Life is a game full of choices, and each time we make one a flurry of new ones pop up till we realise that given the sheer number of choices that we make, it's nigh impossible for us to make the exact combination of choices required to optimize our lives.

Looking at things from another perspective, we can also throw our hands up, the towel in, the cat our of the bag and our gods to the dogs(which also happens to be some sort of spelt-backwards predatory process, I'm sure there's a term for that) and accept that each choice has its own pros and cons, and that the best possible choice will change with time, as both conditions and mindsets are subject to the test of time, on which everyone gets a big fat F. Buying the Nintendo Wii may seem like a good idea now, but it probably won't be when you're staring at you shattered TV screen with half a broken strap attached to your wrist and the other half attached to the controller which had moments ago did a perfect triple-tuck backflip into the glass. Hanging yourself may be a good idea when you just saw Cruse of the Golden Flower, but you'll be regretting your decision when you're standing in the hot, sunny world known as hell without a swimming suit and sunblock to spare.

One of the latest good-bad decisions occurring in recent times has been that of Google, or any company that decides that it's a good idea to leave their servers stranded in the earthquake-riddled Chinaman-filled forsaken land that instead begs to be acknowledged as Taiwan. While Taiwan(or anyplace remotely close to China, in fact) may have enough cheap labour for everyone to star in a Lord of the Rings movie and still have people left over as extras, cameramen, cleaners, translators and a Darth Vader cameo, outsourcing labour really isn't a good idea when one glitch that you can't possibly hope to control screws you and the rest of the world over, losing you millions of dollars, sponsorship deals, kittens and, on the flip side, communists.

On the other hand, if the Earthquake didn't happen, then the bad choice would lie on the people who chose not to take advantage of the cheap labour, because Chinese dudes eat less than Ang mohs, and because rice is cheaper than meat and potatoes.

In short, there's really no way to tell if a decision is good or bad until you actually get down to making it. Sure, you could put on a white coat, tacky glasses and a fake moustache and attempt to analyze it all you want, but there's no way to cheat the time-space continium. Buying Khalid Boulahrouz may seem like a bad idea for Chelsea, and at press time it still is, but nobody is going to be saying that when Jose Mourinho works wonders with him and turns him into a goalscoring machine.

There are, obviously, good and stupid applications to such choices. That cooking class may have turned you into the next Jamie Oliver(good), but as it would turn out Danish pastry is not a good housebuilding material(stupid).

The other thing about choices is that what choices you make also directly influence the choice that others make. The shortcut home might seem like a good choice initially but not so anymore due to the ghost's choice to make it his primary camping ground. Though, if I were a ghost, I would take my mistform as a free air ticket all over the world. Outsourcing servers to Taiwan was a good choice until Mother Earth decided she was getting hungry.

It's been a while since I've made a long post like this, and part of me is wondering whether this was such a good choice in the first place.

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Some stupid comments to finish off the post:

"MOS is totally screwed up, i went there twice and twice i failed to go in, not that its entirely my fault. But then again i really really hate the bouncers there...irritating pieces of pork." -Person X

The dumb part here, is that person X was underaged at the time. When you hate people for doing they're job well, something's wrong. And how is getting bounced "not entirely my fault"? Once again, signs that the generation has been spoilt. The law does exist for a reason. I admit that the law isn't perfect, and it can't ever hope to be, but if it does things about idiots in the world, I don't mind at all.