To the BATMOBILE

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

super rare collector's mint edition of butlerman comics!

as the gap between each blog entry lengthens, the initial euphoria of a freshly-started blog wears off, and i start to have equally-lengthy-and-blackish eyebags. being a superhero is a strenious task, and i quote "with great power, comes even greater responsibility". and writing a superheroic blog comes with it, strange looks, and stranger writing style (compare mine, and someone else's you knows)

however, less blogs = more worth. think of it this way, my blog contents can be taken as a jug of peanut butter (mmm... nutty), and each entry as a slice of wholemeal bread (healthy!). less bread = tastier peanut butter sandwich as more can be spread on each lovely piece of bread. mmm mmm.

strange fantasies aside, it is proven that better things come less often then the harsh realities of life. e.g. how often do you get to meet that guy/girl of your dreams as compared to that bloody-overly-irritating/self-assumed-superstar-classmate who seems to have clones of him/herself all over the school?

in today's edition of blog, we shall explore the strange mysteries of singaporean lifestyle, that even though i've been here all my life, i'm still puzzled by - (drumroll)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL SOMEWHAT PROUDLY PRESENTS

1) pEoPlE WhO tAlK lYk tHiS or thereabouts. i'm not a fan of long distance running, but after a somewhat inspiring speech by S. Kunalan, singapore's athletic idol (a bald aging indian), who explained that running releases endorphins which then excite the body. i still don't feel excited when i run, but at least it makes sense.
the strange typing style/speech, which i term "bullshit" ( i haven't thought of a term yet - i'll get back to you. i can't do much thinking in my state of mind) perhaps confuses the user into thinking they are projecting a clean, healthy image of a cool, drug-using, half-addled, black-hair-coloured-blond, hot sexy chink. note to self: not hot and sexy. i'm sorry for using stereotypes, but i've identified trends in the users.
(a) the big-small variation of the language (e.g. jAsOn My kOr, sO cUtE) is found mostly among the chinese girls, and strangely enough, all seem to know one another, find each other cute and are neighbourhood school students.
(b) the x-factor(?) variation of the language (e.g. helloX! LOLX, so CUTEXXXXXXXX) is used almost solely among the supposed-alpha-males of the neighbourhood schools, or a few cases in the top end of singapore's education. found on friendster with names such as ".-=bBoY AcIdX=-."... oh my god.

2) people who have kor's(brother) and gor's(another spelling version of brother) and meimei's(younger sister) and jiejie's(older sister) and baba's(dad) and mama's(if you can't get this, you deserve a slap in the head) all over cyberworld. found most commonly on blogs/friendsters/etc/etc. i understand the whole blood brother, triad gang member, i-die-for-you-and-you-hopefully-would-return-the-favour. this trend however extends to nearly all forms of lifeforms - from bengs and lians to well-off-people and even friends.

hopefully with more experience with other singaporeans, i would come out with a suitable answer to this phenomenon. to think i was puzzled enough with the emergence of singlish (and still am, with questions ranging from - if the chinese 'created' it, why aren't mainland chinese using it, to - why am i using it occasionally).

until then,
TO THE BATMOBILE

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