30 Aug
sometimes I think my mother is insane .. in a good way
In a bad way, she’s insane for going crazy with the shopping in Vietnam. Buying a lot of curtains, and there I was wondering just how many windows do we really have. Then there’s the poles itself to hang the curtains, which I had to carry, and made me look like a terrorist carrying a gun wrapped in newspaper. And did I mention about the 3 boxes and 4 jumbo sized luggages? All in the range of 30-40kgs?
Did I also mention that she stuffed all hand bags with boxes of dried fish, sauce, spice and all that lovely jazz? And then to see the look of the security officer during the security check at the Hong Kong Airport was almost comical.
Mom, you are my idol.
Well, we arrived, despite our weariness, we arrived, in one piece. Thank goodness the customs didn’t open the boxes for a thorough check, cause then I would really get out that pillow mom bought for me, and that blanket she bought at Vietnam and sleep on the counters.
Another note, although slightly relevant to the topic, I bought the book Angels and Demons while I was at the Hong Kong Airport. As much as I love Dan Brown, I do got to admit that his stories are always similar in a way, like a duplicated plot but with minor changes. Nonetheless, it killed time … actually it killed 22 hours (for that was the hours I spent on the airplane).
Now would be a good time for the phrase "guess who’s back, back again. Jenniis back, tell a friend".
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21 Aug
Zombie under a social rock
It’s been a while, yeah my life runs like a bad public transport timtable…ridiculously organised and never on time. There’s been some highlights, New Lamb Of God aswell as buying tickets on saturday to go see them live with killswitch engage..thats a highlight and having Dee stay here for a few days, there’s another. As with everything though the roller-coaster must come into affect and there’s some shit inside my head that just needs to come out.. perhaps offer your opinions, i’m open to a suggestion believe me. So be patient and read through it all before you make some kind of assumption.
Lately i wake up and i don’t feel like i’ve woken, things just become a stream of blurs I go to work i do work i leave the building everything i jsut done remains a blur to me. I get home and i look for solace in just relaxing and getting away from shit…’just gimme 5 minutes alooooone!!’ (mmm pantera). The thing is though i don’t feel like im living this shit, maybe i’m going crazy or maybe it’s the excessive amounts of red licorice i’ve eaten but im dellusional to whats real and it’s bugging the fuck out of me.
I refuse to be a prisoner to my own subconcious mind and i won’t fight with my own head questioning what’s real and what’s not. I remember when i was in high-school i’d just drown away any thought of questioning myself and for the most part it worked but my life is back on track, atleast i think it is.. i have a great job, great people to work with a great person to share my daily musings with and i’m becoming more tolerable to people’s shit and becoming a better person using it as my stimulus.
For those who are more inclined to an example here it goes:
I went out to dinner with Dee and her friends a normal night you know.. share a few laughs drink a few beers play some pool and then sleep it off. After a perfect day in the city just browsing around it would of been awesome to just the cap the day off with.
The truth was i damn right loathed it, i didn’t tell you Dee and if you’re reading this then i apologise. All this conversation circled around me like a dust storm and the most i could do was smile at christians joke’s and make out like i was interested, while occassionaly staring off into the distance trying not to leap from the table and walk out. Truth was i wasn’t comfortable something about the whole thing just made me feel out of place and perhaps as protection or maybe not i went into zombie mode and just did shit autonomously not caring what the fuck i thought about it before hand.
So dinner went on and then it’s time to leave…or not, Seem’s Lisa thought her drink might mysteriously drink itself or something and due to her being on antibiotics she was already finding it hard to be coherent. Usually i tolerate drunkeness but for some reason i just couldn’t, she went on about quiting smoking and how it was so tough and blah blah blah..there i am sitting next to someone who proved it’s not as hard as it looks and she’s encouraging her to talk about how hard it is…wtf Dee, you are over the worse part you’re on the right path now stay on the fucker i know you won’t go back but ffs don’t agree with her shit.
I spoke up, in a snide kind of way which she probably saw right through. "how could u get pleasure/joy from someone blowing ciagrette at you..i mean you are trying to quit why torture yourself?" …my left foot frantically tapping the floor so as not to make a scene out of nothing.
So we go to the pool hall and then i endure more drunk talk about well..fuck all really and it’s laid on so thick that you feel like your sinking in it… must dinstance myself, said my inner concious thoughts. I tried…i felt more abbrassive than i already was, i didn’t wanna deal with Dee being pissed because i couldn’t cope and i sure as hell didn’t wanna see Lisa be offended by my abbrassiveness…so i tried, i sat on the floor beside Dee’s feet just imaging we were somewhere else. It lasted about 15minutes then i went back to my seat away from it all.
The truth is, it’s not Lisa’s drunkeness that made me feel uncomfortable it was my own mind. For the record - i don’t hate Lisa infact i think she has a great personality admitedly at times it’s very hard to escape and can come off a little bit too ‘in your face’ but she’s a nice person all the same.
i dunno what the hell is going on with me… have i been under a social rock? can i not interact with society anymore?
Filed Under: General
13 Aug
AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data
Looks like AOL fucked up.
read more about it here:http://tinyurl.com/ky6ek
No matter how many apologies they utter i don’t think it condones forgetting blantantly about a humans right to privacy.
08 Aug
Asian Las Vegas
Here I’ll have to mock Mat’s certain entry. The reason for my lack of update, or no update at all for that matter is because I’ve been sneaking into casinos by day, and the fancy hotels by night. Okay, moving on.Sad news: I’ll be departing Macau in 1 week. Good news: I’ve only got bitten by musquitos three times, and will probably endure more once I’m back at Vietnam.
Another news, I’ll be going to Vietnam ALL BY MYSELF. That is to say, wandering the Hong Kong airport, taking one of those ferry that specializes in shaking and making the people in it seeing what they ate last night and endure 4 hours of airplane recycled air.
Shoppings been my second main priority here, things here are heavenly (and cheap). But the thing I learned while walking the streets of Macau: it is not always neccessarily to look straight when you walk, but to look up. Why? Because you’ll never know what’s dripping down; water, ropes, all that lovely junk.
First priority? Catching up with cousins and family that I have not had the fortune to see in 7 years, and I think my definition of catching up means "going on computer while my cousin is sleeping". Nonetheless, it’s all very fun.
What’s more, my two eldest cousin are going to Canada for school! One recently got in Waterloo, and one is going to some international school.
Fun, fun fun. Anyway, we’re planning to explore Macau s’more in the remainder of the week. But I’m sure Macau is even more fun once I’m 18.
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03 Aug
The new age of feminism
Well i won’t keep you too long but i’d like to touch base on something i read on the train journey home. While the MX is not a reputable newspaper and is probably only heard of within australia’s walls it steal’s all of it’s information from other news sources…like any paper really.
Anyhow the article was about the new era of what they reffered to as ‘feminists’. Apparently this new generation was characterized by such stars as Paris Hilton and Pink, well that was my first shock persoally i’ve never seen Paris Hilton as a role model yet alone poster girl for the new era of women infact i find her utterly repulsive with her ditzy blonde attitude and her stupid spending spree’s on glittery junk. To say that women in this day and age are becoming more a-kin to this woman really destroys my hope for the future of this world.
This article then went onto say that almost 80% of the women surveyed would pose semi nude/nude for a mens magazine and that women no longer want to work hard for their dollars and would much prefer to make easy money using their sexual attributes if need be. Oh and after this it went on further to say that women posing nude and flashing their bits around are no longer looked down upon by society and are more embraced.
So basicly it’s okay to dress like a slut and even become a slut in the hope of easy money and a life filled with men being your proverbial sugar daddy while you bare your birthday suit to the world..and somehow this related to ‘feminism’. I thought women wanted to have equal rights and there be no line t drawn between what either sex can achieve within society and now after reading this article women admit to flaunting their sexuality to get their own way and that they dont care if the men re-assume the role of the bread winner…
So who’s to blame for women taking yet another step back in the fight to equality, the media or the people behind the stories? Well to be honest i can’t really give you an exact answer to that question but by my judgement i’d say both. The media forces down our throat’s the lives of these rich girls who live out of daddy’s pocket but in turn these women decide to lap up everything the media throws at them and all the while knowing that young girls look upto them they still continue their blonde antics. Maybe we should blame the parents for exposing their children to the media? or maybe we should just instate a law that makes it manditory for people to take IQ tests before becoming considered a catalyst for a social attitudinal revolution.
Personally i’ll stick with the later.
