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16 July 2007

Three days left

Today is Monday, and the time is 6:10. I am in a cafe in the Gwangju City Center (called "Shinae"). The cafe is called "Angel in Us", and is owned by Lotte which is a massive company that seems to own everything in Korea. In about one hour, I am going to meet Jeonghyeon at Starbucks next to a bookshop in the city center.

I haven't really written anything in my blog since I was in Korea, but I will write a whole bunch and put up some photos when I get back to New Zealand (I am leaving Gwangju on Thursday morning. The reason I like this cafe I am in now is because it has decent tasting coffee, much unlike most of the other cafes here. In fact I have noticed that good coffee doesn't really exist in Asia, well it does, but it is quite hard to find it.

Yes, I would say that coffee is one of the defining factors of my life. Without a good cup of coffee at least weekly, my life would not have a very good meaning... lol, that is mostly just a joke.

I have done quite a lot of things in Gwangju, including, losing my ability to write English in a truly coherent structure. Haha, I guess that I will return to normal after I return to New Zealand. What you have probably noticed by now is that the paragraphs in this entry are not structured by topic, but rather by an arbitrary amount of sentences.

In Gwangju thus far I have done things including: going to church, going bowling, playing pool, visiting the May 18 cemetary (from an uprising against the military junta), eaten lots and lots of food, gone to a so called "Board Game Room" where you can select a board game from a menu listing about a hundred of them that I have never heard of. Actually this place is very interesting, and perhaps a few weeks just isn't enough to know this place properly. I guess that I will come back here one day.

05 July 2007

...RaNT

... RaNT
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23 May 2007

Foreign Affairs (A disjointed rant)

On the topic of Al Qaida, hmm. I was thinking about hiring Al Qaeda to blow themselves up. I mean, I would pay rather dearly :-)

On another topic, the whole world get's itself in a fiddle about what America is doing, but the point is that they aren't exactly commiting massive acts of genocide or anything. They are simply occupying a country, and tell me one country in Europe that has never occupied another... Anyway, my point is that the world is focussing on one or two people dying in the Middle East every day, but they should really be concerned with the millions of people being murdered, raped, and starved to death in Africa. But who gives a shit about that?

I bet that if the United States went and saved the people in Darfur, the whole world would get angry at the United States for invading another country, again. The point is, they are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

I've never understood people's obsession with having to hate America simply because America is trying to do what is best for themselves, and secondly the world. Which is what any country should do in my opinion.

Then you look at countries like Zimbabwe, where the leader has caused inflation to go above 3000%, and still rising, while evicting people from their only homes, destroying every single aspect of peoples lives. But what does the world do? They wag a finger.

Millions of people have protested the so-called war in Iraq, which takes a miniscule amount of lives both, American and Iraqi, in comparison to what the dictators of Africa are doing. But no-one protests about Kim Jong-Il or Robert Mugabe starving their countries to death. No-one protests that they both oppress any religions or ideologies that disagree with them. Nobody protests about anything they do. But when a country like America does something that in reality is well-considered, if not the best course of action, everyone just wants to moan and make a big fuss.

Which brings me to the usual conclusion that people are idiots. All this group-think, this mob-mentality is truly what makes the world a terrible place. If we actually did something useful, rather than moaning (like I am doing now, HYPROCRITE!) then something might actually change. But by blaming everything on America, nothing is going to change, ever.

No offence to China and South Korea, but the only thing that is good for the people of North Korea would be to get rid of that idiot and his government. Yet South Korea and China both constantly stick up for that evil regime. Japan is the only country that is doing what is right. Funnily enough.

This Sunshine policy makes South Korea the laughing stock of the world. It's like saying, if I give this rapist some food, he will stop raping my sisters. Oh look, he just raped my sister!!! Oh, I better give him some more food. How about just killing him?

South Koreans just want to see re-unification, I know, but by letting Kim Jong Il starve your brothers in the North to death, while you feed his armies, you will achieve nothing. What you are doing is simply idiotic.

As for China, be constantly supporting the regime, you are simply being very selfish. The only reason that the Chinese government doesn't want the North Korean government to fall, is because they don't want a massive exodus of North Korean people making their way across the border into China. Because North Korea has never done anything beneficial to China. They simply embarrass China over and over and over again. This is after China won the Korean war for them. How does North Korea thank China? By doing the fingers back at them.

China and South Korea, you both have no reason at all to have any stupid "sunshine policy" towards North Korea. Look at yourselves, you stupid idiots... Has it achieved anything? Anything at all? No. Look how stupid you look, paying millions of dollars just to get a fucking train over the border. You are stupid, and it is stupidity like that which makes me disrespect what you are doing.

15 January 2007

Dreamy government rambling

Ah wow, I didn't get to say Happy Birthday to Li Jun. I'll say it here in case Li Jun reads this some time in the future: "Happy Birthday Li Jun. Haven't seen you since last year!" Anyways, you're right, you have to wonder what is going on with the poor radiologists' salaries... we don't need more offices in New Zealand. Gotta be careful in case some of the radiologists get fed up and move to Australia. If our luck is bad, we might one day have to fly over to Australia to see a qualified radiologist. But it wouldn't be too bad because we would have enough managers to manage all our flight and accomodation bookings. Perhaps we could sneak in a trip to Dream World while we're there. But no, I think they should just make me prime minister and then I'd make sure the radiologists got a fair pay rise. And I would also solve all of New Zealand's other problems as well... And implement world peace by making lots of nuclear weapons and then telling everyone to play nice otherwise I'll blow the whole planet up. Just kidding; I would only hire suicide bombers to blow up Al Queda.

11 January 2007

Happy Birthday

Today is Lijun's birthday. I hope you had fun with Angel and YaoYao (I think that's it) in China.

Let the cancer patients die while the Health Ministry sit in their new offices

Cancer patients have been going without treatment as the New Zealand ministry of health refuses to pay $150k all up for radiologists to get a pay rise, and instead spends $6m on new offices for the Health Ministry bureaucracy. Meanwhile the NZ government has billions of dollars in tax surplus.

I think that's quite shocking, but then most things that governments to anywhere are shocking, so whatever. But I don't see how refusing to give pay rises to radiologists and buying new offices for the bureaucracy is going to help anyone get healthier. In fact, I don't see how having a bureaucracy at all is going to help doctors diagnose and treat patients any better at all.

The government should be providing services to the population such as law, education and health, but it certainly shouldn't be paying people to boss each other around, and hire more managers to tell the other managers what to do, or hire so many people for those purposes that it needs to buy new buildings for them.

Oh well, its bound to happen anyway.

03 January 2007

A new game

There is a new game coming (hopefully) this year. It is called Spore. I want it. Please. Now.

In the game, you start as a microbe, in a 2D playing field, globbing (that's a new word from me) around eating smaller microbes, and escaping the evil bigger microbes. You get 'evolution points' for eating other microbes and eventually you get to lay an egg. When the egg is laid, you can use evolution points to add aspects such as a spike (to defend against those evil bigger microbes) or some form of propulsion, whatever. Eventually you get too big to be a microbe any more, and you evolve onto a higher plane of existence. The 3D realm.

In the 3D realm you are now a creature. No more evil microbes trying to eat you (I don't think they have diseases in the game). However, there are other bigger, meaner creatures out to get you, so you have continue running around eating smaller creatures. Once again you can continue evolving, with flippers and other attack/defence mechanisms. However you now need to find a mate before you can get the eggs laid. (You have to get laid to have eggs laid).

Eventually you get into tribal mode, to city mode, to planet mode, and eventually after conquering the planet (through either warlike or diplomatic means) you can build UFOs, and have interstellar wars instead.

Along the way (from tribal to global dominance) the behaviour of your creatures will be defined by the way you grew them up. To put it clumsily.

Look it up on Wikipedia, and check out the videos on YouTube.

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18 November 2006

So Vincent...

So Vincent... When are you next going to write something here? ;)