I has hercules and a long rant.

I guess I'll be getting Season One courtesy of a family friend via Ebay. I'd buy the whole thing myself but they don't even sell this series in Malaysia. Epik failpotato. I've been wanting to watch Kevin Sorbo on TV for ages (and it doesn't mean any of that Andromeda junk)

Also, watched Yes Man on DVD last night. Finally got my arse up to watch something new. It wasn't as good as I thought it'd be but I guess it's an alright movie. It's not as cheesy as you might think (or hope) it is which I guess depends on it's audiences. Coincidentally enough, The Mask was on TV after that so we watched that too. Anyway, I finally noticed Bradley Cooper on Yes Man properly for the first time.



uh. hello. If i could land a guy with eyes as blue as his, wow.

To more serious stuff: I was talking to a friend a few days ago on MSN. Let's call them X. I invited X to come to uni with me for a day since X had a day off. X said "No thanks. I feel kind of uneasy just sitting in your uni for over 10 minutes." That lead me to ask X what they meant. Apparently X feels that my uni caters just for the upper class yuppies who flash they cash at everyone's faces. This isn't new I guess since half the country assumes the same thing about us. But I guess it's different when your closest friends think the same way. X has seen many of my uni mates and I can guarantee on my favourite Liverpool poster that none of them behave in any way "flashy" as X mentions.

X went on to compare the feeling of sitting in my uni to "sitting in a hotel room with a bunch of CEO's and VIP's". I wanted to laugh so badly at this comment because 80% of that is untrue. One doesn't need to be the son of a sheik to attend my uni. Most of the students that are there are on scholarship even. I'll admit, there are a few people who do walk around in nothing but designer apparel and the latest iPhone or whatever. But not everyone does that. And tell me what university/college doesn't have a few people who fall into that category? It's not just LimKokWing which boasts a higher class society of students. And that being said, not EVERYONE in it is from that social status. I can hardly afford to drive to uni every week let alone walk around with "bling" around my neck. My problem is that people are just too quick to assume that people from this Uni are "Rich, stupid kids who buy their way into uni."

Dude, there are people who buy their way into any uni let alone this one. Do you think everyone get's into Ivy League Universities because they are SMART? Open your eyes and listen with your ears and you'll find out that there are some students from an elite generation of families who do the same thing. And yet, you do not hear anything like "Oh THAT uni. Yeah kids buy their way in there." Because? They're "IVY LEAGUE" remember?Everyone who gets in there is automatically prodigal son of a genius. I don't mean to accuse anyone from those uni's if you're wondering that. I just want to highlight the worlds assumption of private universities and how they accept people when they do not fall under the "elite" group of universities. Or maybe it's because we're an Art influenced university and therefore Art students are a whole lot stupider than Med/Science/Engineering/Basically a 'REAL' job students. That view on Art Vs Science has been presence since the beginning of time. Especially in this country. Why else do they place the students with "higher" grades automatically into science streamed syllabuses when they don't want to be there?

Anyway, back to my situation with X. I more or less told X whatever I mentioned above and let it be. I cannot constantly be arguing the case that my uni only accepts "rich kids" because I can probably write a small book about it. I'm fed up trying to tell people that we're not all from that upper class society and we walk around like kings in uni because, sorry but that's the real world for you. When one finds something intimidating, complain about it. It only makes the situation easier :D I rest my case. If you wanna assume we're all rich, yeah ok we're all rich :D Whatever I say can't change your mind anyway. Sorry if you met a bad apple from my uni which led you to believe so but hey, who's to say you won't meet another tomorrow from your own university? Then what will you say?