Anything Can Go Wrong

Don’t you hate it when someone treats you as a directory? When you tried talking to them, they either ignored you or even say a simple hi, but when they really need you then they would come and talk to you? This usually means you’re an acquaintance category and you are no longer their ‘friend’ after they’ve dug enough information from you.

You might be a Charlotte cosmetic dentist but do you think these people would care? You are part of their ‘unimportant’ network and you’re only valuable if you proof to be useful to these people.

So what do you do when you encounter these kinds of people?

1. Be an ass and tell them what they want to hear, albeit the wrong ones. For example they want to know where to get the camera’s cheapest price, so direct them to the most expensive ones. When they told you it cost them an arm and a leg, you can always tell them: “it wasn’t THAT expensive a year ago…”

2. Tell them nothing or tell them you don’t know at all.

3. Tell them the truth.

You have better idea how to handle these kinds of people?

I just realized that some of the most screwed up part in some people’s email is the signature. When it comes to the signature, you tend to see these tag line: “God bless…”, “Jesus is Lord” or even “God loves everyone of us”

You want to know what I think? I think people should have the decency to read what they are going to sent. Suppose you say you want to deliver a bad news like some guy’s wife just died or a church-goer’s husband is gay. You sent the very same mail and when the recipient read till the last part, imagine what they would think. Consider this scenario:

Lauren,

Yesterday upon taking your best diet pills from the church cabinet, I saw you husband was kissing Debbie with utmost passion. I think that you deserve to know the truth.

God bless.

Yours sincerely,
Joan

What, all of a sudden God is blessing the sinners within the sacred halls? Or perhaps she wants God to bless some heretic sinners? This beginning to sound like a pagan worshiping group. And it doesn’t happen in one place, it’s happening everywhere! You see it especially in the service industry. I’ve seen it every day:

Dear Customer,

I’m sorry about your hard drive but your warranty is over for the past one year. If you wish to purchase the hard drive, I shall pass your case over to the sales spare parts.

Regards,
Michael

Mission statement: Delighting our customer is our number one priority

You see where I’m getting? These people should have just their signature left as blank. Why want to even put anything there unless you want to advertise something. That is, if the advertisement is appropriate.

For the past week, I can’t seem to login into my Wordpress admin page. Initially I thought I installed it incorrectly when I upgraded from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.6. The problem didn’t only stop there. I had trouble especially when entering text, the form would go blank and I couldn’t fill in anything afterwards.

I reinstalled my Wordpress. I even tried removing the database and reinstate them and the issue remained.

I thought this page would need to foreclosure as I clear off all the stuff and recreate my blog.

Finally I found out from my web space provider that I’m using a badly coded theme. So far it’s been a week and every page seems to work fine without indication of any trouble. What a week for me.

Don’t you have that feeling that you got lots of things to do but so little time? I want to have a daily session with my World of Warcraft, I want to finish painting my Gundam, I want to service my car, I want to finish my daily analysis and process some race queen photos.

Recently there was a theft in my place and these guys are so pro that they only stole the copper cable. This has rendered half of the residential area without telco service and having WOW out of my life for the past 5 days, I’ve been diligently finishing the photos but without the internet, I was unable to do any good research, so I’m basically back to square one.

Since I have the time to finish some of my Gundam, I need time to color them. Doing them at night need more light and my florescent bulb is not as bright anymore, I decided to sit back and rest more. I just wish there are more hour in a day but your work time is preserved the same moment.

Let’s say there’s 48 hour in a day.

1. Working only 9 hours a day. Left 39 hours.
2. Adult needs 6 hours of sleep but if you need a real good rest, take 8 hours off. Left 31 hours.
3. A minimum range of WOW fun would take 5-6 hours. Left 25 hours.
4. Social function where you eat with your family and friends takes 2-3 hours. Left 22 hours.
5. Let’s say you eat twice a day with certain relaxation and it takes 2-3 hours. Left 19 hours.
6. Run your hobby, which takes 5-6 hours. Left 12 hours.
7. Time spent on traveling between work, socializing, & etc will take 2-3 hours. Left 9 hours.

With that additional 9 hours, you can fill stuff in between as a buffer. Perhaps you can do your bills and pay your travel insurance? Wouldn’t it be nice to have 48 hours in a day?

You want to know something funny? Here’s one guy who have attended the Metal Gear Solid 4 launch and got himself a game. He bought the game, without actually owning a Playstation 3 but he thought it was worth it. He took it to the office the next day and started showing it to a fellow friend when a cheap bastard came by and asked this guy to lend him the game. He said he was a real hard core fan and would really want to play the game.

I was puzzled. I asked him why he didn’t get himself a copy since he was a fan himself. He said he rather get the cheap copy when they will publish the game a year later after the craze has cooled down.

Hard core my ass.

I asked that guy why he would even bother lending to such a cheap person. He said they’ve been friends for 15 years and he felt bad if he’s not lending the game to him.

Is it really fair to use friendship to be such a cheap ass?