Archive for May, 2008

The only consistent factor in all your dysfunctional relationships is you.

May 29th

Amen to this! Nice guys don’t finish last. “Nice Guys” do.

Please take 20 minutes to read this very true article

here. (It’s worth it.)

She’s almost (but not quite) as concise as Mr. Nox! Sometimes you don’t even know that you have a certain opinion until someone tells you that you do. And then you really do.

Quotes for truth.

Nice Guys usually are crap at reading body language and nonverbal cues and usually have serious personal space problems. Women get creeped out because they feel like the guy is literally clinging to them, or is coming on really strong really fast, or doesn’t seem to pick up on the fact that they’re tensing up or moving away. But since the Nice Guy *knows* he has good intentions, he is deeply insulted by the suggestion that his behavior is unwelcome, creepy, or even threatening. (Whereas a genuine nice guy who misreads a situation is horrified that he might have come across that way and apologizes for it.)

They tend to befriend women in order to date them. Nice Guys don’t usually just ask a woman out and at least make a pretext of friendship to use as a springboard. This is where they can get confused with actual nice guys, who tend to also befriend women before dating them, but the difference is that the genuine nice guy appreciates women as human beings and enters into friendships mostly for their own sake rather than working them as an angle. The Nice Guy, on the other hand, sees women mostly in sexual terms (although he will deny it or call it “romantic terms”) but doesn’t have a lot of success with the direct approach, so instead he puts on a charming, harmless face in order to befriend women with the expectation that she will reward his niceness and friendship with sex. It can be a subtle difference, but there are clues– the Nice Guy tends to come on pretty strong as a friend, and often makes “joking” sexual comments that can be dismissed as not intended seriously if the woman doesn’t respond to the come-on implied in it. He will hang his belief that you would make great friends on the smallest of compatibilities– for example a shared interest in a band, which he makes an awful lot of hay out of. He may talk a lot about how victimized he’s been by cruel ex-girlfriends in a ploy for sympathy.

There’s one of those parody motivational posters that says, “The only consistent factor in all your dysfunctional relationships is you.” There’s a big ole chunk of truth in that. So if you are reading this and you think you might be a Nice Guy and you can’t imagine why you aren’t in a relationship, you might want to give that a think.

Hitting on a woman when she’s talking to you about her problems is just not cool. Especially if they are relationship problems.

Flirting without expecting a return on investment is ok. Active seduction when there are clear signs that it is welcome is ok. Trying to constantly slip in “innocent” gropes, innuendo, kisses, or anything else when she’s not interested is the adult equivalent of “are we there yet? are we there yet? how about now? how about now?”

What’s wrong with being shallow?

May 28th

Posted by Wendy in Uncategorized

27 comments

I have no idea what happened (being very shallow, obviously), but apparently someone (or some people) is(are) quite bitter that shallow posts are being read much more than their carefully worded elaborate insightful cheem posts, and that crappy rubbish is being sprouted on the shoutbox by people like me.

I sincerely apologize. From now on, I will only discuss politics there. I sure don’t want to be labelled shallow (the horrors!!) anymore!

I intend to start a very intellectual and deep (as opposed to shallow) politics-related topic on the shoutbox later, and I hope that everyone will join in the discussion.

BUSH MORE HANDSOME OR GOH CHOK TONG?

Update: Comments for this post are closed until further notice because this post is somehow a (mega) comment-spam attractor.

I cooked supper!

May 28th

Posted by Wendy in Eating In

4 comments

Late night hunger pangs struck me, and I ventured off to my kitchen. I saw maggi mee, but I’ve been eating that for the past… forever. Anyway. It suddenly hit me that I should create a dish! Wahahaha.

So I rumaged for ingredients in my pathetic kitchen. Before I tell you what I found, I have to say that my mum is really anal about stocking up nice food. It’s either unhealthy, too expensive, or stuff that she doesn’t eat herself. Mostly it falls into the third category. (Aforementioned maggi mee belongs to maid, not mum.)

So I found bread, eggs, cheddar cheese and apples. Seriously. That’s all there is… unless you want me to count the 2 plastic bags of minced meat and 1 fish head.

What do I do with bread, eggs and cheddar cheese and apples? I couldn’t figure out how to cook apples without baking them, but I decided to give it a shot anyway.

Heat is heat. (or so I presumed)

Long story short, after mentally matching many potential combinations of above ingredients I decided to make apples with cheese and scrambled egg, and french toast. It was either a huge hit or a huge miss with the apple thing, but then I was rationalising..

That’s how great cooks are born! They innovate and push boundaries!

Great cooks must have tasted some really bad stuff before, with all the testing going on.

This is my apple with scrambled egg and cheese.

The scrambled egg and cheese actually tastes really good, but the apple was kinda…. strange.

French toast was… french toast lor.

On hindsight, I should’ve made french toast with the scrambled egg and cheese as filling. It would have been yummmyyyyyyy.

Next time, I guess.

Most ridiculous patents that ever existed – You may be violating one right now!

May 27th

Posted by Wendy in Interesting

6 comments

Companies in Singapore are getting sued left, right, center by a certain Singapore registered firm, Vuestar Tech. Apparently, they own the “method of locating web-pages by utilising visual images“. Basically, any image that link to other webpages are violating their patent.

Like this one!

Looky me, I’m violating a patent! Any discount for cute images? Anyway. An interesting fact is that although they were awarded the patent around 2003, they only decided to register their domain in December 2007.

Hur? It’s an Australian man with a Malaysian hosted website suing Singaporean companies. Hur? I don’t get it. Why choose us? And why now?

This is an example of an invoice that many companies have received.

They seem to be charging around $3,000 to $5,000 for the rights to using their (freaking ridiculous) patent. They are such patent trolls.

While we’re at this, lets examine what other scary patents there are out there that we may be (gasp) violating! We all want to be good citizens, don’t we? Please take every instruction from this line forward very, very seriously. Please!

From this moment onward,

1. DO NOT play with your cat by making them chase the light from a laser pointer!

Someone owns this patent for method of exercising a cat!

A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.

2. DO NOT play tug-of-war with your mouth!

Doing this could send a lawyer letter (and a dentist) coming your way!

3. DO NOT double click!

Microsoft has successfully patented using short, long or double clicks to launch different applications on “limited resource computing devices” – presumably PDAs and mobile phones. The US patent was granted on 27 April.

Yes, no more double clicking for you on your handphone or PDA.

4. DO NOT have a playlist for your songs!

Someone actually received a patent for the concept of music play lists and is suing everyone who uses one.

A system implementable using a programmable processor includes a plurality of pre-stored commands for building an inventory of audio, musical, works or audio/visual works, such as music videos. A plurality of works can be collected together in a list for purposes of establishing a play or a presentation sequence. The list can be visually displayed and edited. A plurality of lists can be stored for subsequent retrieval. A selected list can be retrieved and executed. Upon execution, the works of the list are presented sequentially either audibly or visually. The works can be read locally from a source, such as a CD, or can be obtained, via wireless transmission, from a remote inventory. If desired, establishment of a predetermined credit can be a pre-condition to being able to add items to the list for presentation.

5. DO NOT tie a plastic bag at the end of a stick!

It is supposed to be -get this- used to catch your pet’s droppings!

Can you imagine someone walking their dog like this?

Okay abrupt end. Dinner’s here. Kthxbye!

My noobling of a theme.

May 27th

Posted by Wendy in Geekology

4 comments

This noob theme is not feed compatible! That’s why the little feed icon at the address bar went poof.

MEHHHHHHHH.

Anyway.

I have no idea what I did to trigger the feed problem, because although it didn’t have that icon all along, feed readers could access it (I think, because my pings were on time at Ping.Sg).

What did I do?! What do I do?!

*grumbles* Don’t tell me I have to change my theme again. This theme is so pretty. Are there any techperts around who are willing to techlighten me?