Xiaomi? Really?

Despite the fact that i am in UK, being in contact with friends and fb made me not deprived by news about Xiaomi, especially when i just recently lost my phone. Quite a few Malaysians asked me to buy xiaomi, or Mi3 its more posh name.

The first thing that i noticed, well, even b4 I did my research really, is that it stays true to it's china market tactics. Which is copy the best, and sell it cheap. 

Then i came to a few articles about them blatantly copying other major smartphone companies.

link (chinese website): http://www.saydigi.com/2014/08/mi-copy-apple.html#sthash.i4yCkgMH.gbpl

link english: http://www.cultofandroid.com/66569/xiaomi-dont-copy-apple/ 

Not that it was shocking, mind you, it is expected from a chinese market. But what really is shocking is the comment section from the chinese or asian or wad not la. 

'The author is just bias.'

'Copying is a form of flattery'

'Stop hating because it si good.'

Bla bla bla

I guess copying is a form of flattery but really? WHen it has no innovation and even copy advertisements, the way steve job dressed, and his presentation? 

Meh. Why would anyone want to encourage this kind of movement. It is like what is happening int the pharmaceutical field, companies just rework the same drugs and is unwilling to dive into the unknown, because it is just more profitable to do so. 

But then again it is very much cheaper compared to it competitors, and i guess that is wad all matters in the asia community. 

My heart to skip a beat when i saw the price tag. But i am quite disgusted with their obvious imitation, a company without dignity. And i have to say how the company operates does influence my decision to purchase its products, take innocent smoothies for instance, oh how i love their charming ways lol.

So yeah. i ended up buying an lg3 g3, its not as cheap as xiao mii, but not as ex as apple either. Call me a hipster. lol

Another shift of pace

Ugh, as i said in my previous blogpost, i am now in another phase of my education.

Sometimes i don really like my university timetable, it shifts every 4 weeks, and i always need to get a few days to get use to it. The study hours changes, the people i meet, the placements changes, the things i hav to racked up in my brains changes too. Friends have to actively find time for each other, so does being with Bear. And the fact tat my current accommodation has no internet does not help at all.

Am i too rigid in a sense? I do enjoy the shifts and the non monotonous routine, but really, after you get past tat hot blooded ideology i wonder why people find it exciting at all. Or mayb i am just getting older and grumpier.

Anyways, this is a feeble attempt to rant and explain my lack of updates. But you guys will see more of me now. hopefully.

COMIC: Facebook red people?

The top is not me if u r wondering. WHO THE HELL CALLS HIMSELF BUBBLE TEA PRINCE!!!!!!

I always complain abt these kind of ppl while accidentally stumbled onto them to bear. So, might as well start drawing them. I hav no guts to comment on their weird photos and face the warth of their fb fans lol.

But seriously, COLD THEN WEAR SOMETHING LA.

A night after a party

hey guys its been a while since i posted something, cuz i am very busy with my rotation, will talk abt it sometime in the future.

Today its more of a genuine rant abt things, since it is my blog and despite how childish i felt abt this but i don really bother haha.

I was invited to a mini party ish gathering today for someone's birthday. This person... well i am not sure how to catergorise him, but i guess i will explore tat in the future, but yeah i was invited by his friends.

Throughout the party, I struggled a bit, i am not quite sure y. I was tired and uncomfortable, but i tried my best to mix around, so i guess its not obvious to other friends.

I think... the main problem is that... I felt alone in the whole party.

Our Asian batch was divided into two main fractions, the directs and the transfers (ppl who came into the batch in their third year). And i was the only one from the direct batch.

So....

Its kinda annoying to be honest, i was able to mixed with them, but I had to pretend to ignore their inside jokes, their tease with each other, their playful bickers, their sudden whispers so that I wont hear their mini secrets, their next grand plans of hanging out. The wave lengths are all wrong, and i had to tune myself.

I was welcomed, but was treated as an outsider at the same time. Then the cake came, and they presented their present to the birthday boy. All the joy while I just look on.

I do appreciate their gesture of including me, the sole dude from the other cohort to this gathering. But looking at them, from time to time, it makes me feel tat: whats the point? Why i have to put myself through this, i might as well go back to my comfort zone, with friends from my own fractions.

Even after a whole year.... (we r fourth year now) i guess things don really change. Then y bother?

At the end of the day, as i parted ways with all of them, i will still be alone, walking back to my home.

As the birthday boy went on hugging each and everyone of his friends out of thanks, i just silently moved out of the way, because i don think i deserved it and i doubt he noticed anyway.

Am i sad?

Am i disappointed?

Mayb i am. But mostly i am just tired.

But looking at the bright side, at least they invited me in the first place, mayb someday, someday, i can actually be part of that gang.

One year left, i highly doubt so lol. I suppose we will part in separate ways.

Mayb i should jz use my time to play more games or invest in someone who cares rather then spending in on empty relationships lol. But one can hope, but hope is a dangerous thing to hold on to.

Life is hard. z.

I don really like science students

Hey guys, sorry for the overhaul, but i bet you guys are celebrating ching chong year anyway.

I am having my very first ski trip just to wash off the cny blues, so a bunch of us went for a cool trip filled with snow and ice.

Skiing is damn painful i tell you, but tat is now wad i wanna rant for now.

So we gathered together during the night. Everyone was complaining about being tired and we should play some mindless games.

A few proposals came and went, but there were no conclusions.

Then one of the guy brought his deck of cards, and apparently he had used them as flashcards long time ago, hence all of them had drug names on it.

So guess wad they ended up playing.

Yeap, they ended up doing  medicine charades.

"guys seriously?" you can hear me lamenting.

But no.... they were too busy guessing wad is the side effect of vigabatrin.

And i was so annoyed, i just walked off despite their pleads so that i can just curled up and read a book.

I don know if i am impolite, but man this is one reason i hate traveling with science students, especially medics. Because everything will end up being medicine this medicine that, everything will be bones and joints and wad not stuff. A lot of them like to feel smart and wad can make them feel that way? By talking abt wad they have been by harding throughout the years. I passed my exams, I want my vacation, cant we just not be that kind of ppl who cant seem to see that knowledge isnt everything? That life doesn't revolves around you?

I am a firm believer that one should not showcase wad they know unless asked. Hence, if i started to talk sciency stuff to you, its just basically i have nothing left to talk to you about.

I am quite pissed off, because they thought i was being silly, merajuk-ing if you may. But i guess in a way they are right, why i hav to force myself to immerse in ppl who is studious? I am not someone they would give a piece of themselves to, it works both ways. I should expect them to be wad i want them to be. But i am frustrated, because i feel quite alone in this. When I see ppl actually referred themselves as a games where they only play one two hours of dota and sleep before 1 a.m. I almost died laughing. I played games for days without sleep and i had tons of sony / nitendo consoles plus a mega gaming pc to boot. And i don call myself a gamer. I don label ppl who drinks a few more cups than I just because I don drink and clubbing isnt my thing. I don think that talking to science ppl is a relief because they apparently "share my level of intelligence" (seriously, someone actually told me this.)

If i wanna make a sweeping statement, I gotta say, science frens, are mostly egoistic and always have slight delusion of grandeur.

Gosh. Life is sad.

I gotta see more ppl, but being abroad, you don really hav much choice. I gotta face reality at some point.

sighh.

I gotta grow up i guess?