I should really do some back-issue posts for the last 9 months. Lots of fun.

Random muse for the day:

It’s weird how some people can be at an academic level where they are tutoring other people in a specialised technical field, and yet their grasp of the English language which they use to convey this knowledge is nothing short of atrocious.

Powerpoint does have a spell checker, use it.

anyone want to meet up ? gam or gwm, all stats details in profile

looking for asian (preference) or aussie guys under 35 only ! (amazing people who cant read) also guys who are lean - fit and smooth please

So I sent a wink, and got this in reply:

“thanks mate, but not really into rice queens.”

Ooh, my mistake, he must want the other kind of asian-attracted-caucasians who aren’t rice queens.

LOL…

Update!

I got this email back..

On August 24, 2009 at 09:54 AM, akgatt wrote:

Can’t deal with the fact that you’re a rice queen ? … go talk to a psychiatrist - or better still, tell someone who cares - just stay out of my face !

Lol.. sounds like someone’s got some deeper issues!

P.S. I wouldn’t date someone just because they’re asian, as anyone who knows me would know. (I wouldn’t date this clown, no matter what he looks like!) But you know what happens when you make ASSumptions, eh

And incase you didn’t know what it is, it’s a 1:1 scale Gundam Robot, IN TOKYO. Not that i’m into Gundam, but still… imagine coming in for your landing to Narita and seeing this thing!? How cool!

When it comes to other people though, when is optimism crossing the border into naivity?

Thanks to someone tagging a friend of mine in a Facebook picture, I realised he was back from Overseas and in Sydney - though he hadn’t told anyone. Not me, nor his best friend from when he used to live here (they were almost inseparable). I thought this was strange, but figured he might just want to keep things low key.

I told him i’d be in Sydney as well, and that we should catch up - seeing as it’d probably be another year before he comes back again. He replied with the suggestion that we catch up on Sunday for a coffee. That sounded good.

I met a friend for dinner on Friday night, and although expensive, both the restaurant and the meal were fantastic. It’s kind of sad that nowadays we’re bowled over when we experience good service, but this went beyond that. It was FLAWLESS. If you’ve got a bundle of cash for dinner and you’re in Sydney. DO go to ‘Rambutan’ on Oxford St.

After dinner I met another couple of friends and we went clubbing at The Shift. After dancing awhile and watching one of the tragic drag shows, I went to get a drink. On my return, I passed a group of guys, and did a double-take - my other friend was here too!

So much for keeping it low-key if he’s at the shift.. haha… Then he saw me too and we hung out for most of the rest of the night, and it was all quite fun. Around 4.30 I was heading back to the hotel for some sleep, so he confirmed again we’d catch up for coffee on Sunday. He’d send me his mobile number on Facebook later the next day. We said our goodbyes and I headed off.

Now here’s where the optimism kicks in: I assumed he would send me a message with his phone number, and plans etc on where we’d meet on Sunday.

Now here’s where the naivity kicks in: I started making excuses in my head (eg, no net? busy?) why he hadn’t messaged me, right upto about lunchtime on Sunday.

Now here’s where the pessimism kicks in: Considering he didn’t tell his best friend he was coming to Sydney for a month, and he didn’t immediately give me his contact number on his first message nor when we met in the club, I can only assume he had no intention to do so at all in the first place. So why go through all the pretending bullshit then?

This is actually a saddening fact to accept, because I like to believe that when people say something, they mean it. I will believe they mean what they say, right up until their actions prove otherwise - kind of like the “I love you’s” my ex used to tell me right before I dumped him.. Actions speak far louder than words.

People change, and a lot of the time it’s not for the better. Maybe I should start off with the pessimism and be occasionally pleasantly surprised when they prove me wrong.

I especially like this bit;

“This is a clear signal to the pirates that we will not waver in our efforts to shut them down,” said Mohamad Roslan Mahayudin, director-general of enforcement with the Malaysian ministry.”

Uh oh, some pleb forgot to pay the weekly bribe money to the local authorities. I bet the boss is going to be PISSED!

Recently we had Taxi drivers whinging they’re getting ‘attacked’ and they wanted safety screens in their taxis, then they’re complaining they’re too constricted once the safety screens were installed? Lose some weight, you fat asses.

Now we have Indian students claiming they’re being victimised because of a few (a ’spate’) of bashings around the place - which they have nicknamed the ‘curry bashings’. Lol.

If there’s one thing they’re good at, it’s making a noise and claiming they’re the victims. I find it ironic in that they stage a DISRUPTIVE protest and erode any feelings of sympathy, by getting all rowdy and violent and shit. Yeah, way to go, BRAINIACS. Really thought that one through, didn’t ya?

Here are some facts.

You have a city. The city has lowlifes who bash / rob people.

You have a BIG city. The BIG city has MORE lowlifes who bash / rob people.

You have a city which has a concentration of people from ONE race. The city will still have lowlifes who bash / rob people, no matter who they are.

I’m sure if we collated enough police reports of assaults, we’d be able to bend the facts and claim there are a ’spate’ of Asian/Italian/Caucasian bashings going on too!

GET IT? They don’t care who you are, they’ll still rob / bash you if you look like a target. Fuck…

Update

Check out this link, which is an editorial piece by an INDIAN guy, living in the UK, looking at the whole debacle. See, there are some Indian people with intelligence, something that is sadly lacking in the majority of the ‘mob’…

Inner City:

• Flinders St Station
• Federation Square
• Arts Centre
• National Gallery of Victoria
• ACMI
• City Circle Tram (Free)
• Ride on normal Trams
• National Library
• (Captain) Cook’s Cottage
• Victorian Parliament Building
• Melbourne Museum
• City Laneways (Random Art/Grafitti)
• Degraves St - Munchies / Coffee
• Hardware Lane - Munchies / Coffee
• Yarra River
• River Cruise
• Block Arcade
• Bourke St Mall
• Crown / Southbank Complex
• Fire display @ Crown @ Night
• Random Arty Stuff around the City
• Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
• Ginger Boy - Fusion, funky food
• Strike Bowling, QV
• Ice Bar, Russell St
• Eureka Tower - Viewing Deck

Suburbs:

• Lygon St, Carlton - Italian Food
• Koko Black (Lygon St)
• Royal Exhibition Buildings
• Chapel St, South Yarra
• Acland St, St Kilda
• Cake / Nibblies - Acland St
• Fitzroy St, St Kilda
• The Esplanade, St Kilda
• Albert Park Lake
• Old Melbourne Gaol Night Tour
• Bonsai Farm, Hawthorn
• Yum Cha, Tai Pan, Doncaster
• Yum Cha, Gold Leaf, Burwood

Outer / Day Trips:

• Dandenongs - Sightseeing
• Phillip Island - Penguins
• Great Ocean Road
• Torquay - Beach
• Mornington Peninsula / Arthur’s Seat / Sorrento

I don’t like it.

Firstly, he’s in Sydney, but he doesn’t like it there. Too many people.

Secondly, he’s renting a 2 BR apartment, but he’s got about 10 people living there so he can subsidise the rent.. (if you don’t like so many people, don’t make your apartment into a commune?)

But here’s the best bit - he’s looking for a loving boyfriend who’s not into material things, not superficial, etc. And then in the next sentence he says he’s dating some guy who spends lots of money on him (buying him clothes, etc), aka sugar daddy. Lol.

Even better, he wants to find some ‘perfect boyfriend’, but he wants to be the first Asian guy this ‘perfect’ guy has dated. So if you’ve ever dated an Asian guy before, you’re instantly excluded.

Some people have some seriously fucked up logic going on in their heads.. LOL!