Study season

I am envious of people who graduate from college and never have to sit for an exam after that. Maybe there are some non-actuarial people who still have to take exams after college like myself, but do they have to take around 5 exams? I don't think so.

Either way, this entry is just a kind message to some of you out there (probably one or two) who follow this blog, to notify you that I will be out of the blogging game until after my exams. Till then.

'Quiteness' and customer service

Getting customer service here is like trying to sweep the ocean with a broom.

It has been almost a month now that I applied for internet connection, and still I have no god damn connection. The customer service in England is slow, and they have a good deaf ear when you scream at them on the phone. Only when you threaten to leave their service and go with their competitors do they get off their lazy asses and get the ball running.

I forgot to mention, I'm almost getting my connection. Should be anytime now. I'm almost there. For others, it takes longer than what I am facing. A friend of mine got his connection two weeks ago, which was 3 months after he applied. Haha. Horrifying. Yes?

I think the public here is pretty much quiet. They are too polite sometimes. They don't fight for their rights. Maybe they need to get introduced to the suing culture :) . Yesterday, I was in the train and this family came on board the train right after I entered. It was rush hour at that time, and all the seats were filled up. The family had two cute little girls dressed in pink... but they had no place to sit.

Before the train took off the two girls complained (in their cute British accents) about not having a place to sit. Their mother, perhaps too shy or too nice, didn't ask for other passengers to relinquish their seats and instead told her two daughters to sit on the floor once the train started to move. To my amazement, no one who saw them, be it British, African-British, Asian, Indian - no one - said anything! Arghhh. I couldn't stand it anymore. I tapped on the shoulder one of the guys who was sitting and said this "Could you please give your seat to these two girls? They're sitting on the floor".

To the guy who was sitting's defence, he didn't see the family. He immediately gave up his seat.

After I had the balls to say that, only then does everyone else act as if they helped. "Good one", said one of the guys to me. The mother was like "no no you don't have to do that... thank you". Urghh.

Pissed off

Nothing pisses me off more than when someone messes with one of my Bangi friends. In this case, my friend's blog was plagiarized by some guy who lives in Johor. You can find this asshole's blog at http://efyery84.blogspot.com/ . Although, I think he just closed his blog because every one of my friend's friends started spamming that guys blog to expose him for the fraud that he is.

My friend's blog is taking off right now, where he has more than a hundred followers and he updates his blog almost on a daily basis. You can view his blog at ijaicool.blogspot.com.

To the asshole who stole his content, 17 entries in total, you should be ashamed of yourself for plagiarizing his intellectual property. You know why it's called intellectual property? Cause not many, heck I don't even know anybody who could write like him. For you to just steal all of his hardwork just like that, makes me want to give you a hard knuckle punch in the face plus a round-house kick to the balls, Chuck Norris style.

Asshole.

Update:

So the plagiarizer closed his blog and apologized to my friend at my friend's comment space. When I found out about his 'work' I was pissed off..... the normal kind of pissed off. Not the tremendously kind of pissed off. But then, I went to his blog and started reading comments from his so called followers. His followers said how awesome 'his' writing was and how funny 'he' was in 'his' entries. And that's when my fuse just broke. Yeah, the Chinese version of Bruce Banner started turning green. Heh, you better not do this kind of shit to anyone else ever again plagiarizer.

Into the Wild

A friend at my new office came up to me and told me that he had just sent in his "letters". His statement kind of caught me off-guard, mainly because I had no idea what sending your "letters" means. I thought, maybe he had just received his official letters saying that he is a qualified fellow now (he had recently completed all of his exams). Seeing my puzzled face, he further clarified that he has decided to leave work.

"What? Leaving work for what?", I interjected.

Leaving work for the best freaking field trip in the world that's what. What up! <--- Barney style. My friend, let's call him incredibly-brave-with-balls is going on a one year trip all over the world. He and his wife, let's name her incredibly-awesome-partner are both going to take a hiatus off work and travel the world, together. They will be leaving at the end of April or early May.

"But how are you going to support yourself? It's one year!", I said with a pinch of amazement and also jealousy.

He's already saved up for the trip he mentioned. The trip will cost more than 15,000 pounds per person. Mr incredibly-brave-with-balls has already thought about all the calculations. Back at home he has a world map which is filled with blue tacks and yard lines that connect those tacks. The travel bug had bitten him hard, and now he was taking the leap.

Before, he hesitated quite a bit to do the journey because he had his actuarial exams in the way. Now that he has no more commitment to the exams process he's pretty much as free as a bird. That, and plus the fact that he and his wife don't have a baby yet. He seems like an amazing person, too bad I won't be able to get to know him better for the next year.