Filed Under Rants
I guess it’s something women have to live with. It’s God given literally.
The one thing that I truly hate when it is the time of the month is the fact that I get breakouts all over my face. There used to be 2 things I hated - the dreaded cramps but thankfully, I don’t have them anymore. These days, it’s the breakouts. No amount of acne treatment cream can help since my skin is very conducive for breeding these pesky thing-o-magee. I have truly combination skin, leaning towards the oily side more.
I suppose the weather and the food doesn’t help either. I might have to consider a colder country and be a cow all year long!
Filed Under Home, Rants
Let me rant just a little bit here. I live in a townhouse and my neighbour lives directly upstairs from me. They are lovely people, do not get me wrong and no, I do not have a gun to my head as I am typing this. They really are!
However, I have a problem whenever they spend their time in the living room. You see, I always spend my time in my living room and theirs is just directly above mine. Whenever they are there, the air-conditioner will be turned on and I have a problem with their ac compressor - it is just freaking loud!! The noise penetrates to my living room and whenever I am watching tv, I hear this whhhhiiirrriinnggg sound coming from upstairs. It can be totally annoying at times.
Thank goodness they spend most of their time in the bedroom which gives me much reprieve to watch my favourite movies in peace. Otherwise, I’ll get a headache!
Filed Under Rants
This is my new notebook. The hubs was so kind to get me one so that I can surf whenever and where ever. He wanted to surprise me with it but I ended up at the shop with him, just in case he needed a loud mouth to screw the sales assistant. I am a scorpion, what do you think?
I celebrated my birthday on 27th Oct which was a Saturday. He was on leave on Friday since it was a replacement leave he earned cos he worked on a public holiday a few weeks back. According to him, he already had one particular notebook in mind but didn’t want to travel too far to get it. So, he ended up at Ikano Power Centre instead.
He wanted to get it at Harvey Norman initially but they didn’t have the freebies he wanted. He went to another prominent IT shop just opposite Harvey at Level 1. “Prominent” not because they are good but because the shop sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of all the other shops. It is hard to miss.
At first glance, IT Planet Computer Store Sdn Bhd (I told you I wasn’t gonna spare names) seemed impressive. Very chic, had the class to fit the niche shoppers that roam the place. As soon as you step in, you know that it don’t belong. The air about it made me feel like an up-market Low Yat. What’s worse, there was this couple who went in the shop, looking and wandering, fell short and stopped at the counter where the sales girl was attending to some paying customer. Instead of asking politely what the couple wanted and directing them to another sales person who could help them, she shouted across the room to her colleague “OI, CAN’T YOU SEE I AM BUSY?”. The couple left. Duh? Wouldn’t you?
This guy called Michael Tay attended to my hubby. Granted, my hubby wasn’t wearing his best shirt and had his ah piau slippers on but nothing wrong with that right? I mean, as long as he got the cash, who the hell cares if he went with my grandfather’s sarong and pagoda singlet?
My hubby told Michael that he’s looking for a specific notebook. Instead, he was shown the iMAC? Are you daft? Listen to your customer dimwit. My hubby don’t need a MAC, we have enough of McD to last us a lifetime. We just want a damn notebook, damnit!! Ok, give him the benefit of the doubt, he had initiative. If he was my staff, I would be pleased.
My hubby told him “no, just a bla bla bla would do”. Ok, I wasn’t there to see the expression on his sorry face but I could sense even from where I was, he was kinda disappointed. He threw in some useful freebies and my hubby purchased the XP Home Edition as well. My hubby asked him if he could install it for us and he readily agreed. Note : Lesson to be learned here. Do not leave the shop until they have finished whatever that they have agreed to do for you.
Michael started to rummage through whatever that he was looking for to get the thing going while my hubby went to the payment counter. After he paid, he told Michael that he would come back later to collect it and Michael agreed. Halfway driving home, Michael called my hubby to tell him that the software he bought cannot be installed. He needed to get the XP Pro which will costs my hubby a couple of hundred dollars more. My hubby asked him ‘why” to which his reply was “Its not compatible with your notebook”. Huh? “Why didn’t you tell me that before? And why did you say it was possible while I was at the store?” Bloody hell!! Then, my hubby told him “I don’t want it anymore, please cancel my order” to which Michael quickly said “ok, I’ll see what I can do”. Tried to pull a fast one. He tried again to explain to my hubby why my hubby had to get the XP Pro but well, his explanations got shot down each time. Michael wasn’t a happy man.
At this point in time, I went into the shop. I observed that the sales people were only interested in people who dressed expensive and the ‘kwai’. So, we went to the wrong place isn’t it cos obviously, they had not put on their night visors to see that we (my hubby and I) had very thick wallets despite our appearance. Ok, so maybe we weren’t interested in the Mac. So what? It is not like we went in and bought just a mouse pad right? Look, I have been to classier store at KLCC dressed like a maid with my Bata slippers on and yet people in there don’t discount the fact that I could very well end up a paying customer. These people are so shallow or colour blind that they should be sacked for lack of humility. The best part was, the throws of kwai that strode in didn’t even buy a thing. Nope, not a single strand of grey hair of off Micheal’s head.
After about 30 minutes of waiting, Micheal was still attempting to install whatever he agreed to install for us. At some point I felt sorry for him cos it was so obvious he didn’t know how. That is not the worst part. None of his colleague who were there came to help him except for one but even then, she only did a little as it was quite apparent that she did not to want to be seen ‘helping’ him out. Take your office politics somewhere else, I only want my notebook. All I wanted was to go home and eat but we were still there for another 30 minutes, waiting.
My hubby then asked Micheal if he could have the CD containing all the relevant drivers. Micheal said “no, as we only have one”. Ok, my hubby asked if he could have it burned separately to which the reply was “it will take a long time”. My hubby said “Might as well since I have already been here for the last hour” (Hubby wasn’t in the mood to play a happy guy). Then Micheal said “It will cost you’. My hubby asked “how much?”. Michael replied “RM2” WTF???.
Seriously, I was glad to get out of there. I tell you, I really felt like walking out of there without the notebook, period! I wanted to ask my hubby to cancel the order and ask the credit card company to block payment. If the shop had resisted, there will be turning of heads and there will be another ranting post on this blog.
Filed Under Rants
Woohoo…this shall be my first rant. Let me rant so to get this blog christian-ed with some good ol’ women bitching. Pardon the language but I am super damn pissed with all these google lowering the pageranks of some respectable blogs. Decent blogs who got hit are the victims.
What’s up with me? My blog has a page rank of a shameful number and why am I complaining? In the world of the ya-ya sista-hoods, we da sista’s and occasionally, the bruthers, who support the sistas, of bloggers stick together through thick and thin. So, if anyone of us gets hit, everyone start forming a mob and hit back.
Pagerank to most is very important because no one wants their blog to be read by no one but themselves. It is rather asinine. If you want to formulate your written thoughts in private where no one will find out, then go get yourself a diary, not have a blog. Blogs are meant for people who wants to communicate with people. Though some would say that they don’t mind if no one reads their blogs. Pardon me but I think, that’s a whole lot of bull!!
People generally seek and crave attention. They want to be popular. It is human nature. Everyone seeks to be famous. Blogging allows even the terribly shy individuals a platform where they can be who they are with no inhibition since there is no need to show your face if you choose not to. Since blogs are essentially represented by humans and as human nature goes, attention and popularity are pretty much an important factor. Therefore, a drop in your pagerank may indicate that you are not as popular as you thought you were or less sought after since its also human nature that people tend to flock to those who are popular. Just take a look at a celebrity and you will know what I am talking about.
So, even if you are blogging for the sake of blogging, a drop in your pagerank will have some effect on you. However, the most hit or the bloggers that feel the pinch most are those who blog for money. Granted that you started out blogging to stay sane or for the fun of it, when you start making money from your blog, your entire perception about blogging changes. Pagerank becomes the source of sleepness nights as it will affect your revenue since some advertisers use pagerank as a benchmark of how popular your blog is or there will be less paid post opportunities to choose from out in the paid post market. So, this pagerank thing, is important not to lose for those who blog for money.
Now we know the reason why a blogger’s pagerank is so important, what can we do to prevent further decline in our pagerank (if you have been affected by it) or what can we do to get back the pagerank that we were comfortable with? Frankly, there isn’t. No one knows how or why? We can only speculate. Google doesn’t announce a formula or a scoring system where your blog has to satisfy this, this and that to earn this and that pagerank. It is like Pentagon or something. Like the virtual tsunami, comes all of a sudden and wipes out everyone clean. Some barely surviving while some were lucky enough to come out unscathed. Most lost their livelihood and have to start from scratch.
So, now, can you see why I am pissed? Some of my fellow bloggers who have been making a decent living from their blogs are now left to fend for themselves and scrape whatever that is left. Worst is some even don’t want to be associated with some blogrolls for fear of a domino effect i.e if you are linked to an affected blog, your blog may be affected as well. That is just plain prejudice. Its like being scared of an AIDS victim if you sit near him. Come on? Do you lack in confidence so much that you would resort leaving your pal to save your own skin? Blogging is supposed to be a fun way of socialising and interacting plus earning some extra cash to spend (for most but if you quit your job to blog for money full-time then sorry la, I don’t have an opinion on this. I rather not). Don’t we already have so much pretentiousness in our everyday life that just because of money, it has to be that way in the blogsphere as well? Call me a naive noob, I don’t care. I honestly don’t know what is the social etiquette of the blogsphere. All I know is, blog because you love to blog. When your focus shifts to money, things like pageranks will get you down if they are not favourable to you. The only way is to be strong and independent. Find ways to overcome this pagerank issue. Don’t abandon those who have been there for you.
