Left-hand politics.

I know this sounds weird, coming from someone from both sides of the fence, but I really do think left-handers are like Mac users, in the sense that they think that they're unique and better than everybody else.

Now, before anybody from both camps pelt me with food, think about it. Lefties always extol the virtues of being a left-hander, like being smarter and more artistic. But you never see a right-hander boasting about being more logical, do you?

Likewise, a typical Mac user utilises every opportunity available to talk about how their aesthetically-pleasing machines run faster and more efficiently than an equivalent PC, whereas Windows users...wait, there are no redeeming features for Windows.

Mac users and left-handers are also similar in other ways. For instance, you always see lefties go looking around in class for other people writing with the same hand (I'm afraid I do that sometimes) the same way someone with an iMac looks around at Starbucks for people carrying MacBook Pros.

These characteristics can be shared with people of/with other things as well. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if 95% of the world's left-handed people are also either Mac users, DSLR photographers, Citroën drivers, artists, French or various combinations of all of the above.

Shittyx, part deux.

Just to show anyone bothering to read this how monumentally frustrated I am of Streamyx, I've came back to rant.

Streamyx is literally the most hopeless, most unreliable piece of technology I've ever had the misfortune to pay for. The iPod comes close in reliability - that thing broke after just three years - but at least it was fun while it lasted. All Streamyx does, on the other hand, is give constant headache.

What's so hard about giving us perfectly decent broadband service? It's not like we're asking for supersonic download speeds - just make it simple, reliable and adequately quick. And yet somehow, the thick people at Menara TM (they couldn't even design the building by themselves and ended up with a Burj Al Arab rip-off) could screw it up.

We should all sue them for fraud. After all, Streamyx isn't cheap.

Tagged. Again.

This was off Philbert's blog.

Does it matter to you if your boyfriend or girlfriend smoke?
Very much. I don't give an inkling if friends smoke (and trust me, a lot of my friends from Limkokwing do), but as far as a girlfriend is concerned, it's all a bit...meh.

How about drinking?
That's not a problem. As long as she's not Amy Winehouse alcoholic.

Do you like someone you can't have?
I did. Who hasn't?

If someone liked you right now, would you want them to tell you?
Yup. Because it never works the other way round.

What's your favourite sport?
Like Philbert, Formula One. Kimi Räikkönen really needs to wipe the smug smile off Lewis Hamilton's prepubescent face this year.

Its Saturday night, and you're home alone... what do you do?
Threesome. Nah, joking.

Do you like roller coasters?
Haven't been on one. Seriously. Does that count as a no?

When's the perfect time to have a bf/gf?
When you can juggle work and play.

If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?
What do you mean by "celebrity"?

What are you doing this weekend?
Going out with a friend from primary who's about to leave to Australia.

What is your favourite restaurant?
I've no favourite. I love all food too much.

Have you ever hugged someone?
Yes.

Ever kissed someone you weren't attracted to?
No.

Do you like anyone right now?
Um, yes and no. Take it however you like.

What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Looks. I'm a shallow person, to be honest. Philbert says it's "the whole picture", but he also told me once that he looks at girls directly where his eye level is, i.e. lower.

Which do you prefer, Beach or Mountains?
Mountains. The beach doesn't really do it for me, somehow. Probably because all the sand goes straight into your pants.

What kind of phone do you have?
My bargain-fodder Sony Ericsson W200i. As far as Sony Ericssons go, it's positively cheap.

Computer or Laptop?
Got a desktop, want a laptop. That MacBook Pro...

Jeans or Sweats?
Jeans.

Which year(s) has/have been the best so far?
1991. Because I was born then.

How old are you gonna be on your next birthday?
Legal age.

What should you be doing right now?
Sleeping.

What is your favourite TV show?
A draw. In the American corner, we have Emmy-winning medical drama House (whose titular character is played, ironically, by a Brit). In the Brit corner, we have Emmy-winning motoring show Top Gear. Both epic shows.

What's been your last purchase?
Converse clothes.

Are you attracted to girls/boys that smoke?
I can understand why people do it, but apart from that, no.

Have you ever fallen on your butt in front of a crowd of people?
Not yet.

What do you do when you're at home?
Computer, video games, eat, shit, sleep.

What is your favourite subject?
Hard to consider, since all of them revolve around the art of drawing. Probably Analytical Drawing. But hey, there's Photography coming...

What's the best thing that's ever happened to you?
I dunno. When was the last time I got a toy/gadget?



Tagging:
Everyone.

Shittyx.

Streamyx - for me, anyway - is stupidly, hopelessly tepid.

You know, there was a time in the not-too-distant past when Streamyx was a moderately adequate broadband service.

Now, it's so slow that the bandwidth can only be described as one-way-street narrow.

What an utter waste of precious, hard-earned money.

Every month my family pays RM66 to the overlords of telecom service that is TM and what do I get?

Frequent disconnections.

Painfully slow loads.

And - this is what really irritates me - MSN constantly bouncing back messages that I've sent.

Every time I use MSN there's bound to be a slew of "The message cannot be sent because a timeout/connection error has occured". Which is deeply annoying when you're engaged in a conversation.

Seriously, the only reason I'm not rushing to plug that phone line straight to the Mac mini is that it doesn't support dial-up.

I really do hope that in this economic recession TM will be hit by such a shitstorm of debts, corruption, mismanagement, complaints and loss of customers that even government bailouts can't save it from being steamrolled into the depths of bankruptcy.

And that, while trying to bailout all the struggling companies, the government itself will go under.

And that, without the money that they can sneak so easily from under the table, the corrupt politicians and businessmen in the country will all go wither and die a painfully poor death.

Which would give me a really good reason to switch to some other broadband service.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm on a phone call to TM. Because I know that ain't happening.