Monkeys outside the zoo

It has only been the starting of the 3rd week of the new semester and already I have a strong dislike for the class.

Well, actually it's not the class but these 3 monkeys in the class.

Allow me to explain.

These fellers are the ones you see only in Western movies, where the teacher says something and the 'smarty-pants' tries a lame remark to generate some attention. I used to think it's only in US or TV shows you can find them. Not any more.

To give them credit, they are those typical bananas who doesn't give a butt about education. Not that I harbour any hate for people who can speak only 1 language (2 if you include Malay). But tell me la, where in Malaysia can you find a person who carries a skateboard to class? That's your idea of 'cool'? You must have been reincarnated as Avril Lavigne's past.

2 dudes and 1 girl. I won't make fun of their race or ethnicity here, but I silently wonder what they are facing back home. Parents who don't show them affection or don't shower them with attention? Or maybe being brought up in single-parent homes makes them want to feel appreciated?

I can only speculate, but in the end it's for them to rue their losses. I wonder what they will grow up into.

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Tough times

That moment when

You can't say something to defend yourself, precisely because you know that no one will believe you.

It's so difficult.

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Come back soon, I pray

I'd always thought I'll be the first to leave home, to another far away place in pursue of dreams. Far away from home and living alone.

Apparently not, now.

From young I had always thought of her as a nuisance. Maybe as young kids, like what Adler proposed in his theory, firstborns usually feel the pressure when the younger siblings come into the picture. Regardless of whether the theory holds true, subconsciously trying to gain favour with parents and the superiority as the firstborn was what I think I did.

We have so many names for each other (well, maybe just me) that I better not mention. I still do now, though she had gotten used to it and it's used more of a nickname than an insult.

See, I have many theories ("Anything can happen in 5 years." has been legend-ized by my pals ehehe) and I somehow always knew that the feud will end when we were older, the only question was how old. So I made a point to tell my parents THAT when we were younger and of course, they didn't believe my theory that we would only argue when we were young and will soon grow out of it when we were older.

As most of my theories go, it was and is true! And yes it's my sister that I'm talking about. Sometimes I think she is better than any girlfriend could possibly be. Having to live with me for the past n years, she knows me inside out, sometimes even better than my parents. Things I wouldn't tell to anyone else, I tell her because I know it would be alright and she won't bitch it to other people.

I always shared with her my brilliant idea of her moving in with my future family. Kill so many birds with 1 stone, only if this notion of 'nobody is good enough for her' gets drummed in. I'm joking of course, but it would be nice to living under the same roof with my sister, if only I can get her to agree with it :)

I always have to stiffen a fake grin when the reference of you-brothers-look-alike comes along. It's fine if you compare me to a superstar, but everyone wants to be special alright? I don't want to be him and he doesn't want to be me. It's no good and no use telling me that we both look alike when I can see it myself and don't have the need for you all to point out. I always questioned why she has to leave first instead of the brother, it'll be so much better with them switching places. Maybe it's God's way of humouring himself, taking away the ones we love more and placing the 'obstacles' in our way to enable us to learn and grow for our own good.

She'll be gone for 5 years. Can I keep it up? The house has become quieter and darker without her.

So when will you finally come back?

God-speed, I pray.

imy.

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Choosing A Mate from the Entire Female Race Easy Right? Maybe Not. (A statistical view)

Made a HUGE GRAVE error in my calculations! Here is the updated version.

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Meet my new best friend, Stat. Should be entertaining him at this moment, but will take a short time-out.


So since I read so much about my friend, here's another advice from the self-acclaimed love guru, on the

statistics of choosing a mate.

Remember what some people always say about fishes in the sea?


"YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM THE ENTIRE MALE/FEMALE POPULATION TO DATE, WHY HIM/HER?"

or

"HER MOTHER TERRIBLE ONE AH! YOU MARRY THE DAUGHTER, YOU SUFFER. GOT SO MANY GIRLS IN THE WORLD, WHY WANT TO MARRY HER?"


Do you wonder whether we really have the whole world to choose from? That your parents so lucky, from 3.5 billion people (assuming the current world population is around 7.007 billion as of last month), chose each other?


So let's get started with the general stuff. *this is going to be fun, trust me*


Alright! So like I said, we round up the population of the world to 7 billion (that's 7,000,000,000 mind you!). Let's assume that it's 50% 50% for convenience's sake, shall we? So 3.5 billion females in the world.

3.5 billion

Besides that, it's most probable that only Asians are considered ah? The percentage of us getting engaged to an ang moh is highly improbable. Asians compromise around 4.14 billion people. Oh wait, let's just halve that number instead and ignore that 3.5 billion number.

2.07 billion

And if you're like me, who only wants Malaysian spouses, chances are that it has just narrowed down to close to 28.9 million, divided by 2 if 50% 50% is assumed. Let's just assume it for convenience's sake.

new starting total = 14.45 million

Next, an estimate of females who are between 25 to 35, single and never been married in our region (taking Singapore as the closest example) make up around 22% (click for source). My calculator tell me it's around

3.179 million

In my case, not that I'm being racist, I would want someone's who is of similar race. Therefore skewing this whole calculation and to obtain a very biased result that only applies to me alone. The Chinese population here is around 24%, that means subtracting a whopping 76% from the total

762,960

And of course, similar religion. Christians are roughly about 10% of the population in Malaysia, therefore it does greatly narrows down the numbers, doesn't it? Now it's down to

76,292

After which, of course we have to subtract the lesbians and what not, around 10%.

68,663

Face it (pun intended), we all want attractive partners. No one wants someone who would scare you just by looking at her sleeping beside you. Attractive people (both inside and outside) are rare commodities. Therefore speaking from a Malaysian point of view, both attractive and okay-okay boleh-tahan, those kind of marriage potential ones I will put it around 20%. Feel free to object if you think that you have lower tastes.

13,733

I would like someone who has a certified degree in something and has at least graduated from university so that, you know, she can contribute financially too. Entry to universities is quite easy nowadays, so majority will meet that requirement. Let's just say that 80% of them have a degree certificate. So that makes:

10,986

Something that I want is my partner to be shorter than me. I'm roughly 6 foot, and it'll be scary if she is taller than me. So if we can make a rough guess, minus around 1% of the Malaysian population

10,876

Another turn off is girls who like either Justin Beiber or 1D or K-pop yuck! Judging from the high amount of shrieking females even in their 20's, I'll put it roughly at 25%. Most of them should be grown ups by now.

8,157

Mastering both English and Chinese/Cantonese is a must for me. Extra brownie points for those who have English as their first language, however if you are Chinese educated it still doesn't matter as long as you are fluent in English. As only a small percentage of Malaysian Chinese university going students won't be able to speak both the languages, I'll put it as 85% la to account for the la-la ones and bananas :)

6,934

Not forgetting, some who are already unavailable due to some reason or another. Not sure why, already made bookings or some sort maybe. Probably they are putting career first. I estimate it at around 25% or 1 out of 4 girls since the average marriage age is increasing in Asia.

5200

And finally, subtracting from the list - my sister for obvious reasons.

5199

Which gives us, my friends:

5,199
eligible females
from me to choose from
(assuming they are attracted to me also, of course)

Sounds like not much, isn't it?

Granted that a lot of assumptions and smart guesses were made and therefore accounting for some room for error, it's a far cry from the 'anyone in the world to choose from'.

What fishes in the sea you say?



(note: I'm still a bit too young to find someone in the late 20's or early 30's, so I'm just using these data to illustrate my point. And this all assumes that they are attracted to me, as per my narcissistic self)

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Tis' the Easter season

It's 12:30am as I type this in pitch darkness, in the backseat of the car on the way home from a birthday celebration of an aunt in Malacca, plus a belated qing-ming since we didn't travel last weekend. Estimated arrival time: 2am and Easter service is at 9 later! Normal for me, but not for the others.

Somehow this year I have an odd eagerness for Easter. The Easter messages over Friday, Saturday (couldn't get to hear it, hopefully it's available on the website) and Sunday. Not the chocolate eggs, Easter bunny or fables like that. It's natural how some people just pass off Good Friday as a 'holiday for Methodist schools'.

I really really marvel how some people suddenly turn Christians for only one day in a year. If not for this event, I wouldn't even know that they shared similar faith. It's really sad. I'm not saying that I'm a great believer or what not, because I'm not. I'm just implying that observationally and non-judgmentally, I don't see them to be carriers of the faith when their lives don't mimic how they should live. As privileged ones, we should always be striving to display good testimony for our friends, so that they might see the difference in us. In our lives.

Sometimes I feel like it's hurting my viewer market just by posting religious stuff. I always try to generalize it so that all people can identify with my statements. However it's this significant even that happened 2000+ years ago that calls for something more specific to be said.

I really don't want to bring this up again and again, but do it I must. It doesn't help when certain people keep retweeting things by this person that I don't want to see. I don't care what. It still infuriates me so much. After learning about defense mechanisms in one of the class lectures, I now have something extra to add to my arsenal of excuses. Everything unexplainable will be classifies as defense mechanism hah! Therefore, I shall call this one the ignorance defense mechanism.

It hits the most when I know what I should pray for the ones who hurt us. I did. I really did, faithfully although I know that this person doesn't deserve my prayers one bit! All the way up till you know what, one day everything suddenly clicked. I stopped bothering and praying, just like that. From that day on, I only cared about myself. And I tell you what, frankly it feels good to stop bothering about what others are doing. That should be the logical way too to go on, otherwise we'll be stuck in limbo

But deep inside, I know that it was not the permanent solution. Sooner or later I have to face this giant and get it over with instead of sweeping it under the carpet. I want to do hard things even if I know it's not going to benefit me. I hate it so much okay? I dislike so much the stupid position I'm in and how childish this person can be.

Even God's word has something to say about it (unfortunately I can't think of something to quote this late at night, it's already 1:31am and still on the way home). You guys can't call yourself a Christian if what you do doesn't tally with what you say. If you talk so much of being a Christian, where are your actions to back your words?

I probably should stop talking about this. Instead, let this Easter period be a timely reminder for me and all of you about the one who provides agape love and gave us the greatest example on what true love is:

"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we should lay down our lives for our fellow brothers and sisters."
1 John 3:16

Superficial love that men provide is insufficient, with only simple words as gurantee that can be broken anytime without serious repercussions. But more people have got to know this good news! The news that can set you free!

It's true! The amount of misuse of His name in movies and in daily speech shows how insignificant people think about Him. I am not a great person either. I talk so much about how I religious I am here, but in truth I'm just as weak and vulnerable as the others. I dislike taking the Holy Communion every first Sunday of the month particularly because I feel so unworthy.

I would not attempt to be drawn into debating about how my God is different from the others. Rather, I would ask you to see for yourself how faithful this God can be to each one of us.


Blessed Easter, guys. May you experience much happiness and goodness this season!

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