Monoculturism?

I have to say I love the slogan for the Australian DIMIA...no...DIMA...that's not it either..DIA....certainly not that....DIC.....not quite.....DIAC that's it! the Australian Department of Imigration and Citizenship, apparently they don't seem to see Indigenous People and Multiculturalism as something worth noting anymore...... oh yeah back to the slogan I'm not sure how long it's been this but "to enrich Australia through the well managed entry and settlement of people", pretty straight to the point I guess......very "Howardy".

heh heh good way to dodge the bullet there, include the "and" in the acronym

"I'll see you again.....sometime"

I really don't feel like doing anything today, being the last day for a colleague and someone who I consider to be a close friend of mine working here. By the end of today we'll say our farewells, good lucks and keep in touch's yet how many of us do "keep in touch" really? well plenty probably I'm just too lazy to do it. Come to think of it there is some merit in people calling me a anti-social then again unlike most people I don't like to live beyond my means.

on another note,

I find my predicament, for a lack of better word, annoying, the most frequented non productive website in the office is that damn friendster site that every other person on earth who are plugged to the net have an account in and visits just about every other hour yet they firewalled Live Journal making updating it from the office impossible for me and I tend to forget what I wanted to post there once I get home, I'm going to have to back-log quite a few from the last few days on that.

oh the hilarity......

Yesterday evening just when I was about to go home it rained again it was quite heavy until about 17:30 when it turned into light showers so I decided to go and cross the road from my office to catch a cab (the fare's cheaper that way). I waited 15 minutes for a cab, funny how none of them were empty, then the rain started to pour heavily again by this time I was already half way through to a shopping mall hoping I could get a cab there, by the time I got into the mall I was drenched (second time in the week), my iPod was still functioning and since it was raining no cabs were stopping by since there were no shelter for people waiting for cabs, which means no readily available cabs. So there I was waiting for the rain to stop so I can go to the other mall to catch a cab home listening to Utada Hikaru's "僕はくま" (I'm a Bear).

I don't get it, why does rain in this part of the world almost always pour when people go TO work in the morning or evening when people go home FROM work, it's hardly ever in the afternoon DURING work where most people are still inside the building.

Segwayed!

Wow, two posts in a day this just shows how extemely busy I am at the moment.

I was browsing through various linked articles in Wikipedia when I stumbled upon "Kiev", yes the Ukranian city of Kiev. There was nothing significant about the article itself but it did remind me of Chicken Kiev. Mmmm Chicken Kiev......

Just another day

Well here I am again at the office, after being soaked last Sunday I would have thought that I'd be sick but it seems like I've run out of sickness since last week.

I'm not exactly looking forward for the end of the month either, a colleague of mine is resigning by the end of the month due to "personal" reasons, she never said what it really was and I probably would never find out what. I usually don't get affected by people leaving but it's a different case with this one, let's just say it's "personal".

Well guess there's nothing I can do now but make tea.

Great Timing!

Hey, guess what? I'm working on a Sunday, again, usually I don't mind but for some reason I really don't feel like going but here I am anyway, soaking wet from the rain. I took a bike ride from home to work, again nothing that I usually have a problem with except this time half way through the ride the skies opened up and rain started to pour which brought me in my current state, cold and soaking wet good thing I have some clothes here in the office.

Rinse and Repeat!

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while excpecting different results, then I'm pretty sure I'm bat-shit insane

Curtain close?.......no? not yet.? darn

I may be exaggerating if I said I was close to "taking the journey home" when I was sick, I mean people have died from fevers before and I reckon 41 degrees is quite high for a human being. Now the question that lingers in my head is why didn't I just kick the bucket when I had the chance? All I had to do was lock myself in the room and refuse all kinds of medical treatment and that'd be it and I see no reason why I shouldn't. Damn me and my tendencies to miss good opportunities.


Chalk this one up for things I should do but didn't.

*cough* *wheeze*

This is officially the fifth day I've been sick since last Thursday perhaps the longest time I've been sick since I hit puberty, It strated as small coughs then it turned into fever now it's back to the cough though much more severe than the first one and with an added constant sweating, the cold type and dizziness. In any case I guess I'll try popping back into the office tomorrow see how I hold out, I don't think the fever's going to come back for now but just to be safe I'll have to go through the day slowly, if that's even possible.

I'm a really hot guy! Seriously!

Looks like I'm sick, again, for the 2nd time this week. Well monday was really exhaustion more than anything but I still couldn't do anything, now I've got a fever of god knows how many degrees, I actually forgot, my guess is 37 C but that's just what I think. stayed at the office until around 13:00 I realize I was in no shape to work when I started to forget the things I said one sentence prior. I got back from work early today, like 4 hours early and once I got home I decided to play my PS2 but I wasn't in any condition to even do that, so I ate some chicken soup, drank some juice and went to bed.

Now here I am blogging instead of sleeping simply because I out-slept myself, yet I feel dozey regardless, oh well at least this one didn't come with a splitting headache, except when I sneeze.

Excuse me....

Looking at the current form of human communication when compared to the past I hypothesise that the future of human communication can be summarized in this excrept of futurespeak between 2 people.

Person 1 : *mumble mumble mumble*
Person 2 : *grumble grumble*
Person 1 : *grumble* *eats something* *mumble(with mouth full)*
Person 2 : *mumble grumble*
Person 2's phone rings
Person 2 : *Loudly* WHAT? YEAH, OK I'LL SEE YOU LATER, BYE.
Person 2 : *mumble*
Person 1 : meh *grumble mumble*

While the above may sound mostly incoherent by most people today it is almost assured that at one point in human history human language will evolve into such form.

Stop! Hammer time!

Ah finally back in the regular office hours of 08:30-17:00. Since last Friday me and a colleague had to arrange several things for what was supposed to be a huge 2 day exhibition (which it was big, kind of, about 8000 attendees over 2 days),on the Friday we mostly did booth checking; fixing spelling erors, arranging table and chairs, easy stuff it took us 2 hours from 19:00-21:00.

Over the next two days we were assigned tothe General information, there were lots of questions that we couldn't answer simply because the question were really meant for each visiting institution (how should I know which Hongokng University offers education as a course), aside from that the single most common question was "where's the toilet". We hung around the convention from 09:00 to 18:00 on Saturday after which we went to a dinner invitation, I was previously informed that there will be a free buffet and a free flow of that bitter golden colored bevarge, my old University student habit kicked in. I got back home at around 23:00.

The sunday wasn't that different either, exhibition form 11:00-18:00 and a dinner invitation, this time by the Hong Kong Trade Development Commission (HKTDC), no alcohol involved just a fancy full course dinner at the Hotel formerly known as Hilton (a.k.a Sultan) which I admit was very nice, one of the HKTDC people commented that the hotel was "showing signs of it's age" which I have to agree with considering that I used to frequent the hotel a while back. Over the course of the dinner we talked about a few things mainly about living and the current living cost in Hong Kong, education cost, employment opportnities for fresh graduates and social and business trends amongst other things, the rest of the night we had a nice sophisticated fun. The dinner was finished at around 21:00 which I decided to go straight home thinking I would still be in shape to work the next day.

Yesterday I woke up tired and I wasn't feeling very well, in the morning my throat was sore from talking too much the previous night, I called in sick and stayed home all day sitting in front of the T.V playing games all day.

Now I'm going to make a cup tea.

Interesting point

Yesterday one of my colleagues played a song from her computer, I wasn't sure what the song is called but I was certain that it was Adam Sandler's voice I heard, the song itself was not to my particular liking but what it is saying reminded me of a question I had a sometime ago, When the hell did emo become cool? the song I heard was clearly a mockery of this fact. These days you can hardly switch to a radio station (never mind the fact that I hardly ever listen to the radio) without listening to some moron whine about how the want to die, how their lovers left them and want to die, how they were disapointed by someone and want to kill that person and then kill themselves after or how they stub their toes to a table leg and wants to die, quite the contrast compared to gangster rap music from the same period where people seem to enjoy killing other people and brag about it.

I guess the the major part of the late 20th century up to now can be described as the new great depression and the popularity of these emo crap clearly shows that there are a large number of people who wants to die, like to think about dieing (preferably by suicide) or they just like to be depressed, It's depressing really, makes me want to kill myself.

odd feeling

For reasons best be kept to myself I'm not feeling very comfortable with the current state things, questioning why on this matter is not going to do me any good. I guess it's one of those things that I'll have to let pass, I mean why the hell not it seems like I've been doing that quite often lately anyway.

Times like this I wish I was fishing or running through quests in Azeroth.

新年明けましておめでとう！

Wow, it's been almost a month since I last blogged here and before I know it it's 2007 already, damn you office firewall! Looking back at last year it was actually quite different than the previous years, for instance, I now go to an office instead of a classroom, having to wear "work shoes" for 5 days is another, aside from that I went through quite a bit of things, some better than others while the others are best unmentioned though personaly I don't feel I've changed that much.

Now on to more important things, I find this years 紅白歌合戦 to be quite disappointing, it wasn't as explosive as the previous years too many slow songs and not enough fun music to be enjoyed, even モむwasn't as good or as large as last years. I have to agree with one comment though, 生紅白、最高, although not as lame as "wardrobe malfunction" NHK has to seriously come up with a better excuse than body suits seriously.

In any case, 今年もよろしくお願いします これからこのブロッグをもっと面白くなりますように...って無理かも。

oh and as an addendum the harrowing sound of rogue fireworks are now drowned by sudden rain, 神様、私の祈りを聞くと感謝しています.

So once again, good riddance 2006!