26 June 2010
Categorised as Rants & tagged with friends, law, relationships.
And if it wasn’t for him being my friend’s boyfriend, I might have been arrested for physical assault today (smashing his nuts). Sorry for the violence, but I’ll explain. (Warning: language used below is unsuitable for young readers. Lol.)
One of my best friends, S, is a nice and modest girl, so I simply did not expect her boyfriend to be such an arrogant nuthead.
When S first introduced me to her boyfriend, I said, “Hi I’m Cheryl.” He looked around, avoided eye contact with me; in summary, he ignored me. I didn’t think much at the time, as I was genuinely quite excited to meet my friend’s new boyfriend, so I wished my friend a fun time with him and left them alone.
Before today, I had pretty much left that bit of memory behind me.
S invited a few friends (including me) and her boyfriend over to her place today. Due to the crappy first meeting between me and S‘s boyfriend, I held my hand out along with the others for a handshake greeting. Great, ‘sif refuse to shake my hand and leave me holding it out awkwardly in the air. I felt a little miffed but shrugged past it, I’m used to awkward situations.
During lunchtime, he babbled on with an arrogant tone. What offended me the most was a claim relating to my chosen career path. It went along the lines of:
Anyone can be a lawyer. I can be a lawyer from reading a book.
Sure, perhaps you can be a lawyer after reading a book of at least 100,000 pages of cases, statute law and textbook explanations (good luck finding such a publication), but there are professional legal training courses to go through before admission to the bar. Perhaps you can do all that, but you also need to get your cocky ass past job interviews. Perhaps if you can do that too, I don’t know what kind of lawyer you’re gonna be, but surely no more than one hell of a dumb fucking blood sucking parasite. Go stick with your Engineering and English. If you’re so great, why don’t you add a Law degree to your CV? It’s only one book away.
He knew that both S and myself are law students. Wasn’t that an incredibly rude remark against his own girlfriend that shows he’s always looked down on her?
S, if you ever come across this post, I swear I have nothing against you personally. But a cocky asshole is no match for a nice girl like yourself, and me and Stephen are definitely not the only ones who think that.
21 June 2010
Categorised as Miscellaneous & tagged with competition, new zealand, sports.
That’s right, I’m talking about the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
I went to bed just after Italy scored the penalty goal against New Zealand to make a 1-1 tie. I woke up to the news of the game finishing at the same 1-1 tie and I was like, “Holy shit”.
Game summary at FIFA.com
And not only me, my Facebook homepage this morning is filled with status messages announcing the surprise.
Now, the big players such as the German and Italian teams receive unlimited budgets when they attend the World Cup tournaments. They get paid BIG bucks, sleep in the most luxurious beds, but all that the Kiwi team strives on is simply the spirit of sportsmanship. First we tied 1-1 against Slovakia (rank 25). Now this? We were ranked 73 places behind Italy, we were made up of half part-time players, and dude, that 1 goal we scored is the second ever goal scored by New Zealand in the FIFA since the 1980s.
More embarrassingly for the four-time FIFA World Cup champs, if it wasn’t for the badly called penalty shot for which the referee is now being verbally bashed, it would have been Italy 0 to New Zealand 1.
Aside from the FIFA, New Zealand Olympic gold medalists are similarly part-timers who compete for an interest in the sport, and upon returning to New Zealand, need to continue working in their other jobs to feed themselves. Consider how Chinese participants are pushed into hard training from a young age, and that winning a single gold medal for Taiwan equates to not having to work for the rest of your life.
Despite what the scoreboard says, despite being an underdog, New Zealand is a winner. We are the biggest champion of all for having the true sportsmanship that is supposed to ground these sports competitions.
Woooooooooooooooooot!
16 June 2010
Categorised as Design, Personal, Romance, School, Site-Related & tagged with gaming, Internet, maplestory, relationships, uni, wow.
In the last post, I said that the business card design was the first step in getting to this version 20 design. Guess what? I lied. I almost forgot that I had ever designed what I should now refer to as Appassionato Version 19.5. Indeed, this is the reason I once blamed Sheng Han for using a header background image similar to mine:
Appassionato Version 19.5 (Click above image to see the live version)
All my guy friends thought this was the best design I’ve ever came up with, totally un-Rilla style, and it’s actually the first photo manipulation I’ve done. Reasons why I didn’t go through with it:
- It looked perfect on my 1024 x 768 screen, but when I switched to a laptop with 1280 x 800 screen I realised that it was too small.
- The file size of all the images was too big for a blog.
- No one ever notices my favourite part of the design: the hanging wire aka “skip to footer” link.
Main crux of this blog post however: summary of the past year of my life.
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