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just a little tot i stole off pinksoapdinosaur’s blog about music piracy. why do we need online music stores? you know what we need? lemme tell u what we need. easy and simple. we just need cheaper music. period. lookit soundbuzz, they are selling me chinese tracks for $1.99. i can buy the bloody original CD for $4-7 at this shop in marine parade. original.

hell, at that price, i can buy cds like i buy mcD’s value meals. of coz the guy is selling parallels from china, which big CD shops are doing. but hey its original. any fight? if they were to sell english CDs for $5-7 apiece. hell, i’m sure instances of piracy would drop drastically. I WILL BET MY NUTS ON IT! why would i wana download stupid songs on p2p unsure of quality etc and waste time when i can buy original albums for $4-7?

my theory, the lower the price of original CDs, the lower the rate of piracy.

makes sense, does it not?

Wow… email addiction. i always thought it would be quite tough nowadays cuz there’s so much spam. i mean everyday i check my mailbox and i get at least 40-50 spams. sheeesh.

This is your brain on email

i hate spam. i will personally castrate any spammer i meet.

“spam this!”

woot.

this is the kinda calls i have been getting of late,

idiot: Hi, i’m calling from (random insurance company). you have been been selected for our management trainee program. It seems that your profile has met our needs. Would you be free to come down for an interview

me: WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET MY PROFILE FROM? YOUR FUCKING IMAGINATIVE ARSEHOLE? CUZ I DID NOT GIVE ANYBODY MY PROFILE! NOT LEAST U DAMNED PESKY PUSHY DIRECT-SELLING INSURANCE FUCKS! FUCK OFF!!

/end dream sequence

okay, that wasn’t me. that was my alter ego, my reply was,

me: oh! erm, where did you get my profile from?

idiot: err.. some survey you filled in.

me: what survey?

idiot: erm.

me: ...anyway, thanks for calling, but i’m not interested at all. bye. click

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another type of call is this one,

idiot: hi. our company is organising a job application seminar. it will teach u relevant job application skills. blah blah blah. would u like to come?

me: FUCK OFF! I AM HIGHLY CAPABLE OF GETTIN MY OWN JOB THANK YOU! WHO DA FUCK GAVE U MY NUMBER! DON’T U KNOW ITS A VIOLATION OF MY PRIVACY? YOU CAN SHOVE UR SEMINAR UP YOUR BOSS’S ASS!

/end dream

me: erm, i’m not interested. thanks. bye.

my personal motto in life is “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is” so fuck off with ur damn freebie seminars and freebie job offers. shove it up your own ass.

sigh, sometimes i don’t know why i bother entertaining these calls. i guess i just bother too much. these dumfuks are wasting my time, wasting my cellphone minutes (lucky i haf free incoming) and generally bothering the hell outta me. as much as i fully believe that selling insurance is the fastest way to get rich quick, and that i would definitely give it a try if a normal job doesn’t work out, i still don’t like being hassled by these insurance folk. i have a very capable agent who covers my entire family. i think i have enuf policies. so the next time one of them makes a cold or unsolicited call offering me a “job” or a policy, i will fuk them one time good. and i do mean fuk them one time very good. hopefully i make them cry or curse. boy is this gettin me into a foul mood. i’m usually such a pleasant and boring person. really

wat a busy weekend. everything began on friday when we made some last minute finalisations for my buddy melvin’s wedding. and from there, it was basically no-sleep till 36 hrs later. in all, i was awake for more than 48 hours. wooot!

the wedding was a blast and all of us had tons of fun. basically the day was spent rushing from one spot to another to ensure that the bride and groom had a great day. and boy did they have a good time! congrats mel!

at 2am, i was so hungry. needed a quarter pounder with cheese, yum. but alas, no burger for fat me. sunday was spent slacking and resting. up till today, i’m still feelin sleepy. hahaha. will post photos once they’re ready.

yesterday was also spent just lazing around and basically catching up on sleeeeeep. went to the coq and bull for steak last night to celebrate adrian’s belated birthday. the meat was good, but it wasn’t done very well for me. my medium well tasted like a medium-chao tar. haha. went for gelato after that. shite man. i’ve been eating so much. time to lose some weight. urgh.

and what is bloody wrong with the weather again? fukin hell. its too bloody hot. this can’t be right. someone move the sun away. puh-leeeeeeeeeze!!

oke, now back to doin some work. 7 days to submission and no completed thesis in sight.

i am so fuked. muahahhahaha.

/mad

after all this anticipation, star wars episode 3 was a real let down. in fact, ep1-3 was quite a let down in terms of story, plot development. i think lucas is repressed. after all the inability to express his creativity in environment building in ep4-6, he let loose in ep1-3.

but…

it was too much. too overdone. too much action. too little substance. lines were abrupt and choppy. each speaking moment was just there to introduce more action.. and yet more action… anakin turned to the dark side too easily, too abruptly, there was no build up. yoda gave up too easily.. “failed.. i have. to exile… i must go..” wtf. so simple? so easy? c’mon george! u cudda done better than that!

in all, it has been a bad movie month with 2 of my most anticipated shows turning out to be duds. argh. now i can wait for the others and hope they be better. war of the worlds and hitchhiker here i come. pls don’t disappoint me again. i can’t watch 4 duds in a row!

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as i await thursday, the day when i join the brotherhood of geeks and celebrate the concluding chapter of our geekdom, i continue to entertain myself with pictures of other geeks goin mad.

got this picture from a flickr member who attended the ep3 celebration on 16May. click on the check out the rest of the photos. if you’re wondering why the storm troopers are aiming at the black dude, check out the label on his jacket. thats why.

okay, i have to get back to thesis urgh.

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oh wait! in other news… XBOX 360 has been announced woooot! the long awaited follow up to the xbox! thank goodness they didnt name it xbox2 or something like that. xbox 360 has a nice ring to it.. hee.. check it out at http://www.xbox360.com

oke back to work now…

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This is ma new pair of boxers as mentioned in my post below. had to take a pic to show the world. muahhaha. RISE LORD VADER RISE

my goodness, what is up with the weather? one day its bloody end-of-the-world hot and another its noah’s ark scale thunderstorms. not that i’m complaining about the latter, but a little consistency wud be nice. yes, i’m a stickler for consistency. and go to hell whoever said that the change is the only consistent thing. watever…

in the past 14 days, i have spent almost $1700. wow. okay la, one of them was the stupit handphone which i love to death. haha. then my poor dog (lana) fell sick. poor gerl couldn’t eat, so brought her to the vet, who shoved a thermometer up her ass. gross. fukin gross. she had a fever, so she’s on tons of meds. can u believe my dog’s glucosamine tabs cost more than mine? nice… then the next day she started limping around the house. my heart almost broke with the sight of her limping towards me, wanting some lovin from me.. sob sob so i brought her to another vet to take an xray of her legs and hips. sigh. my poor dog. anywayz, now she’s much better, but my wallet isn’t. haha. total cost? $158 + $97. broke.

a really good buddy of mine is gettin married next weekend, so the week has been busy planning for his stuff. and yes i put on weight, so yes, i need a new suit. afterall i’m only the bloody emcee, not very nice to have a guy standing on stage with his stomach pushing against his suit. not an appealing sight, trust me. so off to the tailor i went, made me my first ever tailored suit, and i made a new shirt too. $385 + $60. broke.

i’m hopin that i won’t get anymore surprises this month, cuz my bank account cant handle it. sigh. and i wanted to get a light saber too. my best fren and i are going to catch EPISODE 3 next week!! wooohoooooo… we were going to bring light sabers and turn it on when the title screen came rolling.. my lines are “RISE LORD VADER! RISE!!” guess that’s so not going to happen. to make up for not having a light saber, i bought me a new pair of boxers, which has the words SITH HAPPENS emblazoned on my ass. so cool. $12. broke.

as anyone can see, it has been an eventful week. and that means that my thesis is screwed. speaking of which. i better get back to it right now. saturday night doin work. sad. broke. bleh.

sigh.. life has no meaning. between work and more work, there was kingdom of heaven. and it was a bummer. orlando bloom cannot do it man, he has no charisma, nor the class to deliver such a role. and the lines which were okay for the most part, fell totally flat at the crucial moments. the show was too politically correct, which i felt took away a lot of oomph from a show like this. but i guess if it wasn’t PC, someone woulda bombed my precious Orchard Cineleisure. oh well.

but anyhoos, the movie only provided one with a very short glimpse of the seven crusades which lasted almost 250 years. not enuf for a history lesson, but enuf for an action flick. i must say some of the images in the show were really loaded and quite potent. but that’s where the good stuff ends. i’m usually quite forgiving with movies, but this one… sigh. but, i still enjoyed it nonetheless i always believe that all shows have something good about them, and in this show, it was Saladin. holy cripes, he was da bomb! skinny as a copper rod, cool as a cucumber in the desert. my idol. the christians were nowhere as cool as him, orlando bloom coulda passed off as his armpit and no one woulda said anything.

something which i had to blog about was the LCT. our new Low Class Terminal… oops.. Low COST terminal. haha. why the need for an abbreviation with the letters LC. hahahha…. Low Class, Lan Ciao, Low Chee…, need i go on? call it a budget terminal for goodness’ sake, or terminal 4, the Other terminal, anything but LCT. hahaha. oh well. who am i to say right? guess its just me, so don’t take it too personally whoever is reading this.

yet another scholar gets sued by a singaporean organisation. are these scholars fukin stupit or wat. wat freedom of views are they loookin for. fukin idiots. shuddup and go flush your head in the toilet. stop makin such stupid comments about our great local companies, govt and organisations! /*pats myself on the head*/ this just shows you shuldn’t give money to smart people, cuz they end up acting smart on you. stupit shites. all of them. /spit

so happy yesterday cuz i got me a new mobile phone and a free ipod shuffle. i not a fan of shuffle, but who am i to say no to freebies? ‘nuff said.

back to work work work…argh..

notice some new features on the site? hahaha.. c’mon.. make me rich! click on the damn ads! haha anyway, i couldn’t help myself, i just had to figure out how they worked man. so i’ve tried to make the addition of the ads as seamless as i could with the matching colors! pretty eh?

on another note, i just read the papers about the idiot scholar who made racist remarks. its not the fact that he is racist that bothers me, its the fact that he is a PSC scholar, headed for the upper echelons of our “gahmen” service, and was stupid enough to publish his views on a public medium. i’m sure this raises many issues of privacy. but hey, you’re a future civil servant, so come transparent please. i say revoke his bloody scholarship. hahha.. this “uncle” made a really scary forum letter statement the other day in ST. i think he said they should revoke his scholarship and throw him off his high horse and let everyone look down on him to let him learn a lesson. if this idiot scholar was any man on the street i would say “have some mercy” or “give him a break”, but he’s a PSC scholar, taking public money for his stupid education, so i say slice off his balls and let him be a eunuch. you heard me, slice it off. let him feel some discrimination.

i won’t condemn him for his act, cuz someone great (hint: he died on a cross) once said:

let he who is free from sin cast the first stone

or something to that effect, i’m quite sure 98% of us will not be throwing anything anywhere. so get off your moral high horse. its a more deep-rooted problem than anyone would care to admit it is. it stems from our upbringing, the development of our society, the conditions and environment that our predecessors (parents etc) went through. can we change it? sure. immediately? no. educate educate educate. having racial harmony day is a start. but not enough. look at the ratio of chinese to malay to indian to “others” (haha… my favorite category). can we seriously say we can expose everyone to everyone else? nope. we just have to make sure that we imbue respect, tolerance and open-mindedness to the people around us, and hopefully, they will pass it on. equipped with the right mentality, it can be done.

discrimination exists. its not good. we don’t have to live with it. but we can’t impose our views on everyone (unless you’re hitler, or… ahem) so educate your children. educate your friends. make the world a better place. and slice off the scholar’s nuts.