when I least expected it

The girl I am dating just told me she wants to drop out of college. I am still speechless.

vegetables and sex. who would've known?

Despite the apparent stick in their ass, you have got to love PETA for their creativity in coming up with highly suggestive commercials to get people to quit eating meat.

Oh, and Whoopi Goldberg made a spoof of the commercial. I dare not click the link lest I have my already fragile eyes vaporised at the very sight of her straddling a cucumber in her undies.

another tirade on exams and our bright sunny future, just to keep the 'Geek' in the blog title relevant

...I should learn to summarise my blog titles.

Anyway, hello! Now I know I have been absent from this blog for weeks, but you would have to forgive me for placing my final exams and the many, many exciting nights I spent crunching numbers and the wide wonderful world of trigonometrical calculations at the top of my priority list. I somehow held on to my sanity by indulging in a perverse sort of pleasure by using my thesis draft as rough paper for my calculations. Yes, my thesis draft. I like to think of it as an indirect fuck you to the college that put me through hell writing a 100-page thesis. In case you are wondering, I do see the humongous flaw in defacing my sweat n' blood covered thesis for the sake of the exams that the same effing college that I am trying to spite put me through, BUT REALLY! I need a reason, any reason, to hold on to my sanity.

Still.

It has been a while since I've walked out of exam halls smiling, eager to compare and discuss page-long calculations that still rattles in my head, every fucking symbol of it. Perhaps it is the fact that it is my last examination, perhaps I just wanted to go out with a last hurrah and a bang, perhaps I finally pulled myself together since my first fuckup at the dawn of my Advanced Diploma, perhaps it is the good karma surrounding me as of late, perhaps it is merely God 's way of apologising for a shitty 2008, but boy did I kick that examination's ass.

While we're on the topic of education and our bright futures and all that, my parents have just acquired the email of a cousin who is working in UK. Now, said cousin is some bigshot electrical engineer earning big bucks like nobody's business there, and it's pretty hard to ignore his existence even though he lives tens of thousands of miles away mainly because of his tendency to purchase local real estate as though they're like kuihs sold at the random roadside, something that his mom who is also my aunt would trumpet to the entire satellite family with every million dollar bungalow he buys.

Needless to say, my parents placed their shining hopes on me to follow his footsteps and buy houses left and right too, hence their insistence that I do some sort of Masters and park my ass in the UK for a few years. Nooooooooo pressure at all, people.

So I was thinking like how hard could it be? Because seriously, I was actually told that a friend's housekeeper who merely services an entire Nottingham hostel drives a frigging Z3. A Z3!! Or how another friend's friend who is working as a translator at a hospital could earn enough dough to start buying LV and Burberry shit left and right. Now being the sunny bright optimistic me, I concluded that saving up to buy millions of ringgit of real estate in Penang couldn't be rocket science, so I decided to look Google his company, MyMeth.

(Perhaps it is just me, but did anyone notice ANY form of weird, illegal-sounding wordplay in the company name? MyMeth? As in Meth Saya? As in saya punya METHamphetamine? Just wondering. Hmm.)

I saw the company description on their website and immediately started doubting my sunny optimism about making enough to buy houses in Penang like kuihs.

MyMeth specializes in both hierarchical and flat methodology which covers both physical and timing convergence aspects of sub-130 nanometer design and verification: design partitioning for floorplanning and placement; workable methodology for clock-tree synthesis; congestion analysis and prevention; sub-microns process geometry effects.

I am not from an electrical engineering background, so hey who knows these bombastic jargon could be really just ABCs to the average EE engineer and that my rainbow bunny optimism may be right after all but then they just had to write down shit like nanometer design and sub-microns process geometry effects. Okay it is fucking rocket science. Sigh. So much for my dreams of waltzing my way to bigass bungalows in Penang.

Oh, and on a happier note, Happy Chinese New Year everybody!

(Despite the apparent trend I absolutely refuse to replace the 'New' with 'Niu' because please, people! We already have enough butchered English phrases without adding the cheesy, painfully uncreative ones. Replace 'New' with 'Niu'?? Ohmygawd you're so clever how is it possible that you thought it up you should be on Jay Leno's ohmygawd.)