25/2/15 - Bullshit

So as some of you might know, I was involved in this incident at school where some subjectively indecent stuff was posted on this guy's Facebook account when he left it unattended at school. By indecent stuff I meant tentacle porn and really, who's to say that it is objectively indecent? Heck it could damn well be art to me, just check out some of the Indian temple architecture with statues of people in various sexual poses on it or some of the Japanese art that contain scenes of cunnilinggus. Don't tell me there aren't people out there that think that shit is art. Who's to say it's indecent? It's art!

Anyway, I digress, so far, we've had two meetings with the school authority, one with just lecturers last week(and we're doing this shit in Studio Project as well which is such a fucking waste of time) and one on 24/2/15 which was honestly a fucking joke.

The meeting with the lecturers was disappointing to say the least. Investigation was shoddy and I got scolded for absolutely nothing and this fucking bitch kept staring at me, holding eye contact with me and only me for more than half the meeting. You ain't seen a pimply faced teenage boy in your fucking life? You teach in a Polytechnic for fuck's sake. You've seen enough of them to last a lifetime. Quit looking me in the eyes so damn much. For one, it's pretty disrespectful, even if I posted or not, I still deserve some measure of respect. Two, it's so fucking creepy. Her eyes were like halfway out of their sockets, what the fuck. Please, control yourself, I know I'm hot shit but you don't have to ogle so hard. Just kidding about that last sentence. Not going to talk more about this meeting, while I was initially pretty pissed about it thanks to that bitch, it just pales in comparison to the meeting with this old guy with a moustache that's supposedly some pretty big joke, I mean shot, in SIDM. In fact, now that I think of it, I ain't even mad, it was pretty damn funny to me. Although Steffi was.

So pretty much going to account the meeting to you guys with some irrelevant parts cut out for the sake of summarising it. We sit down randomly in an order of our own choosing in the Conference Room, which was absolutely freezing and made me shiver for like half an hour super hard. I've never felt so cold in my life. My thighs actually shivered as well and I honestly never had been so cold I had to shiver my thighs as well. Moustachio walks in and rearranges us. Don't see the point in that but OK and we sat in the new arrangement he gave us. Then the next thing he does is tell us we can be sued by the guy if he wishes to, citing in particular the Protection From Harassment Act 2014. Before I comment on that, he even brought an example source to show us. The moment I saw it, I knew I couldn't take this guy seriously anymore. He then started giving us a rundown of some shit about a famous blogger called Xiaxue, which honestly who the fuck doesn't know the story by now. Now what might that example source have been? It was the TODAY newspaper. The fucking TODAY newspaper. Not a law blog, not the fucking website where the Act is openly published to the public but a fucking newspaper. Please. And he doesn't even know what the Act covers specifically. The only thing he could tell me about the Act was that it protects from cyberbullying and online harassment. He knew jack shit about the Act and he wanted to shoot us with that? Seriously mate? I spent half an hour finding the Act as it was defined and not summarised and watered down for easier understanding by going to XX's blog, the law blog she quoted, and then the website where the Act was published as assented by the President of the Republic of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam. If the illustration as provided in the Act means anything, "Faceraping" does not contravene the Act at all. You just got rekt m8.  You were trying to threaten us with an Act that means absolutely nothing to us. 

He asked if we knew about the "law"(it's an Act, you twit, not a law) before "today"(meaning the day of the meeting, not the incident of the "Facerape), which I said I did. And then he proceeded to give me some shit about how when I knew what the Act meant, I didn't stop them and crap. To be fair, I did answer his question. I did know about the law before the meeting but not before the incident. So how could I have stopped them? In any case, they aren't even contravening it at all. I then told him that we didn't contravene the Act at all and also gave him an example of what it meant and why we didn't contravene it. His response was completely irrelevant to the matter at hand, which was "How old are you and what's your name?" Prior to that, I was actually pretty nervous, wondering if I should be raising my points but that cleared up my hesitation instantly. Ridiculous. He knows nothing about the people he's supposed to meet? He even arranged us by name and he doesn't know who I am. What the fuck? Are you actually serious here? He even has a case file, which didn't include the student profiles. What the fuck kind of investigation was this? I don't even see how old I was had any relevance to the matter at hand. What, am I being too bold and defiant by telling you to your face that you know jack shit about the Act? Were you offended that a 17 year old boy is putting you in your place? Or did I need to be 21 to do that, hmm? Or 30? He's not even taking us seriously because we are young and "in the wrong". After that, he took it that I actually want to take it to a higher level, which would be court(as an afterthought, perhaps it was an extra effort to scare me, which honestly isn't working). Wait wait wait, you were the one that started mentioning laws and what not in an attempt to scare us. All I did was merely correct you. I have no beef with the victim at all, why would I need or want to bring it up to a higher level? If anyone, it should be the victim, which he won't because he's a fucking pansy that just wants to make our lives difficult for fucking with his Facebook account. He's never going to bring it up to court because it's just too much trouble for diminishing results.

Then he tried to give us some lecture about cyberbullying and asked if we knew what it meant and how "Facerape" is cyberbullying. Well under which definition is it because I couldn't find any. Cyberbullying is usually persistent, which it wasn't because we only did it once and didn't try again after he locked his account, and it must be with deliberate intent to harm, which it wasn't because we were just having fun and who knew he was such a little pussy? So I told him that "Facerape" isn't cyberbullying(and I actually even have a thesis I found online that corroborates my point that it isn't. Where's his evidence and support?) and he tried to get the rest to disagree with me. Which didn't work, because it really wasn't and not that it matters anyway because I only need validation from myself. 
As long as I still have myself, 要我一个打十个也行。

He then started talking about how dangerous social media is and shit and saying how some Poly students were expelled for posting racist comments. Well hot damn because the guy replaced his "Faceraped" cover photo with one of a pretty scandalous edit of his friend's face complete with the words "JUNHONG ALLAH KUN" and the Islamic crescent and star. Which he told me was a separate issue, something that he finally got right in the whole meeting and not that he would take it seriously anyway because the guy clearly has no respect for us and takes us to be a bunch of fools. He doesn't even have a single thing he could say that I don't have an answer to.
You may have power but it doesn't mean we have to fear you.

Long story short, the guy doesn't even know the law and he's trying to threaten us with it, which I'm not taking lying down and just giving him what for which most likely pissed him off because he's probably not used to having his authority being defied so easily and by a 17 year old boy no less. Pretty clear he was very annoyed by me through the way he treats the rest and me. There was a tinge of extra disdain and scorn. Despite having a case file with statements from us about what we did, it was pointless because he read none of it. If anything, the whole fiasco was a joke to me and that guy was the punchline. There's so much more details but only so much memory and will to write a word by word recount so this will just be it. Heh, I don't actually mind meeting the guy again to see what he can shoot me with. I need some amusement in my life. 

3/2/15 - Mola Mola

Feels like it's been so long since I made a blog post. So I started playing Mola Mola a while back and was watching Bart's Fish Tales, a cooking channel that primarily focuses on seafood based dishes. I happened to be reading up on something on Wikipedia, can't remember what it was but it led me to read about heavy metals and subsequently, heavy metal in fish. I read something about how the mercury levels in a certain fish(I think it was cod) has risen by 10 times in 36 years. This was really alarming to me. Maybe it might be to you after I talk more about it, maybe it might not.

Most seafood remains the only food source that humans cannot produce domestically. The lion's share of our seafood is caught wild from the oceans or rivers around the globe. That means we have no means of controlling the production of fish, it is all down to natural forces that dictate the amount of fish that is available for human consumption. At the moment, most fishing is done at a rate that is unsustainable by the environment. Apart from that, current fishing practices are also changing the way that fish are growing. They are adapting to the doctrines that fishing companies follow in order to survive. Right now, fishing boats can only catch fish that are above a certain size. As a result, smaller fish are able to escape the nets and hence, the smaller fish are able to reproduce to produce smaller fish. See the problem? The more we continue to fish only the bigger fish, the smaller the future generations of fish will be. There was a MinuteEarth video that was talking about this. Heavily fished fish are now half the weight they used to be 40 years ago. This is deeply troubling news to me.

Then the more wider spectrum problem: marine pollution. The pollution that we put out is gobbled up by microorganisms in the water, gobbled up by fish eating these, gobbled up by fish eating those fish and then gobbled up by the apex predators or whatever else in between, seals, sharks, walruses, polar bears. And guess where the pollution is finally deposited? In the apex predators of course. Polar bears have been the victims of years of pollution. Their sexual organs have been reduced in size and males are increasingly becoming hermaphroditic(if I remember correctly). This means that they have both male and female features. This hampers their already low reproductive rate and is driving them towards extinction quicker, with climate change already reducing their habitat to nothing. But I digress, back to the topic of fish. See where I am heading with this? In most cases, the apex predators are us. We are eating the fish and we are where our pollution is being deposited. The heavy metals we put out into the environment is finding our way back to us and not the way we would like it. If the symptoms of the polar bears are any indication, we could be well on our way to our own doom.

This is really just the tip of the iceberg(hehe). There's more in depth(hehe again) stuff that I don't really remember but hey, if you're interested, it's pretty easy to find out.