Ah... back at home today. Besides a MAJOR sleep in, I also get to do very little work and not feel guilty. Well, okay, less guilty.
Below is a list of articles I've read today which I feel I like to share, and a few other other random stuff I feel an urge to share. As I do. For best effect, read it with Bohemian Rhapsody playing. (Coz it's playing as I write this. :P)
Asians in NZ subjected to racism, study finds
A study shows that many Asians in NZ are subjected to racism of some sort. Most of what it says rings true. I do have something to say with this particular quote though:
Wellington Chinese Association president Steven Young said he was "not surprised" by the report's findings, but it was disappointing for new migrants to find themselves not wholly accepted.
"Racism is not so much a problem for Asian New Zealanders who have grown up here and gone through the school system and have Kiwi speech patterns," he said.
Okay, YES I think new migrants have a lot more problems, but for bananas like myself, there's still a certain amount of racism, and it's not actually that much better, if not worse. I've been here since I was 12, and I was picked on when I first came here, which makes me sort of resent the fact that I'm Chinese. It took me a long time to even learn that it's okay to put my last name in my email. And once I had a car accident, and bam: "bloody Asian driver". I still get patronised because people automatically assume I can't speak English if I'm Chinese. Granted a lot of the time, if not all of the time, people who automatically jump to that conclusion are peopel who really don't count, but it still hurts somewhere deep down.
Yes I'll talk to my counsellor about my whole cultural identidy issue. I'll get there.
Here's a way to force gas stations to lower their prices
Came across this from fark, and here is their advice:
But one of the best ways to fight gasoline prices is for consumers to boycott gas stations' convenience stores. Pay cash where possible; do not use an oil company credit card, because you are paying an even higher price when the interest rate is figured in at the end of every month.
Skeptical? I am. But then again I always am. I just wonder just how much they are earning because of the convenience store sales. Mind you I could only find The Dog mascot in one BP store though, which is annoying. Anyway, back to gas prices. I ahve to say even though I'm still a bit skeptical, it does seems more logical then the whole "boycott the station for a day" crap I've been recieving in email. I would LOVE to try the whole "everyone try to boycott ONE store" strategy but it's hard to get the whole country to follow suit you see. So yeah, maybe this IS the easiest plan to follow. Besides the stuff they sell are quite overpriced.
These is no free lunches
Speaking of email forwards, I got one that say if I sign up this list and get five others to sign up I get a free colour iPod. *sigh* Sometimes I don't know how people buy into these things. Not to mention the terms and condition already said you can only get the iPod if you're an US citizen. *sigh*. I got to give it to the guys who come up with this scheme though. But what process people to think you can get a free iPod for nothing is beyond me.
Novel way to fund raise
This is beyond novel, in fact it's cruel, but here it is:
Suggested by a few members of the student council, the school is playing Hanson's 1996 hit "MMMBop" through the loudspeakers before classes begin, between periods and during lunch. The idea? Annoy students into donating; have them pay to stop the music.
The goal is $3,000, which could be reached if each of the 659 students donates $5.
"MMMBop" has been playing since Wednesday, and the school has raised about $2,300 so far.
Hell, I'll donate straight away. *shiver*
Neonatal Polygraphy in Full-Term and Premature Infants: A Review of Normal and Abnormal Findings
No I haven't read it yet, but I have to read it today and summarise the whole thing. *sigh*. Which is what I plan to do now. All 50 pages of it. Yay me...*sigh*
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