Thursday, August 19, 2004

Staying awake....

Anyone out there know how to get rid of muscle lethargy while I'm at my desk? I get this feeling that everthing but my brain wants to go to sleep half the time in the office, particularly when I haven't been doing anything strenuous.

Friday, August 13, 2004

Comics?

I feel that my last post wasn't nearly as cynical as I had intendid to be, simply because I was tired then. Oh well.

I know I haven't been posting much up lately. I've still yet to discipline myself to sit down and type my thoughts out, as well as train myself to remember the thoughts I had before I sat in front of a computer.

You may have also noted that I've added two new faves; the Norm and Count Your Sheep. Any Calvin and Hobbes fan should quickly appreciate Michael Jantze's take on ordinary life, while Count Your Sheep is a really cutesy wootsy type of comic and make for very light reading. If I had my own credit card, I would have already bought copies of their collections.

Thanks to many other comic artists, I've decided to try my hand at comics. I've been followed the exploits of some of them and have become very very inspired to make the world laugh. Now all I have to do it come up with a theme...

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Crime Fever

Crime around here appears to be at an all time high. Or is it simply because the media has decided its the flavour of the month? Or that people are more readily reporting crime incidents? Or is it simply the ignorance of the government.

I was just discussing it my Dad that whenever something horrible shows up on the news, it'll eventually be followed by the PM making a speech on how they're going to combat a problem. Usually by forming committees to discuss the problem and 'look into it'. That wouldn't be so bad if what these guys were doing actually reduces crime. The problem with the government is that its full of paper tigers.

Let me illustrate it here:
Back when the current PM came into power, he was really into cracking down into piracy, particularly CD and DVD piracy. And for a time, I noticed that all the shops that sold these 'products' had all but disappeared. 2 months down the road, what do I see? DVD peddlers roaming the restaurants. I wasn't long before the pirate shops were once again open.

Also, the government mentioned that to combat piracy, they would try to curb the lavish prices that plague original DVD's, prices that no average citizen could afford cause or greedy middlemen and also that Hollywood did not take into account the cost of living around here. Up till now, DVD's are still at 200 buck a pop. That's the same price as it always has been.

I'd like to mention that recently the news headlined the death of two illegal racing motorcyclists. The road where they were killed was one that every illegal racer motorcyclists congregate. It wasn't too long ago that the authorities decided to close this road to traffic, every day, at 7pm, to combat this issue. Do you see the problem here? Let me spell it out:
If you close the road to all traffic, what you are doing is that you're actually creating the perfect venue for illegal racers. I wouldn't be too difficult to bring around the bikes to this area.