My Life as Open Source

The man who brought us the iMac & iPod has resigned as CEO of Apple, thank you, Steve, for the all the great stuffs.

OMG!It has been 17 years since Kurt Cobain passed away. Yesterday Jared Leto shared this video of him dressed and performing like Kurt Cobain, IMHO, he did a creepy but beautiful job.

Back in the year of 2008, Beijing hosted the Olympics to huge acclaim, in the same year, 300,000 Chinese infants were made ill, 6 babies died, 50,000 were hospitalized, after drinking milk formula deliberately tainted with melamine.

Zhao Lianhai, his 3 years old son was sickened by tainted milk, he organized support for parents whose children were harmed by the 2008 Chinese toxic milk scandal.

And for that, he gets sent to jail for ‘inciting social disorder’.

What to say? Words fail.

Today is sunny and warm and I feel like telling a real life horror I’m dealing with.

There is one guy at work is the biggest pain in the ass I ever encountered in my life. This guy is a certified workaholic in his 40s’, is not married, has no kids, lives alone and definitely has no social life of any kind. He is notoriously known by lashing out rude remarks about everything; no one is willing to talk to him unless it’s a business matter. Every company will like him because they work him like a dog and he does not seem to complain about it. Our HR even have to force him to take vacations because this guy simply has no concept of life. He lives to work, not works to live unlike the rest of us. Can you imagine this guy would rather doze off at his desk than going on sick leave when he has fever? Basically he lives for the purpose of spending every day of his life in the office.

But, that is not what bugs me about him. As I have said, this guy has no social life or whatever; our office is the only place that he can get some human interactions in daily life. I’ve stop spoken to him for a long time because of his rude comments over everything, since then my life is in peace. This guy sits near me, most of the time I put on earphones so that I don’t have to listen to his blah-blah-blah, boy he is such a talkative guy! However, his other behavior can’t be dealt with by blocking him out, whenever I chat with someone, he would pick up what I’ve said and shot back, just to humiliate me. Most of the time I would remain silent, talking back would be the same as feeding the internet troll, but still it would upset me, being humiliated and not able to fight back.

I have considered approaching HR about this guy, the problem is that what he bugs me off is not issue from a corporate standpoint. I simply do not want change job because of this. What’ll I do if I encounter someone like this in another office, change job again? And keep doing so until I find a workplace without obnoxious jerk? No such thing. So I’m going to have to face that. Hardly any job is perfect but we can all try to find one that’s at least tolerable.

A clever friend of mine had once taught me to laugh no matter what he retorted, it would confused the hell out of him. I have to agree this is the best method I’ve ever heard, however such action requires an extremely high level of EQ to overcome the feeling of being scoffed. So my current goal is to learn better-control my emotions, it can be the biggest struggles in my life.

Luckily I have a beloved family and supportive friends, one day I’ll deal with situations effectively. There are always some people who lack of humanity and intelligence, and I’m definitely not of them.

Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel changed his hair once again. Just when I got accustomed to his dreads, now it’s a faux hawk. It’s basically a mohawk, but he kept his hair on the sides which looks so HOT and GORgeous!!!

I’ve always had a huge crush on gender-binding guys. Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel is definitely the most naturally androgyny beauty alive. Most of the androgynous looking men physical characteristics that might be described as “feminine” could just as easily be called “youthful”. Compares to adult men, boys tend to be slimmer, less hairy, and have more delicate facial features, that said androgynous men are usually clean cut and look sharp, as well as being beautiful – that is, appealing in a purely aesthetic sense.

I know it may not be “cool” to like Pearl Jam anymore, and I never thought I would be posting about Pearl Jam on my blog. But, as I have rediscovered the past lately (Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, NIN etc), I’ve also delved back into Pearl Jam. “The Fixer” is off from the band’s new album, Backspacer. This damn song has been stuck in my head all day. Even if you gave up on Pearl Jam 10 years ago when you retired your flannel shirts, you owe it to yourselves to check out the new one.

I’m impressed with this Cameron Crowe directed music video. I really enjoy the energy and feel of this song. It’s very “fun” and that isn’t something that I would’ve thought that Pearl Jam could pull off. I can’t remember the last time a chant of “yeah yeah yeah yeah” worked so well on me.

I will always have fond memories of his earlier music, my dad used to have cassette tapes of Thriller and Bad, I grew up listen to them a lot, they were both fantastic albums. If you do not own Thriller then you need to go buy that right now! There are too many songs to list but here are a few that I think are worth note.

It is a sad news indeed, as Chainsaw said, his death makes me old enough to remember him feel as though a part of my childhood is gone forever.

RIP Michael Jackson, your mark in music history never faded.

Some of the blogs are paying tribute to the man. I figure I would take some of those tributes and compile them here:

RIP Michael Jackson by Ngszehin
RIP Michael Jackson by Dustless
Icons of an age from Alone in the fart