More Lovely Randomness Part II
I have another thought, and since I'm still job-less at work, I'll share it with you because you are just lucky that way:-
Astro's RM5 increase:- In their letter they implied that the fee increase was reasonable considering the 'programmes that you can now enjoy on Astro', listing:-
English Premier League
Akademi Fantasia
Formula 1
AXN Fear Factor
"24" Season 2
CSI Miami
Everybody Loves Raymond
WWE Wrestling
Since we don't even watch, what more 'enjoy' a single one of these programmes (OKlah, CSI Miami when there's nothing else on), does it mean that the RM5 extra we'll be paying every month is for;-
Nonexistent service when it rains (talk about hi-tech!)
Incessant re-runs of 'Sniper 2' or 'Money Train' and other wonderful dross?
'New' seasons of Cheers?
Thank you, Astro- what a wonderful monopoly you are!
More Lovely Randomness!
Here are some random thoughts and quotes of the day- random because I can’t seem to hold on to a thought long enough to write a treatise on it, yet still noteworthy because I’ve been mouthing them silently to myself for the past hour or so. Thankfully, no one at the office has seen me performing my silent monologues yet, or if they have, they’ve probably put it down to my hormones, or have left me alone thinking that I may be borderline psychotic. Not that they would be far wrong in either instance:-
§ American Idol- what the hell is up with that?! It has now been clearly proven that the American public is completely incapable of voting reasonably well and should have democracy taken away from them. If Diana DeGarmo wins they should just cancel the upcoming Presidential Elections and put a ficus tree in the White House. Michael Moore managed to get one into Congress or a town council or something so I’m sure the White House can’t be too difficult a target. I hereby volunteer to be the ficus tree’s campaign manager. What’s the difference between Kerry and Bush apart from the fact that the former can spell, and has so far demonstrated no predilections about reading children’s books upside-down? So I say, Ficus for President!
§ This is a completely random thought that popped into my head and should not be a reflection of my degree, the subject I have my degree in, the place I got that degree from, and my ancestors, but- If we’re a petroleum-producing country how come MAS can’t get a cheaper price for its fuel, and at least keep flight prices at par, at least for flights from Malaysia? (I was going to delete this because on hindsight it’s potentially a stupid question, but the thought did pop into my head and I’m not about to censor my blog for fear of looking DuH, now)
§ Speaking of blog-censoring, this is an eloquent, witty and spot-on description of the way I’ve been feeling about this blog and what I’ve been writing in it. Except I have no compulsions about swearing, since I do in real life anyway, and the people who know me who read this blog (including *gasp!* assorted family members) know what a colourful vocabulary I have when stressed. I’ve concluded that since I’m normally WYSIWYG with the people I know in real life who do read this blog and it’s their opinions that matter to me I won’t be bothered too much about self-censoring, although I can’t be expected to reveal things in here that I wouldn’t tell my husband, for instance because erm…it’s my blog and I’ll damn well say what I want to
§ I’ve decided to keep an occasional commentary on the theme of Parents Say The Darnedest Things because, either Mr Nads and I have been unusually blessed, or Parents do actually Say The Darnedest Things. For instance, this was heard yesterday:-
”All she wants to do is fly about here and there, she wants to be a trapezium or what?”
My father aka Mr Malaprop, heatedly commenting on youngest sister’s preference for cheer-leading than finishing her PMR project. Incidentally PMR projects are a bane on the families of PMR-sitters and should be banned. I’m sure MzMin agrees with me on this one.
“Thank you dear, on this day you were also conceived! You weren’t planned but you were my beautiful mistake!”
Mother-in-law, responding to hubby’s wishing her a Happy Anniversary, something I’m sure he will never attempt again.
§ It is 11.02 am and I am sitting here updating my blog because truthfully, I have nothing else to do. The infamous BOIW has been heard to say that she doesn’t want to give me any work “because I am pregnant” and I have been taking some days off lately. How very benevolent and typically backstabbing of her. She seemed to have been attempting to become slightly more human for the past few weeks after she got a talking-to from Big Boss about a month ago which was in part, caused by her having a big fight with BB’s secretary. BB was even heard to say that she regretted taking BOIW in, and that she was sick of BOIW’s continuous blaming of her staff. Unfortunately however, the attempts at being human must have disagreed with her programming matrix or something because she’s now back to her backstabbing self, except she occasionally grimaces at me in what I think is her attempt at a smile. Oh well, c’est la keparat life.
nads went at 11:34