Month: March 2010

Rant – Of wusses and douchebags

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Not too long ago, I was accused by someone of finding every little opportunity to bash the gahmen or criticise its policies because of what he called my ‘intense hatred of the government gahmen’. It doesn’t matter that I have been quite a big fan of the ERP, and at times I have presented the viewpoint of the gahmen after I receive a better understanding of the policies. While I do not deny I can be rather vehement in my anti-gahmen stand, that doesn’t mean I allow that to cloud my decision all the time.

Ironically, the accusation was thrown in my face after I had in fact agreed with this person and put up my own opinion in support. I could only speculate why my comment upset him. He probably thinks only he had the proper justifications or he had better reasons to do so. If not, he must have thought that his way of bashing the gahmen was the only acceptable way. Another friend suggested that the person was upset because he had considered his comment to be perfect, and my ‘greatest sin’ was for adding on and ‘marring his perfect comment’. Whatever the case is, I took this as a grave insult, as it suggests that I am insane and incapable of reasoning as far as the gahmen is concerned. That’s not mentioning that when I started to defend myself, this person waved it off with a comment of ‘whatever’.

What a wussy!

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Next, it amuses me that a 40-over year-old someone was denouncing another person as ‘self-righteous, antagonistic, extreme and hypocritical’ on his blog after he ‘visited his blog and the forum he was running’

Since I am the only person who runs both a blog and a forum, and we once disagreed strongly on how to run my forum, I take this accusation personally. As far as I am concerned, he is apparently still bitter over the fact he was not allowed a free reign on my forum almost four years ago. The fact is he repeatedly threatened me with leaving the forum if not allowed to do things his way. Though I did not object to him creating more than one account, he ultimately created a fake account with a fake email address that caused some concern with the business owner of the hosting server. After she advised me to delete the fake account, I announced publicly on the forum and asked to be informed if anyone wants to create such accounts in the future. He then confronted me on MSN Messenger and again threatened to leave. I decided I had enough of his childish tantrums and simply reply with these two words: Go ahead.

It probably never occurred to this self-centered sorry excuse of a man that there’s only so much emo shit I can take from a bachelor in his late 30s (then!) like him. I suspected he was shocked and angered because I did absolutely nothing to try and pacify him. I simply left him with no choice but to make good his threat. As far as I am concerned, whether he stayed or not would be a great loss of face to him.

Left he did, and the actions he took thereafter simply convinced me that I have no reasons to remain acquainted with such a person. I have been on the receiving end of his tantrums more than once whenever I disagreed with him. That’s when I wasn’t even rude or being an ass to begin with! I simply wasn’t even allow to express a different opinion or to stand firm on my disagreement. His sudden mood swings in a cordial conversation shocks me, as it is even more intense than those I have seen among my female friends or colleagues under pressure. Perhaps a serious hormonal imbalance has caused this oddly feminine behavior… and might probably even hint why my recent posts upset him.

He apparently still behaved just like I first knew him almost two decades ago. I am convince I made the right choice to cease all communications with this douchebag and blocked him on Facebook right after I joined. He has the honor or being the first to be blocked on Facebook and the only person blocked for the longest time compared to the rest in that ‘roll of (dis)honor’

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Random Discourse – Give us a break!

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The local media has certainly made a mountain out of a mole hill over Jack Neo’s Affair. More ink and paper have been wasted in reporting this utterly insignificant affair instead of matters of more importance, such as the proposed Constitutional changes to have more Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) and more Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs), the details of the budget debate, or even the merit of Sylvia Lim’s proposal for more concession for the handicapped on our public transports. The local media didn’t even give a more even report on the entire context of Low Thia Khiang’s alternate proposal to control the employment of foreign workers. It chooses simply to take one of his statement to completely remove the levy on foreign workers out of the context and focused on how the ruling party’s MPs ‘gang banged’ on that to make him look like an utter crackpot who doesn’t know what he is talking about.

There is of course, the matter of a church wasting $310 million to purchase into SunTec City so it can now find a place in the city to house its congregation even though it has previously built a 47-million titanium-clad monument to God Capitalism in Jurong West. Hopefully someone like Jack Neo who is a member of that congregation has contributed a large part of the $310 million.

None of the above matters other than the obsession with Jack Neo. In spite of all his awards and his seemingly family man image, I have been told by a friend who has worked with J team previously in the course of filming some of his movies, that he hasn’t been a fair paymaster. From my friend’s perspective, they have been taken advantage of, and unfairly treated.

The papers certainly made Jack Neo looked like Singapore’s equivalent of Tiger Woods even when the entire matter doesn’t even come close. While there was probably half a dozen (or was it more?) women involved with Tiger Woods, there was only one involved with Jack Neo – a cock-eyed 22-year-old model named Wendy Chong. I really don’t give a shit who else Jack Neo had tried to hit on or sexually harassed.

What is most appalling, is that the pathetic local media actually can’t tell the marked difference between having sex with those women and harassing them. The over-exposed ‘Jack Neo Affair’ isn’t even ‘Tiger Woods Lite’. Not to mention, even Tiger Woods’ affairs were nothing compared to that of Edison Chen’s. After all, while Tiger Woods’ may have had more partners than Edison Chen ever did, there are no photos (or even an alleged video) to prove any of those even took place. On top of which, Edison Chen beats Tiger Woods hands down in stupidity by keeping all the juicy stuff on his hard disk, and then sending the Macbook containing them for repairs! But what can I really expect? My impression of Mac users like him is always one who really have not a clue about IT but deliberately buy one so he can act geeky because he can afford it.

As if the lameness of the media and seriously yawn inducing drama of Jack Neo isn’t bad enough, you have one of our local politician from the ruling party making harebrained remarks like this:

Over the years, to me, Jack Neo is a good son, father and also a good husband. Since he is remorseful over this incident, he should be forgiven. Actually, a man who has good career development would find such scenarios unavoidable. – Lim Biow Chuan, MP Marine Parade GRC.

I sincerely hope Lim isn’t a minister and he will never be one. There is however still a glimmer of hope for Lim if he already understand the reason behind my contempt before I start to explain it.

First of all, the comment certainly has the element which suggest that ‘men with good career development’ would have women throwing themselves at them as a fast track to personal advancement. Next, the comment has the element which suggest that ‘men with good career development’ will all succumb to treating women as play things, and they would go as far as harassing 16-year-old girls with proposal to have sex in hotel rooms, or have affair with young impressionable female staff with promises of career advancements. It maybe possible, only if you are a Chinese Emperor living in a palace restricted to commoners.

Whichever way you looked at it, this is certainly not a remark worthy of someone whose party claims to have the best talent to offer to run our little red dot of a country city. Considering the precedence of Teo Ho Pin on the losses by the town councils on minibonds, and Charles Chong’s ‘lesser mortal’ remark, such thoughtless statements seem common place and are hardly surprising at all. It is my considered opinion that the ruling party take note of such mediocre riffraff which had miraculously got past their stringent screening to be fielded as candidates and replace them quicker than someone can say ‘change underwear’.

On top of which, I wondered why Darth Dana Lam of AWARE hasn’t yet already bared her fangs and start growling and barking at a comment which denigrates and objectify women as play things. As an MP, Lim issomeone who actually has some social standing, no? Then again, this is hardly surprising… since AWARE always seem to have a more pressing and happier ‘gayer’ agenda. On second thoughts, perhaps it is already concocting another exemplary display of meaningless ideological babble with big words that would rival ‘objectification of women’. Perhaps it won’t be long before the world will be shown yet another piece of literary masturbation which serves no real purpose other than to impresses those suffering from vocabulary deficiency.

Anyway, while I certainly don’t think that the entire Jack Neo Affair is staged as some kind of publicity stunt for his latest movie, I am wondering if the deliberate playing up of it is to hoodwink us or direct our attention from some other matters that is more worthy of our attention… whatever that maybe. SPH can just give us a break from all these Jack Neo craps already!

As for Jack Neo and men like him, this following Youtube video will demonstrate an ancient technique which should be used on them to cure them of their… *erhem* ‘overly heterosexual disorder’.