I’ve been reading this book called The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Basically, the entire book disapproves of the concept of god and meticulously disproves the existence of it.

Why do people believe in god? Why do people blindingly believe in something that has never been remotely proven to be true? Why do people waste so much money and time on religion? Why is it okay for people to do hurtful things as long as they’re in the name of religion? Why is it frown upon to lose faith rather than being celebrated as an achievement of freedom? Why do people get penalised or worse, killed for not believing or adhering? Why do some animals get discriminated because of fools who mistranslated some religious scripts? Why don’t religions get on with time?

Why burn offerings to your god on the side of a road where parking is already scarce and pollute our already ailing environment? Why taint my Chinese New Year celebrations by giving me a red greeting card which includes description of how the colour red signifies the blood spilled by the son of god? Why can’t I walk my dog in peace without getting dirty looks?

I once worked with a girl who stressed out so much because her mother would pressure her into spending hundreds of Ringgit into buying offerings to be burnt away. This is a girl who earned so little she couldn’t fix her car or sometimes, make payments for the car loan. Apparently all these issues did not matter to the mother.

Will the world be a peaceful place if everyone had one same faith? Does religion cancel out ill thoughts and human’s thirst for power & money? Seriously? Lets say it is possible to convert EVERYONE on this planet to one religion, then what? Will there be no more suicides, gossips, bribery, murders and rapes? Do religious people truly believe that having one single whatever faith will make the world a better place? If you answered yes, I can understand why you’re religious in the 1st place.

I mean all of us non-religious people could probably answer all the questions above, but the book truly explored them and more.

According to Dawkins, some people are religious because apparently religions teach one to be moral, ethical and the whole shebang. But it’s pretty obvious that you don’t need a religion to impart these qualities into a person, right? I mean personally, none of my parents are religious but yet I’ve been taught to be considerate to other people and to stay away from crimes basically. So why don’t just cut out the middleman and get straight to attaining those qualities?

You may argue that there are people who practise religions the wrong way and shouldn’t be clumped together with people who practise them properly. But you can’t deny that all these instances of stupidity and inconsideration did begin with a blind faith in a delusion, no?

Help! I can’t stop eating Crispy M&M’s. Yesterday I bought 6 of the blue packets and have so far finished 4 of them. It’s kind of like eating Maltesers but without all the messiness thanks to the candy shells. Gawd, I love them so much.

I’m tempted to empty out the remaining 2 packets but something inside is telling me to get a bloody grip.

Sudden intense craving for Crispy M&M’s aside, I’ve also been drinking nothing but Mountain Dew for the past 2 weeks. It’s really bad, I know but I’m in a phase and it will pass soon (I hope). From just buying one small bottle, I’ve resorted to getting a few big bottles at one time. I’m literally not making ice fast enough to match my Mountain Dew binge. Soon enough I won’t be buying toothpaste fast enough to counter my deteriorating teeth!

Anyway, here’s a sneak peek of our kitchen. Contractor is done tiling the walls and floors and is currently building the countertop. I LOVE my walls, they look like the surface of a golf ball. Hahaha.

Speaking of tiles, we were at MML Gallery last weekend and they have this massive mosaic mural:

Tell me what you think :D

An old story from The Smoking Gun about a perverted man has been making the rounds again on the Internet. Travis Frey is being charged for kidnapping and raping his own wife, which sounds like a run of the mill domestic abuse till this….there’s a contract involved. Investigators had found that he had drawn up an over the top document called, “Contract of Wifely Expectations”.

Woweee! You can’t get more chauvinistic than “Contract of Wifely Expectations”. The contract consists of gems like “you must be naked within 20 minutes of the kids being in bed”, “all skirts are no lower than 2 inches below the knee – unless it’s for Church”, “panties are optional but need not be worn” and many more.

There’s even a special category dedicated to shaving where the wife is expected to shave her legs, pubic areas (which by the way, were specifically defined as “naval to anus”) and underarms on every third day of the week. There were also dimension specifications on exactly how big the rectangle patch of hair above her vaginal slit should be. Man, I feel dirty already.

You’d think that living with such a demanding and chauvinistic man would make her dump his sorry ass much earlier eh? But no, the wife had been with him for 9 whole years! 9 whole years of shaving every third day of the week and 9 whole years of not being able to wear comfortable underwear! Seriously, I’d love to see a picture of the wife because she must be one sexy hot thing! Then again, there’s no black & white on what she can or cannot eat so I might just be wrong.

What possess a woman to stay so long with such a man? Did she like being controlled? Was she frightened into staying? Was it just a love game gone wrong? There are not many facts on their history together as a couple to make any conclusion but I suspect the crumbling of the marriage was very likely related to the fact that Travis Frey collected child pornography (and therefore deserves whatever shit that is thrown his way).

Without factoring in the child pornography, kidnap and rape, I have to admit that I find the contract rather sexy. Is it just me or does anyone else find the idea of the contract strangely alluring?

When I said dirty, I didn’t really mean it in a bad way ;)

I am currently suffering from writer’s block. I had written so much things in the past few days; advertorials, press releases, proposals, blog posts that my brains are incapable of churning out anything anymore. So what’s the obvious thing to do? Whinge about it on Twitter of course and hope to receive some suggestions. And suggestions were exactly what I got.

Lainey asked me to write about Inception, the Christopher Nolan’s mind fucking thriller. This is a topic I actually rather not touch on because frankly, I don’t think I’ve fully understood it and I seriously do not want to come across as a pseudo-intellectual fool LOL. I watched it only once and was more thrilled by the premise of the film than the film itself, if you get what I mean? There were some parts that I couldn’t get, like how does the Architect work? Does she have special fluid injected into her that allows her to landscape other people’s dreams? The film didn’t address this, or if it did I didn’t catch that part. And then the part where Cobb decided to stay back to rescue Saito who’s in limbo? How could he have made that decision as the “kicks” were already in place and he would be forcefully brought back to reality? Confusement max!

Then Joe asked me to write about my writer’s block and what inspires me. To be honest, I think evil inspires me. In my opinion, most of my best writings emerged from anger and hate. How do you not write with passion when driven by those emotions? Nice things are great but they are also soooo boring to write about. That’s probably why it’s really hard to blog when you’re contented and satisfied with life. Luckily or unluckily for me, I’m in a good place now. Being angry and hateful is exhausting and damaging to my relationships with other people, so I’m just trying to be open-minded about everything and give things the benefit of the doubt. Seriously, it’s a constant struggle for me not to fall into that “I WANT TO CUT YOUR FUCKING FACE” mode.

Okay, I’m done here. Gonna grab dinner.

This week was a really tough one for me. First, there’s this annoying PMS that came with a constant throbbing pain on my abdomen which rendered me unable to sleep. Then I stained my bed which is possibly one of the most annoying things to happen for me. Then, when I got up at wee hours in the morning (which really to say was around 8.30am) to clean up the mess, I walked in on Charlie’s number 1 and two number 2s in the living room. Being royally pissed off has a whole new definition for me.

And then there’s World Cup. I’ve bitten the World Cup flu and I don’t even know why or how it happened. A few World Cups (fuck I AM old) passed by me without so much a hello but this 2010 one is like, woah! Maybe it’s the hi-def sports channel, maybe it’s the constant updates on Twitter, I don’t know but I’m totally and irrevocably hooked. I was so stressed up about not being able to watch the matches at home (we don’t have Astro) that my mood was just turned nasty and evil.

Thankfully the BF saved his arse by hooking us up with some sweet ESPN live action streaming and now we can watch the games albeit lagging by a few minutes. Bad thing though is I’m now constantly bombarded with American junk food commercials, particularly the one of M&Ms with pretzels inside!!! WTF? Can anyone get me this, pretty please????

By the way, am going on a vacation! Great timing because I really needed a break. Can’t wait to soak in the sun, sea and beach. On another note, I hope they’ll show football where I’m staying. OMG don’t stress myself up again!!!!

Have a good weekend people!

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Speaking of World Cup, have you gotten any of the limited edition Celcom Blue Bears? My favourite is Bearitalia for Italy and while they only managed a draw with Paraguay, I’m certain they’re going to kickass in the later stages!

All you need to do to collect one of the blue bears is just sign up with Celcom Exec Savers between 17 May to 11 July 2010, receive a mobile voucher to collect the bear and be in the running to get RM10,000 cash daily. Basically what I’m saying is that….you get a free Celcom Blue Bear, you get to save up to over 40% on calls and SMS to ANY NETWORK and you might get to take home RM10,000!!!!!

# – All it takes are 3 simple steps.

Anyway, you can even decorate your phones and laptops with online memorabilia such as desktop wallpapers, ringtones, online games desktop application, challenge your paper folding capabilities at http://www.celcom.com.my/vs. You should check out my awesome origami skills at folding a bear here, hehe.

# – My Bearitalia!

Oh my gawd, this drilling in the apartment upstairs is killing my braincells. I can’t think straight.

And that is why, this sentence you’re reading now was written about 15 minutes after the one above because I had to lie my head down.

Last week was not very interesting except for the party because the boyfriend was on full work mode and I was kind of left alone to vege out in front of the TV. In between TV times, I managed to upgrade my laptop’s operating system from XP to Windows 7. Ladies & gentlemen, I am in love. Windows 7 is the best thing that Microsoft has ever come out with and it’s so ridiculously easy to install.

This is my desktop now, it’s so clean and sleek.

I hated the tedious, swishy swooshy interface that Vista tried to imitate from Apple but with Windows 7, it’s nothing like that and is very intuitive. Using my laptop now feels like using a Firefox browser, perhaps I should start saying “surfing my laptop” rather than “using my laptop”. I suppose the thing that stands out most about this OS from its predecessors is that it doesn’t operate on the basis that its users are retarded.

Anywayyyyyyyyyy, enough of my pimping on Microsoft :P

Also, I discovered a great way to stop mosquito bites on the feet from itching via Michelle on twitter.

# – Seriously?

To be honest, I thought it was bollocks but curiosity got the better of me so I just tried. No loss except for a short length of cheap cellophane tape.

# – Taped up foot.

What do you know, it worked! The itch completely vanished and if anyone could explain the chemistry behind this I would love to hear it!

By the way, check this out…

# – Solved!

Yes, I have solved a Rubik’s cube, or rather just one of its sides. Haze taught me some of her theories on solving the cube (while I was drunk no less) and lo and behold, it worked! On how to solve the remaining 5 sides she said I could learn another time. Being the impatient brat that I am, I didn’t want to wait much more so I googled it up but hell, those instructions might as be for building a space shuttle. Suddenly, I’m not so confident in learning about solving the entire cube anymore :P

Have resorted to drinking melon milk to drown my sorrows.

# – Melon milk drink.

They might as well call it crack milk cause this shit is addictive!!! I wonder if they have a strawberry flavoured one cause I’ll totally be lapping it all up.

# – Green coloured milk, so wrong but so right.

I think my chest has grown bigger but it’s probably all in my head. Right?

These pictures were taken many months ago but were sort of forgotten. But now, they’re seeing the light of day!

# 9 August 2009. Was at the pet grooming shop when a fella brought in this shih tzu with massive, dirty hair and long dirty nails. According to the owner, the dog hadn’t taken a bath for 2 weeks. The dog’s fur was matted all the way to his skin it’s impossible to comb them out. So there’s no other way of making him handsome again other than to get a full shave. 2 weeks? Looks more like a year of neglect.

# 19 October 2009. At the bf’s office. Me. His coffee cup, a gift from me. Hmmm, don’t ask.

# 24 October 2009. This is a picture of 13 boxes of takoyaki balls, which translates into 39 pieces of balls shared among CL, KY, ST, Haze and myself. We were in Singapore for Nuffnang Blog Awards and while checking out the city, won some Takashimaya vouchers that we used to redeem 13 boxes of takoyaki balls. Tragically, by the final 2 balls, our stomachs gave up.

# 12 January 2010. Like mother, like son.