Ramblings - Unfortunately Fortunate
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
For those unfortunate souls who did not have the chance to attend the seminar our hero braved through within the last 36 hours, I will be providing a brief rundown of the more notable details.The first day invloved clicking of buttons with soooo user-friendly names such as Print and Cancel that the doomed speaker had to elaborate on. Blame it on jetlag... Forgiven... But not forgotten... The first half of the second day involved something new, ticking of check boxes and radio buttons. Boy, oh boy, all these buttons ticked our hero off... But he found a way to control the situation, he dozed off... The last thing he saw before he went to dreamland was 10:06 on his camphone. Next thing he knew, it was 10:42... Blame it on the venue and the amenities - a dimly-lit air-conditioned room, reclining seats, a preacher that nearly matched Michael Buble's ever enamoring lullabies. How our hero wished that he brought popcorn with him. It was like going in a GSC with Battlefield Earth on. That crappy, huh? It was like sitting through a Kuya Cesar sermon. It was having someone blabber endlessly about something that is self-explanatory. It was like having your teacher repeat exactly what's on your textbook. I really can not amass the idiocy they are assuming of their audience. I'm not saying that everyone who attended were MENSA coneheads, but hey, they should have at least tailored the discussion to cater to a "thinking" bunch. Screw the organizers... If you are bored, you are boring... Hey, they nearly bore a hole on our hero's head and sucked out all remnants of intelligence in him.
But wait! That's not all! If you call within the next hour, you'll get a free @$$ spanking! It was like watching home tv shopping. That bad. Sorry I got carried away.
But wait! Before you think that things won't get any better, our hero actually learned something new. There are actually four security details employed in the company's bills of lading - anti-copy logo watermark, anti-copy detection strip, anti-forgery microprinting, anti-forgery encoded band. What for? So that no one can easily print out a B/L and present it to claim any cargo and steal it from its rightful owner. Finally they pushed some sense into the monologue. Whoever thought of these security measures should be given a round of applause. You actually made everyone buy high-end printers with all these calibration chuvaness so as to produce the right B/Ls. You have got to be affiliated with HP, huh? Now, if only Xerox can produce a high-resolution copier that can reproduce the necessary marks and bypass those anti-copy and anti-forgery security.
I guess those who did not attend were fortunate enough not to suffer the same fate as our hero...
