So Many Things Wrong

The fascination (obsession?) with cosmetic surgery in South Korea has finally made international headlines...and not in a good way. Because out of the contestants in this year's beauty pageant in South Korea, it seems like all of them either went to the same cosmetic surgeon, or they somehow independently carried an almost identical list of things to be changed and what to change it into.

Why anyone would want to look like a clone of someone else, I don't know. And I don't understand how anyone could possibly voluntarily go under the knife to change something about themselves. I'm not talking about the people who need to have reconstructive surgery for various reasons. I'm referring to those who think it's worth the pain of deliberately broken bones to look like someone else. All in the name of vanity and, dare I say it? Self-loathing.

Don't blame the "West" for these girls' single-minded intent to get double eyelids, bigger breasts, whiter skin, bigger eyes, different coloured eyes, darker hair, tinier waists etc... For the record, it's the Asian market that desires whiter/fairer skin. "Western" women want tans. Too many people and industries are at fault for this. Amongst these are the men in these girls' lives. And really, most males I know prefer females who look like that. Slim. Fair. Pretty. Big eyes. Sweet-looking. Demure-looking. Shy. All the guys I know all say they want their girlfriends and/or potential life partners to be opinionated, to fight with them, to be willing to stand up to them. They always omit the physical characteristics. And the fact that, in reality, they want a girl who will defer to them in everything, who will make them the centre of their universe, who will be willing to sacrifice everything to make them happy. And above all, be slim, fair, pretty, vase-like. If what I'm saying isn't true, then pray tell why is it that these are the same guys who either dump me or take no notice of me, and run after (or ogle) the nearest sweet-looking stick thin fair-skinned pretty thing? 

What's vase-like? It's a Mandarin term that refers to a girl with the abovementioned physical and personality characteristics. For display only. When it matters the most, they will be the mouthpiece of their husbands or boyfriends. If men really want individuality in their partners, then why do girls think it's desirable to look like these South Korean beauty contestants do? Young girls like them do not do things for themselves. For their family. For their self-esteem. They do it to attract boys. And to fit in the latest fashions that are made for waifs.

I've had enough of the fashion industry and men indirectly telling me that I'm not good enough for them, and that I should look a certain way. I feel very very sorry for these South Korean girls and those like them. They have lost their individuality. You can't tell them apart at first glance. In the name of wanting to be "special", they are now part of the clone army. How tragic. 

Oh. And cosmetic surgery has life-long effects on the body. Whether it's scarring or the sensation that something foreign is inside of you, or just the innate knowledge that something was purposely broken to be reshaped.

As a sidebar, to all the men who love hugging a skeleton: get a plastic one from the Biology lab. Less maintenance.

So I Was Really Looking Forward To This...

It's called the "Gabbana Pleated Velvet Dress". Inspired by one of Dolce & Gabbana's creations that Selena Gomez wore to some party earlier this year.

SingTel Needs Better Customer Focus

Warning: This post is going to be filled with the word SingTel. At every opportunity, SingTel will appear. Even if it SingTel doesn't make SingTel sense to have the SingTel word SingTel in the sentence SingTel. Partly to test if by SingTel doing so, it bumps up the possibility of a search engine locating this SingTel post, and bring it to the attention of SingTel. And partly 'cos I'm gonna use SingTel in lieu of a swear word wherever SingTel possible. Let the SingTel games begin.

Microsoft Windows Scam. Again. By the indefatiguable Indian telemarketers.

I so wish that I could track down these sons and daughters of low-life bitches who keep giving me "courtesy calls" to "inform" me that my computer is malfunctioning and having error reports and warnings. I wish I had my phone set up such that I could record calls straight off the bat. Then I'd record the lies these arsewipes try to spew. Moronic fucking Indian bitch that called me just now had the audacity to call me a liar when I told her that I was out of town and my computer couldn't have been turned on. Granted. I was lying about it. But who is she to call me a liar when my computer couldn't possibly have sent info to her "company" informing them of "error messages".

Gotta give these scam artists credit though. They seem to have stopped using "I am calling you from the Microsoft [insert whatever bombastic sounding IT fixit department name] about your Windows 95/98/XP/Vista/7 operating system" {please feel free to use an Indian accent or faux-Western accent spoken by Indian national}. G almost got taken in by them 2yrs ago, until something started smelling fishy and he called me to ask if the deal was genuine, and I told him straightaway to disconnect his modem and turn off his computer. 'Cos Microsoft does NOT cold-call customers at all. When he did that, guess what happened? The low-life dropkick called him back to say that the connection had dropped and that he needed to reconnect immediately so that their system could finish scanning his computer. I was on the mobile with G when they called him back on his home phone, so I told him to tell them that he needed to go out, thanks for their help, goodbye. In the end, we formatted his system to ensure all traces of whatever trojan they inserted was gone for good.

Now the con-men and con-women are just saying that they're calling with regard to the Windows OS you are using. But it's still a scam. Google/Yahoo/Bing "microsoft windows scam" and there thousands of hits. Remove the quotation marks and it returns millions of sites ranging from an official Microsoft Advisory, to various alerts by media outlets, to forum discussions. Apparently the Indian scammers originally targetted UK residents, then moved to US then Australia. Each time when the media of the country picked up the story to expose the scam, they would move countries until the interest died down, then start again.

Fucking Indian government needs to stop their in-fighting and do something about this. They wonder why their citizens are hate-targets. Look within their country, for pete's sake! All the things that their people do to make a living and survive in their over-populated, under-developed, corrupt country. I don't blame the telemarketers. They are just trying to ensure they don't end up a statistic on the starvation or prostitution count. I blame the people who set up the companies and the Indian government.

And it's all the more frustrating that the victim countries' governments AND Microsoft can't do anything about it. Except post advisories and warnings.

Microsoft at a loss over Event Viewer scam

Windows Event Viewer phishing scam remains active

To the female Indian telemarketer who called me out on my lie: find a job that gives you some measure of self-respect and respect in general. 

Update: Just found out that this scam has already hit Singapore. Google spat out various articles dating back to Mar/Apr 2011.

Update 2: Got called TWICE today. fucktards.