i cant seem to get my priority right this time: (a) studyin for my paper or (b) transformin myself to be the couch potato for the midterm election.
i honestly prefer the latter but guilt trip and my hatred towards this subject is constantly fightin within me.
for the next 36 hours, option (b) i shall choose!
it’s been a weird day. it started with me having to wake up after survivin on a 2.5 hours sleep. the apartment i was inspecting was too small to my liking. to my eventual surprise, jelita arrived earlier than normally she would (kudos to her). my usual silence coupled with bad post-inspection mood perhaps perplexed her. yea, it normally took me an hour after i got up to be ‘normal’. those who’ve had the priviledge to interact with me during this period know fully of my silent treatment.
anyway, the wanna-kill-everyone-who-cross-me mood was quickly erased with the overjoy in seeing people bid for PFL up to $2.30 prior to trading time. only to open lower to a more sustainable price of $1.90 – not a bad 8.6% premium considering the last IPO i participated didnt even rise above its listing price. the only complaint i have so far is how little allocation we got given the overwhelming subscription applications they have.
then i got a surprising email. Approx two weeks ago, i was just talking to the leader of the community at my parish about which church in sydney is under the same congregation of blessed sacraments. and today, he sent me an email breaking the news that he will be transferred there starting from next year. i dont know how he feels about it, but Ben and I were clearly overjoyed. Fr Peter has done so much in building and fostering the community. He will surely be missed by many!
and now, with Min’s HP, i sat across this annoying ‘China Man’ whom constant loud sighs and ‘throwing’ of stationeries across the table completely disgust me. Ok, he is studying Medicine, and its supposed to be hard, but come on… have some respects for other people who are studying too! I wonder, what kind of materials those medicine books are made of to sustain his rough and loud pages-flipping.
enough of the rant already. back to spots and futures.
surprise surprise… Saddam Hussein was found guilty and sentenced to death earlier today – two days before the US midterm election. you wonder sometimes whether it’s just a coincidence. i dont want to analyse whether capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for him because you already know my stance on death penalty. he should have been left to rot in jail.
keeping with the theme, i recently succumbed to temptation of study’s procrastination and watched HBO’s Hacking Democracy which was released a week before the election. I really dont know what to say. I’m continually amazed that the so-called world’s greatest democracy could not even have a ‘proper’ voting/election system. Why cant they have an independent body created just to run the election. Australia has it. So does Indonesia. Instead they have partisan Secretary of State who is responsible for the election.
Check out black box voting – a not for profit organisation created by ordinary ‘grandma activist’ to bring awareness and address this electronic voting issue. R-E-S-P-E-C-T to her!
in the most astounding way possible, the failed-presidential candidate John ‘Flip-flopper’ Kerry gave the Republican party the ammunition it needs to fight back struggling poll numbers. His recent faux pas confirmed everyone’s worst fear – his ‘reporting for duty’ stunt act at the Democratic Convention in 2004 was just a flip-flop attempt at garnishing his terrible national security’s record.
You probably have heard the now famous botched-joke he gave to students in California:
“You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
While trying to duck the political ramification by issuing statement that the joke was intended for the Commander-in-Chief, any Tom Dick and Harry knows that this is a direct insult to the US military serving in Iraq.
Stupid..just plain stupid!
I was hoping for the return of the Democrats to both Houses and now one thing is certain, if this thing is not subdued quickly (and i doubt it will be), the Democrat will only be likely to return only to the House..not the Senate.
I prefer a divided Congress because they are good for the economy (less pork-barrel spending) and to some extent greater accountability & check-and-balance…
Thank you Mr. Flip-flopper…. you did it again… ‘brilliantly’ this time! URGH
He must now apologise sincerely to the troops and the families…. i read once, “Anyone who can’t admit when they are wrong, are usually wrong more than they can admit.”
update: while it’s a bit late, it’s good to see that the flip-flopper has recognised his failing and apologise.
i’m absolutely devastated.
TGH is axed and will be showing its final episode ever on Nov 29th. Wil Anderson has promised that it will be a gun-blazin show but really, what the hell was ABC thinkin?
Sure it might have bias-perception problem with its frequent bashin on Howard and Bush. But come on, its satirical and anyone who base their political choices on watchin the show is just not a worthy voter.
my black box will officially be decomissioned bar the 1.15am Parliament QT.
one of my must-do-when-im-in-sydney list is to be the studio audience of TGH and now its ruined 4ever. this is an absolute tragedy!
please write to ABC to express your discontent