I don't like foreign workers. These people always have these angry, sullen, empty expressions whenever you look at them, and if you have ever bothered to speak to them you realize, it's not just their expressions that are empty, from what I gather most of them never make it past the first 6 months of working in Malaysia, because without any sort of monitoring, they sleep on the job, and get sent back with huge debts.
It's the mentality... the way they think. I guess they've gotten used to having people like themselves around them. They litter everywhere and spend all their money on cigarettes. Pay them their salary and 3 weeks later they've spent most of it. I wonder if it ever occurred to them to send money back to their families? Well it doesn't matter since our government will accept them into this country. . . . . It's an interesting fact, Indonesians who become Malaysian citizens have been able to receive Bumiputra status, where as Chinese people who have lived here for generations don't get Bumiputra status.
Rant 2
Lately there's been a lot of hoo hah, particularly about a minister in the MCA, one of the health ministers apparently, this is a man that has actually done something for the country, he pushed for several legislation's on health matters to improve the quality of the service, and he has done numerous visits to hospitals, this is one of the ministers who was "outstanding". Now hes being condemned over a 'scandal', some sex tape that was taken by someone in a hotel.
I'm not supporting extra marital affairs, but it seems quite funny that something completely unrelated to his work would have such a huge impact on it, where as people like Najib and Rafidah get away with the things that would put most people in jail, Najib with that Mongol model murder(blown up by explosives that only the police special forces have access to) and Rafidah with her AP scandal. The person who came forward with the evidence against Rafidah was actually jailed by the ISA, jailed without trial for bringing up evidence against corruption, are the people up there really that invulnerable?
Competent people are losing their jobs for something that should not even be the business of the public, on what was basically political assassination, and the big sharks are still swimming out there.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Streamyx connection just dropped...
Yay, 10 kbs per second.
I remember subscribing to a 1 mbps line, not a 56k dial up.
I remember subscribing to a 1 mbps line, not a 56k dial up.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Politics
I don't know many people who know anything on politics other than what comes out on the newspapers, most people brush off any information regarding the government, whenever I bring up a topic like this I get that blank, boring silence. A lot of times I find that some people actually seem to support the government, their happy with what they have, or they just couldn't be bothered. As the saying goes.. ignorance is bliss.
There's plenty of information to be found online, things you would not be able to read from the newspapers, and it's very interesting. Anything related to politics usually isn't reported in its entirety in the newspaper. You can read plenty of comments belittling the opposition thrown by the government, the sort of name tossing you usually see in children. There is never a public forum for any sort of debate to happen, people are expected to take whatever the government chooses to feed them. It's a huge joke when the government posts up huge figures that are completely false(NEP incident) to fool the general public, and then proceed to lambaste anyone who says otherwise, even when they have concrete evidence to back their claims, of course since the majority of the people in Malaysia think its just "politics" they simply never bother to find out.
I would probably say that for every 10 people I know there probably aren't more than 1 or 2 that actually know just how far off the figures that the politicians came up with to justify the continuation of the NEP is, and just how many times the politicians have managed to get away with the worst sort of crimes.
People who say that corrupt politicians are "smart" because they know how to earn a lot of money and get away with it ought to be shot. I tend to get this sort of impression whenever I'm dealing with some people, the feeling that being more well off or being "better" justifies whatever they do. Their attitude is that, in the end, I'm still better than you, so what if I'm lying? So what if I'm being rude, in the end I'm still more well off than you are. I suppose in some respects this is true, a person has to learn to adapt to changes but having to deal with people who completely lack any sense of morality is really disturbing. I do know confident people who generally feel that morality is incredibly overrated, but the people who support something that is obviously wrong simply because the person who is doing it isn't getting caught is in my opinion, stupidity at its finest.
read this, there are several articles from an economist from Australia about Malaysia, a lot of information here that you probably would not be able to get anywhere else.
There's plenty of information to be found online, things you would not be able to read from the newspapers, and it's very interesting. Anything related to politics usually isn't reported in its entirety in the newspaper. You can read plenty of comments belittling the opposition thrown by the government, the sort of name tossing you usually see in children. There is never a public forum for any sort of debate to happen, people are expected to take whatever the government chooses to feed them. It's a huge joke when the government posts up huge figures that are completely false(NEP incident) to fool the general public, and then proceed to lambaste anyone who says otherwise, even when they have concrete evidence to back their claims, of course since the majority of the people in Malaysia think its just "politics" they simply never bother to find out.
I would probably say that for every 10 people I know there probably aren't more than 1 or 2 that actually know just how far off the figures that the politicians came up with to justify the continuation of the NEP is, and just how many times the politicians have managed to get away with the worst sort of crimes.
People who say that corrupt politicians are "smart" because they know how to earn a lot of money and get away with it ought to be shot. I tend to get this sort of impression whenever I'm dealing with some people, the feeling that being more well off or being "better" justifies whatever they do. Their attitude is that, in the end, I'm still better than you, so what if I'm lying? So what if I'm being rude, in the end I'm still more well off than you are. I suppose in some respects this is true, a person has to learn to adapt to changes but having to deal with people who completely lack any sense of morality is really disturbing. I do know confident people who generally feel that morality is incredibly overrated, but the people who support something that is obviously wrong simply because the person who is doing it isn't getting caught is in my opinion, stupidity at its finest.
read this, there are several articles from an economist from Australia about Malaysia, a lot of information here that you probably would not be able to get anywhere else.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Streamyx problems for the last month.
Streamyx doing something to their lines again, dc + lagging, and its been dragging on for the last month, just what is going on over there? Maybe they've decided to throttle entire connections.... instead of throttling the torrents only..
Thursday, October 25, 2007
I am bored. Again
Blogging looks to be something that will appear in my busy schedule regularly! Busy.. haha...
Rant and rave,
I have something against stupid people, I find them incredibly irritating. Stupid people are the people who can't think, these are the same people who will tell you they are right despite the 1000000++ facts that tell them they are wrong, and they aren't capable of thinking with any sort of clarity, because most of them can't exercise any control over their emotions. These are the same fools brimming with confidence despite having been proven wrong repeatedly, they make the same mistakes again and again, without any sort of improvement, yet continue to have that misguided confidence in themselves. Now if these people would keep to themselves and live in their own little village where their species would die out I would have absolutely nothing against them, but it annoys me to no end when they try and impose their stupidity on other people.
A good example I would take from would be from DOTA(popular LAN game in CC's), now I've been playing this game for a very long time, although I've stopped playing for more than a month, and I cannot describe just how irritated I get when someone who has little or no skill whatsoever in the game tries to shoot off commands to better players, it's one thing when your a top notch player and you tell people what to do, its another thing entirely when your score is 0 kills 10 deaths and your tell a person whose on a godlike streak what to do. Of course anyone who is actually good at the game would tell you that getting a godlike streak doesn't always mean that player is a really good player, but when your score is 0 kill and 10 deaths aka negative godlike, it's fairly obvious that your not up there among the top players. It has nothing to do with your 'mood', if you made a mistake and you can't even work out what mistake you made that means your not up to par, go improve yourself.
Another type, the most common type, are known as N00bs. You can't really differentiate between the stupid players and N00bs, since N00bs are usually stupid people. Not all of them though, some are morons, others are idiots. N00bs are the players who have been playing for a long time, but never seem to able to grasp the basic details of the game, they play for hours on end every day, but they never seem to improve. That itself isn't a problem, but n00bs are not only bad at the game. Since they've been playing for so long, they consider themselves to be 'pros'.
How is a person, who has little or no knowledge on the game able to judge just exactly how good they are? Let me give you and example, let's say some idiot thinks 1 + 1 = 5. He has so little mathematical skills that he doesn't even realize just how far off he is from the correct answer, so when asked to rate himself he says, "I'm pretty good at maths". Put 10 people like this in a game together and they start complimenting each other on how good each of them is, and everyone starts thinking, "Hey, I'm a PRO!!", well guess what? Your all equally incompetent. (theres actually a term for this, its called false consensus). These are the people who go to cash prize tournaments and get wiped out in the first 2 rounds.
Rant and rave,
I have something against stupid people, I find them incredibly irritating. Stupid people are the people who can't think, these are the same people who will tell you they are right despite the 1000000++ facts that tell them they are wrong, and they aren't capable of thinking with any sort of clarity, because most of them can't exercise any control over their emotions. These are the same fools brimming with confidence despite having been proven wrong repeatedly, they make the same mistakes again and again, without any sort of improvement, yet continue to have that misguided confidence in themselves. Now if these people would keep to themselves and live in their own little village where their species would die out I would have absolutely nothing against them, but it annoys me to no end when they try and impose their stupidity on other people.
A good example I would take from would be from DOTA(popular LAN game in CC's), now I've been playing this game for a very long time, although I've stopped playing for more than a month, and I cannot describe just how irritated I get when someone who has little or no skill whatsoever in the game tries to shoot off commands to better players, it's one thing when your a top notch player and you tell people what to do, its another thing entirely when your score is 0 kills 10 deaths and your tell a person whose on a godlike streak what to do. Of course anyone who is actually good at the game would tell you that getting a godlike streak doesn't always mean that player is a really good player, but when your score is 0 kill and 10 deaths aka negative godlike, it's fairly obvious that your not up there among the top players. It has nothing to do with your 'mood', if you made a mistake and you can't even work out what mistake you made that means your not up to par, go improve yourself.
Another type, the most common type, are known as N00bs. You can't really differentiate between the stupid players and N00bs, since N00bs are usually stupid people. Not all of them though, some are morons, others are idiots. N00bs are the players who have been playing for a long time, but never seem to able to grasp the basic details of the game, they play for hours on end every day, but they never seem to improve. That itself isn't a problem, but n00bs are not only bad at the game. Since they've been playing for so long, they consider themselves to be 'pros'.
How is a person, who has little or no knowledge on the game able to judge just exactly how good they are? Let me give you and example, let's say some idiot thinks 1 + 1 = 5. He has so little mathematical skills that he doesn't even realize just how far off he is from the correct answer, so when asked to rate himself he says, "I'm pretty good at maths". Put 10 people like this in a game together and they start complimenting each other on how good each of them is, and everyone starts thinking, "Hey, I'm a PRO!!", well guess what? Your all equally incompetent. (theres actually a term for this, its called false consensus). These are the people who go to cash prize tournaments and get wiped out in the first 2 rounds.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Holiday at Port Dickson
Went off to Port Dickson on Saturday, somewhere around 2 o clock, my mom went nuts, again, why? I don't know, but I'm beginning to realize what to expect every time the family goes off for an outing, she did the same thing on the last 3 holidays, she always picks fights with people whenever her mood sours and its driving me up the wall, onto the roof, throwing sticks down while screaming... I had a massive argument with her, which pretty much killed the holiday mood, again.
Nevertheless the holiday was pretty fun, took 2 hours of driving to get to Port Dickson, the traffic was bad, or it probably would have been taken an hour and a half. We stayed at some place that belongs to the methodist church in PJ, the whole family used to go off for holidays there, but that was more than 10 years ago, the area is pretty big, roughly 20 acres total according to one of the keepers over there, Kumar. They have a canteen, a hall, dormitories etc. The land was acquired by the church more than 50 years ago I think, they still use it for some of the church activities these days, although I wouldn't really know, I've never been a devoted Christian even back when I was a kid, but I saw some thick branches stacked up at a gathering spot, and a bunch of kids that looked as if they just got out of Sunday school... How I miss the days...
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yea right, I've never liked going to the church. Anyway it looked like there was some sort of bonfire that would be going on at night. We got there at around 5PM, give or take a few minutes and introduced ourselves to some Indian guy called Shamugen, the maintenance guy right now. He recognized my dad from last time, so we got the methodist price tag, the room looked something like a motel room, 3 beds, 1 mirror, 1 toilet, a cupboard, and some place to hang the towels. Hmm... RM45, nothing great, but the big area you get to walk around and the fact that its practically next to the beach makes it a great place to stay. The atmosphere is relaxing as well. Absolutely perfect. Took off for dinner, had to wait for 3 hours for the food, damn hari raya, all the restaurants were jam packed, and the idiot waiter got our dish wrong, thought the person who took the order made a mistake so we dug in and waited for the next dish, turns out it was actually for the table right beside us, and the dish(lala) was absolutely tasteless, what a waste of money and the bloody boss looked at us as if it was our fault, fuck, look at your waiter, not your customer. After finishing that dish we had to wait for another hour for our next dish. The experience is not one I want to repeat again. Had to wait for so long, and I had a stomach ache after eating the food. Spent the night face down in the pillow moaning in pain. What a lousy experience.
The next day more than made up for all the bad luck though, got breakfast at the canteen, eggs and sausages with jam and bread and some butter, went to the beach, dug up some small lala's to bring back, weather was good, etc etc. Lots of fun, went back at 2 o clock.
Nevertheless the holiday was pretty fun, took 2 hours of driving to get to Port Dickson, the traffic was bad, or it probably would have been taken an hour and a half. We stayed at some place that belongs to the methodist church in PJ, the whole family used to go off for holidays there, but that was more than 10 years ago, the area is pretty big, roughly 20 acres total according to one of the keepers over there, Kumar. They have a canteen, a hall, dormitories etc. The land was acquired by the church more than 50 years ago I think, they still use it for some of the church activities these days, although I wouldn't really know, I've never been a devoted Christian even back when I was a kid, but I saw some thick branches stacked up at a gathering spot, and a bunch of kids that looked as if they just got out of Sunday school... How I miss the days...
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yea right, I've never liked going to the church. Anyway it looked like there was some sort of bonfire that would be going on at night. We got there at around 5PM, give or take a few minutes and introduced ourselves to some Indian guy called Shamugen, the maintenance guy right now. He recognized my dad from last time, so we got the methodist price tag, the room looked something like a motel room, 3 beds, 1 mirror, 1 toilet, a cupboard, and some place to hang the towels. Hmm... RM45, nothing great, but the big area you get to walk around and the fact that its practically next to the beach makes it a great place to stay. The atmosphere is relaxing as well. Absolutely perfect. Took off for dinner, had to wait for 3 hours for the food, damn hari raya, all the restaurants were jam packed, and the idiot waiter got our dish wrong, thought the person who took the order made a mistake so we dug in and waited for the next dish, turns out it was actually for the table right beside us, and the dish(lala) was absolutely tasteless, what a waste of money and the bloody boss looked at us as if it was our fault, fuck, look at your waiter, not your customer. After finishing that dish we had to wait for another hour for our next dish. The experience is not one I want to repeat again. Had to wait for so long, and I had a stomach ache after eating the food. Spent the night face down in the pillow moaning in pain. What a lousy experience.
The next day more than made up for all the bad luck though, got breakfast at the canteen, eggs and sausages with jam and bread and some butter, went to the beach, dug up some small lala's to bring back, weather was good, etc etc. Lots of fun, went back at 2 o clock.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Another post!
Yet another post, right after my mid terms! I've got way too much time on my hands right now, time to go off for a holiday!!!
Talking about myself again, is this a sign of narcissism? hmm... I really don't care.
Well I don't really have anything to do right now, but I've actually wrote a post that I intended on modifying before this one that I put into the blog's drafts, but somehow or another it got deleted when I deleted my post, damn blog should say something before deleting the drafts, I basically typed out a 500~1000 word post and its all fucking gone now. What the hell does save drafts mean??? If I save the fucking draft I expect the draft to be there the next time I open it.
Anyway this post is about a good friend of mine, lets just call him NoWorries for the sake of anonymity, NoWorries comes from a wealthy family, NoWorries is aptly nicknamed so because thats basically how he lives his life, with absolutely no worries whatsoever, he spent several years overseas and basically came home with nothing to show of it, because he flunked out on everything, he doesn't return things that his borrowed from people unless you ask him, repeatedly, continuously, for several weeks. He almost never comes on time for any sort of appointment, even when he is the one who comes up with the schedules, he has absolutely no reasoning capabilities whatsoever, every time someone calls him up on his behavior, however nicely, he throws a tantrum and literally screams, its absolutely ridiculous, he has absolutely no control over his emotions, one moment his wallowing in self pity, and the next his high on some anime. It's gotten so bad that most of the times I avoid playing games with him, because this guy just gets way out of control.
I've been friends with NoWorries for several years now, and I tend to close one eye everytime NoWorries throws a tantrum and starts behaving in a less than sane manner, but its reached the boiling point after I find out that hes actually planning on getting .... engaged. This is a guy with the mindset of an adolescent, irresponsible and immature, who can't even take care of himself, and he actually thinks he has the capabilities to not only look after his girlfriend, but to become a parent? All the lectures his been given by his parents, his friends, the people around him has crystallized into this steaming pile of shit?
Some people might say this isn't really any of my business, he is after all a rich person, he could probably live for the next 10 generations without any sort of employment and still be able to live comfortably, but I say that a friend has at the very least, the duty to inform another friend of the mistakes he is making.
Talking about myself again, is this a sign of narcissism? hmm... I really don't care.
Well I don't really have anything to do right now, but I've actually wrote a post that I intended on modifying before this one that I put into the blog's drafts, but somehow or another it got deleted when I deleted my post, damn blog should say something before deleting the drafts, I basically typed out a 500~1000 word post and its all fucking gone now. What the hell does save drafts mean??? If I save the fucking draft I expect the draft to be there the next time I open it.
Anyway this post is about a good friend of mine, lets just call him NoWorries for the sake of anonymity, NoWorries comes from a wealthy family, NoWorries is aptly nicknamed so because thats basically how he lives his life, with absolutely no worries whatsoever, he spent several years overseas and basically came home with nothing to show of it, because he flunked out on everything, he doesn't return things that his borrowed from people unless you ask him, repeatedly, continuously, for several weeks. He almost never comes on time for any sort of appointment, even when he is the one who comes up with the schedules, he has absolutely no reasoning capabilities whatsoever, every time someone calls him up on his behavior, however nicely, he throws a tantrum and literally screams, its absolutely ridiculous, he has absolutely no control over his emotions, one moment his wallowing in self pity, and the next his high on some anime. It's gotten so bad that most of the times I avoid playing games with him, because this guy just gets way out of control.
I've been friends with NoWorries for several years now, and I tend to close one eye everytime NoWorries throws a tantrum and starts behaving in a less than sane manner, but its reached the boiling point after I find out that hes actually planning on getting .... engaged. This is a guy with the mindset of an adolescent, irresponsible and immature, who can't even take care of himself, and he actually thinks he has the capabilities to not only look after his girlfriend, but to become a parent? All the lectures his been given by his parents, his friends, the people around him has crystallized into this steaming pile of shit?
Some people might say this isn't really any of my business, he is after all a rich person, he could probably live for the next 10 generations without any sort of employment and still be able to live comfortably, but I say that a friend has at the very least, the duty to inform another friend of the mistakes he is making.
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