Your FUCKITALL Moment

Everyone has this moment where you simply wanna do whimsical things.
And you know what? You should. You have every right to! After a day of finishing up that last bit of assignment, presentations, stuck in traffic jams for hours to come and whole lot other shit you had to endure on a stressful week/month - it's your time to do absolutely everything that you want.

I splurged my money on a few things that I have wanted to do for a very long time.

1. A G-String

My mother forbade me to buy this less than a metre clothed undergarment. You look like one of them skanks, she says. Mother, if it's well inside my jeans where no ones sees it I should think I'm good to go. not like I'm gonna showcase them to someone.. >=P

2. A Satin nightrobe

I have always wanted to sleep in the soft embrace of a huggy satin material. I got one for rm40 and I sleep on them whenever I feel a little blue. Which ironically is what the color of my satin nightrobe is. =P

3. Special Edition Lipglosses

Dude, these things only come seasonally. There's something very fulfilling about owning stuff that very few people have.

4. A Rare Book

I'm talking Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Boris Pasternak's Dr.Zhivago material here. What is awesomer than to own an unusual book people don't normally have in their collection?

I'm pretty sure I'll splurge more whenever I'm feeling shitty but that's about it for now.

Dad Shot his Daughter's Laptop - VIRAL VIDEO

This is a video of a man who probably got a little too angry with his daughter ranting about chores in Facebook.
Although he handled disciplining his daughter efficiently, posting the video of it in Youtube wasn't a good move.

The video has now a little more than 31 million views but most of the comments were more appraisal than argumentative feedback.

I'll make my point simple and short:
I totally agree with him getting back at his daughters accusations but family matters should be kept private between families, not shared with the public. While the father has some serious balls, he also displays some egoistical issues.

As Dr.Phil said, humiliating a child is never a good move. Now the whole world knows his daughter as the kid who ranted about her parents in Facebook. Like many other millions of rebellious teenagers. Only that that earned a few bullets embedded in her laptop. It isn't that big of a deal. Nothing a little confrontation and discipline can solve.

Approach her quietly over dinner, explaining why the chores around the house is essential to disciplining her and instilling responsibilities in her would have been more beneficial rather than shooting her laptop and letting every Jack and Jane know of it is simply a tactless move on the father's part. Taking away her laptop for 3 months etc would be a much better move as well.

I do admit though that kids these generation are getting more narcissistic and pampered but this borders a little on mental abuse.

But I stand firm in saying the father didn't discipline his daughter in a more beneficial way.

Laptop Earphones Not Working? TRY THIS!

They ain't mine. Picture is from Google images for illustration purposes.

Be forewarned though, this was my specific problem with wonky laptop earphones jack and if your problem is similar to mine, HOORAY! But even if it isn't, this method can always be an alternative.

Model: ACER Aspire 4752Z
Age: Barely a day old(purchased March 17th 2012)

My problem was this:

Upon insertion of the laptop earphones into the jack, the movie I had been watching had fuzzy audio. The characters who spoke had sometimes high voice and sometimes low, sometimes it even sounds like mumbles. The background music was LOUD as anything but the dialogue was like someone was chanting Latin verses for demonic exorcism.

Therefore after tampering the whole lappie functions whole day, I have finally found out what was it that was tampering my audio in media players.

The bloody built in microphone was ON!

What I did was:

> Control Panel
> Sound and Hardware
> Sound
> A small window will pop up and you will see series of tabs(Playback, recording, sounds...namely)
> If you click on Playback, you should see Speakers Realtek HD Audio
> Click on it and there will be another new window with the title Speaker Properties.
> Go to Levels
> You will see Realtek HD Audio Output and right below it should be the pesky Microphone.
> MUTE the bloody microphone to zero. Open up 'Balance' and adjust them to ZERO as well.

There should be some noticeable improvement.

Did I help? Please comment so I can know how effective the method was. =P

You can also try this:

At the same Control Panel > Sounds and Hardware you should see something that says Realtek HD Audio Manager :

If the main volume is balanced between L(left) and R(right), simply toggle them to either the extreme left or right. Either way should improve the fuzziness/muffle-ness.

That should have cleared up your wonky/fuzzy/muffly audio. Did I help? @v@

Thanks for reading!

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I actually have another problem with this newborn China brand lappie but this was the only thing I manage to fix so far. If it matters my left direction key doesn't work. At all. We'll see how that goes. I tried all online solutions but it looks like I'm gonna have to bring it to the shop. Sigh, my wallet shall be empty again for the umpteenth time. T^T

A Rather Meme-ful Day

http://www.ragestache.com/view/comic/44686

I made a ragecomic and submitted it to ragestache but I think it wont make it as well, seeing all my other awesome comics didn't make it to the front page.

The version I submitted is slightly different from the one you see here.

Click on the image or the ragestache link to get HD.

Organ Donation ~ Nah, I'll Pass

This issue is pretty much the hype now in Malaysia and I'm sure it is the same for other countries as well.

Organ donation: well duh, donating your organs to someone who needs them to save lives upon your death.

Noble and the utmost generosity one can ever do: I think it is by default that someone is regarded in positive light whenever they're known as an organ donor. I admit, I am very happy to know that a lot of people are actually gracious enough to have their bodies cut up and their entrails be distributed to people who need them.

I know how I worded myself back there, whatcha gonna do about it? That's basically what organ donation is about, ain't it?

I suppose now you that you can see my vibe in this post, yes, I DO NOT WANT TO DONATE MY ORGANS.

Let's settle down for a little story time, shall we? Grab your chips.

I actually wanted to donate my organs at one time. I am particularly interested to donate my kidneys because almost all my medical checkups the doctors have told my kidney's sugar level is excellent. I take it that my kidney is super healthy that a dialysis patient would die(pun unintentional) to have it. I was happy that when I die, my kidneys could save someone's life. I was in this mindflow for quite a while.

Then I began to see the posters. Sad man in a chair had multiple tubes attached to him with the caption "he needs your help for a normal life". Another, a child who had his midriff bandaged. The caption read "he's only 3 years old, and he's fighting for his life". Kid with a hole-in-the-heart condition I suppose.

Well, this propagandistic posters kind of turned me off and got me thinking..."are they using the guilt trap to lure people into making them donate organs out of pity etc? Are they subconsciously brainwashing us using this dirty tactic to use the human's natural empathy for sympathetic situations/events?"

After much thought and talking to people who have decided to donate their organs, I can't help but go in the direction of YES.

I personally feel people decided to donate their organs to do what is 'right' and 'accepted' in the eyes of society.

I have known people who genuinely expressed their refusal to donate their organs, only to be blessed with a shitstorm by those who do.

SELFISH, HEARTLESS, INHUMAN were the words thrown at them and quite certainly I will have it too now that I have made my decision to not donate my organs known.

Well people, as much as donating organs to someone's life is deemed noble, and it is, I no longer want to be a part of it.

I sense that people who are reading this post have their blood boiling because I have spoken some "sacrilegious" stuff back there but may I remind you gently that by imposing your values, ideals, opinions and beliefs upon me, you are also being selfish and forgive me, forceful/rude.

As much as you reserve automatic right to make decisions about your life, I do too. I choose not to donate my organs upon my death because it is my human right to do so.

My family have been made known about my decision. They're not too happy about it but they respect me decision nonetheless.

Give me the same treatment. My choices in this matter doesn't reflect my ideals in other matters. Let me cool you off by saying that I am dead against violence towards gay people.(I shall write another blog post of this on how I show my indirect support).

Fun fact for you:

I have always been the deviant in any kind of society setting so this way of thinking is not unusual of me.

Those who know me quite well, I know they would be understanding. Those who don't, I fully expect a shitstorm.

What moved me was not that I could have my spleen and bladder save someone's life but the amount of unconditional love the dog has for his guardian. Even if all that is left of his guardian was probably a kidney or an eye: the dog still sees his dog as a complete person. That's how I want to go. A 'complete' corpse with all my organs still intact in me, cremated and be thrown into the ocean. Whilst I understand that what I'm saying comes across as selfish to everyone who is passionate about donating their organs, you must also understand that this is MY body and without question I reserve the right to do whatever I want with it.

I choose not to donate my organs.  

Yeah, I'm His Owner

The term we commonly use to say our pet belong to us : OWNER. 


I personally find this term derogatory and disrespectful to the pet's morale and right as a free living creature. 


Business dictionary dictates the term OWNER as such : A party that possesses the exclusive right to hold, use, benefit-from, enjoy, convey, transfer, and otherwise dispose of an asset or property.


The words that got me steaming to my ears are DISPOSE and PROPERTY. 

Can we get anymore disrespectful and uppity when we call ourselves the OWNER of our pets? We feed the, shower them with endless love, pick up after them, treat them when they're sick and introduce them as family members to everyone.

Lemme ask you, do you own your siblings? Do you own your parents? Do you? 


So why use the term OWNER? As much as we decide to take care of an animal as a part of our life: the little ray of sunshine that makes our bleak world a little more bearable: we do not control their lives. As much as we are free to be ourselves, they do too. What do you do when a friend treats you like shit? You move away from that friend. So, what does a dog do when his human mistreats him? He runs away, deciding life in the streets is better than being unhappy with a human that doesn't appreciate them.

That's besides the point.


I want to propose that we started referring to ourselves as GUARDIANS to our pets.


arcdictionary.com defines the word Guardian as such : One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury.


Do you :


a) Guard your dogs in times of emergency, floods, financial crisis(always making sure there are coins laying about in the house so you can at least get them a sardine etc? CHECK.

b) Protect them when some fucking kids throw stones/harass them? CHECK.


c) Offer security, like install microchip etc to make sure they always find a way back home? CHECK.


d) Prevent injuries so you don't blame yourself how could have let that happen under your very nose? 
CHECK.

So, having done such vigilante care for your loved critters, how can we call ourselves owner? Inanimate man-made objects are owned, the ones with the heartbeat? Nope. 


So I hereby firmly propose that we start using the term GUARDIAN whenever we introduce our pets to someone.


"Hey, you own that dog?"


"No, sir. I am merely her guardian". 


Try. Our four-legged friends deserve this respect after bringing so much of joy to us.