…but why would anyone want to build this?

Spotted at a pub in Penrith by yours truly. And for the record, I like going to the toilet alone.

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.

2. Put your new employees in the room and close the door.

3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.

4. Then analyse the situation:

a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department.
b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.
c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering .
d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.
e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.
f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.
g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.
h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.
i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.
j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.
k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.
l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Management
m. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Senior Management .

I like pencils. I’ve always preferred pencils to pens..probably because I always feel the need to correct myself. Thank god for computers…

Anyhoo. For those unaware, I live very close to the world’s largest pencil (64 ft) – where else but in Bolehland Malaysia. And here is the place that claims to have the ‘WORLDS LARGEST colored PENCIL’. Note the colored in fine print. Its about 2m+,but the pencil in Malaysia (in the Faber Castell factory) is about 4 storeys high. Hah! Bite me, Cumberland Pencil Museum!

It costs £2.50 per person to wander about the Keswick Pencil Museum, which comes with a free pencil. Utterly silly, but you do learn some facts – lead(graphite) was ‘apparenty’ first discovered in Keswick and that the best food to use for pencils are Californian cedar. During WW2, pencils were sent to concentration camps for the POWs; inside it only contained a short lead. The rest of the pencil was actually stuffed with a small map, and underneath the rubber was a small compass. How cool was that!

Seriously…this is their world’s largest pencil. Those who had ever used the highway to get to KLIA would see the 4 storey high pencil on the side of the highway.

Color your life

PS: Apparently bolehland’s record have been broken, there is now a 76ft pencil in New York!!Theoretically, this was unveiled just after my trip – so it does not count! Hahahah…

Following up on the last post…welcome to the Buffet Box, at the corner of the Merrion Centre.

the smallest kitchen in the world…I swear its smaller than the one I had in my old apartment!Yes, we were on one enf of the restaurant/cafe and the kitchen was on the other end. That was how small it was.

For those not in the know..this is the Leeds version of the Malaysian nasi lemak. Hmm.Seriously, beggars cant be choosers. The sambal is a tad sweet,but other than that it was actually pretty authentic. A side of chicken and potato curry that came with it suprisingly does not taste indian (like all curries here) but with the distinctive taste of coconut milk, just like home. The rice don’t taste coconutty..which was pretty strange. But overall it was not bad for £4.50, and beggars can’t be choosers. Will definately go back for lunch as my workplace is only 2 minutes walk away.

Penang Assam Laksa. A little lack of ‘heh-koh’ (shrimp paste) but not bad. May have come out from a Hup Leong packaged powder mix. I think it’s made with flaked canned tuna!! Clever idea – I hate making assam laksa because of the lack of fish here,but now I might just try it out with flaked canned tuna.

Overall, not bad for £10 for two. Not the best best in the world, but totally edible. Would definately return especially towards freezing winter – Bah Kut Teh for lunch…yummmz.