Reintroduce.

I thought of doing a reintroduction but I don’t think I ever did one in id6. Firstly, let me tell you what id6 is all about, in my own words. You don’t need to fucking know the name of whoever writes in this blog, and if you don’t like the language, fuck off and go elsewhere, i.e. an evangelist’s blog. I write this way because I want to, until someone tries to convert me and my way of thinking.

Back to the topic, it’s all about the thoughts and opinions of each member. Every member is different to another so you can’t simply gauge the level of thought one has put into their entry. However, I expect a certain entry to have a certain quality, not some news or promo about some shit you really liked. Whenever I try thinking harder than usual or put deep thoughts into something, it will eventually appear on this blog. You might notice that I’ve not many posts over here (in fact only one, a few older ones got deleted). I simply just haven’t been thinking hard enough. 

Here’s a little intro about myself now. About fucking time I did one. I just turned 22, and I call myself “krapman”. I’m studying Civil Eng in Melbourne University and I think my favourite colour is black because I always picture myself wearing other colours but end up buying same old black, dark blue and grey shirts/pants. I also dislike black for some reason. There’s a love-hate relationship going on here. Why? I hate looking at dusts and small white bits on black fabric!! Oh well, I think everyone generally feels the same way as I do… 

Oh, I listen to hard rock, alternative rock, emo rock, J-Rock,K-Rock, Rap rock…..all sort of rock music. You name it, I’ve listened to it. How about death metal, progressive rock, progressive death metal, mathcore, neo-prog, ambient rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock. Been there, done that. I didn’t really appreciate music when I was young. Come to think of it, I was lucky not to have fallen into the dark pits of loving POP and RnB songs. Oh well, they all sound great and stuff but it puts me in the same shoes as every other people, which isn’t quite like me. Yeah, I’m fucking different from you. Okay time-out, why not listen to some BFMV.

You don’t need to know my family, maybe I’ll tell you next time but here’s some small details. My mom loves me a lot but I don’t think she likes me around with girls. My dad is like the mentor character in the family. He teaches you everything but you don’t know anything about him. About 4 years ago I came to Melbourne and made some good friends. But I don’t think there’s anyone who would take a bullet for me yet. If there’s one, it might be Mr.Ero, some ero guy with a regrowable dick, as he claims. It’s my final year in university and all I can say is I have many regrets. Fucking hate INTROVERSION. 

Oh, and yesterday I had a great dinner with my dad’s friend who visited Melbourne. One of his sons working in Melbourne and he drives a Mini Cooper, all the more reason to stay and work in Australia. I have lots more to say but I’ll save it for another time. Have a good one.

~krapman~

One Shot One Kill

The Diary of the Life of a Sniper…

20 March 1941:

This is my rifle whom I will grow to love and take care of. She is my wife, my life, and death. No one shall take her away from me. Ever…

25 August 1942:

Obsession has become a target of marksmanship. The grunt dies for a thousand shots fired around the target…the sniper dies for that one single perfect shot…

15 February 1943:

Relished in my first kill of the day. The poor American bastard didn’t even stand a chance. The letter will soon reach his family and grief will be sought soonafter. War has taught me one thing. As in war, every soldier fires a shot back in self-defense against his enemy. Not for the sniper. The sniper exists in war for the offensive, to track his prey down through the midst of his scope, enjoy watching the last moments of his prey’s life before bringing judgment down on his miserable fate. If he is lucky, he dies painlessly from that single shot to the head. If he isn’t so, agony would torment him for the rest of his life…

Sniping is like hunting an animal, is like stalking an unknowing victim, is like playing God…

26 November 1944:

The cold winter brings the chill of loss to the great Fatherland, but fear death not; for the hour at hand will be the sniper’s finest, the most glorious of all…Live, kill, and die honourably for the preservation of the Reich!

New Kid on the Block

Hello everyone, I’m your new author for ID6, lilturkey! First of all, it’s absolutely a privilege to be on board with a team of well…highly motivated ‘individuals’ I guess as per what the blog is all about. So throughout my stay down here, I’ll be posting topics of which I believe hopefully will stimulate and engage you and of course get you thinking. New Kid on the Block, here I come!

Hi

Hi.

Individual6 is back, and the chosen ones have been decided. This time there will really be 6 writers here. Expect some exciting new things to come. Oh and yes we will change and update things accordingly. Stay tuned!

P.S. who visited the blog 13 times last week?!

So whats life like on the other side?

I guess being a somewhat lucky id6 writer, that is now no longer single and sort of on a long distance leash, i might share what is life like on the other side.

The good:

There is somebody you could share some stuff you cant share with ur friends?

Going out to places that is only good if you have a gf (i could name a few)

Showing off your skills at how many good restaurants you know

There is finally something good to live for

and a few other usual stuff

The bad:

PMS IS BAD x1000

If you are somehow unlucky and get a high maintenance gf, you can bid farewell to your dream pc setup. But if you are lucky enough, perhaps your gf has now learned the value of money and manage her spending somewhat better.

Obviously you cant move as freely as you used to, especially with member of the opposite sex. But as long as its within reasonable means, i guess that can be negotiated.

Insecurity is a problem especially if your loved ones are far away

Fighting against the law of SCP is hard, i try to resolve this by contacting on the phone rather a lot and buying a webcam and try to get my homework done, before she come back from work. But as a result our phone bill has literally exploded, its 4 times 49 dollar maxi cap for me this month and 500.12 singapore dollar for her (Read: 700 dollar in total this month).

So basically thats all there is to it, not that you would be surprised to see it.

On the other note, since im bored, i made something for dez

Deztroyer’s new pc plan:

E 8500           239
ASUS P5E3 AUD 229
Corsair TWIN3X2048-1333C9DHX 2GB 139
HIS RADEON HD 4850 219
Corsair HX-620                   139
Antec P182                       199

Optional HR-03 GT                65
Optional TRUE 120 Black          79

1205 or 1344

The Pasture is Greener On the Other Side

A friend of mine just returned from Singapore after national service the other day, and he said that almost everyone in the camp owns a psp, but he doesn’t. In no way this friend of mine is less affluent than the other nsmen, and he definitely realized that most people think that the grass is greener on the other side (means other people got more nice shits than you do).

I didn’t give this much thought afterwards until 5 minutes prior to this writing because, well i guess it’s an interesting topic to post on individual6 after months of inactivity. On many occasions this way of thinking that your friend is doing much better than you do is because you only hear one side of the story and reach an unbased conclusion that he is doing so well. You did not take into account the bad things in life that maybe the other person keeps to him/herself.

A case in point: a friend is now earning a decent salary, got a nice computer, and lots of disposable income, and the grades aren’t too shabby. You don’t have any of those so what are you going to say, life is unfair? You might not have any of those but who knows, you are earning lots of cash parking your money in term deposit since rates is at an all time high, you caught the gold rush prices, and happen to have a car and doing a degree that is in demand.

Statistically speaking most of the international students in Melbourne have a disposable income that is well above their country’s national average.That probably also includes the lots of you who happen to land on this site. Just as an illustration, I was doing some administrative work earlier and was roughly calculating my yearly cost in Melbourne. Within 3 years, my yearly cost in Melbourne had risen by 9000. And that doesn’t even include the plane tickets, and unexpected shits happenings cost, and sunk costs in investment I would not gain anything out of (read: bitch owned).

So there you go, make the best out of what you have and the persons sitting next to you are not necessarily doing as great as you think they do. Everyone has their fair share of life.

-[Acidz]-

Communication today

Reviving the blogging business.

In other news on topic, I would like to talk about communication in today’s generation. As with all this increase in technology and all that, people are relying much more on speed and efficiency through communicating on the internet. Webcams, instant messaging, voice chats, emails, etc. However I believe this has led to a rather problematic situation with young people today. It may not happen to everyone, but too much of online communication has definitely impaired the communication skills of people vis-a-vis.

Firstly, online communication tends to totally ignore the emotional factor of communication. Sure, there are emoticons and punctuation you can use to somewhat express yourself, but there is no assertive way to know what the other person may be trying to express. This leads to a lack of ability to judge the emotions of the other person when you are communicating with someone face to face, or it can lead you to deliver the wrong message to the receiving party. Allow me to give an illustration, based on a real life example whilst observing a friend of mine, who I would say is quite heavily influenced by online communication, thus having his face to face communication skills somewhat…..weird at certain times. A friend enters a restaurant trying to get the waitress’ attention. It led to this friend initiating the conversation with an “OI”. Right. I could immediately see that the waitress’ was fully dazed already. My friend said he wanted a table for three but I believe the waitress was in a stunned state, unable to comprehend what my friend said after his rather interesting greeting. Using “oi” to get someone’s attention in instant messaging may not give such a rude impression than doing it face to face. But face to face it can get rather personal. This is an example of lack of understanding of the emotional factor in communicating.

Secondly, online communication lacks any form of verbal activity. Okay fine, you’ve got microphones and shit, but here’s the main point: are you speaking with the right volume, and with good articulation? Sure you heard the other person nicely and he/she can hear you, but don’t forget about volume controls and enhancements. You may be whispering and have the other party hear you, or shouting and the other party only hearing a voice of regular volume. Using the same example as above, when my friend communicated with the waitress, I must say he was extremely ineffective with his verbal volume. Myself being around the same distance from him between him and the waitress, even I couldn’t really hear what came after the “oi”. Of course I could make out he said something along table for 3 since we knew what we’re asking for, but with the waitress’ look, I don’t think she heard a thing. So another problem, articulation and volume is lost through online communication.

Last of all, online communication lacks any form of body language. Whilst communicating face to face, we tend to use gestures to further express what we are saying. For example, asking for for a table of four let’s say, we would probably tend to raise 4 fingers while saying something like, “table for four please”. Once again with online communication, there is lack of use of gestures, alright. I’m not saying people will forget how to wave bye, or something like that, but that people may become “lazy” with their gestures. Here is an example following the one given so far. When my friend said table for three, he raised three fingers, but to be honest, looking from behind him, it almost seriously looked like he was giving the middle finger. I’m not kidding. He put his hand low, tilting forward slightly, and raising his index, middle and ring fingers. But the ring and index were raised so low and because of the angle, it seriously looked like he’s giving the F U. The waitress probably didn’t really see it that way though, she would probably have saw three fingers. You could say I’m exaggerating slightly to further my point. What I’m trying to say is, online communication can deteriorate people to the point that they don’t even realize how their body language looks like to a receiver face to face, since you are free to do any form of body language on something like instant messaging without the recipient knowing at all, or you simply don’t do shit.

Bottom line? Online communication has deteriorated young people’s communication vis-a-vis. And I haven’t even talked about how instant messaging can affect one’s writing skills. I’ve seen people put u instead of you on a formal paper. Go figure.

-Dez

Fairness

One fine afternoon, where the sun glows softly in the distance, wind blowings the rustling leave, and as the sound, noise and hustle bustle of melbourne’s rush hour fade into the distance, i asked myself this question, is life ever fair?

Everytime you get fired, everytime you failed your subject, everytime you were discontented that you failed your own expectation, everytime you get dumped or rejected, everytime you saw some guy so ugly, you will be traumatized for the rest of your life, walking with a girl, that is the absolute total opposite, everytime somebody avoided the tram inspector but you didnt, everytime you get a parking ticket, everytime you saw your friend has got a lot more things coming for him, everytime your intelligence is questioned, have you ever wondered is life ever fair?

You see, every single seconds we thought how life is ever fair, we tend to dwell on the negative side of things that we get, completely ignoring all the other blessing, gifts, and skills within our possesion. The simple answer to the question is life ever fair? no, it is not fair, and it will never be, and yet be thankful that life is not fair, coz there are reasons to.

If life is fair, you would have exactly the same skill as me, the same intelligence, the same interest, we will enrol in the same degree, attracted to the same kind of people,play the same games, watch the same thing, fight for the same job, and get paid the same. And multiply that by 6 billion people, and that is what you get when life is fair. It is in unfairness in this world, that diversity grows it roots, that we become individuals that we are now, that somehow in our differences, the world would be a better place for everyone, that i think is the true reason why we live, why we are here, to discover our purposes and not question how life is ever fair.

And for those of you who think life is never fair to you, imagine in some places not quite far away, there are people that are not able to go to school, people so poor they will never come out of poverty cycles ever, people that work every single ounce of their strength just to feed their family for one day, people that doesnt even have a proper clothes to wear everyday. Have you ever wondered how fortunate we are?

Some lyrics to close the post

So many,
Bright lights they cast a shadow,
But can I speak?
Well is it hard understanding,
I’m incomplete?
A life that’s so demanding,
I get so weak
A love that’s so demanding,
I can’t speak

I am not afraid to keep on living,
I am not afraid to walk this world alone

-[acidz]-

What dreams are made of

I ventured into Borders late this afternoon after a brief study/slash copying past exam answer session at the library. Happen to read some magazine called Business 2.0 and read about people who are reinventors of current technology and make quick bucks out of it (and a lot of it too)

It always occurs to people at certain point in their life, what they really want to be, how much money will they make once they graduate out of school and the like but more often than not the majority of general population remained in the box, conforming to the usual uniformity of getting a degree, work the way most people does (9-5), earn small amount of money with minimal risks and most are satisfied with it.

The people and businesses reinventors that i just read about arent smart, not even as qualified as the half of you lot reading this blog.They hold high school qualification, doing odd jobs like electrician and the like, yet when they want to get out of the box they did it pretty well. Some took their time, some extremely fast, but the end result is still very satisfying. I know a lot of smart people, but they never make it rich. Just look at the Phd holders in the uni, truckloads, yet they remained firm to their job.

There is one thing i find strikingly common with these successful entrepreneurs, that is guts, and lots of it.Remember the time when there was the dot.com bubble in 2000, some of these guys bought out a lot of domain names that could someday make a lot of cash, or not at all. Another one, giving music for free, so that more CD will be bought. With a venture of 9 million, these CD business will go bust or grow bigger in 4 months, thats more risk than the average Joe can take.

Some of these start-ups doesnt take a lot of thinking either, tried and tested methods that is as old as trade itself. Say threadless.com, a place where you choose your t-shirt from selected contest winners.Realistically, a one hour brainstorming can definitely conjure that idea up, yet not many does it.

Reading the few of these articles sometimes make my blood boils, how people can make 160 million in the same time i spend finishing my college and uni, and how the lot of uniformly trained people in university cant do better. There is definitely some point to be taken from this, think out of the box when the time comes. Literally…not just one ear in one ear out kind. Put aside 1 extra hour from the many you wasted doing worthless stuff, or thinking what you gonna buy next. Think about how you can make the money first, then buy.

With that, im off, to pursue something less economically viable, studying for my next exam.

-[acidz]-

EDIT BY ADMIN: sign your fucking posts yourself next time and categorize them properly acidz.

Examination

Whenever this period of the year comes, questions arises. Why examination exist. Why is it there to ridicule us, to question us of our brain capability, to questions us are we worth being in this very university.

People go to various extent to meet their individual expectation, or hope for the best with minimal efforts. Us included.For all there is to examination, i guess it is something we have to go through, another phase to our life. Studying spirit may go up or down among us individual6 members but somehow we always managed fairly well.

Random blogging during self-declared break. For whoever facing examination or some kind, good luck to you all. Individual6 updates right after exam finishes.

-[acidz]-