Screwed Up English Test

Just had an English proficiency test from LIA.
I can't believe how hard the listening part is.
It was filled with problems like this.

Man: How about our plan for Saturday?
Woman: The weather report says it will be rainy on Saturday, but Sunday will be sunny.

QUESTION: what is the woman saying?
a. [can't remember]
b. Sunday will be sunny
c. They have to postpone their plan until Sunday
d. [can't remember]

What the f***?!!! Which one should I pick?!!!

UPDATE
It's 611 and 84 for speaking! Thank God for the structure part!

UPDATE
It's 652 and 87.
I had some sleep.

The Reason I Usually Prefer Western Songs

Here are some lyrics from a western and a local song.
I hope it explains everything.

How to Avoid Being Called a Nutcase

I’ve just undergone a psychology test a couple of days ago for my neurology application.
Needless to say, the test went haywire.
In the end, the psychologist seemed to think that I had some mental defects.

Anyway, here are some don’ts to get you through such test safely.

• When asked to draw something out of a dot, don’t draw the solar system.
• When asked to draw something out of a square, don’t draw a giant hot air balloon flying through the fields AND entitle it ‘an adventure of exploration’.
• When asked to draw something out of a cup, don’t draw a giant telescope directed to the skies with a man underneath AND entitle it ‘peeking through the giant telescope’.
• When asked to draw something out of two connected lines, don’t draw a gigantic machine with its thruster glowing towards you AND entitle it ‘behind an ion engine’.
• When asked to draw something out of two parallel lines, don’t draw a staircase with a winged man on top, facing the clouds, ready to jump, AND entitle it ‘on the brink of enlightenment’.
• When asked to draw something out of a curve, don’t draw the earth with a figure standing behind it, trying to embrace it, AND entitle it ‘God is watching’.
• When asked ‘must good people who do nothing but good things receive good things also?’, don’t answer ‘yes, although I won’t be surprised if they don’t’.
• When asked why we have to keep our promises, don’t answer ‘because in this already uncertain world, the last thing we need is another uncertain thing’.
• When asked why we have to respect our parents and teachers, don’t answer ‘because they know better’.

If you choose to do all the above anyway, expect to have a follow-up interview filled with questions such as ‘what do you think of rationalization?’, ‘how’s your relationship with God?’, ‘what things in this life that you consider relevant?’, ‘do your parents let you think freely?’ INSTEAD OF normal questions like ‘have you worked before?’, ‘what kind of job do you like?’ that everyone but me got.

A Hand from God

Dracula

Picture Description
I made it based on a scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

I consider Dracula as a symbol of a human tragedy.

He was a man of God until HE gave him a trial beyond his strength (his wife was murdered while he was, ironically, away fighting for HIM in the crusade).
He was mad at HIM, and fell to the dark side for hundreds of years.
God did nothing and let him go.
When he was finally severely wounded by God's men, he wept looking back at his life. He had always been devoted to God, but HE let his wife murdered and left him when he needed HIM the most.
His dying words were,

"Where is my God? HE has forsaken me. It is finished."

In the end, however, God showed HIS grace. HE stretched HIS hand, reached him, and gave him the peace he had been longing for (characterized by a transformation of his devilish face into his former face as man of God).

O Come Ye Miyabi

The famous (or infamous?) Japanese AV Idol is planning to shoot a film in Indonesia, in which script is written by Raditya Dika, creator of the hilarious Kambing Jantan.

As expected, a serious amount of rejection from various community classes arise.

A massive protest of around 200 FPI members was even held in front of the production house.
They went as far as saying that they were prepared to die to prevent her coming.

Prepared to die...
Mm...

Anyway,
The question is why?
There are three reasons I’ve got so far from news coverage.

It just doesn’t feel right.

No comment on this one.

Indonesia has enough sins already, her coming will only result in God’s wrath in form of disasters.

Also no comment.

It is feared her reputation as a (or THE) porn star would corrupt the country’s moral values.

Tell me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you guys about 4 years and 62 titles late?
Her freaking videos is well around Indonesia, sitting nicely in almost every hard disk you can find.

I think we all forget the main issue here.

The issue isn’t whether what she’s done is right or wrong.

The issue isn't "Is pornography bad?".

The issue is she plans to come here to shoot a comedy.

It’s not illegal.

The whole thing about her coming is not the right place for your battle for moral values.
You can try stopping her videos from spreading, but you can’t prevent her to shoot a decent film.
Don’t get everything mixed up.
I wouldn't.
And sure as hell I wouldn't die for a mix up also.

Obama, a Nobel for What?

He won the Nobel Peace Prize, but for what exactly?

Guantanamo still opens; US troops are still in Iraq; no diplomatic improvement with the Palestinians, Iranians, North Koreans, and Cubans; and finally the climate change bill will not be done in time for Copenhagen Climate Conference.

One thing to remember though, unlike Nobel Prize for science or literature, Nobel Peace Prize has been given for RECENT achievements or even UNCOMPLETED achievements in the hope it would encourage the winner to see it through.

Maybe that’s why Gandhi never won?
Yep, the man of peace himself never won. Perhaps the committee didn't think he needed the encouragement.

A Pampering and Some Breasts

A quick one.
I’m still doing my study don’t worry.

This is merely an observation. I’m not saying it’s good or bad.

There are two major aspects I find in a love relationship, INSECURITY and IDEALIZATION.

Okay, here’s when the rotten eggs get thrown at me.

Insecurity is mostly women’s problem and idealization is mostly men’s.




By insecurity I mean, one’s inability to love and believe in oneself that one must seek them from a spouse.
You may have heard a story from DeMello. The story goes like this.

Mother: "What does your girlfriend like in you?"
"She thinks I'm handsome, talented, clever, and a good dancer."
"And what do you like about her?"
"She thinks I'm handsome, talented, clever, and a good dancer."

You may find this absurd, but tell me how many times have you heard a woman who was asked about why she chose her current lover in the first place, answered, “Because he loves and cares for me…”?
In other words of course, I love you because you can give me anything I want, pamper me, protect me, tell me I’m pretty, etc, and hardly because of who you really are. Just imagine the level of insecurity.

Well, what about men?
Men have their own problem that is called idealization.
Idealization clouds men’s view, impedes them the ability to see the truth.
It transforms a perfectly normal girl who defecates at least once a day and farts in a regular basis to be a digestive-tract-less Heidi Klum.
They fail to see the true beauty and insert their own ideas of beauty.

So it’s no wonder in declining relationships to hear this sentence from women,

“Don’t you love me anymore?”

Or simply from men,

“Meh.”

(as in you’re not as pretty, smart, sophisticated, etc as I thought)

What they say actually represents what they expect most from a relationship;

a knight in the shining armor who’s always up for pampering for women

OR

a 36B goddess for men.

I wonder if a relationship based on mutual adoration between two secured, honest persons even exists. I hope it does; here, not in Shangri-La.