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Once again proving Indonesian linguistic superiority

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After watching 300 I was reminded of something that my lecturer mentioned back when I was still doing my undergraduate studies; that societies are shaped through habits, rituals written and unwritten laws and values, and what better way to enforce values than using the various forms of mass media. The power of the media is so potent that the mass (or general public) may be socially conditioned or engineered by constant exposure of a concept.

300 is by no means the most violent movie I've ever watched but it is a prominent feature with rolling heads, detached arms and feet and an excessive amount of stabbing. Yet as I was watching it I saw some people grimaced over what was happening on the screen while some (including myself) just sat there and watched it like any other movie, I was not shocked or excited as some people may have done when I saw some heads flew, I said excited because some people do like to over react on some things (and I try to avoid watching movies with people with such reaction), I just watched it with no particular emotional thought and not because I know it's just a movie, in fact I do believe (with scientific and historical proof) wars in such period is that violent if not more, but perhaps more to the fact that I've been exposed to that amount media violence that it becomes normal.

What becomes my concern is when people personally witness such violence for the first time would they react the same way to it as they have reacted to media presented violence, with indifference, or would they react differently? Mind you that my concern is not about seeing the negative or positive aspect about desensitization but merely questioning whether desensitivity towards media presented violence translate to "real" violence.

(Long)Weekend update

I wonder why I feel so tired this morning, I just got off a 3 day weekend....oh wait that's probably why. Unsurprisingly nothing special happened over the weekend, except for Sunday. Last Friday I ducked out of work early because I needed to see someone regarding other employment options and a few other things we talked for about 4 and a half hour about the type of work, possible placement, the state of the clienteles and how to deal with them and so on and so forth.

I can't seem to remember what happened on Saturday aside from playing games and reading books I even have doubts about that......oh wait that's right I went out shopping for food.

Sunday..... now I have to say I really enjoyed last Sunday, a very good friend of mine came over to take a look at the newly born kittens. I spent the first half of the day preparing the ingredients I bought the day before and waiting for the right time to cook, the dilemma with spaghetti is that they're really easy to cook yet they cool off quite quickly so needed to wait for the right moment to cook it, even then she ended up coming in later than I thought so when she told me she was about 10 minutes away I had to reheat the food, it ended up being too dry for my taste but my friend said she liked it so I was relieved and I still can't come up with a name for my own cooking. We then chatted for a while, catching up on a few things and talked about our problems, I just don't like her comment on my tie collection, I like my tie. It's not everyday I can enjoy my weekend like last Sunday......and I do realize how stupidly giddy I was for the day.

Monday was hot, I can't see how else to describe it, it must have been the hottest day since the previous Monday, so I decided to make myself a kiwi-strawberry juice semi-slurpee to cool things off while watching a sumo match on TV. Good thing it rained at noon for a few hours, it rained hard enough and long enough to stop the silly preacher from talking for the rest of the day, sadly they came back at night.....they always come back at night.

So that was it, that was my weekend it's a bit of a mixed bag, thankfully nothing disastrous happened.

Food for thought

for some reason this just popped into my head:

Salmon wrapped fried chicken (serves 1-3)

4-6 pieces of medium sized chicken breast
4-6 thinly sliced salmon
2 eggs
50g flour
3-4 cloves of garlic

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-Heat water until half boiled
-Peel and crush garlic
-Add crushed garlic to boiling water
-Boil chicken until cooked
-Beat egg in a bowl
-Wrap each chicken pieces with salmon
-Dip salmon wrapped chicken to the egg
-cover with flour
-Deep fry until brown
-Serve with lemon slices and tartar sauce or melted garlic butter and mashed potatoes

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It is said that truth goes through three stages, first it is ridiculed, then it's violently attacked and finally it is self-evident. I have no disagreement about this concept however I would not consider the third stage to be the final stage, I'd like to propose another stage of the, that is of irrelevance for the truth will remain true until it is proven false or it looses its relevance.

So awesome it's.....

This goes to my list of things that should exist but doesn't, seriously.

Serenity

While it is an awesome movie no this entry is not about the movie. I now have new office area it's small, cold and if you're claustrophobic you'd hate it but since I'm not I actually like it, it gives me space to do my own thing without a lot of distraction. The bad thing is I have to swap with my other colleague every other week so I only get to use it for 2 weeks in a month.

In for repairs (finally)

I so don't want to work today.....My morning started of like usual, my alarm goes off at 04:30 to drown out other unpleasant noise coming from outside, played some games then went back to my room to read and listen to music until it's about 06:00 then i went about my business. I left at 06:30 and arrived at the office at 07:15. Since I backed up everything in my new Hard drive I thought I'd reinstall the iBook only to find out that my HD was screwed, again, the internal drive was still not detected.

As I mentioned in my previous post it has been screwed for some days now, I thought of bringing it for repairs on the weekend but I had to go to a wedding on the Saturday, then I went to Java jazz in the evening so that's Saturday out and on the Sunday I was meeting a friend of mine again until about 16:00 so that's Sunday out.

I swear, running a notebook from an external HD is tedious when you bought it for the sole reason of portability. Yes, I know it's rather sad when a person gets depressed over a busted computer.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Numbers of job applications sent CV's sent, a lot.

Percentage of it being rejected, 100%

I've just about every reason for rejection, Under qualified, over qualified, under experienced, no visually presentable feature (god damn TV stations), insufficient reference etc. the list goes on

At this point I am still being picky about the jobs I applied for but not because of the payslip (though it its a factor) it's more to career enhancement plus I still need to get enough money to do a postgraduate degree. but I'm sure as hell can't do anything with my current wage, heck even a slight increase wouldn't help at all.

I'd sell my soul but I'd have to have one to begin with.

I have a new theory about myself, I have a stronger magnetic field than most other people. This is the 2nd time my iBook's hard drive went wonky, now it's occasionally detectable but for some reason unrepairable through 2 major disk fixing programs well, I'm going to have to buy a new external hard drive just to try and save whatever data I can salvage right now if there are any left. Seriously though I'm guessing my internal hard drive keeps on acting funny because the internal coolant system is busted.

Then there's the office computer, this is the 3rd time in 6 months I have to send the blasted thing to I.T to have it physically repaired, first I thought it was just a typical WinXP feature to auto shutdown when you're typing e-mails or reports, then I thought it was a virus sent through the "series of tubes", now they tell me it was a loose component in the box, how the hell do you do that when you hardly touch the damn thing?

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Don't you just love those thick juicy meat once you take it out of the grill ready to be chewed? I particularly like it if it's smothered with garlic butter. There are those who view its consumption with disgust while others prohibit it outright, me, I don't listen to those people, I have nothing against those people, to each his own I say as long as you don't tell me what should be on my plate, I just like to eat stakes.

Vegetables on the other hand, you pick those things straight from the ground where you spread processed animal dung all over it, now who in the right mind would eat food marinated for months with processed animal litter.

OBJECTION!

In all societies there is one constant that is of the law, or to interprate it loosely rules, it may even be said that the law of the land (and it's implementation) reflects the society. Since the emergence of a structured society various laws and legal rulings have been made and changed according to those who are in charge of social control, in modern terms this body is generally understood as the legislative body.

In most cases members of the legislative body are given the right to create and interpret the law while in other cases, such as societies that abide by the Islamic law, the legislative body have not the right to create laws, therefore in such societies legal ruling should not be given or may be considered as invalid if the ruling is found to be in conflict with the law itself, while it may sound obvious such cases have occured in the past.

In modern democratic societies however the infalibility of the law regardless of its source has come under constant scrutiny and the legitimacy of a law have come under question when it is considered to be disadvantageous or unjust to a particular segment of the society. On the other hand, in religious societies, partcularly of those in the same religious community do not question the law and does consider the law itself to be infalible, the interpretation of the law however have differed from one community to another and have infact come into conflict with each other.

The importance of the law is not something to be neglected or ignored however rules and regulation is best to used maintain a safe degree of order in a society instead of fully controling it therefore for society to progress safely laws and its interpertation, much like the society itself, have to be subject to change to maintain order.




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WHAT I WANT FOR TODAY

(and for the rest of the month)WHAT I WANT TO USE IT FOR

finally....

Thank god it's Friday I finally get to get some rest. I was seriously close to reaching my breaking point today, I conteplated throwing down the gauntlet on some parent today but me being me and a certain aspect of my job requires me to keep my temper in check. As always I have to work again tomorrow but at least this woll take my mind off all the frustrations I have to deal with in the past week.

on a less related note, in fact it;s not related at all! I don't like being forced to change my username to some dumbass google account but the change is for the better I guess I'll probably tinker with it some other time, oh and HEY GOOGLE! MAKE BLOGGER MORE SAFARI FRIENDLY WILL YOU!!

extreme displeasure

Muscle cramps are never a good thing, they cause a degree of discomfort and sometimes a significant amount of pain, yet they can be easily avoided with correct preparation. However, sometimes the condition strikes in the most unexpected time and in the most unexpected place usually resulting in an elevated amount of pain, like for example testicular muscle cramp in the toilet while defecating.


If you're feel somewhat uncomfortable reading this imagine experiencing it.

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......