Saturday, January 9, 2010

Say No To Whiners! 12:38 PM

Have you seen those facebook messages/msn messages that go, "Have to go back to work on a weekend (insert sad smiley)" or "It's 10pm and I'm still at work (insert sad smiley)" or "Working late again" "Working on a weekend again" " Back at work on a holiday" "Back at work on New Years Day" blahblah. Doesn't it really get on your nerves? I sometimes feel like shaking these people and telling them, STOP WHINING! If work is all you have to worry about, YOU SHOULD BE GLAD!

You have to pardon me if I feel no sympathy for these people. You see, living all alone in a foreign country, and doing my PhD in a top university, of course I have a lot to worry about for work. I go to work every weekend almost, and stay late almost everyday, sometimes the only person working in the entire building. And see, for me it doesn't stop there. When I am about to go home, I think about which road to walk home from so that its safest. I wonder if anyone is going to jump me when I'm walking home late at night after work. Then when I finally come home from work, I have to think about what to cook for dinner, because eating out over here, unlike in Singapore, is too expensive for me to do on a daily basis. I mostly end up eating instant noodles cos I'm too tired to cook. And then there's the weather. Is it going to be windy tomorrow? Is it going to snow? Are the roads going to be icy (if its a weekend and I'm driving to work)? What kind of clothes should I wear? And then there's more. Checking the mail, seeing if there's any forgotten bill to be paid, checking the laundry, seeing if it needs to be done by today, looking around the house, seeing if it needs to be tidied.

And then there are the miscellaneous stuff that pop up along the way. Have I filed my taxes? Is it time for me to change the engine oil for my car? Is it time for the tyres to be rotated? Can it start up today (for the day after I got AAA to jumpstart my car)? Is it time to review my insurance so that I might be able to get a cheaper insurance? Is there a cheaper apt to rent/buy? And when things break down around the house, how do I fix it? (I usually just go to youtube and search 'how to do XXX', very useful!) And when it snows, I will wonder, should I go down and brush the snow off my car? And when it rains, should I go scrape the ice off my car (if the temperature dips below freezing) before it freezes hard to my windshield? And when household equipment break down to unfixable states, I will have to go search for a replacement and buy it.

But of course, this is not just about me. All I'm trying to say is, having to do all these alone is hard, having to take care of myself in a foreign country is hard. Sometimes I do wish life can give me a break. Sometimes I also wish there were a man around to help me with random stuff. But I don't complain/whine. Because I know that I'm not the only one doing this. There are many friends living here who have to go through the same things everyday. And many others who have a lot more to take care of than the above, those who have little ones at home to take care of, who have aged parents to take care of, those who have lost their jobs and do not even have a home to live in any more, having to face the harsh winter every night in the streets.

That is why I get so annoyed when I see people whine. Especially when they deem it their mission to make sure everyone in their friends list see their whinings. And usually its those people who have the least to whine about who whine the loudest. My message to those people, enough already! Suck it up and just do what you gotta do because there's no getting around it. Whining is not going to help. And to those of you who read this, help me out here. If any of your friends whine, do me a favor and get them to shut up. This is becoming a whiny epidemic! For the future of our fellow countrymen (yes because its Singaporeans living in Singapore who whine the most), this has to stop!

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武林盟主 is this pugilistic genius everyone calls a deranged lunatic. But that's cos they haven't witnessed her great powers yet! She can be regarded as the best product coming from the Pugislistic World in the past 100 years, and 武當, 少林 and 峨嵋 are scrambling to get her to be their 掌门人. She likes think of herself as the next 杨过, 郭靖 or 张无忌.

武林盟主 also has this slightly straight slightly crooked sexuality. At times when the Estrogen triumphs, she preys on hot guys. Other times when the Testosterone levels peak, she preys on hot girls. Some say that is a side effect of the 葵花宝典. Her doctors are still working to establish that.

Many say she's invincible. But that's not true. Bring a DURIAN in front of her, and she will ditch her sword and raise the white flag. She's still desperately trying to master the 闭气功 so she can overcome this weakness.

She now resides in a tiny little room in a tiny little building in a tiny little university/hospital in the tiny little city of Baltimore, studying her tiny little life away in the hopes of getting some Permanent Head Damage. If you feel you can communicate at her level and wish for her to be your soulmate, feel free send her a note of pugilistic admiration and alliance!