A quickie blurb about links

A couple of years back, when people subscribed to mailing lists or Internet groups/forums argue with each other to prove a point, they used emote icons, super-sized caps or rainbow-filled fonts to make their discussions a little bit lively. But I guess we've had enough of that, so we started to send links, instead. I mean, why spend a lot of time crunching the keyboard, when you can opt to send a simple html tag that points to any web page that can do the argument for you - "Here boy... fetch!".

Come to think of it, our forefathers didn't have the luxury of communicating via the Internet. Can you imagine what it was like? They must have shouted a LOT - and emit ample amounts of saliva in the process - just to prove their point.

For me, links are just a notch lower from the copy-and-paste maneuver(according to my infinite and ineffable wisdom, this feature has decreased cheating incidents in classrooms to about, uh... 90%). I wonder what people are going to think of next.

Here I go again... loaded with bitter alkaloid.

This country had been infiltrated by corporate coffee shops that sell ideas and not coffee. And one of those ideas is, "I'm sipping coffee from a hip coffee shop because I'm such a [insert obnoxious adjective here]". I'm a judgemental prick and this is how I see it. If you don't agree with me then there's not much I can about it.

I'd be a hypocrite if I say that I don't go to these coffee shops to buy overpriced coffee. I say it's overpriced because one coffee costs more than three meals - at least to my standards. What's funny is that I only buy coffee amidst all the other drinks that they sell. Aside from the fact that the names of these drinks are not that descriptive to a novice, "coffee" is the only thing that I can pronounce. I have to put a lot of effort just to read the other drinks that they're selling. Having to properly pronounce the names of these drinks is a truly excruciating experience - it causes my mouth to foam and my eyeballs to twitch to opposite directions.

But the thing that bothers me is: WHY? I mean, I know that it's insanely expensive and way over my budget. And what's more, I can't really distinguish good coffee from bad coffee. For me, coffee is coffee. Whether it's from one of those hip coffee shops or it's from a sachet bought from a department store that has "instant coffee" plastered all over the front and costs around five pesos.

So why do I purchase something that I know is a total rip-off? I guess it all goes back to what I wrote in the first part of this post. I have to say that I'm buying the idea. Hands down, they win.

My I.Q. is at par with that of a cockroach. And, this is what I have to say.

The process of adapting to a culture does not only invlove rituals or aesthetics. What I'm trying to say is, putting on dreadlocks does not make you a Rastafari. The process of adapting must be rooted deeper - it has to come about to satisfy an urgent need. If not, then you can never really say that you've adapted. You'd be reduced to what most people would call a "poser".

Some people say that Starups thrive on culture. If that is true, then I guess I'm merely a "poser". But then again, aren't we all?