Archive for June, 2005

Japanese guys and idols

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

I think this is rather true from a fan’s point of view.

Anyway, the japanese artistes I was into all fall under the same horoscope

1) Takuya Kimura 13/11

2)Okada Junichi 18/11

3) Dochin Yoshikuni 17/11

I have friends who assume that I’m into the  japanese guys as well since I like japanese music and dramas, but the truth is it’s not the case.

Not very sure why so myself. Although I like to joke around and tell my girlfriends, "woo~ cute jap guy." on the train if I happen to see one, but usually anyone would sneak peaks at eye candy (singaporeans or non-singaporeans alike) when you’re bored on the train. Anyway, I like to check out the girls as well. No, I’m not lesbian or bisexual, but no one would turn away when it comes to looking at pretty things and/or people decked out in style.

Some of my friends were initially worried that I was too crazy over my idols. But kaz understands reality very well. Having an idol is a passing phase. After which you’ll grow out of it and move on with your life. Having an idol does not mean you will be raising your benchmark in getting to know the opposite sex. It’s just about going gaga and having abit of fun before you head for working society.

I don’t know how to end this entry. Hmm.

Enjoy chen qi zhen’s ’song’.

pessimism

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

I’m very pessimistic.  It will take 5 optimistic people to talk to me before I even start to think with a bit more of the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ philosophy.

So many things on my mind.

I really think those who can live life and face it courageously are very admirable, while those who are optimistic and live by the motto of ‘Happy life!’ is nice.

I don’t know how to live life and appreciate it.

I don’t want to be the number 1 most pessimistic person on earth, because usually that’s the fella that’s going to commit suicide.

But I thnk I’m in the top 10 anyway, I assume.

Longing for a relationship is not being desperate.

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Read Sam’s blog on speed dating and read the passage on relationships…well yeah, while there are lots of people who treasure singlehood, but we’re pretty sick of it and would like to have a relationship. (but of course not with each other la.)

Singlehood is fun; no strings attached, flirt all you want, stay out for as long as you like, wear what you love, hang out with everyone.

But being attached can be interesting too. The chemistry between two strangers and evolving it into something deeper and from friends to lovers. People can learn alot from relationships.

Now, us longing for relationships does not mean that we’re freaking desperate. The difference? We don’t say yes to any fella who asks us about it.

Of course singlehood can be interesting. I try to keep myself occupied (anyway actually I AM) with other activities. Family is my top priority now. But somewhere in my head there’s this voice that nags ‘Okay Kaz, it’s been quite a while. Go out for dates! GO GET ATTACHED!’

I have friends who get into short term relationships for the fun of being attached or those who flirt around. Sometimes I think to myself ‘Hell yeah, maybe I should just let go and have fun and make more friends’, or ‘Maybe I should try with so-and-so’. But alarm signals keep ringing in my brain and I halt. 

Just because I need a person to lean on doesn’t mean I should go for any man who crosses my path. Just because a person’s freaking good-looking doesn’t mean I’ll say yes. Just because he’s a nice man doesn’t mean I’ll say yes. Just because he’s bloody rich doesn’t mean I should say yes.

I don’t want to get into a relationship that is plainly built on the thought that I want to and should be in a relationship.

Sometimes i get questions like ‘what do you look for in a guy?’

Frankly, I don’t know. But I’ll know when I see one. So here’s the question.

When is he coming?

………well, for now, I’ll just go back to my monotonous life people. Just wait and see. I only know how to ‘go with the flow’ in such cases.

The improvements in technology…

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Sometimes I wonder why humans try to override the power of nature.

Just watched a news bulletin on China’s bird flu and how people are trying to curb it using antibiotics (that is used on humans) on their chicken as there is not yet a medicine to cure the bird flu strain. While most say that it isn’t true, I really worry about such cases. They are making things worse man.

But you can’t blame them cause they don’t understand that this can cause adverse reactions; 1) the birds virus might not be destroyed and mutates to something stronger, 2) After consuming such chicken meat the same antibiotics might not work on human beings anymore and newer, stronger medications have to be created to combat it. They are just making work double for those who are trying to formulate a vaccine for the current virus strain.

In the past centuries, humans try to find ways to combat illnesses. We succeed, but being intellectual beings we try to do more, invent more and create more, be it in the technology or science and medical fields. I admit that alot of things have become better and also more convenient, while I am glad and grateful that most of them are indeed useful in modern lives today.

However, there are certain things that got out of hand and out of proportions, and the only thing to do was to create another thing bigger to contain the mistakes that we had done. When one failed, we came up with another one, and another one, and then another one. Never-ending.

Genetically modified items, stronger viruses, more diseases, stronger flu strains around the world….

I believe that certain aspirations were made out of simple harmless thoughts, that had somehow spiralled out of control.

When will we learn? Or is everything too late?

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

I Love L’arc en ciel.

(Took the song down already.)

Multilevel marketing? Yeah right. Beware.

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

Ever heard of Multilevel Marketing? It’s a clean company that sells merchandise and invites people to do sales of their products by word-of-mouth. New employees are friends of current employees. The company just expands with new fresh young (Below or at age 20) blood. You don’t really get to see the products that they claim they are selling, while there isn’t a real management concept or hierachy in the office. Everyone is known as Mr ‘first name’, e.g Mr David, or Miss Sarah. Perhaps the company intends to make it really nice-n-comfy so that everyone is approached by first name basis, but then again if that’s the case what’s the use for the ‘Mr’ or "miss"?

The company focuses on recruitment of people more than the sales of the products. They will ask you to join in and recruit more fresh blood for them. For the products, you will have to pay them a sum of money. New blood to them is essential; apparently it is a good way of networking and getting business. If unable to decide, they are willing to spend hours talking to you in hope that you will be a part of their big family and extend it outwards like the branches of a tree. Their bosses earn alot, some earned enough to repay debts in months while the rest get to buy cars and spend their money on lavish items. They are giving you a chance to cash in on money. As the saying goes "xiao cai bu chu, da cai bu ru". You have to part with a small sum of money to make way for big bucks to roll in.

Everything is written on recycled papers and there isn’t any form of things in black-n-white. Maybe it’s because they don’t want to leve any traces of evidence? Evidence of what? I will leave you to wonder.

They use psychological methods to get you to make decisions and join them.

And when you finally sign on the dotted line and pass them your cash after hours of them brainwashing you, they have already gotten you into their web of deceit.

What multilevel marketing?

This is a pyramid. The cash you pay is for them to survive. You buy theaccounts, not the products. As you join you are to recruit more people to get them to cash in and you get paid for it. It is a never-ending spinning web of deceit. Initially it’s you, then your friends, then your friend’s friends. It works like Friendster, only in the wrong way.

Why it still works is because it taps into one of human’s inner demons; greed.

Now, after saying so much I shall use a psychological way to force you to agree with my entire blog entry for today.

Am I right or am I right?