What's the way of love?
Tell me your fiction
Tell me your lies
Say to me now, you'll never forget this night
I'm feeling emotionless
My head's so clear
My enemies aren't, the ones I fear
You know your kiss confuses
This troubling soul
And I found out
That we're all breaking hearts
That we're all broken hearts
If only love could find us all
If only hearts didn't have to fall
We can't mislead to make things right
So instead we'll sleep alone tonight
What's the way of love?
You are thinking I'm crazy
But you're blushing of lust
I've heard a lot of nice things,
but tell me which ones I'm to trust?
These walls we made are glass
And they have been known to crack
But until then
You'll keep pushing my way
And I'll keep pushing you away
Well, if you want to take a chance
And try to make things right
You better have a reason to be loved
We all want something more
And it is worth fighting for...
And if somehow fate were in my hands
Would it be enough to understand
Why we feel lost in a world so small
If only love could find us all...
another post about advertising.
nowadays, people don't even put much effort into advertising.
see that laughable sentence there? "ATTRACT WOMEN anytime, anywhere without rejection"
at first glance, it seems that all is well with that line. but if u disassemble it, you find that the person who thought up that line is probaby... well, stupid.
"ATTRACT WOMEN" it says right? then further down the line it guarantees that you will do it without fear of "REJECTION"
think for a minute: if you have ATTRACTED someone, you dont have to worry about REJECTION. after all those two words are mutually exclusive. by virtue of the fact that you have attracted, you will NOT get rejected.
It's like saying "I eat without feeling hungry."
im not saying its a bad advert. hell plenty of dating losers will click on it. but it's just shows how much quality advertising there is now.
dumbass.
Do the participants in
Villa Wellness use
Dove products?
recently in singapore, there's a "reality" tv programme that's all about fat women trying to be lose weight and be healthy. that's what they try to pull off, but basically it's a farce: we're presented with whining ladies who mope about their weight and how tough it is to get in shape, and either cry or bitch all the time, depending on their personality. (whatever it is, they just mope and cry or bitch.)
hey i dont blame them, sometimes genetics really deals you a bad hand. but if you're totally serious about losing weight, stop whining and get with the program.
or they should kick back, chow down another pizza and advocate Dove's campaign for true beauty.
what dove wants to try and change, is our perception of beauty. that is its only skin deep and it is in the eye of the beholder. blahblah blah. noble aspirations, but its a bunch of bullshit. why? coz if you go to the site, most of the models (yes, models) that they use are at least pleasing to the eye.
why dont they put someone with 3rd degree burns on 90% of their bodies and ask the public to look for the TRUE beauty in them? coz it doesnt work that way, stupid. it's all advertising. dove wants to tap in to the insecure women market by pretending to champion their cause. but they dont want to associate their brand with ugliness. notice also that they use very subjective examples. fat-curvy, skinny-athletic, gray-gorgeous. coz some people DO find fat/skinny/older women sexy. but to associate their brand with ugly? how are they gonna spin that?
coz ugly is just.. ugly.
so dove stop trying to champion the cause for true beauty when the examples that you use are not externally ugly.
then again, who's gonna comfort the fatties in Villa Wellness?
lynette and i were discussing about new year's day parties. somehow it got to the point where we were talking about sex on new year's day.
lynette:
actually most malu is this girl frm my secondary sch
she jsut gave birth a few weeks ago
hence it is safe to assume that she spent her christmas/new year in bed
hahaha which i find really true and hilarious. so the next time you're in a hospital during the months of late august/september/early november, pop by the maternity wards and look at all the "boring" women who celebrated their new year's day party in bed.
was on MSN chatting when i should've been doing my homework.
dianna: i wondr whats worst, if i let him in but not play with him, or just leave him outsideme: i think dogs are happy just being close to their masters/mistress its like love dogs truly love their ownersdianna: he only know how to enjoy.me: for cats, its just a marriage of convenience since we can operate the can opener and they cant.
i left my fucking driver's license at the LAN shop today.
i was reading about the cassini probe, the one currently double-parked in front of saturn and by just randomly clicking through links, i came across this site, "
Ooparts and Ancient Hight Technology". Ooparts means Out Of Place Artifacts btw.
At first thinking it's one of those conspiracy theory sites (the title did awfully seem like it, right?) , i realised its a Jesus-site (!!).
One of the articles uses the DNA as proof that god (note capitalization) exists. Their premise? Something so complex, can NOT possibly be created by natural evolution (chance).
Quoted from the article, "
When an artifact as simple as an arrowhead is found, we understand that someone made that--indeed we understand that to be the case for all "complex" artifacts. We have here an artifact that we cannot duplicate, a technology that we cannot imagine and yet we can believe that it came about by a totally random process over billions of years?"
good point. but have you ever looked at the structure of a diamond? or a snowflake? all terrifically complex internal structures, but hey,
news-flash, they weren't put there by god.
Another quote, "
The truth is odds over 1 in 10 to the 50th power are considered "impossible" by statisticians. The Odds of single bacterium forming from "pre-existing soup" have been estimated to be at least 1 in 10 to the 100,000,000,000th power!
Evolutionist/Materialist: "1 in 10 to the 100,000,000,000th power (hugging himself/herself?) So you're telling me there's a chance!""
they assume that since the odds against bacterium (hence, life) forming in the primordial soup is "1 in 10 to the 100,000,000,000th power", life must have originated from god. what they fail to realise (even though they typed it down, the jackasses) is that 1 chance is still a VALID CHANCE.
besides, who knows but we might have been the (10 to the 100,000,000,000,th power, less 1)th iteration of the universe. Had it been any other way, these disillusioned folks wouldn't even EXIST to proclaim about their god.
"
It is proof that someone with infinitely higher technical ability than ourselves, is responsible for implanting a DNA message into the cell of everything alive in the universe which says "Hello, I am your Creator""
there it is again, creator creator god god jesus jesus *yawn*. if they like the theory that life on earth was "engineered", it would be more likely that extra-terresterials did the job, instead of a metaphysical being like, *ahem* god.
why?
there're billions of stars and planets besides our own, and these can be measured physically (i.e. they are made of solid matter), what about let's say... The Gates of St. Peter? (answer: they're made out of our imaginations).
in any scenario, it is definitely much more probable, if one chooses to believe that life on earth was engineered to begin with, that lifeforms were seeded by aliens (cue conspiracy theories..) and not god, as there exists physical, definite, concrete evidence that there might be other forms of intelligence out there (extra-solar planets, other galaxies... etc), and not a single shred of physical proof that god exists. (can someone gimme the address of St. Peter's Gates again?)
of course, i am not advocating the theory that aliens created life on earth. im just arguing that if one chooses to view life on earth as engineered, there is a more plausible attribute to it and it is NOT god.
i used to drum for this band Noize Insomniacs and imagine my surprise when i googled "noize insomniacs" and found that one of our cover songs was on the playlist of a stranger.
the 4 questions game.
guys, i suggest u introduce this game to your potential girlfriends. how u play this game is to tell your girlfriend that u will answer any 4 questions that she poses. no matter how personal, random or weird. in return, she must answer a set of 4 questions of your own choosing.
do you think she's telling the truth? do you think she would?
matrix vision pte ltd. you suck.
remember that little slot i got from a friend of a friend - casting as an extra for a mediacorp drama series. well i was told i would get paid $27 for a job that lasted from 7am to 10am. so that works out to be $9 an hour right?
the bastards.
the deal was to meet the assistant producer at the radio gate (of the mediacorp grounds) at 7am. i arrived at 650am but my contact from matrix vision only arrived like 720am. then we all moved out for the shoot proper...
...and came back at 12 fucking noon. now let's count. 7am till 12 noon. how many hours is that? 5 right? and at the initial rate of $27 for 7am to 10am, i should be getting $9 x 5 (hrs) = $45. but these cheapo assholes just mailed me original pay of $27 bucks. goddamn. and the working environment isnt exactly friendly. these media-type assholes must think that their fart smells like roses.
i know i shouldn't be grumbling coz after all im just an extra right? but hey, if that's how you run your business, then here's a one finger salute to you.
Oh Xiaxue...
(before you read further, i'd like to make a few things clear. i am not an accomplished writer, neither do i see myself as one.)
*flame suit on*
ah yes, a friend of mine, grace, directed me to a well-read (and somewhat well-debated) blog on the web belonging to
xiaxue. now i've got no beef with Ms. xiaxue at all. i believe whatever she pens (keys?) down on her site is her entitlement - after all the internet is about free speech right? she doesn't post her articles while sitting atop any moral high horse, which is alot more than i can say for other bloggers out there. (especially those 15 year olds with a chip on their shoulder. at 15?! get a grip.)
but i must admit, im just curious why she would be invited to participate in this year's Singapore Writer's Fest (SGWF).
now i wouldn't want to assume that i am fit to judge another person's writing. i admit xiaxue's posts are entertaining, and affably tongue-in-cheek. they are easy to digest (have you come across blogs where the author simply writes to "show off"? horrible. A+ for language but F! for readability.) and easy on the brain (i don't get headaches figuring out xiaxue's logic.).
however, it is nothing spectacular. there are many other local bloggers that display wit and insight in their posts. some with a better degree of finesse and elegance. but none of them seem to be featured on the SGWF ads; i suspect that the real reason why she was invited to the SGWF is due to the fact that:
1) she's one of singapore's more prominent bloggers
2) she's been featured on the local rags.
3) she's... a she.
why? because, frankly, when was the last time you took notice of a Writer's Festival in Singapore? (writers, or all you lit/artsy/poetry people, dont count.) What's the purpose of the SGWF? quoted directly from their website, it is
"Aimed at inspiring great writing and nurturing a greater understanding... (blahblah)"
that means they're focusing more on the non-writers, non-lit/artsy/poets, out there. in other words, ordinary people like you and me. so how do u go about acheiving it?
1) find someone well known for his/her writing. (singapore doesn't have any REALLY famous writers. no, russell lee doesn't count)
2) better still if the said person has been featured on the local rags (to ensure maximum popularity and penetration into the lay-person market.)
3) add points if said person was involved in controversial public opinion.
4) if the said person is female, even better. coz hey, sex sells right?
and go about finding a way to tie all the above 3 points into the theme, "Writing".
so the organisers thought,
"eh this xiaxue girl quite pretty ah, even if she
photoshops her pictures, but according to her models do that anyway, so nevermind
lah.
(Nick: thats grounds for another debate. basically how can one stand on the same basis of comparision with models? we know the truth why she photoshops them pictures. *snigger*) She writes. urm. does a blog filled with your own personal ramblings count? aiyah it'll do
lah - some people think it's cool
what. somemore she's quite famous
also ah! so let's get her on our adverts then we can be cool and popular by association."
well their brilliant idea worked. for one, here i am writing about this. that means their message did get across right? received in the wrong context, but message received nonetheless.
take a minute now and think: who do you think would make for a better ad/poster?
Xiaxue or
Cyril Wong. To keep things fair, both are local writers (though the more astute of you readers will point out their gender difference. and Mr. wong, i apologize if you feel offended that your literary accomplishments are being compared to that of Ms. cheng's - I'm sure models the world over understand how you feel.) Have i made my point?
even the
two other bloggers, the miyagi dude and mr brown, who are featured in the SGWF have other writing accomplishments rather than having a popular blog as their sole claim to fame.
and xiaxue, you write okay. but don't get that pretty little head all big and heavy now... it's just a marketing ploy and you're a (very willing) puppet!
Note: there's a hidden sentence embedded in the last few paragraphs.. see if you can find it. :)
Postscript: check out the list of writers involved in this year's SGWF. you too, will wonder just like i did, what a lightweight like Ms. Cheng is doing amongst such luminaries. is it for her writing prowess? or perhaps, for the reasons i've postulated above. i'll let you decide.
my mom and i went to visit my granddad at a day-care centre for the aged today. when we arrived, the old dudes and dudettes were seated in a circle (on chairs, coz if they sat cross legged, i dont think any one of them would be able to stand up. ever. again.)
they started their exercises, which was to manipulate a hula-hoop (the fancy kind that's colorful and filled with beads). as i stood there looking at my grand-pops, a wave of sadness came over me. ahh i remember the times, of years gone, where he would bring me for a car ride in his dark green toyota starlet, playing richard clayderman on the casette deck (my favorite artists during that time would include tina turner, specifically, what's love gotta do with it, and richard clayderman.) anyway, my grandpa would always drive me to Yaohan (back then they were still in business) Thompson, and bring me to a Kinderland branch there.
i wasn't a kinderland kid but i've always made a point to walk there with my grandpa coz that particular branch always had a row of old IBM 286's at the reception area. and i would always make a beeline for it and start tapping on the keys. that was the start of my computer geekiness - it introduced me to computers, followed by simple programming, then reading up more advanced stuff, and all the way to my very own suit of software (from a text processor, to an encryption scheme) way back in my primary school days. i've since left all those stuff, dusty and rusted, at the back of my brain but for all those invaluable knowledge that i've garnered, i only have my grandpa to thank.
so thank you ah-kong. i know you'll probably never get to read this, but the internet never forgets.
and as a testament to my grandpop's influence,
