Swine Flu Bull$#!t

Like SERIOUSLY PEOPLE!!!

This swine flu is practically the same as the normal flu. Just accept it and move on with life. If you get the flu, then all you have to do is take a course of antibiotics, rest, and recover! So what if other people get infected. We don't quarantine people with the regular flu. And that causes more deaths than the swine flu does! Meh.

I think the Malaysian Health Ministry is massively overreacting - closing down schools, quarantining people who've been in contact with infected people, asking students studying in Australia not to return home. But wait, there's more - you could be fined up to RM10,000 or jailed for up to 2 years for withholding health information about yourself... :s

Seriously, I think the resources wasted on all that can and should be used for more important things.

Found these cute little works of art/vandalism in Melbourne. I totally agree with the message that the people who did this were trying to put forth. Basically, there are these cute life-sized sculptures of 3 skinny men in business suits, holding their briefcases and random Melbournians have taken the opportunity to use them as part of their mini awareness-raising campaigns (I once saw them with cigarettes in their o-shaped mouths - so cute!). Here, they are wearing masks. Lol!

Random Question's Answer

I just decided to edit my profile and get a new 'random question'. Well it was a really nice random question, but unfortunately my answer was way too long for the space they gave (stupid 400 character limit...). So here is the question again, with my full answer :p


How tall would you be if you had never cut your fingernails?

Well, let's see…. If my fingernails grow at an average rate of 0.2mm a day, and I am now roughly 20 years and 8 months old, which is about 7524 days old (I'm an engineering student, I LOVE maths duh! :p). So my nails would be 7524x0.2mm long. Which is 1504.8mm or 1.5 metres. OMG. Yeah, I knew the answer would be something as ridiculous as thet. So anyway, the question now is - Do people stand on their nails? Or do their nails stand on them? Either way, I'd be the taller than the average pro basketball player. Damn, should've grown my fingernails since foreverrr :p LOL!

I was watching a TV programme at 11:30 p.m. when I heard these loud 'bangs'. There were like 100 of them (or maybe less :p), my point is there were A LOT of 'bangs'. And I was watching TV alone in the living room while everyone else was sleeping at the back. Yeah, I'm already scared as it is of being in my own home alone at night even if its just in the living room. Then these weird sounds (which I thought were gunshots) suddenly start going off. *OMG* were my exact first thoughts. Then I called out to my mom (what a baby *blush*), then I figured that it couldn't possibly be gunshots that I was hearing (duh!) - it was the sound of fire-crackers. Yeah, so after being laughed at by my parents (my sister was too fast asleep to be bothered), I resumed my TV programme. I've never watched Nip/Tuck but after watching this episode (I don't know which episode it is) I realised that its a pretty cool show, gross operation bits aside. Watch Nip/Tuck!!

Oh and if no one has noticed yet, I've become one big TV addict. I've just finished my 4th hour of TV for tonight (not including the daytime shows that I watched :p). Hopefully the idiot box doesn't make me idiotic (first sign that it is... :s)

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Gosh, what a night (or should I say morning?) its been!

Well, it all started with the Federer-Djokovic semis clash which ended with Djokovic beating poor Roger in straight sets. I was shocked!! And what's worse was that I couldn't decide whether I should be feeling sad for Federer or elated for Djokovic. Hence, 'mis-event' number 1.

Then there was the dinner by my old choir to thank all the students, teachers and parents for their support in helping her open her choral academy. Food was good, company even better... then came the lucky draw... :s The highlight of draw being 2 Triumph gifts. There were about 30 odd people at the dinner and about 30 prizes to be given away at the lucky draw. And there I sat waiting for my name to be called out. The odds were pretty much 100% that I would win something, it was just a matter of when. Once all the other gifts had been given away, it was Triumph gift time... Yours truly won the gift pack which included a, very loudly publicised, g-string. No, not the kind that is metal and found on string instruments. This was a g-string. And to top it off, I was sitting with my parents when my name was called! 'Mis-event' number 2.

After the dinner, we (my parents and I) had to pick my sister up from her friend's birthday party at Starhill and we arrived about 1 hour too early. So we conveniently sat down at the lobby of the Marriot and waited patiently... Not so much a 'mis-event' as the previous 2, but one nonetheless. ('Mis-event' number 3)

So finally, my sister and her friend (whom we were giving a lift back) left the party and we were finally headed home!!! Now would be a good time to mention that my dad's brain shuts down at about 11 pm most days and it was already nearly 12 am when we accidentally jumped a red light. And it wasn't even a big red light, it was a teeny weeny pedestrian red light. And note that it wasn't done intentionally as my dad's brain had most certainly stopped working regularly by then. So we thought, "okay, we'll just keep going since we didn't notice that the light was red" but no... A few seconds later, a police patrol car came up behind us and signalled for us to pull over. 'Mis-event' number 4 - we got fined for 'jumping a red light'. Gah!!

So there... my whole line of unfortunate (I used the prefix 'mis', a little lazy word shortcut of mine) events. But what an experience it was :D

I Want To Be MADE!!!

I was watching MTV Made the other day and it was about this girl who is your typical Miss Popular Blonde at school and her life pretty much revolves around her friends and parties. She wants to be 'made' into an extreme snowboarder. Which I thought was very cool! I want to be 'made' too!

Still trying to decide what I'd like to be made into... I think it would be safe to say something totally unexpected of me. Which is?

Too bad they don't have a Malaysian version of MTV Made :(

Political Science for Dummies

I found this on the internet and thought it was really funny! Have fun reading :D

DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.