Friday, April 07, 2006
12:12 am
stereotyping.
one of THE things that i loathe.
seriously, playing pool does not make one a gangster or some horrible person who goes burning off national flags and living in a pigsty of a room while making his/her parents' life like living hell.
oh please, i play pool. my other friends play pool. and they are not this kind of lowlife that you keep associating pool with.
hello? i practically have this "nerd-aura". seen a nerd play pool and then being transformed by it into a gangster (or gangstress, for that matter) that doesn't return home until the sun comes up the next day and pesters their parents for money?
not everyone who plays pool is a horrible scum who shouldn't even be born.
it's like, most gangsters (or pai kia, as we would call them. or maybe ah bengs and ah lians) play pool but not everyone who plays pool is one.
get it?
like, an isoceles triangle is a triangle but not all triangles are isoceles triangles.
for goodness' sake, it's a hobby! an interest! so maybe there are people who like to, say, collect stamps. and there are others who like pool.
it differs for each and it's not like, the useful people on earth spend 23 hours each day in the library (which is impossible, considering the opening hours) while useless beings waste their lives in pool centres.
there are good things about pool like you learning to strategise your game, you know the angles and stuff.
it's like technology. it depends on how each person uses it.
some use it in a way to aid their work while others with nothing better to do use it to hack into others' systems.
i seriously don't want to hear about "singaporean kids have such tasteless lives. it's always either pool or gaming."
so what?
we like what we're doing and we're certainly not causing any harm (unless if you're talking about that ass that i defamed into negative points but that's another story).
i can say the same for others like "gosh how disgustingly plain your life is, working your butts off only to die after retiring for 20 years. oh you as well, sticking your ass next to your kid's everyday to make sure he/she finishes all the assessment books and homework and tuition work blah blah."
and to that mother of mine who hates singaporeans, neither do we like you. you hate us, jolly well don't marry one of our kind and lay your feet on the ground that you despise.