An advertisement on Tv has seriously irked me. One word: ESPN.
Dude goes into bar, sees a bunch of cool people. Dude tries to join the group, but is blocked by some kind of invisible force field. Dude checks out tv showing some ESPN programme. Bunch of numbers goes into dude. Dude is pulled across force-field by some kind of tractor-beam, bar-stool and all. Brief orgasmic moment while transcending force field. Dude fits into group. Happily. Ever. After.
You don't need to be a neo-marxist sociologist to know that tv is telling you that tv will help you fit into society.
Nevermind that you will lose all individuality, or that society will leave its mark (somewhere between your thumb and index finger) on you like the way they stamp the pigs in the abbatoir. Nevermind that tv represents the vested interests of the rich and the famous.
What offends me the most is the audacity to portray this blatant socialization process on the medium of socialization itself. Sometimes I wonder what they take us for.
Be it apathy or stupidity, I beg to differ.
Ang Heng
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Cosmopolitan my foot
What some singaporean idiot said to my norwegian friend, having chanced upon him waiting for his friend outside zouk: "why don't you take that cab there and go back to wherever you came from?" As usual, there are stories aplenty, during many a bus ride, about the less-than-welcome attitude my fellow countrymen take towards these 'ousiders' whom I have come to identify more with than the aforementioned countrymen.
We can be a curiously xenophobic bunch of morons at times. I'm not saying that I haven't been guilty of some bias either, especially with respect to certain nationalities (note: nationality, not ethnicity), but at least I practise some diplomacy and respect everyone's right to a sense of dignity.
Do what you want, just don't harm anyone else in the process. You can be whatever you want to be, just don't go round harming anyone else physically, emotionally or psychologically in the process. My liberal tendencies may have become jaded over time, but there is at least a sense of decency left somewhere in me to respect js mill's mantra. I wouldn't use the word decent in the same sentence as some of the people I see around me.
Its a sad thing when civil society loses its civility. No wonder the courtesy lion had to come out of retirement.
Ang Heng
-Oh yeah alvin: i may be joining you in australia next year for my post-grad studies, but i still don't know enough about an australian post-graduate education. you got any websites or any other source of information you can recommend? For now i'm aiming for anu or else the lse in london, but i'm open to any other good options.
We can be a curiously xenophobic bunch of morons at times. I'm not saying that I haven't been guilty of some bias either, especially with respect to certain nationalities (note: nationality, not ethnicity), but at least I practise some diplomacy and respect everyone's right to a sense of dignity.
Do what you want, just don't harm anyone else in the process. You can be whatever you want to be, just don't go round harming anyone else physically, emotionally or psychologically in the process. My liberal tendencies may have become jaded over time, but there is at least a sense of decency left somewhere in me to respect js mill's mantra. I wouldn't use the word decent in the same sentence as some of the people I see around me.
Its a sad thing when civil society loses its civility. No wonder the courtesy lion had to come out of retirement.
Ang Heng
-Oh yeah alvin: i may be joining you in australia next year for my post-grad studies, but i still don't know enough about an australian post-graduate education. you got any websites or any other source of information you can recommend? For now i'm aiming for anu or else the lse in london, but i'm open to any other good options.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
To the greatest performer who ever graced the stage
Hi guys,
After watching 'This is it', I have the impulse of posting a couple of videos in memory of the best dancer the world will ever know. Ignore all the tabloid junkies and just watching the man on stage is a priviledge itself.
Bye MJ, we're truly blessed to be the generation that saw you at your peak. Something our children will never be able to proclaim. I'm glad to have been to both your concerts and saw u perform in the flesh, otherwise it will be one of the biggest regrets of my life. The memories will forever be embedded in me. I can still see 55,000 ppl on their feet and the 9-year old me screaming my lungs off to 'Smooth Criminal'. That image and atmosphere will never leave me.
For fellow fans, pls go watch the movie. At 50, he could outdance all the muscular 18 yr olds dancers in the back ground. Go see wat I mean. you wont regret and they even give u a poster that u can pin on the wall. I had absolutely no doubt that it would have been an awesome concert.
So here are the 3 videos that, in my opinion, are the best ones I could find. Remember to watch it in HD to enjoy the full glory.
The world will never see such a performer ever again.
To MJ, I promise to lay flowers at your burial site someday, because I'm a huge fan, and simply because you were the greatest.
alvin
After watching 'This is it', I have the impulse of posting a couple of videos in memory of the best dancer the world will ever know. Ignore all the tabloid junkies and just watching the man on stage is a priviledge itself.
Bye MJ, we're truly blessed to be the generation that saw you at your peak. Something our children will never be able to proclaim. I'm glad to have been to both your concerts and saw u perform in the flesh, otherwise it will be one of the biggest regrets of my life. The memories will forever be embedded in me. I can still see 55,000 ppl on their feet and the 9-year old me screaming my lungs off to 'Smooth Criminal'. That image and atmosphere will never leave me.
For fellow fans, pls go watch the movie. At 50, he could outdance all the muscular 18 yr olds dancers in the back ground. Go see wat I mean. you wont regret and they even give u a poster that u can pin on the wall. I had absolutely no doubt that it would have been an awesome concert.
So here are the 3 videos that, in my opinion, are the best ones I could find. Remember to watch it in HD to enjoy the full glory.
The world will never see such a performer ever again.
To MJ, I promise to lay flowers at your burial site someday, because I'm a huge fan, and simply because you were the greatest.
alvin
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