This is sick...

While usually I find the pictures at the English Fail Blog rather amusing (and some even hilarious), this one is just sick. Apparently some sick f*** decides to write a children's book where daddys (sic) marry their little girls and have babies with them. That alone deserves an epic "WTF"? The writer and whoever agrees with him (I think it's highly unprobable the writer is a she) should be shot on sight and the books incinerated.

It's all about attitude.

Last week I saw a matchmaking show on TV. Mind you, it's not that I enjoy watching such shows. I usually abhor reality shows (so much for their "reality"), but this time, one of the guys really got me stunned (and please, don't jump into conclusions yet; I'm perfectly normal).

In the show, the guys and girls get matched in any combination possible and they have to push a button if they want to choose the guy/girl. With only 2 girls left (he apparently wasn't chosen by the other girls), he begins to look desperate. When he got rejected (again), the girl was asked why she didn't push the button. She said, "Who would want to go out with such a selfish and self-centered guy?" And then he made a comment that really made me think "What the *beeep*?". His particular comment (to the girl) was, "You're gonna regret not choosing me. I'm the perfect guy. You won't find another guy like me." Well, needless to say, I do agree with his last sentence. You're not likely to find another guy like that... Thank goodness...

When finally he got rejected by the last girl (which at this point comes to no surprise to me), he made another comment that once again stunned me (and even more so), "Why didn't any of them choose me? What am I lacking? I'm handsome, tall, perfect... I just don't understand what's wrong with these girls." Get a grip, dude. It's all about attitude. I thought the other girl was clear enough with the "selfish" and "self-centered". And he wonders why he can't score... Apparently, this guy needs "dense" and "emotional control difficulty" added to those traits.

OK, enough bashing. My principle about bashing is if you can bash other people about something, make sure you don't do the same thing. So what about me? Well, I certainly won't EVER say I'm a perfect guy. Sometimes my ego comes in and I can look like being selfish and self-centered myself, but most of the time, I try my hardest to be considerate and think about others. It doesn't always come out the way I imagined, but at least I don't try to put myself as the centre of the universe. About being dense, I'd leave it to others to decide, because if I'm dense, I probably wouldn't notice it anyway. As for emotional control, I've learned over the years that letting your emotions go unchecked will cause more harm than good, and I can say that I've learned to suppress my emotions when needed. Not to the point of suppression like the Vulcans, but adequate (I think)...

Bored sick.

It's Saturday, you're bored sick at home, no good places to hang out in your town. What would you do? I called a friend of mine who happens to be also bored to death at home with another friend. And then? The three of us went out all the way to Kaliurang (about 20km from my place) and back just to get a cup of warm drink. That must be the farthest place I've went just to get a drink. I must be out of my mind...

Back to everyday life routine.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
-C. S. Lewis

After being busy with students from Leeuwarden, Holland for a month, it's finally over yesterday, and I have to get back to the ordinary everyday life routine. In the last month, I've become accustomed to going out with quite a large group (23 of them, and around 8 of us) almost every single day, so I really start to feel bored being home...

And like C. S. Lewis said, although friendship has no survival value, it is one of the things that gives value to survival, so once again I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone (in no particular order: Aida, Sheilah, Ninah, Caroline, Piet, Maaike, Ineke, Orne, Sandra, Frank, Beeuwkje, Sanne, Richard, Liese, Anita, Monica, Joan, Mirna, Renske, Hennie, Robin, Daphne, and Jetty) for all the friendship and the experience. We had a good time that won't be forgotten so easily, and I also had a good chance to practice my (rusty) Dutch again. For the ones that go back, have a nice trip back; for the ones going on vacation, have a nice vacation! I sincerely hope we can meet again some day. In the meantime, we will surely miss you. Well, at least, I surely will... :)