I am not kidding you. I am close to going insane. What's up with those retarded chinese characters anyway! A little dot here, some slashes here, and oh, some lines and FUCK THIS I CAN'T TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE.
Even my recently accquired Matrix OSTs can't sooth my frazzled mind. Well, granted, it doesn't exactly play soothing tones... but that's not the point! Chinese is a metal torture, like some sort of mental rite of passage Singapore has, or maybe a weird and mysterious sifting system that CRUSHES THE MIND OF INNOCENTS LIKE ME.
...I'm beginning to sound like Maito Gai. That isn't good. And um, Joe Hishashi is an awesome composer. And Judy and Mary rules, even if they broke up. I wanted to play them on the last day of school on the class computer but I doubt my teacher would have allowed.
Damnit. I hate chinese. Congratulations, Mr Minister of Education, the-man-who-canno- get-his-head-out-of-his-ass-to-make-more-coherent-policies-instead-of-the-messy-and-retarded-shit-us-students-are-in-now, on making chinese the most wonderful piece of Hell I've ever tasted. In fact, have a cookie, and this Calvin and Hobbes comic that sums up my thoughts nicely:
. . .and local programming has gone all the way to hell.
It is quite saddening to note that since Channel i shut down its operations after the merger, our the shows on TV, especially homegrown ones, have become horrible.
Channel i has always been the better english channel, better than Channel 5 despite the supposed label of it being the lesser. Channel 5, and Mediacorp in general, have always been the more "friendly" one, resulting in the company hiring actors and actresses left and right. They currently have a giant amount of artistes, half of them barely able to act. Homegrown showns, especially chinese ones on Channel 8 are becoming increasing boring, with unattractive filmatography and flat acting.
When I watch the shows, I cringe and slap my hands against my shut eyes, not knowing whether to cry or laugh. It's bad enough that the people in it can't act for shit. . . but watch it and see the obviously cliche moments and shabby, overused plot. . .
. . .it becomes more of a comedy than a serious drama.
Beside that annoying fact, Channel 5 has an irritating habit of dragging chinese artistes into english shows, forcing viewers to deal with shoddy English spoken with a horrible accent that makes the most perfect and elegant of English sound completely retarded.
The scenes in any drama is poorly filmed, with bland lighting and weak taste of hues and colors. This is a huge contrast to Channel i, whose last drama, Six Weeks, is better on all levels as compared to the current shows airing now. In fact, if one were to watch Chase, which is nearing its end, one will be able to see a huge similarity in style to Channel i's previous films. The colors and lighting of the set, the filming in general is exqusite and obviously painstakingly created. The cast is good, with only two new-faces, Utt and Linda, whom have progressed very well in the course of the drama. The rest comprises of experienced actors/actresses, such as theatre artistes like Janice Koh and Keagan Kang. The casting is therefore good, as the more experienced ones are cast into supporting roles so as to help and guide the newer actors in the lead. Chase has a great plot, being adapted from a script-writing competition winner. Several twists and superb acting help give this otherwise boring idea life, giving the very obvious impression of CHANNEL I PROGRAMMING, anyone?
It is so very much obvious that the drama was made with the people who had moved from MediaWorks. Even in 'death', Mediacorp still loses to its rival. . . thus showing which truly was the better channel.
Now listening to: "Hounds of Love" Futureheads
Some insect somehow found its way into my beloved banana cake, rendering my favourite snack into a useless piece of rubbish. That bug, which I ruthlessly flicked it into oblivion, reduced my salvation from mugging into trash lying at the bottom of the dustbin.
Thus, I am currently feeling depressed. Exams seem to have a way of giving you depression. Depression is a wicked high. It can fling you across the high mountains, straight up into the bubbly skies before pouring liquid lead into your eyes, leaving them a charred mess as you descend straight into the 2nd level of Hell. You'll feel as if the angels abandoned you, leaving your sorry ass directly above the howling, searing barbecue pits of Satan.
Then, a sudden thought of you wringing the life away from your most annoying foe will strike you, releasing a intense rush of bloodlust in your veins as you hyper-ventilate with a vividly-coloured euphoria. When the devilish thrill boils tantalisingly high, it will disappear, leaving you back in reality with a strange sense of warped wonderment.
Depression is a wicked high. And my banana cake is ruined. By an insect.
Now listening to: "Happy?" Judy and Mary
If one were to read today's newspaper, the Forums section, he/she might notice the small warning issued to a certain wannabe-rocker-idol runner-up, Sylvester Sim. Since my scanner's not installed, I can't scan the article, so a rough sum-up of the letter would have to do. The letter states that Sim often does the "calf sign" to give off the impression of a rocker, since his voice obviously is too lacking(eh, well, the letter doesn't say it so harshly as I did, but its true). Many modern Pagans use it as a symbol the Horned God that adherents might use to identify each other; in this context it is referred to as the Sign of the Horned God. Its counterpart is the fig sign above. Edit: 5 edits in a row =/. This is why I never type without my glasses.
Anyway, after a fruitless consultation the Holy Grail that is Google, I suddenly remembered the "calf sign" are actually the "horns", so I decided to search on that, and thus got this:
Hmm, how amusing! Well, that's what you get when you have some wanna-be singer being what he cannot be.
To Chaotes practicing Lovecraftian magick, it is called the Sign of Voor or the Voorish Sign.
Some say that it is meant to ward off – or to bestow – the evil eye. It is also a representation of the Devil by some Satanists. The gesture's origin is believed to be an imitation of the shape of a goats head, which has many associations with the concept of Satan in Christianity Satan's Goat
It has a variety of other meanings as well, depending on culture and area. In some places, it is a sexual insult, charging a man with being a victim of cuckoldry. Perhaps because of its occult significance, it is used as a salute by fans of heavy metal music. If one reverses the extended fingers, one gets the "inverted heavy metal salute" which can be given as a reply to a heavy metal salute, and combined together into a "heavy metal lock", intertwining the two hands thus presented. In addition, when this gesture used with the thumb extended and is positioned roughly horizontally, it is an imitation of Spider-Man's typical finger positioning when he fires one of his webshooters.
Quote from: http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Gesture#Horns.2A
Oh and today's Friday the 13th. How apt to have such a letter published today, eh! And yes, I seem to be in a slightly-more delirious and insane state of mind today.
Now listening to: "Moments" Ayumi Hamasaki
While doing maths, I usually have my ears plugged in with a pair of headphones, listening to the radio. Of course, the radio plays horrible music nowadays, but having your hands on the keypad, ready to switch channels if need be can give a decent listening experience.
Now, I often hear this advertisement being played on Power98, telling people not to download music, to buy original songs. The idea is that if one were to support piracy, it would kill creativity.
Woah, woah, wait a minute. Supporting piracy kills creativity? Since when? Since when did creativity mean the amount of money you earn from your songs? Has everyone become so blinded by money till they have to give ingenuity a monetary value?
Creativity does not equal money, nor does piracy kill it. In fact, if your songs are the most heavily downloaded songs on the net, you should feel great, because the essence of music is not to make money, but to entertain. Sadly, albums nowdays are being rushed out, with songs of soulless, techo-lised beats that hum in tandem with meaningless lyrics. The fact that music is an art that inspires people, an art that is to be shared within friendly company has been lost in the bloody propaganda money-mongering record labels are carrying out.
Creativity is already dying. Hip-hop? Rap? R&B? Hip-hop is a genre for shitty music and retarded beats, so that people like Missy Elliot can earn her retirement through people whom are better off deaf. R&B is overdone, with every song about love, crack, drugs, heartbreaks --- in no particular order, of course. It's also not exactly good when half of the R&B songs tend to mix with hip-hop. Rap is supposedly a way to tell a story, but is kinda hard to understand the story when you can barely hear what those mumblings of the songs mean. By the time you decipher them, the meaning is already lost.
Honestly, when you sing like crap, and your sales are declining, don't blame P2P for your problems. It doesn't help that more than half the Internet population are made up of idiots and trolls and people who download everything for fun. With these crappy songs, its no wonder creativity is dying! Its no wonder people download things off the net. Who the hell pays for crap?
Piracy is the result of the lack of creativity, nothing else. Aaand, I would just like to shout-out to everybody in Singapore who thinks Singapore Idol is a big deal. No it isn't. It meaningless, it's like crap, it doesn't mean Singapore is any more special than half the countries across the globe that also have an Idol competition. It does nothing, except show the the general populace of Singapore have an awful taste in music.
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Now listening to: "Neodammerung" Composed by Don Davies, Matrix Revolutions OST
