XinYun @ SG

… lose your significant other, to someone of the same sex as partner or someone of the opposite?

Strange topic / question, right?

My colleagues (mainly ladies) and i were discussing about this over lunch and it really got everyone of us thinking, commenting and wondering. Half of them would rather lose to someone of the opposite sex (meaning, losing to another girl) and the other half of us, would rather lose to someone of the same sex (meaning, same sex as our significant other / partner).

Interesting 50/50 result.
Especially when the results come from singles, attached and married ladies in our team… and not forgetting our only guy in the team.

I could understand why those who rather lose to the opposite sex feel. To them, at least their partner is still considerably normal, being shallow for liking someone with a nicer figure or looks and not doing something which they deemed as weird or disgusting (note: safer thinking).

As for me, I feel I’d rather lose to someone of the same sex as my partner.
Reason, at least I know there’s nothing I can do to change myself to his change of heart and somehow I think I can live with that, if ever that happens. But not to another girl, as I would question if everything done was insufficient.

Same goes for the other half of the team.

Like one of my colleagues said, if that really happens, I would try to be friends with that person and love to accept him as he love my partner. Idealistic, but it could work.

Issue: would that person think, feel and act the same way?

Something to think about, on a slow midweek workday

I was doing my grocery shopping earlier with DD when we spotted these.

A totally partially exposed chocolate easter egg and broken easter bunny, that’s on the shelf.
I’m pretty sure the supermarket staff didn’t play punk, just to have a laugh but some itchy handed consumer certainly did. Someone who’s overly curious to know what is in it.

Whoever did this, it’s not funny.

It’s never appropriate to open up a merchandise (be it food or anything) and leave it out in the open, giving pests a chance to crawl over it and knowing kids would be curious to touch or taste it. Which 2 kids actually did, touching it and almost tasting it.

And there was another incident, which i found a packet of freshly grounded beef, having the protective plastic cover poked through by another goon (totally different issue and at different supermart).

To all, please do not be so inconsiderate and tamper with food.
If you don’t have the intention to buy or even if you are just pissed off, don’t take it out on food as it could cause food poisoning if someone were to purchase and consume it.

Note:

The above items had been removed and trashed.
Received a call from the branch, appreciate their fast response

On Facebook, a friend left a reply to my “addicted, gaming on my satio :p” status:
“but still cannot beat iphone. =X”

Is there even a need to justify the gaming capability of iphone?

I replied in hope to turn it into a ‘laugh it off’ comment but he didn’t get it and went on and on about the iphone / cars comparisons / PnS cameras. Didn’t think it was even necessary to debate over a phone or go fan-boyish over it, since it’s running on different OS and different functions.

To compare the IPhone to a SE Satio, or any other brands of phones just because you prefer it or like, is like comparing medications.
One man’s medication is another man’s poison.

*****

Aside from the above…

It has been a month since i got my Satio. Still trying out the functions, so far so good, no major issues after the latest firmware patch.

Feedback:

- screen – requires tweaking, not extremely sensitive as i would want it to be.

- photo quality in 12mp – near Fuji F50d quality, good.

- default 8mp – seemed grainy and would require photo editing.

- photo modes – inadequate.

- picasa plugin uploader – one photo at a time, time consuming.

- rss feeds – stuck at 25posts per feed, would be better if it’s at 100posts per feed.

- wifi connection – unstable while using home secure network but works perfectly on free wifi network.

- games and applications – preloaded with trial versions, look for free games / applications for N5800.

If you made a wrong choice or experiencing shit due to the wrong choices you made…
Would you undo it and / or make new choices, or stay on with the old ones and continue hurting?

This is one question i often wonder, ponder and never have a proper conclusion to.
I think most would reply with “undo and make new choices”, which is logically the right thing to do. But what happens when it’s matters of the heart, could you, without a doubt, answer what you did before?

I couldn’t.
And i still can’t, cause i know how it feels to want to listen to your head but the heart is hurting.
It’s hard to be logical while being emotionally hurt.

I think i did half of each, try to undo and make new choices…
And maybe even deliberately worsen the situation to get out of it.

It’ll be good to be able to undo a decision or choice, possible only before it even happen. But when you are in a quicksand situation, sinking fast and it’s a matter of life or death, anywhere else is better than the current. At least once you are out of it, it’s easier to see things clearer and find a better solution. Even though it’s good to have hopes that the situation will soon be positive, but it’s often the person you are dealing with that wouldn’t change for the better, no matter how much you hope or try.

It’s more of a ‘make do’ or ‘leave’ kind of choice.
Which i guess most would understand, especially when it happens a lot in relationships, eg. Partner A hoping B expects on to do this and that or Partner B just takes for granted that A doesn’t need any care and don’t seem to want to care at all.

After knowing how sad a friend is and knowing what she had and still is going through, I was lost for words. ‘Cos no amount of consoling will help or giving her solutions would change her situation. Decisions / choices lies with her, as she knows this isn’t right and what she wants. As for me, I could only pray for her and hope she’ll get through it.

Hope life gets better for you, gal.