Sometimes you learn to stop hoping for things to change. Sometimes nice is just not good enough anymore. Sometimes you learn to cease to care. And brace youself for the change that lines the horizon beyond….
Sometimes you have to go through hell to find what you’re looking for.
- Paul Hogan, The Freedom Thing
Or not looking for, as the case may be…
Sometimes you learn to distract yourself by playing Klondike so that you wouldn’t think and write posts like this.
Posted on January 26th, 2004 by jl
Filed under: Notable: Personal | 4 Comments »
Things you do when you’re bored…
I took this Emode Classic IQ Test and got the following results:
Your IQ score is 133!!
… according to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is an Insightful Linguist.
This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that’s just some of what we know about you from your test results.
Give it a go if you’re as bored as I am. But be forewarned, it will take some concentration and about 10-20 minutes of your time. And don’t forget - tell, tell whatever results you get!
Posted on January 24th, 2004 by jl
Filed under: Notable: Personal | 12 Comments »
The following text was taken from this site:
At the last session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), Brazil proposed a resolution on “human rights and sexual orientation” (E/CN.4/2003/L.92) which claims that sexual diversity is an integral part of Universal Human Rights as reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
As a result, 53 nations will sit in Geneva next March to discuss, argue, vote and then publicly declare if they believe sexual orientation is a human right or not.
If the resolution is approved, it will probably not cause direct changes in many countries but it will send a clear signal to the global community that they are NOT right when they discriminate against people on the grounds of their sexual orientation.
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The resolution will be voted on by the 53 countries with voting rights but non-voting countries can participate in the debate. It is our common responsibility to get each governement to address the issue and make a public statement on sexual orientation and human rights.
Go to the site to find out more about the Brazillian Resolution.
Sign up on their petition.
The text of the proposed UN resolution can be found here.
Posted on January 24th, 2004 by jl
Filed under: Life's Gay | 1 Comment »
If you’re bored, here are a few things on the internet that will keep you amused and occupied: the world’s smallest website (with a few “legacy” games to play), an interesting if useless telephone, and a great interactive use of shockwave.
Pointers thanks to the November 2003 issue of the Internet Magazine.
Posted on January 24th, 2004 by jl
Filed under: lost blah blah | 7 Comments »
I’m bored and I feel like ranting.
An officer of one of the banks with which I have a credit card account called me this morning and asked if I was in Penang. I wasn’t. He proceeded to ask me if I had purchased petrol at an Esso station recently. I haven’t, in fact I have not stepped into an Esso station in the last two years. If you are a Malaysian credit card holder, you can probably guess where the rest of the conversation headed - my credit card had been cloned.
Now… in the four years that I had been living in the UK, where I had used credit cards for almost all my shopping, including the tiniest purchases and online shopping, not once did I encounter a case of misuse or fraudulent transactions in my accounts. Contrast this with the last two and a half years that I have been back in Malaysia, I have been inflicted not once, not twice, not thrice but FOUR times with such cases of cloning. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Malaysians are notorious worldwide for suspected involvement in credit card fraud and not a few have been caught.
Fortunately for me, in every incident bar one, the banks very good in resolving the matter. Nevetheless, it’s a huge pain in the ass and a bloody nuisance to have to the credit card in question put out of commission while a replacement is made. The inconvenience is made worse if I have direct debit transactions linked to it. What’s even more infuriating in this particular case is that this is a brand new card (I’ve had it for less than a month!) and that I’ve hardly used it. On the other hand, that means I can narrow my suspects down to: Starbucks, KLCC or Tower Records, 1Utama. That or an inside job!
Posted on January 23rd, 2004 by jl
Filed under: My Malaysia | 3 Comments »
