Dear All,
Sorry about the very very unrecent updates. The day after my post saying that I’d re-recent my blogging, the internet went all kaputty on me. and then AFTER that I had to take a couple more days off because the bugs came back. Well they’re gone again now. Maybe if I just stopped exerting myself everytime the virus gives me a break, I’d actually get better faster. But I can’t help it! I’m already hyper by nature, and putting a hyper person in bed for three weeks tends to make them go crazy.
Today… I lent borrowed a book from Mr Leonard. A comic called Bone. I sooooooooooooooo want to read more! bwahahaha. Ooh, and my mom’s friend Uncle Ara has my comics in US with him, and he’s bringing them home in November! =D Will post piccies when I get them.
I got an email forward today about White Rabbit candy. It’s been said to contain traces of formaldehyde and so has been retracted from the Phillipine market (This I got from googling the topic), which is pretty damned sad because I really love that sweet 
and China has been selling it since 1943 and now someone suddenly realizes that there are traces of formaldehyde in it?? A bit weird right.. I can’t help but wonder why Made-In-China products have suddenly come under fire a lot more than usual lately…
This incident happened early this year, in July. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia on the matter:
“Philippine Laboratory Test for Formalin
The Philippine food and drugs claimed that the candies contain formalin. The manufacturer of the White Rabbit, Guan Sheng Yuan, cited an independent report by the Shanghai branch of SGS-CSTC, a joint-venture under the Swiss-based SGS Group, the world’s largest inspection and testing company, as saying that samples of the White Rabbit ready to be exported overseas and tested on Wednesday contained no toxic substances. [6]. Singapore’s Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) stated that the White Rabbit Creamy Candy from China is safe for consumption after conducting tests on it. [7]
On July 24, 2007, the local distributor of White Rabbit bowed to a BFAD recall order from the Philippine market. BFAD met Tuesday with representatives of Cheng Ban Yek and Co. Inc. to discuss the firm’s pull out strategy. BFAD officials gave Cheng Ban Yek 15 days to implement the recall, and to submit progress reports every three days, but the latter asked for more time because of the number of places where the products can be bought.”
Yeah. and here’s a new report link:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/business/217838.htm
I then got a SECOND email forward showing some really gruesome pictures of seal hunting as a sport in Canada. I thought it was another hoax email sent by some jackass with too much free time… Until I did a Newsweek/Wiki/Google search and found out that the story was true… although the pictures themselves might have been fabricated. The worst part was when i came across this quote on one of the sites I found:
“I would like to see the 6 million seals, or whatever number is out there, killed and sold, or destroyed and burned. I do not care what happens to them. The more they kill the better I will love it.” — John Efford, former Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, addressing the Newfoundland House of Assembly, in 1998.
Right. Now, I don’t think I have to be a diehard animal lover to think that he’s a damned jackass sadist. What, was he mauled by a seal in his younger years?? Rape, maybe. Or they stole his favourite fish dinner, I dunno. Okay, so I’m being a bit emotional and a bit bitchy here. But seriously, who makes a public comment like that and expects to get away with it?
This is where I found it, by the way:
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=3398
Of course, this website seems to me a littttle biased towards animal rights activists. But still. Google it yourself, if you wanna know more. Oh, but the pictures at the ends of the email forward about the seal hunting sport? Word on the net is those aren’t real, or are really old photos and are meant to… well, stir up whatever anger you may have inside you, if the seal pictures weren’t bloody enough. But I dunno. And here’s the address for a forum that’s small, but offers a more balanced point of view, of course: http://www.flickr.com/groups/naturegroup/discuss/72057594084101586/
In other news: Field trips!!!!! Well not now, but after the exams. Nov 24 to 25, going up Genting with Munn and Yee Lin. <3. I have never been to the outdoor theme park. And then 9th of December = off to JAPAN!! bwahahaha.
Oh. My classmates are going up Genting after the exams too. But they didn’t invite me. How sad. Haha. No seriously. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t upset or disappointed about it, and I’m not going to hide that from them, neither am i going to shove it in their faces. I mean honestly, I can’t help but wonder if they forgot about me. Or if I’m just not that significant as everyone else. Still, I try to think about it this way: It’s their Moral group outing. Okay, that’s somewhat understandable. I wasn’t in their group for the project after all. But then I found out that some of their own group members didn’t know about the trip and are not going. What the hey.
I actually found out weeks ago, when Thomas casually mentioned it in front of me. Then I caught Si Wei, Kar Wye and Jun Hau talking about a trip to see the Black Eyed Peas (in Genting) and when I asked them about it they got alllll quiet on me. Well fine. I know some of my other friends have told me to just go along, go along… but firstly, if they wanted me there or didn’t mind me tagging along, they‘ve had more than one friggin chance to ask me. Secondly, even if I had said no, it’s the thought that they’re thinking about me/enjoy my company that counts.
So screw it. You guys can go to Genting without me, and I honestly hope you all have a whizzy-jolly time up there. And for those of you who are thinking of telling me, “So what, you’re going there too anyway, and at the same time we are”, or “it’s just Genting, you’re not missing anything”…. you obviously don’t know just how much I value our friendship and the time we spent together during out ten months as classmates and family.
And don’t. You. DARE. tell me that omigosh you’re so emo no wonder you need guys haha you girls. I will SLAP you in your ***** face for such a chauvinist comment. I never mention it, but I hate it when people use a tag like emo on me that way. Everytime I feel upset or I need a little comfort or some company, I’m emoing.GOD can’t you people be a little more sympathetic?? But I forgive and forgive and forgive and take it all in and when I decide to let it out I’m emoing again. Sometimes I wish you people would spend a day in MY shoes. Hell yeah, I know YOU have problems. But you don’t see me going all sarcastic and screwy on you when I see that YOU’RE upset.
Okay. That was a rant.
Tomorrow… No college. I’m staying home for self study. Chem practical on Thursday.
Daily…
- Consumable-ds: One soft-boiled egg, one cup milo, one plate fried rice, one bowl of porridge, one packet of milk.
- Procrastinate-ds: Studying.
- Carrocolada: The Sims 2 Bon Voyage; Bone; Honey; A Holiday.
- What’s on the Cake: MySims; Cooking Mama; Harvest Moon Boy&Girl.
Jackass,
ThEditor
Aw hell, I’ve always known that.
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