Willwolf’s Den

Today, I scolded my son. Scolded him for telling me he tried his very best. I heard this kind of words far too often at home and at my work place. It makes me think back a movie called "The Rock" which starred Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.

There’s one scene where Sean told Nicolas "Losers try their best. Winners go home and fuck the Prom Queen". It still pops up in my head whenever someone tells me "I did my best" or "I try my best".

My son gave me another perspective on the coming generation. They have too much excess of everything. If you’re bored then go watch tv. If not, then watch Astro. If not interesting program, then watch DVD. No new DVD? Go play Playstation or Xbox. Bored playing alone? Go online and play multi-players like World of Warcraft (subscription) or Cabal (free). Tired of playing? Then just chat with your friends online. Not good enough? Go meet up with your friends and lepak. Too much loitering and still bored? Do outrages things with your friends and etc.

Where’s the time to sit back to learn new things? To be curious? To analyse stuffs? To apply what you’ve learn in your job, leisure, or even family?

It’s all about "Me. Me. Me" "I want. I want. I want" and "Now. Now. Now". Is this what we’re teaching our kids these days? To be more selfish? To be more lazy? Or are we the ones who are lazy?

Spoil ah? Buy new one la!

Don’t have ah? Go to another shop and buy lor.

I have to thank my son because he made me realize my own mistake. He made me realize I should push him to be innovative, creative and most importantly curious. Instead of buying him an Iron Man mask (if there’s one), I told him to make his own mask. I just bought him a cardboard and poster paint. That’s it. The rest is up to him.

"What if I make mistake?"
"What if the mask is not nice?"
I told him "Just do it again until you feel it’s right"

Yes, he made his own Iron Man mask. It’s quite nice too.

I then think back to my office and also realized that my own staff has the same problem. "I did my best mah". Yeah, my best. If sitting in office chatting on MSN with your friends is considered your best then your best sucks. Sit in office and not visiting customer is considered as your best then your best also sucks (you should have guessed by now that I’m in Sales Dept). It’s not your best because you’ve dropped out the "e" and "t" which leaves "bs". Which means you’re full of BS.

Maybe it’s time for us to sit back and rethink how we should approach our kids and today’s generation. Or maybe it’s just me.

I’m trying out a program called Bleezer. Apparently, it supposed to give me freedom to put my blog entry offline and sync later. Therefore, if you see this message, this entry serves as a test

Wow. Time really flies. I have to look back at my own (almost abandoned) blog to realize that it’s been 3 years without cigarettes.

In fact, I don’t keep track anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

After purchased the iPod Touch recently, I have a better idea on the pros and cons of having one especially when I compared with my old iPod Video 80GB.

Let’s look at the pros.

1. Wi-Fi capability with Safari - Seriously, Safari does a good job in bring a good web browsing experience in the iPod Touch. Fast (depends on your wi-fi connectivity) and almost hassle free. I regularly getting RSS feed by using the Google Reader to read The Star news and CNN Technology updates. I also use it for my Gmail Calendar to view my sales team activities. I can even show my http://willwolf.smugmug.com gallery in my iPod Touch on the spot. Btw, smugmug has made their site iPod friendly and makes photo viewing friendlier.

2. YouTube - hey, what else can I say?

3. Viewing videos - I normally view the video podcast especially Anderson Coopers’ 360, Larry King, Channel Frederator, Attack of the Show:In Your Pants, Happy Tree Friends, Start Cooking Videoblog, Tiki Bar TV and recent subscribed Mahalo Daily, Midwest Teen Sex Show and WebbAlert. It’s best to download new stuff off from these podcast than to download/convert “other” videos

4. Viewing photos - Especially when there’s no wi-fi available, you still can show/view your fav photos

5. Cover flows - All of my music collection, which I’ve converted from my CD collections, have cover albums attached into the mp3 file. In other words, it’s so damn cool to browse my collection via iPod Touch or even iTunes

6. Calculator - very, very useful

7. Looks better on Contacts, Calendar - think of it as using a PDA

Like I’ve said earlier, there’s cons as well especially when I compare with my old iPod 80GB. The cons are:

1. Very limited songs to upload into your iPod Touch - Seriously. From 80GB to 8GB. You really have to compile and even create your playlist to download into the iPod Touch. I have to allocate 1-2GB for my own music collection which means 200-400 songs and then allocate 1GB for my photos and contacts, another 1-2GB for my video and audio podcast while the rest for my other “hacked” applications

2. Fear of scratching the screen - I don’t have to worry much about fingerprint as it’s not a problem at all but still need to have screen protectors for daily wear and tear usage

3. Fear of dropping the iPod Touch - If the screen breaks then game over. Need I say more?

4. Not sports-friendly - It’s bulky when compared to iPod 80GB (I don’t compare with Nano as Nano is best for sports). If I go to my gym, then better use my iPod 80GB than to use the iPod Touch.

5. Limited games

How to choose? Well, I don’t have that problem because I’ve already bought the iPod Touch and I still have my iPod Video 30GB (I’ve sold off my 80GB). I still can use both for different situation. It all depends on what needs you want to fulfill.

Yesterday I’ve sold my Ipod 80GB video. I just can’t resist the temptation of the Ipod Touch.

I don’t need an Iphone as my 2 handphones still working fine and well. What makes me want to get an Ipod Touch is the nice touch screen, cover flow and wifi capability. Since I’ve created a library of music with cover album, why not enjoy it with my new toy?

With wi-fi, I can check my mail, utilize the calendar function and even blogging. In fact, this entry was done entirely with my Ipod Touch. Yes, I’m a sucker and a fan of Apple.

Did you notice that people are talking about our hard earned money being spent unwisely on useless activities that will not bring direct benefits to the people?

Did you notice our medias did not highlight about general public response especially the negative comments and only show comments from those people?

With those kind of money, we can:

Ah, but it seems someone needs a lesson in ROI subject. I think they have over-archived in Ego/Pride subject. They should take Humble lessons too but they keep skipping this class to take private lesson in “How to overspend on useless activities”.

Better focus on my job. It’s more productive and I can assure of my own ROI which I have control of.

Ok, this was taken by son just last week. Dragon boy asking monkey girl to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and ABC.

So how? Ada talent?

If a student saw her fellow students exchanging notes during an exam, then it’s quite clear to her that they’re cheating. Alas, the student who chose to voice out in her blog kena tembak pulak instead of investigating the cheating culprits. How typical! It’s easier to shoot the messenger than to look for the culprits.

What was the school authorities’ action? They demanded the blogger to remove her entry (most probably to protect their so-called reputation la but their action looks more like punishing the blogger instead and to protect their own hides). “Mere allegations” they said. Yeah yeah, I also heard there is a bunch of sex deprived animals who love to victimized defenseless calf but these also are mere rumor and allegations, right? Definitely allegations. Not true wan, not true. Don’t simply believe in anything.

What about the parents? They demanded the authorities to take action against the blogger (most probably because they prefer their children to cheat in exams therefore better to keep the blogger’s mouth shut, or in this case her blog, and to enable their children to cheat further. This too are mere allegation only. Not true oso. Don’t simply quote me. I’m really a simple guy. Monkey see, monkey do).

No wonder some people can get away with crimes la. It’s better to victimized the ones who made the report than to catch the criminals. Ah, now I see the reason for the rise in crime. Such education to the public and encouragement to adopt this kind of attitude. Better to keep quite when there’s injustice. Don’t worry because public will blame on the whistle-blower and less focus on the criminals.

If that’s the kind of accepted attitude adopted by these people then better follow or else jadi victim pulak. Yeah, let’s blame and victimized the blogger.

Now on the serious note and ignore my nonsense above. If any authorities forces someone to remove a person’s blog entry and claims it’s to protect their image and reputation, I would see their action as akin to hiding something bad while bullying the person who blogs about what they see and feel. These kind of people I tak bagi respect la. To me, their image sudah menjadi rotten egg liao.

I’ll bet that my boy is gonna pester me to bring him to Jusco so that he can play either MushiKing or Dinosaurking this weekend.

Imagine I have to spend RM10 every time I bring him there. So I’ve interrogated him one day. His response? For fun lor.

Each time he plays the money eating machine cost me RM2. It will dispense 1 card (either bettle card or skill card). Then you play paper-rock-scissor with the machine.

It’s the same problem with old folks playing jackpot in casino. They’ll spend RM500 just to win RM200. Does that make any sense? “The thrill of winning mah“, they said. I’m still baffled.

Below is a sample of one of those machines that kept my boy hooked.

Any idea on how to get him off the hook?

Ok la. Since I’ve upgrade my Wordpress to the latest version 2.3, might as well change the theme la. I really don’t have the time to modify and tinker the pictures.

So I’ll just leave it as it is for the moment