Giving the Bots Credit

Okay, okay. Guys. Or Internet zombies, whichever names you wanna be called. I know you guys are my fans, and highly intelligent. I mention "Malay" once--and suddenly you guys are speaking Malay to me.

But you know what?

I'm Chinese.

Theorizing the New Common Sense

Today, my dad was angered by a bunch of jaywalkers who emerged from in front of a bus, and he could have knocked into them. He said, "IT'S COMMON SENSE NOT TO DO THIS!"

Apparently, that is NOT the case, as proven by the jaywalkers!

Thus, I have formulated the new way to theorize common sense.

First, let us get a few things clear:

1) Common sense is, in a sense, cultural rules created by specific cultures. Common sense in Singapore (e.g. Queuing up for nothing) will obviously not work elsewhere.

2) Common sense is a general consensus among people and the consensus is based on wide acceptance, regardless of individual circumstance. It does NOT regard logic, rationality, and ironically, "common sense" of the logical realm.

3) As is common sense for the logical realm, common sense in accepted behavior is a majority > minority comparison.

The Empirical Bullshit Study of Jaywalking Beliefs

First, we need to first determine the number of people who support either or of the following two beliefs:
A) It is OKAY to jaywalk.
b) It is NOT OKAY to jaywalk.

The surprising study of 10,000 people shows that...LE GASP, most people believe that it IS okay to jaywalk! By the way, the ratio is 5001 > 4999.

Let us now move on to the next step of the study.

It is now established that it is indeed OKAY to jaywalk.

Now, the new choices:
A) You jaywalk.
B) You don't jaywalk.

LE GASP...MOST PEOPLE DON'T JAYWALK! (Out of the study of 5001, 2546 > 2455 DON'T jaywalk.)

There it is, your new common sense. Common sense is that it is OKAY to jaywalk, but most people don't do it despite the belief. Everybody understands this contradiction almost on a spiritual level on unspoken terms, and you are expected to say that you find jaywalking okay while you don't jaywalk.

Likewise, if you turn it around to the following premise:
A) It is NOT OKAY to jaywalk.
B) But you jaywalk.

THAT is the new common sense.

And this is how we understand reality. ;D

(Meanwhile, I shall proceed to not jaywalk and believe it is wrong to jaywalk, at the peril of moral crusaders telling me how I'm doing it all wrong. I shall now be called the nonconformist, with the knowledge that the next 4998 people are just like me, unique and nonconformist.)

X-Men: First Class

I watched it today. I wanted to talk about it.

BUT I'VE BEEN PLAYING GAME THAT I NEGLECTED THIS POST!

So, yes, let me say, for the record, that I sorta like Xavier... And that show was, in an abstract way, connected in theme with the book I'd just finished reading today, called A Letter from Death. Very good read. It was provocative, then sarcastic, and then ended with insight. Not that such thoughts hadn't occurred before, but they were phrased rather carefully.

Good and evil are simple terms and labels that we use, for convenience... How interesting.

And for laziness' sake, I threw a book review into the mix in what is supposed to be a post about X-Men movie, for convenience... How interesting.

Starhub Optic Fibre

First, Starhub's optic fibre plan blew me away for the last two days for two reasons:

1. On day one, my uncle spent fifteen minutes investigating how to get my com connected to it. (Somehow, ALL coms in my house can access except the main PC.) By some magical method, I randomly did some settings and woooh! I could use it.

2. On day two, Internet connection was down. AGAIN. So, Liz called Starhub. What amazed me was what they said that sounded like forces unseen at work: "Since the optic fibre is still new, the Internet is a bit unstable, so it will take a bit of time for it to stabilize. You might get DCs. (HUH? MY WORST NEMESIS MIGHT SPRING UP BEHIND MY ASS?) Don't worry, we're still channeling signal to your modem." Channeling? Did I hear wrongly? CHANNELING? Like, spirit medium CHANNELING SPIRIT? I did not know Internet signals were a matter of spiritual faith! (Let me, however, warn you that my memory can sometimes be extremely skewed, especially if it hasn't been through comprehension like this one obviously hasn't, so the word channeling...might not even have been said.) "We will get our technician to call you in the next 24hrs!"--nuh-uh, it;s been twenty-six hours madam.

And today, I didn't have to go through the last two days of trauma and Internet is not faulty. YAY! I hope I don't get DCs...ANYMORE. GOOD BYE TO DAYS OF POINTING AT MY MAXONLINE MODEM AND SCREAMING AT THE BLINKING "US" AND "ONLINE" LED LIGHTS! (This problem has been plaguing me for months I swear.)

This also proves that--Starhub's idea of a tangki (yes, I'm a responsible and educative blogger) EXISTS!

Singtel and Starhub. Did you notice something? Did you notice a similarity, a pattern? Yes... The initials are "S". Does it sound like something? Does it sound like something to you? Now how would you call two..."S"-es?

Oh this reminds me of the old wise saying that I came up with while writing about one character dissing two idiots: "Two half asses don't make one smart ass." By the way, I was about to complain that wisdom should have an adjective form called wisdomic--until I realise that that's what "wise" is for. Presenting to you, yours truly, who is not constructed by two homosapiens possessing only one half of the average human brain and is whole and complete--one dumb ass.

Oddly, I was in a bad mood when I started blogging, but the enthusiasm to unleash my urge to laugh at things (yes, screw the positive and wonderful notions of "laughing with"--we don't need Winnie the Pooh, sweestoroposis patient, to come and fill my life with unnecessary fluff and diabetes) has been, to say the least, therapeutic. I swear, evil runs in my blood.

Metal Gear Solid Novel

I RANDOMLY SWIPED IT OUT FROM A $5 SECTION DURING THE EXPO MPH WAREHOUSE SALE!!!

It was...

Liz: Help me find Robin Hobb books leh, shiny shiny cover one.
Me: *sweeping fingers along the surface of the books* eh? Look! MGS! *takes out*
Liz: . . . EH? MGS?
Me: EH? MGS?

LOL!

Omgggg one segment of my life has been made completeeee omgggg and the style of the writer is the type that I likeeee. No smoke bomb language, pertinent use of vocabulary and rather apt descriptions. I liketthhhhh.

On a side note...I was so bored waiting for Liz to be done that I ended up rearranging the books in the display cardboard boxes. Sooo many repeat titles, NONE arranged. (You can see Dan Brown: Angels and Demons from the first row to the last row man, seriously.) I didn't...literally arrange everything but ah~ very satisfying.

Ugh and I went to buy books right after going to the library...seriously...

Lol wtf man, I asked Liz to help buy a few shoujo manga, just because I felt like reading some romance. Heck I even borrowed romance novels! Now to get my ass down to read (note:laugh) them. Aihz.

Reflecting

I think I just identified another anger trigger.

Understanding on both sides = Happy
Misunderstanding on either side = Unhappy

Pretty simple right? Now if only I didn't end up on the second equation as much as I would love to...