T'was a wise man who said "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." I say, there are no dumb people, just people who haven't attended the SCHOOL OF BRILLIANCE!!

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Think outside the square you work in

We've all heard the lustre of working from home. The idea that you can get up, and stroll out to the study, plonk yourself in the comfort of your own home, and work.

But I say, there will be a new revolutionary way to work.

Yes students of Brilliance School, work from car.

Hear me out.

A marketing brain storm of where a particular car manufacturer could go in the future had our creative engines reving.

Imagine. A range of corporate cars. Not a limo. For your everyday business person. Ideal for streamline juniors to customised CEOs complete with wireless lan, internet access point, laptop power supply, inbuilt handsfree kits, fax, projector and teleconferencing capabilities, and even a mahogany table.

You are in complete control. Where you want to go. What you want to do. Who you do it with. Driving will never be the same again.

Productivity rates will jump a mile.

Imagine. No more twiddling thumbs in congestion, no more two minute naps at the traffic lights. Imagine. Driving through a manufacturing plant for inspection. Imagine. Business luncheons at drive-thru restaurants. Imagine. Complete mobility.

This I say, is where true entreprenuers will spring forth. Where companies will collapse and fall or divide and conquer. Where multimillion deals will be signed. Where the nerve of the stock market will be. This is the future of business.

If you purchase this future car within the next 24 hours, you will also receive a complimentry tube of pile cream.

Sunday, August 22, 2004

News flash

Multi-skilled chancellors display cooking prowess

He started the day slicing up a kilo of onions.

He then warmed up with a 3 hour low skilled lunch prep for a 21st. Then after excusing himself slightly early from the party, he zipped away in his silver car to fetch the ingredients for the nights IRON CHEF MALAYSIAN DEBUT.

I speak of none other than iron chef master specitim, who together with 'tag' team-mate iron chef master yeoh make IRON CHEF MALAYSIAN.

Tim lathered salt and marinade over a slab of pork belly under the watchful eye of the Arch Iron Chef Grand Master tim's very own father (who's cooking is simply mouth wateringly delicious). He expertly crackled the skin in the oven by a specific skill, in an exercise that appeared to require chi silently humming over the meat.

Meanwhile, on the kitchen bench, master iron chef Yeoh inadvertently displayed his ninja swordsmanship with a plain kitchen knife. Round onions turned into cubes, carrots as good as engagement rings, and garlic into glistening sand.

A raging flame awaited them. Undaunted by the gassy fury, iron chef specitim tamed the fire. It is at this point, that 'Hong sil tofu' evolved to the next generation. It was neither red, nor remotely resembled its former now superceded glory. Beyond the imaginings or expectations of viewers, tasters, and eventually eaters, history was performed before their very eyes.

Specitim's nose twitched. He sensed that the sil yook was ready. A hush fell over the entire kitchen. A couragous stroll and a ripple of the muscles brought him to the white doors of the oven. Then, he laid on the chopping board a wicked looking piece of sil yook you could just pick up and sink your teeth into.

It then became as exciting as wood chopping at the easter show - displays of raw power chipping away at tree trunks accompanied by grunts and manly perspiration. Meat cleaver in hand, specitim heavily landed the blade right through the meat. The cuts were performed with surgical accuracy. The strength with woodchopping might.

But that was not all.

The iron chef malaysians were required to perform live. Fearlessly they packed bags of ingredients, and the two special dishes into tupperware and began to leave.

But alack. Specitim was so in tune with his dishes, that he decided to become one with the sauce. Just moments before leaving, an impulse of the food to honour their master, suddenly found its wish granted, all over his shirt.

Time was now pressing. The masters zipped towards the house of nervous fans, who have heard of their legend, but yet to bask it its tantalizing rewards.

The infamous cha kuay teow, expertly cooked and trialed a week ago, was now to share its glory with the 12 (The 12 being the unsuspecting dinner guests). It took sweat, it took power, it took two whole rounds of cooking.

Settled over an exquisite dinner table set, the masters rested their muscles and waited for the reaction of the party.

It is as though their faces had caught a flame that glowed from the inside. Profuse nods of approval and mmmmmmmm's whooshed along the the table. The topic of conversation was immediately of much appraisal with satisfied grins, glasses would have been raised, but master iron chef specitim, and master iron chef yeoh, bowed their heads in humble acknowledgement and proceeded to feast together with the common.

Iron chef malaysian have struck again.

Monday, August 16, 2004

Brilliance 1031

I see we have a comment board now. Adding a comment board onto a blog. BRILLIANT!!! Some day, PVC J (does that sound wrong?) you'll do great things!

Anyhow, today's lesson is making something practical out of something that's not evidently so.
Have a look around you, there's usefulness in everything that you see. Look to the far left corner of your room. There, hanging on the other side of the door. Yes, a coat hanger. Just good for hanging coats right? Wrong!

With a little creativity, we can turn a useless coat hanger into something special.

The coat hanger jacket holder
Step 1: Remove coat from the hanger
Step 2: Find a jacket in need of hanging
Step 3: Place jacket in coat hanger as you would a coat
Step 4: Marvel at your new creation!

It's that simple! Tell your friends!

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Brilliance 1021

Today's lesson is on learning how to use everday items differently with true brilliance.

Example:

Think of something you do everyday - walk around the house.
Think of something that complements it - Cleaning the house.

Fuse the two together, and what do you get?

If you tie a rope to your body and walk around the house, you'll do both at the same time.

Until next time my pupils, may the brilliance be with you.


Founding of the School of Brilliance

I hereby formally make this decree that the School of Brilliance is now open to the most select of academia who will one day push beyond the limits of human imagination.

We staff at the school believe in the provision of only the highest quality of education into Brilliance. Our academic staff are made of like-minded individuals who have spent many a long day on the train, in the car or on a bus thinking of ways that humans can push upward through limitless imagination.

Most notable have been theories surrounding traffic light-less roads, cars with magnets, conveyer belt streets and other infamous and impractical implementations. Truly Brilliant!!

I would like to introduce the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the School of Brilliance, his honourable Tim. Without his injection of brilliance, the school would not be what it is today. In fact, it was his suggestion to start this blog. Truly Brilliant!!!!!!

And a late addition of Jennifer to the academic staff, who like Hillary to Bill, and Jacky to John, is the real inspiration behind these dreams (you can see her shaking her head and waving her arms frantically like a madwoman, but you know it's true). Please welcome Pro-Vice Chancellorette Jennifer. BRILLIANT!!!