On 6 November 2010 the KAYWEB Manila office went out to relax. In the general spirit of "work hard, play harder"... it was theme park time!

I came across a blog the other day - called "The best page in the universe" - by a guy named Maddox, and it captivated me for hours due to his humorous and original content. Maddox's style of writing and video content is more of an exaggerated anger about anything and everything under the sun. With a tag-line of "This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong", you can arrive knowing exactly what you are in for.

There is a story that goes something like this:In the time of the race for space exploration, the US government funded research to create a pen that could write in outer space. As there is no gravity in space, the ink wouldn't flow.They wasted years and millions of dollars for the research to get that perfect pen. Russia solved the problem in a couple of seconds... with the use of a No.2 Pencil.

Like most programmers, my out of work time is still spent online - surfing, searching, learning and entertaining myself and others.   With the 2010 FIFA World Cup around the corner, KAYWEB staff are blogging our favourite time-consuming websites which will hopefully help keep Aussies awake while they sit around between matches and burn the midnight oil.

I can still remember when I was 6 years old, the hottest gaming console was the family computer; I could can hear my then-little friend screaming at me for taking the "spread" ammunition in Contra. Aside from the hundreds of hours spent in front of our then-black and white coloured TV, we formulated many strategies on how to beat the different stages as well as learned from some of our friends the "thirty lives" cheat on Contra.