and one of my absolute favourites....
aah. this is life. minus the little pesky things called commitments and responsibilities.
Tuesday, June 27
Monday, June 26
yeech part 2
I know I sound like a broken record but AARGH, who said sitting down hurts so much!
I WILL NEVER SURVIVE till July 7th. NEVER! ( ok, hypothetical exaggertation, I will but still in the interest if drama, NEVER! it is)
so I will be kind and leave you a link to explore ( and a not very impressive made up tag line, courtesy of me)
Historic Tale Constructor
Ever wanted to rewrite history? Make Napolean win at Waterloo? Force Britain to lose the Opium War? Or perhaps, even WWII. Well, you can! With the historic tale constructor, weave fantabulous history that never happened and will never get told ( except your friends, whom you can email your epic story too, for a mere addition of a lot of money) Wow nobody and click on the link!
p/s: its on my sideboard if you ever have the urge to revisit.
I WILL NEVER SURVIVE till July 7th. NEVER! ( ok, hypothetical exaggertation, I will but still in the interest if drama, NEVER! it is)
so I will be kind and leave you a link to explore ( and a not very impressive made up tag line, courtesy of me)
Historic Tale Constructor
Ever wanted to rewrite history? Make Napolean win at Waterloo? Force Britain to lose the Opium War? Or perhaps, even WWII. Well, you can! With the historic tale constructor, weave fantabulous history that never happened and will never get told ( except your friends, whom you can email your epic story too, for a mere addition of a lot of money) Wow nobody and click on the link!
p/s: its on my sideboard if you ever have the urge to revisit.
Sunday, June 25
yeech
I'm so tired that my appendix hurts.
AARGH.
p/s: and on a final note on LT v MG ( I can't help myself. Especially since I am getting alot of non blog asoociated flak for this :P)
Alright, these things are subconscious alright. Its not like you are always consciously aware of rating someone so all of you can stop staring around suspiciously at your friends, alright. At the end of the day, you're not going to sit around and play every thing by the dammned theory. Its a theory. full stop.
And I agree, that every theory has some generalisations because you are going upon what you think is the majority. There is always going to be certain ampunt of populace that is never going to fit in any theory.
so lalalalala to all of you k :)
AARGH.
p/s: and on a final note on LT v MG ( I can't help myself. Especially since I am getting alot of non blog asoociated flak for this :P)
Alright, these things are subconscious alright. Its not like you are always consciously aware of rating someone so all of you can stop staring around suspiciously at your friends, alright. At the end of the day, you're not going to sit around and play every thing by the dammned theory. Its a theory. full stop.
And I agree, that every theory has some generalisations because you are going upon what you think is the majority. There is always going to be certain ampunt of populace that is never going to fit in any theory.
so lalalalala to all of you k :)
Thursday, June 22
last and definitely least
Ok, much against my will, I have to defend my honour and my interpretation of the theory. This is why I should study harder and become a dean's lister because then I do not need to keep defending my theory.:P. tch.
Perhaps, I was not very clear in my earlier post but permit me to clarify
1) The ladder is a hypothetical ladder. Just because you rank someone attractive, higher, does not mean that you will jump into bed with them, no questions asked.I credit men with brains. If you were in a relationship with a 6 and a 9 came along, guy in question in all probability would consider sleeping with her but may NOT ACT UPON IT due to various reasons. But hypotheticallysleeping,uh, speaking,if you were put in a blank box, you would choose to sleep with/ pursue a relationship with a 9 rather than your gf, who is a 6
2)Misconception 1: ATTRACTION here does not make up physical attraction alone!! Attractiveness is subjective and can compose of various other components such as charm, connectivity, chemistry, position, money, educational qualifications, ideals, thoughts etc. etc amongst these looks ranking according to your own prioratisation and hence, how you rank the individual
3)Attractiveness is something you look in for a friend. Please read point 2 again before you all flap your mouth and say "OMG! you're only friends with good looking people". You need to like someone even if you just want to be their friend, duh. Men do NOT need 2 ladders because they are capable of handling someone they have slept with still as a friend because that attraction has not diminished. For women, because the act of sex is SUCH, it becomes a wee bit more complex
4)I was asked, does that mean all my guy friends want to sleep with me?
(Let's put the theories aside and let me reassure you, yes, they do :D)
If I rank up high enough on that person's ladder, then yes. If not, then he'd not want to sleep with me voluntarily, unless combined with a certain number of factors, one of which is probably copius amounts of alcohol. He would not want to sleep with me but if circumstances were such, and he did, he would still be able to treat me as per normal. But the question here,if yes, is whether or not he acts upon it. Refer back to pt 1
Misconception here, is that the ladders are all batting for the same team. So FYI, Person you want to screw may not want to screw you back!
But the thing here is, if there was a guy who was not into me but I was into him, he'd have no qualms about sleeping with me yet still maintaining a sense of normalcy in the relationship. If there was a guy who was into me but I was not into him, there's no way I'd let him near me with a ten foot pole. because I, as a female, define sex differently and hence, unless there was a set of circumstances which allowed him to jump ladders, (in this case, probably not)a guy encased as a friend will not be slept with. Men, on the other hand have no qualms with sleeping with a friend.
I'm not being rah rah feminist. I said men have brains.
Excuse any incoherence or incomplete sentences. dueced sleepy.
Further questions or debating, please msn or call me. Because I seriously think my blog, can be put to better use than as a ping pong table :)
Perhaps, I was not very clear in my earlier post but permit me to clarify
1) The ladder is a hypothetical ladder. Just because you rank someone attractive, higher, does not mean that you will jump into bed with them, no questions asked.I credit men with brains. If you were in a relationship with a 6 and a 9 came along, guy in question in all probability would consider sleeping with her but may NOT ACT UPON IT due to various reasons. But hypothetically
2)Misconception 1: ATTRACTION here does not make up physical attraction alone!! Attractiveness is subjective and can compose of various other components such as charm, connectivity, chemistry, position, money, educational qualifications, ideals, thoughts etc. etc amongst these looks ranking according to your own prioratisation and hence, how you rank the individual
3)Attractiveness is something you look in for a friend. Please read point 2 again before you all flap your mouth and say "OMG! you're only friends with good looking people". You need to like someone even if you just want to be their friend, duh. Men do NOT need 2 ladders because they are capable of handling someone they have slept with still as a friend because that attraction has not diminished. For women, because the act of sex is SUCH, it becomes a wee bit more complex
4)I was asked, does that mean all my guy friends want to sleep with me?
(Let's put the theories aside and let me reassure you, yes, they do :D)
If I rank up high enough on that person's ladder, then yes. If not, then he'd not want to sleep with me voluntarily, unless combined with a certain number of factors, one of which is probably copius amounts of alcohol. He would not want to sleep with me but if circumstances were such, and he did, he would still be able to treat me as per normal. But the question here,if yes, is whether or not he acts upon it. Refer back to pt 1
Misconception here, is that the ladders are all batting for the same team. So FYI, Person you want to screw may not want to screw you back!
But the thing here is, if there was a guy who was not into me but I was into him, he'd have no qualms about sleeping with me yet still maintaining a sense of normalcy in the relationship. If there was a guy who was into me but I was not into him, there's no way I'd let him near me with a ten foot pole. because I, as a female, define sex differently and hence, unless there was a set of circumstances which allowed him to jump ladders, (in this case, probably not)a guy encased as a friend will not be slept with. Men, on the other hand have no qualms with sleeping with a friend.
I'm not being rah rah feminist. I said men have brains.
Excuse any incoherence or incomplete sentences. dueced sleepy.
Further questions or debating, please msn or call me. Because I seriously think my blog, can be put to better use than as a ping pong table :)
Wednesday, June 21
Step-ladder or a step ladder...?
This post is a reply to this so its advisable for you to read that first.
Disclaimer: I am NOT being feminist and going on a rah rah rant about men. I’m just here to say that the principle behind the Ladder Theory is not completely BS and it expresses a sentiment that I think is true. But just because I agree with some of it and am doing my best with my own explanation, I do not agree with everything said in it and I do agree, that it could do with some language polishing. ( Seriously, women make slow passionate luuuuuuurve. Men f*** like animals) TWO, as always, its not a one stop shop so obviously there are going to be exceptions both ways so I’d very much appreciate if you would not pick some bra burning feminist who wants to act, think and be a man, or a metro or a uber guys who want intensely feel their feminine side right. This is what I think the general rule is.
The idea behind LT is simply because Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
1) Men can have 2 ladders too AKA I can be friends with a woman I want to sleep with. I can have female friends I do not want to sleep with
Uh right. The question here is WHY. Because you are attracted to them. Ok, to qualify here, attraction may not necessarily just be physical attraction but a composition of other factors. ( Er, I do not recommand the LT’s deconstruction of attraction because it is rather dubious and erm, biased) Anyway, the premise is that you would not sleep with a person you find unattractive by choice. ( Shenagians taking place under the influence of alcohol is tricky but I classify it as not voluntary, because you’re not conscious and two, if you need alcohol to sleep with her ( and obviously I’m talking about copious amounts here, not the glass of red wine you use to set the mood and other 101 things that males think are slick seductive tactics. FYI, WE KNOW) obviously THEN you are not attracted to her. Need I say more?)
The problem here, of the single versus double, lies in the definition of sex. For men, the act of SEX is defined differently than for women, such that they can CONSIDER and ACT upon sleeping with someone they may not find attractive, if the need arose ( with external aid of course. I’m not that cruel.) The reason why you only need one ladder is because the act of sex is just that to most males, sex. So I can have sex with a woman=1 whom I considered a friend before and still be friends with her the next morning.
But ah, with women, its a whole different ball game. Women need all the schinding, they need commitment, they want the champagne and they want the roses ( nope, no red wine still). Why? Because women are emotional. It is much harder for them to separate the intellect and the emotion from the sex. Sex is about making luuuuuuuurve. Hence, they’ll find it harder to be friends with someone they have slept with - if they are attracted to him, they expect something more. If not, they try to creep away before breakfast.
Ok, I hear alarm bells ringing because you’re thinking, then why are there men who are not friends with the unattractive women they have slept with. Chances are the male guy thought it was okay but the female was attracted to him and hence, she expected something MORE. MORE scared the boy and he ran away. That’s that. OR he is gay and he regrets it horribly but classifies IT NEVER HAPPENED because you don’t swing the same way ( I mean, guys, if you happened to have gay sex, and you were straight with no fetishes, you’re really not going to be announcing it to the world aight?) OR he has not figured out he is gay.
2) Mating Game is different from Ladder theory because it permits a scenario where a man can be friends with a woman whom has would never consider having sex with.
Precisely. A guy is friends with a woman he would never consider having sex with, ( assuming because she is Unattractive), its just that for men, its on the same damned ladder, because men do not have intellectual whores. They have guy friends for that. Men got that down to a pat. Women, on the other hand are confusing things by saying there are platonic relationships. There are no platonic relationships, only guys I am not attracted to but I’d like you well enough if you were a girl so I’m going to pretend you are a girl.
Under the Mating Game theory, men can be friends with an unattractive woman whom they would never want to sleep with – but such a person is someone whom they would never date because the ultimate goal of dating is mating.
The Mating game explores two people who are mutually attracted to each other at the beginning before you are sized up to be a mate. The Ladder theory explores the after - After the date, which part of the ladder do you fall on? The ladder theory does not advocate random sleeping around with woman . It provides a scenario where you can’t get your number 9 so you go for a number 1.It’s a back up plan. It’s a bastard-y thing to do because the only way the women who is unattractive to you will sleep with you is if she is attracted to you, so basically you are leadin her on but hey, if we are bitches, you guys can be bastards for a while. ( and yes yes, I know they are not opposites but for argument sake)
3) The attached friend
It is a bold but fallacious assumption to state (and I quote directly): “If they are attached, you are only being their friend in hope that something more can develop when they are single.”
Cut me some slack. It’s a bloody tagboard with a 200 character limit. I needed succinct expression without flooding your tag-board.
At this juncture, I’m going to ask for a little leeway because I’m in an Alan Shore mood, so please indulge me in my candour. I’m going to level with you and grant you a few concessions.Men are sexual creatures. When we’re not physically undressing an attractive woman, we’re doing so mentally.
Thank you but its PRECISELY because of that you do not need a friend ladder. Because the intellect and emotion, is kept separate from sex. Hence, why friendship and sexual compatibility can co exist on the same ladder.
The other reason (and I don’t see how this point could have been missed) is that we befriend an attached girl because she is nice. It’s not rocket science. If an attached girl is nicer than the norm (and many of them are because they have less frustration and angst than some single females do), then that could be a really good reason for being her friend.
I befriend an attached girl, (as in I purposefully seek her out to be my friend) , because she is nice. Also because, YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW HER BECAUSE SHE IS ATTRACTIVE TO YOU. How many unatttactive nice girls you become friends with, out of your own accord? You hear, that silence, ya, that’s right. ZERO.
You cannot deny that you settle for being an attractive attached friend’s “friend” in hope that something will develop, that when the loser of her bf dumps her, she’ll cry into your shoulder and hence set the stage for your transition into dating utopia, which may or may not occur because she may or may not find you attractive. ( chances are she’ll go back to loser boyfriend) But reason stands, that if you were really attracted to her and she was unattainable, you would not want to prolong the heartbreak, knowing she is unattainable UNLESS there is a little bit of foolish hope present that someday, or until someone better comes along, something might happen. Qualification : When I say friends, I do not mean acquaintance, I mean a real friend, that you attempt to pursue a true friendship, to get to know her, what makes her tick etc. etc (and this is so not linked to altruism. If a guy wants to know what makes you tick, he’s feeding you a line in hope that you’ll overlook the fact that he’s actually a 2 on your ladder even though you’re a 6 in his and sleep with him. )
Moreover, being attached makes her seem less attractive because she is less attainable. Since, men do the pursuing traditionally, unless the woman is really worth the effort,say a 9 or he’s got something to prove to himself, he is not going to expend the effort truly pursuing her. There is no bad boy syndrome for guys as there is for girls (unless the bad girl in question is easy, and likes to spread her legs as much as her love ).
AH! You go but then how come, a guy pursues a realtionship with a person he swore never to ( Its alright with girls because we are fickle). The good thing about men, is that because they have one ladder, there’s no jumping around. The only way is up. If a girl is unattractive at first to you but after becoming a friend, she becomes more attractive, she moves up your ladder, hence the chances that you’ll sleep with her becomes higher.
Remember the ladder theory is not about mutual attraction, because if there is mutual attraction, there wouldn’t be a problem. The problem here is the uncertainty and the unrequited hormones.
You don’t have to suscribe to this theory. You don’t have to ackowwledge this, you do not have to mentally picture any of your female friends as attractive. You can also be spared the trauma of imagining them nekkid.
But deep down, you know. You SO know, this might have a shred if truth in it.
Prosecution awaits
Disclaimer: I am NOT being feminist and going on a rah rah rant about men. I’m just here to say that the principle behind the Ladder Theory is not completely BS and it expresses a sentiment that I think is true. But just because I agree with some of it and am doing my best with my own explanation, I do not agree with everything said in it and I do agree, that it could do with some language polishing. ( Seriously, women make slow passionate luuuuuuurve. Men f*** like animals) TWO, as always, its not a one stop shop so obviously there are going to be exceptions both ways so I’d very much appreciate if you would not pick some bra burning feminist who wants to act, think and be a man, or a metro or a uber guys who want intensely feel their feminine side right. This is what I think the general rule is.
The idea behind LT is simply because Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
1) Men can have 2 ladders too AKA I can be friends with a woman I want to sleep with. I can have female friends I do not want to sleep with
Uh right. The question here is WHY. Because you are attracted to them. Ok, to qualify here, attraction may not necessarily just be physical attraction but a composition of other factors. ( Er, I do not recommand the LT’s deconstruction of attraction because it is rather dubious and erm, biased) Anyway, the premise is that you would not sleep with a person you find unattractive by choice. ( Shenagians taking place under the influence of alcohol is tricky but I classify it as not voluntary, because you’re not conscious and two, if you need alcohol to sleep with her ( and obviously I’m talking about copious amounts here, not the glass of red wine you use to set the mood and other 101 things that males think are slick seductive tactics. FYI, WE KNOW) obviously THEN you are not attracted to her. Need I say more?)
The problem here, of the single versus double, lies in the definition of sex. For men, the act of SEX is defined differently than for women, such that they can CONSIDER and ACT upon sleeping with someone they may not find attractive, if the need arose ( with external aid of course. I’m not that cruel.) The reason why you only need one ladder is because the act of sex is just that to most males, sex. So I can have sex with a woman=1 whom I considered a friend before and still be friends with her the next morning.
But ah, with women, its a whole different ball game. Women need all the schinding, they need commitment, they want the champagne and they want the roses ( nope, no red wine still). Why? Because women are emotional. It is much harder for them to separate the intellect and the emotion from the sex. Sex is about making luuuuuuuurve. Hence, they’ll find it harder to be friends with someone they have slept with - if they are attracted to him, they expect something more. If not, they try to creep away before breakfast.
Ok, I hear alarm bells ringing because you’re thinking, then why are there men who are not friends with the unattractive women they have slept with. Chances are the male guy thought it was okay but the female was attracted to him and hence, she expected something MORE. MORE scared the boy and he ran away. That’s that. OR he is gay and he regrets it horribly but classifies IT NEVER HAPPENED because you don’t swing the same way ( I mean, guys, if you happened to have gay sex, and you were straight with no fetishes, you’re really not going to be announcing it to the world aight?) OR he has not figured out he is gay.
2) Mating Game is different from Ladder theory because it permits a scenario where a man can be friends with a woman whom has would never consider having sex with.
Precisely. A guy is friends with a woman he would never consider having sex with, ( assuming because she is Unattractive), its just that for men, its on the same damned ladder, because men do not have intellectual whores. They have guy friends for that. Men got that down to a pat. Women, on the other hand are confusing things by saying there are platonic relationships. There are no platonic relationships, only guys I am not attracted to but I’d like you well enough if you were a girl so I’m going to pretend you are a girl.
Under the Mating Game theory, men can be friends with an unattractive woman whom they would never want to sleep with – but such a person is someone whom they would never date because the ultimate goal of dating is mating.
The Mating game explores two people who are mutually attracted to each other at the beginning before you are sized up to be a mate. The Ladder theory explores the after - After the date, which part of the ladder do you fall on? The ladder theory does not advocate random sleeping around with woman . It provides a scenario where you can’t get your number 9 so you go for a number 1.It’s a back up plan. It’s a bastard-y thing to do because the only way the women who is unattractive to you will sleep with you is if she is attracted to you, so basically you are leadin her on but hey, if we are bitches, you guys can be bastards for a while. ( and yes yes, I know they are not opposites but for argument sake)
3) The attached friend
It is a bold but fallacious assumption to state (and I quote directly): “If they are attached, you are only being their friend in hope that something more can develop when they are single.”
Cut me some slack. It’s a bloody tagboard with a 200 character limit. I needed succinct expression without flooding your tag-board.
At this juncture, I’m going to ask for a little leeway because I’m in an Alan Shore mood, so please indulge me in my candour. I’m going to level with you and grant you a few concessions.Men are sexual creatures. When we’re not physically undressing an attractive woman, we’re doing so mentally.
Thank you but its PRECISELY because of that you do not need a friend ladder. Because the intellect and emotion, is kept separate from sex. Hence, why friendship and sexual compatibility can co exist on the same ladder.
The other reason (and I don’t see how this point could have been missed) is that we befriend an attached girl because she is nice. It’s not rocket science. If an attached girl is nicer than the norm (and many of them are because they have less frustration and angst than some single females do), then that could be a really good reason for being her friend.
I befriend an attached girl, (as in I purposefully seek her out to be my friend) , because she is nice. Also because, YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW HER BECAUSE SHE IS ATTRACTIVE TO YOU. How many unatttactive nice girls you become friends with, out of your own accord? You hear, that silence, ya, that’s right. ZERO.
You cannot deny that you settle for being an attractive attached friend’s “friend” in hope that something will develop, that when the loser of her bf dumps her, she’ll cry into your shoulder and hence set the stage for your transition into dating utopia, which may or may not occur because she may or may not find you attractive. ( chances are she’ll go back to loser boyfriend) But reason stands, that if you were really attracted to her and she was unattainable, you would not want to prolong the heartbreak, knowing she is unattainable UNLESS there is a little bit of foolish hope present that someday, or until someone better comes along, something might happen. Qualification : When I say friends, I do not mean acquaintance, I mean a real friend, that you attempt to pursue a true friendship, to get to know her, what makes her tick etc. etc (and this is so not linked to altruism. If a guy wants to know what makes you tick, he’s feeding you a line in hope that you’ll overlook the fact that he’s actually a 2 on your ladder even though you’re a 6 in his and sleep with him. )
Moreover, being attached makes her seem less attractive because she is less attainable. Since, men do the pursuing traditionally, unless the woman is really worth the effort,say a 9 or he’s got something to prove to himself, he is not going to expend the effort truly pursuing her. There is no bad boy syndrome for guys as there is for girls (unless the bad girl in question is easy, and likes to spread her legs as much as her love ).
AH! You go but then how come, a guy pursues a realtionship with a person he swore never to ( Its alright with girls because we are fickle). The good thing about men, is that because they have one ladder, there’s no jumping around. The only way is up. If a girl is unattractive at first to you but after becoming a friend, she becomes more attractive, she moves up your ladder, hence the chances that you’ll sleep with her becomes higher.
Remember the ladder theory is not about mutual attraction, because if there is mutual attraction, there wouldn’t be a problem. The problem here is the uncertainty and the unrequited hormones.
You don’t have to suscribe to this theory. You don’t have to ackowwledge this, you do not have to mentally picture any of your female friends as attractive. You can also be spared the trauma of imagining them nekkid.
But deep down, you know. You SO know, this might have a shred if truth in it.
Prosecution awaits
Sunday, June 18
Random bits of solar space
Current desktop : winamp player that I love.
( I love doing this kinda thing. Reminds me of pop art by Warhol)
1) I am going to watch Fast and Furious: 3. True, its a guy version of a chick flick, its like an extended fiddy cent video with all that ass shaking, jap style ( hey, hey, its all about cross cultural harmonisation) BUT have you seen those cars move? Its pure 100% mindblowing cool personified. Everytime they slam the gearbox, my heart lurches. Everytime, they drift, my breath whooshes out. You want an imagery of cool, it isn't going to get any better than this.
2) Jo is smarter than me. Not all the time, hahahah, but on Tues, she got the best of me. Geographically. You know that word game we used to play when we were younger, the one where we have to come up with a word starting with the last letter of the previous word, we were playing the country version of that and within 20 seconds into the game, I could not name an A country. I mean, so many countries end with A, you would some countries would have the damn decency to name themselves after the first letter of the alphabet. I mean, half the countries used the damn Latin alphabet. tch. no repsect for roots.
3) I'm displaying an unhealthy disregard for the world cup. It feels wrong but I feel detached from the proceedings. But I'd want England ( I can see those eyebrows stretching to your hairline, pull it down) Spain or Italy to make it. Hell, I wouldn't even mind seeing Aussie or Serbia Montnegro get it ( ok S&M purely for entertainment purposes.. Who keeps the trophy eh? Is it like divorce proceedings, 6months in Serbia and 6 months in Montenegro? Or god forbid, will they actually fight for it? Well, *touchwood* wars have been fought for less but hmm, mankind never will cease to amaze me)
4) You are all ordered by the movie critic of this blog to watch Brick.
5) Bizzare conversation with Lavan where we started quoting lyrics from Prince's Raspberry Beret and he says
it's better to be cold than warm...becos with cold u can pile on more lawyers...but with heat, u can't peel ur skin (emphasis my own)
and then I tell him to put a sock in his lameness ( pun on law profession etc. etc. and i came up with a brilliant one about "court" warmers***)and he says
i realised my typo
i meant pile on more *layers
Obviously being on the dean's list has affected this poor boy more than we presumed.
P/s: Despite the tragedy of (1) , this is why she's still my friend :)
vá$üDhä
oh no JO
vá$üDhä
YOU ARE SMARTER THAN ME
jo
YESSSSS
jo
FINLLY
jo
FINALLY
jo
BOW TO MY SUPERIORITY
jo
bow!!!!!!!
jo
BOW!!!!!!
jo
BOW!!!!!!
jo
BOW!!!!!!
jo
BOW!!!!!!
jo
um vasu?
*** Hello, of course, its brilliant. Whose blog are you reading?
Saturday, June 17
This is Home, truly, as my senses tell me
Please go take a glimpse at yesterday's forum page for just an example how astonishingly stupid Singaporeans are. I do not know whether its because they're androids ( Command not recognised. Please press cancel and panic) or because the book said so ( Lidat lor. My boss say one, I donchno! You do, just do lor). Apparently, this guy received a letter from the MDA to say that he is being fined for not renewing his TV license, presumably because he is having a TV without a license ( frankly, this is the first I have ever heard of something so odd but I forget, this is the Land of the Free non?) , after which he calls them up and says it is impossible for him to renew his license because it has been close to 9 months since he OWNED a TV set.
Now, let me be presemptous and inject a bit of a logical deduction here. Okay, heis being fined for something he is supposedly doing with an aid of an instrument, but without such an instrument, the act of doing cannot be accomplished so he is being fined for something he cannot do.
Simply put, "Got no TV, watch what TV, pay what fine."
Ah, but such logic is obviously too much for the person attending him because the reply he gets is "Excuse me sir, then you are being fined for not informing us for not having a TV"
First of all, I know this is Singapore, but please leave the mindless switching around of entities for GRCs aight? It is unfair for you to inform somone about a fine and then change the terms subsequently after being informed he cannot be fined under that category. Two, what kind of logic is that? It makes sense that when I accquire something, I have to inform relevent authorities. It is a crime ( in the loosest sense of the word) when I continue to use something that I need to have the relevent documents .
Failing to inform you that I allowed my license to lapse because I HAVE NO TV is not a crime.
I DO NOT NEED A LICENSE FOR SOMETHING I DO NOT OWN.
And what takes the cake (and eaten too) when he asked her why, she said "Cuz it is"
Do I hear the welcoming chimes of " Uniquely Singapore?"
Now, let me be presemptous and inject a bit of a logical deduction here. Okay, heis being fined for something he is supposedly doing with an aid of an instrument, but without such an instrument, the act of doing cannot be accomplished so he is being fined for something he cannot do.
Simply put, "Got no TV, watch what TV, pay what fine."
Ah, but such logic is obviously too much for the person attending him because the reply he gets is "Excuse me sir, then you are being fined for not informing us for not having a TV"
First of all, I know this is Singapore, but please leave the mindless switching around of entities for GRCs aight? It is unfair for you to inform somone about a fine and then change the terms subsequently after being informed he cannot be fined under that category. Two, what kind of logic is that? It makes sense that when I accquire something, I have to inform relevent authorities. It is a crime ( in the loosest sense of the word) when I continue to use something that I need to have the relevent documents .
Failing to inform you that I allowed my license to lapse because I HAVE NO TV is not a crime.
I DO NOT NEED A LICENSE FOR SOMETHING I DO NOT OWN.
And what takes the cake (and eaten too) when he asked her why, she said "Cuz it is"
Do I hear the welcoming chimes of " Uniquely Singapore?"
Thursday, June 15
Wednesday, June 14
revelations
Its been a mad rush for a few days, so excuse the lack of posts. Not that I churn out something unbearably witty that you all hang by your fingertips waiting, but I do try.
P/s: I finally figured out a use for my brother. Who knew it took all of ONE tag message to halt the rather amusing soap opera on my tag-board. Obviously, he was not kidding when he threatened K***t and him were going to be bouncers at my tender age of 14. Wow. Words really fail me at this moment.
P/s: I finally figured out a use for my brother. Who knew it took all of ONE tag message to halt the rather amusing soap opera on my tag-board. Obviously, he was not kidding when he threatened K***t and him were going to be bouncers at my tender age of 14. Wow. Words really fail me at this moment.
Thursday, June 8
To cast a man who is but a shadow of himself
Okay, this is a travesty I cannot keep my mouth shut about. It is terrible, simply terrible.
What, you ask, has got me into such a tizzy? Has my room finally collapsed under the dirt? Have I been forced to acknowledge that I like my brother in public? Did Brad Pitt email me and say that we'll never work out? Did Bella Veronica find out that she will never escape Gen T? Did I possibly score any lower than I could have in my exams?
Nay, there are worse things out there like...
Rumours on the net that they want to cast Vincent Cassel as Gambit.
Righhhhhht. Ok, I give it to him that he's all lithe and wily looking, especially in Ocean's 12, playing human tag with the laser in the museum. I'll even acknowledge, that perhaps, he's cunning enough to pull of Gambit, character wise.
But may I remind you, Gambit looks like this. Remy LeBeau ( His name just rolls of your tongue. Remy LeBeau. Remy LeBeauuuuuu ) is a guy who is sleek, powerful and sensuous. He doesn't throw cards, he flicks his hand. This guy is a BAD GUY personified - mysterious, smooth and composed with a constant smirk playing about his mouth.
And Cassel looks like this.
SERIOUSLY!! Bad picture or not, I cannot imagine him swinging by in his trench coat, flipping his cards with precise speed and precision, with a smirk upon his lips, conquering women's hearts all over the world. He's good to play Gambit as I am going to ever be a mathematician.
Other supposed favourites are
Scott Speedman : the guy from Felicity.
Umm right, I can see him in a trench coat, yup. Flipping cards, yup. But not as Gambit. His face is all wrong, too nice and soft. Too Mr-Nice guy. None of that stark torture tormenting his soul face
Harry Connick Jr : guy from nothing I can really recall
Umm. RIGHHHHHHHT. This requires no explanation. Nada. Zilch.
A few others like this guy called Norman Reedus, who had a role in Blade 2 ( yup the movie, where Ryan Reynolds should have just shut up other than his witty one liners) and get this, Jason David Frank.
Who is he?
Remember Power rangers..?
Hold on, it gets a bit worse,
remember WHITE RANGER?
Hold on, it gets a tad worse,
he runs his own karate school Rising Sun Karate. I'm sorry, I really don't mean to make fun of him because his karate school is one of the top 10 schools in the States so he's some big hoochie.
But how am I supposed to take him seriously, when his welcoming message says "What are you waiting for?"and one of his instructors look like this.
I know, this has nothing much to do with Gambit, Oh wait, it does. White Ranger = Gambit. OVER MY DEAD BODY. (and a few others, I hope). I know we all had a love-hate relationship with Power Rangers but admit it, they were but a poor substitute for Transformers (and I don't even like Transformers that much. hold the hailstones, I admit its a crime.) but even if my reasoning is not sound, it is my duty to comment upon stupid things. Like having an instructor that looks like Taylor ( of AI 5 fame) with specs.
But I digress..
So far, the hot contender is (*edit: If I am not mistaken, I think I read somewhere he might have got the role... YAY!)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers : Guy from Gormenghast, Velvet Goldmine and Bend it Like Beckham
Now, YOU'RE TALKING! Barring the fact, that I have loved this fellow since I was 14, he's perfect. He has the bearing, the cheekbones, the tortured soul look, a bit on the thin side for Gambit, but nothing a little weight training will not solve. Even then, he'd be graceful, leaping about, flicking his cards complete with the disdainful look upon his face. *ooo*
And if you fail to see what I mean....
Wednesday, June 7
lalala
*Geek Alert*
http://www.forreststevens.com/htmlgraph/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snazzystep.blogspot.com
This is something that is so unbelievably cool. See your website as a graph!! I mean, its so unique and it records down all your tags and uses some mathematical thingamajig to see the frequency that they are used, how they are nested within each other.
Concept taken from here And he's done a few graphs for the most famous webbies, google.com, yahoo.com, etc. etc
And from there, his other website, onethousandpaintings.com caught my eye and I paid it a visit. A very simple and fantastic idea, on the verge of almost being a con, because its probably something that most of us have toyed with in one form or the other and now feel all "wa lau" that some swedish fella got there before us but anyhoo, its quite an interesting concept.
And it got me thinking, my oh my, people would really pay for anything. I mean, its a number, a plain simple standardised number that is available only as limited copies, true but nevertheless a number on a canvas that is so ordinary that it can be reproduced anywhere. Other than the fact of supporting art and in the name of experimentation, of course, I wonder why people would pay money for this. But mark my words, this would probably become famous and it'll become a rage, simply because random things like these always do and then you feel "I should have done my idea earlier"and you feel inspired for a nano second and then you procrastinate.
Which is what I have been pretty much doing these holidays. Procrastinate, there's always something to read on the net and there's always something to watch on tv. Its a delicious feeling but a terrible one as well. Because I am going throught this panic Rarrrr mood, where I realise this is IT. This is how I am going to be for the rest of my life. I am going to be 20! an age, 15 years ago, i thought everybody died at. I feel terribly old! AND i mean Olddddddddd, with the d dragged on till Malaysia.
Sighs. but looking at my room, one would be hardpressed to think so.
In other news, you are all commanded to try this by the official foodtaster of this blog. Me.
Its fantaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaastic. ( cue Oprah Winfrey kinda voice)
I got it from Watsons (Parkmall) at only $1.20!!!
So its cheap AND delicious.
No excuses. nuh uh. not one.
http://www.forreststevens.com/htmlgraph/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snazzystep.blogspot.com
This is something that is so unbelievably cool. See your website as a graph!! I mean, its so unique and it records down all your tags and uses some mathematical thingamajig to see the frequency that they are used, how they are nested within each other.
Concept taken from here And he's done a few graphs for the most famous webbies, google.com, yahoo.com, etc. etc
And from there, his other website, onethousandpaintings.com caught my eye and I paid it a visit. A very simple and fantastic idea, on the verge of almost being a con, because its probably something that most of us have toyed with in one form or the other and now feel all "wa lau" that some swedish fella got there before us but anyhoo, its quite an interesting concept.
And it got me thinking, my oh my, people would really pay for anything. I mean, its a number, a plain simple standardised number that is available only as limited copies, true but nevertheless a number on a canvas that is so ordinary that it can be reproduced anywhere. Other than the fact of supporting art and in the name of experimentation, of course, I wonder why people would pay money for this. But mark my words, this would probably become famous and it'll become a rage, simply because random things like these always do and then you feel "I should have done my idea earlier"and you feel inspired for a nano second and then you procrastinate.
Which is what I have been pretty much doing these holidays. Procrastinate, there's always something to read on the net and there's always something to watch on tv. Its a delicious feeling but a terrible one as well. Because I am going throught this panic Rarrrr mood, where I realise this is IT. This is how I am going to be for the rest of my life. I am going to be 20! an age, 15 years ago, i thought everybody died at. I feel terribly old! AND i mean Olddddddddd, with the d dragged on till Malaysia.
Sighs. but looking at my room, one would be hardpressed to think so.
In other news, you are all commanded to try this by the official foodtaster of this blog. Me.
Its fantaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaastic. ( cue Oprah Winfrey kinda voice)
I got it from Watsons (Parkmall) at only $1.20!!!
So its cheap AND delicious.
No excuses. nuh uh. not one.
Sunday, June 4
Sing to the merlion
GUESS WHAT
Xiao Mei from Desperate Housewives, is a true bloooooooooo Singaporean.
Going by the name of Gwendolyn Yeo, she's born and raised here, and not only that,
she's George Yeo's niece !!!
(and for you people who only pretended to pay attention during Social Studies, that's the Minister for Foreign Affairs)
*pauseandwaitingwithbatedbreath*
ok, it sounded more va va voom in my head when I first read it. So, I got all excited about it but I guess its not very exciting. Hmm, yes, that's it.
ohohohoh, all please go Wheelock Place N.Y.D.C and be extra *ahem* nice to this really, erm, petite waitress there who looks to young to work, aight.
Xiao Mei from Desperate Housewives, is a true bloooooooooo Singaporean.
Going by the name of Gwendolyn Yeo, she's born and raised here, and not only that,
she's George Yeo's niece !!!
(and for you people who only pretended to pay attention during Social Studies, that's the Minister for Foreign Affairs)
*pauseandwaitingwithbatedbreath*
ok, it sounded more va va voom in my head when I first read it. So, I got all excited about it but I guess its not very exciting. Hmm, yes, that's it.
ohohohoh, all please go Wheelock Place N.Y.D.C and be extra *ahem* nice to this really, erm, petite waitress there who looks to young to work, aight.
Nothing much in my life to merit an update then :)
Friday, June 2
do not ask a question but expect an answer
Ok, I think this is the equivilent of stepping into the rabbit hole and if my tag-board had anymore action, its going to kill itself, so i'm replying all of you here.
Shaan: erm, yes, "fun" is one way of looking at it. haha. and do you know, I actually stayed for the scene after the credits, thanks to you but its no loss.
Taryn: oh yes! i forgot that but that's still not so bad la. That ranks with my saying the lapis looks like the american flag minus the colours. :)
uradmirer : Please refer to chunk from my previous post. did you? I'm a bit freaked. How do you know who my brother is?
Nooj: I am not marrying you when I am 30.
Aravind: Thanks for the support. I don't see it but thanks anyway.
Remember, I panic very easily.
Shaan: erm, yes, "fun" is one way of looking at it. haha. and do you know, I actually stayed for the scene after the credits, thanks to you but its no loss.
Taryn: oh yes! i forgot that but that's still not so bad la. That ranks with my saying the lapis looks like the american flag minus the colours. :)
uradmirer : Please refer to chunk from my previous post. did you? I'm a bit freaked. How do you know who my brother is?
Nooj: I am not marrying you when I am 30.
Aravind: Thanks for the support. I don't see it but thanks anyway.
Remember, I panic very easily.
Thursday, June 1
Piercings do not maketh a man.neither do clothes for that matter. You all know, what makes a man!
You know, I should have posted this up as soon as ALSA was over because right now, any post that I, well, post is going to pale in comparision to the action my tag-board is getting. But I do try to please, so bear with whatever morsels I churn out.
This is my current desktop because I think Raine Maida looks his best here. All dishy and intense, him looking straight at me everymorning, removes the pain of 1) not having a 'W' key because I refuse to pay a hundred bucks to replace something THAT IS NOT MY FAULT ( or atleast until I am a bit richer), 2) the ALSAing and 3) idiots in general.
His looks speak a thousand words and if I ever needed a motivational coach, I want him to look like this because can you imagine him saying " You can do it, I believe in you" , straight into your eyes, holding your hands, ooooooof. Yes I can imagine him and now you all know what I do in my spare time.
Well, ALSA is over and what a week it has been. Loads of fun, bitching and getting to know people that I never thought I would know, making sport of people I never thought I would. Never getting back home before twelve, coming up with nefarious p(l)ots and p(l)ans. Always forgetting to meet Meg online as I sleep. Come up with brilliant ideas and assissting with more brilliant ideas churned by the brain-o-matic herself. Owing meg lots more money as I expose her to my true klutzy ditzy self. Starring in my own sequel after the reserruction of VA-SU-DHA, Our very own craft show "At home, with Megan Joan". Listening to RENT songs over and over as my music taste was horribly maligned. Oh the pain! Extending my friendship with the Thai transvestite prostitute nail girl and getting horribly gone with her where she decides to play word games and sing at the top of her bloody voice. Sitting furitively in the Law club room, imagining the toyols that run amok at the bidding of their master. heh.Unfairly getting scared for no reason. hmph. Jumping up and down on the Holiday Inn bed saying "its overrrrrrrrrrrr" in tune to Akon's Lonely. Feeling my cholesterol jump up a few notches as I watched Shauna spread margarine. Coming up with proposal songs for Shauna...
*ahem*
Shauna Loo,
you're eyes are so "blue"
Shauna Loo
you make me wanna poo
Shauna Loo
please marry me and say I do
And two quotes I will never forget in all my days,
L***, at Holiday Inn, after emerging in her gown, wearing the nude bra, pointing to her chest area
"Never mind, you wanna touch? Its not my boob la."
L***, after knowing me, Vasudha Srinivasan, for a grand total of a year, asks
"So, are you Peranakan?"
Meeting the really nice delegates from the region made me feel lucky to be in Singapore. Because, sometimes, being in a small place is really fantastic. Everything gets done. I mean, de facto we are ALSA Singapore because we are the ONLY law faculty in Singapore and well, sometimes, you forget that the Privileges that come along with it, are Privileges and not the norm.
Okay, I'm tired of typing. Alsa was fun for a chore, partly because I managed to find something to do when there were talks. I'm sorry for being bitchy to some people, because it was probably unwarranted and snappish.
In other news, I ran down a slope to celebrate and I fell, and I have a really nasty scrape on my elbow, the kind you got when you were eight. So fun. I also lopped off my hair yesterday so its really short and ya, short.
I have also taken a solemn oath to try to never to swear as er, I swore when I was talking to my mum. And as you all have had minimal experience with my lovable mum, I transcript the conversation for you
Mum: WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
Me: Er, nothing.
Mum: Ok, I am old, true, I am your mother, true but I am not an idiot. So please conduct urself as a good indian girl and do not use uncouth words etc. etc. etc.
The only problem I have with my parents is that they are my parents. =D
By the way, uradmirer, rather, erm, my admirer, its really interesting you ask whether Lavan is, godforbid, my boyfriend when he has left but two innocous messages on my tagboard and vish, omfg, who proposed a damnable harem, merits a who's this.....HMMMMMM...makes me wonder whether you are a spy from the faculty that I hail from. And as Lavan couched it in euphemisms, god forbid, I am not his girlfriend. The fella got loftier ambitions la, like Aishwarya Rai. And despite, Vish's unflagging enthusiasm in proposing a harem, he is but a good friend.
If there is anyone you should be worried about, its Nooj or Jo =)
And really, though I'm really flattered by your seemingly um, "relentless" pursuit, it is but a few messgaes on my tag-board. So please excuse me, if I have
1) not yet swooned into your (presumably hunky) arms
2) have a lot of misgivings about your existence in the real world.
3) somehow miraculously believed in your existence, expect alot more than a few tag messages.
If you are really real, which you are not, and if I have scarred you for life, which I'm pretty sure I haven't, don't you worry, there are lot more tagboards in cyber world eh?
And to the rest of you all, SHAME ON YOU :P
p/s: My phone can be texted but not heard. If you want to know how I would sound deaf in 70 years, then call me.
This is my current desktop because I think Raine Maida looks his best here. All dishy and intense, him looking straight at me everymorning, removes the pain of 1) not having a 'W' key because I refuse to pay a hundred bucks to replace something THAT IS NOT MY FAULT ( or atleast until I am a bit richer), 2) the ALSAing and 3) idiots in general.
His looks speak a thousand words and if I ever needed a motivational coach, I want him to look like this because can you imagine him saying " You can do it, I believe in you" , straight into your eyes, holding your hands, ooooooof. Yes I can imagine him and now you all know what I do in my spare time.
Well, ALSA is over and what a week it has been. Loads of fun, bitching and getting to know people that I never thought I would know, making sport of people I never thought I would. Never getting back home before twelve, coming up with nefarious p(l)ots and p(l)ans. Always forgetting to meet Meg online as I sleep. Come up with brilliant ideas and assissting with more brilliant ideas churned by the brain-o-matic herself. Owing meg lots more money as I expose her to my true klutzy ditzy self. Starring in my own sequel after the reserruction of VA-SU-DHA, Our very own craft show "At home, with Megan Joan". Listening to RENT songs over and over as my music taste was horribly maligned. Oh the pain! Extending my friendship with the Thai transvestite prostitute nail girl and getting horribly gone with her where she decides to play word games and sing at the top of her bloody voice. Sitting furitively in the Law club room, imagining the toyols that run amok at the bidding of their master. heh.Unfairly getting scared for no reason. hmph. Jumping up and down on the Holiday Inn bed saying "its overrrrrrrrrrrr" in tune to Akon's Lonely. Feeling my cholesterol jump up a few notches as I watched Shauna spread margarine. Coming up with proposal songs for Shauna...
*ahem*
Shauna Loo,
you're eyes are so "blue"
Shauna Loo
you make me wanna poo
Shauna Loo
please marry me and say I do
And two quotes I will never forget in all my days,
L***, at Holiday Inn, after emerging in her gown, wearing the nude bra, pointing to her chest area
"Never mind, you wanna touch? Its not my boob la."
L***, after knowing me, Vasudha Srinivasan, for a grand total of a year, asks
"So, are you Peranakan?"
Meeting the really nice delegates from the region made me feel lucky to be in Singapore. Because, sometimes, being in a small place is really fantastic. Everything gets done. I mean, de facto we are ALSA Singapore because we are the ONLY law faculty in Singapore and well, sometimes, you forget that the Privileges that come along with it, are Privileges and not the norm.
Okay, I'm tired of typing. Alsa was fun for a chore, partly because I managed to find something to do when there were talks. I'm sorry for being bitchy to some people, because it was probably unwarranted and snappish.
In other news, I ran down a slope to celebrate and I fell, and I have a really nasty scrape on my elbow, the kind you got when you were eight. So fun. I also lopped off my hair yesterday so its really short and ya, short.
I have also taken a solemn oath to try to never to swear as er, I swore when I was talking to my mum. And as you all have had minimal experience with my lovable mum, I transcript the conversation for you
Mum: WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
Me: Er, nothing.
Mum: Ok, I am old, true, I am your mother, true but I am not an idiot. So please conduct urself as a good indian girl and do not use uncouth words etc. etc. etc.
The only problem I have with my parents is that they are my parents. =D
By the way, uradmirer, rather, erm, my admirer, its really interesting you ask whether Lavan is, godforbid, my boyfriend when he has left but two innocous messages on my tagboard and vish, omfg, who proposed a damnable harem, merits a who's this.....HMMMMMM...makes me wonder whether you are a spy from the faculty that I hail from. And as Lavan couched it in euphemisms, god forbid, I am not his girlfriend. The fella got loftier ambitions la, like Aishwarya Rai. And despite, Vish's unflagging enthusiasm in proposing a harem, he is but a good friend.
If there is anyone you should be worried about, its Nooj or Jo =)
And really, though I'm really flattered by your seemingly um, "relentless" pursuit, it is but a few messgaes on my tag-board. So please excuse me, if I have
1) not yet swooned into your (presumably hunky) arms
2) have a lot of misgivings about your existence in the real world.
3) somehow miraculously believed in your existence, expect alot more than a few tag messages.
If you are really real, which you are not, and if I have scarred you for life, which I'm pretty sure I haven't, don't you worry, there are lot more tagboards in cyber world eh?
And to the rest of you all, SHAME ON YOU :P
p/s: My phone can be texted but not heard. If you want to know how I would sound deaf in 70 years, then call me.
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