Road Rage

I want to make this official, just so there is no confusion, I hate Adelaide.
And, what's more, I hate Adelaidians. They have serious problems. Yes, I know, I have lived most of my life here, but still.

A couple of days ago, Saturday to be precise, I went for a walk down to the market. As I, a pedestrian, crossed at the lights, whilst they had the little green man, I nearly got bowled over by a driver tearing around the corner who then had the audacity to scream abuse at me. At the same corner, Pultney and Angas, on the way back there were two bike/car incidents. The first saw someone blasting there horn at a bike mounted parking inspector who apparently made the unforgiveable mistake of being in the left lane and indicating a left turn and then turning to the left. Then a car wanting to turn right and indicating so was waiting for the oncoming traffic to pass (remember that we drive on the left here) and the motor bike behind blasted his horn and then pulled alongside the guy and screamed abuse at him.

And just now walking back home after the first day at my new contract the local old fart says hello and asks my name. I politely said "I'm Kai." He said "you're tired? Well go home and have a sleep!" I said "No, I'm sorry, you didn't hear me, I said my name is 'Kai'." And then he started berating me for being a "smart arse" and then reckoned that the only reason he didn't fight me was that he had to be somewhere. Stupid old fart could hardly stand as it was, he would have unbalanced if he had tried to swing one at me.

God, this city is just so rude and aggressive.


So, I have started my new contract. It is at Santos, I am going to be working on Business Objects Planning (data comes from Oracle Financials and I will be using a couple of the Oracle tools as well). I am working with a Chinese Filipino; I was talking about my experiences in Singapore and that I would like to visit Hong Kong and maybe Japan, that I nearly started learning Japanese but learnt some Russian instead, that I have a friend that was learning Japanese but is now learning Chinese because he has a Chinese wife, that I knew someone from Hong Kong that had a Malaysian Chinese wife, and he says that I know a lot of Chinese and asked if I was okay with Asians. But he was then distracted by someone requesting a report before I could say that I am a racist.

Isn't it weird? I have always thought of myself as a firm racist and yet I do have a lot of Oriental friends. But then they are all racists as well, seriously, you should here them sometimes. And one of my two best friends is an Australian Aboriginal, as is one of my aunts. So there you go. I would still describe myself as a racist though, it's just that good people are good regardless of what else they are.


On the gaming front; I have been playing Sword of the Stars lately, acquired via Steam. It is kind of a second-rate Master of Orion, maybe better than Sin of a Solar Empire in some ways, but with a few really annoying bugs that spoil it. Definitely Stardock really need to come up with a new version of MOO2 that plays on modern Windows - MOO3 was a total waste of time! Don't go there again, just redo MOO2 and all will be forgiven.