IWD and Smth Worse

Right, once again, long awaited bloggie entry from Marpig. Reasons being:

1) Busy with more and more projects (Gd th)
2) No internet
3) No time to use office internet
4) No internet at home (still)
5) (And this is the ultimate) Marpigz made-in-china NEC laptop is~~~ gone!!

Biangz. No TV is already quite smth for contemporary pple. Luckily Marpig am not dependent on TV (hasnt been using a TV for 2+ years!!) But, this makes Marpig very dependent on laptop. Now tt itz gone, Marpigz only entertainment is readings (very seldom but will try to increase the freq) and the only small screen portable DVD player...

Sigh...

Anyway, letz finally begin the bloggie which Marpig has typed long ago (b4 laptop totally flopped):

"Hasnt been blogging for a long time cos laptop is going... abit scary... cos as all of u noe, Marpig do not have a TV at home. The only "TV equivalent" is the laptop. Although she does have a small portable DVD player but it is really SMALL. Can only play dics and Marpig has lotsa movies tt requires a computer to play... sigh...

So, while laptop is still up and running, Marpig shall quickly blog!!
1st, letz tok bout IWD = International Women's Day. Very easy to rem. It is always on 8th March. Thus, "三八妇女节"

It was originated from the US around 1909. Think it was due to the working conditions for women then. Cos in the US at tt time (as well as other countries), only women worked in garment fatories. Wages were low, working conditions sux big time (refer to one of the story in Marpigz fav EC comics of the 1960s, "Tales from the Crypt"). Very young gals need to work long hours under dim light, using rubbish sewing machines to make garments. So they might end up blind (maybe not really blind but almost there)

And there was an incident when a factory on top of a 10 storey high building caught fire. One of the exit were blocked cos owners prefer to store ths there despite pple telling them no. The other exit was in flames. So the women were trapped. Sm were burnt alive and sm jumped down 10 storey to their death. About 140+ women died. So, IWD started in an attempt to inprove working conditions for the women later.

Essentialy, IWD is a day for men to express their sympathy and love to the women around them. Smwat like Mothers' Day, Vdae, etc. Ha, but of cos, men do not undestand this (as usual) and tot IWD is a day where women go yaya papaya, protest in streets about 101 ths unfair to them (well, not too xtreme also lah, gals!!)

There is also a IMD. But it has got no meaning to it unlike IWD. Basically, itz the baby of the menz ego. So Marpig bet there must have been sm MCPs drinking booze in a pub one dae and asking questions like "Why the chicks have IWD but we havent" and "If they have an IWD, we should have an IMD!!" DUH.

Sigh... don they see. We do not want to be better than them. We just want to fight for respect and appreciation rather than being viewed and labelled as vases, dolls, the weaker sex, can give birth and can be (pardon the crudeness) f***ed.

It is just like the men disliking pple to say tt they are bulls and have no use to the human race except for their sperms for procreation."