Posts under ‘ATPYO’

It’s been a long time since I last post about advertisement that pissed me off. (I think I should categorise this section as ATPYO)
I got a rude shock today morning while surfing Channel News Asia website. It was a loud sound coming out from my iMac speakers. I couldn’t exactly make out what the person [...]

Streetdirectory is back. Woohoo!!
Still the same good old Streetdirectory. The map area is bigger now. And you can drag the map to navigate. YIPPIE! Cool feature!
But it comes with a irritating advertisement.

Smack in the middle of the map when you are using it. And you have to click the small little cross in order to [...]

Got this advertisement in my email.

It’s from Singnet telling me that I can get a free portable harddisk if I recontract my broadband between 3 to 30 May 2008.
Nothing wrong right?
But here is the problem. I already recontracted my broadband back in Dec. And I can only recontract again in Dec 2009. So why the [...]

Here is another advertisement on MRT that pissed me off.

The advertisement is covering the entire window (except a small hole in the middle). If you missed the PA announcement on the train station name, then you have to either look thru that small hole walk over to the door to see which station you are [...]

This is not the first time we see an Advertisement that plays sound by default.

This time, it’s on hotmail. The good thing is, the sound is not on infinite loop. It’s just a short 3 to 5 second sound. (But annoying enough to make me want to write this entry) The bad thing is, everytime [...]

Here is another advertisement that piss me off lately.

This advertisement is poping out in some of the blogs that I visit frequently. It’s not the advertisement subject or image. It’s that annoying sound from the advertisement. The sound is turned on by default. So everytime you visit a blog with that advertisement, you have to [...]

Sometimes, you just happen to see some ads that pissed you off so much that you curse and swear at the company for commissioning such ads. Take this for example.

(OK, I know the image sucks. But I have to make it quick before the SMRT staff saw me taking photos and start questioning me as [...]