OMG I’M SO ANGSTY~!
You know how children blame everything on their parents all the time? How their dad’s behaviour affected the way they turned out, or how their parent’s flaws are so big that they impact their children’s livelihood?
I say to you: bullshit.
I used to be one of those people. Kept moaning on about how my parents were stifling my life and not allowing me to do what I want… or how they were so full of themselves etc. etc…. Nothing’s changed. Mom still doesn’t like Japanese people, Dad’s still exaggerating every little thing that comes his way, and both still like to push problems under the rug.
But now I choose not to let these things affect me. It’s because when I accept them for who they are, their flaws must come with it. I used to belong in a huge deluded world that parents were supposed to be perfect, but I guess I’ve come out from that.
I’m not defending those people who sexually abuse their children or come home drunk and beat up their kids. Those idiots really deserve to die.
It’s those angst-wannabes that just exaggerate every little thing that happens. ‘OMG WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO MEEEE’, ‘My mom is so selfish’, ‘My life sucks because my parents didn’t buy me what I wanted for my birthday’.
Since I came from that pool of imbeciles, I guess you could say people would grow out of that phase, but the new generation would go through that again… it’s a neverending cycle (unless you commit genocide).
So… it’s whatever. Complain away, but nobody cares. Nevertheless, I’m glad I got out.
EDIT: Boys will always be boys.
Bintan!
Spent the weekend at Bintan… I got a tan.
During the A levels, for some reason, my skin turned really translucent and green. Looked like a freaking monster. So yay yay for tan.
Got a full body massage for the first time. Bruised up all over, and the process was creepy.
Dad was extremely pissed that the massage costed 50 Sing each… he was complaining how he got better massages in Singapore with half the price… while I’m here bruised up ;__;
Played at the beach… haven’t done that in a long time. Built a sandcastle of Sauron’s fortress (or whatever it is), and placed his eye on top of the tower. Sis and I threw sandballs in different directions to indicate the Shire and Gondor.
Then we demolished Sauron’s sandcastle with sandballs. Fun fun =D
Food wasn’t fantastic… had the unfortunate accident to order lamb. I had forgotten I didn’t like lamb. Sis’s chicken tasted wonky, Dad’s steak wasn’t medium, and according to Mom, her salmon wasn’t fresh. Only thing nice was the mashed potatoes and 9049384 different types of bread.
Second night we had black pepper crab, kangkong and tofu. Black pepper crab was small, but the crab was smothered in black pepper. Fantastic. Kangkong was a tad hot. Tofu was bleah.
Elaine and Vik called me numerous times while I was away. I didn’t bring my phone to Bintan because I thought it wasn’t necessary. I haven’t had any messages in 3 weeks. Then suddenly overnight I became popular.
Tried to absorb a bit of Japanese on the Japanese channel. They talk too fast.
And there was an elephant show! Got to have an elephant step over me. Got to ride one too. Sis says she got a butt massage… but I was just in pain. They shit while they walk. And elephants truly love bananas.
Randomness
I can’t stop laughing at this. With the commentary, it’s just incredibly hilarious.
I love the part when the world breaks in two. Literally.
Oh man… I laughed till I cried. It was just so funny.
English plz.
Had a debate with Shan today. Half the people here can’t speak English properly. Seems like the lecturers above the secondary school level has never learnt what phonetics are, and if they do, who the heck cares.
Communication is the base of civilization, is it not? It is how we socialize and interact with other fellow despicables. When we move onto abbreviations like LOL or xXx~~i luv u~~xX, or even being unable to pronounce ‘genre’ correctly, it has 1984 written all over. Once we lose a proper mode of communication, we don’t need to think to communicate. In fact, we don’t need to think to do anything.
Nobody sees this coming. (Expect for the bloody Utopia literature students, and probably they’re too happy celebrating the end of the A’ levels to care).
I cringe everytime when people never pronounce anything correctly. Philippe becomes Philip-py, genre becomes john-ray, funny becomes farnie, ginger becomes geen-ger. How on earth do these teachers - who know naught of the art of pronunciation - become teachers? If you’re more comfortable in speaking in Chinese, either 1. teach Chinese, or 2. go to China and teach a subject., or 3. take English phonetics. Because for God’s sake, you’re teaching in a country that uses English as the bloody first language!
But I have too high expectations. Even Americans can’t tell the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’, ‘lose’ with ‘loose’, ‘they’re’ and ‘their’… heck, even Walt Disney made that mistake.
So what the heck. If the Americans can’t do it right, so why should we? We’re always the one to suck up to the Big and Mighty PowarzZz.
Edit: And if I were the only web designer in the entire wide world, the world would be a better place. Heck, we would be proceeding to the next step of evolution.
Laptop love.
I have to get a new laptop.
Looking at all the new stuff that’s going around, I’m amazed by the hardware installed in it. 60-160 gb of space, 1 gb of RAM, the latest Radeon graphics card… Pentium 4 (my computer dates back to the era when Pentium 3 was the greatest thing EVA)
I barely have 20gb of space in my laptop, and I can’t install any game without deleting other programs, because nowadays the games always go over 3 gb of space.
Haven’t touched photomanipulation in a long time… everything just goes so slow on Photoshop. Guess I’m just waiting for a new laptop that has 5 times more RAM than I do now.
My internet’s still wonky. Dad wants to go wireless, and only when we get a new laptop will he cancel the line to Singtel.
I’m not getting a new laptop anytime soon.
Findings…
Found out that my IP address is having problems with accessing the sites. Apparantly 220.255.252.241, 165.21.154.137 [or any variation thereof] can’t access the sites, but 220.255.55.30 can.
It’s like bloody lottery, having to disconnect and reconnect hoping for the latter.
I’m switching to Starhub.
The person on Customer Service was… eh, I can’t say unqualified, but weird. She talked extremely fast, and I couldn’t keep track. She didn’t know what I was saying about the IP addresses… she thought I was talking about the IP address for the websites. I couldn’t catch her response, so I just said ‘yeah’.
Ok, whatever.
