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Friday, July 28, 2006
Visualization
Heh, i've updated and add links to my profile in this blog! ^^
For anyone who havent met me in real life, now you can put a face to the person on the other side of the keyboard =)
Jus click on 'This Gal' under The Navigation links~!!!
I'll update that from time to time, hee.
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 7:36 PM
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Fat, Kids, and People issues. Not in that order.
I've just finished watching Jean Yip Beautiful People on tv awhile ago, a show about giving overweight women a makeover, and boy am i mad!
It is bad enuff that our society are forcing people to have only particular standard of beauty, but now to have shows like these that tells people what the ideal beauty should be like and a criteria for being beautiful is that u have to be slim to be beautiful??!! WHO SAYS??!
I noe of many women who are fleshy and yet beautiful too!
Okay, i get it. They (as in the Jean Yip group, speaking those syllabuses is starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth, so i'll try to refrain from typing it too often now. So when i next say 'they', i'm refering to them all rite?) are jus using the show as a medium to promote wat their group can do for women everywhere, the benefits (good looks, good body with less effort) and services (professionals in hair, makeup, slimming, therapy, etc etc) they provide.
Its a good way too i admit -- high tv exposure (well, it caught my attention didn't it?) means higher viewership, which means they get their message bout their company and the company's benefits across a wider spectrum of veiwers to their target consumers. And when their makeovers are successful (of course those shown on tv are successful), more potential consumers are convinced of their benefits and will become buyers. Or in marketing terms, regular consumers.
It is a good marketing drive indeed.
Not to mention the handful of women who goes on the show and benefit from the treatment too (at the expense of national humiliation maybe, but then if they can take it, they have my kudos, cos it'll take two elephants and an armoured truck to drag me screaming onto the show).
No no, that show, while spastic and fully a marketing ploy, is not wat that has gotten me riled.
Its the bloody kid of this this week's episode makeover character that makes me mad!
That si gina!
The reason why this week's heroine signed herself up for this national-tv broadcasted search for overweight women makeovers was cos her 5-year-old daughter calls her fat and Ah Pwee (the Hokkien quivalent of 'fatty') and refuses to eat cos she dun wan to be 'as fat as' her mummy?!
Well, in my opinion, her mum should jus let her starve to death then!
Who needs such a bad-mouthed, insensitive, spoilt and cruel kid anyway?? As if there aren't enuf insensitive jackasses and jerks in the world!
This is why i hate kids!
Just wat kind of media diet have they been exposed to to already have such a distorted and well-developed view of beauty at such a young age anyway??!
Why! I thought my mum was beautiful when i was young!
I still think my mum's beautiful now!
Even tho she has gained more in weight and age over the years than not.
So wat is that si gina thinking when she calls her own mother Ah Pwee???!
An u noe wat? Aside fom being abit plump (not even 60kg; she had lost some weight already even before she signed up for the makeover), the heroine looks all right too! She already has pretty sharp features and everything.
Granted, being at home with your mum and spending large a amount of time wif her, u'll get to see her at her most casual and shabbiest most of the time. Baggy clothes, no make-up, catching her when she jus woke, slogging out doing housework, sweating in the hot hawker center begging her kid to eat (yes, the mum was a sight to behold then in the show). BUT, does all these actions not make her more beautiful?
It shows she has inner beauty, she has a steely resolve, she is selfless, she is self-sacrificial, and she's full of care and concern and motherly love!
So u tell me, does that stupid kid deserves to be starved to death or not??!
I think she does. I think she should be put up for adoption.
Maybe then she'll noe the meaning of suffering and appreciate all her mum is doing for her.
Watching today's show makes me draw out a list of things I WILL NOT DO in future:
1. I will not teach my child to be a shallow human being.
There are more things to life than jus looks! Yes, even if u're a gal. Who wud find a hua ping (a.k.a. vase) interesting in the long term? I will be bored to death in 2 months, max! Not to mention if i've to live with my child for the next 18 years and have to hear nothing intelligent or meaningful out of his/her mouth except for clothes, looks, weight, maintainence, shopping, bfs/gfs, etc for that 18 years or more.
2. I will not teach my child derogatary terms and stereotypes, like "That fat auntie over there", "That fat lady by the ATM", "What an overweight boy, he must like to eat sweets. Dun eat too much sweets else u'll end up like him", or "You're fat, go exercise and run more", etc etc.
And if i catch my child using these unflattery terms, depending on how derogatary they meant it to be, i'll either lecture them on the politically correct terms and socially acceptable ettiquettes, and being sensitive and kind and empathetic and tactful (if its jus an innocent description that slip their mouth), or they can dun think of having dinner that nite and strip them of all television viewing for a fortnight!
Cos if they hadn't learnt that from me, they must have learnt it from TV don't they?
3. I will not date a man who says or thinks i'm fat.
Actually, why wud i be dating a guy who dun already think i'm beautiful anyway? Makes no sense rite? But i noe of some fren' frens' bfs who tell them to their face, often, that they're fat and that they need to lose weight! Wtf?! n the thing is, these frens are borderline underweight can? Why dun they jus dump the son-of-a-bitch anyway!? (Not my own frens' bfs thankfully, else i wud have given them the same advice already.)
And yes, jus for a guy's info, questions posted to males frens and dates, like "Do i look fat in this?" while shopping or trying out clothes, are NEVER meant to be answered "Yes" (if anyone is stupid or insensitive enuf), irregardless of how like a cow we look in it!
If we, unfortunately, do look like a cow in it, the model answer is STILL "No", or "I think the previous one fits u better", or "I think the other one looks nicer on u".
Yes, its a loaded question. And yes, gals like to ask this alot, fickle pple that we are. Just LIVE WITH IT!!
4. I will not make a fren out of someone who puts others down.
5. I will not keep silent when my close frens or loved ones are put down in front of me.
Never have, never will.
6. I will not have an orgy with more than 4 people, of which i'm the only female. (DIE!)
Okay, the last point was irrelevant. But seeing as how the whole entry sounds so stern, i tot i'll lighten it with a little trivia. And yeah, they are all real resolves. Lolx! XP
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 9:27 PM
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Pink dumpling
Anyway, decided to upload some pics of the Hello Kitty T-shirt that has arrived.
It is freaking SMALL can??! As in, seriously!
Jap size L is our size S!!
Wat do the Japanese gals eat growing up????!
Its no wonder all of them are so small n short n undernourished looking!
(okay, i wan.)
I could barely fit into it!
It is FITTING on my little sister for god's sake!
Jus how thin do they think i am?? n its not even like they haven seen my photos before.
So be prepared before u scroll down further n see a rice dumpling wrapped in pink...
You've been warned...
These are the same pics they've seen.
Anyway, i was joking... i like it alot.
Mainly becos it was from them, n i like them alot.
Lolx!
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 8:34 PM
Friday, July 21, 2006
A priori truth
Parents screw up their children. Its a universal truth.
Why else then do you think so many psychiatrists n therapists always ask their patients questions leading back to their parents?
"How do you feel about your mother? How do you feel about your father?"
We love our mothers and fathers, but often times, we dun like them very much at all.
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 5:10 AM
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Hello Kit -T?
Sorry for the dry spell, not updating n all.
But seeing as i'm jus enjoying myself, there doesn't seem to be much to update about, except that well, i'm having fun. Lolx~!!!
Its the sch vaccation after my 2 months long exam span after all! (am SO making excuses for myself! Lol~ )
But gotta find a vaccation job soon... its only like 2 mths or so left before my sch starts, n the first part of the many school fees has already arrived!!! >.<
*Cues cursing at LSE and University of London again.
Okay, but there's reason for updating now tho....
A mIRC fren from the US jus went out to a Sanrio store n bought n sent me this Hello Kitty shirt!!!!
My freaking goodness!! O.o
I mean, i've helped their scanlation group translate some stuff before n all, but still.... my goodness.
And he's not even my official scanlation group! Jus someone i helped early on with some freelancing trans... ONCE!! X|
Okay, we n a number of others (mostly big shots in the scanlation biz, wif founders, scanners, translators or jus crappy pple, lol!) have founded a channel where we meet to crap n stuff, so we're all chummy n all... but....
*eyes wide open*
I'm just speechless.
Here's a pic.
Its US$31.50. For a shirt!!
Thats... (does exchange rates conversion) about... SG$50~!!! O.O
And i din even ask wats the shipping charges!
Supposed to receive it by next week. 5 to 6 business shipping days.
Will take a pic wearing it to show them when it gets here... IF i can fit in it thats it... ^^;;
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 2:40 PM
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Wolf
The door bell rang today and when i peeked thru the door-hole, a pretty boy in red polo shirt was standing outside.
(Some sales-man or smth; i can see his colleague toking to my neighbour at the back.)
But i was cooking and bra-less and cannot open the door.
Dammit.
Later on when i lamented that to my mother, i realized i should have jus pulled him in and shag him anyway.
Hows that for regrets?
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 7:02 PM
