113060527886717936 Sunday, Oct 30 2005

watched “the last temptation of christ” today, six months after purchasing it at hong kong hmv. one word in advance… this show is completely fictionalised; even the director himself says so. no way did Jesus think of marrying mary magdalene and having kids, or that Judas claim that he betrayed Jesus so as to help him perform his call of duty.

but if we are to change all the characters to fictional human characters, this will make a powerful tale of the human spirit. the so-called “Jesus” in the show is not perfect. he is human; he struggled with temptations.. temptations to refuse sacrifice and lead a normal life with mary magdalene; he questioned why he was being chosen as the messiah; his heart bled whenever he rose the dead for he knew it meant he was getting nearer to the cross. whilst his faith very nearly failed him towards the end, he prevailed and refused all the satanic lures and finally died for our sins. again i have to say that this is totally fiction. but if there is a human being bearing such characteristics, he is a truly respectable human. a person who is never tempted in his life may be dangerous. a courageous person is one who is tempted but fights back, and one who makes mistakes but learns from it well.

oh yea! and sympathy for lady vengeance rocks! according to guojie, richie, qingxiang and I LOL.

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113058993263841226 Saturday, Oct 29 2005

i just got to know of a few local blogs where the bloggers write entries that diss people wHu tyPez lieK tIs woRxx~!! their blunt and occasional downright mean comments pissed me off a while back when i first browsed through the sites. i mean, who are they to judge these kids who are merely in the growing up phase and are hence impressionable? a lot of angry thoughts swarmed through my mind and i actually wanted to criticize them harshly in their comments section (but cowardice got the better of me and i merely added a moderate comment. waiting to be flamed.)

and then i chanced upon another like-minded satirical site, http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/ . apparently this site is banned in several countries due to its sensitive content. i skimmed through a few articles, and actually found them inoffensive and extremely funny. so, if that’s the case, i shouldn’t be peeved by those local blogs just because they make fun of ppl at the stage where i used to be (a very short stint in secondary school – hey you can’t blame me. the late 1990s saw the first batch of ircers who lieK tO sPeaK iN diSh mAnneR anD aT thAt timE arHx, rEaLLi vErI kOoL tO dO thiS loR~! only now it gets more rampant and irritating.)

plus, not one episode of south park i�ve watched fails to tickle me. then why am i not offended by all the blasphemous, crude, raw humour in the series but get ticked off by (almost) every single comment in the blogs?

there are a few differences between these local blogs and the other satires though. unlike the south park series, which have earned themselves a reputation for making fun of anything under the sun without being serious, the blogs target the �ah-bengs� (that�s the name some of them use) tirelessly, so much it seems that they are waging an open insurrection against the so-called bengs. also, the way the bloggers write in their articles really reflects their “i-am-not-like-you-guys-and-since-i-can-type-better-and-rebutt-better-i-rule” elitist mindset when actually the only difference is that they are just more americanised that�s all. and at times i can truly feel their hatred just by reading their entries. some of the meanest comments are just so super un-funny and personal. the maddox (who writes the best website ever!) blog and south park series are more light-hearted in nature as compared to this.

still, that doesn’t justify why its ok to write like maddox and not ok to write like the local guys because ultimately, like the local guys, maddox also offends many in the society. so this “mindset thing” doesn’t really matter when you write a blog if you end up producing the same effect.

and then when some equally irate readers threatened to sue the bloggers, they claim that it is useless as they are just blogging for the sake of humour. if only this is so true… but it isn’t. it is very obvious they are condescending towards those “twits” (thats the name the rest of them use) and do not give a shit how they feel. the articles are downright shaming in nature. thinking of how my good friend almost died under a teacher’s lawsuit because he merely created a funny webpage parodying his teachers behaviour (now THAT was really funny!! Wahahahaha!!), but fortunately closed the matter following a sincere apology to the teacher and a public caning session, i believe the bloggers may actually get into deep trouble if the people being made fun of decide to take up legal action.

what’s ok and what’s not ok..?? are they exploiting the concept of what they claim as “free speech”? where do we draw the line? at whats appropriate? airing ones views without being offensive… making fun of people without being mean… what defines offensive and mean..?

so for now, i’m just going to take these websites with a pinch of salt, that is until i find pictures of me or my friends in there.

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news update. one of the commentors just labelled all those who mentioned about suing (me including) as “dumb arses”. he claims that if it is done all in the name of humour, then there are no grounds for suing. expected, but at least i’ve said what i have to say. i’m not going to comment anymore, as i can see my well-intentioned advice is not going to be heed. way to go.. the site will continue to serve as entertaining reading material for the bored (like me).
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113004666244873044 Sunday, Oct 23 2005

what.. am i proud of something that i shldnt be? lol..

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112947761421178038 Sunday, Oct 16 2005

today started out pretty badly. had a rather heated quarrel with my mom over something really trivial and stupid actually which ended up with me telling her to throw my lunch away and that i’m never going to eat her meals again and storming out of the house, and her crying… yelling at me saying how ungrateful i am. but we both compromised after about five minutes or so, when i told her to keep the lunch; that i would reheat it and eat it after my tuition session and she advised me to take a taxi for tuition since it was raining.

tuition was good.. for the second time in a row i was really confident in what i was teaching! (after that abysmal performance last wednesday) and true to my promise i went home to have my lunch after that.

then, sort of “celebrated” zhongyang’s (belated) birthday at marina square with teng hwee. haha, it may not be as outrageous and grand as your “singapore river” incident (hiak hiak) or your usual “cake in your face” sessions, but i hope you enjoyed yourself, because i did. we chose this americanised fast food joint at the basement for its super size burgers, and although the queue was freaking long, we were lucky enough to have this couple leaving their table the moment we decided to stay and wait.

after that, we went bowling at marina bowl. it was like.. more than a year since i last bowled, i think. but guess what?! i broke my personal all-time high of 87! i hit a 90! wahahahaha… i know its still damn lousy, but nevertheless it’s a record and an impressive achievement for me, imho! second game wasn’t that good, 61 i think. but it’s still more than my self-declared average of 50. hurray! i don’t care if i’ve lowest score of all!! and teng hwee is actually quite a good bowler after all, despite the amateur he claimed himself to be.

then, by impromptu, we decided to go try out DDR! it was like back in the good ol’ junction 8 arcade days, but, sad to say, without the stamina. god, i really overestimated myself this time. i selected maniac for every song, and boy, were they freaking fast!!! after two pieces or so my legs were cramping like mad. zhongyang was wiser and chose advanced mode (sorry i know you wanted maniac but i pressed start before you could change your mode) and hence, did very well for everything while i kept struggling with a “D”. bleah. but at least it’s not an E!! and it was still fun, in a unique nostalgic kind of way.

and thankfully, i need not take the MRT train home (zhongyang has a car!) and waste my money since i have concession already. yea, it’s a great sunday, compared to the boring yesterday.

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112938864613018155 Saturday, Oct 15 2005

oh man.. do i feel like such a fucker today, ah well i probably am. bachelor’s union resume next weekend? haha…

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112928787544059248 Friday, Oct 14 2005

the myth soundtrack! i think i did quite okie, but of course the actual song is much much better. but then again i’m only an amateur. so.. yea. *beams with pride*

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112928776106890665 Friday, Oct 14 2005

my frog died three days ago. when i first got it on the 4th may (as a present from my dad) i was thinking, having dealt with so many pets dying in the past years (including another frog 8 years ago), i should have been desensitized to all these.

maybe i was thinking along the lines of my frog dying of old age or dying without warning. these scenarios were easy to imagine and stomach.

what i didn’t expect to see was how the disease slowly draining my frog’s life away since one and a half month ago. i knew something was amiss when its appetite dwindled, and became significantly smaller than the other frog. and then it’s skin started to discolour, from creamy white to pseudo-transparent, such that i could even see its muscles and blood vessels from the outside.

since a month ago i’ve been hand feeding it worms every other day; it would not eat them unless i dangle them right in front of its mouth. it was then i realised one of its legs was shorter than the other and it didnt move much, not when i was cleaning the tank or refilling the water. the other frog would be desperately trying to jump out of the tank whenever i come near it.

the last straw came this monday when it wouldn’t even eat any worms i gave it. and it’s leg was kicking the wrong direction and moving erratically. i knew it was in pain, so i called up a number of vets. but all of them didn’t deal with frogs. (actually a lot of them thought i had a “fox” when i said “frogs” and almost hung up on me.) there was one at sengkang, but the vet works at an incovenient timing for me, and the consultation fee was really way too much. regretfully i left it to die on its own.

it finally did, three days ago. so now there’s only one frog left in my tank. but i never seem to learn my lesson. i forsee myself in the near future buying new pets after i get over my loss just because i like their company and killing them indirectly due to my incompetency. humans are just so selfish, hmm.

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112883362211824550 Sunday, Oct 9 2005

woke up with a hangover. this is a feeling i haven’t gotten for ages! yesternight we probably decided to celebrate our one month chionging hiatus… by chionging. and it was dbl-o as usual, with its cheap drinks and all. and my drinking threshold seems to have risen by a little. after five shots, a flaming lambo and misc jug-sharings (hey that’s a lot for me), i was still very much alive and kicking. now i only wish that the club comes with a few “drink” vending machines, for it to be perfect. you know, for example, just pop in three ten dollar notes. press the shots button, then press vsop, then press 7. voila! down comes seven shot glass followed by an automated tap which squirts an equal amount of vsop in each. then nine dollars drop out in the change slot for collection. see? queue and hassle-free, and you don’t even need to worry about the bartender forgetting to give you the change. the bartender will then have more time to tend to those wanting the rarer concoctions not available in the vending machines or to open a bottle. but when i told david about this idea, he said i think too much. come to think of it, it does sound a little far-fetched.

argh. and now i’m in a damn bad condition to give tuition. fuck.

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112875965379727897 Saturday, Oct 8 2005

i’ve always been very irked by people with fucked up attitudes. and i just had another unpleasant experience in the mrt control station near my house. i was just buying my long-overdue concession due to my recent spate of bus trips. it was my first time purchasing, hence i may seem a bit blur but i’m not (really!) but apparently the control station guy didn’t think so.

he was impatient, curt and discourteous towards me the whole time i was talking to him. when i couldn’t hear what he was saying he raised his voice. by a lot. maybe it didn’t occur to him that if that fucker had bothered to speak to me face to face through the hole on the glass panel instead of facing the computer screen and spouting incomprehensible words at the speed of a machine gun, i would not have misunderstood what he meant. i was so close to giving him a piece of my mind, but upon noticing the long queue behind me i decided not to pursue the matter.

but there won’t be a next time. i already checked his name on his name tag. funny, his initials represent exactly what he is. AP(attitude problem). speaking of uncanny coincidence.

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