“Hello world! How am I doing, you asked? Well, I’m so tired… But I guess because I am not Filipino, no one will pity me. Even though, yes, I was born into a relationship with the creatives, the animators, and Apple.”

And you remember the Russian professor, the Melbourne tradesmen, your classmates, and the desert flies flying into your mouth during the torrid summer… This is what you end up doing, even if you have to assemble the whole rack yourself—because the assembly cost is $150. I thank YouTube contributors for their assistance in instruction.

I also noticed that in Australia, the trades have some Mainland Chinese, but very few.

Sorry, but no lat attachment. The webbing sling is better for my budget. Just as the equipment prevents injury from distraction. Plus, I know the guys in Singapore cannot do critical theory, and they don’t appreciate design anyway.

My absent 大哥 in America designed this rack with Westside spacing. And my absent 大哥 in China made this thing. The webbing sling is from Korea.

The ladder is very good for my elderly father and clumsy me. I am weak, but my ladder is strong.

Yes, that’s the result of eating peanut butter sandwiches, too!

No idea how much the fluctuations in climate affects the price of food. (It seems trivial given that the milk seems cheap compared to a Hermes handbag, but it is manual work, so there are a lot of human factors involved.)

My local professor, who is Catholic, was researching food security at the time I was working in marketing.

Plus, some people didn’t care about me having to skip around for salary increases of S$200, because the Filipinos were so cheap, when others don’t even turn up for interviews if they decline at the last minute!—Even wrote to Victor Mills to complain about what he said in The Straits Times because I was so fed up!

First and foremost, it is very important to remember the milk.

Mr Victor Mills! I want you to be strong like David Beckham! Go to Australia and sign up for farm work! Please help us with the milk! Please also help with providing cost-effective and time-effective and service-effective productivity solutions so that people can do what you expected them to do! (Learn some problem solving, Victor Mills—because the Filipino push work to me everytime and steal our money and friends!)

It also noticed my resting pulse rate is like an almost dead person. But that’s what the doctors always say as well.

The red colour signifies many things to me. It also reminds me to spend less money.

The typography of the numbers on the watch look like the numbers in the lift at the Orchard Apple Store. I checked the layout as well.

Red Bull is supposed to give you wings.

It was still shipped from America anyway. It is silver because it is cheaper.

Because you see… Just because you don’t like people telling you to go to church doesn’t mean you don’t know about the local parishes.

This rosary was made by the local community.

My classmates before started working, who are Catholic, are very straight-A students one, and all super capable and hard-working. We just focused on schoolwork and it was alright. Just the school workload will kill.

There was this time I was thinking of applying for a corporate position at Page Personnel.

So I went to download their annual report, but it’s not simple in the least, because the role was complex, and the report showed that the business was complex, so it was difficult to see where the role fitted and what I could possibly say at an interview like that.

Because they used to tell me it is a competency for you to understand the business. So I didn’t apply.

Anyway the page, is a courtier. Courtiers, technically, are not combat vocations.

As a side note: I noticed that in Melbourne there are homeless; I couldn’t figure out why. I’m supposing it is partly because of th country’s foreign aid obligations; in addition to the fact the climate is very harsh.

So when the Filipino Australian woman says to give higher wage to domestic help, and knowing what my Dutch boss’ schedule was like, I was wondering why the farmers in Australia don’t charge higher price to Sydney.

That time someone tried to blast more emails to me about a course on design thinking.

Hmm… I read tons about articles about that already, especially on BusinessWeek. I had an RSS reader, in addition to Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop.

We Make Money Not Art was a lot of fun. –empyre– listserv also read already, but it got too much so I unsubscribed.

But, thank you, anyway. I had initially wanted to do the IDEO course.

“But they will make us meet Filipino again…

“And then they will say they value you, yes they do, only to try to influence your perceptions regarding what had happened… Again…”

“Shhhh… The whites will hear you and then someone will complain to the United Nations about you being racist..

“Especially you know, if you are Chinese. Because then someone the Netherlands will say something about business ethics makes good business, and then the media will just echo that you have to recant your opinions because you are Chinese, and America loves Manila. It doesn’t matter which Chinese you are. The point will be that you are Chinese and even Beijing will tell you to change your opinion while saying they truly like you.”

And then in all likelihood they will write several new songs to make you laugh while listening to Spotify, so that you like them again, and then you buy more stuff.

“My friend, let me put it this way: your problem is that you cannot rap like Eminem, and your writing hardly raps well. And even if you could rap, they will still call you a copy of the original anyway. Why? Because you are Chinese. That’s why they tell you to let it go through the songs they supposedly randomly play on Spotify.

“Even if you were as good as Jay Chou, all the rap artists in the Chinese music scene don’t do Eminem to Filipino. It’s too groundbreaking, and so they can never market it. It’s too confronting. They will either call you a commie, like Wee Shu Min did, or a Muslim terrorist, or a loser—the men’s rights interest groups will probably defend the Filipino (even though their high masculinity expectstions will probably kill th guy first). And then they will say it is very anti-Christian. Basically, the sentiment will be under the long tail, classified under something alternative, because it will be an outlier following Malcolm Gladwell.”

He walked me. If he ran, I would have to run, because he was that strong. His birth certificate says he was born on a farm in Australia.