To help defend or not to help

To help defend or not to help

by | May 29, 2011 | Updates

Sad to say I had come across a situation where it was a decision as to whether to help defend someone or not. I don’t want to make this a big issue, but I still had this on my mind. What lengths and at what point am I willing to help someone who is being abused by another person.

So okay, here is how the situation played out:

I’m eating my breakfast in the park. A nice salad bowl and some macaroni with some nice sauce and small amounts of cheese.

Then I see a 2 guys, one who looks around his 70’s and who walks with a walking stick, who is sitting down. The two of them are arguing about something or the other, but I can’t speak Chinese that well nor understand too well. He looks around his 40’s, he is a young bloke in comparison to this other guy however.

Okay. So they are arguing, that’s fine, people argue and usually say sorry later to each other. But the younger guy was walking off and then they started shouting at each other. The younger guy walks back, picks up a bottle full of water and whacks this old man around the head. He hit this guy with this bottle really hard from the way it looked. This older guy fell off his seat, but quickly picked himself up. I can presume that the younger guy started cursing at him, as he was shouting after he did what he did.

Okay, so he only hit him around the head with a bottle. I felt very, very inclined to go do something about it. But the younger guy, kind of walked off and didn’t do anything more. The older guy looked fine and not to hurt by what had just happened.

It wasn’t just me watching, it was a groups around me and groups who were sitting across me who saw it all unfold. Like me they did nothing.

Where I would intervene…

I don’t have a clue what they were arguing about. But if the younger guy kept laying into the older guy, I would have done something. I probably would have hit the younger guy or done something to at least stop him. It looked to me that the younger guy and older guy had friends also sitting in the same area. The friends of the older guy did nothing, but that is probably a no-brainer as they looked the same age as this older guy if not older. But if this younger guy, kept hitting or kept assaulting this older dude, I would have probably laid into the younger guy and pointed him to the exit. I find it unacceptable to hit someone that old who can’t protecting himself. If you are going to hit someone for any reason, then let the terms be even and let that guy at least have a fighting chance. Although I do not like violence, sometimes you have to resort to violence when others choose that option, you do that instinctively when you a) have to defend yourself or b) have to defend others being attacked who have violence inflicted on them.  I have this quote on my Facebook information page, which has a part, where you can state your favorite quotes, mine is:

“English philosopher Edmund Burke said, The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.”

Is for good men to do nothing… I feel sad that I kind of didn’t act. But I made sure I was close by afterwards, if the younger guy started up stuff again on the old guy. The younger guy just sat down very near to the old guy and they just didn’t speak to each other. I’m not sure if they were relatives or what, but whatever the case, I would have protected the old man, if the younger guy started assaulting him again. I would have done something. That says a lot as there were groups around witnessing what was going on as well and they just started in amazement.

If you are reading this, what would your  reaction be? Keep in mind you are in a country, where you can’t understand what people are saying.

 

 

Web hosting incident continued

by | Jan 31, 2011 | Updates

I've switched hosts after a serious hacking problem has affected my website(s) on my old hosts server.

 

I had no prior problems or any major problems with my old host, but the fact that cPanel would load really slow and my wordpress sites would load a little slow. After the move, things have improved, including loading times. The problem now is getting back into the Google Search results as my sites were penalised because of the incident in my last post. Most of my traffic or a good majority of my traffic came from Google and now this has severely affected my online websites traffic. I looked at my keyword tracker tool and I weep when I see that all my keywords have been delisted from Google.

 

I guess this is why I left my old host in frustration. I built this website up for around 2 years (Another website) and one problem arises and compromises my entire operation. – Because my host didn't secure their rules which made someone else's website a directory on my domain name. It must have also affected other customers too since I had to report this problem for other customers who might have not been aware.

 

Whatever the case, I'm happy I moved. I feel that I've moved from a budget web host to a semi-decent host. Though the support with my new host is a little slow. But I don't need much support, as long as they don't screw things up on server-side issues.

The one thing I hate the most about moving to Taiwan

The one thing I hate the most about moving to Taiwan

by | Jan 8, 2011 | Updates

Since moving to Taiwan, the one thing I have nearly killed over is those irritating mosquitoes who bite you and you don’t even know it! Then you find out you have several itchy lumps on your arms, face, legs and wherever your freaking skin is visible. It is literally getting to the stage where I am getting bit every single day. I’ve tried sprays, a fly zapper in my room when I sleep and I’ve even killed some mosquitoes with my bear freaking hands. Yeah, I’ve caught quite a few actually; though I’m no expert in the art killing these bugs. But they still keep coming and the next day I find that I have some lumps still even though I take measures to stop those little bastards.

On top of my bad mood with these mosquitoes, I had one of my teeth pulled out as there were 2 roots to one tooth or apparently one trying to grow beneath my other tooth which subsequently was painstakingly pulled out. Or should I say, cut in half then pulled out. I mean boy oh boy, it was painful, they cut my tooth in half, then used what looked like screw driver for teeth, to use this tool for leverage to break my tooth’s root out. I mean they gave me like 10 injections (Local anesthetic) but it still hurt like a bitch. – I originally had a pretty cute women from Canada (Who is Asian — oh do I love Asians with Canadian accents, especially if they are hot) but she wasn’t strong enough to pull my tooth out, so they called in this old bloke who pulled the tooth out even though he saw I was in extreme pain. At least with the girl she was gentle and was slowly taking out my teeth by cutting it into different sections. 😀 Oh and she had her hand on my face … or was that her hand holding my mouth open? I don’t care, she was hot, cute smile too. I think she kind of enjoyed that I was in pain… as I guess I put some funny faces out there when trying to be brave in front of her lol!

Hopefully those mosquitoes will go away once I find where the hell they are coming from!