Wednesday, December 17, 2008
11:18 am
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy
Because I hate Twilight so much, I find it fitting to contribute a haiku for the US Haiku day (21 December).
Twilight disappoints,
Undermines feminism.
Bad writing. 'Nuff said.
And don't go around calling Twilight "glorified fanfiction".
Please don't insult the fanfiction community, where I know for a fact that many great (although amateur) writers do exist and are better than Stephenie Meyer by leaps and bounds, because really, she claims to be a feminist? Her books (are they even fit to be called books?) have set second-wave feminism back a full century.
The feminists would have probably committed suicide if they had known what impressionable little girls are picking up from those books.
SAY 'NO' TO TWILIGHT!
Friday, December 12, 2008
9:52 pm
Fashion disaster, thy name is 'Mother'.
Look at that!
LOOK!
And what is that tag? How should I describe it?
Gaudy? Tacky?
I have no words.
The wordings on the tag are actually in GOLD, and some areas were already washed off after ONE run in the washing machine.
(I used the black side of my blanket as a background in hopes that the tee wouldn't look too bad against it. I rest my case. If it looks horrible in the first place, NOTHING, will make it look even an iota better.)
Last weekend she went shopping with my paternal grandmother and despite my multiple warnings not to buy anything for me, and that I can live through one Chinese New Year with no new clothes, she's done it again.
The woman just waltzed into my room when they got back and went "Look! I bought you new tee-shirts!"
I blanched at that... mess. No words could have begun to described the expression on my face, nor the collective of exclamations and curses that hurricaned through my mind.
No words, I tell you.
(She bought two tees, actually. But the other one was just a cheaper, more plain, and deeper red version of an Esprit tee I had, so that's not a valid argument in her favour either. Why buy an almost-duplicate of something I already had?)
First, the colour.
Come on, tell me that was not what caught your unfortunate eyes right away.
I'm fine with stripes. And I'm obsessed with polo tees. The colour? Pure apparel vulgarity.
Tell me you disagree. I'll probably whack you upside the head, though.
There is an unspoken rule about stripes on tee-shirts: Colour contrast.
Grey and pale orange and pale green?
I can feel my bile acting up.
Then it was the fabric.
Perhaps it's hard to tell from the photographs, but already it's stretched and the seams aren't straight anymore.
FROM ONE WASH IN THE WASHING MACHINE.
Even my Giordano tee lasted longer than that, and their tees are notorious for wayward seams that don't survive multiple washings.
My mother was gushing on and on about "Now you'll have something to wear for Chinese New Year!"
The mind shuts down.
She wants me to wear that outside of our house, while we go visit friends and relatives?
The mind explodes.
'Nuff said.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
10:03 pm
Went job searching (applying through multiple employment agencies) and window shopping with SL during the better part of our afternoon before meeting with BH for dinner at Astons at The Cathay.
SL and I were totally beat by the time we sat down at the restaurant. We had no idea how women have the energy to shop all day.
SL's theory is that they get to rest when trying out clothes in changing rooms or getting to sit down when checking out shoes, while us window shoppers walk non-stop.
I am just plain boggled.
Anyway, back to dinner.
First time at Astons. Not as expensive as I thought it would be. Phew!
We had our own Don't Forget/Guess the Lyrics!
And I put Britney Spears' Womanizer on loop in SL's mind (it's an annoying song for those who can't see the amusement in it).
Good times. Just gotta love my secondary school friends.
P.S.
I realised I knew lesser modern Mandarin songs (never liked Jay Chou, and I didn't really listened to JJ Lin) but more old/classic ones, and that I knew more old English songs and those from the last decade.
Monday, December 01, 2008
11:13 am
Your rainbow is intensely shaded brown, blue, and indigo. What is says about you: You are a deep thinking person. You appreciate cities, technology, and other great things people have created. People are loyal to you and see you as a natural leader. You share hobbies with friends and like trying to fit into their routines.
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Me posting quizzes = me busy watching shows online
Whee! =D