Guess today has been a... fulfilling day. Went for Wesak celebration with Li Fen, Pan, and Jeannie. Celebration lasted from 11am to around 2pm, and involved ceremonies like chanting sutras, bathing the statue of Buddha. Lunch was awesome, vegetarian fried noodles (prepared by Chai Way and team, if I recall correctly) and vegetarian pilaff (prepared by a Russian dude, well he DID have good intentions, but pilaff just isn't pilaff without meat =( the smell of oil/butter is just too strong for comfort).
That being said, as I stood amongst fellow devotees, as I bathed the statue of Buddha with a fellow senior, I was reminded of the fact that I hadn't done this in 4 years, ever since I came to study here. In Malaysia, Wesak Day was like, hop on mum's car, go from temple to temple, and stop at the Seberang Perai Buddhist Association for FOOD! And bathe the statue with scented water filled with flowers, take 2 packets of the Buddha's "bath water", bring it home, mix it with my own bathing water and take a cool refreshing bath. Damn, I miss that stuff. The upside, however is that I'll be able to do it again in 4 years' time!
So after that, I went to the bookshop to hunt for a board, which I could nail to the wall and skewer bits and pieces of information on. Found a pretty good one (cork wood, couldn't find the modern type) for 750 rubles, which, frankly speaking was less than what I expected.
Got home, nailed the board, talked with an old schoolmate of mine, and went down for basketball, stopped on the way to tease a junior about a certain guest, and to my pleasant surprise, I found someone who actually read this!
Well of course about this junior, I guess there might be a blog entry coming up some time soon, depending on my level of procrastination.
Basketball game today was pretty good, at least we had a new guy, and there was an Arabian idiot who (deliberately?) shot the ball into the ring and had it land on my head for a painful whack. Wow the next time he does that I think I'll take a knife and cut the line between his testicles for good.
Nevertheless, I'm known as the master of abrupt endings, so over and out. Till next time.
Sunday 23 May 2010
Friday 21 May 2010
21/05/2010
So, as I mentioned, I have zero tolerance for idiocy. Today I realized that I too, have a low tolerance for stubbornness and obstinacy. So like I was in class, and these two classmates were arguing over the meanings of two Russian words, and one was so outrageously wrong and when I just stepped in, the wrong one glared at me and said "What do you know about this?". Obviously you're the wrong one here, you donkey-ass stubborn sonovabitch, and of all things, you DARE challenge MY knowledge of Russian language? And the teacher slammed the table and told him to shut up (to my gloating pleasure), and he didn't even offer an apology!
Right, so that soured my mood considerably. And just when I thought things couldn't get worse, my brother replied my message (I'd asked him about my blood pressure earlier, my dad was like "slightly high but nevertheless ok", but I trusted my brother more (shame on me) and so I'd decided to ask him). So I'd asked him about why there was a difference in the blood pressure numbers of my right and left arm, and he replied, "probably an error in the measurement. If the difference is not much, it does not matter. But what matters most is your BP is too high for your age. You gotta watch your diet."
Crap. My diet. Well, it's always been Chinese food, and we know the Chinese live longer than the Westerners, so it obviously shouldn't be a problem, should it? And I've been doing gym training PLUS basketball, so why do I have high blood pressure now?
Until I remembered my mother's words a few years back: "You must always take care of your health and watch your temper, because your family has a history of high blood pressure and diabetes. Look at your mother, now she's suffering from high blood pressure due to bad care of herself and bad temper."
Damn. Me and my bad temper. My mum's been getting me to fix that temper of mine for years, since I was 12, I believe, but it has only been fixed slightly. Or probably not fixed, because unlike at home, I let it all out at my poor mum, but I swallow all my rage, pains and anguishes into myself.
Well at least now I know why I'm so tired these days, why I had breathing difficulties at the MCSC luncheon last Sunday. I'm sorry for not listening to you, mum. I really am.
Right, so that soured my mood considerably. And just when I thought things couldn't get worse, my brother replied my message (I'd asked him about my blood pressure earlier, my dad was like "slightly high but nevertheless ok", but I trusted my brother more (shame on me) and so I'd decided to ask him). So I'd asked him about why there was a difference in the blood pressure numbers of my right and left arm, and he replied, "probably an error in the measurement. If the difference is not much, it does not matter. But what matters most is your BP is too high for your age. You gotta watch your diet."
Crap. My diet. Well, it's always been Chinese food, and we know the Chinese live longer than the Westerners, so it obviously shouldn't be a problem, should it? And I've been doing gym training PLUS basketball, so why do I have high blood pressure now?
Until I remembered my mother's words a few years back: "You must always take care of your health and watch your temper, because your family has a history of high blood pressure and diabetes. Look at your mother, now she's suffering from high blood pressure due to bad care of herself and bad temper."
Damn. Me and my bad temper. My mum's been getting me to fix that temper of mine for years, since I was 12, I believe, but it has only been fixed slightly. Or probably not fixed, because unlike at home, I let it all out at my poor mum, but I swallow all my rage, pains and anguishes into myself.
Well at least now I know why I'm so tired these days, why I had breathing difficulties at the MCSC luncheon last Sunday. I'm sorry for not listening to you, mum. I really am.
Thursday 13 May 2010
Idiocy
Been getting in a row with the same person almost every day for almost a week now. Even my Facebook statuses have been like laser-guided RPGs landing on their mark on the same person. Punctuality. Ability to distinguish between right and wrong. I cannot emphasize the necessity of those enough. For being late and idiocy is something I absolutely do not tolerate.
Was in a row again earlier, over a tardy matter over being late, and in the end it seemed as though it was my fault. Look, you're late for one hour. Face it. Don't drag other people into this. You couldn't buy the things you needed. Fine. It's still your fault for putting such things to the last minute. Had you bought what you needed, you wouldn't have been late today, would you? Instead of saying things like "I had for wait for her, because she was somewhere else." or "I had to wait for her, because she was coming from somewhere else." Why can't people just face it and say, "I'm sorry I'm late, I couldn't gather the stuff I needed in time. My bad."
Okay, suppose you plan to push the blame on someone else, by saying you were late because you were waiting for them.
Very well, answer this.
Why couldn't you fucking call the person you claimed kept you waiting and tell him/her "I'm sorry, we're late, I'm going first, see you there."
Wasn't hard was it? And if you're reading this, you know I'm talking about you. you may hate me for all you want, but what has to be said must be said. This is a matter of pushing your responsibilities onto others. FFS, learn to be punctual. When Mahathir launched the "Learn from the East" plan in 1990, he meant emulate the Japanese sense of punctuality. Sadly, people have taken it wrong and they're interpreting it as an encouragement to pick up the culture.
Really. Idiocy is something I have ZERO tolerance for.
Was in a row again earlier, over a tardy matter over being late, and in the end it seemed as though it was my fault. Look, you're late for one hour. Face it. Don't drag other people into this. You couldn't buy the things you needed. Fine. It's still your fault for putting such things to the last minute. Had you bought what you needed, you wouldn't have been late today, would you? Instead of saying things like "I had for wait for her, because she was somewhere else." or "I had to wait for her, because she was coming from somewhere else." Why can't people just face it and say, "I'm sorry I'm late, I couldn't gather the stuff I needed in time. My bad."
Okay, suppose you plan to push the blame on someone else, by saying you were late because you were waiting for them.
Very well, answer this.
Why couldn't you fucking call the person you claimed kept you waiting and tell him/her "I'm sorry, we're late, I'm going first, see you there."
Wasn't hard was it? And if you're reading this, you know I'm talking about you. you may hate me for all you want, but what has to be said must be said. This is a matter of pushing your responsibilities onto others. FFS, learn to be punctual. When Mahathir launched the "Learn from the East" plan in 1990, he meant emulate the Japanese sense of punctuality. Sadly, people have taken it wrong and they're interpreting it as an encouragement to pick up the culture.
Really. Idiocy is something I have ZERO tolerance for.
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