Your boyfriend tells you that you can only go out alone with a set list of guys (there’s a list!).
He tells you that you can only receive or make calls to the same list of guys.
He also tells you that you *will* be where and when he wants you to be.
All this knowing that you have many guy friends whom you always go out with.
I just had drinks with a girl whose boyfriend is exactly like that. And wow, I’m on that list along with one other guy. Gees, I guess I should feel thankful? Seriously, what the f*ck!? And the only reason that I’m on his approved list is because I’ve known the girl way before they’ve even met.
She had been asking me why I haven’t been calling her. And I said to her, “Are you kidding me?! You know exactly why. And even though I’m on his list of *approved* callers, I’m still not calling you. Who knows what the jealous psycho might end up doing?!”
And I also told her, “You know what, don’t complain about him to me anymore. I can’t help you if you want to stay with him. If you feel that you are happy with him, then fine. Nothing that anyone else say will matter anyway.”
“You don’t see what the rest of us see.” I don’t know why girls put up with these men. And I really have no idea how insecure men like these snag a girl while I’m still single?! Not that I mind being single or am desperate but you know what I mean!
Seriously? Love is blind. And jealousy is a big ol’ green-eyed monster.
I’ve gotten a new plugin for my archives – KG Archives, and it works a treat.
My archives are now shown with just the titles, sorted by month and by categories. The number of comments in each post is also shown. This saves you from having to wade through pages and pages (although that is cool too) to find a post that interests you.
The newly organised archives can be found via the link at the top of this blog. The old style is still available on the sidebar below my blogroll by choosing and clicking on a month.
So the chairman of Viacom, which own Paramount Pictures has decided to cut their production arrangement with Cruise/Wagner Productions. Explained Sumner Redstone to the Wall Street Journal,
“As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”
News links elsewhere, the Defamer one is especially good:
Among other reasons, there is also the financial side of it: Tom Cruise’s cut of the movies was high enough that Paramount was only breaking even on some of them. But had it not for Mr. Cruise’s antics in the past year, the relationship with Paramount could have probably been salvaged with a little bit of renegotiation.
In a nutshell, the contract was not renewed because Sumner Redstone does not like Tom Cruise. Simple as that.
Now what does that have to do with blogging? Well believe it or not, employers do consider the personality of a potential recruit. And some, if not most of them would google names. If you blog with your real name, chances are your blog will be found.
So an employer’s first impression of you would be gotten through your blog. Ask yourself this: if you were the hiring manager, would you hire yourself after you’ve seen your own blog?
Besides the obvious of not blogging about work specifics (client names and trade secrets are a big no-no and so are easily identifiable happenings), there’s also the more fuzzy thing of not coming across as a nasty person. Or irresponsible, or reckless, or selfish, or egoistical…
Even if you think that you won’t need to look for another job ever again, think of what people in your current company would think if they happen to stumble onto your blog. It pays to refrain yourself a little.
I go by a simple rule: if I would be ashamed for my mother to see it, then I wouldn’t blog it. If you also can’t blog without naming names or listing specifics, then don’t blog it. What’s more important: your job or your blog?
Well today she went a little bit into addressing those rumours. Sort of anyway. She brought up the photos that people had said were proof that she has had plastic surgery. In her post, she admits that she has changed over the years, but there wasn’t any mention about surgery.
Looking at the collage above, I think we can safely assume that not all of her changes were due to her physically maturing. Having said that, I still feel the same way now as I did last year and that is: ultimately no one really cares whether she has had surgery or not. But I guess some people has their panties in a knot about her evading the question.
Personally, I don’t think she owes us an explanation. Who are we anyway? Now if I was her agent or manager, when those rumours had surfaced I’d have advised her to just spill it all out and move on with her career. Then we would have avoided all these ugly shenanigans that had happened.
The fact that that didn’t happen does not detract from the fact that as a persona in the entertainment industry, ultimately she will be judged by her ability to fascinate and entertain us. By all accounts, I think she has succeeded in that. At least in Singapore anyway.
Five kinds of tech support calls you don’t want to receive:
You know the shift key? No no, the right one. Yes. The key on its left, that’s the backslash key. Yes. Ok so now type in “http”, colon, double backslash … Sorry? Where’s the double backslash key?
The dollar sign? You know, US dollars? Yeah yeah the symbol. Yes type it in. Erm, press shift and “4″.
Ok right-click on the icon. Right-click. You know how you are clicking normally with your index finger? That’s a left-click. You want to right-click with your erm … *whispers to me* … what’s that finger you right-click with? (Me: I dunno.) Ok you know the finger next to your pinkie? Press down on the mouse with it. Ok that’s a right-click.
Open up a new browser window. What’s a browser? You know the screen showing Google? Yes yes the one showing the “Internet”. Open up a new window by clicking on “File – New Window”. Yes you are allowed to see more than one Internet.
There should be an icon on your desktop that looks like a picture frame. Close all of your windows and look at your desktop. Tell me what do you see. Sorry, you see a pile of papers but no picture frame? Erm. Ok how about the other desktop? The one on your computer screen?
My colleague got all of that in *one* call. True story.
