The Biased World We Live In

Hello readers. It's been awhile (again). Finally got a job after graduating and picking up the pace in the merciless capitalistic world we live in. Aside from that, I have a very important concern about how the media has programmed us to think that by being an extrovert (sociable people concerned with external reality and interested in others) and by having a shit tonne of friends, we've reached the peak of our lives. They have even condemned introverts (people who tend to shy away from social contact and become preoccupied with their own thoughts). ps: one does not simply choose to become introverted or extroverted overnight, it is part of our personality affected since birth and shaped through life's events.

I can recall Jason Derulo (don't really care about the spelling, he has a short celebrity shelf life anyway like the Jonas Brothers, Jordan Sparks and *insert new mainstream artist's name here*) saying ,"Go out, spend time with your friends and family. Talk. A simple console or video game can't give you that". Don't get me wrong, talking to friends and family is essential for anyone but why condemn a particular hobby (which eventually turns into a really good skill- I'll explain this in another post) ?

Here's a video of Jimmy Kimmel patronizing Mila Kunis because she plays World of Warcraft:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI8WT3lVe80

Movie after movie, series after series we can clearly see that the "nerds" and "geeks" being perceived as the losers and outcasts. Let me tell you why the media has done this and it's simple: Money.

Extroverts hang out way more than introverts at a very high cost. Bars and clubs (pay attention to today's "Music", it's all about clubbing) are their playgrounds, well more like overpriced theme parks, donating a huge amount to the alcohol industry. Even at the mamak (late night hawker stores for those who aren't Malaysian), the amount of cigarettes they smoke is a huge donation to the tobacco industry. It doesn't stop there, richer extroverts are more material savvy, spending money on clothes, the latest designer handbags, watches, Apple products, etc, etc to either show off or compete which people who have a similar level of ego.

Introverts in comparison, engage themselves in hobbies which are more indoor-like, which doesn't cost as much as going out. They have "boring" hobbies like reading, gaming, engaging in forums, practicing on an instrument, playing card games and etc. They spend way less and hence, are judged by the media as unacceptable, awkward people.

For those who are quick to judge, I'm somewhere around the middle of the spectrum, leaning a little bit to the introverted side these days. I've lived both lives: I used to play WoW 14 hours a days, finish single-player games within a day or two but I also used to club 3 times a week, hang out and get wasted with friends (good old college days). I'll try to stay in the middle as long as I can to get the best of both worlds as I'm a cynical bastard who's suffering from minor ADHD (would be great material for me if I ever decide to be a comedian).

I have talked (negatively) about two groups. The first group: Extroverts, the alcohol industry, the fashion industry and the tobacco industry. Don't get me wrong, I love this group. Then, there's Apple. Back to the first group, if you're an extrovert, I'm happy for you. Have fun, hang out do your thang.... but remember not to condemn the people on the other end of the same spectrum you're on. As for the tobacco industry and alcohol industry, I don't hate them either. I just used them for an example in comparison to the spendings of an introvert. I'd like to also thank them for being patient with our shitty government when taxes are being raised occasionally. Thanks for staying through the storm =)

As for Apple, fuck you. Fuck you for selling your gadgets at half the performance at double the price.

As for introverts, don't envy the extroverts. You've got advantages which the media didn't tell you about. Introverts have very high internal stimuli hence they do not have a void they need to fill unlike extroverts. This void is filled by talking to many people, alcohol, drugs and etc. Introverts are more likely to engage in hobbies and/or views that are of their own interest (not to please their friends or conform to a certain set of believes within a group of friends).

However, I would advice you to also do extroverted things like clubbing and talking to strangers and see if this lifestyle suits you more or not. There is no wrong choice on this spectrum so do whatever makes you happy as long as you're not hurting someone else or imposing your values (wink wink fundamentalists).

"Go out, hang out with your friends and family. Talk, Chill. A videogame or console can't give you that"

-This coming from a man who's debut song was a cover of Imogen Heap, the same man who butchered Harry Belafonte's Day-o (now sadly known as Don't Wanna Go Home) with lyrics like Standing on the bar, no matter day or night, bitch I'm a star (inspirational lyrics, Shakespeare would be so proud) and EVERY time he sings, he sounds like he's getting ramped in the ass with that mechanical giant dildo from Euro Trip....

and I'm supposed to take life lessons from him? Fuck you and good night.

Animal Wrongs

Gotta love fanatical vegans. They're ambitious, animal loving, zealous and stupid. Saw a couple of videos uploaded on fb with titles like "OMG, I won't meat again" or "you won't eat meat again after seeing this". I watched all of them.... I still eat meat like a hungry lion. Here's why:

1) the videos show how your daily farm animals that are slaughtered by the masses (overflooded stimuli kinda affects your emotions if you're not thinking right). If I bring you to a wet market, you'll see a couple of butchers slaughtering chickens or ducks and you won't feel anything (or maybe a bit) cause well, they're killing those "poor animals" in a small amount.

slaughter houses need to kill farm animals by the masses to meet demand. We won't be getting much meat (or even any meat) at the supermarket if it weren't for them, be thankful.

2) The videos also show workers mistreating animals by kicking, smashing and/or killing them "unethically". First off, it's sugarcoated. These poor workers have to move hundreds of animals a day (this is what they don't show you). There must be at least 10 retard animals (another thing they don't show) are giving them shit and so they vent it out on them.

Secondly, do you really think the workers have all the time and energy in the world to abuse the animals the way you see in the vids? There's hundred of chickens in the slaughterhouse cages... So the workers are gonna pull out one chicken at a time and beat them, put them back and grab the next chicken?

3) We won't be here today without meat. It's also ESSENTIAL to have meat in your diet (usually this is where a post a reliable link but it's 4 in the morning so go look for it yourself). There was a vegan couple of starved their baby to death by denying it proper protein (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18574603/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/). Good job assholes. Also, a vegetarian has to spend 3 times more than a normal person does to compensate for the absence of nutrients which meat provides.

4) The videos close in on 1 animal which is maltreated. I saw a vid showing a chick left to die because it wasn't fit enough for the job. Speaking of chicks who should be left to die in my list includes: Rebecca Black, the Olsen twins and Justin Bieber but I digress. Out of 1000 animals, 1 animal isn' treated properly and vegans go crazy about this. Cool, why don't you hang out at slaughterhouses, pick up dying animals, nurse them back to full health since you're so free?

5) My last point. IF everyone becomes a vegan, what are we gonna do with the farm animals? Who's gonna pay the maintenance fee to take care of them till they die? If we set them free into the wild, predators are gonna eat them. The whole world is now starving of protein hunger and we resort to eating wild animals. Cool plan if you're a typical hypocrite politician

So yea, if you're a fanatical vegan, I would love to take you out for dinner... to KFC and for each chicken you don't eat, I'll eat two.

If you're not a fanatical vegan, I'm cool with it. As long you don't impose values, flaunt your "moral superiority" or post vegetarianish activistic vids (like those stupid religious fucks)...

it's cool

of yea check this epic meal time vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ
and if you're a vegan fanatic, go post your hate comments there k thx bai

Terminate the Vicious Cycle

3 years after a long, torturous bunch of hurdles and I've finally done my final paper of the entire course of Psychology. And being an inquisitive being, I often asked my friends the daunting question ,"If given the chance to go back 3 years from now, would you

change the course that you were in?"

90% percent said yes. Kinda sad imo. I know people who are awesome at singing, designing, linguistics, sports, photography and etc etc who are not doing the course that they are best in. Why? Well, cause their parents didn't allow them to. Their parents were most prolly authoritarian.

Authoritarian parenting = a parenting style with high expectations (often unreasonable), restrictive, punitive, results oriented, zero feedback (communication is one way) and often used in the army. Most Asians are brought up in this environment. Prolly our grandparents were in the army and brought these values into our homes.... for the past 65 years.

Then comes the job search. People who are adults and who are still under the grasp of authoritarian parenting would be taking corporate roles and a few months later, suffer from job burnout. Productivity will fall with self efficacy, they'll quit their job and are back to square one. A lot of Asian parents instill absolute values that are unquestionable, irrational and unreasonable into their kids. The sadder part is these kids grow into helpless adults, doing a 9 to 5 job which they hate, fearing authority and would just stay in the zone of approval peers and parents.

This form of Nazism in the family need not be tolerated. If not dealt with, repression occurs and as a "psychologist" soon to be grad, I don't even go there.

If you are currently in a degree that you find that doesn't suit you, pull out. Get a REAL career counselor to run personality tests and RIASEC tests (google this) to help you narrow down your options. I've always believed that if you're good at any skill (well, sex isn't included cause our porn industry is pure fail), the cash will come eventually. If you're good at singing, you might not be the winner of the next talent show but you can perform in theaters, give tuition, sing at events and etc.

If your family isn't in any form of financial difficulty, you should be pursuing what you are good at. Then again, comes the dilemma between what you're good and what you like to do (Good Will Hunting) but I'll leave that for another blog spot, if I ever bother to spill my random thoughts over an electrical realm where no one really gives a shit about.

It's your life. Live it your way. If you're living your parents' lives, wtf are you gonna do when they're gone? Give that some thought.

Atheism, Science and Reason

Atheism - the doctrine or belief that there is no God.

Hi, it's me again and my insomnia's killing me. Anyway, I am going to preach the REAL news and the TRUTH and hopefully, the TRUTH might set you free. So why do I not believe in God? A creator? Heaven and Hell? Ghosts? Miracles? The meaning of Life?


The God Delusion
Simple. Scientific evidence does not add up to all of these. Let's start with God. If you believe in God, you'll most probably believe in a creator. Creationism or some smart ass alternative name, intelligent design, has simply no evidence and is contradictory to the fact that evolution exists. Creationism states that the earth is about 5,700 to 10,000 years old. Ok, then what about the dinosaur fossils that the archeologists dug up? They just happened to be there?

Another point, we cannot prove that "God" exists. What's the point of being God when you're EVERYWHERE but NOWHERE to be found? Of course, some smartass out there would challenge me ,"Yea, now try to prove that God doesn't exist". Yes, I agree that science cannot prove that God doesn't exist. But just because Science cannot prove that, does it give us a good reason to believe it in the first place? There's a motherfuckingshitload of things that Science cannot disprove the existence of. For example, Dragons, Faeries, Dwarfs, Goblins cannot be proven to NOT exist. But we don't believe in them. So why are millions of people still believing in fairy tales?

The idea of God is like a virus. From a very young age, kids have religion shoved down their throats. You know what else kids believe in? Santa Claus, Tooth Fairies, Superman, Godzilla and the Boogie Man. They'll also believe whatever their parents tell them. "Don't touch the kettle, look out for the car, careful, don't fall". Kids don't have the liberty to think over the orders of their parents, they have to follow instructions immediately. Should the kid stop and think to analyze an order, he/she would most probably be dead.

Afterlife - Heaven, Hell, Nirvana, Playboy Mansion
The very idea of someone watching everything you do and evaluating you for the rest of your life to see whether you deserve to walk past the pearly gates is yet another man made control device to strike fear and guilt into the hearts of men. It also comforts a person as he or she believe that there's life after death. Looks like a lucrative idea yes? However, at what cost? It gives people the right to justify their wrong doings. It also acts as a negative reinforcement because you wouldn't want to burn for 999999999999999999999999999999999999 years right? So basically, most theists, do good things because they wanna get into heaven (talk about being genuine).

Miracles and Curses
Ah, now's the time for me to get my geek on and share my 33% percent theory ;)
There's 3 types of events that can happen to us: Good, Neural or Bad. So the chance of any of those events to occur is 33.33333333333333333333%. Now, let's say you've gone to some witchdoctor and he sold you a "protective amulet". The following week, you were nearly hit by a bus. The typical Malaysian would attribute this good event as a miracle given by the amulet when actually it was just pure luck. A 1 out of 3 odds is VERY HIGH and why would you be so certain that some supernatural power exists because u prayed, received "blessings" from a priest who does lil boys or because of "karma"?

Which brings me to my next argument, absolute certainty. Nothing is perfect and science lives by that law. Scientists use humble words like "most probably" rather than "definitely". A creationist would say, science cannot explain the origins of the universe, therefore, there is definitely a God. They say it so arrogantly without any proof. Yes, current scientific technology might not be able to prove the roots of the universe yet but does that give you the reason to believe in an invisible being? Absolute certainty is so dangerous, it destroys independent thought and create hyped-up overly confident people who have egocentric viewpoints. Eg: suicide bombers. When scientists don't know an answer, they will say ,"we don't know" but when a hyped-up religious fag doesn't know an answer, he'll most probably say ,"God works in mysterious ways". Isn't telling someone you don't know WAY better than pulling out some bullshit answer out of your ass?

Richard Dawkins, a genius evolutionist was approach by a douchebag cunt trying to outsmart someone with 300 times his IQ student and he asked ,"Sir, science has explained many things but it cannot tell us the meaning of life. Why is that so?" Richard Dawkins then said ,"Just because you can phrase a question in a grammatically correct fashion doesn't mean it deserves an answer." Now, let me ask you ,"What's the color of jealousy?" The student stood silent. My question was grammatically correct but does it deserve an answer? So next time, don't ask stupid questions (ownagebbqpwntpewpewfacepalmlol)

To sum it all up, I encourage you theists to think independently, question religious dogma and use human reasoning rather than following ancient scribblings and listening to whatever your parents shoved down your throat when you were a kid (ok, that didn't come out right).

Running on Empty

2010, New Year, New Resolutions (wishful thoughts), New intakes of new students.... bad news for students like myself cause the new ones will be stealing my precious parking spaces. New lecturers... hope they don't suck like some of the old ones.

And now, that leaves a new addiction/hobby/something to get me through this year. Music, facebooking and gaming are getting really dull for me... don't see any excitement there....

Clubbing never gets dull but I need to cut down on drinks and red meat cause I've been diagnosed for high cholesterol and high uric acid fml.

Hmm, gambling sounds like fun but i'll most probably end up skydiving from KLCC without a parachute.

I use to have debates on religion with my theist friends but now I see that there's no point in that (can't fix stupid, no offense though, that's my IMO and like you defensive ppl say ,"Everyone's entitled you their own opinion and you should respect mine.")

That very statement shoots itself in the foot cause then, I can say ,"Alright. My opinion is that you're dumb for believing in invisible beings that don't exist and you should respect my opinion k thx bye."

Well enough of my ranting, it's 4am, I can't sleep and I've got a lecture at 11am. Fucking great.
Hope this year would be better than the last and that better things would happen so that I can be a less of a pessimistic-sarcastic douchebag for the next 12months.

Peace out

It's been a while

Almost 3 months since i've last blogged. Been quite busy lately with Sunway's Model United Nations Conference, my internship @ F&N, doing social work for the 30-hour famine and now, tolerating intolerance, waging war on religion, talking to socially retarded unemphatic douche bags who can't see past their jewish size noses and etc.


Begining with the conference.... it was one week before my finals T.T
but yea, good experience for me as I got my ass raped by pro debaters

ECOSOC 1 (if im not wrong)




Directors


Do Re Mi

So basically we're given a country and a topic and we're to research on it and then debate using a strict format which i wasn't quite familiar with =/

James getting lucky tonite :P

and after 3 days of the conference, i had like 2 days to study for my finals. As finals was over, I didn't go anywhere to celebrate and was feeling rather "depressed" and asked a friend of mine to shisha with me but she couldn't cause her idiot ex-bf who drinks his liver out even though the doctor asked him to stop won't allow it (cause shisha is DANGEROUS) =.=


and she obidiently obliged like a lil bitch (or else her ex will threaten to kill himself like an emo cunt with no back bone)... so much for returning my favors.

And exactly one day after my finals... my internship started =/

but i'm really lucky to get a real nice and friendly boss with awesome colleagues. One week after my internship, we had a department trip to Cameron Highlands ^.^

De Cottage where we stayed


Steamboat nite ^.^

Almost all of my colleagues are health freaks and as we were stopping at stalls i couldn't help but notice the HUGE amounts of vegetables bought for the night's steamboat dinner. No one bought meat... I freaked out....

i'll die without me so i quickly rushed to the nearest stall and bought some ayam percik with some satay. But luckily Jeff (the Head of Department) bought some meat from KL before coming down... a huge relief it was :)

Then we visited some rose farm (i hate nature to be honest) and everyone was cam whoring and the like...

Lisa being sweet

Me being sweeter lol (that's Nicole btw)


Adding soya bean to the murky pond



Tracy (my boss's boss) looking quite gangsta here

And during my internship I was the transport manager for the 30 hour famine event for HELP college. Was experiencing stress to the max cause my superior doesn't know wtf he's doing =.=
Was a shitty experience for me cause my superiors (my fucking socially inept classmates) are unemphatic, said things that were uncalled for and didn't give a shit about the volunteers. They only know how to exaggerate the level of stress they're experiencing for their petty little tasks assigned to them.

One of the game planners even came up to me and said ,"Tim, at least you experience stress for a brief period but I experience it stress for a MUCH LONGER TIME THAN YOU". Yes, this is the kind of bullshit i get from my classmates for the past 2 years (should have taken PR instead hmmm). I'm the transport manager and I to make sure those fucking buses get from HELP to Bukit jalil safely. If one bus crashes.... I'm fucked. If ALL OF YOUR GAMES FAIL, it's no big deal really. So before talking next time, use that "thing" of your that's in your thick skull k?


Another one of them shouted at me because i asked her to text me (a form of reminder) to get HER a FUCKING FILLET O FISH. NExt day she gave me a cunt's look and told me to change into the 30 shirt. I'm gonna be operating under the fucking hot sun and you want me to wear that black piece of cloth? Well you see, most of the commitee members didn't have any sense of empathy at all... they were living in their little secure utopia, cracking the lamest jokes i've ever heard and laughing for no apparent reason. Seriously, you'll need to be drunk, take some weed and perhaps some acid to laugh at their jokes. During the weekend, I confronted her and told her what she did was uncalled for. She said she was stressed out =.=


It's NOT LIKE I FUCKING RAPED YOUR PARENTS OR ANYTHING IS IT? If you can't even handle stress for such a petty event, don't even dream of going into the job market. Then, she told me she won't talk to me until I forgive her. WOW Princess, you really want me to do ur mum right in front of you so that you can get a slap of reality?


and so, 30 hour famine became the 30 hour drama. You can see pictures of me faking smiles on my facebook during the event. Well thank god (figure of speech) i bummed into more grown up, matured people: Susanze, Grace and Siew Li. Think I'll die of being surrounded by ah bengs rather than hunger if these tutors didn't come so I owe you guys big big time ^.^



It was torcher @ Bukit Jalil. 4 out of 5 of the performances were mandirin songs >.< Jesus christ.... i was dying.... i couldn't wait for 6pm to leave the area and eat. But i endured and endured (ps: Ah Mei and Lee Hom performed but since i'm racist, I didn't give a shit. However, if Dashboard Confessionals, 2ndhand Serenade and/or Verticle Horizon came.... I might have forgetten all the previous shit that happened but oh well =/)


Right after the event, i ran out of the area, rushed to the nearest stall and bought like 2 huge packets of chips. As i munched on them, some dumb bitch who i never met in my life (i also hope i'll never see u ever again) took one of the bag of chips from me and told me HER friend said it's ok to do so. I immediately turned to tseeps (good friend of mine) and told her that this girl damn "tak tau malu". The bitch returned the bag of chips. I hope she heard what i've said. And so, after a huge bunch of spontaneuos compensation for unprepared events, it was all over and I could finally rest my head for like 7 hours until my next day for internship again T.T as my internship ended... i had 2 days of holiday! (should have been 2 months) and semester began wooo!


ps: I miss the people @ F&N, they're all awesome and friendly and gave me a fresh view of the corporate work force :) thx guys (especially 2 my 2 bosses: tracy and brandy for giving me great tasks for experience, i might be joining F&N after i graduate afterall haha

I promised her that I won't upload this shit on FB so....

Why WHy whyyyyy

I woke up at 7am. When i logged into my yahoo mail i saw (AP): Michael Jackson dies. I thought it was another media hoax like the "megan fox is a man" hoax. Then, i googled it... there were only 3 sources. After my bath, i clicked the refresh button and i had the BIGGEST wtf response of the year as i see all the famous news networks certifying his death =(


why??


why???


of all ppl why Michael Motherfucking Jackson?

why can't this emo turd die?


or this noise machine?

or this douche?

or this wimp?


or this wannabe?



or this stoned songwriter who pulls out his lyrics from his ass?

and last but not the least, the one "band" that's on the top of my deathwish list...

these Disney produced retarded turd eating, music ruining, self indudged faggots of the faggotorium

why of ALL the losers....







God had chose to Michael Jackson?






Maybe God's jealous?

cause he can't moonwalk like MJ?

cause he can't hit high notes like MJ?

cause he can't sing and dance like MJ?

cause he can't touch lil boys (only Catholic priests can) ?

why why why why why why why why x9000



oh well, think MJ's moonwalking all around heaven right now as the angels stare in shock and awe...

If there's only one thing that can compensate my anguish for MJ's death... is the death of these losers in the most painful way possible >.<

RIP, the GOD of Pop
When Jesus did his first ever water-walk, his disciples were proud of Jesus
When Michael Jackson did his first ever moonwalk, God was ashamed of Jesus