Of boredom

"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."

-Soren Kierkegaard-


gee..I wonder what the gods did when they weren't bored?

I am bored. Hence the google-ing of boredom quotes and the "stumbling upon" the silly and does not make sense quote from god knows who.

I have read so many online newspapers these past few days that I was more updated than People.com. I knew Jessica Alba and Tori Spelling both had baby girls Wayyy before people.com knew.

I read Dr.M's blog! I wrapped my tissue box with white A4 paper! I watched a freakin war movie! Ya! I'm bored!

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While reading some news online, I came across this interesting article. This is an excerpt from that article:

KEVIN Rudd is in danger of turning what should be his greatest strength into a serious weakness. I refer to his weird and increasingly ratty habit of announcing foreign policy initiatives of soaring ambition and utterly amorphous content on the run, half baked, with nodetail and no credible prospect of success.

In the past week alone we've had Rudd threaten to "take the blowtorch" to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to produce more oil and lower prices, nominate Dick Woolcott to reform Asian security and trade structures, and now appoint Gareth Evans to head a commission to end nuclear proliferation and secure nuclear disarmament.

If you announce twice a week that you're going to save the world and you manifestly lack the means to give the slightest effect to your pronouncements, the world soon loses interest. The chief casualty is your credibility.

In foreign policy, Rudd at the moment rather reminds me of Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad.

Now I yield to no man in my appreciation of the redoubtable Malaysian's many complex qualities, just as I appreciate our own beloved PM.

But through the years Mahathir earned the reputation in foreign policy of shooting his mouth off to no particular consequence. Rudd is not as silly or offensive as Mahathir at the end of his tenure but, then, Rudd has been PM for only six months.

I remember Mahathir wanting to bring peace to Bosnia, not to mention Palestine, reform the Organisation of Islamic Countries, establish developing nations' solidarity, set up an East Asian economic caucus and much more. Malaysian journalists were required to cover all this stuff in deadly earnest.

Internationally, people stopped paying attention and none of Mahathir's grand schemes amounted to a hill of beans. Where he did do well was in managing the Malaysian economy, although it is spooky that his biggest economic mistake was his insistence on a Malaysian car.

Will Rudd one day christen a greenhouse-friendly Neutron to match Malaysia's Proton? And it is positively freaky that Rudd has stolen Mahathir's slogan, Vision 2020.

Interesting view point.
You can read the full article here if you're interested to know the rest. [The rest of the article does not include Dr.M anymore tho]

AND

I also found this:

"I'm gonna get you one day. You wait and see. muahahaMuAhAHaMUAHAHAHA!!!" She's terrifying...

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On a lighter note, have you ever wondered why married couples use the word "we" when they are referring to themselves? Have they magically merged themselves into one entity referred to as "We"? I mean seriously, even if the question was directed to ONE person, that married person still answers with a "we" instead of a "I". Example:

Person A: Do you rent or buy (a house)?
Married Person B: We bought a house.

Married Lady A: Mum! guess what? WE are pregnant!
In case you didn't know, nature intended only for the Female to bear child. Using the word "We" indicates that BOTH Female and Male of the marriage is bearing a child. How silly is that?!?

I don't get it, why use "we" all the time? Why can't it just be "I" or "me" sometimes? Is it selfish to use the word "I" when you're married? Is there some sort of written constitution that dictates married couples need to use the word "We" instead of "I" even when referring to oneself? It's ridiculous!