Saturday, November 15, 2008

has anyone heard the new mediacorp ad now airing on tv and on radio? dont you think it really really reminds you of this? alot right. never seen a video of that before today. haha omg the bassist is like how tall lah can. and the visuals really add that element of.. i dunno. now-ness to it. makes it more exciting? haha *tries desperately to think of some chim ts-term that im sure exists* and i dunno how they make it look so easy. omg, like seriously lah can. speaking of looking easy, check this out as well. like wth lah. i know ill never be able to do that. (so defeatist right. aiyars but whatever larz) and this. haha that last one was quite interesting. amy winehouse rocks. vibe. and i dont listen to dunno-what-you-call-it-but-i-suppose-handlebars-falls-into-that-category stuff all the time ks. RAWRS.

haha speaking of jazz right. at the start of the sem i garang garang go and sign up for the jazz band audition. they said that no need jazz experience also can one. so i thought theyd teach us and all. they super cheated my feelings lah can. then i got there and they were like: do you know how to play bossa nova. i was like, omt shit? the auditioners had this *omg why are you wasting our time if you dunno the basic styles and stuff* look on their faces. they were like, come back next year or sth. anyways. met this other girl drummer who was in the same audition as me. she emailed me about a month back about the philo essay and i kept on procrastinating about the reply. its a bit too late to reply now right. =/

anywaysh. my sister was telling/showing me the article about that ac girl who got ragged on her birthday. at first i thought that you know, haiyar big deal lah, for fun right? some people like to make mountains out of molehills anyways. then she showed me the article with the pictures. the first one really looked like you know, something out of a torture scene or something? except that the victim was in school uniform. the uniform i used to wear. im just thinking: what on earth will people think of ac? then she justified saying, of course theyll take the worst looking prints right. k yeah got a point. so i went to look for the videos on stomp. ive only watched the first two videos and so far it looks quite bad. yar i can imagine ac students can be quite loud sometimes, brash even, sometimes. but this goes beyond what i would have imagined. they brought string to tie her hands up.. okay... and even masking tape to tape her mouth. evidently a line has been crossed somewhere. this thing had been thought through to some degree. and none of her friends thought that it wasnt completely right? none of them spoke up? string to tie and to restrain, masking tape to tape up mouth, doesnt sound like a very pleasant birthday to me. hell yeah. i can understand why they did it i guess.. we try to make each birthday more eventful, more memorable, try to outdo what we previously did before. i mean afterall, more effort kinda means the more you value your friendship right? so yeah. i guess ditto in this case?

ive heard of dumping into the bin, but ive certainly never heard of, much less seen anything like this in my time in/out of ac. okay fine. according to rachel im not in school half the time, and the other half im like hiding out somewhere (exaggeration, i feel) well yeah okay, so maybe i dont know everything that goes on in ac's popular culture. and according to some current j2 (bloglink below), throwing into the bin, yeah okay. taupok, pretty much the same. but this incident takes quite a big step from those two, dont you think? quoting from current j2 students blog:

Oh and I LOVE how he compared me to Wee Shu Min. Apparently, people don't read well.

It’s fine. ACJC is part of a school of elite JCs in Singapore which are not meant for prudes anyway.

When I said part of a school of elite JCs in Singapore, I didn't state that AC is the SOLE ELITE JC in Singapore. A closer look into the LANGUAGE, will reveal that I said AC is PART of A SCHOOL OF ELITE JCs in Singapore. You know, collective noun?

oh my shit? he was talking not about the semantics can? its not about elite or not per se. its about your attitude. okay yes i agree with you. ac students are sometimes stereotyped against. but have you ever thought about why?

okay yeah well, but each to his own i guess. we're a product of our own nature-nurture things anyways. maybe she really did enjoy it. being tied up, having gross stuff thrown at her, in public, posted on youtube, etc. if thats your perception of fun, well then i have nothing to say. after reading many irate comments about how you shouldnt judge, you dont know the girl herself, you probably didnt have such friends/experiences so of course you wont understand, okay yeah. i concede that i do not know. and maybe i never will. but the thing about being a part of any particular culture is that you become insulated within that particular culture and you tend to see the world through that lens. i guess if the culture that you happen to grow up/be is not condoned by others outside it, its important to make a conscious choice about whether you should still choose to follow its practices. (i remember when i was still in school during the 'fight club' thing everybody popular sentiment was also that the seriousness of it was exaggerated and we should all move on) but if you choose to follow in spite of the opposition, at least you chose to.

oh dear i hope i dont sound too much like a friend of mine now.

anyways, about alvinology's 10 nov post, perfect present-day euthyphro!

Bonjour. Si vous voulons me chercher, vous êtes venu au faux endroit.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

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