Yourself?

Oh dear. Blogger appears to have swallowed up Downhere's "Waiting for all the promised 2nd parts."

And mine own's screwed. Well.

posted by Agagooga @ 11:48 am 0 comments

Filler post:

For those of you who've lost your yearbooks:

Well yeah, try to not stare at people too much. I was rather blessed in secondary school, having teachers that don't mind you staring at them. JC's not so lucky. Girls are especially sensitive, and I think some people have a third eye behind their head. They instinctively know when you have their faces in your sights, and immediately turn to block what would have been a perfect photo.

Hee, happy to know someone else shares the staring problem. I used to cure it by blinking. Hehz. It was one of the little things I had with some teacher. When she noticed me staring I'd blink. And if she was looking at me I'd go blink blink blink blink....

Well that certainly covers a gamut of topics. But really, how much of those conversations do you remember. I think I'm obsessed with leaving something behind. Blogs are good. when you're bored you can go flip through the archives. But you can never hear the same phone conversation again. And I don't think many people would anyway. I like blogging because its both intimate and mass media. Its intimate because even if no one reads it, its between you and the page. Its mass, because anyone can respond to it, and post their own thoughts and messages. I'm sick of telling the 4th person of what happened to me today sometimes, and having a blog, and just pointing people to it helps.

posted by Downhere. @ 11:05 pm 0 comments

hai people. photog is interesting. sometimes i think i like photos more than paintings.
i enjoy looking at things. i like looking at people, but i try not to do it very often because people get offended when they think you're staring at them.
i find that when i go off someone, i can see all their faults and unsuitabilities. it's probably a spinoff sour grapes thing.
i think adaptability is a very fine trait. blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. the butterfly effect? ripples on and on spreading farther out?
hmm. tracking a conversation with a girl friend. preliminary odd noises of greeting. time check. birthday check. languages. bats. lotr vs. hp. height. a lot about roller coasters. http://www.dorneypark.com/talon/index.htm is the best, watch the movie! except for the dragon khan at port aventura, of course. PE. dying. that's about it. ah well.
school begins in about a week's time. bother.

posted by anne @ 10:52 pm 0 comments

Will post more when I return home :)

The long pauses between my posts are due to my indenture, so don't delete me :)

posted by Agagooga @ 10:16 pm 0 comments

haha do do...
I spent today chasing people to be my models for my venture into fashion photography, and portraits. They were rather reluctant to agree, and when one did, she kinda expected me to shout instructions to her in a museum. Sad to say, the light wasn't exactly flattering, and my creative juices weren't flowing much after that... Still, if anyone here is interested in having solo photos of herself being taken for free, cept the cost of developing her own prints if she liked the effects, contact me! It'll take a weekend from 8-11 am. And maybe 5-7 pm.

I was browsing through the photographic treasures of the French and was quite startled by some pictures. The people seemed frozen in time, forever immortal, and their actions, ceased to be actions at the click of a shutter, and light hitting an opaque film, turning it transparent. And so, I felt greater meaning in photography. That it was more than pictures, leading to moods, but the slow and treacherous reclaimation of time, frame by frame, still by still.

I read somewhere about a very famous female portrait photographer. She only takes a single photo per session, maybe two, but the photos she take reveal the personality of the person she took, and almost all of her clients say that that photo she took was their favourite photo of all. She spends her time talking to her subjects, understanding them as a friend, as a unique individual, and works to reflect that in her picture. I think that it was a very noble thing for her to do. Perhaps in her pictures, what she captured, and showed her subjects, was the wonderful and unique person that lay inside each external experience. How many times we wished we looked like someone else, when we've never even looked closely at the very person we are.

I think its nice to have an ideal mate. In the mind, it helps to have a rational guide to fall back on, in case emotions sweep you towards a person you may not have known very well...

I don't talk very much to people in school. I don't think what they're talking about is interesting, or even worth remembering. I'd like to cut all the crap, and just get down to the basics of knowing people's personalities. But that sometimes just gets you labelled as some buaya.

Oh well. People are so prejudiced sometimes.

posted by Downhere. @ 8:34 pm 0 comments

I shall attempt to recall my long contribution, albeit without the bits that I consider 'less interesting'. Bun, you will be satisified :) Right. Topics of conversation (for girls)--if it's not personal, then it's often boredom (consisting of 2 sentences: "I'm booooooored" and "Me tooooooo"), or homework and school (mostly complaints), guys? perhaps, and other people. Hm. Doesn't exactly sound very engaging, does it? I suppose it very much depends on who you're talking with... some conversations have this strange tendency to bore me. As for the more personal ones, well, friends, guys, family, stress and coping, insecurities and dreams. Yeah. I guess that would sum it up.

Ideal mate? Well, dreams may be better than reality but at least they set some sort of standard... instead of just hooking up with whoever came along first. Which you might regret later. Then again I suppose if you couldn't find your 'ideal mate' you'd regret having an ideal too.... actually, not necessarily. No, I wouldn't let go either, unless I saw it as being absolutely necessary. Okay. I shall continue later.

posted by 'liane @ 7:34 pm 0 comments

bummer. deleted my last one too!!

bah.

anyway. ideal mate.
i suppose the odds are against finding an ideal mate. (but i'm sure its 'made in heaven'. ;) so having a set idea of what you want will only land up in disappointment and a weakly-treasured relationship. but it is kinda inevitable to have some form of expectation... as long as its not too detailed... moral 'outlines'?
true- i suppose if i found my 'ideal mate' i wouldn't let go... where'd i get another from??
you sound like a commitment phobic! too much bridget jones.
i think adaptability keeps you from getting hurt and is very useful, but mutual dependence and a sense of commitment do wonders for a relationship. adaptability and independence keep things cold. i'd rather be hurt, actually. boils down to goals, common ideals... what they want from the relationship.
if a girls not portable, as you want it, for goodness sake don't disillusion her. choose from the many portable girls already saturating the market!
i'm ok with change... not that i experience much of it, actually. i can cope with disappointments and setbacks pretty well... in that sense i am adaptable/resilient/whatever. but i don't appreciate constant changes in my relationships. rooms and computer desktops are fine-- my com desktop is basically a substitute for the colour of my room. we're not rich. but mostly i'm too lazy to change. what do you consider 'so many' crushes? for clarity.
i enjoy watching, but less nature than people. and i'm not perpetually im a 'sit-back-and-relax' mood (i'm sure youre not either), in fact, most of the time i'm quite restless. must have something to do with running. never had so many problems with keeping still before.

hm. once or twice have seen a girl and thought 'if only she was a guy'. haha. and the reason why i like that person is basically coz shes like me. i won't marry myself, conversations would tend to repeat themselves... imagine old age!

i want someone who will change my lifestyle. shift the focus. not disturb the loves and likes, but complement them and heighten them... but if i had to give up what i loved for someone (purely speculative), i would seriously consider it... and of course, the reasons. i don't know... but if a guy really made me give up what i loved, what kind of guy would he be in the first place?? an argument similar to that against premarital sex, it sounds like. but anyway. i think i would accomodate. i'm not sure... imagination tends to get very woolly and romantic. and unrealistic. i'm not all that meek to the vast majority of people.
it is hard to give up something youre attached to... many people arent prepared to. maybe me too. (grammar!! grammar!! gah) what and how much you are willing to give up does define who you are... what you demand of the other person as well. aalso priorities-- what/ who comes first? which gets the boot for the sake of the other? one ex-couple i know. classmate. they broke up coz they both wanted to concentrate on track. said in a tone of dry irony.
as for character: you're not completely you-- you've got an 'appended self'. so has he. your life is not purely yours- it affects another's life as well, just like his like affects yours. too much commitment, i suppose... quite a turnoff. but that's one kind of love. as close to agape as humans get?

from theegotripped grafitti wall: you love him not because he's beautiful, he's beautiful coz you love him.

posted by inventing @ 10:50 pm 0 comments

i typed a nice long reply to this and the computer deleted it. hmph. and sorry, but i really can't be bothered to retype it... involves too much thinking :)

posted by 'liane @ 9:01 pm 0 comments

tango. the image you conjure up seems quite wacky, rather than romantic.
the science discussion sounds very cool! i don't think science is common sense. not to me at least. reason; but not necessarily common sense. humans don't really need 'conceptualisation' to dig into science... i think we're just curious. science gives us a base on which to imagine, which we can then build upon, in a certain direction, with greater efficiency vs mucking around... those nuggets of wisdom that say stuff like if you dream it you can do it or whatever... basically a combination of the two... in a sense its also the same thing... theyre not mutually exclusive. science just grows.... oh goodness. i'm out of point. i wish i wasnt so woolly.

dreams translate into science (as in discoveries etc?)(do you mean purely study or development of science?)
vs
dreams in tandem with science to discover
correct me if i'm wrong.
aren't they basically the same?? you just need both dreams and science to create.
oversimplification? bleh

haha. yes, a bad analogy.
maybe later theyll find some use for themselves, but at present theyre just irritatingly persistent. i saw her inbox.
the guys really don't make a lot of difference to her love life... either they come and go, or are too loser for any notice to be taken of them.

hugged a guy. nope.
oh but my parents have a sweet/embarassing shot of a guy (in england) (we were both around the region of 2yrs old) who grabbed me and kissed me. one of those things. wonder where they learn it from.

i think... girls are interpersonal (read a little of the mars/venus book). as far as my experience goes... perspective on how others live their lives... precisely, the trivial stuff is what constitutes our lives, much of the time... world events are generally not pertinent enough to be discussed. sorry. many arent too willing to give others a view of how they live their life... too personal? vulnerable? and if they do its not gonna be something theyll let you overhear. i think, at least. seems like some girls are so trivial bimbo blahblahblah you cant believe there isnt more to it. and there probably is too. i dont know how many girls i speak for... but i talk for company much of the time, and entertainment... i value my privacy too much to broadcast my life, but to fulfill the need for communication there are always those close friends.

what were some of the topics you overheard? very interested to know. let me guess... guys. clothes. shopping. sports (for some). guys again.
its like writing notes. youve got people you write to when youre bored, they go like:
"hi nic. very bored now. mrs bala is so mean. i hate mrs bala. i can't believe i'm writing to you when you're less than 50cm away from me. i'm that bored." i'm usually not that bored.
then there are those i call letters. private and confidential, for-your-eyes-only. i practically put my whole life in the letters i write. (yes, nat.) if you want to see how others live, and enter into it, thats where you find it. i'm not the only one who writes that kind of thing. but some confide more than others, and on different things... (but still mostly on guys. i'm sorry. ;)

what we talk about... of the conversations i hear, 75% are related to guys. 5% on school. 20% on how bored/hungry/tired the person in question is. privately: friends (girls and guys) (a lot), stress, family, ccas, ambitions, passions, worries, emotions, what's happening in our lives, occasional philosophy (a very stimulating topic is homosexuality, another is the new bus-stops)... a good deal of whining and complaining. then a little less as we go on. then back to guys. one-track mind. i wonder what i used to talk about before it was guys... no. i remember. not good.

i don't know about guys. but its true girls talk a lot about the past and the present (mostly past?) and the present extrapolates into something more vague... and what do guys talk about?

have a ghastly salty ulcer. painful.
wrote my first poem in nearly a year last night. when i think of it i don't like it, but when i read it it doesnt seem so bad. i don't trust my writing.

will post this first, maybe later reply to the second half.
before my com hangs or sth.

posted by inventing @ 11:42 pm 0 comments

Well, I suppose making the pace here fast makes life more interesting. I'm in love with tango!!! I'm listening to Armik Gypsy Flame Tango, and I can just imagine myself striding around a campfire with a girl in my arms. Ahh, heat, and light, and darkness... what better conditions for love to blossom.

We had a discussion on whether science is just common sense without prejudice. I believed that there was more, that the process of conceptualization was integral to the study of science. However, I was rather violently persuaded afterwards, and also convinced somewhat that perhaps conceptualization (having dreams of the future) is instead a catalyst for the tool that is science to be used.

I think nice girls attract all sorts. Like bees to honey. Its like flowers without defenses to slap away all the irritating honey suckers. Oh, that's a rather bad analogy. Anyway, I suppose all those smitten guys will be rather helpful in the days to come. Personally, I prefer less popular girls, cos they kinda stir up less controversy and of course, have more free time for you for non-romantic outings.

Ever hugged a guy?

I think girls talk alot, I don't know why. There seems to be nothing worth talking about, at least nothing in what they're talking that would broaden my perspective on how others live their lives. Its so trivial, some of the topics that I tend to overhear, of course, overhearing doesn't give me the full picture. So what DO girls talk about anyway. I never really understood.

Somehow, I think guys talk about things relating to the future, whereas girls talk about things relating to the present and the past.

I suppose having a girl that fits your ideal mate description is a wonderful thing in itself, but having something that you really like makes me very posessive. Like a cherished toy kinda thing. And I'm not sure if its a very good thing at all. I want a girl that's portable, have certain dreams of grabbing a girl and throwing her over my shoulder and just walking off. I think I've carried too many girls in my life haha. But I also mean it in a figurative sense, that it would be nice to have someone that can be easily uprooted and can settle down in any environment. I'm a person that loves change. I think I've redecorated my room 3 times in a year alone, change software in my computer on an almost daily basis. Not to mention crushes, so much that I don't even think of them as crushes anymore. Yet, I'm terribly fascinated with smelling the roses and taking life easy, so I suppose she has to be someone that enjoys that too, sitting around in a garden, watching people walk past. I think I'll just marry myself.

I think its rather amusing that after all that looking for mates and stuff, I'm just actually looking for someone who won't affect my lifestyle. I probably won't be able to make changes in my life to accomodate that person. I suppose this is why relationships are so hard to maintain. Once you change your lifestyle, are you still you? And is she still her?

posted by Downhere. @ 9:27 pm 0 comments

Looking at the last, what, 25 posts, one realises that the pace of life down here is -fast-. Well. Writing (CAP!), cheerleading (Bao, RGS does -not- have cheerleaders!), spaghetti straps (or was it tubes? Nevermind, they both look the same to me), National Day, guys, girls, PE shorts, and more guys. Hmm. Dawn? Attracting weird guys? Looking at things from your point of view, Bao, which ones are normal? :) She's too nice to them. Our school shorts are holey? Strange... I never noticed... maybe you did :) Confessionals? Hmm. Pursuable mates. I think I shall refrain from comment here... How I Waste Time. #1 is correct, mostly talking (whether on the phone or not). Verbosity? Or catharsis? Er. #9 Daydreaming. #12 Internet communications... that goes under talking :) MSN. Well. #17. Laughing at nothing is something I do quite often :). Shrieking occasionally; blame choir influence. #23. Locked in bathroom reading/ talking on the phone. Though that's kinda rare. #40 Hugging other people! #42 Obsessing over trivialities. (A note on #55: I have currently 4 functional pens in my pencil case and theyr'e all different colours ie blue red green purple) #61. Playing with hair? Only one person's. 'Cos I think it's cute. (Hmm. Obsession over cute things? #10) #73 Animals? Only Tommy :) #75 Preferably. Well there you go to Bun who's been asking me to come on more often :)

posted by 'liane @ 7:16 pm 0 comments

hohoho...
one of my friends (dawn!!) always seems to attract weird guys... and she hates it.
or she would, if she was less nice.
she's got a unique kind of appeal.

our school shorts have liners as holey as venetian blinds!! what's the point??
gah.

confessionals. enjoyed yours too. hehe. perhaps will make some more someday when am feeling particularly bored/ depressed/ stressed/ confessional. mmm? ;)

i wonder-- how can you bear to pursue a 'pursuable mate' if you know there are better/ preferred ones? its either everything or not, you can't have the leftovers and be happy with it. am i idealistic or just wonderfully empathetic?

posted by inventing @ 2:55 pm 0 comments

My friend has what he thinks is a sex toy for a birthday present. Its a rather cool blue coloured transparent tube bag thingy, with a very narrow inner opening, with glitter powder and little numbs of coloured plastic floating around the inside. His friend refuses to tell him where he got it, or what exactly izzit. But it looks cool, and he was jiggling it around with his hand and poking it with his finger.

Also overheard some girl saying, "He's a very lousy boyfriend, cos I'm still a virgin." In response to the guy pointing at the girl and saying "She's my ex." Later, I overheard the bewildered third party asking other girls what they thought of the guy. Hehz.

I suppose you can't really blame people if you attract the weirder kinds. It probably has to do with the way you act or dress or behave that's appealing to them. Still, my heart goes out to all the beautiful girls that dislike the unwanted attention from amorous lovers, who think that they're more
easygoing than they actually are. Of course, just to divert the attention, they tend to dress down and stuff. Still, if you look good in everything, you can't stop the relentless hormonal hordes.

Saw more than what I wanted to see today at PE. I wish more girls wore shorts that had liners.

posted by Downhere. @ 9:08 pm 0 comments

my brother firmly abhors macs. i bring up to the topic simply to irk him. it's very fun. i like macs.
an early american artist created a great controversy in an american art academy a few hundred yrs ago, when things were very conservative (classes segregated, no nude models), when he ripped off the loincloth of a male model in a female class. interesting things you learn in art museums. the police will probably come after you for pornography charges and you will spend the rest of your life locked up without your consent as a disturber of the public peace (of mind).
computer games mostly bore me. i need something that changes a lot in response to my own opinions, like a blog. if i did a simcity or simtown, everything would be all perfect and planned. hm.
baos, you should eat snake soup. it's very good. go on talking. make more confessionals. i apologize for not having known everything. it's been a while. do mine! though most are horribly ambiguous and should be labeled "all of the above".

posted by anne @ 11:13 am 0 comments

Well, I've been speaking to my macintosh. Just found out that the speech recognition thingy is rather fun. Plus, it saves me the pain of having to go look for the applications I wanna start. Just pressing ESC and saying Open does the job. And there wasn't even a need for voice training. I'm now blogging always on the Macintosh, over the PC. The fonts look nicer for one, it makes me feel in a better mood, having a nice warm keyboard to type on, that's rather fast. Still, nothing can beat the raw speed of a desktop computer.

Just decided to grab a roll of black and white film, and maybe a 100-300mm lens and start taking a few portrait shots of the people around me. Then maybe I'll progress to fashion shots, learn makeup, and finally do nudes. hehz... nudes in Singapore.

Was just talking to this bunch of 3 Arts girls, and the topic of the day was gender differences. I'm sorry if I sounded horribly all knowing and pompous, I really know nothing. Just that we had a rather interesting chat on what kinds of computer games women and men like, and why do women love games like The Sims, Theme Hospital, Simcity etc. One of the reasons they said was that it was more family based, and about people, which made the concepts easier to grasp. I suppose counter-strike and all the other games are a little more abstract, and tend to rely on motor skills rather than planning and deep thought, still, its fun as there's always something to practice and something to improve upon. Unlike The Sims and the rest which kinda feels like a long drawn out movie. I suppose I don't have the patience to sit through things, but it seems that guys try their bestest to best the program, while girls try to enjoy the program as it is.

Then we talked about girls and what girls talk about and they said that its usually about guys and things that happened during the day. Someone expressed shock that guys don't actually talk about the day, and just talk about the big three (soccer, computer games, and girlfriends) in that order. Well I suppose my life isn't worth talking about much. Momentuous things don't happen everyday, yet yeah, I do see the trend that girls tend to talk more about what happened today. I wouldn't say that its boring, I suppose insight into someone else's life is always valuble, yet... I don't know. I tend to feel global matters being more pressing.

Then the conversation turned to guys, and how do we choose our girlfriends and stuff, and I kinda saw below, something about long lists girls write describing their ideal boyfriend. I suppose guys don't really fill up those lists and grade people. Somehow its more spontaneous and less premediated. I suppose in this respect, guys are more willing to follow their emotions than girls, perhaps not even aware of their emotions, and the way they're following it. I was at a loss when they asked me to describe the general Male's desired girlfriend. They suggested long hair, bitchiness, reliance on guys, good looks, being sweet (haha the over saccharine kind, that even the girls were mocking), and hot and stuff. Rather interesting. Of course, I didn't really know, not having ever felt the urge to pursue a pursuable mate. Unpursuable mates exception.

I don't think those actions are bimbotic in a sense, its probably already a conditioned reflex. Shrieking, sighing, daydreaming stuffs... sighz

posted by Downhere. @ 12:29 am 0 comments

i thought the point by point thing was considerably more organised, what with so much to say.

i'm not offended, as some people who commented are... just (quite) guilty and embarrased.
nat, if you're not a bimbo, no one is. you don't do -any- of them??
wait. i have no right to say anything myself. (sigh.)
i don't do most of them, some disgust me, but who cares. i like being somewhere comfortably central.
these i do:
4. sighing or giggling about crushes / doing other requisite things with sighing - 6 hours compared to guys' 5 minutes for the works (oh dear...)
9. daydreaming (aka fantasising)
12. irc/icq/chat/other internet communication
13. long baths / long times in bathrooms
17. yelping / shrieking (eg playing ball games - when they catch/throw the ball, when the ball comes near/almost hits them, / jumping up and down
22. "nice" stuff as gifts for others which invariably takes a long time to make
44. Drawing up elaborate lists detailing their "ideal" man and exchanging them with other similarly emotionally disturbed girls. (not yet but i think i'm dangerously close...)
45. Being racked with indecision, vacillating constantly (not constant though... seasonal.)
63. Carrying around [miniscule] [hand]bags which can barely hold anything
67. Attaching bells or other things to their bags or ankles

these i deny:
46. Writing notes to people they already talk to (and/or see) everyday, often on the free postcards (but i don't see nat everyday!!!)
47. Hugging files to their bosoms tightly (sometimes closing their eyes and shaking to and fro when they think no one is looking)(maybe theyre tired?)
59. Talking about guys (THEY do...)
62. In RGS, the girls watch sunrises through school windows (scuse me? we mug in the mornings.)
79. Trying to matchmake their friends (haha... outgrew it, mercifully. but some still do...)

otherwise reasonably true, actually.

"snake tastes like chicken. once you taste snake, you'll never want to eat chicken again, cause all chicken will start tasting like snake." HAHAHAHA. i'm not eating that.

macs disagree with me. as does chinese.

kenneth has made me feel confessional. i am subnormally me. as i have been for a month... bummer.
heyy. i have -strong legs- tooooo. hnh.
i don't usually talk, but i will write, and i will talk online, so this is the danger zone.

well then. goodbye.

posted by inventing @ 10:16 pm 0 comments

kenneth my dear boy, i think ye stand alone. unless you have a split personality, where's the other boy? i read about someone in the papers a while ago who had schizophrenic problems. his usual personality was that of a firefighter, but sometimes another arsonist personality (female, i believe) would take over and set fires so that the other personality would have something to do. true story. rather peculiar.

the chinese language is a very beautiful one, in richness of idioms and beauty of written language. especially when you're surrounded by another culture, you grow even prouder of your own. i was at the art museum today and while i was in the chinese art gallery, this white lady asked me how to pronounce "qianlong dynasty." this was offset by my mum trying to read some chinese poetry inscribed on a crystal plate at a nearby exhibit.

macs rule! i found a soliloquy about them once. ahh.. here. http://ifaq.wap.org/computers/internetexploder.html, hee hee. i like the ibook. doesn't (didn't) it come with a bug's life computer game? what color have you got? ballet, well yes i suppose. i did it for 7 years. i wonder what happened. she sounds nice.
i like to climb trees. especially sycamores. i love sycamores.

posted by anne @ 7:50 am 0 comments

More probaby cos we can't taste anything else except chicken, or we have never tasted anything else but chicken. Somehow it reminds me of the death of languages around the world affecting how we think. I mean, Mongolian is a dying language, according to my friend, only 10 people in China can speak it fluently, and only 4 can still write it. And I suppose the increasing use of English only serves to make us think like the Americans and the British. Chinese comes with its own heritage of proverbs, words, culture and ways of thinking embedded deeply in the way the words are pieced together to mean something, individual ideograms having their own history, and visually indicative of the meaning etc. I only wish I knew it better so I could better appreciate it.

: )
As I read the posts, I'm struck by the similarity of the content with what I discussed when I was sec 1 and 2 as well. : ^) the world has probably changed in the 4 or so years. Still I'll answer questions to the best of my ability... And no, I think the sex ratio is more balanced now, 2 guys to 3 girls + gabriel (Agagooga) always keeps the blog filled so there's always something nice to read.

I don't think women are hard to understand, of course, being a neither left nor right brainer means that I'm have rather androgynous thinking. Still, I guess the culture shock comes from really seeing the other side of the world for the first time. Just remembered What Women Want(directed by a gal no less), and how hearing female voices in his head really drove him nuts. And yet, understanding the other world is also empowerment. In the world of the blind, the one eyed man is king. I suppose people who understand both genders would be able to navigate the female world of feelings, and the male world of unspoken emotion.

I like the sentence "understanding crystallized in his eyes like broken glass". Kinda appropriate. Well, what if some guy knows all about what girls are thinking. Would they run away screaming too?

I think I made the right choice getting a iBook, girls go gaga over it, touching the white keyboard, the lighted apple logo, while guys are curious about how Mac OS X works, how it differs from a PC, more technical details. I have no idea who designed the iBook, but he/she/they sure did it well. I suppose most guys would find the design interesting, but perhaps they're just uncertain of how to express it. Perhaps to guys, appearance is a lure, to catch their attention, a hook for them to be interested in knowing more about the object/girl. I find girls more emotional in a sense. Without knowing what it's really about, they kinda fall in love at the drop of a hat, they'd connect with a machine/person emotionally, attempt to communicate, understand, before doing anything. And I suppose through those different approaches to things, humanity is able to solve many of the problems and prevail.

I can cook too, but I'm kinda vegetarian. More a sauces and pasta and vegetables kind of guy than a chops and steak and fish person. Have fond memories of a girl who kinda loved life. She could walk until my shoes kinda overheated and I wanted to sit and take a rest... kinda like 4-5 hrs of non-stop walking, peering into shops, getting presents for friends, asking me how something looked etc. She'd say, oh ballet makes your legs much stronger, doing all that leg raises and stuff, and she'd get up and drag me around somemore. I loved it. Loved her, in a way that I was reluctant to admit to myself except now. Still, she's somewhere in Melbourne right now.

I suppose what guys are moved by are attempts by girls to bridge that gender gap. To say, hey, there are differences between genders, but to also explain, and experience with someone of the opposite gender those differences. I don't think I'll ever forget the person, or the lessons I learnt, but its kinda hard to put into practice. I'm not fond of practicing.

Good night!

posted by Downhere. @ 12:41 am 0 comments

does everything taste like chicken, or does chicken tastle like everything?
tomboy isn't a gender, i'll agree with you there. but who's to interpret everything exactly? snake is good stuf. croc is stringy.

here's a 55-fiction story on everybody's favorite topic.
The Wish. Ross Parsons.
The evening glow behind the fog faded as the two walked the almost deserted beach.
"I'll never understand women."
"Do you really want to?"
"Yes, I do. I truly do."
"Oh, all right."
She whispered into his ear; understanding crystallized in his eyes like broken glass.
He ran screaming into the night.

isn't this blog practically all girls? why don't we make a list on all the stupid things boys do? or is it not worth it?
aye, those don't apply to all girls. i wouldn't even venture to say most girls. talking is trickytricky. you never know how other people may take what you say. shopping is usually a horrific taste of time. or do they do it for exercise; the walking around, hopping in and out of stores? hair. hair!? the last time i talked about hair, i asked my mother whether i could get a mohawk when i got to college. or at least chop most of it off. if you look at most rgs girls, their hair is quite short, especially the bballers. nails - you forgot to include chewing. what are cuticles? i keep hearing them mentioned. you're right about shaving, but do't guys do that even more often than us? the only hair removal i've ever had to bear with in my almost 15 years is chopping. magazines full of skimpily dressed girls whose bodies are evaluated and envied; articles of twaddle and esteem depression surveys. what's wrong with daydreaming? how about zoning out? staring at trees? the sky? oh, why don't people wave through their windows on the highway? not the ones driving, though. it's an immensely entertaining past-time, especially if you have a soft-toy handy. i recommend it. pink. i dislike pink. jokes and antics are what the world needs. lighten up! make fun! live! you're right about the insects. i'm glad you put it right after the jokes/antics point, because one of my favorite past-times is picking up ants and spiders to put on other girls. my favorite thing is a four-letter f-word. food. my only complaint being that i got that quote from a guy. eat to live or live to eat? why be picky? when i was in brownies, they used to call me the bottomless hole because the sissies at my table and the next table over couldn't finish their steamed fish, among other things. i helped, to say the least. my family teaches not to waste food. cooking is a noble employment of time. my youngest brother is very into cooking. most of what my middle brother does is slightly chaota, but it works. aye, i don't fancy going through this entire list. most people are full of twaddle, if you ask me. so why bother analyzing twaddle of certain groups and not getting to other ones? i am going to sleep. i shall dream about chopping up crabs tonight, with the yellowy green brain-intestinal matter glooping about. lovely.

posted by anne @ 9:35 am 0 comments

Currently penning my Melbourne blog post and I happened to see this.

Yeah that was the cheerleaders' chant. Fun. I watched it with my brother-in-law. Hilarious. Spirit Fingers! Though I still retain my opinions about Associate Flesh Parade ;)

per�fid�i�ous
adj.

Of, relating to, or marked by perfidy; treacherous.

con�cu�pis�cence
n.

A strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.

I had snake soup in Melbourne. Not bad. More finely textured than Chicken. The taste wasn't really apparent over the ginger though. Why is everything described as tasting like chicken? Grasshopper, snake... What else?

posted by Agagooga @ 5:35 pm 0 comments

el orals wuz wundafool... -skipping on air- i love mrs anis.
wasnt that the cheerleader's song from bring it on? what a chick flick, i regret watching it. but it's historical, first time i ever watched four movies at one go. kirsten dunst is so bitchy...
grapes of wrath is so cheem. for example, what is perfidious and concupiscent? do these words exist? and i thot i had quite a big vocab.siggghhh
a geek is one carnival performer i'd seriously like to watch. does live chicken taste the same as cooked chicken??
snake tastes like chicken. once you taste snake, you'll never want to eat chicken again, cause all chicken will start tasting like snake.
does anyone actually read that list?? thank god i'm not a bimbo. i don't actually do any of that kind of stuff.

posted by Anonymous @ 4:48 pm 0 comments

Oh hell I'll just post the thing.

How Girls Waste Time / The Stupid Things That Girls Do (Renamed at Kairen's behest)

This contribution to militant feminism was started in the latter half 2000 by me for various reasons, among them being boredom, surfeit of time, sheer boliao-ness and disgust at the feminist movement.



Comments / Contributions are most welcome. In fact, they are eagerly encouraged (so I can elaborate, correct and expand on this list).

Disclaimer: However this list may sound, I am neither a MCP nor a misogynist and support, and believe in, gender equality. Also, I condone many of the items listed here and even indulge in some myself (see '100 Reasons Why It's Great To Be Female').

Note: Items here are not mutually exclusive with males, and I believe that males are screwed up as well, albeit in a different way. The second part of the list's name is Kairen's suggestion.


1. On the phone / gossiping / talking

2. makeup and accessories - hair, bodily or other (eg pets, possessions and other people)

3. shopping, especially window (especially for things they don't want, just for the thrill of it - "a man is someone who pays $2 for a $1 item he wants. a woman is someone who pays $1 for a $2 item she doesn't want")

4. sighing or giggling about crushes / doing other requisite things with sighing - 6 hours compared to guys' 5 minutes for the works / writing stories involving them & their crushes

5. hair (includes blowjobs on wet/dry hair and styling, playing and accessorising, cutting it whenever they undergo emotional change / trauma)

6. nails (manicure, filing, embossing, painting with horrid colours, buffing)

7. shaving (or other forms of hair removal - waxing, tweezing, hair removal cream or laser), especially regretful when not done thoroughly, leaving 'shadow'

8. reading the surfeit of redundant, gushy, sex-obsessed, overpriced and soppy girly and self-improvement magazines on the market

9. daydreaming (aka fantasising)

10. "cute" stuff (real or contrived) - including dolls, origami, soft toys and fads (Tare Panda - on drugs and squashed by a steamroller, Hello Kitty - no mouth, Powerpuff Girls - sickly 'sweet' voices reminiscent of the smell of decaying flesh, Qoo drink's mascot - one ear, Disgusting Chick [Groovy Chick] stationery etc...)

11. colour coding / decorating things (esp those with obsessive compulsive disorder) - writing their names on their notes in fanciful fonts / Doodling / vandalising friends' notes with flowers etc / sparkles on handphone screens?

12. irc/icq/chat/other internet communication

13. long baths / long times in bathrooms, in addition to long changing times

14. little notes on sparkly perfumed light purple paper with fluorescent pink ink

15. perfecting printed handwriting (usually small / invisible) / writing in 'cute' font (or 6 different colours and pen tip sizes)

16. silly jokes/antics on guys (even other girls)

17. giggling / laughing at nothing / squealing (sometimes like small girls) (even over vegetables?) / yelping / screaming / shrieking (eg playing ball games - when they catch/throw the ball, when the ball comes near/almost hits them, when insects come near) / jumping up and down

18. ogling "cute" guys (often squealing) - In NJC, bored girls rate guys coming out of the toilets : '0', '10', '-5,', 'hopeless'. Sometimes, if they're bored they say the ratings out loud so the guys can hear / admiring other girls

19. comparing br****s, legs, hips, butts, waistlines and figures

20. romance novels (giving girls false ideas about sex and love, leading to future disappointment and pain, and making them extremely screwed up)

21. looking in the mirror

22. "nice" stuff as gifts for others which invariably takes a long time to make

23. Extended periods of time locked in the bedroom performing unspeakable acts

24. Being fussy with food / destroying their digestive systems - being anorexic (3 fishballs for a meal!?), protein diet, prolonged detox, bingeing, sharing portions of food meant for 1 person with 1 or 2 other anorexic girls, eating very often but very little each time, starving themselves for months at a time and then pigging out during sleepovers

25. Beautification - real or psychological (exfoliating scrub, toner, blue tracing paper, face/skin lightening cream, facials, nail polish)

26. Cooking (often not finishing the food)

27. Holding hands while waving and skipping / bouncing / bounding around

28. Whining / worrying that they're fat / they look fat / they have a big butt (almost always without cause) and professing to be willing to enter Obedience School (BMT) to shed the 23kg that I did, regardless of the horrors of it

28. a) Whining / worrying that they're ugly

29. Sparkle / milky / scented pens (sometimes with weird things attached to the end) / glitter

30. Deciding what to wear (esp considering outfit + shoes)

31. Spending enormous amounts of time in front of music shops gazing at posters of the latest "cute" Jap singer

32. Devising lists to contribute to militant chauvinism / other acts against the dominant "oppressive" social order / being chauvinist

33. Spending hours in their rooms struggling with a needle and thread trying to raise the hem of their school skirt

34. Acting cute (often failing, sometimes grossing people out) eg making baby noises, pouting, posing etc

35. Taking [more than 10] personality (or other emotional evaluation) tests / evaluating their psyche / going for therapy and/or psychoanalysis

36. Fashion [disasters] (butt-hugging, butt-cheek-revealing hot shorts!!!, very short, ankle or even heel revealing hot socks, midriff baring outfits, especially when they are chubby, all manner of garish coloured outfits, appalingly coloured/designed sports bras, those horrible head scarfs [bandanas], ghastly accessories).

37. Gushing over "touching" and/or "romantic" (read: mushy) stuff

38. Games involving co-operation, co-ordination and/or clapping (Eg: Strawberry Shortcake)

39. Compulsive photo-taking / photo-sticker disorder (even in buses?! [2S06A'01], Andrew Gan eating a sundae pie), exchanging pictures

40. Touching / pulling / hugging / leading each other

41. Queuing for the toilet / Forever freshening up (often together with other girls in toilet outings, waiting for everyone to be done before leaving and doing dumb things like splashing water and mashing toilet paper to throw on the ceilings)

42. Obsessing over trivialities (and getting angry over minor perceived transgressions) / being overly sensitive / petty

43. Talking about / Shopping for extra clothes to fill the already burgeoning closet(s) / shoes to topple the overloaded shoe racks

44. Drawing up elaborate lists detailing their "ideal" man and exchanging them with other similarly emotionally disturbed girls.

45. Being racked with indecision, vacillating constantly

46. Writing notes to people they already talk to (and/or see) everyday, often on the free postcards

47. Hugging files to their bosoms tightly (sometimes closing their eyes and shaking to and fro when they think no one is looking)

48. Practicing inane actions that they think make them attractive to boys, eg. Blinking, fluttering eyelids, batting eyelashs, sucking in their cheeks, swaying their hips

49. Breaking down inexplicably / "happy also cry, sad also cry"

50. Being squeamish over the littlest things

51. Boybands (ogling, fantasising, singing their songs, making fun of them [for those not totally caught up])

52. Taking forever to eat/finish up in the toilet

53. coming up with and struggling to keep to diet plans

54. Dotting their 'i's and 'j's with hearts and circles

55. Carrying around a surfeit of stationery - eg 30 of the funny highlighter pens with a marker on one side, and a pen on the other.

56. Naming/giving life to their stuff

57. Talking / complaining about their periods (according to Melvin)

58. Talking about virginity and also on the subject of losing it - when (also according to Melvin) (confirmed by a girl)

59. Talking about guys

60. Getting presents for people for the most trivial reasons / occasions

61. Playing with each other's hair (RJ canteen, some J2s - 1 person, 3 stylers, 4 spectators, all 8 girls, braiding 2 pigtails)

62. In RGS, the girls watch sunrises through school windows

63. Carrying around [miniscule] [hand]bags which can barely hold anything

64. Fretting about their looks (often unwarranted)

65. Playing the guessing game, leading to mutual hurt, distrust and vituperation:
A: I'm pissed with you
B: What's wrong?
A: If you don't know what's wrong, I shan't tell you!

66. Discussing weird stuff eg whether they sleep naked

67. Attaching bells or other things to their bags or ankles

68. Hurting themselves when they're stressed, dumped or bored (pricking, cutting and the like)

69. Talking about those inanely pervasive soap(opera)s. The type that can get really confusing if you don't watch them.

70. Faking cramps (for some)

71. Being kiddy

72. Acting Bimbo

73. Fawning over babies / animals

74. Quarelling/catfight/"friendly bickering" over stupid pens

75. Moving in pairs (sometimes packs)

76. Getting green eyed when they see a prettier girl

77. Reading/watching Yaoi (and other sorts of manga and anime) and writting fan fiction and drawing fan art (This entry is specifically dedicated to Yaoi Girl :) )

78. Nagging persistently (exemplified by most grandmothers and mothers)

79. Trying to matchmake their friends



With thanks to those who contributed
Johann, Yunxin, Clarisse, Loraine, Andrew, Kenneth, Shawn, Geraldine, Melvin Tay Poh Huat, Liying, Grace, Jiamin, Petrina et al, and several who choose to remain anonymous :)





Comments on "How Girls Waste Time":

1. 1) why is breasts asterisked?
2) i like girls. girls are nice. shaddup.
2. Neat, um, list. Mostly true.
3. your basic premise is flawed. its not a waste of time, because they are consuming products and thus spurring the development of the economy. if all these pple were conscripted, the defence budget would increase, with no significant effect on other countries because they are girls.
4. the day u make love to a woman with hairy legs is the day u wish u never made that list.
5. i think girls are adorable.
6. Good grief. I hope you aren't talking about all girls, as I wear: a) whatever I find on my floor in the morning, b) some long shirt that I've had for five + years, and the same pair of jeans. (Which I -do- wash, so ha..) I hate any paper that isn't normal smelling, and sparkly pens give me a headache to read them. Don't have a boyfriend, don't want one, spend
my time running and/or playing videogames. Otherwise sadly, you've got it right. >.<
7. In my experience, girls are very much like boys until the age of about 11 or 12, when they develop the symptoms as described on your webpage ;)
8. what's wrong! it's fun okay. well. *most* of it. and it's better than being a smelly boy what~ :P
9. (On comparing br****s) never thought they do that... funky
10. i read that today......but just a glimpse.....now that i look through slowly it's really quite funny.
11. how can u say that abt girls! dun pretend u dun like girls ok!!!!!
12. oh please..get a life..if you are trying to be sexist around here....please noe dat it is so totally spastic...why dun you spend more time finding better things to do with den critisizing gerZ....dUh...
13. they treat their friends so important and overrate their girlfriends... and they think that if anything happened to them, their girlfriends wld be the 1st to their rescue and they pay too much goddamn attention to their shitty little "friendship matters" on the other hand those who pay attention to guys are generally sluts and deserve a good sodomizing.....; either way, they are damn screwed up
14. it's stupid to obsess abt what we do also lah! cos you won't understand us, we won't understand you. men are from mars, women are from venus and all tt crap - capiche?
15. Interesting. So you didn't waste time doing this did you.
16. SO TROOO!!! =)
17. *giggle* *giggle*
18. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ALL THE SISSY GIRLS OUT THERE LOOK STUPID AND ALL YOU CHICKS WHO CAN'T DEAL WITH IT TO BAD IT'S NOT THEIR FAULTS YOU ARE ALL STUPID (the only bad part is I somehow got stuck being a stupid stereotyped phemonine girl)... Yeah, you'd complain to if you got a period once month for a whole week and had to wear evil torture devices for it!!!!
19. "The Stupid Things Girls Do?" What the hell? I'm sorry that everything people find amusing is "stupid" by your book but we've got to find some way to spend our lives, huh? And if girls didn't blow-dry their hair (which would probably result in a lot of colds in the winter) and didn't work out, you'd probably be equally appalled so I guess there's just no pleasing you. And what's "stupid" about making gifts for friends or writing in sparkly pens? Is that as "stupid" as guys playing soccer or drinking beer or some other stereotypical masculine activity? What is truly "stupid" is that this list was ever created. (And this is coming from a stereotypical tomboy, before you say anything.)
20. boys waste time?
yea they wasting time by dating girls
21. girls use all thos crappy pens - the sparkly ones that are often fluro green
the one that is REALLY stupid is using circles and love hearts for dotting i's and j's
this thing is soooo right, and most girls do have shit for brains
22. [On comlaining about periods] Yes, but only like "why must it be during Lit?"
33. raise the hem of my skirt? i've been trying to LOWER mine.
23. [Scribbled on the printout of this list on TS20, RJC]
? -> !! (between #4 & 5)
males. males ARE nothing (below 17)
see #13 (beside 23)
if we didn't, you'd starve (beside 26)
RAISE? i'M TRYING TO LOWER IT!! (below 33)
NO BADGE (below 47)
iF YOU HAD PERIODS, YOU'D COMPLAIN TOO (beside 57)
various 'i's dotted with hearts (54 to 55)
24. what a f**king stupid site
so bloody chauvanistic
i could spend 10mins coming up with a list of 1000 stupid things guys do...
face it, guys and girls are equal..for the guyz who came up with dis site, u can spend the rest of ur bo liao lives alone, for the butch of comment 18, u can go for a sex change and go to hell.(u oso hav CB wat, dun nehow cum and sae us gers)
25. i love girls! im in 7th grade and have 5 girlfriends. it all atters on if their hot or not. also popularity.
I also like french kissin'.
26. Girls and guys both do stupid things, but a girl's the other half of a guy, and vicey versey. As a guy, I'm pretty damn pissed off at you trashing girlyness. Chantilly lace, and a pretty face, and a pony tail, all hangin down, and a wiggle when you walk, and a giggle when you walk; Aww baby that's a what I LIKE!
27. we so do not watch sunrises from 0ur window!
28. ur 'stupid things tt girls do' list is v amusing. some of it is true tho:p
29. broad based survey my ass! it seems that you've confined the study to a typical Singaporean Ah Lian ... with only about 3 or 4 applying to ALL women.. :P
30.

Responding to the various pts:
1.guys are impatient
2.girls love themselves more than guys do
3. girls like to pamper themselves, but save $$ at the same time
4. girls spend more time reviewing about what they have been doing, in order not to make the same mistakes again
5. oh they do? how come i dunnoe............ some extra vain pple you are toking bout here...
6. we treasure and cherish our body parts, making them look as beautiful as possible
7. girls love themsleves
8.dont guys read playboy mag. secretly, and squander their $$ on soccer mags??
9. not all, mind you
10. NOT ALL, mind you............. including me, as a girl, in this catogory is an insult to me
11. no comment
12. dont guys chat using internet too? --- for hours too?
13.you should check out how long vain guys or celebrities take to finish their baths
14. again, not all do that.......... the pple the authors research on must be some ****
15. are you envious?
16. oh~ so guys dont have their own yellow r-rated jokes eh
17. hello? im a girl and howcome i dont laugh at nothing???
18......... how many times must i tell you : not all girls do that -- i DONT!!
19......... bitches............ all bitches are girls but not all girls are bitches
20. yah yah yah.... seems like the authors have narrow thinking....... and most probably are frogs in the well... girls read alot more than just romance stories......
21.wha bout guys bringing some stupid ah-beng orange comb with them every second??
22. dont you realise how sincere we are when sending gifts to pple? you should praise us!
23. wha bout horny guys? horny guys make up a huge population of men
24. ........ that is never me........... understand? and i am a girl!
25. that is because ad. also uses female models and thus men feel stupid using the products............. also, it is conventionally weird for guys to use those products......... and again............ we girls love ourselves
26. i cant cook, and so do all my friends.
27. that sound like an idoltic alien to me
28. they love to be in perfect state at all times, iznt that good?
29. so what? not all pple fancy those
30. this is because we have a much wider choice of such things than guys... and we would not want to go out of the door in ugly colour combinations, girls are careful pple, understand?
31. how come i dont remember doing that??
32. ive never even thought of doing that!!!
33........... okie......... wha bout guys standing infornt of the mirror for HOURS trying to gel their stupid frenge up??
34........NOT ALL PPLE DO THAT EXCUSE ME??? this is an utter insult to me.....
35.........okie......... i do take personality tests, but that is because i want to know more about myself so that i know what to do or what i can do in the future. is there anithing wrong with that??
36. ......... wha a nonsensical assumption
37. girls are simply more sensitve pple. maybe i should come up with a list....... saying how insensitive guys are......
38. ???
39.well, i would like to think that that is because they like to capture the scenes as eternal memories....... honestly, im dont take photographs frantically
40. that is what i mean by very good friends........ it that a waste of time too?? are you envious that we have such goood friends??
41. did i mention that girls love themselves, they hate to portray a flaw in front of somebody?
42. oh......... this would go to pple who are scared of EVERYTHING...... that is definitely not me
43.........i dont think im fit to be a girl in that case........
44. hahhaaa, that sounds like wha i do in primary school~ well, does this bother you?so....... guys dont waste time by fighting with his peers?
45. you are a frog in a well, i pity you.
46. well, i can only sae that girls do that , maybe, for the fun of it.......
47. HUH?? are you toking bout those 70s 80s conservative but somewha bitchy school girls? we dont take that now!!
48. WHAT?!? hey...his list is getting more and MORE ridiculous! this is an insult to me, once again.
49. i repeat, girls are simply more sensitive, you cant blame them/us
50............. are the authors prejudiced against girls as a whole? Do they ever realise that doing so will only show that they are ever so immature in handling this kind of assumptions 'cause they are sooo UNTRUE!!!!

ARgh...... wha a list.................

And a fuller rebuttal:

Roaaaaaar.
Here is Gabriel Seah's list on how girls waste their time. Watch me comment here and there :) After going through the whole list. I realised guys just don't appreciate the small things of life. Life isn't all that simple as they make it out. Same reasons why girl pals are much closer than guy pals.

Items marked with * are things that Jeth does. (really. which leads to the inevitable conclusion about his sexuality. grin.)

Before we start. Let me present MY list of how guys waste their time. Or rather. Spend all their time.

How Boys Spend All their Time
1. Surfing porn.

How girls waste their time by Gabriel Seah :

*1. On the phone / gossiping / talking

2. makeup and accessories - hair, bodily or other (eg pets, possessions and other people)

*3. shopping, especially window (especially for things they don't want, just for the thrill of it - "a man is someone who pays $2 for a $1 item he wants. a woman is someone who pays $1 for a $2 item she doesn't want")

*4. sighing about crushes / doing other requisite things with sighing - 6 hours compared to guys' 5 minutes for the works

*5. hair (includes blowjobs on wet/dry hair and styling, playing and accessorising, cutting it whenever they undergo emotional change / trauma)

6. nails (manicure, filing, embossing, painting with horrid colours)
Me: Yeah right? How do we do that when our nails are supposed to remain short. Thanks to dictatorial schools.
*7. shaving (or other forms of hair removal - waxing, tweezing, hair removal cream or laser), especially regretful when not done thoroughly, leaving 'shadow'
Me: Guys shave too :) Everyone should shave. Makes you look better.

*8. reading the surfeit of redundant, gushy, sex-obsessed, overpriced and soppy girly and self-improvement magazines on the market
Me: Yes it helps us recognize your lack of sexual talent

*9. daydreaming (aka fantasising)
Me: Guys? Oh yeah I forgot they just surf porn. No time for fantasizing.

*10. "cute" stuff (real or contrived) - including dolls, origami, soft toys and fads (Tare Panda - on drugs and squashed by a steamroller, Hello Kitty - no mouth, Powerpuff Girls - sickly 'sweet' voices reminiscent of the smell of decaying flesh, Qoo drink's mascot - one ear, Disgusting Chick [Groovy Chick] stationery etc...)

*11. colour coding / decorating things (esp those with obsessive compulsive disorder) - writing their names on their notes in fanciful fonts / Doodling / vandalising friends' notes with flowers etc / sparkles on handphone screens?

*12. irc/icq/chat/other internet communication

*13. long baths / long times in bathrooms, in addition to long changing times

14. little notes on sparkly perfumed light purple paper with fluorescent pink ink

****15. perfecting printed handwriting (usually small / invisible) / writing in 'cute' font (or 6 different colours and pen tip sizes)

*16. silly jokes/antics on guys (even other girls)

*17. giggling / laughing at nothing / squealing (sometimes like small girls) (even over vegetables?) / yelping / screaming / shrieking (eg playing ball games - when they catch/throw the ball, when the ball comes near/almost hits them, when insects come near) / jumping up and down

*18. ogling "cute" guys (often squealing) - In NJC, bored girls rate guys coming out of the toilets : '0', '10', '-5,', 'hopeless'. Sometimes, if they're bored they say the ratings out loud so the guys can hear / admiring other girls

*19. comparing br****s, legs, hips, butts, waistlines and figures
Me: Guys just grab 'em.
*20. romance novels (giving girls false ideas about sex and love and making them harbour unrealistic fantasises about true love and soulmates, leading to future disappointment and pain, and making them extremely screwed up)
Me: You're just jealous you can't multiple orgasm
*21. looking in the mirror

22. "nice" stuff as gifts for others which invariably takes a long time to make
*23. Extended periods of time locked in the bedroom performing unspeakable acts
Me: Like what? Shaving? personally. I take 5 minutes to bathe and dress. I guess i'm like. uh. the exception or something.

24. Being fussy with food / destroying their digestive systems - being anorexic (3 fishballs for a meal!?), protein diet, prolonged detox, bingeing, sharing portions of food meant for 1 person with 1 or 2 other anorexic girls, eating very often but very little each time, starving themselves for months at a time and then pigging out during sleepovers
Me: Bingeing
*25. Beautification - real or psychological (exfoliating scrub, toner, blue tracing paper, face/skin lightening cream, facials, nail polish, pore packs)
Me: Then where do you expect to get your pretty girls? You selfish guys
*26. Cooking (often not finishing the food)
Me: Okay go marry some girl who can't cook (E.g. me) and then eat macs the whole time.
*27. Holding hands while waving and skipping / bouncing / bounding around

*28. Whining / worrying that they're fat / they look fat / they have a big butt (almost always without cause)
Me: guys whine about their birdies. Na they boast about them.

*29. Sparkle / milky / scented pens (sometimes with weird things attached to the end) / glitter

*30. Deciding what to wear (esp considering outfit + shoes)
Me: We don't want to look like boys.
*31. Spending enormous amounts of time in front of music shops gazing at posters of the latest "cute" Jap singer
Me: UGGUHgghghhghg. JAP? gross.
32. Devising lists to contribute to militant chauvinism / other acts against the dominant "oppressive" social order / being chauvinist
Me: here's a brilliant example
33. Spending hours in their rooms struggling with a needle and thread trying to raise the hem of their school skirt
Me: Really?
*34. Acting cute (often failing, sometimes grossing people out) eg making baby noises, pouting, posing etc
Me: For some girls it just comes naturally.
*35. Taking [more than 10] personality (or other emotional evaluation) tests / evaluating their psyche / going for therapy and/or psychoanalysis
Me: Least we don't come up with inane lists
*36. Fashion [disasters] (butt-hugging, butt-cheek-revealing hot shorts!!!, very short, ankle or even heel revealing hot socks, midriff baring outfits, especially when they are chubby, all manner of garish coloured outfits, appalingly coloured/designed sports bras, those horrible head scarfs [bandanas], ghastly accessories).

*37. Gushing over "touching" and/or "romantic" (read: mushy) stuff

38. Games involving co-operation / co-ordination
Me: What wHAAAAt?
39. Compulsive photo-taking / photo-sticker disorder (even in buses?! [2S06A'01], Andrew Gan eating a sundae pie), exchanging pictures
Me: No :P We don't bring cmaeras around 24/7
*40. Touching / pulling / hugging / leading each other
Me: Physical bonding.
*41. Queuing for the toilet / Forever freshening up (often together with other girls in toilet outings, waiting for everyone to be done before leaving and doing dumb things like splashing water and mashing toilet paper to throw on the ceilings)
Me: Hey. Water splashing's fun. Guys do it too.
*42. Obsessing over trivialities (and getting angry over minor perceived transgressions) / being overly sensitive / petty
Me: This i agree on.
*43. Talking about / Shopping for extra clothes to fill the already burgeoning closet(s) / shoes to topple the overloaded shoe racks
Me: Variety variety
*44. Drawing up elaborate lists detailing their "ideal" man and exchanging them with other similarly emotionally disturbed girls.
Me: Guys just need a big rack. And it's settled.
*45. Being racked with indecision, vacillating constantly
Me: At least we're flippant about *important* things. Guys are just indecisive over which lousy soccer team they support.
46. Writing notes to people they already talk to (and/or see) everyday, often on the free postcards
Me: Uhm. hM. yes true. I've got a little collection upstairs.
47. Hugging files to their bosoms tightly (sometimes closing their eyes and shaking to and fro when they think no one is looking)
Me: Yeah I wonder about that too. It's a natural action I think.
*48. Practicing inane actions that they think make them attractive to boys, eg. Blinking, fluttering eyelids, batting eyelashs, sucking in their cheeks, swaying their hips
Me: Just because you're gay Gabriel Seah...
49. Breaking down inexplicably / "happy also cry, sad also cry"
Me: Hormones. Different kind of hormones.
*50. Being squeamish over the littlest things
Me: Yes. I can't understand this either. But I know a guy when he was 16, ran to his parents room screaming when he saw a roach. 2 guys infact.
*51. Boybands (ogling, fantasising, singing their songs, making fun of them [for those not totally caught up])
Me: I agree on this. Girls are disgusting when ogling over boybands. Ugh. Thank goodness I don't belong here. Hm. Guys do it too. Yes. Everyone does it. Damn those boybands
*52. Taking forever to eat/finish up in the toilet
Me: WELL. HAH. Shall not go on to discuss the difficulties of having a female body.
53. coming up with and struggling to keep to diet plans
Me: Least we dont' take protein supplements
*54. Dotting their 'i's and 'j's with hearts and circles
Me: You just read too much Baby sitters club
*55. Carrying around a surfeit of stationery - eg 30 of the funny highlighter pens with a marker on one side, and a pen on the other.
Me: Yeah that's because you don't have a stationary eating monster in class.

*56. Naming/giving life to their stuff
Me: We like to call it "Playing God."
57. Talking / complaining about their periods
Me: Kind of equates to complaining about NS.

*58. Talking about virginity and also on the subject of losing it
Me: At least we don't lose it to our hands.
*59. Talking about guys
Me: Guys: Talking about girls/sex
60. Getting presents for people for the most trivial reasons / occasions
Me: Yeah. Somehow guys never do this.
Which explains why so many of you are getting dumped
61. Playing with each other's hair (RJ canteen, some J2s - 1 person, 3 stylers, 4 spectators, all 8 girls, braiding 2 pigtails)
Me: Just because guys are sore about not being able to plait their hair..

62. In RGS, the girls watch sunrises through school windows
Me: In nanyang, girls just sleep on their desks. Crazy RGS girls.

63. Carrying around [miniscule] [hand]bags which can barely hold anything
Me: Rather than stuffing every damn thing into our pockets. Unlike guys, large bulges in the lower region doesn't signify superiority.
*64. Fretting about their looks (often unwarranted)

65. Playing the guessing game, leading to mutual hurt, distrust and vituperation:
A: I'm pissed with you
B: What's wrong?
A: If you don't know what's wrong, I shan't tell you!
Me: Girls.. *shakes head*
*66. Discussing weird stuff eg whether they sleep naked
Me: We don't sleep naked. Unlike guys.
*67. Attaching bells or other things to their bags or ankles

68. Hurting themselves when they're stressed, dumped or bored (pricking, cutting and the like)
Me: NO WAY. Maybe like over eating. Yeah
*69. Talking about those inanely pervasive soap(opera)s. The type that can get really confusing if you don't watch them.
Me: Like zhen qing?
70. Faking cramps (for some)
Me: Hm.
71. Being kiddy
Me: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ^_^
*72. Acting Bimbo
Me: No the bimbo people. ARE bimbo.
*73. Fawning over babies / animals

74. Quarelling/catfight/"friendly bickering" over stupid pens
Me:Not just pens you know.
*75. Moving in pairs (sometimes packs)
Me: We're superior social mammals.
76. Getting green eyed when they see a prettier girl
Me: That's the fault of you males. If you weren't so picky and choosy over how we look.

79. Trying to matchmake their friends
Me: Don't deny it! You enjoy our matchmaking.

posted by Agagooga @ 1:05 am 0 comments

After a hiatus (a few days spent in Melbourne), I'm back. Hello. The customary "replies" first, so the following do not flow in any logical order.

To get into CAP, just recycle old crap. Everyone does it. Hell, you can use old blog entries! ;) And yeah, prose is goot.

To delete a blog, you go to "Settings", and choose "Delete This Blog". Simple.

Mentorships are more demanding than IRS, and require more discipline, really.

What's so funny about suicide?

Ho Poh Fun is most definitely not yummy... Urgh.

Don't all cheerleaders go artificially high and squeal and shriek and such? I'm told, though, that VJ ones are very slutty and very good - "[On VJC 2001 Open House] VJ's Flesh Parade was damn good... very slutty" - Friend

"Im sexy, im cute, im popular to boot
im bitchin, great hair, tha boyz all luv to stare
U want it, im hott, im everything ur not.....
who am i? just guess, guyz wanna touch my chest
im rockin, i smile, & many think Im vile
Im flying, I jump, u can look but dont u hump
Im major, I roar, I swear im not a whore,
we cheer, & we lead, we act like were on speed
hate us cos were beautiful, but we dont like u either
we're cheerleaders!"

Tube tops beat spag straps in the revealing of flesh thing. I haven't done enough interviews to conclude anything else :)

Erm, Kenneth, why would you choose the one which took another week? More holiday time is good. Not all CAP pple are Arts sorts too :) If you don't want that to get out, best to move this place as often as possible. Compulsive moving syndrome!

Generalisations exist for a purpose - they are often true! I vill present my masterpiece!


I used to be a Soprano 2. I'm not sure of my range now.

Commenting: YACCS. I'll leave you lot to come up with witty lines for the "x comments left so far" lines :) I've a dearth of creativity now.

I've a WAV file on Nerds and Geeks.

"A Nerd is someone whose life is focused on Computers and Technology. But a Geek is someone whose life is focused on Computers and Technology and likes it that way"

I have weird WAVs.

"a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake"? LOL

posted by Agagooga @ 1:03 am 0 comments