I do my laundry on Saturdays at a laundry shop approximately two blocks away from the house. Since most folks do their laundry on Sundays - just like what the ten commandments says - I do mine on Saturdays where it's just me and the washing machines and the dryers... er, and yes, the shopkeeper. What strikes me about the shopkeeper is that she doesn't say more than five words for every sentence that she utters, which is somewhat creepy because I'm beggining to think that she might be an andriod programmed to watch over the machines (But I'm creepier, because I tend to notice these things).
Anyway, the whole thing takes about two hours, so after a while it gets pretty boring. I usually bring a book with me but yesterday I forgot to bring one. I could have dashed back home, but I felt lazy so I decided to just while my time staring outside, watching the cars passing by and hope that my saliva won't drip down the side of my mouth because somebody might come in and think that I'm some sort of retard. Luckily, that didn't happen.
While I was there, looking outside the window doing my best to look normal, I thought about a lot of things. I'm enumerating them here because I found them quite interesting(I'm not sure if I remembered all of them correctly). Of course, what's interesting to me might not be of any interest to some -OR- probably anyone.
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People say that change is constant. I guess that's the reason why people hate it so much - it just doesn't stop. What puzzles me is that most people who agree that change is constant also believe that there is this someone from somewhere who has complete control over everything.
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Migrating from a centralized source code repository into a de-centralized source code repositroy is like eating your own puke - definitely not doable while your sober.
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In a perfect world, it is certainly possible to not judge a book by its cover. However, in the real world, that is just not possible. Right? We all carry our biases wherever we go. And - I honestly hope that I'm wrong - that's why we are all judgemental.
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About three years ago, I was in Japan for this training. In one of the boring lectures, the speaker said that there is no market for Karaoke machines in India because Indians are reluctant to sing in public - or something to that effect. Anyway, one of the trainees was Indian and he got furious. I honestly don't see exactly why he reacted that way. He probably felt that the example was racist. Yes, and he also probably thought that the current year is 1930.
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Each of us have our own way of coping/adapting to the world around us. Even if we feel like a three-foot wrench had been hauled up our ":"s, we're still hopeful that thing will somehow get better.
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I enjoy listening to Filipinos arguing in english - they sound as if it would make their arguments more convincing or more correct. Come to think of it, in the Philippines, anything said in english would automatically be considered 90% true no matter how absurd or idiotic (In here, grammar is certainly more important than content, it's sad but true). Of course, I just made up the 90%-true part. But what the hell, I'm writing this in english, aren't I?
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There are so many webframeworks these days. Choosing the right one for your particular web application is so confusing, to say the least. I'll probably write a post about it on my other blog. Right now, I wonder which among the three - django, rails and spring - is more fun to work on.
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People have their own mental picture of heaven. For me, heaven would be like lying on a hammock beside the beach listening to your favorite tunes with an {insert favorite mp3 player here}. I wonder what other people's mental picture of heaven is like?
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I think the most interesting people are those who are capable of making jokes about themselves. I know only a handful of these freaks of nature and it's always fun being with them.
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Well, this is it for this post. Surprisingly, it's the longet one I've had in a while.
Anyway, the whole thing takes about two hours, so after a while it gets pretty boring. I usually bring a book with me but yesterday I forgot to bring one. I could have dashed back home, but I felt lazy so I decided to just while my time staring outside, watching the cars passing by and hope that my saliva won't drip down the side of my mouth because somebody might come in and think that I'm some sort of retard. Luckily, that didn't happen.
While I was there, looking outside the window doing my best to look normal, I thought about a lot of things. I'm enumerating them here because I found them quite interesting(I'm not sure if I remembered all of them correctly). Of course, what's interesting to me might not be of any interest to some -OR- probably anyone.
...
People say that change is constant. I guess that's the reason why people hate it so much - it just doesn't stop. What puzzles me is that most people who agree that change is constant also believe that there is this someone from somewhere who has complete control over everything.
...
Migrating from a centralized source code repository into a de-centralized source code repositroy is like eating your own puke - definitely not doable while your sober.
...
In a perfect world, it is certainly possible to not judge a book by its cover. However, in the real world, that is just not possible. Right? We all carry our biases wherever we go. And - I honestly hope that I'm wrong - that's why we are all judgemental.
...
About three years ago, I was in Japan for this training. In one of the boring lectures, the speaker said that there is no market for Karaoke machines in India because Indians are reluctant to sing in public - or something to that effect. Anyway, one of the trainees was Indian and he got furious. I honestly don't see exactly why he reacted that way. He probably felt that the example was racist. Yes, and he also probably thought that the current year is 1930.
...
Each of us have our own way of coping/adapting to the world around us. Even if we feel like a three-foot wrench had been hauled up our ":"s, we're still hopeful that thing will somehow get better.
...
I enjoy listening to Filipinos arguing in english - they sound as if it would make their arguments more convincing or more correct. Come to think of it, in the Philippines, anything said in english would automatically be considered 90% true no matter how absurd or idiotic (In here, grammar is certainly more important than content, it's sad but true). Of course, I just made up the 90%-true part. But what the hell, I'm writing this in english, aren't I?
...
There are so many webframeworks these days. Choosing the right one for your particular web application is so confusing, to say the least. I'll probably write a post about it on my other blog. Right now, I wonder which among the three - django, rails and spring - is more fun to work on.
...
People have their own mental picture of heaven. For me, heaven would be like lying on a hammock beside the beach listening to your favorite tunes with an {insert favorite mp3 player here}. I wonder what other people's mental picture of heaven is like?
...
I think the most interesting people are those who are capable of making jokes about themselves. I know only a handful of these freaks of nature and it's always fun being with them.
...
Well, this is it for this post. Surprisingly, it's the longet one I've had in a while.
4 comments:
Perhaps the lady-in-the-laundromat has daughters like the ones featured in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties". Maybe then you wouldn't be so bored. Just a thought...WTF!?
Probably. Now that you mentioned it, I sort of having second thoughts on doing my laundry at that place next week. Heh.
Greetings earth creature,
Regarding your story about your indian classmate, you(about 3 years back) narrated that the facilitator was discussing that the karaoke did not become a "thing" in India probably because they didnt have that "pakikisama" attitude.
Generally, they tend to have streaks of i-have-a-different-idea so strong that they tend to express disagreements, which of course was proven correct by your classmate when he made a fuss.
To anonymous:
That's an interesting observation.
However, as much as possible, I try not to stereotype certain ethnic groups (I'm not certainly sure if that's the politically correct way to say it, but whatever ^_^). He acted they way he did and that's that. I think it's kinda off to "generalize" and judge people.
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