At long fucking last. This will be end of singaporeans downloading anything off the net. Firstly, it was Music, and that was the last of downloads for free mp3s. Then came the Anti piracy d/l for Movies and stuff. so be it everyone thought. since it was the fucking big america that the shows and music that come from and it affected the whole world as america is a bloody Superpower and the bloody companies have the money to sue whoever.......
BUT WHY FUCKING ANIME DOWNLOADS ALSO GET AFFECTED!!!! There's not much reason for it... why the fuck is ODEX coming into the picture now? After for so long. every since how many umpteen years ago when i was still downloading stuff on the 256k, everyone was fine and not much shit happened. Every Otaku from SG was starting to know about anime then, when cosplay was just a small Singapore community, when comics was still starting to become popular. And everyone was enjoying shows such as Zone of Enders, Rurouni Kenshin, Love Hina, Hunter X hunter all these was available for download then, and everything was through Emule/Edonkey, then in comes the superpower bloody america and europe.
And then all hell break loose. the sites were shut down. althought they were not showing links to files etc. just links to share the bloody shows. and yet the whole world thinks that its not appropriate. So be it then.
so everyone switches to bit torrent. everything was fine.. until SG starts to follow the world trend. decided to clamp down on piracy in singapore. So be it.. Music we stopped, movies we stopped. Music there's good quality CDs that we can buy. so i'm fine with it, movies there are Dvds and cinemas, so be it.. to be honest some good shows best watched in the cinema. So that i accept.. and moreever shows are going digital meaning bigger screen and better sound so i dun mind paying for it. SG wanna stop these things and follow world trend? ok will do.
And now SG company ODEX comes to fuck every Otaku up in the arse out of the blue, sending letters to some people and slapping them with a 3.5k fine if they settle out of court. if they are sending letters for anime shows they licensed and people are downloading now, so be it. But they are sending letters to people who download like 4-5 months ago and slapping them with a fine now.
Firstly, how can ODEX just send letters to pple and slap them with a fine out of the blue. They did not have any newspaper report like for mp3s and movies where people are warned not to d/l or else get fined or/and jail term. There isn't anything or report from the media to the public.
Secondly, why is singnet giving to the company ODEX details of their customer details, things such as IP, such as what program they are using at the moment, what they are downloading and what they are surfing. If you tell me there is a Court order that says ODEX can get details like this, so be it.. but it seems to everyone that ODEX just 'casually' asks for it and Singnet just 'conveniently' gives it to them.
Thirdly, there isn't any warning from anyone in Singapore that states that everyone cannot download anime. or rather reports with things such as "don't download anime" etc. as least there were reports to warn and inform the public that downloading things such as movies and mp3 are considered wrong/piracy.
Four, why Singnet gives out details of the customers like giving candy to a baby. All these things are considered private and confidential, unless its a big case and there's a court order or something that requests the Singnet to ask the user to allow them to provide information to this so and so company for investigation purposes then so be it... At least let the user know and not out of the blue recieve a letter that says "You are being fined for d/l so and so items using wat program at wat time using wat IP address, Pay up or prepared to get ur arse sued till u have no pants."
Dun be a bastard company and start slapping people with a fine that says downloading anime is a infringe of copyrighted material. Have the company ever thought of the public, if they do sell good quality anime that is cheap and affordable for the public, is there a need to download anime at all? and its because the quality that ODEX provides sux to the core and caused people to not buy it and in turn cause losses to the company. So when you guys at ODEX cannot make money, you guys came up with this idea "oh since everyone is downloading anime we licensed, why not we start slapping everyone with a fine and start to earn some money out of it?"
without all the fan subbers around the net that does these things, will anime ever hit off in Singapore as well? will there be a big group of Cosplayers that have events every now and then and represent singapore in the Japanese worldwide cosplayers Competition? Heck, will there even be ODEX at all.
anyways, I never buy ODEX products ever since they stopped producing quality anime, more so since this thing happen. NO FUCKING WAY i'm touching their products. I might just follow hardcore fans and start to get parallel imports.
Anyway people who can afford to migrate to another country please do. Singapore is no longer a safe place where people can have a freedom of speech, PRIVACY and freedom of anything la..
Hopefully Otakus of Singapore can unite and at least come up with something to prevent this ODEX for doing this kinda sneaky things to other fellow Otakus, hopefully someone who has study law or something. i don't know lol... Start a movement?
P.S. Watching bleach streaming on website suxor big time >.> Give us otakus our freedom once again!!!!!!!!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Friday, July 6, 2007
/me wonders if the cheque can be cleared
Job Scope: Checked!
Job Hours: Fucked up but Checked!
Colleagues: 1st week: Checked! 2nd week: one on MC but still Checked!
3rd week: quit + quit + don't come cos 'broke' CHECKED! and when I mean 'broke' its because she dun get paid for her work.
When do I get paid: came in late but still Checked!
Whether the bloody cheque gets cleared um... um.... um...... in ffxi terms {I don't know how to
answer that question.}
To most people, starting a new job means a new experience, a new excitement, but as you work and as the week goes by you start to hear things on the phone like:
"Hi, I'm calling from so and so carpark, its regarding the cheque that was given to us for the season parking. The cheque has been bounced! Is there anyone I can talk to?"
or
"Hi, can I speak to so and so?"
"May I know what is this regarding?"
"Its regarding a cheque that you guys are supposed to send to me 2 months ago and why until now I haven't receive?"
or
"YOUR BOSS HAS BEEN TRYING TO AVOID ME FOR MONTHS REGARDING A REFUND THAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO SEND ME! WHY IS HE AVOIDING MY CALLS AND WHY DOESN'T PAY ME? ITS JUST A MEASELY SUM OF 400 DOLLARS? YOU BETTER TELL HIM HE BETTER PAY OR I'LL TAKE HIM TO COURT AGAIN!!" *puts down the phone*
or
In just one day alone, 10 to 8pm, every other hour you hear the same customer calling. Calling for the same reason.
or
You find that when you step into the office, when you try and make a call to somebody, you find the phone lines is cut off, or rather cannot call out. End up you have to make the call through your handphone cos the customer is in front of you and asking a question you are supposed to help with.
What do you think when all these kinda things happen to you at your new job. How would you feel? All this is just between the customer and the boss. But what happens when your boss tells you "Oh we also provide home service! If you have to travel to the customer's house and the price for the journey, we will surely reimburse you!" and then in the next instant your colleague tells you "No matter what, try not to do home service please. Its for your own good. Previously I went liao I come back try and claim for so long still haven't claim ah."
Then pay day for my colleagues comes. Instead of hearing them saying they managed to get paid, you hear them saying "Wah lao, dunno when the boss is going to pay me!! he owe me 2 mths salary le leh. Dunno whether should i come to work tomorrow."
And so the story goes on and on... and thus the title of today's blog. How would you feel when the most basic thing of working for the salary that comes in every month is so vague. How to really 拼 to do your work properly. how to remember every detail for clients you have served when at the back of your mind you are worried whether you are getting paid for the work you put in.
just in case you dunno wat i am writing bout, lol here's the link to something that i studied in poly and studying now in HRM at my school now
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: http://changingminds.org/explanations/needs/maslow.htm
anyway, enuff ranting for now. definitely this is not the whole story that i'm supposed to write but tired lol... getting late into the night. so therefore enuff for tonight.
Job Hours: Fucked up but Checked!
Colleagues: 1st week: Checked! 2nd week: one on MC but still Checked!
3rd week: quit + quit + don't come cos 'broke' CHECKED! and when I mean 'broke' its because she dun get paid for her work.
When do I get paid: came in late but still Checked!
Whether the bloody cheque gets cleared um... um.... um...... in ffxi terms {I don't know how to
answer that question.}
To most people, starting a new job means a new experience, a new excitement, but as you work and as the week goes by you start to hear things on the phone like:
"Hi, I'm calling from so and so carpark, its regarding the cheque that was given to us for the season parking. The cheque has been bounced! Is there anyone I can talk to?"
or
"Hi, can I speak to so and so?"
"May I know what is this regarding?"
"Its regarding a cheque that you guys are supposed to send to me 2 months ago and why until now I haven't receive?"
or
"YOUR BOSS HAS BEEN TRYING TO AVOID ME FOR MONTHS REGARDING A REFUND THAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO SEND ME! WHY IS HE AVOIDING MY CALLS AND WHY DOESN'T PAY ME? ITS JUST A MEASELY SUM OF 400 DOLLARS? YOU BETTER TELL HIM HE BETTER PAY OR I'LL TAKE HIM TO COURT AGAIN!!" *puts down the phone*
or
In just one day alone, 10 to 8pm, every other hour you hear the same customer calling. Calling for the same reason.
or
You find that when you step into the office, when you try and make a call to somebody, you find the phone lines is cut off, or rather cannot call out. End up you have to make the call through your handphone cos the customer is in front of you and asking a question you are supposed to help with.
What do you think when all these kinda things happen to you at your new job. How would you feel? All this is just between the customer and the boss. But what happens when your boss tells you "Oh we also provide home service! If you have to travel to the customer's house and the price for the journey, we will surely reimburse you!" and then in the next instant your colleague tells you "No matter what, try not to do home service please. Its for your own good. Previously I went liao I come back try and claim for so long still haven't claim ah."
Then pay day for my colleagues comes. Instead of hearing them saying they managed to get paid, you hear them saying "Wah lao, dunno when the boss is going to pay me!! he owe me 2 mths salary le leh. Dunno whether should i come to work tomorrow."
And so the story goes on and on... and thus the title of today's blog. How would you feel when the most basic thing of working for the salary that comes in every month is so vague. How to really 拼 to do your work properly. how to remember every detail for clients you have served when at the back of your mind you are worried whether you are getting paid for the work you put in.
just in case you dunno wat i am writing bout, lol here's the link to something that i studied in poly and studying now in HRM at my school now
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: http://changingminds.org/explanations/needs/maslow.htm
anyway, enuff ranting for now. definitely this is not the whole story that i'm supposed to write but tired lol... getting late into the night. so therefore enuff for tonight.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
1st movie review!!! hahaha
Instead of writing something that i'm supposed to continue from my previous post, or writing something about my current work and how much i really dislike my boss's work ethics, or how's my study for my adv. dip and how fucking expensive i paid for the taxi fare to get my arse to my class last monday. But today, i wanna write about a movie that i missed last year and is too good to miss for anyone whos in for a artsy fartsy(hope i spell it correctly) movie. Its one of the few movies that got me thinking, and I'll definitely recommend it to everyone.
Name of movie: Stranger than fiction
When we talk about the actor Will Ferrell, usually we remember him in comedies. Seldom you will see him acting in more serious roles. This show actually brings out another side of the actor showing how well he can act in a more serious role.
This movie is actually about the life of a person. From the time he wakes up in the morning, about how he actually calculates his timing to catch the bus to work, about how he works thru his day at his job, about how his day ends.
But one day while preparing to go to work, he suddenly hears a voice, a voice that actually depicts his actions thru the day, the way he lives, the way subtle changes affect his life, the thoughts that he actually have. And instead of living his life, controlling his own actions and thoughts by oneself, it becomes a life that he's actually living through the thoughts of another person, another person that actually 'narrates' his life. Having someone who actually control what time he eats, how fast he eats, who is he to love, what to do at a certain point in time, and even worse someone who can control when he dies and how he dies.
Scary thought ain't it? Having someone to 'write' your life out. But even when he knows how and when he is gonna die, he embraces it fully, finishing things that he wanted to always do, falling in love with someone that he'll never think of doing cos he's afraid, frightened that it'll be a tragedy.
Well, seems interesting ain't it? Well, I don't know bout you, the person who's reading my blog lol.. dunno if anyone visits my blog anymore since i dun update it that often and much. But if so far whatever i wrote actually interests you, please spend 2 hrs watching this show, its quite an interesting show to watch.
But to be honest, after watching this show, it got me kinda thinking, what happen when one day, you wake up in the morning, doing your routine procedures to go to work, or to school, you suddenly head a voice. A voice that's actually depicting ur every move, your every action, how you gonna live your life and then suddenly as your day goes along, a sentence is 'read' "Little did he/she know that this simple seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death." and then somehow you realize that you are gonna die, how soon or in what way that you are gonna kick the bucket you have no idea. And the more important fact is that someone is actually depicting your life in a story he/she is writing or thinking. Wouldn't that fact scare you? or rather knowing that you don't actually have control of your life as you know it. every action you do or thing you say actually affects your 'story' in some way?
hahaha, you might say things like "wtf hahaha why you so free can think of things like that?" or "You are your life's own master, no one else can control it" or "Heck, its just a bloody movie for Christ sakes lol"
Well like i said, its just some of the what ifs that i actually think of. It might not really happen or its just fiction. but somehow i like thinking of things like this. well nonetheless, this movie is definitely worth your 2 hours ^^ so enjoy the show if u are interested ^^.
Btw, happy 10 yrs anniversary to all Hongkongers on the 10th year where HK was returned rightfully back to the Mainland.
Name of movie: Stranger than fiction
When we talk about the actor Will Ferrell, usually we remember him in comedies. Seldom you will see him acting in more serious roles. This show actually brings out another side of the actor showing how well he can act in a more serious role.
This movie is actually about the life of a person. From the time he wakes up in the morning, about how he actually calculates his timing to catch the bus to work, about how he works thru his day at his job, about how his day ends.
But one day while preparing to go to work, he suddenly hears a voice, a voice that actually depicts his actions thru the day, the way he lives, the way subtle changes affect his life, the thoughts that he actually have. And instead of living his life, controlling his own actions and thoughts by oneself, it becomes a life that he's actually living through the thoughts of another person, another person that actually 'narrates' his life. Having someone who actually control what time he eats, how fast he eats, who is he to love, what to do at a certain point in time, and even worse someone who can control when he dies and how he dies.
Scary thought ain't it? Having someone to 'write' your life out. But even when he knows how and when he is gonna die, he embraces it fully, finishing things that he wanted to always do, falling in love with someone that he'll never think of doing cos he's afraid, frightened that it'll be a tragedy.
Well, seems interesting ain't it? Well, I don't know bout you, the person who's reading my blog lol.. dunno if anyone visits my blog anymore since i dun update it that often and much. But if so far whatever i wrote actually interests you, please spend 2 hrs watching this show, its quite an interesting show to watch.
But to be honest, after watching this show, it got me kinda thinking, what happen when one day, you wake up in the morning, doing your routine procedures to go to work, or to school, you suddenly head a voice. A voice that's actually depicting ur every move, your every action, how you gonna live your life and then suddenly as your day goes along, a sentence is 'read' "Little did he/she know that this simple seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death." and then somehow you realize that you are gonna die, how soon or in what way that you are gonna kick the bucket you have no idea. And the more important fact is that someone is actually depicting your life in a story he/she is writing or thinking. Wouldn't that fact scare you? or rather knowing that you don't actually have control of your life as you know it. every action you do or thing you say actually affects your 'story' in some way?
hahaha, you might say things like "wtf hahaha why you so free can think of things like that?" or "You are your life's own master, no one else can control it" or "Heck, its just a bloody movie for Christ sakes lol"
Well like i said, its just some of the what ifs that i actually think of. It might not really happen or its just fiction. but somehow i like thinking of things like this. well nonetheless, this movie is definitely worth your 2 hours ^^ so enjoy the show if u are interested ^^.
Btw, happy 10 yrs anniversary to all Hongkongers on the 10th year where HK was returned rightfully back to the Mainland.
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