Tuesday, September 22, 2009 . 11:44 PM

The 5 Stages Of Mugging (or Examination Preparation) is something I came up with when I was feeling really boliao and thinking about the House season 2 episode about the 5 stages of death...

Saturday, September 05, 2009 . 1:12 AM

I'm now convinced more than ever that there is no such thing as karma on this planet.

Well... Not that I believe in karma anyway.

All my life I try to be civil to other people. I may not be the friendliest of persons, but I try to be civil, I try to be nice, and not be rude or offensive, even when I don't feel like talking to the person (think... people who are trying to get you to donate money on the streets). I try not to offend people. I try to be nice, that's about it. It's not a very difficult thing to do, to be nice. Just smile, be forgiving, take things easy... That's it. Very simple.

So why is it so difficult for other people to be nice to me? Okay, it's not as if I'm nice to other people just cos I want them to be nice to me, but it'd be nice if people were not so hostile once in a while.

I'm not talking about friends or acquaintances, I'm talking about strangers. More specifically, I'm talking about my neighbour.

I'm very good at suffering in silence. Really. All these years our family has been putting up with our neighbours' nonsense. From the renovation of their house, where the drilling and constant pounding actually caused several ornaments to fall off my mom's display shelves, shattering all over the floor, to their bloody dogs, who bark at every little thing that happens, and at any time of the day and/or night, driving us up the wall.

Most recently it has been about parking. Our neighbours have 3 cars. But they only have space in their driveway for one. So what do they do? They park them all over the place. They take up the small space opposite the road from OUR house to park. They park until their cars narrow the road so much that other cars can barely pass through. They make it difficult for us to drive our cars in or to park our cars anywhere.

What do we do? We suffer in silence. Sure, we curse and swear behind their backs, but we suffer in silence in the end. We don't go up to them and scream at them. We just tolerate it.

So today, I made an honest mistake. I came home for about 10 minutes after a Resonance meeting. Just 10 minutes, before going out again to catch a late night movie with SJ (which never happened, by the way). So I parked outside our houses, so that my mom could drive into our driveway with the other car. I made sure that my car was parked sufficiently to the side so that other cars could get through, but I failed to check that my car was actually half-blocking my neighbours' gate. But it was just for 10 minutes.

Who was to know that during that 10 minutes, my neighbour would return. Just as I was going out, he rushed out of the house to scream at me. Of course, that was when I noticed that I had made an honest mistake, so I apologized profusely. He didn't want to hear it, and actually had the nerve to question my education level. He actually had the NERVE to QUESTION my education level. I SO WANTED to yell back at him that it was an honest mistake, that I didn't mean to do it, that I was sorry, and that he shouldn't kick up a big fuss over such a small matter, and by the way, I was from RI, RJ and am doing medicine in NUS right now. But I didn't want to make a scene there, and I certainly did not want to be disrespectful to a senior citizen, so I just stressed that I was REALLY sorry.

He just walked away, muttering that I was irritating.

I mean, seriously. It's not like I parked there on purpose. I made a mistake, I apologized. What more do you want me to do? Kowtow to you and lick your boots? What MORE do you want me to do? And it's not as if I've been doing wrong to you constantly, this is probably the bloody first time I've offended you.

So that's that. I don't expect people to be perfect, I forgive and forget when they make mistakes. But it looks like some people will pounce on every little mistake you make and give you hell for it.
Oh did I forget to mention that they are Christians btw, what happened to "forgive and forget"? Did I sin by parking in front of your gate by accident? Geez.

See what I mean by there's no such thing as karma? Unfairness rules all.

The world is full of assholes, and it just so happens that I'm living next to a nest of them.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009 . 10:17 PM

Assassin's Creed in real life :)

"You'll Never Walk Alone"

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