Lately, I've come to some kind of very bad realisation. The realisation that I don't really give a crap about other people anymore. Or rather, that I don't give a crap about people who are standing in my way on the path to perfect happiness.
This is best examplified by the fact that when I meet a girl who makes me grin in that way, I really don't care what she's doing. I don't care if she's attached, I don't care if she's serious about the other guy, I don't care if she needs to concentrate on her studies.
All I care about is that she starts going out with me.
I try over and over to rationalise this to myself. I mean sure....it ain't all that ETHICAL. But really, come on.
She likes me. I like her. He's not here. I am.
I take her to dinner. Walk her home through the park. Talk on the park bench. And when we get to her place, I try to kiss her.
She backhands me. I grin and try again, and this time, its a lot less painful.
Somewhere inside, I get this little feeling that what I'm doing isn't right in some way.
What is right? Isn't it right just feeling happy as long as you're not hurting anyone else? Isn't that right?
Because as far as I'm concerned, she's never gonna regret going out with me. So its not like I'm just dragging her into something she doesn't want just to make myself happy.
If you can't keep em, whose fault is it?
And that's only the beginning of the train of thought. Because if keeping them means hurting them in the short term, does that make things right?
So many questions, so few answers.
I wonder if we really have to experience it before we know it.
Because if that's so, it would mean I need to contract AIDS to sympathise with people with AIDS. And that simply doesn't make any sense.
its 1.02 am, and awhile ago some people actually felt an earthquake..from taman desa, to taman seputeh, to pj, to setapak, to cheras, to shah alam, it seems nobody was spared from feeling this great vibration! except the fools on bukit antarabangsa (i.e. me and sy) hahahaha
thanks to kinson for the link: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usweax.htm
apparently it started in indonesia.. chat log with TJ: "T.J. says: cool T.J. says: i actually felt it all the way here T.J. says: geez... god must hate indonesia"
first there was the tsunami, and now the 8.2, which might cause another tsunami..
what next? killer sharks invading the coastal areas? zombies rising up from hell? (lol)
anyways there was no point to this post.. I just wanted to be write one of the first posts about this quake :P remember, evening drama wrote this first! haha tomorrow (actually later) you'll see loads more blogs talking about it! remember: to duck and cover!
stand under an archway, that's the safest place to be when things start falling apart around you
hiding under your blankets won't help..unless you sleep with blankets of steel or you're somewhere that's not being affected by the quake
this has been a public announcement by Evening Drama :P
today there was this advert on radio about coffee bean having guilt free choices for every drink which reminded me of a conversation which i had with tj about it, when i first saw it awhile ago
why do they label these low fat things guilt free? it's as if we're suppposed to feel guilty when we take the non-low-fat versions instead. oh, you're guilty for having a regular drink and spending less money on our low fat/less sugar/healthier ones instead. yea, right!
it's like saying you are wrong just because you enjoy more sugar in your drinks. they are the ones who make self concious people feel bad about the way they are! just because they don't take 'guilt-free' drinks, they will change their diet just to incorporate what is percieved as better or 'guilt-free'. who needs these things?
sugar isn't bad for you. neither are oily fatty foods. you need a variety of foods to stay healthy. but sugar in excess (any other forms of nutrition as well, i might add) is bad for you- if you do nothing about it.
and what's wrong with enjoying something sweet once in awhile? or having your favorite fried chicken cos it tastes so good? nothing! it's not wrong! same with the coffee! too much coffee is gonna be bad for you anyway, guilt-free or not. you'll get addicted to that shit, and suffer from it. and if you take it occasionally, it's not gonna affect your life drastically, so you might as well enjoy 'guilty' coffee instead.
Now I know why my mum makes me make all her calls to customer service operators for her. Hell I'm so pissed, if I had the money, I would buy the company and fire those assholes!
Btw this is about Astro (a satellite tv provider here in malalysia).
This began when Astro came to setup a new set in my dad's pub. We had one of our home cards there for temporary usage while waiting for them to fix the new set. So when they came to fix the new set, instead of giving us a new card, they converted one of our cards to a commercial licensed card for use in my dad's pub. That left us with one card short for our home.
So my mum made me call up Astro to settle this mess. Actually all we needed was to just get back our card, which seemed simple enough to me.
So I picked up the phone, and called them. ALL of their customer service representatives were occupied. Well that's what the recorded message told me anyway. So I tried again, and again and again. They were busy! What could I do? So I decided to send them an E-mail, about my problem.
The next few days, I called them up again, and guess what? They were ALL occupied again! According to the recorded message. No replies from them in my inbox either.
A week later I called them up. This time the recorded message told me that the phones were down, and I had to leave a voice message. I redialed just to make sure and got the same message. So I left a voice message with my name and number. My inbox was still empty.
A week later I tried again. The recorded message this time tells me that ALL of the customer service operators are occupied! BUT I could wait for them! I was like the 15th customer on hold..I wonder why they never gave me this choice a few weeks ago! So I got on the phone with the operator, explained my situation. The lady asked me for some of my account details, so I told her to hold on while I went to look for the account statements. Apparently the lady didn't understand what 'hold on' meant, because when I picked up the phone again, the line was dead! I was like 'WTF?'
So I called again on the same day, and finally got through another person. I explained my situation again, and he told me that he would check it out for me. He told me he would call me back in 30 minutes. So I said okay, gave him my name and number and put the phone down. It's now about 10080 minutes later (that's one week in munites you fools :P) and I still haven't got a call from him. Talk about efficiency! My inbox is still empty.
This morning I tried again. I called them up, asking for the guy who promised to call me back, but the dude wouldn't pass the phone, and he told me to call this number instead. So I took it down, said thanks, and put the phone down. I dialled this new number. It was engaged. Twice. Thrice. Engaged. I mean WTF?
So that just pissed me off. Not like the previous calls didn't piss me off, but how can you call this customer service?? Does it take a genius to send me a new fucking card? What's with the passing around of responsibilities? Aren't customer service operators trained to solve problems faced by customers??
You know, I bet they don't even read their email or check their messages! They ask you to leave them just so you'd feel better. Fuck you Astro customer service operators! I hope your bosses call up one day to test your services, and realize how shitty you are and fire your asses. RAR!
:: are girls more attractive when they're taken? ::
i was thinking of something to write here, and that popped into my mind. seriously, there's something about girls who are attached.
they've got power over fools (like me) they're like 'wingmen'- they have nothing to lose! they are already attached, so it doesn't matter if they get you or not, they still have someone! you're like their toy they can chose to play with. and you know what? we'll play along, cos we're attracted to them!
"thanks for your gifts and the sweet date, but you know i have a boyfriend, and he's not you." "nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
there's always the hope that something would happen to them, and they break up! and then you'll be the one next in line! but that rarely happens, unless they've been rocky all this while..
anyways back to the point! girls are more attractive when they're taken.. they've got this aura which says 'come get me if you can..' 'you think you're better than him?'
and you know how guys can't resist a good challenge!
..well, most guys anyway. i usually give up, and whine alot.
:: once awhile we take a break from love to catch up with some movies ::
so while i'm not writing stuff that doesn't work, i'm actually thinking of writing about things which work
and finally, i've come up with a plan which actually works! but sadly, it has nothing to do with love :p
in this new age almost anything can be done online, and this includes booking cinema tickets..but have you ever encountered the 'no seats available for booking' messages before? of course you have! who hasn't? (unless you book movies nobody wants to watch or movies that are a month old) well guess what? i've discovered (actually i was told this by someone else..haha)a way to guarantee you tickets whenever you book them online..
I have tried this method using GSC's online booking system (not sure about other cinemas) and each time I've been successful, but i'm pretty sure they all work in the same way
this is what you do-
you log in 12.00am, 3 days in advance from the date you want to book (3 days cos its the earliest you can book a ticket online from GSC)
e.g. you want to book tickets for a show on a thursday, you log in Tuesday 12.00am
select the date, cinema, and movie etc, and you're set!
and if you complete all the above under 5 minutes (know what you want, when and how many beforehand), and 5 minutes is a long time, you're guaranteed to get them!
now you know the secret of booking tickets, i guess you'll always be sure to get tickets for your next date with that girl you're going after.. haha
theres something wrong with me, i always think there's not enough time..one hour isn't enough..i feel like nothing much can be accomplished in an hour..maybe it's the way i spend time..or how people seem to let me down by being late all the time
today i was talking to a friend, who said she didnt have enough time to do anything then i broke down her daily routine (for weekdays) 8 hours sleep 7 hours class around 2 hours spent for meals and 1 hour for washing up etc that would leave her with 6 hours of free time, which is pretty much if you ask me..you could travel to singapore by bus in 6 hours.. haha urm you could watch titanic twice
there's plenty of time to work and do some recreational stuff
well i used to have this idea that super hot girls who were single had something wrong with their personality, and so they were single, and therefore not worth approaching
then today, my friend told me, it's because of guys like me, those super hot girls are single. hahaha
when i think about now, it kinda makes sense
if she's a) damn hot, she must be way out of my league or b) damn hot and single, so she must be a bad person
and so, these girls end up having nobody approaching her, and when finally some ah beng or someone who doesn't 'deserve' her (lol) comes along, she'll take him cos he's been the only one who dared to go for her
and that's why i complain whenever that ah beng gets the girl, or the other kid with cash gets the other girl..
and i also realised, girls could be single cos they want to stay single?
And so the love-miester (cough) has decided to refocus his posts to what he's known to whine about, getting girls :D
Well today, as I was driving to home, I formulated, in my head, a new technique for picking up girls :D it's unproven, and probably requires alot more fine tuning, but that shall come with your responses!
So you've just met this girl (or guys if you're a girl, or simply if you just prefer guys :P) for the first time, and you've been chatting away with her..things are going smoothly, you find her personality (or tits) attractive, and believe that you might have a future together (possibly fantastic or horrible, i wouldn't know) and you need to keep in touch with her. How do you get her number? How do you pull it off smoothly? and if rejected, or denied, how do you come off cleanly without being shot down like a geek at a supermodel convention? (thanks to Yang for that line :P)
I came up with '10 minutes' with those things in mind. It's pretty simple to execute, and it's possibilities are limitless (that is, if you are really good :P) but I'm assuming you're not (since you're bothering to read this in the first place hehe) and also because I'm not, I'm gonna show you how to get a phone number with it.
You have to be participating in a conversation with the girl whose number you want. Give yourself 20 minutes, and make sure she seems interested, if not, you can still try it, but it probably won't be as successful. After 20 minutes (or when you feel the time is right) just say to her '10 minutes'. She will ask you 'what about 10 minutes?' or 'why 10 minutes?' or 'what's going to happen?' or something along those lines. I mean, seriously, who won't ask? (girls who have read this, george? haha) so that's when you say (make sure you do it confidently, and make sure she gets what you say, you shouldn't be repeating it-)
'10 minutes till you ask me for my phone number' at this point, she will- a) dump her drink onto you or b) laugh aloud and ask you why again
that's when you re-evaluate her- if she resorted to 'a', she doesn't have a sense of humour, and probably never will, and you should move on :p i mean, really, who would want an unfunny girl anyway? or she's just not interested in you.. haha
if she resorted to 'b', it still doesn't mean that she's interested, for all you know she could be thinking 'man this guy is a loser, but i'll play along anyway', but at least she has got a sense of humour (she actually laughed at your line! give yourself a pat on the back!) and she could possibly be interested..at this point, you answer her question ('why?') with:
'Why are you laughing? it's happened everytime with the past few girls I got to know!' Even if it hasn't happened- it puts you up as a funny guy, and someone she could be interested in (cos girls always say they like funny guys, but exactly how funny, it depends).
Now anyways, you've planted the 'seed' in her, and you've sowed it by telling her 10 minutes. And in 10 minutes, you should reap your rewards :P (give it a +/-5 mins cos you might lose track of time if you're having a good time)
The outcomes- a) she doesn't ask for your number or b) she asks for your number
In the case of 'a' you could walk away without any scars or loss of pride, and to her you'd just come off as a funny guy, no harm done to you (unless she tells all her friends about you, which will make you popular- for better or worse, let's hope its the former :P) you could just move on, and try it on another girl.. haha by using this technique, you put her in the position of the one wanting you, not the other way round, so if she does not ask for your number, it would seem like her loss, not yours :P
in the case of 'b' you give her your number, and you're a happy man :p you'd be even happier if she calls you. haha cos she might just take your number, and not call you, and then you're just screwed :P but the best outcome would be she trades numbers with you, and says 'call me' when you leave, or something like that.. haha
Some notes: this won't work if you've been very boring, or you've been talking to her for more than an hour..it's kind of a spontaneous thing to do really, and girls like that kind of stuff :p a man who does things when he wants to, a man in control!
