worst game trailer ever..easily

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36746.html

it is literally 4 minutes of nothing.

3 pointer

big friendly giants

this issue i want to discuss is sort of an old one, i remember watching this on the news and just being shocked, but for those who have no clue what i am talking about... here it is



now if you still dont know what i am talking about. that is one of the buddhas of bamyan. (note the size of it by looking at the people at its feet)
those buddhas were situated in afganistan which we all hopefully know is an islamic state who do not believe in idolisation, as in you can worship god but you are no allowed to worship a statue of god.

these statues are over 1500 years old, and were listed on the world heritage site.

unfortunately, they were destroyed by the taliban.


and now virtually nothing remains.



of course it is such a huge shame to lose something like that. but before you starting yelling out things like "bloody turbin heads!" etc...

from what i have read, a major factor in it's destruction was a protest...protest against what? you ask.

well, as you probably know, afghanistan is a very poor country with a lot of it's citizens suffering heavily not just from violence, but from poverty and starvation. aid agencies wanted to pay millions to restore the statues before they were destroyed, the government wanted to use the millions to feed the starving children and keep them alive, but were told the money was not for the children but for the statues.

having read that, i can imagine the outrage. yes the starvation is probably due to the government themselves. but this contributed to the destruction.

yes, blowing them up may have been abit extreme and impulsive due to extreme anger.

its funny that there was such outrage at the destruction of the statues, but no outrage when aid agencies decide they dont want to save starving children.
i have never suffered from starvation and have never had to look after a country with children starving, thus perhaps i can not give a very strong and well informed opinon.

but it seems its hard for me to decide between saving a carved rock, or the lives of starving children.

there's something wrong with us all.

step your game up: kfc

i think roughly 40-60% of my diet is fast food, which isnt a good thing.

but after years of experience with Macdonalds, KFC and Hungry Jacks, i think that KFC stores have got to be the worst in terms of facilities, cleanliness, customer service, management and pretty much everything.

so today i was hungry as shit and decided to visit a KFC store for some oily goodness. we all know fried chicken makes your footwork faster and possibly cleaner...i hope.

i walk in there to find a massive group of people waiting, i was not sure what was going on, but i go up the counter and order my family feast (shared with my parents of course).

they told me it will be a 12 minute wait on the chicken and at first i agreed without second thought. but then i realised 12 BLOODY MINUTES, THATS NOT FAST FOOD! and then i looked at the place where they put chicken, there was nothing there...absolutely nothing.
ok so if that wasnt bad enough the wait actually took longer than 12 minutes, and when i finally got my family feast (10 pieces of chicken + extras), i began to dig in to find that there was only 5 pieces of chicken in my family feast...not much of a feast, so i went up to the counter and it took roughly another 5 minutes to get my 5 pieces of chicken...

so you'd think that whilst the chicken was not ready, the staff would do something useful in that time. instead they stand around looking at the oven for the chicken to come out whilst theres shit all over their tables and dirty stains all over the building. the ground is sticky with god knows what all the bloody time and theres not a single spotless table insight...

the toilets are also dirty as hell, theres no straw dispenser or tissue dispenser anywhere, there is absolutely nothing.

kfc i give you a 10 in terms of overall oily goodness but pretty much 0 on anything else.
STEP YOUR GAME UP!

spoilers

if you watch doctor who or plan to watch it...then don't read this

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i watched the stolen earth last night as elises, let me say how fantastic of an episode it was. the return of davros was awesome and the return of dalek caan also. the fact that he predicts that one of the doctors most faithful companions is gonna die is a bit chilling, seeing that jack harkness can't die dont think its going to be him. i think its either sarah jane or rose tyler. it might be sarah jane coz shes technically the longest serving companion who has met 4 doctors i think, whilst rose has only been with 2, however rose has been the only one that has fully confessed her love towards the doctor so maybe shes the most faithful.

at the end of the episode for anyone that saw it came a cliff hanger out of NO WHERE. the 10th doctor is shot and beings his regeneration process and just before we see his new face the screen cuts out to "to be continued". however i have read that hes already filmed the christmas special episodes which means david tennant will be the doctor until at least then, but then i really wonder how the writers will make him regenerate and keep himself. from watching doctor who the cliff hangers usually dont end up as something EPICALLY ENORMOUS. for example the episode when they are trapped at the end of the universe without the tardis, you think OMYGOD HOW ARE THEY GONNA ESCAPE FROM THOSE DIRTY ANIMALS ATTACKING THEM. and the doctor just pulls out his sonic screwdriver and fixes jack's vortex manipulator and way they go. but i dont know...after 3 seasons with david tennant, i have fallen in love with the 10th doctor, i really dont want him to leave the show even though i know one day he will, but damn it...not now.

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so for all that skipped the spoilers, trust me, doctor who is an amazing show, this season finale has gotten off to the best start you could possibly imagine for a tv show. if you havent started watching season 4, go youtube the episode names and youll find them. if oyu havent started watching it at all GO WATCH IT YOU BAFOON!!!(so i can have someone, other than my blog to talk to about it haha)

the stolen earth

the stolen earth...second last episode of doctor who for this season

and i have been ROBBED of it as my net is capped for the very first time in my life.
so now i have to wait til the 8th of next month before it becomes uncapped to watch it, in the meantime the season finale will be up as well, so i guess maybe its a good thing.

last night also was of course anna bannag's 18th birthday, of which i happily attended.
i proceeded to drink and pressured truc to do the same til the point where he was crying for me to stop, by which time kate had to step in and stop me being evil in which i accused her of being evil due to party poopingl. but the irony was, after that i had about another million drinks and i began to expel the liquid from my mouth, she was the one getting me water and such.

me: lets go get something to drink
maria: nah
me: c'mon, dont be pansy, you gotta drink its a birthday party
maria: only pansy around you
me: damn...

good times.

dear mr west

i liked your second album, your lyrics arent the best but you are a good producer. you know which songs to sample and how to use it. i thought you were one of the better new MCs coming out.
but as of late you said souljaboy is on nas' level. and your graduation album is pretty crap.
your lyrics are getting really shit compared to your other two albums.
please stop buying bape and dissing nas. thankyou

911

first thing that came to mind, was 1984. War was peace.

exams, soccer, sango, doctor and athena

exams are coming up so soon, by soon i mean Wednesday. first one should be ok, its international trade and investment. i have a pretty good understanding on it, BUT next Tuesday is a different story... STATISTICS!!!! i am going to die in that exams.

meanwhile i have been severely distracted by watching shaolin soccer over and over again, i think its one of the most brilliant movies i have ever seen. the hilarity is ingenious.

also i've downloaded romance of the three kingdoms 11, its actually a really good game, so far the translation patch i've got for it is so shit, i've been guessing my way around the game, and getting owned 10 minutes into any game i try to play. so i'm downloading an update which would allow me to use a better translation patch so i don't get owned more.

doctor who this week was good but it was a bit of a disappointment, i was expecting dr river song to be some kind of revelation to the story, in a way she is, but we didn't find out who she was to the doctor, though we do know she knows the doctor's full name. but i guess overall it was a good story. and of course watching the mid season trailer revealed that rose tyler is coming back and so is davros.

davros

and last but not least i think i am in love with athena chu.

ghettoest link

this has got to be the funniest thing (maybe just as funny as wwf weakest link)ever.

krishna talking shit.

ok if you bothered to watch the video, krs-one claimed kanye is less hiphop than 50cent whilst comparing their latest albums: curtis, graduation.

all i have to say is krs-one is on crack if he thinks ayo-technology is more hiphop than ANY song on graduation.

you know, i didn't really like graduation, i sure as hell didn't like curtis.
i agree that kanye's album wasn't exactly hiphop in the context that wu-tang may be or talib kweli or nas etc. but c'mon krs-one, you need to do some homework.

he said people seem to be saying graduation is the better album because it made more sales. sales figures he says, should not be a measurement of art....er...hello KRS, 50cent uses his album sales figures against ANYONE he beefs with, when he has nothing else to diss, he pulls out his sales records. people he used this against include Nas, master p, fat joe, the game etc. he even used it against kanye before the album release saying that curtis will sell more. if not, he will quit his solo career. then he quickly withdrew that statement.

funny though, 50cent lost a beef to fat joe coz 50 said his shit sells crap, and then fat joe in turn said he will offer anyone who has seen 50cent "in da club" 2000 dollars, no one ever came up. (i'm not a big fan of fat joe either)

but he did diss souljaboy and said he'll F him up if he ever sees him performing...WERD krs-one.

trust me. i'm the doctor.

so many of you would have at least heard of the name "doctor who" which is the name of the longest series on television.

it stopped in 1989 (when i was born) and then there was a tv-movie in 1996, and then finally the series was revived in 2005. i use to come home from school to see the old doctor who on, it was pretty tacky for today's standards though i did like seeing all the crazy monster designs and such.

when the 2005 series started, i was very eager to see it on abc. the first and second episodes captured me, even though i eventually forgot the timeslot and stopped following it.

however last year i discovered that it was on the internet like everything else (fantastic as the 9th doctor would say) so i caught up on it.





now for everyone who has no idea what the series is about and why it is so good, let me explain.



the doctor who series has a central character, named "the doctor" not "doctor who" just simply the doctor. he is a traveler who travels through space and time, visiting different planets and different eras.
whenever he is about to die, he has the ability to regenerate into an alter ego/persona, almost becoming a completely different person. he has regenerated 9 times on screen.

now i have no seen the old series, so i can't claim to be a HUGE fan, but i am definitley a fan of the new series, its just so great.

now why is it so great? well, the best way to describe it is like this:
you are walking down the street at 10am one morning, just as you were about to cross the road, a rock hits you in the head and you stop to turn around. just as you turn around a car drives past in front of you, it would have ran you over if you crossed the road.

later that day you find a time machine and you go back in time to 9:59am that day, and you see yourself about to cross the road and a car was about to run you over, you throw a rock at yourself and the past you stops and doesnt get ran over.


and there you have it, every series of the (new) doctor who has been like this so far. and its just brilliant. david tennant is a fantastic actor, so was christopher eccleston. recommend you guys watch the first two episodes of the first series (2005).

ill leave you with a picture of all the doctors so far.

G.O.D.

so i have been watching some documentaries lately. it includes a documentary discussing the evils of religion (any religion), a good quote to come out of that would be

"if there was no religion, good people would do good things, bad people would do bad things. it takes religion to make good people do bad things"

a lot of interesting things were brought up. ill discuss a couple here:

now i have agreed with most of the stuff that were presented to me, so bare that in mind when you read the rest of the blog.

religion is a set of beliefs in simplicity. you are christian, islamic, jewish, etc.
political beliefs run similarly. labour voter, democrats voter, etc.
now there is a reason why kids can't vote. and there is also a reason why young kids are not labeled by their parents.

parents send their kids to religious schools to be taught about their religion, and thus they are labeled by the rest of the society as "muslim kids" or "christian kids" but you never label someone a "labour kid" or "national kid", because they are too young to comprehend the complexity of politics. why is religion an exception?

human logic and instincts after maturity, is to question things presented to us. for example, if i bought something off you on ebay, and i transfered the money into your account, you would usually make sure what i said was true before sending the product.
or if i told you there were no one on the streets, logically you'd want to get verification, and the best way is to see for yourself. that is how science came in. a theory and then evidence to back it up and then maybe one day proven wrong.

now religion works completely against this system, you are told to believe and have "faith" despite all the evidence contrary to your belief. you are told that the more you believe these stories without doubt and question, the more likely it is that you will be rewarded when you die.

also the story of god seems to be watered down in religion taught at school. so is this not brain washing? from a young age i was told that moses wrote the old testament, now older in life i have discovered thats actually false. so why are countless young children told this?

now of course, science can never prove that god does not exist. technically, science can not "prove" anything, there is never 100% chance that something will happen. As Einstein said, not even 1000 experiments can prove him 100% correct, but a single experiment can prove him wrong. But that is the beauty of science, it is forever changing, old ideas are updated with new ideas and evidence to support it.

the bible written hundreds/thousands of years ago, with no credible author, edited numerous times by numerous people, heavy contradiction within itself, is said to be the word of god and is believed by billions unquestionably.

what is going on?

the art of war

recently i started reading the art of war with commentary by various figures.
i have finished reading the actual "art of war", the commentary may take a while.

let me just say that i recommend this to everyone who is thinking of doing anything at all. and i do mean anything at all.

for me it put a lot of thoughts i have had into words that can be written down. if you have read one of those quote calendars or a quote book full of good quotes from people that get you thinking. well this book is full of them.

whos really crazy?

i think that if we were all a little crazy in some aspects, this world would be a better place.

for example.
a while ago, i was on a train with i think approx 4 pregnant women and 1 lady who had just given birth probably not long ago and had her newborn in her arms. 2 foolish white trash people got on the train and lit up. for those people who are unaware, you are not allowed to smoke on trains and i think its probably morally wrong for everyone to smoke near pregnant women and new born babies anyway. so one of the ladies told them to stop, they told her to F off like any foolish white trash people would. well a few attempts later they were still smoking, a gentleman in his 40s i think also asked them to put it out. so later on the lady had no choice but to press the big red button and the train conductor announced that he had called the police (bluff obviously) and will wait for them to arrive. the bogans got off and told the ladies to watch their backs.

now today i was oblivious to something until the last point. i was sitting on my train listening to my ipod trying to check out a girl next to me. anyway, so i noticed this crazy white lady who ran past me and pointed to LED display that showed which station it was and she was yelling it out loud. i had no idea what was going on and ignored it. later on one station before i get off, i took out my headphones and realised the reason why she was yelling was because she was trying to get her communication across to a Chinese lady who obviously spoke no English and had missed her stop. the crazy white lady took her off the train and explained again where she is meant to go. now if i had heard earlier what was going on, i would have been able to speak to the Chinese lady in Chinese and everything would have been fine. but the crazy white lady whom i have deemed crazy because she was over enthusiastic about it all and got off at a different station than she would have to explain to the Chinese lady where to go.


I'm not sure exactly how i can word it so that the first story fits into context, but i think you get my drift.

worst feedback, ever.

"An interesting topic to look at. i think you could have defined the 2 groups more clearly with facts and references and talked about their origins and evolution through the 70s, 80s and 90s. and relate it strongly to the clothing + music. you need a lot more fact based information which is available in cultural studies such as DVDs like - dogtown and the zboys, style wars etc. the hiphop origins were unclear and some things you said were actually wrong. what year was flashdance made? skating was banned by the government? which government in 63? the presentation was a bit random and needed much more depth of research. you touched on the relationshops and crossovers between the subcultures, but you needed much more in terms of lifestyle and music. the personality profiles were very good and engaging. more observational comments from you about the clothing + shoes would have been great. more in depth analysis of the topic would have lifted your result" - rebecca

Rebecca who is my tute of "cultural explorations in fashions" told me she really liked my presentation and that i got a good mark.... and what was that mark? a P-

so reading that review got me a bit angry, because i had a crap load of references. i've seen the documentaries she listed for me at least 10 times and plus a crap load more. but according to her that "didn't show" in the presentation. what the hell am i supposed to do? say where i got the information every time i make a statement? jeez. i had a list of references at the end.

i asked her what part of my presentation about hiphop was wrong. she referred to when i said jokingly that mr.freeze from rocksteady crew "did the moonwalk like 20 years before michael jackson". apparently from her view an "academic" view, she has to take everything i said literally, which i think is ridiculous.

my presentation was 30 minutes, which was the maximum. there was absolutely no way to fit more content in without going over time.

she initially stated that i needed to focus on the music and lifestyle, but dude, this subject is cultural explorations in "FASHION" which was why i had alot more stuff about the fashion. i can rant to you all day about lifestyle and music.




so bottom line is, all the staff at RMIT fashion department are all a bunch of freaks. i did this presentation with no criteria supplied to me or anyone else thats doing it. and then she marks me with a crappy criteria of

1. content
2. research
3. presentation


and thats it. nothing more. a mark for one of those 3.
why did she give me low marks for research? i don't know.
was there somehow not enough content in that 30 minutes? i don't know
was the powerpoint really bad quality? at least i don't think so.


thats my angry rant. thankyou

the debate.

i have decided to give blogspot a shot, moving from my long term blog of xanga for the last couple of years. and to kick things off, i am gonna put some extra effort into this post here. heres some stuff to discuss.

so a couple of weeks ago i had a large debate whilst over at my family friends new house. i was a little shocked really, to see that this sort of mentality could even exist anymore in this day and age but here is pretty much the main topics that were presented to me


1. terrorists are heroes. Americans are the real terrorists.

2. mentally disabled people are not(in china)/should not be allowed to reproduce. as it will slow human evolution, cause suffering for the spouse, produce mentally disabled children who will also suffer.

let me address the mental thing first.

now ok, thats all fair game apart from the fact that the person who was suggesting this was overweight and had diabetes. he also had a daughter...hrmmm
obviously there is a lot of hypocrisy there.

1. he is overweight and has produced a child that was also born genetically overweight (no offense intended)
2. he also has diabetes which puts his child at risk of diabetes

he suggested that mentally disabled people would have long died away if there were no medicines, hospitals etcetera. if things were to return to natural selection. they would be long gone without care. that governments should have policies so that people who slow down the course of our evolution should not be allowed to reproduce.

again there are so many levels of hypocrisy.

1. he is overweight, i don't think he can even sprint for 20 meters. lets not even talk about competing with natural predators.
2. he has diabetes and takes a hefty amount of medication to suppress his glucose levels so he doesn't pass out. (and get eaten by the animals)

where do we draw the line of mental retardation? where do we draw the line of what sort of illnesses may prove to slow down the evolution process? humans has not evolved for thousands of years. he stated that its a medical fact that they are mentally disabled, and they should not breed.

now that is really nazi. medical fact? years ago it was a medical fact that black people had smaller brains? or women had smaller brains. everyone had smaller brains and the white race reigned supreme above all. jews were slowing down evolution and were the source of all evil at one point too. has he learnt nothing?

now it is probably a medical fact that Asians (i am Asian for anyone who doesn't know)on average have smaller eyes. what if Kevin Rudd were to announce a new policy next year, that all Asians who do not have a certain dimension of eyes, are not allowed to breed? i don't imagine him being very happy.

now his counter argument to that is the mental disability could inflict lots of trauma and stress to the spouse and produce more mentally disabled children.

first of all that is really stupid. if a person is WILLING to marry and produce children with all the risks in their mind. why should they not be allowed to? it is not even 100% that the children WILL be disabled either. having said that, mental disability doesn't come from a whole line of disabled people. that is if someone was disabled, its not like everyone before him in his family were disabled too. it comes out genetically from non-disabled people, average, "normal" people. so should everyone who has a chance of giving birth to a mentally disabled person be banned from reproduction? then i guess no one in this world is allowed to mate ever again.

his counter argument to that, is incest. why is incest illegal? because apparently its to stop genetic and health problems associated. i disagree. i believe its a social and cultural taboo. to demonstrate i asked him is the law the only thing that stops you from reproducing with your sister or your daughter? check mate







terrorism.

now we all know that the Americans along with some other countries are doing some stupid ass shit in the middle-east which is at the very least, comparable to what the terrorists have done if not worse. but calling the terrorists heroes, now thats next level.
a murderer who has murdered 1000 people rather than 1000000 people, is still a murderer. and there you have it.

its easy to say things like that if you are no involved, oh yes the terrorists are heroes. they are defending their nation and whatever. retaliating to oppression from the USA.

but if your daughter, your wife or a friend was killed by a terrorist attack. you'd beg to differ.









anyway on a lighter note.

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