Ear Candy >>> O-Zone - Numa Numa

Dancefloor alert - Numa Numa’s predicted to take over the dancefloor…duh (but then again I like techno and love trance). The weekend was interesting. On Saturday, after a crappy afternoon doing fyp by MYSELF in the library which resembled a ghost town and completely embarrassing myself to be the ultimate nerd, I got release at Gayt’s birthday party. I really liked it, as I do all nice cosy house birthday parties. Got to meet a lot of my friends, some of whom I’d not seen in a very long time. And the cake was the same as at ks’s party. lolx.

Yesterday went for jx’s bday. Chalet leh, complete with mahjong and barbeque but I didn’t get my promised bottle of vodka!!! But I hope you loved the pressies and our THIRD birthday card to you in as many weeks! And the cake was delicious and I heard, apparently the same as John’s birthday cake. John I didn’t know you read my blog too! Sneaky… Well I left early to get help regarding some documents from a better friend than someone. Oh well, at least now I know for sure the character of that person. Get help from you only, never return any favours.

Today ks and I went to give our acceptance forms to [a certain big four firm]. Personally I would have chosen another firm if I were her but I have no right to judge her decisions. At least if I’m jinxed (and stuck with bad luck) and I don’t get a better job soon, I know I’ll have one good friend to hold my hand while we endure shity long hours and a miserable job. I suspect ks is afraid of spending life with hp who supposedly chose that other firm (again we have no way of verifying this because ks suspects hp got no offers and is just lying to us). I see no reason for hp to lie unless she’s got an ego the size of the moon. What a “friend”. Honestly, it’ll be good riddance.

Oh yes, it’s so hard to explain politics and racial/ethnic/religious tensions to young kids while trying your best to remain objective. It’s difficult and although I know I indirectly influence my brother to think along my political ideologies and the stand I take on certain religious/racial/ethnic tensions I hope that he is able to hold his own thoughts without mine superimposing on them. It is also difficult when certain tensions are true to your heart and you know you have to tell the kid the truth about certain people but yet make sure he doesn’t hold hatred against the entire race of people because only a minority are doing what we perceive to be wrong. It’s just really tough and I do not really know the art of diplomatic speak and suppressing thoughts and censorship for “kid speech”. And there’s only so much I can do to protect him from the big bad world.

Today he was asking me about the racial riots in sydney, australia at cronulla beach. I told him what little I knew from the media, again reminding him to be objective because we have to understand we hold biased views because we are influenced by what the media shows us. But just because I look at the news and I’m disgusted and hence lead my brother to believe it’s disgusting does not mean everyone thinks that way. Like this guy, who says that he’s “all for the riots”. Should I be disgusted by him? Just because he doesn’t think the way the media has led me to believe? This made me think of other issues I hold biased, non-media aligned views on, namely ethnic conflicts in my state and other states. Does that mean I have double standards? I think not. After all, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. What you and I see may be tangibly the same but may not mean the same. What I think is wrong in issues that I do not really know much about is probably due to what the media has led me to believe is wrong. In other instances where I know about the true state of affairs, the media is irrelevant to me and I define what is right or wrong. So it’s all subjective isn’t it?