Qee: A new obsession...

...not mine (just yet), but i just stumbled upon this new thing for my vocab - Qee (kwee). a quick search through wiki established the validity of the article about Bart Simpson Qees designed as Bartman and Daredevil! darn, the Simpsons marketing machine is running full speed ahead all thanks to the movie, which i've yet to see. check out the qee samples below, with Bart's likeness and their various designs.

some geeks design their own! i like this one here just for creativity and the colour...
...this, not so much.
and they even have pets! down, boy!
and something to overcome that Cow Stage trauma in Diablo!
and something for those fans of anything Bill Gates (i really can't wait 'til Halo 3!).

the QEE, amen.

Hard work for nothing?

I miss blogging. I haven't blogged in a few months. Been working quite hard lately. However what I like to bitch about is how one can work so hard and not get enough credit or reward while others who do not work hard, leaves the company, thinks the company is shit, vows not to come back, goes off on holiday soemwhere, then comes back getting offered 20% more that what they were on?!

Should I be complaining? Is this simply the nature of things?

Someone once told me - "At the end of the day it is only a job." I'd like to believe that but for some reason, it is in my nature to help people. And I have a professional pride. It seems unfair.

Another person told me that I am too nice. Maybe I should be as conniving as these fuckwits and perhaps I'll get somewhere? Sad...

I wonder how many people feel this way and in the same situation as I am.

It's Not Just Politics

this has got to be one of the most efficient displays of unscholarliness ever witnessed in the Land Of The Long White Cloud when an international student at the University Of Auckland (hail, my alma mater!) asked her professor, Paul Buchanan, for an extension on an academic requirement when her father passed away. paul was suddenly in the unemployment line, and good riddance. (darnit, i was a Hoadley student, too, hah!) To quote Red, "You Dumbass!!" this is what got you fired because you couldn't just say No, could you!

Subject: RE: Extension

Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:24:20

From: Paul Buchanan

To: Student

Dear xxxx:

I say this reluctantly but not so subtly: you are not suitable for a graduate degree. It does not matter if your father died or if you have a medical certificate.

I have been too nice and given you too high marks all along (at C+). I do not anticipate that you will do better in the final exercise. You are already a day late.

The extension is meaningless because you have not attended the last few classes and are the worse performer in the class.

Of course by a far stretch, You will have the obiturary of your father, but even if available and the student health people might have believed you, I do not.

You are close to failing in any event, so these sort of excuses-culturally driven and preying on some sort of Western liberal guilt-are simply lame.

Prove that your father died and your were distraught and unable to complete assignments-in spite of your abysmal record to date as an underperforming and underquallifed student- and perhaps you might qualify for an extension to get a C-.

But as it stands, you will flunk since your are already a day+ late, and your track record is poor.

By the way-are you a Hoadley student? That would explain a lot of things.
In a word: NO-I do not accept your extensuon request.

PGB

Paul G Buchanan

Director, New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies (NZCLAS)

uhm, that's EX-director to you! :D

Darkchylde in Aotearoa

here's a find! Darkchylde (yep, yet another graphic novel-inspired venture into the silver screen!) is shooting in New Zealand! i haven't really read a single book out of this series, but i heard it's about this young woman called Ariel Chylde who can become the creatures of her nightmare. oh, and she's a poet, too?! great news for fans of Richard Taylor and WETA because they are heavily involved here.

rumours say that first days of shooting the film are being held in Mount Victoria (WTN). no idea who the actress is though, and it's even weirder that i can't find anything in imdb about the film.

if you're familiar with filipino folklore, you can probably come up with a manananggal comparison! ;)

Heroes Vol. 2

expectations for heroes season 2

what's Sylar doing here?!