THE BLACK CABRIOLET

HARDWAREZONE is perhaps the most popular local portal and not just that, their craziest and utterly nonsensical sub-forum EDMW, short for Eat Drink Man Woman. Whatever that adds up to mean. The miniature Singapore, a virtual society of ours. People of all creeds, walks of life, like the entire nation online in this sleepless forum. So what about this place that I’m writing about? EDMW is about life. This is one avenue, a sanctuary perhaps, that young adults and teens especially can hide in the veil of anonymity yet at the same time expose the genuine side of themselves. Questions on matters of the heart for example are problems that we refrain from talking about in our day life. Not to mention, the sexual monomaniacs and a forum is just a perfect modus operandi for bullies who are real cowards in the physical world. This is one place that wrung my heart reading about the plight that everybody is hiding from the real world. So how did I stumble into this Hardwarezone? Just to fix my fax machine. www.hardwarezone.com EDMWgo visit to see the horrid beyond words.

PRINCESS are girls and what about guys? Princes? No, they’re toads not even frogs and never they’ll turn into any charming princes. That’s an eye for an eye, lousy men! Oh dear, I shouldn’t “generalise” or “stereotype” the entire male population. It hurts them, so badly that they’ll start calling us names and back to that self-pity NMNHNLM chant. So what’s this post about? People in general.

ELITISTS have spoken, we heard it and the hard fact is undeniably slapping us hard on the face. I’m keeping this short as I’m not well today, nonetheless this is what I think though I can’t substantiate much on a solution to this. In light of the Wee ShuMin’s blog posting some time ago, has apparently agitated the public which she’s receiving her well deserved “counter-lambast” from the online mob. This is not about the uncaring elite face I’m about to write, but us. We, Singaporeans.

DANGEROUS equations that might ruin their whole life. After sometime reading all these forum women bashing craps, I realised that some of these fellas’ mentality is like a car without a steering wheel. I might be wrong but it appears like this. Which is their “NMNHNLM” mentality. Like making Nescafe; sugar + coffee powder + hot water and voila = cup of good coffee. So, tantamount to; money = girlfriend + love. The “No Money, No Honey, Nobody Loves Me” equation set down by their wise one, some losers who coined this. Anyway, the danger?

CONFIDENCE! That’s what girls are gonna say to those lonely, forlorn local lads in forums about their low self-esteem and despair over girls, or have they even dated yet? So the nightly lamentations, they cut and paste love poems, songs and even pictures that convey the agony of the forlorn. So what can be done or rather improve on? Now stop that NMNHNLM (No Money No Honey Nobody Loves Me) recitation. Now, focus. How to obtain or perhaps create confidence and it seems easier said than done? You can do it or at least try! . . . gzz! There, some helpful pointers!

STOMPING around. That’s what makes STOMP such a stomping ground for impertinent camera happy paparazzi wannabes. So what exactly is STOMP all about and their agenda, if any at all? And so they said; “Singapore Seen – You’re the Reporter”. And they encouraged by; “You generate the contents. You write the reports. You take the photos. You shoot the videos.” And probably most have shot their own foot trying to be such mediawhore.

OFFICE is a place we report to everyday and depending on the companies you’re in and the different level of “political” intensity. Especially, those in management levels are getting more burns than the nonchalant admin girl. Still, office politics affects anyone be it someone indifferent or one who manifests great “political” awareness and activities. It’s a game of cloak and dagger, having to deal with the jackal and hyde and playing along with bullies. Studies suggest that somewhere between one third and one half of all stress related illness is directly attributable to bullying at work. Now, alright it’s not that bad in this session of mine, it’s another forum thread that I came across sometime ago kinda caught my attention and reminded me of my first day in the fantastic world of office. The topic reads; “I cannot get along well with my collegues….”