Sunday, July 1, 2007

1000th Visitor!

Weeeeee! My 1000th visitor! Well, not actually. I only added that counter 4 months after I started this blog. 28th of May maybe? 1000 readers in 33 days! Hmm, not bad for a start =)

I found this on my doorstep the very next day:


A card came with it, it read:


Aww, I'm so touched! Thank you very much! *wipes tears*

Hmm, what could I do to celebrate this meaningful occasion? I know! I'll upgrade my blog to the newest blogger and learn XML! Well, I'm gonna learn some basics before I switch 0f course. So my lovely readers, expect a new template really soon... again! =P

I'll also start reading my Da Vinci Code that I abandoned months ago! See how you guys are motivating me? =D

I'll replace the picture with a better one next time -_-"

I told my mum how happy I was and that I might wanna be a full-time blogger. And she looked at me for awhile and said, "Why don't you be a lawyer instead?" SHE SUGGESTED A CAREER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE! Maybe it's because of the full-time blogger thought I had.

Wasn't sure if I wanna be a lawyer, so I searched for some information about being one. Look what I found!:


Uhh.. o.O I'll think about it.

~ Angelina

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Coincidences

Been a little occupied this few days, still am but I have too much on my mind that I gotta put them to good eyes before I forget! :P

Do you believe that everything is predestined? Or do you think that everything that happens is a mere coincidence? For me, I don't think God has the time to "preset" everything for billions of people out there. It's just my opinion.

Situation:
Dodo: I don't believe that God can "preset" everyone's destiny. It's impossible.
Lala: That's why we call him "God"!
Dodo: It's logically impossible. Tell me how He does it then.
Lala: Aiya, how God does things, we people donno one lah!
Dodo: You don't even know, why do you believe then?
Lala: Cause he is God mah!
Dodo: ...
I guess that I'm more of a free thinker than a Christian, which I only use to fill in forms which has a field for religion. Would've put "Muslim" for better benefits, but I don't think I wanna change my name to Angelina binti Abdullah any soon. I chose to write "Christian" over "Buddhist" because my mum believes in Jesus, and it's the religion which facts sound the most logical to me out of the illogicals.

Back to the topic: coincidences. This, is what I've concluded after many years of thinking about how humans actually appear on Earth and their destiny. I think that most of the things that happen, happen because coincidences - from the creation of humans, to determining who lives and who dies.

How were humans created? Let me bring you back to billions and billions of years ago, long before the dinosaurs even existed. I call this Angelina's Theory. *hopes that someone from National Geographic coincidently comes across this post and creates a simulation of my theory*

The earth was still empty and the weather was still very very unstable. Earthquakes, volcano eruptions, meteoroids crashing in, weather storms... The galaxy was still young and because of its unstableness, nothing could survive back then. As the weather stabilises and the temperature becomes more optimum, life begins. As we know, everything is made up of matter. We humans consists of calcium, iron etc, which are also found in the ground. So when everything (weather, temperature and such) becomes coincidently optimum for living things to survive, some elements and compounds which are coincidently created near to each other after thousands of natural disasters, chemically reacts with each other and coincidently happen to be the right combination to form life. No, that's not how humans magically appear. Creatures then were unicellular organisms, so tiny that they could not be seen with the naked eye. After centuries and centuries of mating and therefore improving genetically and thus evolving to suit the habitat, the cells have learnt to work with each other, forming multicellular organisms. How we look today is because a particular organism coincidently met a partner and their combination evolved after billions of years to form humans. Meet with another and we might grow horns.

So yeah, evolutions after evolutions has led to today, and has led to me writing this. But, let me tell you this - not everything HAS to be a coincident, but everything can be related to it. Good coincidences are called "lucky", bad ones are called "suey". We work hard because good coincidences don't always happen, and we can't take that risk as we don't have nine lives. Let me give you a situation to help you understand more of this theory of mine:
Situation A: You worked hard in you company and your boss is delighted. He gives you a promotion and a pay rise.

Situation B: You worked hard in a company but your luck is so suey and you met a stingy boss. Your contributions are not acknowledged.
You can be hardworking, but luck also plays a role. Meeting the right people at the right time, and saying the right thing at the right time helps. Life and death are also influenced by coincidences. I talked about this theory with my friend, Jolene, and it turned out that we had thought of the same thing before, but never really talked about it. It is the "point-of-view thingy" (POVT). We haven't really gave it a name yet, but I can explain to you what it is. People might call these souls, but we had something else in mind. Every time life is created, a POVT would be created as well, and it coincidently becomes "you". We see things from this angle, this everything, not another. And we wonder, "Why am I in this body and not that body? How come that POVT gets to be in that gorgeous body?!" Well, one answer, it's all a coincidence. And I happened to be suey, LOL!

Well, this is my theory. What's yours?

~ Angelina, a suey POVT.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

The True Colours of Malaysia - Revealed?

"Malaysia is a safe place to live in!" - Really?

"Muhibah!" - Says who?

Ah, Malaysia... Don't judge a book by its cover. Many are fooled by alluring news and advertisements which are actually shadowing the true colours of Malaysia. No, the truth shall be revealed by us, as citizens of this feigned country!

We blog about it, talk about it... Hoping that people will realise the truth. Now, its true colours are even published in the encyclopedia! Or rather, the Uncyclopedia.

"Omfg, WORDS!" Just read it, it's worth your time.


"You should love your country."

Yes I do, but we also have to prevent the members of the parliament from getting gaji buta some secrets are not meant to be kept, unless you want the taxes you pay to go to waste :P

Malaysia Boleh!!! (Minus the "o")

~ Angelina

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Simple Math

Wah, math! So, how do you solve this?

Chey... Easy lar! Like this loh:
Suddenly...

"Aiya, do so complicated for what? Follow my method - fast, easy and accurate!" I show you:


~ Angelina o.O

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Qualified?

Every teacher holds a certificate - degree, master, whatever. However, a question still lies.

Is every teacher really qualified to be a teacher?


What does the word qualify mean? Does getting a certificate mean that someone is qualified to be a teacher?

I don't deny that they must have a good amount of knowledge to be able to obtain a so-called qualification to become a teacher, yet our country's education produces hundreds and thousands of illiterate students every year, causing the increase of number of school dropouts and crime rate year after year.

Why?

During my co-curricular activity last week, I overheard an afternoon session teacher while she was in class.

Teacher: ABC! 29 marks! Come out!
ABC: *walks out*
Teacher: Why you get so low?
ABC: *speechless*
Teacher: Take out your hand!
ABC: *looks at teacher with fearful eyes*
Teacher: TAKE OUT YOUR HAND!
ABC: *takes out hand slowly*
Teacher: *WHACK!*

If caning makes a student smarter, go ahead. But does it? Instead of caning them, shouldn't the teacher be hitting herself with a 10-foot long pole for failing to help the students pass their exams? Caning will only lower the students' self-esteem and make them hate studying even more. She has a certificate, but tell me, is this teacher qualified to be a teacher?

Good teachers are assigned to good classes only, the unqualified ones, the makan gaji buta ones, will be assigned to the not-so-good classes, worsening the scenario. Yes, the sad truth.

As a teacher, he or she is responsible to make sure that the students understands what is taught, and guide them if they fail to cope. But no... They have this tidak peduli attitude, they don't care if you can earn a living or not in the future, all they care is filling their filthy pockets with green paper the government issue to them without fail every month.

Not every teacher is like this. Fortunately, my teachers are not. But the other classes? I doubt their ability to teach.

If you know that you can't teach, don't. Don't ruin other people's life and drive the country to chaos.

~ Angelina

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Banana Wannabe

Banana:

Definition 1: A crescent-shaped, yellow fruit.

Definition 2: A term given to Chinese people who doesn't speak Chinese. Just like a banana, they're yellow on the outside, but white in the inside.

I'm not a banana, I'm a banana wannabe (referring to definition number 2, FYI :P). "Why would anyone wanna BE a banana?" You would ask. Frankly, I don't know. Maybe I'm just plain weird or what, but I really wish I don't know Chinese.
Chinese - Chinese language = Banana = Cute
Yes, I'm insane =) I love my banana friends! *hugs Jolene and Jillian* I love banana people! I don't like eating bananas.

I know that China has large market opportunities and stuff, but I-hate-that-language.

This is how you write "I" in English:

This is how you write "I" in Chinese:

YOU SEE?!! How could I NOT hate it? And the teachers are not helping at all, in fact they make me hate that language more by adding unnecessary words to my beautifully written essay, making it look like I just wrote a primary-level essay. OI TEACHER! I write this style for NINE friggin' years and got A ok? Don't you tell me that my writing style is wrong. Pfft.

The goods of understanding Chinese:
  1. China's market
  2. Communicating with non-bananas.
  3. Understanding texts written in Chinese, especially during trips.
  4. Play Chinese games (which I don't because of those friggin' characters)

The bads of understanding Chinese:
  1. Forced to memorise 2 extremely long proverbs for every chapter we learn, including their definitions, author and which book it came out from, which is extremely ridiculous. There are at least 20 chapters a year, which makes approximately 40 proverbs a year. We also need to memorise the peralihan level ones. For SPM level, we need to know 40 x 6 = 240 proverbs by heart.
  2. The characters are VERY complicated, thus making homework torturous.
  3. Chinese education focuses on memorising and copying.
  4. Making result sheets look bad.
  5. Learning unnecessary grammar.
  6. Calligraphy (Why the hell do we need this when there is something called the "PEN" and the "PENCIL" invented?)
  7. Extra hours of classes in school.
  8. So many more that this list will never end.
Differences between me and Jolene:
Jolene: I was meant to go to a Chinese school but my mum changed her mind! Argh!

Me: I was meant to go to a Kebangsaan school but my mum changed her mind! Argh!


Perfect! Trust me, 0.5% of each subject is enough for ANYONE to get an A :P *prepares to get poked by Jolene*

I know that understanding Chinese is an advantage, but it really, REALLY makes people suffer (that is unless you are a Chinese language pro, but then other languages surely not as good lor =/)

Everytime I say, "I wanna become a bananaaaaaa!", I get =.+|| expressions from my friends. Guess I've provided enough reasons for why I am a banana wannabe? =)

~ Angelina, the banana wannabe.

Friday, June 15, 2007

128GB RAM!

You may have heard of 1GB, 2GB or even 8GB of RAM, but 128GB? That's INSANE! Imagine if you have 128GB of RAM in your computer! What can you do with it?


Look at those slots! RAM, RAM and more RAM!

I could:

1. Play Rappelz
2. Play Granado Espada
3. Play Dance Online
4. Play SDO
5. Play Audition
6. Play Last Chaos
7. Play Ghost Online
8. Play TS Online
9. Play Dota
10. Play JX II Online
11. View 20 blogs
12. View 20 sites
13. Run 10 different kind of messengers

... and more! All at one go! I want it for my next birthday, can or not? ^^ Buy for me pleaseee =)

~ Angelina