My girlfrend, my car...

Girlfriends are like cars:

1. Car: Expensive but if you work hard and earn enough money for down payment, no problem!
   GF: "hard sell" but if you work out her heart, she's yours..
   
   
2. Car: Choose wisely before you pick your car, you're gonna stick to it for some time till you get enough cash for the next down payment.
   GF: Choose wisely, you only get one gf at a time and hopefully only 1 wife.
   
   
3. Car: Before buying, the only concern you have is getting enough money for the car
   GF: Before dating, you only worry about winning her heart
   
   
4. Car: After buying, you worry about maintenance and keeping it in tip top condition
   GF: When dating, you worry about maintaining the relationship & keep her happy.
   
   
5. Car: Don't get a car you cannot maintain, you'll run it down and waste your money
   GF: Don't go over your league, patching here and there won't last.
   
   
6. Car: Pick the wrong car? not easy to sell off also...
   GF: Breaking up is hard to do
   
   
7. When you lose your car, you go back to public transport
   When you lose your gf, you go back to the single population
   

Inner Self

1. I feel wicked
2. I feel unsatisfied
3. I feel crazy
   
4. I yearn the impossible
   
5. I frown at reality
6. I am changing, for better or worse?
7. I fear...
8. I have a secret
   

I am not a maid!

I am not your maid, not a maid

Domestic Helpers are like pirated VCD

Foreign maids; You need em' and you're also afraid of em'. You worry if they run away, kidnap your children, turns out to be a psycho, rob your house and so on but hey here's the news... They're scared of you too. They worry if you'll torture them, starve them, work them over and etc... Fact is we're scared of each other so we should respect each other if you wanna get things worked out. You know you need them so don't overdo it! Although they are paid to do your biddings, it doesn't mean that they aren't human. Who could work 16 hours every and on weekends too??? Even your mom or wife complaints about the chores they do everyday and they get to rest in between. Then again, if they do the work less than your acceptable cleanliness, why bother hire them when you could do a better job.

Perhaps the industry has gotten bigger and thus we get the lousy service from the agencies. The quality of maids has certainly gotten worse when compared to the earlier days. With more demands of these domestic helper, the agencies will just go to anywhere and recruit anyone to do the work. If they did had a screening test, I'd say they did a lousy job.

Helpers now are like pirated VCD while the agencies are just like the peddlers on the streets. Qualities not guaranteed and its your luck to get an acceptable helper. Like a pirated CD peddler, if you don't like your purchase just return it for a one to one exchange. Then again, the quality still s*ck on the next exchange. What happens to the cd that you returned? Its put up for sale again until the next sucker pays for it. There's nothing much they can do about it after the purchase. People just keep on going back to exchange for other defect products.

Thats how I perceive the agencies nowadays. If your helper is problematic, return it to the agency and they let you pick someone else. Your previous helper is pushed back to the available pool for some other sucker who wants to change their helper as well. What can you do? You've already paid the money and its not like you get a refund. You just end up with more headaches. Why are the agencies like this? Why not do some proper screening and interview before you recruit your staffs? If you did, try harder to improve. Just because people need your service doesnt give you the rights to slack off...

Rich man, Poor man.

I've been reading a lot of blogs lately as my internet is pretty much filtered. Its the only place where I can find interesting and crappy things to fill up those gaps every now and then. I truly respect the bloggers that takes criticism openly and not filtering comments on their posts. At the same time, I find it most interesting to read the comments from readers as they are actually the main source of laughter. Some people just can't take the joke on the surface. They have to take the jokes on postings personally and start a "crap war" out of it. While I think its entertaining to see the useless fight for who's right or wrong (c'mon, its only a post for pete's sake!), you're only wasting your energy. Your opinion really doesnt change the world. It only goes to show how bad tempered or natured you are when you argue about a little posting. If you want to have a say at things, do it elsewhere which is much more productive.... like I dunno.. go do politics or be someone famous enough to become influential.
Reading through people's comments did made me realize one thing. When you are a nobody, your comments are just rubbish no matter how logical it sounds. Rich b*stard will see you in court if you post things that offend them even just a little and poor kids like us... well... save your breath for something else... Free speech is almost impossible here. If you want that, go migrate to some other country. I won't put any hopes here...

How do you know if you have YM Syndrome?

How to you tell if a person is playing with Yahoo Messenger way a bit too much? Here's an indicator:

1. You always hear "pok!" in your head every now and then, with or without a PC.
   
2. You stare at the taskbar until somewhere flashes yellow and get all excited.
3. You shutdown and launch YM! repeatedly until someone msg's you.
   
4. You start msg'ing your own Yahoo ID when there's no one else to talk to.

If You have any of the above, you're likely contracted with YM Syndrome! There is no cure!

Interim Solutions include:

1. Set "pok" as your HP alert tone so you don't imagine the sound instead.
2. Hide your taskbar so you don't see it.
3. Start spamming your list.
   
4. Delete your ID from your own contact list.
5. Use MSN and risk getting MSNingvitis or GoogleTalk and risk at Googling effect