Just because you got yourself a medal doesn't mean you're smart.
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If perfection has a form, she would be it.
I hope she remains this way though. Winning too many medals can dilute ones' sense of accomplishment in the game. Like 'Just another medal..'
Which reminds me of an incident.
Look, we do not have that many resources. Think before you speak. There are 45 countries taking part in AYG. Not all of them are going to take part in bowling, but at least 10 different languages would be used. It is not fucking possible for an interpreter for every language to be present at every venue.
I hate it when people tell me how to do my job. I know my job well enough. Suggestions are OK, but saying stupid stuff like 'Why don't you get an interpreter?' is just stupidity to an epic level. Does the game take brains away from you, or were you never born with them in the first place?
Don't think about rebutting that with 'But some of the teams would obviously lose, because they are so noob, you don't have to get interpreters for them, blahblahblah...' Just accept it. You have no brains.
Think before you speak. Just because you got yourself a medal doesn't mean you're smart.
Let's talk about humility. And why being humble is good.
This is what I arrived at this afternoon.
Being humble is part of EQ. It gives people the background to relate to other people.
Let's say that I am from kampong A, and you're from kampong B. And there are many other people in other kampongs, but they don't make it to the top because they are not clever enough.
But because I need to win their votes, I have to present to them my humble background, so that they know that 'Ah, this guy was one of us, we should vote for him even if he's useless trash'.
Not everyone has the chance to get into a rich and influential family. Most are in the middle-classed, and lower. So if you were a politician you'd have to appear humble, and practise humility because it's the way to get votes.
In schools, rich snobs don't get friends. I don't consider prostitutes as friends(ie the people who suck up just for free lunch), because I appreciate being able to save up on lunch money, but I'd just finish the meal ASAP and zao. Like..yea. So anyway I don't consider myself a 'friend' of my 'victim'. It's a trade-off in this case, I'm trading my company for his free lunch.
But that's not the point. I'm talking about rich snobs not getting friends.
That's because they are snobbish. If they walk with their nose in the air they'd suffer from blocked nose when it rains, but once again that's not the point.
People just do not like people who are different, or who practice that distinction in an obvious way. Like for example, the royal snobs(in this case the Celestial dragons) wears a bubble-like headgear so that he doesn't breathe in the same air as the commoners.
Obviously the commoners are not happy with this, like the 'We are all created when our fathers' sperm fused with our mothers' eggs, and we are all anatomically the same, so why this distinction?! Life is not fair!'
Q: But what can the lower-classed people do?
A: Accuse the snob of being a snob, of not being modest. That is why being modest is much-celebrated by the poorer community, because they want to appear morally superior(which isn't really modest at all). That's the only ammunition the poor have against the rich.
And seriously, I just realized that birds of a feather indeed flock together. The stars are with the moon, and the mud with stones.
Even Facebook exhibits this human quality.
-- 7/02/2009 11:10:00 PM