Whats next?

My eldest daughter will be completing high school this year. SMS me the other day to get my advice on her way-forward. It was 'what-course-to-take-which-univ-to-apply' kinda impasse. I am glad that she consulted me coz it is important for her to be guided appropriately. With peers, teachers, councilors giving all kinda mixed views, I know it could be quite a dilemma for her. I really want to make sure that the line she’s planning to take really best suits her interest. Not much of an advice, but I gave her these two points to take into account in whatever route she is taking.

1. On course/major – just go for what interests you, full stop
2. On University choice – anywhere in this world given that they are accredited, full stop

Bear in mind that the only fun thing about learning is when you are learning something that you like to learn (same goes with working). You like it you’ll enjoy it. And this shall only be the aspect to consider when choosing which course to take. Understood that at her tender age, deciding on this can be hellavu confusion. It is only natural for ones to choose a major that could land them a good and well-paid career in future, but how could you tell now. Why would one consider the market, job prospect, paycheck and other potential goodies at this stage as these external not only can revolutionize over a period time but are completely irrelevant. This is about you and what you want to learn; these external factor are immaterial. The one and only factor shall be your interest and passion - pick a course based on these.

On which u to apply, I’d advised her to just go ahead and apply any accredited u out there. Forget the ranking and shit like that, for all it tells is basically the ranking of the u, not the graduates. There are criteria applied in doing this ranking exercise that 99% of which have nothing to do with the performance of their student…Bush graduated from Harvard and Yale....duh..??.Why jeopardize yourself going for Ivy League when the standard that they need uphold to sustain their ’elite’ status will fail you. All you need is to learn and acquire knowledge, not to be penalized with exorbitant fees and failures.

I told my baby whatever it was, I would be 200% supporting her, it was her future and her life.

A 1.6b for Youtube...*sigh*

It’s a beautiful day today, the morning started with a good weather ergo my mood goes along with it. Looking out from my 3rd floor office window, I could see herds of goats ushered along by an old lady shepherd with a stick. Hundreds of them from all kinda species, from the thick haired (resembling our Persian cat) to a normal Indian black goat you’d see back home. It is so unbelievable observing how this one lady controlling hundreds of these animals, ushering and maneuvering the herd with none dispersing out of the flock. Its kinda neat seeing this from my office. You’d see this lady strolling just behind the flock raising her stick shouting and screaming, reminiscent of a three-crowned general calling all her soldiers to take orders and march straight ahead..!! (I am sure they have a special human to nature language that I don’t understand..). Just imagine the networth of that old crusted-heel lady with hundreds of goats at an average of 1000RM each……

Now that brings me to think of the non-existence of any clear form of standard or yardstick correlating with life fulfillment. Lifestyle, money, cars, houses, fancy dine and wine etc etc these are all man-invented benchmarks, presumably applied as the correct gauge to level ones life accomplishment. This is not a always true though, think about it..

Last night I was hanging-out “sheeshaing” with regular buddy at our favorite joint. Among other smart-ass-topic-of-conversations, we were talking about the recent purchase of Youtube by Google at a hefty 1.6 fucking billions!! Youtube is a program hosting net users around the globe to post their pathetic videos on line for free. It was constructed by three young ex PayPal employees a little over a year ago. God knows how the idea was triggerred…these guys are barely 30 now, they’d probably in their early 20s when the idea crop up! At that rebellious age, whilst others would probably talk craps that revolve around sex and booze whenever they gather, these three nerds here were discussing something that are now shoving their ass up with billions. So un-fucking-believable would you say..

Now…with that much money they’re getting, I'd say what else in life that they shall struggle further for. Common sense will calculate your growing billion over an average life span of 80 years will give your life just about every-damn-thing and any-darn-thing under the sun.. need you go out busting your ass for more……………Unlike the hotmail guy who went partying non stop …(but thats another sad story altogether). I am sure for these three billionaires here, life will continue with more probable prospects and opportunity-ventures.

Like I’ve said earlier, it’s not the money, the wine and dine craps that measure your life realization, its something else that these three dudes and the old shepherd lady have in common…

Cobaan.....

Alright, feel like bitching today...there seems to be lots of things getting on my nerves of late and these are about to start hitting my threshold limit of bursting out into full flame. First off I'd like to say that I really hate it when people take punctuality very light, what more honoring promises. Alas…unfortunately I happen to be living in a society with 99.99% of its populace do not have a tinkling idea of this essence. It is always maddening to deal with this type of pea-brain morons.

As far back as I could remember, never once had I experienced an appointment that turned out on time. That includes appointment made by Services Company here for installation of phone, Internet, Cable TV and other home appliances that required their service personnel skills to hook up or home delivery of certain purchases. In all these occasions, they’d never turned up on time as promised and we ended up house-arresting ourselves at home waiting foolishly for them. These suckers fucked our day!!

The typical chrono-fucking-logy would normally go something like this - an appointment is set, the guy would not come as set, until you call which would obviously result in another time setting, which is knowingly useless as it would never register in his brain until you call again to follow up, and sure enough it eventually end up with another time setting, and these would continue until some shouting and cursing happen (mind you the answer to these calls is always....yes sirrr I am cumming!!).

My A/C was finally fixed in the kitchen last night at 10pm. The arrangement was to come at 4.30pm the day before. I went to this shop two days earlier to get an A/C installed in my kitchen…

Me: So when you can come to fix it.
Pea-Brain (PB) : Tomorrow
Me : What time??…you know I need you to tell me exactly when you can come so I know when I should be home, else I have other plans to attend to ..you know what I mean, I don’t want to be stuck at home the whole evening waiting..
PB : 4.30pm shuuurr (sure!)
Me : (had a feeling that he would not make it at 4.30pm as Iftar would be around 6.00pm, I proposed..) If you cannot make it at 4.30pm tomorrow, you can come on the following day, morning time, say 10.00am
PB : shuuurr I come 4.30 pm sirr…

I wanted to believe though the ‘shuurr’ sounded so thorny and I hate not to believe. But as usual I was fucked, again and I knew it!!

May be this is the norm here, not accommodating to the norm leaves me quarrelling with these numbskull all the times and the fact that all the squabbles are known pointless leave me with dreadful headache and screw up my mood end of the day….