/s: we’re weighing the feasability of a worm composter for the office. job reqs anyone?



whale_of_a_time

23 09 2008

after quietly observing facebook interactions in the wildly popular fighters club, we’ve noticed that they really know how to paaaarty. the malaysian chapter (led by an inebriated chunson of reservoirlabs) – a motley crew of  various factions – found yet another thing they had in common (apart from the painfully obvious net/facebook addiction) was the love of alcohol. and so they formed The Whales, a party-all-night-drink-till-you-drop group which takes its name from a familiar fishy cliché (remember the adage “drink like a fish?” well, theys are the bigger, meaner, more alcoholic siblings).

it’s been nothing but fun and good times since its conception and good fun loves a good mention. more specifically a mention in this month’s juice.

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Whales United is having a party and tis’ the place to amp up your life with more friends. Celebrating it’s 100 member passing mark, it’s an online group turned offline real-life friends that gathers to hang. It’s gonna be one helluva party with more than 100 attending. Better dress up in your school kicks or get kicked out from the party. 9pm. For details, call 012 207 8285.



gee_whee

17 09 2008

chee wee’s last day and final countdown to new beginnings in a land without pork. anything else will just sound trite, so let’s make a toast instead.

here’s to you, mr. 3am. may there be many more shoots with afro wigs where you’re headed.