Babies!

 

Babies. I never really thought of them much last time in my life. To me, they're just another stage in life, in which there's not much significance. And when some of my friends go crazy over them, i could not really understand why because to me,babies are nothing special.

Of course, there are also people who are even worse than me. Babies to them are like nuisance. They view babies as a burden and would prefer not to have any at all. Even if they do have babies, it is because of pressures from in-laws for example. They loathe taking over their "children", preferring to hand over these troublesome little creatures to someone else to take care as they have things more important to focus on. Things like getting promoted in office or buying a new car.

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Well, after taking PL3234 Developmental Psychology class in my uni for 5 weeks, i must admit that my view regarding babies have taken a quite a change.

This class has really helped me to understand babies for who they are and to appreciate them. I learned many things about babies, why do they act in a particular way and how do they adapt to their environment. You could call this a mini parenting class if you want, because this class focuses a lot on child development. Thanks to this class, i have begun to see things in a different way and surprisingly, it has done a really good job in convincing me to have a baby of my own after i marry. 

Because in truth, babies are in fact bundles of joy. Gifts from God. A miracle. Everything happy.

Some of us might tend to view babies in a negative light because we do not understand them. In fact, the cryings that are so hateful to some of us may become quite a cute thing if we understand the purpose behind it.

Most importantly, the class taught me the importance of good parenting. 

  I've seen people who complains about their babies all the time before. These are the people whom i mentioned just now who view their own children as some sort of burden. They take no joy in taking care of their babies and they view it as a mundane task, maybe even a hateful chore, to look after the babies. They have no idea what impact it will have on the child. By avoiding to get emotionally attached to the child or even responding negatively to the baby, these "parents" are setting a stage of crisis for the child in years to come. In short, they are not good parents.

You may want to read more about this at http://psychology.about.com/od/loveandattraction/a/attachment01.htm.

As for me, i want to have a child of my own. And i will try my best to become a good parent. Because it is my responsibility and because i want my child to succeed in life. Then, maybe i look back and smile without regrets in my old age. Because the opportunity to raise a child together with the person you love is one of the biggest blessing in life God could ever give to someone in life.

PL3234, Developmental Psychology, maybe you should consider taking it too.

Black, White or Grey?

Some friends ask me why do i sometimes post emotional or sad stuff into my blog.

"Shouldn't these stuff be private?"

I would love too... but sometimes, the feelings gotta come out.  I would happily choose to vent it some other way, like jamming on a bass guitar (but the band room is off limits, i do not have money to buy one and the nearest available one is few hundred kilometers away), or shouting on top of a cliff (but Singapore is pretty much flat), or shoot something (but i do not have a gun except a natural one which does no harm), or telling someone who truly understands (but they're few hundred kilometers away too and they do not use internet).  So i really do not have a choice.  Options like jumping off buildings, smoking or taking drugs is just gonna make the situation worse.

Who likes showing off their emotional stuff to the world anyway?  But i realized that life isn't all about cracking jokes and talking cock all the time.  Of course there will be downs in life, and i'm not going to lie to myself that everything is going to be ok, that all problems will eventually "pass" and just focus on the happy things.  Only people who are in the asylum that is happy all the time.

So i don't care, i'll still post emo post when i'm emo.  It's my form of venting it.  I can't put on a mask that says i'm ok when i'm not.  That would be lying, especially to yourself.

And yeah, i'm emo now.  Because i have two persons inside me fighting, each trying to prove that they are right, and that i subscribe to their principles.  Only one, black or white.  The problem is, i do not know whom to follow, because both of them are right and wrong in some sort of way.

One is saying that love is patient, that it waits, that i should not be bothered by the peer pressure around me.  He is telling me that relationships that start out of love at first sight do not last long on average, that it is based on fleeting feelings of romance.  He says that what is good is worth waiting, and love is like red wine, the longer you wait, the better it gets.  And he warns me that i should never get into a relationship just because of the sake of getting it.  Because in the end, it will end up with two heartbreaks.  And the cycle will not stop there, as i will want to have that feeling again when it's gone.  Relationships, he advises, should be built on solid foundation of friendship, not just an illusion of a fairy tale and mere feelings of passion.  He even mentions that love expects no return, and that is why its patient.

The other guy tells me to stop kidding myself.  Who am i trying to convince?  I'm living in the 21st century and in the real life, not some sort of soap drama.  If i'm going to think like that, then might as well i stay single the whole life because love today is totally different from what it is last time.  Even if i could wait, the girl won't, and even if the girl chooses to wait too, other guys will not.  He asks me why should i wait when others don't?  Why am i trying to be the "noble" one?  Why couldn't i just shut up and be like everyone else?  What's the use of these so called "principles" anyway?  Aren't they something invented to make us feel "better" with no practical purpose?  Because those that do not subscribe to these principles manage to live on happily too.

Sigh.  Can i just take a gun and shoot myself in the head?

Cutie Lukey Syndrome

I have a dilemma.  Or should i say a sickness, or a disease, or an illness.  Or whatever you call it.  You see, i have a tendency to "over-update" my blog.  At least 1 post per day.  If i do not update my blog for more than 1 day, my palms will start to sweat, i will have insomnia, my appetite will start to go haywire and worse, i will have diarrhea until i update my blog.

In fact, i think this is a new disease caused by the rumored Blogger  virus!  And hey, i'm the "founder", ops i mean "discoverer" of this new disease!
And of course, being the "founder" of this new disease, i shall have the privilege to name this disease as the

"Excessive Blogging Syndrome".  Or maybe i should include my name in it to sound cooler since most famous diseases are named after the people who discovered them.  Diseases like Alzheimer who was discovered by Alois Alzheimer or even the Kawasaki disease who was discovered by Dr Tomisaku Kawasaki.

And i thought Kawasaki are motorcycles which looked like

Sure did not know that Kawasaki motorcycles causes diseases.  Looks like you have to think twice before buying a Kawasaki next time or risk contracting the Kawasaki disease due too much Kawasaki riding.  

As for me, i will name my disease as the "Cutie Lukey Syndrome" and group it as one of the internet addiction diseases and under the list of other eponymous diseases.  Next, i must publish a medical journal detailing my discovery and who knows, maybe i will get a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Psychology or Internet-logy or Handsome-nology for my efforts in discovering this disease. Bwahahaha....

Me with my Nobel Prize!

P/s: Oh and just in case, Kawasaki Disease is a autoimmune disease that has nothing to do with riding too much Kawasaki motorcycles, in case Kawasaki Motors Corp decides to sue me, and there's no such thing like Psychology or Internet-logy or Handsome-nology categories in the Nobel Prizes, so don't bother

Lukey's Diet Plan

 Had my dinner at 10.30 pm today.  And i did not eat any lunch.  Not to mention any breakfast.  Which means that my first meal of the day happens to be my dinner which happens to be at 10.30 pm.

Wahliao, it's something like puasa (fasting) already.

Come to think of it, in this last few weeks my eating plan has been completely screwed up, with me skipping lunch almost everyday and now my dinner is my new lunch while my supper is my new dinner. 

As i was contemplating about my recent eating pattern and the current complains about weight from so many of my friends, a spark of inspiration!

After a detailed planning, the author of Lukey's Rantings is proud to introduce a new, futuristic and out of this world method to lose weight!

Called the Lukey Diet Plan, this diet program is totally, completely and awesomely different from the conventional diet plans like those Atkins Diet, Low Carb Diet, Eat All You Want Diet, Detox Diet or All In One Diet. 
Besides focusing on weight loss through dieting, the Lukey Diet Plan throws in another added incentive,

a BA degree!

After signing up for this program, participants will be placed in top universities around the world, to ensure that there is a maximum amount of stress during the whole course of the program.  The whole length of this program will be three and a half years, which is quite good because conventional method requires four years to get a BA degree.  Because of the handsom-ness of Lukey's Rantings' owner, we are able to negotiate this fantastic deal with universities around the world to cut 6 months off study for Lukey Diet Plan's participants.

So, how will this plan work?

SIMPLE!

All you have to do is to pick a course at any available unis that are partnering with us and attend the uni as any normal student.  Due to the high amount of workload and stress in these unis, sooner or later you will find that you simply have not enough time to eat all 3 meals per day.  One of the reason why this Plan decides to cut off 6 months of normal study time is to pack all the classes during the 6 months into the remaining three and a half years is to ensure that you have at least 8 hours of classes per day.

Besides that, another requirement of this Plan is to have you join LOTS of co-curricular activities (CCAs).  The reason is to increase the amount of stress you have to face of having to balance between studies and CCAs.  Furthermore, your free time will be further decreased because you need to attend these CCAs meeting from Monday to Friday and be committed to all their activities, which will roughly take up at least 2 hours per day, everyday.

With the high amount of stress and the inability to find time for meals due to study and CCAs, you will soon find out that your weight will begin to drop after a few months into the program.  By the end of three and a half years, Lukey Diet Plan guarantees that you have achieved the weight that you have always wanted and to make it better, you have also earned a BA degree in less the time people take!

So, what are you waiting for? Sign up now and enjoy 10% off your first year's tuition fees!

Caution: Lukey Diet Plans does not guarantee a 100% chance of getting the BA degree because you will be competing with a whole bunch of scholars for that degree.  A genius brain is recommended for this program

Of Handsome-ness and Gay-ness

Are you bored of Facebook? Or are you bored for no apparent reason?  You have your Facebook page turned on but there's nothing much to do. Your Mafia has just won their 1000th fight, you have just caught your 10000th mouse and your vegetables need another 100 hours to be harvested.  Well, you can comment on your friend's status update, or their photos, but you're afraid of saying the wrong thing and their boyfriend/girlfriend comes scolding after you. There's the like button though, but it is now scared of you and went into hiding because you have clicked it too much for the past few days as a sign you're still on Facebook.

As your profile page stares blindly back at you, a sudden flash of inspiration. You are going to do what no other has done before. In fact, you have no idea what consequences of your action might be. 

"What's on your mind?", the question asked.

And you answered.

A few hours after the update, responses began pouring in. Well, you thought to yourself, maybe your friends do take note about your status update after all. Although not all might be good comments.

 

 

Guess beauty or in this case, handsome-ness is really in the eye of the beholder. Although a good number of majority (in fact almost all) of your friends who commented think in the opposite way as you, well, like they say, handsome-ness is really in the eye of the beholder. Besides, at least there are four people who liked your status update.

But you feel like something is still missing. Like how a piece of jigsaw puzzle is missing from the entire picture. So you decided to change the status update a tiny little bit.

This time, you felt that you've let everything out. But in Facebook, controversial status updates such as being gay are sure to attract a good deal of attention.

You looked at the flood of responses as you try to come to a conclusion of what all your friends said. There's two of them that you managed to think of.

One: The little tadpole who was once half of you had some serious issues with alphabets, especially when it came to the letter X and Y. There's only one stroke of difference between them after all, which may be the result of your current state of sexual orientation confusion. But a alphabet confusion should only affect you, and yet all your friends (girls especially, sadly) thinks that you're mixed up too. You refuse to believe the comments, but you also cannot bring yourself to deny the wisdom of the crowd. Which brings you to the second conclusion....

Two: Drastic measures need to be taken under such circumstances. You could choose to jump from a building, but rejected the idea because the result could be quite un-handsome-ly. Or you could just go with the crowd and become what they believe that you are... a gay...

Or, you could just stop wearing too much pink or posting stupid Facebook status update whenever you have the urge of doing something stupid.

P/s: Extreme boredom calls for extreme means to stop it. I sincerely have no idea why i choose to make a blog post out of this, but i would also not let the flow of creative comments in my profile go to waste. Hope you all with your name up there don't mind me posting this on my blog  =P

Working Woes

Horror movies are scary.  I don't mean those kind of horror movies with a long haired girl in a white dress chasing you around.  Those movies are actually quite nice, i think.  Because i seldom get a girl chasing me around.  In fact, i have none! It it me who have to do all the chasing around here when it comes to girls.  A pretty girl with long hair going after you may not be such a bad thing after all.

What i'm talking about are horror movies that talk about real life.  One particular one would be the movie "Just Follow Law" starring Gurmit Singh aka the famous contractor in Singapore, JB and some say Batam and Fann Wong.  The movie is directed by the famous Singapore director, Mr Jack Neo who brought us movies like "I'm Not Stupid" and "Ah Long Pvt Ltd".

 

The movie shows us the reality about working in the corporate sector, especially about office work.  Among the horrors that i found about corporate sector in the movie involves the mundane lifestyle, the overly troublesome bureaucracy, repetitive meetings and the constant office politics.  When the office is not a war zone, it's something like a torture chamber which is designed to torture you through routine.

I never liked office work to start with.  I have always pictured office cubicles to be something like this:

 
 

But if i do not work in an office, what can i work as?  Maybe it's time to start planning.  Googling "non-office jobs" returned me with some queer results. Well, like they say, the first step to anything is to visualize yourself in that position.  Among the 5 non office jobs on the list.

JOB 1 : ACTOR

Brad Pitt seems to be a very good example.  Aside from being married to the sexiest person on Earth, he have to live up with all the kind of kids she adopted.  Erm, maybe that is not a very good idea.  I'll pass.

JOB 2: PILOT

I have extreme fear of heights.  Flying an airplane which means going higher than ever which is pure horrifying.  Pass!

JOB 3: HENCHMAN (Gangster)

Pass, because my mother would never approve of it.  Besides, there's also a high possibility that my dad will kill me first before i have the chance to hit the streets.

JOB 4: BLOGGER

 If i were to depend on blogging for revenue, i would starve to death.  Because after so many years of running this blog, the revenue that i have generated through ads is only two puny dollars.  Pass!

 JOB 5: BRICKLAYER

 

Too much sun, pass.  Parents would kill me again, pass x 2.  Salary wise, erm, pass too.

Looks like non-office work have nothing much to offer too.  Sigh, why is finding a decent work where you'll enjoy is so hard?  Well, after thinking about it for a couple of hours, i have decided to pack my bags, leave this place and return to my old job.

Which is being a Jedi! Time to hop on to my X-Wing and head on home!

Gay Trip wid Xian You

Like the title suggests, me and Mr Lim Xian You went for a gay trip together halfway across Singapore because i'm bored of my hostel and needed some fresh air.  Gay trip not because we are homosexual gays but because there were only two of us handsome guys who went out.  And like they said, all handsome guys are gay and thus the "Gay Trip" name.  Wanted to choose "Handsome Trip" but decided not in case people who think i'm otherwise do something horrible to me.

Skipped one lecture as a result, but wasn't important anyway, because the lecturer speaks alien and Xian You was much worse than me by skipping 3 lectures in one go.  Among the highlights of this gay trip were:

Since it was a gay trip, i decided to wear pink so it would match the occasion.  Like wearing red during Chinese New Year.  Besides, the International Gay Association states that for a gay trip, at least one of the participants must be in gay colour

Brought a Biological Psychology textbook in case i want to study, a packet of tissue paper in case i need to go toilet and the toilet do not have any tissue paper and a bottle of water in case i got thirsty.  Ended up only touching the water bottler and the textbook was just to make my bag heavier

Sat in a bus... (that's Xian You, btw)

Saw Mr Raymond Chua who is very shy to have his picture taken, dunno why...

Sat in a very crowded SMRT train...

Sat in a bus again with Mr Lim Xian You again, and this time the bus uses natural air-cond which means there's no air-cond which means it's really hot which means i sweat a lot...

Camwhored in the no air-cond bus

Went to Yuenos or Yunos or Yuinoes (i've just been here less than a year so i'm still quite blur about all the places name) to have a very expensive Mickey mouse fixed... i mean the computer mouse...

I saw this in the place where Mr Xian You sent his Mickey, i mean Orochi (the name of his mouse) to be fixed.  Judging from what they post, i'm pretty sure this is not the best place to work in

Went to Bugis Junction after that to do some shopping.  This is where the gay part comes in.  Can you imagine two guys go shopping?  And one of them is wearing pink...

Guess what, it's almost Valentines!  Since i have no girlfriend and currently have no target, maybe i could buy some stuff for my gay partner... or maybe not...

My spoils of the day!  1 Lux body shampoo and 2 Gillette razorblades.  Wanted to buy drumsticks but they do not have music stores in Bugis Junction.  Sad...

And thus, that ends the Gay Trip with Xian You was officially declared ended by 5.15 pm.  Sometimes it's nice doing some random stuff to add colours to your life.  Wouldn't be that boring then.  

And oh btw, i'm not gay.  Just to clarify.  =)

LOL = Laugh Out Loud (Part III)

For the first part of this trilogy, please click here

For the second part of this trilogy, please click here

"And so, the valiant hero, whom is known across the land as Aldous Adrian de Castro, fought on and on to secure what he believes is rightfully his.  The right to control his wife's access to friends.  Summoning all his might, he delivered his final blow in hope to defeat the antagonist. And so he used the Ultimate Hollow Attack, which tries to confuse the victims mind through the use of bombastic language which contains no meaning, on the antagonist..."

"And at last, after long hours of battle, our hero thought he'd finally won.  His ultimate attack worked, or so he thought, as he watched the still figure of the antagonist.  The antagonist did not return his attack and remained still as a tree.  He felt proud that his mighty enemy has finally fallen under his feet.  

He could have chosen to leave if he had wanted too.  But intoxicated with feelings of self glory, he made a costly mistake.  He launched yet another attack towards the the supposedly defeated antagonist..."

"Imagine his horror when the supposedly defeated antagonist stood up after he decided to attack again.  In a blink of the eye, the antagonist lunged forward and unleashed his fury after being almost bored to death by the hero.  It seems like he was not defeated after all in the first place.  He had just fallen asleep in the midst of the Boredom Attack..."

"Caught off guard, Aldous Adrain de Castro tried to retaliate..."

"But the antagonist was prepared for what is coming..."

"Our hero decided that enough was enough.  There's a limit of which a person can take so he looked to his right, to his left and took off as fast as his legs can carry him.  But not without leaving some remarks to at least save some of his dignity..."

"And like any other story, our hero must return to the embrace of his lover.  Did they lived happily ever after as all love stories end?  Did his girlfriend admire him for his courage to stand up and fight against the evil antagonist?"

"As Mr Aldous Adrian de Castro came to learn, not everything can be solved through excessive display of testosterone, especially when it comes to the matter of love.  The end."

LOL

LOL = Laugh Out Loud (Part II)

For the original post, click here.

"And so, the husband fought on and on with the antagonist, knowing that he could win, that he has truth on his side. However, the more he fought, the more he realized that the antagonist is not as weak as he thinks. And so, he decided to use his real powers, and unleashed his true face..."

Ta-daa!

"He thought by revealing his true face, he could intimidate the antagonist to leave and issue an apology for having the courage to accept the maiden's request for a friendship.  He even went as far as to struck where the antagonist would feel the most pain, by attacking the antagonist's personal space, his blog.

How wrong he was.  Besides failing to achieve what he had in mind, the antagonist fought back with more vengeance and amusement as he have never seen such a foe before who only knows how to ramble without using any brains"

"Although the antagonist appears to be strong, the hero knew that the answer lies in relentless attacks, though it may be stupid.  The answer lies not in outsmarting the antagonist, because the hero stood no chance if the battle were to based purely on wits.  He had to tire and bore the antagonist with personal attacks which hold no content and is downright empty.

This time, he was right.  The antagonist grew tired of the fight due to the fact that the hero is at a completely different level than the antagonist.  And that level happens to be a child play level.  So the antagonist decides to take a rest and save his time from arguing with a child.

And so, the hero managed to chase the antagonist away from making anymore advancement.  At least for today, because he knew that his wife is too hot for the taking and he knew that with his caliber, he is unable to leave his wife alone because the sight of any other guy drives him nuts with paranoia."

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I thought of continuing this post the second day.  But since so many people wanted me to continue, well, here is it.  Besides, i couldn't really resist not posting all these stuff up.

P/s:  I'm thinking on whether to continue playing with this guy or not.  Because he can seriously bore me with his arguments.  This is the first time i see someone argue with no essence at all.  I ask something, he answer something else.  It's like a duck trying to communicate with a chicken.  But if you all want to see more, well, i don't mind prolonging this

 

LOL = Laugh Out Loud

Note: Please read the following paragraph with the voice that you will usually here from the narration of an epic movie, like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter to achieve the full effects of this post. 

"Once upon a time, there was this teenage couple who are very loving.  Although they have yet to reach the age of marriage, they have made a promise to each other that when the time comes, the first thing that they gonna do is to run into a church and get their vows done.  Thanks to a magical tool called Facebook, they were able to declare their love to each other by stating that they are married to each other on their Profile Pages.

However, like all love stories.  Happily ever after is just confined in those soppy Disney fairy tales.  A antagonist soon appears in a form of a long lost friend whom the girl sends a friend request to.  The "husband", sensing that their happily-ever-after is threatened, did what a "husband" should do to protect his lover.

He deleted the antagonist from his girlfriend's friend list using the magical key called password that he had obtained from the girl using the reason that all lovers should share their Facebook account like how they share a house (they haven't bought a house yet, mind you, because they have yet to reach the legal age).  Not only that, he sent a flurry of angry Facebook messages to keep the antagonist away...."

Well, only to be met with a problem.  The antagonist happens to own a blog and it happens to be me.  So like any "bad guys", i'm gonna post the exchange of the angry messages just to let you all be the judge.

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I've heard of over-controlling boyfriends before from all the horror stories like "Honey, I know what you did on Facebook"  but this is the first time i have a heads on encounter.  Not bad, i sure did not know that my face pose such a threat to their relationship.

Maybe because i'm too handsome?

p/s: And btw, girls please seriously don't get a bf like that or risk losing all your friends.  Guys like him needs professional help