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One of my friends just pissed me off.  I’ve always been very respectful when it comes to my female friends, there’s a huge difference between the way I treat the guys in my life, and the way I treat the gals.  But anger is anger; when a guy friend pisses me off he’s just being a jerk.  When a gal pal pisses me off, she’s being a b*tch…and that’s worse, esp. because I don’t deserve such treatment from the girls.

So yeah, the other day the birthday girl tells us that the bday party will continue on the beach this Sunday (tomorrow).  She joked that we’re only allowed to enter the beach with our swimsuits, so we’ll have to strip at the entrance.  It was already a “planned and confirmed” thing, everyone already agreed to go.

This one friend of mine then tells me she’s got the ‘hots’ for one of my male friends, so she forced me to invite him.  So I invited him the other day, telling him “my friend really wants you to be there…”.

This morning, I checked my emails and this woman had the audacity to send me a “wow, I’m so tired…I won’t make it to the beach this Sunday…”! We all know her real reason: she thinks she’s gained weight and is too ashamed of her body to show it off.

So what exactly am I supposed to do now? She just made me invite a guy, and I haven’t a clue on how to disinvite people.  The reason I’m so pissed off, is because I’m going to be stuck entertaining him the whole day.

See now normally, if it was a girl with a heart I’d make out with the guy she’s into so 10 years into their marriage she’d find out and hate me for it.  But this so-called friend of mine is not only a playgirl but a big time playa…and we all know women playa are screwed up in the head.  It’s like her heart went off to Barbados 10 years ago for a much needed vacation and hasn’t returned.

So the only way I can pay her back is to have fun and send her the pics, to show her what she’s missed out on.

What am I talking about? Well, it’s the all-new online community for Seychellois! It’s about time too! What? You didn’t hear about it? LOL…OMG, just join already!

www.seywow.com

We’re putting ourselves on the online map, so be part of this neo-culture rev.

Why am I screaming? Because I’m oh-so-late for that bday party I mentioned the other day…LOL just wanted to tell you guys about the new Sey community.

Oh - and don’t forget to put yo purty pix up.

Need a free website with your unique domain name? This Person will register a website for you, for *free* if you piss him off good enough!

After reading SHB and her opinion of Seychelles, I’d have to say I agree with her in most parts.

Most of the Seychellois who want to live in Seychelles are the Seychellois living abroad (”there’s no place like home”).  A large percentage of Seychellois living in Seychelles are looking for a way out.  The rest have never travelled and therefore don’t know the difference.

When you’re a foreigner wanting to know about Seychelles, it’s a whole lot wiser to ask someone who’s in a position to judge.  Why bother asking someone who’s never been anywhere else? It’s like asking someone who loves the ocean, “hey, how’s the ocean?”

Sandra listed out the good and bad…and Seychelles is like any other country out there: it’s got both good and bad.  Anyone saying it’s 100% good is either lying, or delusional.

This dude should be grateful, that one person took time out of her busy schedule to elaborately explain what to expect when you’re living in Seychelles, esp. through her personal experience.

I think he got her mistaken for a travel agent who actually gets paid to say nice things.

Apparently, he got so ticked off that he literally registered a website and posted their email conversations on it.  Wow…and I thought I was relatively irrational.  Get this: as if the domain + 1 year hosting + seo-friendly link + first page wasn’t enough, the guy posts even more nasty stuff about her (page 2).  This is exactly why people want to be entrepreneurs: they want as much free time.

He’s so “well-travelled” that cabin pressure has finally affected his sanity.

This dude is very African at heart.  Except he wants to live in Seychelles because all the negative stuff (”malaria & civil unrest”) he’s heard about his mainland (I say “his” continent because according to him, he’s moving “BACK” to Africa).

Like the US, the blacks in Seychelles were brought in from the mainland by Whites.  So Seychelles is geographically African, but the country is multiracial.  So if you don’t feel like you’re 100% American because of all that happened in the past, how do you even feel the least bit Seychellois? That said, you’ll be moving to an African island, but not “back” to Africa.

You will soon realize that what Seychelles is to a Black person is different to what Seychelles is to Whites and Asians/Indians.  Sandra considers Seychellois generally rude because there are rude Seychellois around, and because she’s White.  Seychellois deliberately ignore or are rude to Whites & Asians:

E.g. Normally, if you’re an old black woman who ends up standing in the bus, a (dark) Seychellois will stand up to give you his/her seat (pe fer bon piti).  If you’re a White or Asian old woman however, they will force themselves not to give you their seat, even if it breaks their heart to watch you deal with the nasty curvy roads.  It has something to do with their need to prove that Whites don’t rule the place, or something like that.  Because the minute they stand to give a White person the seat, you’ll hear someone in the bus comment:

“You’re not a slave, the white person can stand up…don’t they have legs to stand and hands to hold on?” or something along those lines.

This reminds me of the last time I was back home.  I went to JD’s (or whatever it’s called) to buy a card and I accidentally brought a plastic bag inside.  Here in China, it’s your responsibility not to steal anything when your in stores so they allow people to enter stores with bags.  I completely forgot that lots of people steal things whenever they can back home, so people are not permitted to enter stores with bags.

Over the years, I’ve lost that “layer of tan” most people acquire when they’re living in Seychelles.  So that girl probably assumed I was a foreigner - and decided to treat me like one.

Asians (incl. Indians) get the worst treatment in Seychelles.  The b*tch actually raised her tone of voice with me (in English), that everyone in the store actually heard her say “leave your plastic bag here”!.  Yeah, pick on the ‘foreigner’.  I actually spent 10 seconds in the store, decided to walk out and threw in a, “ou bez *bleep*” before I walked out.

Anyone wants to talk about racism? If I was dark-skinned, that b*tch with an inferiority complex wouldn’t have spoken to me the way she did.

BigN oh BigN…sure, we didn’t have internet 10 years ago and I didn’t have the internet until 3 years ago. There is absolutely NO point in calling yourself bign@bign.com because you’re NOT anonymous to me:

1 - I have your IP (didn’t you care to use a proxy?).
2 - I’m PRETTY SURE I know down to what your name is - so there’s no point in trying to remain anonymous. Seychelles is a small country, everybody knows that everybody knows everybody.
3 - I don’t remember signing up a privacy policy when I installed this blog so your hateful (and harassing) comments are only going to come back and bite you in the ass.

You’re not happy about what I say, not happy about the fact that I wanted people to donate, not happy about anything on this blog…sometimes I ask myself ‘why does this person keep returning anyway? Perhaps he doesn’t know about the millions of others sites online?’ Here’s an idea, why don’t you visit facebook.com - oh yeah, I almost forgot that you’re already a member there.

To reply to you: this blog is my online journal. I write to myself, even if I’m well aware that I have returning visitors (aka fervent readers). I am descriptive with words, feelings and how much I donated because:

1 - I don’t care to remember these things, so it would be pretty cool to look back and see how my writing style has changed, how my feelings for certain things have changed and how much spare change I had at the time. I even shamefully admitted my phone to have the measly 8MB internal memory it does…so I don’t see why I shouldn’t write down the petty amount I contributed? FYI I donate to charities whenever I can through online payment processors - and I never mentioned all that (probably because they were NOT spare change).

2 - Of course donation is a selfish act. Why else would people do it? If it didn’t make me feel good, I wouldn’t be doing it now would I? D-uh. It’s a selfish act with selfless gains (or losses rather). So it’s a win-win for the funder and the fundee.

As for the whole “you wanted to make yourself feel better than everyone else”:

This is my blog, this is not nation.sc - search for my “arrogance is a virtue” post and you’ll get my opinions on that. I do think highly of myself (why shouldn’t I?) and I respect and like people who think highly of themselves, because it takes a great amount of guts to stand with a minority.

People like you, who are constantly using the ‘N’ word on themselves lack self-respect. So instead of reading an arrogant person’s blog, perhaps you should consider:

1 - Reading a blog of a person who suffers from inferiority complex issues like yourself (where they spend time kissing ass and making everyone like them). I don’t pity people who think low of themselves; I dislike such people.
2 - Washing your mouth with Javel or Dettol (your recent comment is full of ghetto-wannabe words that might get me in trouble with my hosting provider if I were to publish it on here so I will not be able to publish it for now).
3 - Therapy.  I don’t like being around people who have no respect for themselves (that’s probably why you have no respect for others). And since you’ve made it clear that you love my blog so much and will keep coming back, you might as well sort yourself out a bit.

As for my previous post: I don’t care who got offended. Most of my true friends (or my favourite ones rather) are relatively arrogant people with very big hearts. So they either donated already, are planning to donate, or are also thinking that people living in China who don’t care to donate are insignificant in this world.

Finally BigN, thank you very much for visiting my blog (and keep coming back). The more you come back the more I have a reason to keep it on. So technically, you like me more than you think you do.

It might be obvious to some of my readers that I am not posting as often as I used to this month. I’m busy with my own things at this moment, and I don’t really have time to compose something that will piss you off real good. So I do apologize.

I do have a quick word for some: I forgot to thank those who actually tried contacting me after the earthquake happened. Calling me at midnight (+8GMT) was a bit crazy to be honest (did you really expect me to pick up?) but I am sort of glad about that in some weird way.

My mum wins the prize for funniest method of getting in touch with someone you’re worried about: she sent me an offline MSN Messenger message saying “this is urgent: reply if you’re fine”…and people actually wonder how I turned out a bit odd?

Speaking of the earthquake, most of my acquaintances couldn’t care less about what happened. I sent them the message last night telling them to donate if they can and most people decided to ignore me. Perhaps they thought I was asking them to give me money? This one Seychellois dude decided to send “2″ to my number…

Right now I really hate most of the people I sent that message to (esp. those who didn’t care to send 1 yuan). I can’t understand how selfish they can be. So I’m going to say it now on my blog, that I deeply apologize for sending you the sms. I’m sorry that my sms disturbed your perfect day. I’m sorry that I thought you were a bigger person. Most of all, I’m sorry that I actually have you on my phone’s contact list. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll have to beg my phone for forgiveness for having carried your name and number(s) on its very limited 8MB internal memory for far too long.

I was reading some comments on Youtube about how some people feel that the Whites (”Europeans”) should leave Africa:

Draxx77: Whites have no business in Africa, they are NOT from there and should leave, just look at how they arrived in Africa! Whites are European. Whites came to Africa as (((INVADERS))), and should be seen as such.

That’s pretty much what a lot of the lesser-educated Blacks in Seychelles feel. They feel that Seychelles is a Black country owned by Blacks. What a lot of such people seemed to have forgotten however, is that Seychelles was uninhabited before the French (Whites) decided to settle there permanently. These French settlers brought in African slaves from the African mainland, and that’s how Blacks initially came to settle in Seychelles.

How is it all of a sudden, that some people can actually believe Seychelles belong to Blacks? The thing that happened in South Africa didn’t happen in Seychelles: the Whites didn’t “invade” Seychelles, they owned the place because they were the ones who found it! When the British decided to abolish slavery in Seychelles, they only ‘freed’ the Blacks from inhumane treatment and gave Blacks equal rights. They did not handover Seychelles to the Black population.

How ironic it is for “Draxx77″ who also claims to be from the US (according to his Youtube’s profile). I doubt a White person would say that (especially because it’s an anti-White comment) so I’m assuming it’s a Black person…a Black person in the US. That’s the one funny thing about patriotism that I can’t stand: you’re being a hypocrite if your patriotic and living in someone else’s country (assuming that Draxx77 is an African living in the US). If he’s a Black American however, I’d just have to laugh it off. As much as White Africans are Africans and have every right to their country and continent, Black Americans are Americans and have no rights to claim Africa especially if it doesn’t say “Africa” on their passports, let alone their birth certificates.

Black Seychellois claiming Seychelles to be a Black people’s country should just get an education or something (it’s usually the uneducated ones who would come to such a racist conclusion anyway). These are the ones who, when the teacher was trying to teach Seychelles History in class they were looking out of the window and day dreaming.

If they firmly believe in being where they belong, they are the ones who should move back to the mainland where they came from (which is a fact according to history anyway). As far as I’m concerned, Seychelles is a multiracial country and I’m multiracial so I guess I’m more deserving than pure breeds (if any) anyway.

And that’s just my rawpinion.

Early this morning, I was trying to find out if Youtube had clips from the Big Brother 9 Finale (silly me, I forgot people don’t have my kind of schedule and they sleep before midnight). So I was Youtubing (surfing Youtube) for anything funny and came across “2 girls and 1 cup” reaction videos. One thing led to another and I was browsing through Khayav’s videos (Black South African).

One of Khayav’s latest vlogs is entitled: Why Do White South Africans Emigrate?

Here’s R3NDI3R’s (White South African) response: Khayav: What’s Your Problem With White People?

I must admit, after briefly going over some of basics of the Apartheid Regime in A’Level, I started avoiding the White South Africans in Seychelles. I believed them to be racists people, and the kids would even admit that their grandparents and/or parents are in fact racists (and supported the Apartheid). So while my friends befriended this South African bloke, I decided to avoid him at all cost.

But after watching R3NDI3R’s video, I decided to watch other White South African videos on Youtube and apparently, sides have switched and lives of White South Africans are threatened by the so-called “reverse-Apartheid”. According to many of them, the government who abolished the Apartheid regime has decided to have the tables turned.

Surprisingly, there are now many poor White South Africans in South Africa because Blacks now have the upper hand.

There’s only one group of people to blame I believe, and that’s the racist White South Africans who decided to start the whole segregation crap. White kids should blame their grandparents because ultimately, you can’t blame the Blacks for being so angry. Hopefully, this is just a phase that will pass but who knows? At this point I’m very compassionate towards the White South African youngsters who had absolutely nothing to do with the Apartheid. Why in the world should they be blamed for something they had absolutely nothing to do with?

I can also empathize with those who are told to “go back home” - even if they are already “home”! Many uneducated Black Seychellois tend to say that often to non-Blacks, and this can make any non-Black citizen want to leave their own country for good.

I feel the international media should focus on these issues faced by South Africa. There’s a lot of talk when people hear about the no existence of human rights in China. What about the countries that do believe in human rights? Don’t they deserve attention?

On the Youtube comments section, I read a lot of Americans telling these White South Africans to “move to America, you’re very welcome here”. Don’t you guys understand that some people would rather solve the problem then simply run away from them? Many White South Africans are patriotic and they don’t want to move out. There are tons of Blacks living all over the world and if you ask them where their home is they would not say “Africa”. So how is it, that Blacks can choose to live wherever they want in the world and Whites can’t?

I have a lot of hatred in my heart so I don’t believe in forgiving and forgetting the past, but I believe in tolerance esp. to those I can’t forgive. It happened. Now take one giant step forward and no steps back.

Last week when I was ‘hanging out’ at a forum, members started praising Kiva.org. At the time, I had never heard of the thing, and didn’t know what it was so I visited the site. Turns out, it’s a site that helps poor entrepreneurs by providing them with loans from generous people.

Am I the only one who doesn’t like the idea of Kiva.org? I just don’t get it. Charitable people should not ‘loan’, they should give. This one person’s argument was that in third world countries, entrepreneurs care about their society and their people unlike the entrepreneurs in first world/developed countries. Just shows you, that the people who are willing to loan 3rd-world entrepreneurs are people who know nothing about 3rd world entrepreneurs.

If you can only afford a loaf of bread everyday and you’re selling slices of bread on the streets (retail price) and call yourself an entrepreneur then fine - you are a charity case. People should just give you money because you obviously need it.

At Kiva.org, I came across this one person who wanted the money so he could improve his house. Then there was this spare parts entrepreneur who needed the money to better his business. I mean, WTF?

What’s with the “I have a wife and 10 kids” thing? Any man with a wife and 10 kids who’s also looking for a $1000 loan - from any random soul over the internet should just commit suicide. Kiva.org should have a page where people from developed countries can donate condoms and contraceptives to these entrepreneurs who can’t seem to make ends meet.

There’s a difference between me and a person who’s willing to loan those on Kiva.org: I’m generous and they’re greedy because technically, it’s not called a donation. If you can spare a thousand dollars, why don’t you just give it to orphaned kids who can’t afford tuition and food? By helping out entrepreneurs in the 3rd world countries, you’re not only helping out the wrong people but you are helping people who can help themselves if they were to just think and work harder. You’re also encouraging a wider gap between the relatively poor and the poorest of all poor.

Yesterday when shifu (I don’t know his name) and I were having a discussion about random things he was telling me a bit about foreign students and their extravagant expenditures, mainly the Japanese and Korean students. According to him, they throw things that aren’t even broken including expensive (?) leather stuff.

I said, “well they don’t have much to worry about because it’s not their money but their parents’” and he agreed. But he added, that even the relatively poor ones waste money as well. He said that foreign students should save money by cooking instead of going to restaurants or ordering in. I guess the only people who know how to save money in China are the Chinese.

My biggest sacrifice in Shanghai was living on RMB 500 in 3 weeks (not including accomodation). That was during my second year. I beat my previous record which was RMB 800 in one month. Sacrificing isn’t easy; I have to literally cut down on the junk food and basically live on staple food. Oh - and let alone the fact that I had to completely stay away from night outs with friends.

The 800 yuan sacrifice was an experiment my ex-room mate and I were trying out. Mainly because we wondered how the other CSC students were coping on only 800 a month. The 500 yuan sacrifice was pretty much forced, I was saving for an overseas holiday (which turned out great BTW).

I don’t really get what Chinese mean by “you save more by cooking at home”. I’ve tried that and you only save cents a week. You save a lot of time if you don’t cook at home, and how many people actually feel that 24 hours a day is just not enough? For now I’d rather have time than cents, but I will do some ‘market research’ where food is concerned.

I hate it when the Chinese thinks that foreigners just waste too much money. I hate it because they’re right.

Although the Chinese and their saving methods are more ridiculous that mine I feel. If a pack of biscuits were 5 yuan here in the city and 2 yuan in the suburbs, Chinese are generally willing to take 2 bus rides to get to that place and 2 bus rides back just for the cheaper pack of biscuits. I suppose it’s because they don’t want to feel cheated, esp. in biscuit pricing. Well, whatever works for them.

I’ve added a separate database where I’ll be adding all the scam junk mail I receive via e-mail. If you’re receiving such emails please know that these people are only trying to benefit from you. One of these scammers tricked one of my friends into sending them money. These scammers will most likely reply to your emails and answer your calls especially if you seem cooperative. No matter how nice they are to you, they do not have good intentions. You have been warned.

The best thing to do is to simply ignore these emails, and just delete them. Don’t even bother opening them if they’re title is similar to the ones I’ve posted.