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Friday, January 4, 2013
Hey everyone. This will be another rant/opinioned filled
post, (haha, as if I write anything other than that) just a heads up.
Disclaimer: The following blog post concerns my thoughts on religion
and atheism. Those who are easily offended/sensitive (to everything) should
probably stop reading now.
So today, we had Pendidikan Moral (Loose translation: Class
that no one really cares about) and our first chapter was called “Agama Asas
Kesejahteraan Manusia” (Religion is the basis of human wellbeing)
Just by reading that title, I can feel my bullshit alarm
going off. But before I go more into detail with what I don’t like about it,
let me introduce to you the basics of ‘Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan’. (Belief in
God)
According to the textbook, written by supposed
professionals, we are born in the religion that our parents chose. (Kita
dilahirkan dalam agama yang dianuti oleh ibu bapa kita.)
Also according to it is that religion teaches us how to
become good people. It teaches us how to do things that are useful to the
community. Religion teaches us how to be grateful and help others.
So you may be thinking; oh, well, that sounds perfectly
fine, right? It’s just teaching us about being good people. But wait, it gets
worse.
‘The Importance of Religion’ (Kepentingan dan Keperluan
Beragama)
-Teachings of religion are the (direct
translations, here) ‘guidelines and guidance to life on the right path’
- Religion teachings help humans to become good
people
And so on and so forth.
My teacher also stresses that if everyone believes in some
God, the country will be filled of ‘guaranteed peace and harmony’. (Keamanan
dan keharmonian terjamin)
BULL, SHIT.
I honestly do not like, or rather, hate how in Malaysia (and many other places) atheism is treated
like a disease. Like a social stigma. As if anyone who dares to doubt religion
shall be shunned and sent to burn in hell eternally or something.
Every day, politicians and journalists are going on and on
about securing freedom to choose religion, and textbooks given to children (our
future leaders of our lovely country) insist
that religion is essential to being a good person, and if you don’t believe in
God YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY A CRIMINAL FOR LIFE.
I have a BIG problem with this. If it were some random drunk
ass guy preaching to me on a street corner, I wouldn’t care. But the fact that
it’s published in a textbook, distributed to schools all around Malaysia,
bothers me so much I can barely express it.
Read this excerpt which I got from the same textbook, page 2
for anyone who’s interested in reading it too.
“…Tanpa agama, dunia akan menjadi huru-hara. Kejahatan akan
bermaharajalela dan ini akan menghancurkan dunia. Oleh itu, kita perlu hidup
berlandaskan ajaran agama.”
"... Without religion, the world would be in chaos.
Evil would run rampant and this will destroy the world. Therefore, we have to
live by the teachings of religion. "
This statement is so ridiculous and contradictory that even
bloody Google could translate it perfectly. Sociologist Phil Zuckerman analyzed
previous social science research on secularity and non-belief (of religion),
and concluded that societal well-being
is positively correlated with irreligion.
According to his findings, atheists and secular people are less nationalistic, prejudiced, anti-Semitic,
racist, dogmatic, ethnocentric, close-mind and authoritarian compared to
religious people.
It is also proven that in the US, (and also many other
countries) the less religious that state
is, the lower the murder and crime rate.
[Feel free to read more of Mr. Zuckerman’s findings here: http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/Zuckerman_on_Atheism.pdf
]
[‘Societies without God are more benevolent’ by Nick Cohen of
The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/12/pope-benedict-atheism-secularism]
Honestly I believe Malaysians need to be educated about
atheism.
Because atheists/free thinkers/whichever term you prefer are NOT
necessarily ‘evil’ and ‘immoral’ and so on and so forth. I am almost appalled
by the way it’s okay to announce that you love Jesus or you love Allah but you
CANNOT proclaim that you don’t believe in religion without being severely
judged.
It is unfair to my fellow non-believers, and it is unfair to
all the schoolchildren who have been taught from young that it’s okay to judge people that don’t think the same way you do, and that not believing
in religion is wrong.
Thanks
for reading.
Till next time!
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
I know I haven’t been blogging much. But honestly, everyone
should be grateful.
But I just feel like venting (ranting?). It’s like a ‘trend.’
And this post will be about the whole Vivian Lee-Alvin Tan fiasco. (Google it
if you haven’t heard or you’ve been living under a rock – nearly the same thing)
Personally, they have my respect. Not like I would post
pictures of myself butt naked online (and thank God) but I do think they are
like the most shameless people ever. I love them. And no, I’ve yet to see any
of their work, uhem.
NEVER APOLOGIZE.
That’s one thing I’ve learnt from one of my
role models, Xiaxue. Never, never apologize for saying something bitchy. If
they can’t deal with the truth, then, well, screw them!
The Star newspaper (the newspaper my mum keeps buying, even
though I keep emphasizing how evil they are) has been eating the story up. I mean, they’ve published like four full
pages about them in the past few days alone.
(But recently they’ve progressed to more political things. I
would like to blog about that too but I don’t want my miniscule blog closed [much like Alvin and Vivian’s blog], do
I? If not where else will I go to rant about this type of crap?)
I don’t understand
why people are so pissed about it. It’s just porn. SO WHAT. I think its fine as
long as they aren’t spamming everyone with it. Porn is uploaded every single
day to the Internet, and you’re crying about two grown adults just doing
something spontaneous? My God, it’s like they think stopping them from posting
their videos means they will stop global hunger or something. JUST STOP
WHINING.
I’ve noticed many officials are also saying that it’s not ‘morally
correct’ and doesn’t fit with our ‘culture’. What the hell is this, the 18th
century? And what exactly is our ‘culture’, again? Lemme guess, corruption, discrimination
and racism? Yeah, that sounds about right. Might as well add ‘producer of porn,
just like every other country’ to our book of shame.
I’m sure being a porn star is an occupation too. I mean,
people need to earn a living. (And they aren’t even doing it professionally - Yet!)
Let me ask you this: Which is more immoral? Stripping naked to support yourself
or actually supplying to the demand to watch? Who is worse, the stripper giving
someone a lap dance to support her family or the horny asshole paying for it?
The injustice of it all is just disgusting.
The industry of pornography will continue to grow as long as
there are people who are willing to watch. So you mighty officials, don’t you think stopping people from watching
porn would just be easier then stopping porn stars (or people just doing it for
fun)? Oh, wait. Everyone watches porn. Even the people ‘upstairs’.
To all the whiners: You’re no different, stop acting like
you’re all perfect.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Hello, dear readers! Sorry I’ve been gone for a bit, been
busy obsessing over idiotic things. Again.
ANYHOW, this post
will be about Facebook again. I know some of you (well, almost all of you) are
probably peeved at me. If you don’t like Facebook so much, why not just stop
using it?
(bitter laugh)
That’s not how it
works. That’s not how I work.
Scenario:
It’s almost
midnight, I’m scrolling through Facebook again, trying to pass the time. (And
update from the previous posts; I have already added a few peeps to my
Acquaintances list. I think it may be the best thing Mark Zuckerberg (or his
fellow underlings-doesn’t really bother me) have come up with)
And I come by this
picture. It was just a white background with a very plain black font, all
uppercased letters. I refuse to type the whole thing out since it’s not very
polite and I’m afraid a few innocent, young minds might be reading my blog.
(HAH, as if they aren’t corrupted enough to be able to find this run down site)
Let me give you a hint, it contained the word ‘bitch’ a lot. About seven of
em’.
Truthfully I found
it funny. Amusing, even. Maybe it’s because that’s how my cynical mind works
right now. I find normally offensive things amusing. What a sick, sick, sick
person I am. Now I’m rambling. CARRYING ON…
I commented on the
picture with ‘Bitch, please’. You know, as in the meme. I thought it was
slightly funny. Slightly. (shrugs)
But I guess some
people just have a stupid sense of humour. (And that’s coming from me.)
So let me type out
the conversation (I shall refrain from calling it an argument since the other
parties were acting…Okay, I’m rambling again.) following that innocent comment.
Poster: “None of
your buisnees okay? :) I just sharing this photo to my friend to see ==”
Note the lack of
proper punctuation. And the horrible typo. DOESN’T ANYONE READ MY BLOG. Don’t
answer that, by the way. And I wonder why people enjoy using more than one
emoticon per message. Seriously, how am I supposed to tell if you’re happy ( :)
) or if you’re irritated if you use two at the same time? Virtual mood swings,
much?!
My reply: “HAHA, I
just –love- how people say that and for some reason they just refuse to use
basic privacy settings on Facebook. And it was a joke. Understand simple
sarcasm.”
And some other dude
steps in:
“Just who are you?
Don’t like this post? Just get lost. People like to post something on his/her
wall, none of your business. If you don’t like it, press the unfriend button.
She’s mad of someone else and you came here to not to help her, but to annoy
her instead? Just GTFO. Let me guess…you doesn’t understands what’s GTFO since
you’re a keyboard warrior.”
I almost wet myself
laughing after reading this. Just the grammar alone is horrendous. (YES, that
makes me sound like an arrogant douchebag. But it’s kinda true.)
First things first,
when you’re saying/posting/sharing/whatever-ing things on the Internet, just
about anyone who bothers can go and find it, read it. You’re being watched.
Every movement, every word. Recorded, scrutinized.
It’s the Internet. I don’t know why
people can’t get this.
And that’s where
privacy settings come in. (Although, I personally do not trust privacy settings
completely…My paranoia kicks in as subtly as a brick. Leave the absolutely
private stuff where it belongs; in private) On Facebook, you can easily change
them to your liking. To only let people tagged view, to block it from certain
people, to just keep it to yourself if you’re anal. (But why put it on Facebook
in the first place, then?!)
Another thing, it
kinda is my business. Whatever you post goes to my homepage. You cannot expect
people to not accidentally view it, okay. That’s like saying, oh, I’m just
going to share a picture just for me and a friend publicly and if anyone else
comments on it by accident I’m going to get really, really upset. Where’s the
logic in that, people? (face palm)
“If you don’t like
it, press the unfriend button.”
Oh, buddy. Do not
get me started on how many times I’ve been tempted to do just that. But I
rarely ever, out of respect. (…Possibly?) She was the one that sent me a friend
request. I rarely every do send requests out, (I prefer people coming to me) so
let me make this clear, I don’t randomly ‘get rid’ of people over small things.
Maybe you do, but I don’t. When I get pissed, I like to talk about it. I almost
never really take action for stuff like this. Yes, I’m all talk, and that’s
about it. My bark is worse than my bite, et cetera et cetera. But you already
knew what you were getting into by sending me a friend request on Facebook,
right?
Great, I’m rambling
again.
“She’s mad of
someone else and you came here to not to help her, but to annoy her instead.”
I found this kind of
true. I admit I do like annoying people and their stupid pictures on Facebook.
Maybe that’s why I don’t have that many friends…But this time I wasn’t meaning
any harm. Seriously. I just felt like contributing to the picture. I honestly
thought it was a joke. Who takes pictures on Facebook really seriously?!
“Let me guess…you
doesn’t understands what’s GTFO since you’re a keyboard warrior.”
I admit I didn’t
100% understand what a keyboard warrior was supposed to be. I shall assume it’s
someone who actually types properly and prides him/herself on achieving decent
(if not perfect) grammar online. And I do know what GTFO is. Hey, I try my best
to keep up with all these acronyms. YOLO? I’ll take that remark as a compliment
too, by the way. (Self Esteem +1)
And my final reply
was:
“Okay, fine. Byees :D
And thank you for inspiring my next blog post. I
was battling with a slight case of writers' block.”
Because, ya know. I’m not interested into talking to people who are even
less open-minded than myself. Thanks to the guys who allowed me to paste their
comments onto my blog without their permission. HAH! Quick reminder: you’re the
one that put it on Facebook in the open, yes? You can’t not expect lunatics like me to not write blog posts about stuff
like this. Consider this a lesson, a learning opportunity. Okay, enough for the
next week or so. Till next time!
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Hello, again. Third hate-ish post.
This week, I was
contemplating about writing about either: ‘wise’ sayings with meaningless
pictures in the background, share or so and so will kill you, or the supposedly
Godly messages on Facebook.
Yes, I enjoy blogging about what peeves me on Facebook. Bite me.
Anyways, after a while I’ve decided to go for the supposedly Godly messages. They annoy me, like many many many many many other things, which I shall share with all of you innocent readers eventually. (bitter laugh to self) But I’m pretty sure I’m going to ramble on and on…
You may (or may not)
be wondering; what are you talking about, Phoebe? Is it true you’ve finally
grown deranged enough to hate on these, innocent, innocent, innocent, posts on
Facebook? They’re just promoting a good message. That’s all.
My ass.
A very prominent example is the classic,
"Share if you love
God, ignore if you don’t."
In the past, I admit
I have shared at least a couple of these. Back then it wasn’t much of a deal.
Now they’re everywhere. Every, damn, where. Again, in protest against all the
stupidy, I haven’t shared pictures in months. (With the exception of a couple
of ‘Share and win a free Instax Mini 7s’ pictures. Again, bite me.)
Every time I see one of these, I seriously feel like sneering. I myself have quite strong beliefs, I do believe in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and so and so, so don’t misunderstand me for worshiping Satan or something. Seriously, no misunderstandings, please.
These pictures annoy me. I hate them, almost as much if not more than the stupid, stupid, stupid ‘wise’ saying pictures. Yes, I GET IT. YOU LOVE GOD. I LOVE GOD TOO.
But please, you don’t need to fill my whole Home page by sharing like 15 bloody pictures about HOW MUCH YOU LOOOOVE GOD AND AREN’T AFRAID TO SHOW IT every, single, day.
Let me tell you a
story about one of my friends. (Ex-best friend, actually) Let’s call her…B. Do
not question me why I picked the letter B, by the way.
We used to be good
friends. Not exactly super close, but she was okay. And if any of you know me,
I go through intense filtering before picking out people who eventually DO go
up my friendship ladder. (Acquaintances, friends, okay friends, close friends, best
friends, bestest friends)
Recently we kinda
broke up, relationship wise, and she stopped talking to me. In return, I pushed
her down the relationship ladder. Wait, friendship ladder. Yes, friendship
ladder. But don’t fret, she’s still wavering in between Friends and Okay
friends, but recently I have the feeling I might have to push her down into my
Pit of Hatred. (Let’s call it the PoH, from now on.)
And the story is,
she just started to use Facebook actively recently. And in those few, short months,
she has somehow managed to drive me crazy. Every time someone mentions her
name, I cringe. I’m not joking. (Although, when am I completely serious? You
tell me.)
Every time I go on Facebook, I see her.
Every, bloody,
where.
Oh, she liked this photo about not losing her mind and that it just got scared and ran away. You know who else ran away? My sanity. (Partially)
Oh, she liked a ‘wise’ photo saying “Me without you is like a sneaker without laces, a geek without braces, asentencewithoutspaces”
Goddammit, why do people want me to hate them so much?
And not to mention
the fact that B just LOVES to share and like all these posts, originally
derived from Tumblr, in a 10 minute span. 5 pictures in less than 10 minutes?
ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME, WOMAN?!
(deep breath in)
Another point, I remember
when Facebook weren’t all about the annoying pictures. It all started a while
ago, too bad I can’t exactly remember when and I’m afraid someone is going to
go flame me if my estimation is way off, like all my other estimations always
are, the stupidity. At first it was all in good fun. I actually thought some of
them were cute.
But now?
They’re everywhere,
and just thinking about it makes me sick.
SICK, I tell you.
Now it’s not that
much about the Godly messages. No, it’s about ALL THE SHARED PICTURES on
Facebook.
Leave the ‘informative’ pictures on Tumblr, and actually put meaningful stuff on Facebook. Is that so hard to ask?!
(Another reason why
I don’t use Tumblr)
So, to all the people who enjoy sharing all the stupidity around and making me squirm (unknowingly or otherwise), you have been pushed down the friendship ladder.
Good day.
(And to B, if you’re actually reading this, which I doubt
you do since you’ve too busy sashaying your pretty little ass around your newfound
BEST FRIENDS and being an idiot of Facebook, PoH you go! Have fun mingling with
the other Lalas! Cheerio!)
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Hello again, I’m back.
So today I’d like to talk about people who…let’s make this
easy…tell people about their ‘problems’ on Facebook.
Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of these supposedly
‘anonymous’ posts about people who have pissed he or she (mostly she) off. (in
between all the ‘wise’ pictures, that is. I’d probably get to that soon.)
For some reason I don’t really hate these, since I myself
have a load of (at times, disturbing) opinions. But what DOES annoy me is the
lack of, say, sophistication in their posts. Does that make sense? Probably
not.
I’m not saying these dudes should make their rants more
articulate. (Although, that would be a nice touch.) I’m saying that they should
at least use proper English, or Chinese if you’re into ranting in that. Reading
all these ‘hateful’ posts makes me laugh. Even when I read my own, I find it
funny in a disturbing, f-ed up way.
And now I’m listening to Fort Minor while doing my (overdue)
History report. But more on that later.
Here’s an example I found on Facebook.
“What's ur problem we talk soft soft also wan copy our names
to give teacher?! U think you big ar?! Rasict bitch! Make me angry D:< !”
This made me LMAO.
‘Talk soft soft’? Oh, please. And here is her follow up.
“Bitch if u wanna be racist just tell,
don't think ur pengawas then can 自以为是,
if not the teacher help you I will personally kick your @ss ! We talk very soft
also need copy name, some more say what "I don't care" don't care
then don't copy la! NIE I won't help you so, of teacher ask I'll just say:
"she didn't tell to do anything! " teacher I wan her dun be a
pengawas. She has no rights!”
I found this equally, if not even more
hilarious.
“She has no rights!”
She’s the damn pengawas lah, dumb. Respect
other people. Respect yourself. Don’t you have your dignity, girl? Although, I won’t
name no names. Thank you for letting me post these on my blog without your
permission by the way. (laughs a sad laugh) Hey, before you come bashing me,
you were the ones posting stuff in the open.
Even if I was seriously pissed at
someone, I’d rather keep it private. In the deep, disturbing conscious of my
mind, in the conscious of my best friend’s mind, or even on this blog. I know
what you’re probably going to say, “So you get to rant and I don’t?”
Let me make this clear, barely anyone
ever reads this blog. Facebook, however…Top of
FormBottom of Form
Here is another prime example:
“I wont trust u anymore.. U LIAR!!!”
I just love it when people refuse to use proper punctuation
on Facebook. I mean, even spellcheck is free. All you have to do it right click
on the word underlined with red. Is that so hard? Do not get me started on the
poor grammar. At times I fully believe that these girls speak better Korean
than English, which is supposed to be their second language.
I understand a lot of people are into ‘short forms’ and
such. I am at times too, but to a certain extent, please. Do not ramble on like
you don’t have fingers to type decently with. (Again, not naming any names)
So I have the feeling a load of people would be say, offended
by this. (snickers to self)
Sorry if this is rather short. Will make a longer one about
those stupid ‘wise’ sayings on Facebook next. Maybe. Unless some other trend
starts annoying the crap out of me. Okay, bye.
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Hello everyone.It’s been a long time since I’ve updated, I know, I know. But just as an impromptu disclaimer, this is probably going to be a long, and rage-filled post.
So today I’d like to talk to everyone about one of the things I dislike deeply,
ONE DIRECTION.
Now I know, some prissy fangirls might have just skipped the beginning and saw their beloved band in big letters. Let me make this clear.
I do not like them.
And I dislike them enough to have to rant about them on my very minuscule blog, because I know Facebook isn’t going to accept a rant this long, thankyouverymuch.
You see, I hate their music. I’m not going to lie. Boy bands annoy me SO DEEPLY. And I’m not just talking about One Direction. I’m talking about all the other teenage, apparently heartthrob boys such as Justin Bieber and Greyson Chance, just to name a few.
At this point of time I can proudly say I rather listen to a JB song than a 1D song.
Why?
Because it seems that Justin Bieber annoys me less now. Heck, I’d rather listen to some Demi Lovato crap athan listen to 1D.
When I turn on Facebook and check my Timeline, all I see is are pictures, pictures, pictures, and 90% of those pictures I do not like. Yes, that includes the meaningless pictures with the supposedly wise ‘sayings’ in front of them. Yes, that includes the ‘Share and see what happens!’ crap. Yes, that (especially) includes the ‘Share or so and so will slit your throat/shove pencil shavings up your ass etc. etc.’ pictures. You know what annoys me even more than those?
The One Direction photos.
Yes, I am a One Direction hater. I hate them more than I hate Justin Bieber now. (It seems that the JB fans have died down, either that or I’ve already defriended most of them on Facebook)
I do not understand why so many people like them, worship them like Gods and call themselves Directioners.
See? Another reason to hate all these boys.
Directioners sound almost as bad as Bielievers.
THEIR MUSIC ISN’T EVEN GOOD.
I was introduced to them last year, by my friend Winnie.
She was like, “Phoebe! Go watch this video!”
So I watched it.
Even then, I thought almost nothing of it. It was just a lame video of them singing ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ at a beach with a hot chick. THAT’S IT. At that point of time, I have NEVER heard of One Direction before. So to be nice, I told her it was ‘Okay.’, cause she seemed really into them. Yes, Winnie, if you’re reading this now, I HATE THEIR MUSIC.
And then suddenly, a few months later, this huge ‘thing’ spreads like wildfire. Like the plague.
And most of you know, I HATE ALL THIS MAINSTREAM MUSIC.
Kpop sucks. JB sucks. Greyson Chance sucks. ‘Call Me Maybe’ sucks. Taylor Swift sucks. One Direction sucks.
Yes, all the prissy fangirls, COME AT ME.
But before you do, read below.
1) You have no right to hate on them.
WHY NOT?! I know we may not have free speech to everything, unlike America, but we do have a right to our opinions. Sure, we may not be able to speak freely about supposed sensitive issues on the Internet like religion and what not, BUT DON’T ADD YOUR STUPID MUSIC TO THAT LIST.
That’s just my opinion. Like you have yours about LOVING them so much.
2) If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it at all.
Well, TOO BAD. There’s also a saying on not taking back your word or something, YES? And if I REALLY wanted to bash on them, I would be trolling your pictures, the Walls of you 1D lovers, 1D fan groups, the options are ENDLESS. But no, I’m taking this on my own blog. I OWN THIS BLOG. You can’t control what I want to post here.
3) They have more fans, more money, better looks than you!
Yes, pulling out that lame ‘card’ again. Yes, they’re rich. Mainly because Simon Cowell has been throwing out money for them and deluded girls who think they’re so darn irresistible are buying their albums. Yes, they have millions of (deranged) fans throwing their panties at them. Yes, they look better. SO WHAT. Again, number one. I have nothing against 1D personally. They haven’t done anything wrong to me. The only thing that annoys me deeply is the way all the ‘fans’ act. So let’s say, I like Mogwai. Do I go on Facebook and share a hundred pictures of them? No. Do I make almost every status update about them? No. Do I get upset when everybody else comments on them rudely? No.
Because I’M RESPECTING MY OTHER FRIENDS. Not all people love the same bloody music you do, RESPECT THAT and don’t rub it into our faces every damn day.
Okay, enough of that today. Now let the commenting begin, yeah?