Wash Your Hands Too.

mrbrownshow.com - Wash Your Hands Too (Parody of Wonder Girl's 'Nobody')



I'm pretty amused. Typical mrbrown stuff, but yeah is still pretty funny.

Anyways, it's last week of the semester and I hav just about 2 weeks to my first two papers. I'm not sure how I'm coping because I have not seen the past year papers. Textbook practice seems easy for now. Good of course, but it's hard to tell because those are pretty much too easy as compred to what I'd expect.

Okay, back to proper revision. Got 2 hours before I need to head to school.

Case Study.

Now I truly understand why cultures mean so much to people and organizations. Not culture in the ethnicity-sense, but from a more general behavioural perspective. Indeed, it has been quite an eyeopener for me, and despite the groans and rants resulting from the 5000-word essay and other assignments, organisational behaviour has really shed light on things that I would have never before examined in such detail.

Group think sucks big time.
Yes, it really does. The number of times irrational or bad decisions were made as a 'group' are far beyond my brain and hold. And for some (good) reasons, no one really stands up against these decisions. Why? Because all nails that stick out get hammered in, just like how suggestions deemed to be different are demolished on the spot, and the person who raised that suggestion gets marked. Well, if everyone is doing a good job then why not? But evidently, someone needs a proper objective form of measure.

Cultures in small communities must be monitored.
Well, anyone from the outside world would really recognise that this bunch of dimwits aren't exactly 'normal'. The culture is evidently flawed, and it makes it worse when this culture is pretty deeply entrenched in the minds of those people. Cheating, lying, aggression, it all adds up with occasional acts of pseudo-intellect with spurts of sarcasm and pseudo-wit, into a big mess of testosterone embedded in a world of text. Not everyone is guilty of this, but perhaps a certain subgroup.

Subcultures are potentially dangerous.
Now, this is one thing you cannot deny, and it really does not take an idiot to know how different the subcultures are in here. Every group has their own style of doing things. But then again, we do also realise how many of these subcultures tend so share a common point, or rather a common enemy? Now, if I could quote someone here : "when a score of people have made comments/remarks/complains against you, then i believe that the problem lies in you." Although I highly condemn the abuse of self-reflective statements, imposing it upon others in a form of criticism, I have to give this statement some validity. Then if given that were true, there isn't really much of a subculture, just a big rift between two groups of people. The upright, and the downright despicable.

Right, okay. I give it to you, there are some exceptions to the case. But look, who cares if you're a black sheep in a flock of white or a white in a flock of black. You belong to that group; your acceptance of that group only stands to show your acceptance for the norms that group adheres to. Your failure to stand up against immorality, excessive aggression and unjustified pride only makes you another one of them. Also, pointing out the existance of a black sheep does not undermind the argument that before me stands a whole bunch of sheep. A sheep is still a sheep, regardless its colour, like how a bunch of corrupt scums will continue to exist as a selfish bunch of people, despite one or two people who bother to (sorry, quote again) 'grace' others.

Resistance to change is quite difficult to overcome.
I always though that change-resistance was something that no one should ever have. Then again, I now realise another reason why people resist change - laziness. Look, you know that your foundation here is bad enough even a 4-storey building won't survive a 4-pt quake. And what you do? You build up agian towards your twin-towers. (The most you can ever acheive is the corruption in that nation.) You refuse to change everything else because of your own laziness. You claim that other people prefer the status quo. Oh really? Maybe it's because you did not tell them how lousy your current base is, and that in the very very near future you will be forced to either redo everything or stop building further. Such a shame that you people who claim to have the 'expertise' do not reacognise that fact. And yes, your resistance is only justified by borrowing the names of others. Try thinking again why you yourself don't want to change. You're supposed to be selfish and focus on yourself, remember?

Ok, enough. I should stop wasting my time here ranting for an unseen audience. Chances are, people who read this won't know what I'm writing about as well. I should get back to work and stop wasting my time here 'gracing' this group of people.

Game for golf?

Having stayed around in the community for quite a few years (yes, it's coming close to a decade), it's quite depressing to witness how things have gone from bad to worse. From a decline in players to a state of beyond words. Having players is one thing, but having a bunch of mindless imbeciles who can only boast of their ego (problems) is another thing altogether. After all, who actually enjoys receiving a daily load of excessive pride and ego?

It is really a pity that your stupidity and lack of leadership, planning abilities, vision, management skills, intelligence, linguistic skills, motivation, communication skills, unjustness, meritocracy and rational decision-making is destroying everything before you (and my lack of time to think and type will also regrettably paint an incomplete picture of what a nincompoop you really are). Maybe, let's just drop the entire list of accusations I have just hurled, and focus on one - intelligence. Pol pot, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, would have been better leaders only because they probably did better in the intelligence department. Machiavellian would hardly be a word suited for you, merely because it hints of intelligence, even if used for scheming.

You see, your lack of an evolved brain has brought impending doom upon the thing you tried to rescue from the clutches from a tyrant. Now, not only has your theft (look, I refused to use with word in the past only due to the respect I had for your dreams) left a bad mark, now it seems like you are stepping into a league of your own. One of total corruption, nepotism and bad decision-making. Nowhere in my life have I seen such a poor leader. You fail to rally your team, and in fact work against one of your most important members. You removed that person merely because your pub-buddy decides that sarcasm was too much to handle (and here I must add that it was your drinking-mate that started this episode with a rather rude comment).

Well, "it's just a game" is probably the only excuse I can rely on to justify my participation in your mindless power struggles. No point running into a wall, right? And since it's "just a game", why not enjoy while I can? As much as it is pointless to run into a wall, it is pointless to talk reason to a deaf cow. Even a normal cow reacts if you screamed into its ears. And oh, apparently your deafness does not stop you from answering a phone call from a drinking buddy who needs your help in sidelining (read: silencing) resistance.

I guess I have had more than my dose of this crap. I'd really be stumped if an interviewer knew of this situation and asked me what I decided to do. I'd probably opt to lose my job and tell my interviewer "I'll visit him with a golf club. And oh, make it a W1."

End of 11

Well, it's the end of week 11 of school. 1 more week of lessons, and that means I'm about 2 weeks from exams. Doesn't seem to bother me too much and honestly speaking, I'm not sure if that is a good sign.

This sem's pretty fast-paced. Good thing for me, exams are pretty spread out. 2 consecutive papers followed by slightly more than a week later. I have about these 2+ weeks to finish revision for the first two, and 1+ week for the last. Doesn't seem too bad for now.

I'm really tired. It's been one mad rush after another. I mean, not that I should complain seeing how other people I know slog it out and having it worse than me, but hey, that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to rant myself. I just want some extra time to really relax. And relax means throwing everything out of your mind, not sitting down with a cup of tea thinking about the next due date. I'm really wishing that the next coming sem (and year) will be better, but I know that chances are, it would only get tougher. Gah. Time to get myself ready I guess.

Now, I really don't know if running for office in two clubs is exactly a smart thing to do. Decorations for my resume versus a whole lot of my time.

Sigh. Don't we all hate choosing, especially when we usually end up regretting half the time we make a decision?

Oh well.

Once in a long time.

Well well, back again. Just to leave a note in case anyone ever pops by. No, I'm not dead. At least, not yet. Just a little too busy to spend time here.

Back to my essay.