Knowledge VS Stone Head

Never in my life I have seen someone that is so much of an idiot. How hard is it to understand “This is wrong! Don’t do it!” Yet I wasted one and a half hours trying to explain to him why the way he was doing is wrong and why he shouldn’t be doing it. and for that one and a half hours he was just repeatedly trying to talk back with “but… but… but..”.


Screw his “Buts”. I was so frustrated talking to him to a point that I almost shoved the “Buts” into his butt if my friend didn’t message me and told me to join them at Aloha (a pub) ASAP.

Ok if I seem exaggerated and you are thinking that I might be bad in teaching someone to do something as easy as pressing the power button to turn on the PC, let me give you an idea of my ability in teaching things to living beings. Normal living beings, mind you.

My mom was a teacher, before she decided to resign and take care of us 3 sons she was the finest teacher known at where she was teaching, and was promoted to be the vice principle of the school before she resigned. I grew up watching her teach, and I learn from that. I have been teaching on and off since my college days, and after I graduated from my university holding a degree in “Communications” I even taught in a famous primary school in SS2 PJ to have a taste of the life of a teacher. My mother’s teaching methodologies are tested and proven to be one of the most effective and most influential even for me and for all the students that I have taught. I do not regard myself as the best teacher but I am confident enough with the ways of teaching children and my skills in face to face communication when I want to teach a person to what is right or wrong of ONE SIMPLE FUCKING MATTER, there shouldn’t be much problem.

I was wrong. Unfortunately when you are teaching a stone head, everything is a problem.

Friday night after work there was supposed to be a celebration going on for 2 of the colleagues in the same floor, both of them celebrating birthdays in February. I finished work at 4pm and I was staying back to chat with a girl and also to wait for 6pm so that everyone would be there and I can join them. 5:30pm when I was going to leave suddenly this fella in the other half of the team suddenly called out to me, he was checking on something as simple as 1+1=2 and he wanted to get a second opinion. Who the heck on earth gets a SECOND OPINION for 1+1=2? No matter of where you put either of the number “1”s, the answer will still be “2”.

So, being a nice person that I am (screw you all that are disagreeing that) I went ahead and gave him a walk through on what he was asking about. With him give me “but…but…but…” in between my answers, I managed to finish what I had to say without feeling too irritated because I already knew that he can be irritating and I was prepared.

And then he questioned what I just asked. I was starting to think that I was a little under prepared about how irritating he could have been.

So being a nice person that I am (I am starting to agree with the sounds of disagreement to that now) I went ahead and gave him a second walk through on the same subject again, inevitably showing some annoyance in my voice. With him give me “but…but…but…” in between my answers, I started to feel really irritated. At the end of that walk through I couldn’t help but asked him, why does he not know how to do such simple things?

And then something tipped me off further. I asked him to check on some vital information that is a must do before he check on how to handle the cases, he answered “I already checked” in a SO DAMN SURE kinda way. I requested him to check again as I didn’t see him do it, he answered back “I did lar”. So I then firmly DEMANDED him to do it again. He looked annoyed and so did it while mumbling and guess what, he didn’t check. The status of the case was not what he said, I am so fucking sure that he was assuming it and he didn’t check it. I got annoyed.

So I questioned him on why did he not do it.

He answered: “no one taught me how to do this and no one told me that I’m supposed to do this.”

I immediately felt uncontrollably irritated for one very blardy simple reason, I WAS THERE when his seniors taught him about this. I heard the whole thing and I knew it was well taught to him. I thought my violent days have been long gone but I had a surge of rage and almost just gave him a smack in his face. I screamed in my mine at him “WHAT AN IDIOT!”.

(as I was typing this another idiot in the team has sent me messages over the internal messenger trying to start a fight with me. No balls to bring it up in broad day light but trying to start something in the dark. What a wuss).

So being an emo fella I am, I just threw it straight into his face to save time. “I was there when they teach you this, don’t give me this bullshit.” He got stunned and he tried to argue further but I decided to take none of his bullshit any further. So I told him to shut the fuck up and listen to me while I go over the whole process again. He tried to argue but I told him if he doesn’t want to listen it’s fine, I further pointed out a problem that I already pointed out on day 1 when he joined the team, he needs to pay attention to listen to what people tell him. He wasn’t happy but I’m glad he didn’t argue further because I was ready to leave him be.

And so, for the third time, I gave him another walk through, this time I demanded him to start making notes. True enough, I knew one of his reasons of not being able to learn things effectively is not being able to take notes. He seems to think that asking the same question 10000 times is fine as long as he learns it. So I delivered to him, I pointed out all his bad habits in learning especially about not taking notes and even if he does all his notes became trash once the session is done. Not only that he does not refer to them, even if he wanted to he has no idea where and what notes to refer to, or even if he found the notes, he wouldn’t even be able to comprehend what his notes were about anyway. Like I said, the notes are just trash. He wasn’t happy, but I proved to him to get him to show me some notes that he has taken regarding previous topics. Not only that he is unable to find them, on things that he is able to find, he can’t comprehend, and in the end he even claimed that no one taught him about certain subjects.

I was very unhappy on that claim and couldn’t control myself but to deliver whatever he said right back into his face, pointed out again that I was there when he was being taught.

It wasn’t the end of it. He was talking back all the while when I was telling him that he wasn’t doing things right. And then I decided that I had enough. I got a message from friends in Aloha that I am an hour late. So I told him fuck it. I already said whatever shit I had to say, over and over again. It’s up to him to take it or not. And so I left the office.

First time in my life I just dunned 2 bottles of Calsberg in 10 minutes. Shows how stress it was for me to talk to him. One and a half hours. that’s it. no more. Not on the same subjects anyway. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr





Signing off.

Happy Valentine's day to all.

Happy Valentine ’s Day everyone. I hereby wish that all of you couple will have a happy day and happier days ahead, and those who are still single would get a date of your dream soon, someone that suits you for life. Those that tries to get a difference date all the time, please go die. Eheh.


It’s a Monday and it’s valentine’s day. I am in office, work starts at 7am, and before the clock turns 7:01am I feel like going home already. Feels horrible to come to work today and for the fact that I actually bought and wrapped a gift for a guy as a valentine’s present makes me feel like an idiot. However since it’s part of the company activity I did it with heart anyway. Just that last night I have found out once again that I suck at wrapping gifts. I shall stick to boxes in the future, screw wrapping paper.

Everybody’s saying “Happy Valentine’s!” all over the place. Even I’m numbly wishing the same to everyone that I see. Bah.

It’s getting more and more depressing every year this time because I have not have a date. For my parents and some relatives, it seems to be a great issue, some of them even began to tell me that it’s a sin if I do not have an off spring.

HALLO!!!!????

I just want to shout in their face, whether it’s my off or my spring, there’s nothing to do with them. Geez. Get off my back already.

Mom offered me to set me up to meet up to one of her old friend’s daughter. I finally realized that how pretty a girl can become when some other mothers are recommending them to another guy. The spirit of selling something is such a natural thing when it comes to something that you concern.

It’s not the first time this has happened and because this year’s offers are a little overwhelming, I agreed with my mom and accepted her offer for a dinner just to give an impression of something is going on and stop all other offers from coming in. I guess making another friend isn’t such a bad thing. Hope the girl thinks the same.

Urk… what a pain.

It’s becoming a crime for me for answering that I am not dating any girl steadily. Sometimes I just feel like I want to lie to them but knowing the consequence of doing that I’d rather not to do. It’d be a total chaos if they ask me to bring the girl home for new year or dinner or whatever. Not going to bring that upon myself.

Had a dinner appointment today with an interesting girl but she happened to be stuck out station and cant make the dinner tonight. Felt a little miserable when I cancelled the booking at Jogoya yesterday evening. The reservation lady on the other side of the phone sounded damn cynical, she must have thought that I got dumped by my girlfriend on a valentine’s eve. Maybe it’s just my imagination.

I got a gift ready for the girl anyway, I appreciate that she has given the thought that she’d have dinner with me on valentine’s day although it’s not going to happen. Took a little time to decorate the gift a little. I gave a little though about what to give but I decided to give something I like, instead of buying something brand new. Realised last night that the girl has the same horoscope as I do, let’s hope she’d like the things that I like too.

I’ll consider posting a video of the gift later after I give the gift to her.

Not having a date during valentine’s day actually feels worse year by year, especially with all the pressure coming from around me. A couple of my best buddies are married; a few even have children, more than one for some of them. The first question they ask when I attended their wedding or their child’s first birthday, is always “when is it gonna be your turn?” I could only always reply with a loud sigh that usually shuts them up. I’m glad enough that they won’t try to pair me up with someone I dunno, unlike my relatives. That’s why we’re friends, I guess.

Where’s my date? =(

Is it so hard to find someone that clicks? Someone that actually work the brain when talking. Girls need to realize how pretty they look when their brains are in control. Guys get attracted to girls with a charming aura instead of girls with a charming look. Oh well.

I suddenly think I should stop ranting.



Signing off.

1 down, how many more to go?

This post has been delayed for too long, this should have been up on Tuesday but I felt so reluctant to finish this entry because of its negative energy and the way I feel on what has happened.


I really really dislike blogging about gloomy matters.

I like most of the people that I work with. Not all, but most, that’s already better than most of the people that works in an office, so that’s better than a lot of people that whines about everything. Maybe it’s just me but sometimes I do get attached to personalities that I like a lot. Unfortunately in the working world most of this companionship will end sooner or later, one way or another.

It’s always nice to know someone dependable at where you work, especially when some task are just challenging and are difficult, although not impossible, to complete without their help. Over time these people’s existence will be so much more appreciated than some others. Some people are just more pivotal in terms of influence and work performance than some others.

Yesterday one of the seniors I respected just snapped. It wasn’t really a sudden decision, she’s been thinking about it for a while because of the issues that are almost not resolvable in her role. She’s just having too much difficulties that are not resolvable between herself and our new boss (not really new, been here for nearly a year now) because the approach to tackle things are just too different.

One email from the boss in the morning questioning her about why is she not doing a task (which was supposed to be done by himself in the first place) totally just pissed her off, and all of a sudden she made a decision, whacked out the resignation in the hard drive, amended the date, printed and signed, then in the afternoon me and Girl (Girl was featured in my earlier entries) watched her walking across the floor to our manager (boss’s boss) to tender her resignation.

It was quick. They went into a meeting room to discuss a few issues and then it was settled.

Good thing is that She came back with a smile. In fact the best look that I’ve seen on her face since she has began working with our team leader. The gloomy aura around her seems to have been lifted, relaxed. That made us didn’t feel as bad. I kinda complained to Girl in the internal messenger about how negative I felt about losing a good senior and a good point of reference, and most importantly a good friend that we have in office regularly. Girl was thinking more openly and she convinced me that this is something that happened for the better. The Senior has been suffering while she was in this role, she was doing her own work that is already some heavy load while helping her boss in his early days with his work. However her boss has taken it for granted, lately the boss wasn’t happy when she advised him that these were his own word, and demanded her to do them.

There’s a limit for everything and Tuesday was the breaking point. 1 email that came in the morning that requested something horrendously troublesome to be done on a weekly basis, she was annoyed and replied email to the boss and advised that if he needs it then she could teach him how to do it. he wasn’t happy and didn’t think twice to share it, then he asked a junior staff to do it.

Oh well. That was done.

So final 30 days of her stay. We enjoyed while she was here and she will be dearly missed in this office by a couple of dozens of good people because she was such a good help for even people in other departments.

She resigned without a job but she has no fear. I’m sure with her caliber there are better things await, good luck to her.



Signing off.

"damn looooong mascara"

I had a rather fun conversation with a friend in the other half of the team today. I kinda intruded into his conversation with a senior because they were laughing loudly in a suppressed manner (I know that sounds weird but that’s what happened). So he said, it’s not nice to speak up, he’ll send me messages via the messenger.


9:23 AM Colleague: see across

there's a girl with damn looooong mascara rite?


9:24 AM Me: side across or front across?


9:24 AM Colleague: Thirty's place lar


9:24 AM Me: short hair blue shirt which jacket?

white*


9:24 AM Colleague: ahhh

yayaya

damnit

she's the onli one on the floor with damn long mascara...


9:25 AM Me: ehem. not so sure on that but yeah, what about her?


9:25 AM Colleague: like Ninety Five noticed, 1st day she came down buddy...the mascara scares the fuck outta me...

aint too sure bout other hot

*tho

then today Ninety Five noticed her mascara has shorten abit liaw

that's about the whole joke lar

so damn long mascara how see the screen lar

and samo ur in C/S field...wear mascara oso no one will see u lar

not that ur seeing external customer wat

turn left, turn right, look front, look back oso internal staff


9:26 AM Me: that's natural screen filter mah. it's protection from radio active wave emitted from monitor.


9:26 AM Colleague: for wat wear mascara so damn long....hahaha


9:27 AM Me: haha


9:27 AM Colleague: waffark




He was laughing pretty bad after I sad that, probably because it’s the first time he heard of this joke. I’ve been making the same joke since the CRT era coz it’s more applicable (LCD is less radio active). It was fun because he laughed haha.





Signing off.

On a lazy afternoon

It’s 1 day before Chinese new year eve and 2 days before Chinese new year comes, the biggest festival celebration for any Chinese at any part of the world. Honestly speaking I have not been feeling as excited about this festival as I used to ever since all my grandparents are gone.


Reunion seems to have lost most of its meaning, though it doesn’t mean that I do not like it. I am always glad to be able to meet my cousins in Johor, they are all so lovely. I only get to see them only once a year which the CNY but I really wish that I can be somewhere closer to them so that I can visit more often. However that’s hardly an excuse because I could have driven to them more often on weekends, it’s just that the journey now is quite long, about 3-5 hours drive, and flying involves a cost that I can hardly afford.

Oh well.

I’m going to be seeing most of them during CNY anyway, so there’s no point thinking about it now. I know most of them are doing well through facebook and that’s given me a peace of mind until I meet them in person. Kudos to Mark Zuckerberg for creating facebook.

Right before the CNY holiday there’s a Public holiday, which is today. That explains why I am casually typing an entry for my blog 15 minutes before the end of my work day. There really aren’t much going on at the moment. Phones aren’t ringing because it’s already almost 6pm there at Australia (3:45pm here).

Read news forwarded my friend today that right after Queensland got hit by a monstrous flood, a cyclone is going to hit anytime later today. Seems that the evacuation is already starting today noon. Gosh, please leave those people alone, there are having a bad day already, they wouldn’t need anything worse anytime soon. Hit Washington or something, I’m sure they can handle it.

The friend that sits in front of my cubical got a new phone from the girl friend on his birthday last week. A Sony Ericsson Xpheria X10. Wow. It’s a phone that I’ve been longing quite a while back then but had no budget for it. Which is why I have settled for my current phone Sony Ericsson Vivaz in last July. It’s not the best phone in the market but it handles calling just fine, plus some other non-essential gimmicks. So I’ve realized that no matter how expensive phone gets, the differences are probable between how many useless gimmicks you can get in one phone. Might as well save the cash for something better to come, not sure what…



Signing off.

Almost there... And there it is!

20 minutes to the end of work and everything that can be settle has been settled. I’ve got time to listen in to the girls’ chit chatting. It’s such an amazing thing when they talking about shopping. Taking a plane to Hong Kong just for shopping is unthinkable for me, but for them it’s actually a holiday plan, such differences between guys and girls.


Makes me think about my trip to Pulau Redang at the end of March. Love the sky, love the beaches, love the ocean, the world is such a beautiful place. Cant wait.

1 minute to the end of work. I am typing just so that the seconds would pass away faster. And so I can hit the “log out” button and head home!

And there it is! It’s time! BYE!!!



Signing off.

There's light at the end of the tunnel.

I felt so sad when I saw her status update in facebook. I felt sorry for her yet I know besides moral support there's almost nothing else friends could offer.

It never feels good when you witness an end of a relationship after so much has been given by either side and things didn’t work out eventually. Saw her cried in the office and was a little irritated with myself that there's nothing we could do to help. Sometimes things just happen even without you see them coming, there's no helping it. Life rocks, just that sometimes it rocks in a cruel way.

The bad side of it is that for you feel so very sad when things that you work so hard did not turn out the way you want them to be. The good side of it is that you can now work on something new from what you learn from it. Surely the outcome will turn out better simply because you are now wiser, it's just that to start anew you need a lot of time and courage. Some people have no luxury of that, fortunately this friend does. So good luck to her.

Let's hope things turn for the better from now on.

So much have happened. Open your eyes and look for a way out, for at the end of the tunnel, there will be light.

Signing off.

Boring Saturday post

I come home Friday night and found my graphics card died. Honestly speaking I haven't felt so bad in quite a while. Just so that you know I am a very fastidious person in terms of visual gadgets. I built my own PC so that it can displays everything in the highest detail possible. So when the key component in my computer died and not allowing that to happen, I was a little annoyed.

Luckily the part that I bought was 5 days away from 1 year old, which means that I can still send it for exchange and get myself a brand new one before the warranty expires. That's not too bad so when I got that conclusion I kinda cooled down. So, I went to the most popular IT building in town for a shopping with my brother today. The Lowyat Plaza.

This is a nice Saturday, instead of driving to town which is guaranteed traffic jam and expensive parking, we decided to take trains and walk a little. Some right decision made on a sunny Saturday, it was a pleasant walk. And soon enough we're there, the heart of IT for our capital city.

I haven't been here for a while, since I last built my computer. I like this place when I have something I want to check out or when I have something I want to buy but I’d never come this place without an objective. If you want to understand why, all you have to do is to pay a visit to that building, and I guarantee you will understand why I do not like to go that place for no reason.

Today's visit was fruitful.

My brother has been an eco freak for a while. He does some waste recycling and energy conservation at home, even when it comes to gadgets he has to search for something as eco as it can possibly get. So he has been having an eye for a solar powered high tech keyboard for a while. A keyboard that does not require anything else other than solar power to operate. Pretty neat I'd say but it isn't as eco as he thinks because the adapter that receives signal is still powered by USB, so it still consumes power, possibly more than a conventional keyboard that only sends signal via the copper wire and does not require any signal broadcasting of any sort. Oh well, as long as he's happy I guess.

I went to Lowyat to claim the warranty of my expensive graphics card, this part itself in my computer cost me more than RM800 itself. It's usually THE most expensive component in my computer whenever I built one. For some reason this part is getting more and more expensive each time I build a computer. The rate of the price going up is way faster than the rate of my salary going up that's for sure. Wonder if there's something I can do about that.

The technician told me that this part needs to be sent to Taiwan for RMA, and it's CNY so I've gotta wait a minimum of 1 month for it to come back... oh geez... 1 month without my baby GFX card... I'm gonna be so bored to death. Time to save up and get a new one. I think I’ll just sell it when it comes back.

Anyone wants a brand ASUS GTX275 let me know, I’m going to sell it.

What am I going to do this weekend... =(

signing off.

Ambushed.

I always wondered what I started this blog for. To blog about my life I guess. All of a sudden I have a feeling that I am repeating myself already for something that I already talked about in some previous entries. Haha too bad for you for having to read this again.


Lots of things can happen in a short time. Sometimes a lot of things happened not because of a lot of things have to happen, it’s because a lot of things don’t really happen until someone triggers it or when there’s an opportunity to happen all in one shot.

Everything happened in one shot yesterday.

it was a meeting that caught us out of blue, that happened all of a sudden. An email invitation came titled “team meeting” without any agenda mentioned to us. What happened in the meeting room, most of us would agree that it was to be named a “show down”.

For a while we have been doing some skip level meetings with our boss’s boss. We were asked to provide feedback so feedback were provided. It is natural in human nature that when you comment on something that could be improved, you comment on the short comings that you think it could be improved on. Soon the feedback became criticisms, and criticisms would lead to negative feelings and then to something worse.

That has been happening in the team and our Team Leader has been at the receiving end of it. For the fact that he has some negative traits that he might not have realized and him being not transparent enough of what he has been doing, he was depicted to be a good-for-nothing.

Yesterday’s meeting was tough.

The manager was invited into the meeting and he has played a major role in this turn around. Well, I consider it a turn around because this meeting convinced me that I should give him a second chance. Scrap whatever that I know about this person and then learn about him again. For me I believe everyone deserves a second chance because once upon a time in my life when I needed a second chance, someone whom his name I cannot remember gave me a second chance. Else I’d remain a high school dropout and a good-for-nothing probably for the rest of my life.

So words exchanged, in a positive way. It was difficult because the manager has pointed out things that we accused of the team leader of not doing, although no names were mentioned it was easy to understand who said what because the team is of such a small size. There’s nowhere to hide so what happened was that we had to stand up and speak the things that we didn’t. We told the manager things that we told precisely because we did not feel comfortable to tell the team leader. So it was a showdown.

We pointed out his short comings. I told him in the face that I didn’t like him and I did not have enough trust for him. That I’d work with him as best as I possibly could and I will give my cooperation to him to help him to gain the similar type of support from the rest of the team. However on a personal level, after working hours, at this point of time I would not even consider ringing him for a hang out, will not tell him anything regards of my personal things. I will also think twice in picking up his call outside of working hours. Simply because he has not done something that gained my confidence that he is a person that is dependable.

He took it well. I’m impressed. So that’s a good start.

He came to the meeting prepared with stats and data, we had no idea what the meeting was going to be about. It was a disadvantage for us because he has been asking questions as according to data he has and things that we are unable to say “no” because it was In fact the truth. He’s smart in that sense, he designed the meeting so that he would look good and so that our accusations would seem rather empty and were like firing blanks. The manager was not impressed with us because all the concerns we raised seemed totally untrue now.

We were caught pants down.

It didn’t go one way however. We are a department that has been constantly been making arguments and analysis with logic and facts without the aid of supporting documents. All we said were facts and we had no fear. So when all the arguments were brought up again we justified them. Most of the criticisms came from the 3 of us whom has been in the team long enough. 2 of the other team members who have been quiet suddenly rise for the occasion and started to speak for the team leader. So it was not a unified voice. Things got difficult.

I remained quiet for most of the first half of the meeting. Then I felt that I have to speak. The first thing I did was to identify myself with the criticisms I’ve made then I explained why these criticisms were made. I have also pointed out that how unnecessary this showdown was as this conversation should have been carried out 6 months ago and should be on a regular basis. So much time have been wasted.

I say he has himself to blame as he is obviously lacking in terms of connecting with his team. He is lucky with us as this team is relatively more enthusiastic than the other half. So good luck to him in that.

My principle is simple. I don’t have to like this guy but will ensure that I will be able to work with him. I will also try to get my team mates to be the same because there’s no reason for them to jeopardize their own career advancement just because of this fella. This place where we work is a stepping stone after all and we all want to move on the somewhere higher.

So far I dun find anything in him that I can convince myself that I can like him. His personality and his way of carrying himself are directly similar with someone that I really really really dislike. Too bad for him. Yeah prejudice I know. So what?

Let’s see if that’s going to change. Opinions are forever changing, albeit some are harder done.



Signing off.

Blowing things up won't help.

Honestly speaking I’m pretty demotivated at the moment. I have no idea what I should write about so what I did was just simply clicked on Microsoft Words and started typing to see what comes out of the tip of my fingers.


As I was typing the first paragraph I was also thinking about what I should talk about. I’m flooded with thoughts and I wonder where I should start. It has been eventful in the last couple of months. Either they are directly in relation to me or there are just things that have happened to people I care. I guess this is life.

In life there are always a lot of things going on and most of them are probably going to be unpleasant. More so if you are someone living in a capitalist society. Your happiness is sometimes directly reflected by the number of the digits about the amount in your bank account. Sad. Capitalism. I am by no means a communist. I mean, both capitalism and communism aren’t bad, they are ideologies and ideologies are always raised as an ideal model. Both of them are perfect in theory. It’s the people that are executing them that molded them into whatever they are now. Not gonna comment too much about that, I have no intention to make this post political or ideological.

Speaking of ideology, kinda reminded me with the terrorist strike at Moscow. These people who bombed the airport really need to get a life. They need to wake up and see that they are merely peons that were manipulated into giving up their lives for an ugly cause, to inflict chaos, to bring down a government only to allow another ugly one to take power, if it ever happens.

More details of the news can be found HERE. Do a little googling if you are intend to follow the news, it’s everywhere.


Speaking of terrorist attack, it reminds me of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, one of my favorite military fictions of all time. It speaks of an international task force that’s set up to battle terrorism that’s too great for any ill trained local enforcement to handle. They go in, eliminate the threats, let the local police take the credits, and they retreat. A black ops team, a noble team albeit a little merciless. In reality it can never be true because a team like this would not have been approved by whatever country that’s involved simply because too much is at stake and it could be used by some major influence to turn them into an elite assignation team. Nah… not gonna want that. Who knows what the-country-with-the-highest-debt would do with them.

I miss the game though. There was a game called Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six way back when the calendar just turned millennium, called Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. I bought the game and played with my house mate. One of the most tactical game I’ve ever played. A game that not only requires a player to make live-or-die decisions on the fly, also a game that has so much realism and so strategic that I often beat players with are so much better than me in shooting.

Too bad that games that requires too much brain to play are just never gonna be popular. Computers games are often considered as child’s play and nowadays the children on the Internet dun seem to have much brain left. I’m feeling sad already. What happened to the theory of evolution? Aren’t we supposed to be moving forward? That puzzles me.

Anyway, the game was not intended to wow a lesser people. It was made for a pretty niche audience. I don’t blame anyone who does not play the game. That's why the game was not popular enough to get a sequel made. Sad.

It’s just a game, please dun jump on me for making such remarks. I’m just stereotyping. Nothing serious. It's my right to stereotype anything in my own blog.

Rainbow Six was fictional. Such a team never would have existed. It was a military ideal for all the people that are combating terrorism out there. Too bad it isn’t gonna be real. Never gonna come true.

I do think that people need to stop blowing other people up for attention. Honestly speaking, I’ve wanted to ask, what do you do with the attention you get for blowing up other people, while you are already dead. So what if you get the attention? You dun talk no more after you die. All you did was to allow people with agenda to take advantage of the fact that you blew up to spread their own agenda. Think twice brothers and sisters, before another one of you blow up. Whatever you are promised, it means nothing to you if you died. It means nothing to your friends and family if you died. It means nothing to the world if you died. Nothing can be achieved with bloodshed. Look at the most recent wars, nothing was achieved besides death, and then followed by more deaths. Save your time, save your life, get yourself a computer, a PS3 or even a crappy xbox 360 or whatever, blow things up virtually.

And then go back and tell your mom you love her.

Happy Chinese New Year.



Signing off.