Just as I thought things couldn't get any worse

*STRETCH*

OMG I thought my previous situation was challenging, life hits me with more! Although I cannot explain in detail what is going on due to confidentiality issues, but in a nutshell, my work responsibility suddenly skyrocketed, and I had no choice but to take whatever that's thrown at me on board and try to keep 200 balls rolling at once.

Something I have never thought of is that comes with responsibility is transparency. A lot of process flaws are suddenly magnified, and furthermore I have realized that we are dealing with more dickheads and idiots that I thought. When things get back to normal I will put forward my findings and push to have the idiots punished. If these changes cannot be done, then I seriously doubt the time I can spend in the place, no matter how much more I am offered. (Well maybe a few years if my income doubles and an SLK lolol)

On a separate note, I think I don't know how to stress, coz I still eat and sleep as normal, maybe I'm just a "meh" person :)

Changes in life

I am currently facing one of the biggest decision in my life so far - moving out. By now the 2 people in the world who reads my blog would probably say pfffftt, big deal! Well, yes and no.

Being Chinese, somehow it seems UNNATURAL to move out before marriage (and sometimes even AFTER, *shivers*), if a child moves out to live (apart from a uni dorm), all the neighbors would assume that there are some serious problems between the child and parents. Compared to the western culture where someone still lives with mommy and daddy after 25, it would be borderline loser/freak. The reason behind such difference goes back to social security issues and family values etc etc which would be too long to go into.

Now I have been strategically bringing up possibilities of moving out and get my own place since I can afford it, it has been a slightly bumpy ride, not so much lack of understanding and support from the parents, but more of a "grinding of the east and west", where they got the impression that I disliked them, which was not the case. It is more about the experience of living a bachelor life, being completely independent, building my own life with my own hands, and this, in my opinion is everyone's must have experience. If you cannot even sort yourself out, how can you be sure that you can provide for a family? (unlikely I'll have a gay one tho lol)

Anyways long story short, now I have found a place I am happy with, and will try out my luck at the auction coming up, fingers crossed! However I have been having slight guilty feelings, feels as if I'm abandoning my parents, and leaving them lonely in our current place. I'm sure it is not as bad as I made it sound, but just can't help with it. I suppose this is what it takes to make decisions like this, everything you obtain, you lose something in exchange. Independence will mean that I will lose the constant "family" feeling that I got accustomed to.

Nevertheless, it is still very exciting to finally take the leap and start to build my own empire!

Above doesn't really make much sense and is probably full of contradictions, but since probably not much people are reading this, might as well use this as a journal......too lazy to delete anyways.

Wow

Seems like I'm having more come backs than John Farnham and Cher and the stones combined!

Well actually I received an alert email on a comment which I haven't seen here, so presumably it was spam. The good thing was that it actually reminded me that I do have a blog, and upon checking, the good old faithful Jack still follows my blog despite my previous laziness! Thanks Jack

Again lots had happened in my (and probably everyone else's) life, hopefully I will be able to share some or all of them shortly.

Whats with all the road works happening around the town during PEAK hour traffic??

Well, the come back title really gets old......

Let's just sweep the past under the carpet and start a new page! ahem....can't believe it that I haven't updated my blog for over a year!! Again, that's still not out of the ordinary.

I'm about to embark on a short holiday overseas, and something has been bugging me for a while, although it's not anything serious, but it seems like that subconsciously I will keep reminding myself that it's bugging me and it goes back in a circle. Then I suddenly realized that I might need to vent, hence I remembered my blog that I used to bitch on....

So here I am, ready to have a go at everything under the sun, yet again.

Democracy gone wrong? - follow up

Ok I've regained consciousness, and I should be ready to keep whinging.

I think the civilization has made the law too soft on a number of things, including so called rights. If someone violated other people's rights, should it be property, privacy, living etc, shouldn't othat offender be deemed to surrender whatever rights they have? Why should an offender's right be protected when that person clearly acted to deprive their victim of their rights? Two wrongs doesn't make it right, but sometimes an eye for an eye MIGHT be reasonable??

I know the law must be objective (yeah right, good in theory), but punishment needs to fit the crime. I don't understand why people like pedophiles and serial killers are put in prison where the victims of the crimes, as taxpayers, are indirectly funding to keep them alive while they are not making any contribution to the society. If we put ourselves in the shoes of crime victims, will we be able to live with the thought that offenders are being let off easy while you might not have another night's sleep in peace?

This self debating is doing my head in, clearly it's not a suitable day to finish a post like this, but meh, it does pay to bitch and moan.......

Democracy gone wrong?

Ok, I have been a bit sick recently, swine flu or not, don't really care. As directed by our government, they not going to test me for it anyway, they won't give me viral infection drugs, just stay home and watch personal hygiene. I did exactly that (I wonder if this was what happened to the first H1N1 casualty here, as the media reported "the man was obese and diabetic but otherwise healthy"). So let's wait to see if I live or not, I'd say live most likely, as the saying goes, true evil lives forever!

Anyways, I was browsing for random stuff on the internet after tiring from looking at all the men with packages on the net (well, I'm sick, but I'm not dead....). I've came across an article a while back about a guy in Sydney found an intruder on his property, managed to overpower him and sat on him until police arrived (I found the sat on the thief part very funny). However, the catch was, the 19 yo intruder was breathless and/or no pulse by the time police arrived, he had to be taken to hospital after having CPR performed on him. Now the authority will also investigate whether the burglary victim used “reasonable force" and will he be charged for anything.

Well, from my point of view, this is definitely out of space crazy......as many of the comments left for that article shows, majority of the readers did support what the burglary victim did and elaborated that they might do the same or worse to the burglar should they found themselves in this situation. I totally agree, if I find someone in my yard trying to break into my house, or worse, in my house stealing things, I'd assume that my personal and my family's safety is at stake and put up a fight to defend myself. The "reasonable force" is just a typical case of democracy gone crazy and give too much rights to people who do not deserve it. How do you determine what's reasonable? By asking Mr. Burglar how much things he's planning to take? If he would like to just bound you while he escape? How about if he would like to keep any of your or your family member's body parts as a little something extra? Or give your children to him just see to what extend he intends to mutilate them?

As human (which evolved from primitive animals), the urge to protect ourselves and defend our territory is in our genes. To ask someone to decide what's "reasonable" force to defend himself while he's in a potentially deadly situation is just stupid. The person standing in front of you can pull out a weapon anytime, would you rather give him that opportunity? Good on the guy for what he did, and if anything happens to the intruder, I agree with most people, TOUGH LUCK! Should have thought about consequences before violating someone else's privacy and property!

Ouch....headache....to be continued

Depressed

Sigh.....two people won the biggest jackpot of the history - 50 MIL each!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And by now you would know I'm not fing one of them! On top of that I've got some flu symptoms which I hope is not you know what.....

Really appreciate Doctor007 to read my blog, even the old entries that I kinda forgot about. As I've said before (I can't remember if I actually said it before), every single person who takes time to read my blog is quite meaningful to me. I'd definitely try to keep up the posts.....well....no promises.

Yawn and Cough.....now I'm dying and still need to work! SIGH.......