Men behaving badly

Interesting reading this asiaone post(from stomp) about a Caucasian male who was allegedly drunk and took a cab then refused to pay. When called to the scene, the police allegedly said they could not do anything except advise him to make a report at the police station. I actually have a personal experience to relate about the effectiveness of our police and criminal justice system, in that although I was put in a position of fearing for my life as I was in my car with some random guy kicking in the door and window from the outside (thank goodness they were made sturdy) and a) after calling the police, they arrived half an hour later after (we had all cleared out as the big bad wolf ran out of puff and stormed off); b) a police report was made but after investigating, the officer told me that i'd have to pursue this as a civil matter. Wonderful waste of time. Sometimes i wonder what would have happened if my window had given way or i had come out of the car to stop the guy. Hmmmm.

Anyways, I digress from talking about a more recent incident that happened to us as well while we were at the airport on the way back home, involving a Caucasian. For once, we were fairly early and the check in counters had just opened. So there were, heading towards the counter, me pushing the trolley full of bags, and the wibblewamble carrying our offspring. We were very happy to see no queues for checking in and headed straight for the nearest available counter. As we were proceeding there, we saw a Caucasian male with a suitcase and a golfbag on his trolley come from the business class side of the queue around the barrier to the counters.

What happened next shocked me. He moved very quickly to cut off wibblewamble who (i say again) was carrying our baby in her arms, and pushed his passport energetically at the counterstaff. To do that, he nearly ran down wibblewamble with his baggage trolley and arrived so close to her that the girl behind the counter thought they were together! A diagram of the incident (hyperbole and a half style):







After ww glared at him as i was catching up several steps behind (and picking up my jaw from the floor), we went to the next available counter with nary a word from him to us, let alone an apology. Just for good measure, we went to an available counter 3 counters away.

I really don't understand how shameless and brainless this idiot is. I wouldn't make much of the colour of his skin, but he really had the "white man superior" syndrome. Amazing thing was, because he had to push his golfbag on his trolley to the seperate oversized baggage check-in, i saw that nearly ran over another guy with his trolley again with nary an apology.

I hope his golf scores are always in the triple digits, but from his character, I wouldn't be surprised if he cheats at his golf scores as well. What a douchebag.

Book Review: The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Just read this book as we are trying to complete our collection of books by Terry Pratchett and my overall impression of it is this book is a deserving winner of the Carnegie Medal (in 2001).

The obvious twist on the Pier Piper story aside, the book has some witty dialogue and a particularly memorable 'torture' scene, when the boy and girl team need information from a couple of ratcatchers. Of course, the concept of a downtrodden group/race/club is nothing new, and the only drawback is the rather convinient happy ending. Still, this is an enjoyable book which I'd happily read again, if anything, just to see everything from a cat's perspective ("I ask my food to say something before i eat it ok?" LOL)

In other news, we caught part 1 of Hogfather on cable, thanks to the National Day offer (almost all channels available), which stuck fairly closely to the book version.

weekend...

It is weird feeling to head to work on a Monday that sits astride a weekend and a public holiday. Naturally, quite a few co-workers are on leave to make it an extra long weekend, so any work requiring interaction of any sort will have to wait. LOL

Speaking of the weekend just past, managed to catch up with my old secondary school mates over dinner and drinks, so that was a nice way to kick start the weekend (although the morning after wasn't so great lol). Did some shopping at Taka as well, and when i say some, i mean alot, because Kino was having 20% off and the wife had a list of books to buy. What a combination. LOL

Sunday was interesting because we had a Countrymen set in the morning that was absolutely rocking. There are times when i look at the guys i play with and am just amazed and blown away by their singing and playing. Great fun playing with them and entertaining everyone in the canteen. There were times when it felt as if the keyboard was on fire with playing that i wanted to douse it with gasoline and light it up, just to be able to bring it up a notch. LOL

Had to cover for evening mass as well, which was interesting since i got to impart some musical knowledge. I think a good musician should be able to inspire others to do better and to ignite that passion in them. Not something i made up, but something i observed from watching and interacting with great musicians.