Today's rant:

I just met this North Korean who now runs a convenience store.

She told me she escaped NK before the korean war. She also revealed that:

Kim Il Sung's mother is a methodist minister!!! And she couldnt understand why her son started preaching hate against Christian religions. :(

Its very interesting meeting a person actually from N. Korea.

When I mentioned to her that I read alot of the Kims (Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung) articles, she was quick to dismiss everything as bullshit commie propaganda. 'In communism, everyone is equal. Everyone is a slave while only a few people make alot of money'.

And then she told me about the persecution of Christians and all religions that do not worship the Kims in N. Korea. :(

The great deceivers. Why does communism look so good on paper? But in reality it causes the deaths of millions of people?

Another interesting note about communism is that alien civilizations (according to various sources about UFOs and aliens) are reported to practice a form of communism that doesnt result in the deaths of millions. Because of a high degree of spiritual maturity and love for their fellow man (errr… alien being).

Their worlds are reported to have stopped this competitive and aggressive thought patterns millions of years ago and have created some form of utopia.

Therefore is communism only for more advanced life forms?

Or have the earth commies decided to jump on the UFO bandwagon in order to preach their communism? WHAT?!? :)

You remind me a lot of Lee Harvey Oswald. Not for the President Kennedy thing, but for the similar interests. You should visit NK and see, I hear it's a fascinating tourist destination.

ozoneocean
You should visit NK and see, I hear it's a fascinating tourist destination.

Ive seen the videos and tons of documentary (from both sides). The same thing. It is presented to foreigners to look like a happy happy place with all the people smiling.
Its almost like something taken out of a fantasy dream. The people the people the people. “Single-mindedly united under the banner of the songun held high by the dear leader, generalissimo kim jong il…”

Heck for all I know either the people allowed to talk to foreigners are:
- afraid of the ‘minders’
- the select few who really love the Kims

Speaking of single-minded unity that almost sounds like a hive mind.

And if you expose yourself to nothing but NK news. Imagine every single piece of news you hear is that. You will think that S. Korea is the starving country, all the negative stuff about the USA (the income inequality, the loneliness, etc.), and the so-called international isolation of Japan.

Also you will believe that N. Korea is a big deal country in the world and how Kim Jong Il is praised in X country (I've seen x = USA, Britain, Israel, Mexico, Russia, Philippines, Brazil, Congo, South Africa, Cambodia, though its mostly an eastern european country or african one).

Ignoring the political climate though it's supposed to be an absolutely gorgeous place to visit. That's the only reason I'd want to go, to take in all that scenery and see what another part of the world is like. I'm a travel junkie though so go figure.

Yeah, the no-mans-land area has some wonderful wildlife too ^^

Ah, Kyupol, the other side of something like NK and their self serving press service is to apply the same level of cynicism and scrutiny to our own press services… They're also skewed and biased, not nearly as much, because they're more independent, but they are. The news service of every country, no matter how free, tends to show their own country as being good and free and the centre of the world and their enemies as being naughty and crap… lol!

That said, I wouldn't like to live in NK, and I love where I am, but how much of that is because of nationalism etc?

Well…now Cara wants to meet up on Wednesday instead of Sunday because of the weather. She can't get snowed in past the 15th, so she's flying out the 13th instead. Wants me to come get her at the hotel and then go out for dinner and what have you.

I told her that it would be fine, but I usually spend that day with my family watching Ghost Hunters, especially since Wednesday is supposed to be the season premier. It's less about the show and more about spending time with family.

Still don't know how comfortable I am with the whole thing, anyway. Given my profession, I will do all I can to be polite with her, but that's the part of me that doesn't want to go see her. The other part does want to go see her and catch up…that's the part of me that hasn't had a chance for any chick time for over five months thanks to the academy…and Stacy breaking up with me.

I'm done with my all-too-brief week-long work break, and now I'm back to working 10+ hours per day trying to finish projects that I wanted to start back in September. I'm gonna try my damnest to stay on time with my comic updates, but it's going to be tricky with work keeping me in the office until 8pm or later.

I can only hope that these hours will cease come February….

The news service of every country, no matter how free, tends to show their own country as being good and free

There are exceptions. Sadly, the Philippines (my country of origin) is one of them. :(

The Philippine media generally paints a picture of the country as a shithole. They like to emphasize the government corruption, income inequality, the insurgency in the south, etc. etc. etc.

Then they often paint a picture of a rosy image of the USA and Canada.

Too often you might hear ‘horror stories’ from Filipinos trying to exagerrate things. To an extent that you will get a picture of the Philippines being a backward country on the equivalent of Somalia or Afghanistan.

In truth, the Philippines I admit is ‘backward’ compared to more advanced nations like the USA and Canada. Technologically I must say. As a former country that was colonized, we are still at that stage when we are sorting ourselves out. Even western civilization went through that certain point (middle ages, early exploration of the ‘New World’).

However I would also say that the Philippines is a more spiritually-developed society compared to North America. Family ties are stronger. The version of Catholicism there is more traditional and in some cases it is mixed up with pre-hispanic religions that worshipped the spirits. Its little or none of those perversions you see that keep demanding $$$ and guilt-tripping members who cannot pay cash. That is why I hate cults and they give Christianity and other legit religions a bad name.

We have an advanced system of martial arts that is being studied in detail by visiting USA forces and highly respected in martial art communities alongside brazilian jujitsu and muai thai. WHY WOULD THE USA ‘ADVISE’ THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE REBELS IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN FROM IT? Also we have unconventional medical practices that may be dismissed or ridiculed as being in the realm of ‘occult’ (which I believed has influenced our martial arts too). Aside from that, I believe in the existence of advanced military tactics kept in deep secrecy by the Philippine government (only known to elite army units sworn to an oath of secrecy) that could be of help to US forces in Iraq.

Because when I asked in technical detail about certain military tactics in Philippine army message boards for my research in PARA-SAYO (the planned sequel of MAG-ISA) the mods almost banned me under suspicion of being a communist/islamic spy.

The albularyo and the psychic surgeon. While they are NOT perfect, there have been known cases where they succeed where conventional medicine has failed. And also, there are FRAUDS. The REAL ONES do not charge high fees and are often extremely low profile and live very simple lives.

Perhaps when fellow Filipinos read this post, I could be ridiculed as most Filipinos have been conditioned to believe themselves as INFERIOR by the Spanish, USA, and Japanese imperialists in the past. Filipino achievements have been ridiculed by fellow Filipinos such as Marcos' missile program which he stopped because of pressure of the USA. As well as our other local military projects that would have freed the country long ago from needing to import expen$$$ive military hardware.

As of now, militarily speaking, Filipinos are developing new weapons (for instance, there is an assault rifle in development that is as powerful as an M-16 but light as a submachinegun). Not comparable to USA or Russia or China but we will eventually get there. :)

But fuck em. I believe in the supremacy and advancement of Filipinos (in certain fields). I believe in the potential of the Filipino to achieve great things and eventually become at par or even greater than Japan and Korea. I believe in the rapid rate of evolvement of the Filipino people because as of now, more and more corruption is being denounced. On a grander scale than how the American people denounce their ‘New World Order’ and corruption, because more people there are politically aware and are sick and fed up of the reality that the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few elite.


dang… long rant. :)

AUGH! I buy a new scanner and spent $150 so I can start putting up something decent and I get it all ready, only to find out HP didn't put the damn software in the box with it. Now I've got this useless piece of plastic sitting on my desk. I had to call in, spend two hours on the phone explaining to some idiot in their customer service department that I didn't get it illegally or through resale and they just forgot to put the CD in. Now I have to wait until they ship it to me a week from now. On top of that, the assholes are going to make me pay for shipping to get something that I should have had all along! I can't even return the stupid thing without the CD because they won't return “incomplete products”.

I'm bored. And I have to go to bed now. Waa.:(

lba
AUGH! … only to find out HP didn't put the damn software in the box with it.

why dont you download it?….9 times out of ten you can find the drivers and stuff on the company's page….i dont think i've used any company's cd for a while….




aaaaaaaahhhhhh….i had to work untill 9….and i have to be into work at the normal time tomorrow….sometimes i hate my job….

I tried that. HP doesn't have a downloadable version. They just make you get another CD.

I also tried torrenting it, and I couldn't find anything even after searching for an hour and a half.

i wish you wouldnt toy with me…it's uncool….it strains me….you don't know what i'm going thru balancing my job and you…and it's not like i can just quit my job and everything be okay…


post. script.

one step forward….two steps back

I fractured my toe and I'm an effin' horse!

Arashi_san
I fractured my toe and I'm an effin' horse!

But… I thought horses didn't have toes.

*I'm gonna go on a pointless, tl;dr rant now. Feel free to ignore me. I just really need to vent.*

My ex is getting on my nerves. He used to treat me like crap and now he's trying to snake his way back in my life. If it wasn't for the fact that I knew he was a lecherous bastard, I would consider his offer as a friend to be genuine but that is not the case. All the same, he nauseats me and everytime I try to escape him, he hunts me down on the internets. I can't block him because I don't think people will be on my side because they're on the outside looking in. He disgusts me. He is so worthless and icky to me. On top of that, he seems to hope that I'm having problems so that I'll open up to him. I won't do that though. I'll never give him ammunition to shoot me in the back.


He doesn't even deserve to talk to me. What the hell gives him the right?! I gave him more than I should have! He betrayed me, abandoned me and fucked me over royally. The only reason why I would even consider talking to him is out of pity. I can only hope that is soul is hallowed out by his pointless existance. I hope he withers away, trapped in his miserable life. Whether this happens or not, I just want him gone from me. All my memories of him make me ashamed and embarassed. I swear, if he was right here, I would punch him in the face. The nerve of him, saying I'm one of his dearest friends. Fuck him. I don't want to be his friend. I want him to get hit by a bus…not killed, just hurt really bad. Incapacitated for a little while. Bastard.

He deserves more than this but I'm done.

WOW, that was a genuine Rant Tea ^^

Fenn

Arashi_san
I fractured my toe and I'm an effin' horse!

But… I thought horses didn't have toes.

They have one on each “foot”, that's what a hoof is ;)

My turn for a rant! First one, too, I think.

I don't care how un-pc this is, but I'm so sick of the homeless people downtown. I have to walk 20 minutes from the train to my apartment building after midnight when I'm done work, and it looks like freakin' night of the living dead! There's bands of people wrapped up in blankets shuffling around in an otherwise empty street, and every single one will either ask for change or yell something at me.

There's no buses that run after midnight, and I can't afford to take a cab or pay for parking, so I HAVE to make this walk every time I work evenings. The very first night I did, I got chased up the stairs of the train station by some drunken, homeless guys! It's terrifying.

For one of the busiest areas in downtown Edmonton, there's a definite lack of police presence in both the train station and on the street. I understand these people don't have anywhere to go, but I'd feel safer if there were at least some cops nearby.

I really don't want to resort to carrying mace.

you know what?? i work hard at everything….and maybe i do have a little much on my plate right now….but it wouldnt be so bad if you hadn't done what you did…so forgive me for trying to rectify that problem as best and as soon as i can….
and not only what you did….but the problems keep piling up…but you know what? i'm still going to work hard at everything. because i like my job. it provides everything we need. there's nothing we've had to worry about untill you ran off…

I love it when people think they used me.

I ended up going to see Cara. First night we went to have dinner at the Rialto. It was pleasant and I kind of reminded her just exactly who she's dealing with. A few times she looked at me wide eyed that I knew something that I shouldn't, but then finally said, “Oh…that's right. I had kind of forgotten about all that with you…” The girl is a sipper. She sips her, very expensive, wine, but quite a few times she would DRINK when I hit on things that she wasn't quite comfortable with or hadn't wanted to talk about at the moment. All in all, the evening was very pleasant and I was glad to be out of the house. She gave me a rather tight hug at the end of it all, even going so far as to put her hand on the back of my head afterwards and pull me forward a bit before letting go. I think a lot of why she stopped was I made the comment, “Well, if you meet any hot cowgirls, invite me over to the party tomorrow.”


The next day she told me that I'm still invited to the party, so I headed over there. After checking the crowd out and getting a beer, I continued to flirt with everything in sight, as I tend to do when I'm having a good time for fun, and just was all around personable. I was the only one there in carpenter jeans, black shirt, shined up steel toed boots, and no cowboy hat. Figured I didn't need mine.

I got lots of looks and stares, not in a bad way, and was groped so many times that I lost count. Seriously…the females would walk by, with no reason to brush by me, place their hand at my shoulder, rub down my arms, and say, “Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me!” and then either run their hand across my stomach or chest. It was rather nice. Well, at the time that I was getting a bit of a following, Cara noticed a lot, tried to make me jealous by saying that it's been a huge ego boost for her there, and repeatedly and deliberately began standing right next to me or slightly behind me so that they wouldn't be able to again. At one point she even tried to keep me to herself in her showroom, but I wouldn't have any of that. If I wasn't so shy with females, I would have talked to a few of the girls who were just my style and cute as hell.

Later that night during everyone's farewells, she kept backing off when she went to hug me and someone else wanted to say goodbye as well. When she was finally the last person to get her hug in, she hugged me really tight, pretty long, and run her hands down my arms one last time as she was walking away.

I got a call halfway home from her saying that she was really happy that I was able to come out and she had a good time. Told her that if she wanted to do something else this weekend, I have nothing else to do, so it would be fine if she called me.


I send her a message yesterday saying that if she wanted to get together or just wanted the company, let me know. Her reply was that things were hectic that night, she's taking clients out, and that tonight was going to be very busy as well, but she really thanks me for getting together with her the other night.

My point? She wanted to prove to herself that she could still get me if she wanted to, and to prove to herself that she's got it, but won't let me have it. Reason this is hilarious? I had no intention of doing anything with her, let alone really wanting to go see her in the first place. I didn't buy her dinner, I didn't buy her gifts, and she ended up paying for my dinner on Thursday night, which she doesn't want any kind of payment back for.

I got out of the house, had some fun, drank free booze, hit on a lot of cute cowgirls, was recognized by a lot of people as one of the ‘three crazy guys’ from the other shows that my family business does, and got a free dinner. Who won that and who ended up using who?

tea_green
*I'm gonna go on a pointless, tl;dr rant now. Feel free to ignore me. I just really need to vent.*

My ex is getting on my nerves. He used to treat me like crap and now he's trying to snake his way back in my life. If it wasn't for the fact that I knew he was a lecherous bastard, I would consider his offer as a friend to be genuine but that is not the case. All the same, he nauseats me and everytime I try to escape him, he hunts me down on the internets. I can't block him because I don't think people will be on my side because they're on the outside looking in. He disgusts me. He is so worthless and icky to me. On top of that, he seems to hope that I'm having problems so that I'll open up to him. I won't do that though. I'll never give him ammunition to shoot me in the back.

If it really was that bad for you, then you wouldn't care what other people say nor think about the situation and would simply block the person. You don't owe anyone else an explanation for your actions, so it's not like you'd have to tell a long story.

It's really not that difficult to cut someone off. I've done it quite a few times and my last girlfriend did it to me…when we were still dating, I might add.

He doesn't even deserve to talk to me. What the hell gives him the right?! I gave him more than I should have! He betrayed me, abandoned me and fucked me over royally. The only reason why I would even consider talking to him is out of pity.

You seem to be giving him a lot of availability to talk to you now. That's the problem. You ask what gives him the right, but you give him that right by allowing it to continue.

I can only hope that is soul is hallowed out by his pointless existance. I hope he withers away, trapped in his miserable life. Whether this happens or not, I just want him gone from me. All my memories of him make me ashamed and embarassed. I swear, if he was right here, I would punch him in the face. The nerve of him, saying I'm one of his dearest friends. Fuck him. I don't want to be his friend. I want him to get hit by a bus…not killed, just hurt really bad. Incapacitated for a little while. Bastard.

Then don't be his friend. Stop giving him the availability to talk to you. Stop giving him a reason to speak with you. Stop complaining about how this is wrong or that is wrong and actually do something about it.

He deserves more than this but I'm done.

That may be so, but you're not helping much in all of it, are you?

Just out of curiosity, just how old are you? This seems like a “young” problem.

Green_Tangerine
My turn for a rant! First one, too, I think.

I don't care how un-pc this is, but I'm so sick of the homeless people downtown. I have to walk 20 minutes from the train to my apartment building after midnight when I'm done work, and it looks like freakin' night of the living dead! There's bands of people wrapped up in blankets shuffling around in an otherwise empty street, and every single one will either ask for change or yell something at me.

There's no buses that run after midnight, and I can't afford to take a cab or pay for parking, so I HAVE to make this walk every time I work evenings. The very first night I did, I got chased up the stairs of the train station by some drunken, homeless guys! It's terrifying.

For one of the busiest areas in downtown Edmonton, there's a definite lack of police presence in both the train station and on the street. I understand these people don't have anywhere to go, but I'd feel safer if there were at least some cops nearby.

I really don't want to resort to carrying mace.

Soon it will be the whole of America.

That is the exact proof of the agenda of the new world order and their reptilian allies. To enslave humanity. To concentrate all the wealth in the hands of a few elite while the rest of the population starves to death or lives like the peasants of the middle ages.

And those guys who chased after you. Please do not hate them. It is either they are on mind control or genetically altered with alien DNA. You could have been in the middle of a mind control experiment you know.

Carry a penny roll and use it to break his face when you punch him

Croi Dhubh
If it really was that bad for you, then you wouldn't care what other people say nor think about the situation and would simply block the person. You don't owe anyone else an explanation for your actions, so it's not like you'd have to tell a long story.

It's really not that difficult to cut someone off. I've done it quite a few times and my last girlfriend did it to me…when we were still dating, I might add.

You seem to be giving him a lot of availability to talk to you now. That's the problem. You ask what gives him the right, but you give him that right by allowing it to continue.


Then don't be his friend. Stop giving him the availability to talk to you. Stop giving him a reason to speak with you. Stop complaining about how this is wrong or that is wrong and actually do something about it.


That may be so, but you're not helping much in all of it, are you?

Just out of curiosity, just how old are you? This seems like a “young” problem.

Well, I'm 22…

…I can understand your point and I do agree with you. It's not like I haven't tried. I've changed my email, myspace and blocked him from all the IM's I have. Still, he just changes his sn and tries to talk to me. I just block that one. In all honesty, I'm trying not to encourage it. Besides, I was in a bad mood and wanted to whine about it.

to me…coming from you….friend is a four letter word…
end is the only part of the word…that i heard…

you work hard for someone…you dedicate everysecond you can….and then you screw up once…and suddenly…you never did anything for that person…and those three years mean absolutly nothing to them…….

Mind control and rolls of pennies, hmm? I wonder what kind of advice I'd get if I had gone off on a rant about relationships! lol!

Speaking of which…

Why am I always the ‘fallback’ girl? The one guys return to time and time again after whatever relationship they've been in comes to an end? Honestly, it's almost an insult - “Well, I thought I really liked her, but now I see that you're the one for me!” it's like a broken record.

Please. I'm 23 and would rather be alone than date someone with relationship ADD. I have far too much self respect than to fall for that crap. That's why I think I might have hit the jackpot with this latest guy - too bad he lives so very, very far away.

But I'm going to steal him away to Canada and then everything will be perfect. Yes, perfect…

Someone is trying to sabotage me…and I'm fucking pissed about it. I got a call from the detective today doing my background and she asked me about an altercation that I got into during the party graduation night.

Obviously I have no idea what she was talking about, and she said it was with a female. The answer is “didn't happen”. Then it was "possibly with someone over a female“. Again, the answer is still ”DID NOT HAPPEN". She asked me like three times if anything like that happened, and I told her that it didn't…hell, even my brother was there that night with us, so absolutely not.


I can't understand why people would be so fucking petty and jealous that they would go to that extent to try and either better their chance of getting hired there or make me look bad. My interest in women at the moment is damn near zero as I have many more important things underway, namely my career.

This is my brother on the left:


Do you really think he'd stand there and let me fight with a woman or over a woman? Nooooo. If I wanted a chick, it would be someone I wouldn't have to put in a lot of effort with since I'm not looking to hook-up, anyway.

tea_green

Croi Dhubh
If it really was that bad for you, then you wouldn't care what other people say nor think about the situation and would simply block the person. You don't owe anyone else an explanation for your actions, so it's not like you'd have to tell a long story.

It's really not that difficult to cut someone off. I've done it quite a few times and my last girlfriend did it to me…when we were still dating, I might add.

You seem to be giving him a lot of availability to talk to you now. That's the problem. You ask what gives him the right, but you give him that right by allowing it to continue.


Then don't be his friend. Stop giving him the availability to talk to you. Stop giving him a reason to speak with you. Stop complaining about how this is wrong or that is wrong and actually do something about it.


That may be so, but you're not helping much in all of it, are you?

Just out of curiosity, just how old are you? This seems like a “young” problem.

Well, I'm 22…

…I can understand your point and I do agree with you. It's not like I haven't tried. I've changed my email, myspace and blocked him from all the IM's I have. Still, he just changes his sn and tries to talk to me. I just block that one. In all honesty, I'm trying not to encourage it. Besides, I was in a bad mood and wanted to whine about it.

Hehe, get a restraining order. That would be awesome.

Green_Tangerine
Mind control and rolls of pennies, hmm? I wonder what kind of advice I'd get if I had gone off on a rant about relationships! lol!

Speaking of which…

Why am I always the ‘fallback’ girl? The one guys return to time and time again after whatever relationship they've been in comes to an end? Honestly, it's almost an insult - “Well, I thought I really liked her, but now I see that you're the one for me!” it's like a broken record.

Please. I'm 23 and would rather be alone than date someone with relationship ADD. I have far too much self respect than to fall for that crap. That's why I think I might have hit the jackpot with this latest guy - too bad he lives so very, very far away.

But I'm going to steal him away to Canada and then everything will be perfect. Yes, perfect…

Maybe because you're too nice and make it easy to do? Or, you could be just actually really great and people realize their mistake and want to come back. Don't know you enough to say for certain.

Why do people always come to me for help? Do I have a sign around my neck that says ‘Professional Problem Solver’? I have enough shit on my plate without being harrassed at all hours by people with all kinds of problems. I know it sounds selfish -which is why I can't really turn them down- but it's really starting to get on my nerves. I hate being nice.

Croi Dhubh
Maybe because you're too nice and make it easy to do? Or, you could be just actually really great and people realize their mistake and want to come back. Don't know you enough to say for certain.

Well, they always get shut down when they try it, so I'm not THAT nice, aha. I mean, I have no problem being civil to people, but the second that “I like you again” bull starts, I make it very clear that their chance has passed.

Guess it's the latter reason… I am pretty great.

i just want to know what i did wrong….seriously…..you can't just break off all contact….sometimes the pressure just makes me wanna give up…….

Awhile ago I had to drive my uncle all the way to the airport. Cuz he gotta go cuz hes on a tourist visa.

Before he boarded the plane, the last goodbye was a little painful.

I almost cried like a little bitch… but almost instantaneously I learned a technique that will dispell your sadness.

You know that feeling when youre about to cry. That funny feeling of a lump in your throat and the butterflies in your stomach.

Just as the tears were about to come outta my eyes, I stopped it right there using a technique I learned almost instantaneously. A few tears came out. And then wham. Back to normal.

I am a skeptic of that psychic stuff that involves a person instantly learning something because that skill was beamed down by some superior being (most likely a spirit or alien) that isnt God. But it DID come to me that moment.


“HAHAHAHAHA! kyupol likes to talk bullshit. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Laugh all you want. I know it worked. And I will further develop that technique. And use it for the good such as dispelling anger. lol I dont wanna go to jail or lose a job if someone in the office or the bar pisses me off.

This isnt the first time I instantaneously learned something. For all I know, since early childhood I have this skill that allows me to achieve unparalleled sexual pleasure with no use of the sense of touch or sight.

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOOK AT ALL HIS BULLSHIT POSTS!!!

Laugh all you want. This reminds me of the middle ages when the whole world thought the earth is flat and that theyre the only people on this earth.

The human brain and human spirit has alot of potential and I firmly believe in it.