What pretty girls should do.

Just to let you know I am not one,
But I have experiences with many as in I have been rejected by many a pretty girls. We all know the rigmarole of rejection which is once the girl knows she turns nasty. I understand they have the guy's best interest at heart as they want to help the guy get over them but I feel it is a waste of many a friendship especially if the guy is going to be a somebody one day. The following advice will only be of benefit to a small minority of girls.
Experience states that most girls will probably have at most two or three guys interested in them in their whole lives. A smaller group will have a long list of guys who will be nobodies and even smaller group will have nobody. But the group I am talking to are the ones whose list of "guys who have ever liked them" reads like a Who's Who list.
The fact is you won't know who will be somebody so you might as well play safe. So when rejecting a guy use the "Helen of Troy method". If it is good enough for the most beautiful woman ever it is good enough for any girl.
The first step is to be calm when the guy declares his undying love no matter how geeky he is because he might be controlling the most powerful army in the world in thirty years time. Second, go straight to the point tell him you don't share the same feelings. Third use the Helen of Troy method which will give him a ray of hope while preventing misunderstanding and this will definitely save the friendship. What is the Helen of Troy Method?
Well basically it makes use of the fact when the guy is in love with a girl it is almost impossible to make him hate you even when rejected though this last for about five minutes so strike while the iron is hot. Tell him that if he truly loves you then he will respect you enough to honour her choice and here is the killer: make him swear an oath of allegiance to protect your honour and the man who will be your husband. Most real guys who like the girl enough will do it without thinking twice. So there you get to keep a friend and make a potentially very very powerful ally.
So if your husband cheat on you twenty years down the line invoke the oath and watch the now-powerful men (Prime Ministers, warlords) give you sweet revenge as they rip the flesh of your husband's bones and his mistress with meat hooks with no repercussions. If they refuse to honour the oath shoot back by saying "I am glad I rejected thee for if thou art unable to uphold an oath of allegiance what more a vow of marriage". He will be doing your bidding in no time.
Finally never berate the guy, never shout at him, never ever be mean because the Helen of Troy method not only save your life from future powerful rejectees but also give you all their combined powers.
p.s. This only work if the sum total of the pwoers of all the guys who ever went after you are greater than that of your spouse.

Working hours of House Officers

There has been much talk about house officers working for 36 hours straight,
First a clarification: when one is on call is doesn't mean they do not sleep at all. The amount depends how busy the ward is. It is undeniable that human error increases with such insane working hours however can the government hospital afford not to either by decreasing service to patients of increasing manpower. The only to about is to stagger the hours. Instead of 36 hours straight in 48 hours why not 18 hours in 24 for two days. This allowed at least more than 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep which is much more than most HO's are getting.

Who needs teachers?

Nowadays with the great availability of the interenet,
And also access to knowledge either through the printed or electronic media, it seems the roles of teachers are diminishing. As we can see fromt he previous post I can get knowledge from a professor in the UK without ever even needing to go overseas and spending the money. Having read his article and memeorised it one can say one is as informed as him on that particular matter.
However without teachers how are we to know what is crap and what is not. Teachers are still needed to guide us. Teachers are needed so we can avoid rediscovery. Put simply they are compasses. Textbook are charts. these by themselves do not make a voyage which we must undertake and be responsible for ourselves.

Better than anything I can say

I am for education reform and most of the time I believe the market,
Can the do a better job than the government ever can. Professot Tooley here say it in much better words than I ever can and offers empirical evidence. http://admin.fnst.org/uploads/1044/OP3.pdf to get the rest of his papers go to his website http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/tooley.html

Robin Hood

Whoa I have been lazy for a while but,
Here is a thought. Robin Hood claims to rob the rich to give to the poor. Sure some rich people are evil but most worked hard for their wealth. Being poor does not give special moral authority to ensure others don't enjoy the fruits of their labour. What if the rich decide that working hard isnot worth it any more? Who will there to be robbed?
But Robin Hood is an interesting story in that is illustrate what can go wrong with socialist scheme. Robin Hood is not so much an endorsement of progressive taxation as much as it is a condemnation of government taxation. Many times he robbed the tax money.
WHile many socialist governments claim they are 'Robin Hoods' they are actually the 'Sheriff of Nottingham' with all the heavy taxation. If not for the taxation people won't be poor.

Ultimate activity for nerds.

Do you think nerds are boring?
You thought they have no social lives? Do you know they go clubbing but not the drunkard and debauched ones. They go library-clubbing! Some go book and journal clubbing too. What is library clubbing. basically it is studying in the library until it closes and going idnner together. And it is an all-guys club. One of the last bastions where feminism has not touched it! SO start one in your uni today!

Accounting.

The government is like a giant corporation,
but unlike other giant corporation it has no external audit. There should. I would rather part with 150 million ringgit of tax payers' money to hire KPMG or something so I can have the peace of mind the 150 billion ringgit in the annual budget is well spent. However this is not the case so does the government's books add up?

Floods in Johor again?

Two things that people can do,
Move out of those areas or spend money to improve the drainage. But before doing anything can't we get the many geologist in the local universities and make prove their worth by studying the cause of this flood and the many floods that happen all the time. Time for some canal bulding if it need be.

Mat Rempits?

With certain politicians trying to legitimise them,
I will give them the benefit of doubt but there is certain similarities to Hitler and Ernest Rohm setting the SA or Sturm Abteilung. It hires thugs and turn into a personal army faithful to the National Socialist Party. Legitimising people rightfully in prison is akin to buying their loyalty.

A new party?

The Malaysian Liberal and Libertarian Party will never win a sit,
But hopefully what it will do is create a market of ideas where people will need to sell their ideas with proof and strong arguments and not because they control the media. Debate is the key for it both educates and inform.

More thoughts on equity

This letter is from Malaysiakini,
http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/61858 well it stimulated a lot of thoughts on my mind. I think it is important that people should know that it should about the size of the pie and not the size of the slice. Usually a small slice of the big pie is better than a big slice of a small pie. Well it is sort of unfair to insinuate corruption because the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise and I am not for conspiracy theories but I would like to suggest like in a my previous the Gini coefficient be measured and we will have our proof.