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.......

Re-newed

Ok, I've used too many "Back" as title and it's getting tired, much like the farewell tours of the stones, Cher, even Kylie Minogue; well she hasn't had a farewell tour yet but I believe hers is LOOOONG overdue. There, I said it, I'm here, I'm queer and I hate Kylie Minogue!



I took a nice and relaxing holiday to the busiest city in the world, Tokyo. It was very interesting to observe the culture and people, take a break for my life in one of the most exciting city in the world and just being a slob that wonders around, it's F*#Kin great! I love the fact that even tho that was the most densly populated city in the world, it's possible to have minimal human interaction and get by. As I don't speak any Japanese, the vending machines were are big help, you buy almost everything from them, ticket, drink, lunch etc etc.....I love machines........

Anyways, I'm back now and all re-charged (only for like 30 min after I got back), I'm ready to grunt and rant and carry on like the old me. So, same old same old really.......

The biggest thing for me is probably that I went to a gay bar with a friend, for the first time of my life! It was quite interesting, as the straight bars I've been to here, the staffs were not as enthusiastic and not that interested to chat with you. Maybe we went at a bad time, the bar was very very quiet, but the bartenders were quite engaging, making conversations and cracking jokes, it was quite good! As the night went on, more people came and went, the bartenders were always chatting to ALL guests and ensured that no one was ignored, even facilitated pick ups! The gay "scene" I've seen had given me quite good impression and I'd definitely go back after I've learned some Japanese!

Stupid phone systems

Seems like my waiting to get sick plan did not turn out the way I hoped, so I'm back at work today.

During my lunch (ahem) time, I tried to access my personal email. After 5 attempts, it seems like somehow my password was not working (altho I suspect they cut the brakeline on my keyboard), so I've decided to call the ISP to have this sorted out.

It took a good 5-10 minutes for the huge menu of various phone numbers of each department to load, and you have to browse through so many tabs you think every single employee in the company has their direct line published!

Found the number I need, beauty, here we go......"Hello, to help us service you better, in a few words, please tell me the reason for your call today..." DAMN automated voice system! Why the F*#& would you list 200 phone numbers for different "departments" when all of them will go to the same fricken auto system???? Wouldn't it be making sense to list a single customer service number? Then there's the typical crap:

"cable internet"
"you have an internet related inquiry, is that correct?"
"yes"
"is that dial up, dsl, or cable"
"cable, and i told you that 1 second ago!"
"ok, do you want to speak to technical, accounts..."
"technical"
"is the internet registered at the phone you calling from"
"No"
"please enter your home phone number"
"....F*#&$ YOU!!!"
"I'm sorry, your entry was not valid, please key in your telephone number..."

I was about to put my fist through the phone....it took me another 5 minutes or so to reach a human to simply change my password.

Those companies are seriously screwed up somewhere I tell ya

Another Sunday

Sleepy yet don't want to sleep........

Had lunch at a nice little cafe with a friend today, half way through our meal (which was nice), two guys sat next to me and I could be 95% sure that they were a gay coupe; so I just "casually" looked over every 5 seconds, both of them were good to look at hehe, that made my lunch extra enjoyable.

After I got home, didn't really do much, played a bit of PS3, even tried vocal on Guitar Hero, it was a pretty horrible sight (and sound) to be honest. I really feel sorry for my neighbours if they heard anything by accident, which I don't think they did god bless them.

Pretty much didn't do much more than that, now it's passed mid night and I really hope I'll be hit by some illness where I cannot go to work and have to rest for a few days......

Perving

OK, let's face it, we all do it, to different extends.

While I was giving my friend a lift home, we virtually spent the entire trip perving at guys we saw in the streets and commenting. P.S. not a very good idea in peak hour traffic to keep staring away from the direction you are traveling.

Well for me, I love to look at all the fine looking gents in the streets. Of coz not the psycho stalker stare......or is it? Guess that's another post....

When think about it, I perv at pretty much all the guys I see in streets. The ones that catches my eyes the most are the businessmen in suits that's neat and tidy, or the construction guys working around the block; also the policemen etc. Altho yesterday we were focusing on the guys jogging by the roadside, looking really good lol. My friend even said "wow that's really big, wonder if they just fly commando??"

About the body parts, i always look at calves and forearms, then virtually undress them with my eyes LOL. I found eyebrow quite a sexy feature too.

Let's share about all the pervs we do daily eh?

Things I'm proud of

While I thought I had nothing to write about for "second installment", Jack reminded me that he had tagged me in his blog, what a relief, no more thinking required......

However the topic is very challenging (same goes for asking for directions and admit I could be wrong and attempt to clean and tidy my room for more than once a decade), but here it goes my list of things I'm proud of:

1) My brain

Although seems like I'm shamelessly copying Jack here, but truth is, my intelligence is something that I RARELY bitch about. (I pretty much bitch about everything else). I'm able to learn quite quickly, normally with very few explanations. Since I started working and by comparison to many people I dealt with, my analytical and problem solving skills helped me a lot, and I was able to improve them too. (and also realised that many people are seriously lacking them) I'm able to help others both in life and at work with their problems, which I'm proud of too.

2) My cooking skill


I was exposed to home cooking since a VERY early age, and I can vaguely remember my first time cooking would have been before I was 10 years old, making scrambled eggs. My grandma was a good cook, and I used to "help" her by carrying her bags while she shopped for vegetables and groceries, and hang around the kitchen while she prepare and cook, and I guess that has influenced me a lot. Another reason being I LOVE food, wanting to try new, different ones, and everytime I taste something good, I will attempt to make it at home, if I succeed, I'd add it to my repertoire and possibly show off to my friends; if not, I'll secretly discard and remove all evidence of attempts. From all these years of practice, my cooking has been applauded by most of my friends, had friends over the other day, they actually took the leftovers home!

3) My wicked sense of humor

I think I need to rebute myself on this one a bit, because I actually don't think my sense of humor is that great. However I am able to make people laugh in a very twisted weird way lol. Guess again might have a lot to do with my work, which I always try to have a bit of fun on the phone, (not THOSE kind, altho I was sort of waiting for it to happen lol) just bitch and making fun of things happened or slip in random comments that's totally not related to the current discussion at all. I think that's how I survive my work anyway......


4) My parents


Sound like a cliche, but I am truly proud of my parents. Apart from brought the brilliant me into the world (ROFLMAO), they are seriously outstanding people. Mom was one of the most understanding and tolerating person I've known, always think from other's perspective and put herself last, willing to help and give, understanding. As before we move here, back home we lived in apartment complexes built by huge production plants funded by the government, where everyone worked in the same plant, then their children and grandchildren etc, you can imagine the level and type of gossip going on, she was known for the kind person she was, and during the 15 years or so I grew up there, never gossipped about anyone in front of me, and for as long as I could remember, never had a fight with her mother in law, my grandma. Dad's very straightforward person, sometimes could be a bit short fused, but he is a very good provider, almost working all year round, providing for the family, NEVER spent anything beyond necessities for himself. His famous motto is "Might as well at it (hardworking to make money) while I physically can, for we could be more comfortable while we cannot work"

Wheee, another entry, doing good!

I'm preparing for my next round of bitching, stay tuned

Random Update - First Installment

Just feel like to drop down some random stuff about what happened during my too-lazy-to-post period:

1) I got a PS3!
Wheee.......I have NEVER had the urge to purchase any game console since high school really. Mainly I know I'd prob be too occupied to play to focus on other things (I already spent too much time on computer). Before Christmas last year I've started to look at LCD TV's, then somehow decided that I must get a PS3 to go with it, and to top it up, the guitar hero world tour band game! Boy they are fun!!!! Already had friends over and played until our brains and eyes blacked out from staring at the screen LOL. (somehow I can see Jack going "tsk tsk tsk" while shaking his head)

Back (yet again)

Whew!

Back from my family holiday for a week now, managed to squeeze myself into the "normal" working mood; in other words, complaining and bitching about almost everything under the sun mood lol.

Speaking of the holiday, it wasn't so much of a holiday really, just family get togethers, and I did had my birthday during this trip....and honestly, on the day of my birthday, I seriously thought I was 1 year younger than my actual age!! LOL how sad was that!

I also need to apologize for the ppl that's been visiting coz I haven't been updating this blog as often. But promise, I have thought about a few things I want to write about and they will be up soon.

So tired, going to sleep now.....zzzzzzzzzzz

About online chat - 2

Whew, weekend was fun! Growing to love Manhattan (the cocktail) ! Although the bit I enjoy the most is the cherry lol.

Now about my continued bitching of online chat:

Some people are definitely having problems associating words with their intended meanings. Ie. If your information line states "please have a photo before you send me an instant message", then 7/10 people who send you messages have a photo in their profile. I mean online chatting is already as "vague" as it is, why would I waste my time to talk to someone when I hardly know ANYTHING about them, no profile information, no photos of themselves?

Fine, if you'd say I'm shallow by judging a book by its cover because I only want to talk to people who have photos (and maybe appeals to me one way or another), but we all make judgments based on our perception to a certain extent isn't it? Well let's take it to the next level, I'm visiting relatives in another country next month, so I've been looking in the local chatroom to see if there's anyone interesting, in my bio line, I've written "In town Feb 09", simple enough? In the duration of typing this paragraph, I had 2 messages that had this line as the second or third line into the conversation "are you in (name of city)?" WTF???? Yes I am! Also I put up that bio line trying to mess up your time-space perception centre of your brain! Again, why would I want to waste my time with someone who's not even bothered to read one fricken line??????

Wooo, feels good to bitch! Who said bitching and moaning won't get you anywhere? lol

Until next time, take care!

About online chat - 1

Whew, economic downturn is certainly taking its toll on businesses!

Well, on a totally unrelated topic, online chatting. I've been browsing in the chatrooms of a very popular website. I think most of us would have seen that pic where it explains the real meanings behind some online chat contents. (If someone still have access to that pic, send to me!) However I just want to have my turn of bitching about it too :)

I guess the most obvious and interesting and also funny thing is what people put down under "Build/Body Shape". Apparently the term "average" applies to visible protruding belly fat and even man-boobs, if that's the case, I should be termed "famine", so much for feeling guilty about describing myself as "slim". If we look into "athletic" and "Muscled", apparently things mentioned above can also fit into these categories and seems like muscle and fat are interchangeable words, no wonder I didn't get high distinction for my histology subjects.......

Sleepy, will update t0morrow