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American Idol Showdown

Filed under Rants

This year its important. Because I REALLY REALLY can't stand that eyeliner performance whore Adam Lambert.

I hope Adam loses. BADLY. I think all the Gokey voters are now going to vote for Kris. That has got to be good news. Adam Lambert is not going to cut any awesome records, and Gokey's out there ready to be signed on, anytime. Kris ain't as good as Danny, but at this point in time, if I had the chance to vote, I'd vote for a rock over Adam Lambert.

Here's to Kris winning the title this year!

Add on:

OMG the whole Adam Lambert fan base has to consist of the most idiotic people in the universe. I mean, they won't even allow the existence of people who don't like Adam Lambert – they'll go out and debate with you and try to 'coerce' you into agreeing with them that their adorable, darling, eyeliner wearing drag-queen wannabe Adam Lambert is God.

(and then on other days they go and talk about how much they love Jesus… errr).

I mean I wouldn't spend a cent on buying cheap magazines that has Danny Gokey or Kris Allen on the covers.

Actually, I take that back.

….

I've never been a sucker for purchasing stuff about a singer just because I like him. Well, I was like that, but that was when I was a teenager, and I bought things with Aaron Kwok's face printed on it because every other teenage girl likes it.

Now, I'm almost thirty and I think that money should be spent on better, more important things. Not magazines on how awesome Adam Lambert is.

…

I'm saying this because a normally, perfecty sane, professional person is actually having a stupid spat with me on FB just because I said I hope Adam Lambert loses. I don't like that idiot, of course I hope he loses. And because I don't like Lambert, of course I'll have a dozen and one ugly things to say about him. I don't give a fuck what you think of Adam Lambert, but I give a flying fuck that you react to my comment and tell me how wrong I am and that Adam Lambert is awesome. I give fuck that you won't let me have an opinion about who I think is the most stupid, ridiculous, overrated gay douchebag on TV since… I dunno. He's so ridiculous I can't find comparisons to it.

Well, at first I just didn't like Adam Lambert because, I think he just screeches and he can't sing. Today I don't like him because his fans are ridiculously violent and that they'll go down to calling you 'CHILDISH' because you don't like Adam Lambert.

Well excuse me, in my life time I happen also to not like alot of other things. Sarah Palin, the two Bushes, the idiots who call themselves my government, and of course, AHAHAH, Adam Lambert (and maybe Paula Abdul that drunk judge on Idol).

Adam Lambert fans have a problem with that? Oh my, what else is new.

add on

The single comment to this rant says it all. Err… *boo hoo you attack me because I like Adam Lambert, so because of that I don't like you anymore. Even though last time I used to really really respect your writings.

Ahem.

Excuse me.

Whatever. I don't live an American Idol based life. Thank God.

Debunking Your Jesus

Filed under Religion

This is more of a pointer to an awesome article by the Internet Monk, What was Jesus-Like.

What strikes me in the article, in particular, is how the blogger clearly states out the revolutionary presence that was Jesus in those times, and the things he did that defied the norm. Ah, but human beings, we love our norms, our mini organizations, its what keeps us moving, keeps us existing, keeps us wholesome. Anything out of the ordinary and we would all be shaken and thrown apart, so suspicious we are of the real thing that when the real thing presents itself among us, we wouldn't even recognize it.

I have a feeling that none of us right now would be able to recognize and accept Jesus, if he appeared among us, right now. Because all of us, each one of us, we all have a 'version', an idealized idea of who Jesus is, what He likes and what He doesn't like (and very likely, these things would be ridiculously close to what we like and what we don't like). So if you're the type of Christian who religiously tithes and attends church in your Sunday best every single week, your Jesus is the type who hates people who cheat on their tithes and wears sports jerseys with dragon motifs and appear in church half an hour late. If you're the Christian who will only believe in the gift of the spirit as evident in the sign of tongues, your Jesus will frown upon those who are unable to babble when they pray. If you belief that the traditional liturgies of the church institution are closest to the what Jesus wants, then probably you wouldn't trust those detractors who are anti liturgy, since they claim that that practice is far too ritualistic.

And if you're the Christian who believes that Christ only saves those who have professed to believe in him, you'll find it hard to believe that your Buddhist / Hindu / Muslim friend will meet you in Heaven when the time comes.

Isn't it true then? Our God exists to serve our personal needs, personal beliefs, personal ideals of what heaven is like (and very likely, that personal heaven will definitely not have the kind of person that you personally do not like very much, aye?).

So yah, it kinda hits you right there, when you think about it. And quoting the Internet Monk

Jesus didn’t waste his time with religious and doctrinal debates. He always moves to the heart of the matter. Love God, Love Neighbor, Live the Kingdom.

That's why I take a lot of time to read what church websites have to say. When a church spends too much webspace outlining the minute details of their beliefs, it makes me worry. It makes me worry that gatherings there will consist of conversations emphasizing who gets to heaven and who will not. I fear the meetings of people who sit together and talk about how many people we have brought to Christ. I have attended services where photos of people prayng in other places of faith are put on screen, and we pray that they learn about Jesus soon, and where we ask the Lord to forgive them for praying to the devil. I have a problem with churches like this, because I feel that they practice an 'us vs them' kind of mentality.

Because the Jesus of my faith is encompassing, loving, bringing salvation by grace, and ushering in Kingdom Come, ON EARTH as in heaven. Kingdom is already in Heaven, but it eludes us living on Earth because, it seems that we really don't want it at all. We don't want a Kingdom Come that loves our enemies, loves the people we don't love. We only want a Kingdom come in a certain format that is ideal to us, not the kingdom come that Jesus was praying for in the Lord's Prayer.

So when will it ever come?

I thank the Internet Monk for igniting that flame in me, once again.

Being Married S01E03

Filed under Parenting & kids

My husband is car crazy. Ever since I met him, he's bought three cars, two of which are still in our possession. The white Accord is a 1994 SV4, an old junk that he picked up from one of those old Nissan showrooms (someone brought it in to trade it in for a new car) and since then he's called it his 'first wife'. I'm the honourable mistress, apparently, cos Mrs Accord SV4 is his first love.

So yah, I live with this sort of stuff, especially the ongoing affairs with upgrading the car. I think the upgrades to the car by now surpass the original price of the junk. I'm sorta okay with it, because it doesn't quite intrude into my space, well, not usually, sometimes Eric gets on my nerves, and right now, my husband isn't exactly Mr Awesome, because he *bloody* transported this *fucking* piece of dirty junk into my kitchen area! And now I HAVE to live with it until he find himself 'a reliable' paint person to get it sprayed 'just the way I want it'.

Trust and mistrust

Filed under Anecdotes

Does it happen to you sometime? A sudden instinctal feeling that pushes you to do something, turn on the tv, take a bath, write down a recipe, write a post, something. Does it happen?

And then after it happens, do you, pause a moment, ponder on what had just happened, and wonder, was the universe finally talking to you, giving you a message?

…

I have those moments all the time these days, tiny bleeps throughout the days that stop me in my breath, and then I react, do whatever my gut tells me to, in the aftermath, when I look back, I am stunned, amazed.

…

It feels like, something, someone, is trying to tell me something.
This is one of those things.

Confused visits to the clinic

Filed under Parenting & kids

I wasn't too pleased on what happened in the clinic yesterday, and of course, the 'I was overcharged' experienced totally killed it for me.

Also the fact that the doctor didn't look at the CT scan results at all, asked my MIL a few questions, said very firmly that 'Madam, you just don't look right to me, you look like a drunk,' to which she answered,

'Yah, my head's rather heavy.'

To which the kind doctor said, 'That's why I'm referring you to a neurologist. And hey, it's in Pantai, she's the best.'

Well, never mind the referral to a brain specialist just because my MIL says she has a heavy head, never mind he referred us out of Assunta (as much as I didn't like the hospital's services, I thought it was odd that he moved us out… until I found out the reason), I felt just weird because he didn't give my MIL any meds. All he did was take out the BMD (Bone Mass Density) reports and told us, 'See she has osteoporosis. It means very very high possibility of fracture. It's very dangerous.'

I don't have to have a MBBS behind my name to tell you that patients with osteoporosis have higher risk of bone fracture yah. So, yah, why to Pantai again?

'I'm there every other day!' He grinned, or smirked, I can't recall exactly. 'Except Mondays. Better go Pantai. I tell you what, you go see the neurologist tomorrow, and then after that I want to see you again. '

'Tomorrow? Again?'

'Yes, you go see the brain doctor, then after that you come and see me, my clinic is just next to hers. Just walk in, and I will teach you how to take care of yourself and your osteoporosis, what to eat and etc.'

We were shuffled out of his clinic after about 15 minutes, and then the nurse told me, 'You go and pay first, then you come back, I'll tell you the time for the neurologist's appointment tomorrow. I'm not sure if I can get you an appointment, because she's so good she's very busy. '

So off I went to the payment counter. How much would you expect to pay for a follow-up consult?

RM183.00

I nearly puked. Good Lord. We were admitted last week, he came in and see us last week, we paid over 2000 bucks for horrid service and the same doctor to come in to see us, and sign off my MIL's discharge papers and now he's charging us RM183 for, err… 15 minutes of pointlless explanations? I could have done the very same myself.

At that point I smsed my husband and told him, I should have stayed with that doctor boyfriend of mine, hahaha had I married him we would be charging RM183 per 15 min for pointless ramblings.

But to be honest, I'm not as cheesed off by the exhorbitant consultation fees as much as I'm terribly disgusted that he asked us to go and see him again tomorrow 'to teach us how to handle osteoporosis.' So what's going to happen? Go in and see him again, listen to him ramble for another 15 minutes with stuff I could find off the Net and medical advice from doctor friends (dating a medical student had its perks), and then get charged another, say, RM240 (since Pantai is pricier than Assunta), for that sort of 'good doctorly advice?

And then I FOUND OUT, that Assunta has some sort of a standard fee for follow up consults, and it definitely isn't RM183. It's somewhere between RM80 to RM100!

Sheesh.

So this is why we're walking out on you, Mister. I can't even bring myself to call you doctor.