Familie

stick to blogspot larr. it's plain and simple writing a post to all involved. multiply is like an offshoot of friendster, offering too many features and lacking in those for 'substance', like kamun said... and it'll become just another familypoint. writing something is substance.

hi guys, wee khai is right, the multiply is way better.
so i m abandoning this blogspot thing to concentrate on the multiply one.

teelee

hahaa... kamun... seriously i'd rather blog on multiply... so how come nobody wanna cont. the family talks even when the facilities are there? go figure... i've given up!

anyways... a little updates...


i'm going Tioman at 1am...about 4hrs from now... it's for a diver couple punya underwater wedding ceremony... just for the novelty of it haha cos they've already done the official signing etc at the registrar... this is more of a momento kinda thingy... aarrgh... too many diving trips this year... i'm so goddamn broke :(

Dear family,

It is nearly 3am in the morning and I should really be sleeping, but I was so ridden with guilt that this blog was being neglected, I just had to -HAD TO- come here and type a little something. Oh right now I'm listening to Daniel Powter's 'Bad Day'. It's a lovely song.
Ur... what else to say? I've had a bad day too, yeah. But it wasn't really very bad, just rather terrible.
It's so depressing when I check my friends' blogs and almost all of them are abandoned. I mean, they spend so much time furnishing it, giving it a tagboard, a very attractive template and maybe even a hit counter... but when I look at it, I think, where's the substance?
Ok, I know I'm being very cheong hei and mo liew, but I seriously cannot sleep. I have mosquito bites all over my arms right now. Hopefully I didn't get bitten by a dengue mosquito. Ah well, it's the hols so I can afford to be sick. Not that I want to be, mind you.
What am I doing now? Listening to Evanescence's Heart Shaped Box. Very nice song, a bit eerie, but almost all their songs are like that.
Alright, I'll stop being so mo liew and get some sleep. I'm going shopping tomorrow with my mum, sis and bro. Ka Ling is going to be really annoying again. She turns into a green eyed monster whenever my mum is buying stuff for anyone other than HER. Like the other day, my mum got this blouse for her when we were actually looking for a blouse for me, but I didn't say a thing. When we were looking for shoes and my mum paid more attention to me, she got all sulky and wouldn't even follow us. She just stood there expecting us to coax her. Brat.

Ahh... ok, good night. Very soothing shade of blue, this.
Buenas noches.
Selamat Malam.

Hello, my turn to play icebreaker again, huh.

WAKE UP !!!
The whole point of having a freaking blog is to write in it! So, could we please have some bloody cooperation around here? I am seriously disappointed, I tell you. Everytime I check, this place is untouched, unchanged. Fine and dandy if this were a forest reserve or a historical site and is supposed to be untouched and unchanged, but it isn't, awright? So someone better write here soon. Oh no, the colours are fading... save meeeeeee......

Don't mind me... I'm just having fun with the fonts and colours... =D

you know, that IS quite true. Not focused on adults. But I guess it has something to do with a large portion of the audience being teens. I mean, surely we want something we can relate to.
Haha, actually I can't give much comment because I don't watch anime ( unless you count the very few episodes of Rave and Gensomaden Saiyuki). And the only manga I've ever read is Shaman King, and that was about a year ago. There are adults in Rave, actually. And in Saiyuki too, in fact all of them are adults except the little kid (whom I guess is the anime's version of Sun Wu Kong) - i think.
I wouldn't say it's that limited to teens. It's not really the point that adult characters are being neglected, just that, they're not so important. Hence why bother focusing so much on then anyway. Maybe some people dont' even notice that certain characters in anime are adults, because of the way they act. Most of them don't act like your typical adult. For example, the so-called adults in Shaman King -- a gangster guy in search of 'the best home-sweet-home', a genius doctor who carries his wife's skeleton in his coat and summons her out for battle, a samurai spirit, a father who is bent on pushing his son to be Shaman King so he can regain former glory, a handful of stauch Christians who want to win so that they can rain revenge on the boy who killed their loved ones......................................
get what I'm saying???
All in all, i think it's a fuss over nothing.
But, u know, don't take my word for it because i'm probably just a wannabe.
And I still can't wait to watch FFVII:AC !!!!!!!
wakakakaka.......

I saw this view on anime from a forum and i thought it was quite a funny observation. Enjoy:

"Anime has become one of my main forms of solo entertainment recently, replacing video gaming and watching television as being on of the top indoor activities I do.

There are, however, pet peeves I have about anime. The reason I stick with anime over regular televison is that I really do dislike most television shows, whereas I still like anime but am annoyed by some aspects of it.

Teenagers. They are simply everywhere in anime. Sure, adolescence is a very telling time in any person's life, and from what little I have gleaned about Japanese culture it seems to be even more important and influental there than it is in the United States. Therefore the fact that many, many anime series focus on teenaged main characters doesn't really bother me.

What does bother me from time to time is that adult characters seem to be intentionally forgotten or written out of most series, often by outlandish means or by the simple realization that a shitload of anime characters have dead parents. I think a screenshot from Jubei Chan 2 recognizes the sort of flaw I'm talking about quite well:

http://www.capnjiffy.com/animescreens/JubeiChan2/jubeichan2_109.jpg

And it's true.

What I would like to know is why anime directors/authors/whatever you want to call them seem to have an aversion to actual adult characters. Most adult characters that do appear are one-dimensional and only appear in between the meat of the story.

Yes, I know about the exceptions, so don't point them out to me. That isn't the emphasis of this thread. The emphasis is why in the series that are focused on teens do the adults play little to no role."

Just wondering... what is Ka Mun's and Joo Khai's opinions on this since they are big fans of anime? :)

silence is golden.... golden....
i guess that is what happens to "un-owned" blogs like this!

anyway, my contribution for the day:
kamun i just saw the china photos and realised you and kaling have the same hairstyles! is it the trend now among teenagers to have no fringe? i guess must be all those korean dramas' influences. i didn't know Bruce Lee's parents were from there. speaking of him, i have the same hairstyle as bruce lee now. sometimes, when i m lazy and just wake up over the weekend, i look like dr. spock (star trek) too. all i have to do is wear some lycra top to complete the makeover! haahaha

has anyone caught some chinese makeover program on 8tv yesterday? basically they get a couple to participate by changing the girl's look (just like extreme makeover minus surgery). the catch is that the guy doesn't know about it. so on yesterday's episode, the couple nearly broke up due to the misunderstanding. see, for the girl to transform herself, she needed like 2 weeks and since it has to be a SURPRISE, she cannot meet the bf and keeps giving him excuses that she is busy. so the bf thinks she is lying and soured the relationship. and the host & producers of the show? they just "felt bad" and giggled. gee....