Thursday, May 24, 2012

Responsible internet use

While not really an avid reader of this blog, xiaxue, I some times check this blog for some healthy dose of chuckle. She is a "lifestyle blogger" with several awards from Singapore. She makes blogging her profession, and I would say she's very successful at it that she even got quite large factor of her house renovation sponsored. 

I adore the pretty things she has, talks about, and promotes. She is extremely open about her plastic surgery. Reading her entries about her plastic surgeries opened my mind. It was seemed like a distant concept and unreal to me. But now I begin to understand that, yeah, it's just how some people work towards perfection in their own sense. The way I would work towards my perfection... in studying I suppose (I'm still in the mindset of a student, pardon me xP).

This blogger, xiaxue, somehow has gotten herself long list of people who hate her for inexplicable reasons that I couldn't really understand, though. And sometimes reading the blog I feel she has a bit too much hate and anger in her for all of this haters of hers expressed through her rants.

However in this one particular case of haters she retaliated with full force: A bad ass example of how to deal with internet haters for a lady.

While I think everyone in this case has violated all the privacy policies left and right, she has made her point clear. That despite the so called anonymity of the internet and how it is just something virtual, in the end there are real people behind it. Putting the face to the hateful comments which were made mindlessly when surfing in the virtual world makes everything much real. As much as there is a real person / people behind every picture that is distributed with/without consents in the internet, there are also real people who comment on that.

And with more than one person interacting, we do have rules and norms that we conceived through our socialization.

And so, virtual world never means a world without rules and responsibility. Everyone still has to take the responsibility for all their actions. If anything, it is even a scarier world, as the rules are not really "clear" and enforced as we have it in our already stable real life civilization.

As such, like in her case, pictures of you could end up somewhere, taken out of context and used for other people agenda. And anything you ever write might come back haunting you someday. (Oh wow, I hope I never did write anything hateful and stupid here x___x)

And so, for me, I'll stick on just adoring cute little things and cat pictures in the internet. The kitties know I always say good things about them :D

Another thing I can take from this case: it just strengthens my choice to never use Facebook and trust it with my personal details :D

Monday, May 07, 2012

Housewife experiences

Housewife experience #1

It's incredibly... exhilarating, -while sipping the hot tea and munching the breakfast you made in the morning in a hurry to catch the usual morning bus-, and then suddenly realizing : Oh, wait, ... I don't need to be in such a hurry! I can make my schedule around the timing I want.

I then realized, it's such a luxury to be able to properly put the plates and eating utensils to the sink, wiping off the counter and the dining table after my breakfast (I know why my apt is always in a mess now *excuses*). Usually I rarely even have time to properly finish my breakfast!

And this morning, I could enjoy it all! mwahahaha xD

I know how silly it sounds now.. but... yeah, wow... having the control of time is such a powerful thing!

Housewife experience #2

Properly defrosting and cleaning your freezer doesn't necessarily involve long hours spent in messy, wet puddles of the defrosted freezer matters!
I always put off defrosting and cleaning my freezer.
As far as I remember to do that I would need to be prepared to :
1. Get my hands and arms (and sometimes my clothes too, yeah I'm that sloppy) wet and cold handling the icy-cold water from the melted freezer frost.
2. Make a mess in trying to empty the freezer from the melted frosts.
The only method I knew was using sponge and lots of kitchen towels and the mopping bucket. It involves trying to soak up the sponges and kitchen towels with the waters, then wringing them dry onto the mopping bucket. This method causes lots of mess and drips all around the fridge area. Not to mention it's not very practical.
One of my flatmate back then had a super practical way to deal with water problem in the fridge like this. She just stuck up the mop there, and mopped the area like she would mop the floor :D
I would admit it's such a brilliant way to solve the problem.
That method certainly got me and my other flatmate rolled our eyes and exchanged glances though, and swearing we won't put our food in that area xP

3. Mop the entire floor as it's going to be all wet around the vicinity of the fridge up to the sink area.

As a result most of the times my freezer can always be seen super fully packed with built up frost and all my frozen foods.

But hey, I just finished cleaning my freezer in less than 10 mins just now!

Turns out the key is not to let it all get watery! Cold, solid frost chunks are easier to handle than the same amount of frost in liquid form.

I just had to wait for around 40 mins since the time I turned off the fridge until I heard a loud crack. A huge portion of the frosts on the freezer ceiling had cracked :D

I then only need to transfer any of the cracked frosts, all still solid, to the nearby sink. The things I used were just a flexible cutting board (Ikea stuff) that I used to transfer the solid frost from the fridge to the sink, a plastic ladle to get most of the crushed frosts, and last, a wipe cloth.

And in less than 10 mins I finished cleaning up my freezer, and putting back all my frozen stuffs.
I amazingly feel super proud about it xD