Well.. since I don't know why it seems like a courtship season now. Maybe seeing people doing courtship makes you wonder about yourself sometimes. HAHAHA... most probably its just seeing frens all over having partners or striving to get one adi. I guess being the odd one out isn't so bad after all. You get to be a free observer anytime you want!
Well the reason of this post is... erm... I suddenly thought of doing a humour look on the types of courtships( or modes of attack..) that a guy(or a girl) does to earn the love of the opposite sex. Bear in mind this is just a joke okay?? hehe .. for the amusement of those who has the same humour as I do. Hope it doesn't offend anybody though.
I got this idea when I reminiscenced a conversation I had with one of my friends about how he courted his gf.. So..
DISCLAIMER: If you cant take it as a joke.. don't read further!! and I am in no way an expert on this kind of stuff. As most of you who know me, knows my experience on relationships is VERY VERY LIMITED and was a long time ago. Heck its been almost few years since I was in a real relationship and I've only had one. And I don't think I'll be able to do anything like that either. So this is just for fun.
There are a lof of types of courtships we can classify. Those that I will present below are just what I could think of:
Type 1: Strategic Attack Tactics
This type of courtship is a well-planned step-by-step approach by the guy/girl to court his or her intended target. Outings and words are planned in advance with contingency plans for each and every moment.
Most used by individuals who are experienced in the art of courtship and are able to predict moves and counter-moves by the target and also competitors.
As of the moment I have not encountered any friends who are using this highly planned approach.
Type 2: Counter Attack Tactics
This type is actually where the person expresses his or her feelings first before the opposite sex does it ( of course feelings of acceptance la. rejection doesnt count).
The person would feel that the opposite likes him/her and therefore will ask for his/her hand first! hahahah
As of the moment, I only know of one who used this tactic before. Can't disclose it here =)
Type 3: Shock & Awe!!!
This is the most common type I've heard of! The person applies shock tactics to woo the his/her intended target.
This is done by .
(1) straight away in-ur-face expression of feelings. Hoping by some chance he/she is gonna strike it right and get the girl/guy.
(2) Arrange for a meeting or an outing alone with the intended target
and applying (1)
(3) Through electronic means (MSN, ICQ, IRC, phone) or traditional pen and paper and applying (1)
Type 4 : HOSTILE TAKEOVER!!!
Wow.. this one is dangerous. Do it at the risk of physical harm. As the name suggests, this involves courting a target who already has partner. In our layman terms, its called "using a spanner/crowbar and prying it off the cold hard fingers of another person"
This.. I leave it for you to decide the morality of it. I abstain from commenting.
Type 5: Friendly Merger
This one involves both parties wanting it to happen. In cantonese we use 3 words to refer to it. "Fai, Leng, Cheng" ( Fast, Pretty, Good).
No fuss, No waste of funds, No hassle.
But of course... who cares as you love each other rite??? heck .. I DONT MIND!
haha.. well only 5 types for now. So.. which one was yours or.. are yours.. or you prefer?? mind to share at the comment page?? don't be shy ler hahahahah!!! Maybe if you guys have any ideas to add to the above 5 feel free to suggest!
Monday, December 19, 2005
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Lamp-post
Speaking about being single when everyone around you isn't could be an irritating scene. Just when you want to hang out with your close friends, they are either too busy dating, or that they would have to bring their other half along. It sorts of kills joy. You have to watch what you say, be on best behaviour, etc. Basically, you just cannot be yourself 100%.
Frankly, when you decide to have a heart to heart talk with 'outsiders' lurking around, it isn't fun anymore. It's no more the same now because the group has expanded. Sometimes, you may end up as the towering, brightest lamp-post. It's worse when your friends start to make out or get all too lovey-dovey with their partner. Heck, you don't want to witness all their vows of love. And you are not interested in soft porn either. Sometimes, it makes you sick being the tiang lampu.
But, seriously, you have to accept the fact that your friends will not wait for you. There are other people whom they are committed to now and it's not about you anymore. But could those lovebirds spare some time for their friends because life ain't about both of you either?!
Frankly, when you decide to have a heart to heart talk with 'outsiders' lurking around, it isn't fun anymore. It's no more the same now because the group has expanded. Sometimes, you may end up as the towering, brightest lamp-post. It's worse when your friends start to make out or get all too lovey-dovey with their partner. Heck, you don't want to witness all their vows of love. And you are not interested in soft porn either. Sometimes, it makes you sick being the tiang lampu.
But, seriously, you have to accept the fact that your friends will not wait for you. There are other people whom they are committed to now and it's not about you anymore. But could those lovebirds spare some time for their friends because life ain't about both of you either?!
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Woohoo!
This is my first post as a guest blogger, so pardon me for the irregularities.
Bitter tea is good. Literally and metaphorically. But often we just never realise it. Everything that tastes bitter is often discarded as bad experience, but the silver lining that comes with bitterness is always a lesson. No wonder old people keep reminding us. They have been there, tasted everything until their tastebuds are numbed. So we might as well learn from them. A little bitter tea could do us some good.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
WHAT THE HELL!!! Dont They Grow up!!??
I just saw something on TV that was so bad .. I cannot keep it to myself and I have to blog about it! Its so sick!....
Have you ever seen or heard an awareness advert on TV about Dengue fever that is sung in some 80's kiddy pop style???? OH MY GOD!!!.... I can't believe I just saw something like that on TV!...
I was dumbfounded for half a minute there. My brain just froze in hell and completely went into coma when I saw it. How would someone in their right mind give a damn about such a low quality awareness advert that reeks of such bad taste that it would still seem extremely laughable if it was shown a decade or more ago...
The music composition was like some kindergarten song. And i seriously think Ba Ba Black Sheep sounds a lot better and gives more awareness than that advert did. I was like.. damn... even the picture quality sucked.. It was as though it was stuck in the 70's/80's where the colour that you see on TV were washed out and looked it it went into the washing machine one time too many with an overload of Dynamo.
What the hell are those in charge of these stuff in the government department doing?? Doesnt Filem Negara have better quality production tools?? or issit they have an overstock of 20 years of low quality 8mm films and can't finish them??? Its a sick waste of taxpayers money spending on these kind of low quality campaigns.
I believe that campaigning to raise awareness is an important part in combating any disease or danger.. but doing it in this way is just absurd! If I wasnt watching, I would have thought it was a childrens Barney song!.
Damn it! Won't those people in charge of these stupid, tax-payer-money-wasting, di*k heads that continue to run these stupid things grow up and open their eyes???... It was just sick.
Have you ever seen or heard an awareness advert on TV about Dengue fever that is sung in some 80's kiddy pop style???? OH MY GOD!!!.... I can't believe I just saw something like that on TV!...
I was dumbfounded for half a minute there. My brain just froze in hell and completely went into coma when I saw it. How would someone in their right mind give a damn about such a low quality awareness advert that reeks of such bad taste that it would still seem extremely laughable if it was shown a decade or more ago...
The music composition was like some kindergarten song. And i seriously think Ba Ba Black Sheep sounds a lot better and gives more awareness than that advert did. I was like.. damn... even the picture quality sucked.. It was as though it was stuck in the 70's/80's where the colour that you see on TV were washed out and looked it it went into the washing machine one time too many with an overload of Dynamo.
What the hell are those in charge of these stuff in the government department doing?? Doesnt Filem Negara have better quality production tools?? or issit they have an overstock of 20 years of low quality 8mm films and can't finish them??? Its a sick waste of taxpayers money spending on these kind of low quality campaigns.
I believe that campaigning to raise awareness is an important part in combating any disease or danger.. but doing it in this way is just absurd! If I wasnt watching, I would have thought it was a childrens Barney song!.
Damn it! Won't those people in charge of these stupid, tax-payer-money-wasting, di*k heads that continue to run these stupid things grow up and open their eyes???... It was just sick.
Friday, December 09, 2005
CGI vs. Non CGI.... FAKE ?? REAL??? Part 1
Hhhmmm..... I thought "what to write about?" and a friend gave me an idea to blog about movies that have so much CGIs in them that it went to overkill.. so I thought .. why not .. but just blogging bout that I would have little to write about, so maybe I would write a little bit more than that and provide the movies that I had savoured for the past year and movies that I loved with CGI and without.
Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love movies. I'm completely crazy bout them no matter in forms of live-action or animation. Hmm... when was the first real movie I saw with CGI that blew me away... I think was .. 12 years ago, Jurassic Park. Since then we've seen a lot of fake things made real =). Well, the path had been bumpy, for every wonderful movie with CGI you had 5 more that were bad. Bad as in not the quality of CGI most of the time, but the movie that it came in - the acting, the dialogue, the story. It seems as thought the moviemakers think that just having superduper CGI or special effects would make us forget we paid RM 9 - if ur watching in a cineplex ( or RM 5 on student discount) or RM10 ( if ur buying a good quality pirated dvd) and spending 2 hours of our lives to see flashlights. Sigh...
But I have to admit some of my best moments I've had on reel is made up of movies with loads of CGI's - and with strong stories!!.
Anyone of you Tpgites who are old enough surely would still remember Lido ( Leh Tor in hokkien ) Theater - some refer to it as cinema. Where people que up for hours for any blockbuster movie and push/shove each other to get into that large theater. Well my best movie experience during the first few years of my life was at that place, watching JURASSIC PARK. For a lot of people a generation before us, the defining moment for sci-fi or movie experience was Star Wars. For me, it was Jurassic Park. The moment the awesome Brachiosaur stood up on its 2 hind legs to feed on the leaves of a damn tall tree, I was lost in awe.. and when I think back, I can still feel myself sitting in that theater with the only thing I was aware of, was the dinasour in front of me. I was totally transported into the world. That was the defining moment for me when it came to CGI and was never surpassed at all, the closest any movie with CGI ever came to overwhelming me was the LOTR trilogy ( which I can tell you sits firmly at my top 5 movies - live-action- that I love . It certainly made me fell head over heels again.. but it was still second to the moment I had in Jurassic Park. I guessed I was spoiled by too much crappy CGI in too many bad movies.
Actually I can't take a stand between CGI and non-CGI.. because to me ... ultimately its the story that counts and it depends a lot on the story. Who can imagine LOTR or Jurassic Park without CGI?? haha ... But I have to admit there are a lot of crap out in the market nowadays.
But if you look at the past year, there were a lot of good films that used little or no CGI at all.. classic old-school story telling on celluloid I would say. Films like Million Dollar Baby ( Eastwood at his best.. highly recommended), American Splendor, Hotel Rwanda ( the ever likeable Don Cheadle in top form) and PTU from Hong Kong ( Johnny To and Simon yam - brining Hong Kong back to style) were films which I enjoyed and liked the most. If u asked me to name a CGI filled movie that I liked for the past year.. I'm hard pressed to give an answer really.
Maybe most of the filmmakers are losing their touch with story telling... consequences of the MTV generation maybe?? Who knows haha.
Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love movies. I'm completely crazy bout them no matter in forms of live-action or animation. Hmm... when was the first real movie I saw with CGI that blew me away... I think was .. 12 years ago, Jurassic Park. Since then we've seen a lot of fake things made real =). Well, the path had been bumpy, for every wonderful movie with CGI you had 5 more that were bad. Bad as in not the quality of CGI most of the time, but the movie that it came in - the acting, the dialogue, the story. It seems as thought the moviemakers think that just having superduper CGI or special effects would make us forget we paid RM 9 - if ur watching in a cineplex ( or RM 5 on student discount) or RM10 ( if ur buying a good quality pirated dvd) and spending 2 hours of our lives to see flashlights. Sigh...
But I have to admit some of my best moments I've had on reel is made up of movies with loads of CGI's - and with strong stories!!.
Anyone of you Tpgites who are old enough surely would still remember Lido ( Leh Tor in hokkien ) Theater - some refer to it as cinema. Where people que up for hours for any blockbuster movie and push/shove each other to get into that large theater. Well my best movie experience during the first few years of my life was at that place, watching JURASSIC PARK. For a lot of people a generation before us, the defining moment for sci-fi or movie experience was Star Wars. For me, it was Jurassic Park. The moment the awesome Brachiosaur stood up on its 2 hind legs to feed on the leaves of a damn tall tree, I was lost in awe.. and when I think back, I can still feel myself sitting in that theater with the only thing I was aware of, was the dinasour in front of me. I was totally transported into the world. That was the defining moment for me when it came to CGI and was never surpassed at all, the closest any movie with CGI ever came to overwhelming me was the LOTR trilogy ( which I can tell you sits firmly at my top 5 movies - live-action- that I love . It certainly made me fell head over heels again.. but it was still second to the moment I had in Jurassic Park. I guessed I was spoiled by too much crappy CGI in too many bad movies.
Actually I can't take a stand between CGI and non-CGI.. because to me ... ultimately its the story that counts and it depends a lot on the story. Who can imagine LOTR or Jurassic Park without CGI?? haha ... But I have to admit there are a lot of crap out in the market nowadays.
But if you look at the past year, there were a lot of good films that used little or no CGI at all.. classic old-school story telling on celluloid I would say. Films like Million Dollar Baby ( Eastwood at his best.. highly recommended), American Splendor, Hotel Rwanda ( the ever likeable Don Cheadle in top form) and PTU from Hong Kong ( Johnny To and Simon yam - brining Hong Kong back to style) were films which I enjoyed and liked the most. If u asked me to name a CGI filled movie that I liked for the past year.. I'm hard pressed to give an answer really.
Maybe most of the filmmakers are losing their touch with story telling... consequences of the MTV generation maybe?? Who knows haha.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
I think Not.....
Well.. this is a record!!!! second post in one nite!!
The moment i'm writing this.. its half-time of AC Milan vs Shalke 04. and its 4.30 in the morning...
I remembered I wrote a post.. that should I write personal things here .. express personal feelings here or not..And a while ago I was talking to a friend about posting blogs. Somesort la.
Well.. I think (I'm quite sure) that I would not post personal feelings here at all... Never... these things should be kept for myself and maybe someone special. And I dont think I blog frequent enough for it too hahaha! .. Anyway the chat box is down. I dont know how to get it up again ( Partly lazy of course).
How about we play something for you guys. Since I blog very little, maybe this game would persuade or encourage me to blog more often and become my inspiration of sorts haha =). How about you guys put in the comments.. what you would like me to make a story of or blog about. =) I would try my best to do it seriously (as long as I approve!! ) hahaha.
The moment i'm writing this.. its half-time of AC Milan vs Shalke 04. and its 4.30 in the morning...
I remembered I wrote a post.. that should I write personal things here .. express personal feelings here or not..And a while ago I was talking to a friend about posting blogs. Somesort la.
Well.. I think (I'm quite sure) that I would not post personal feelings here at all... Never... these things should be kept for myself and maybe someone special. And I dont think I blog frequent enough for it too hahaha! .. Anyway the chat box is down. I dont know how to get it up again ( Partly lazy of course).
How about we play something for you guys. Since I blog very little, maybe this game would persuade or encourage me to blog more often and become my inspiration of sorts haha =). How about you guys put in the comments.. what you would like me to make a story of or blog about. =) I would try my best to do it seriously (as long as I approve!! ) hahaha.
Well..... Sometimes i dont know ...
Well its been ages since posted.... I wonder if there would still be people visitin this blog since I update it so "often" ( read RARELY ). Hmm... been back for holidays for more than 2 week already. There is only another 2 weeks or so left.
Sometimes it feels so lonely when your back. Don't know ler. Dont get me wrong, I always prefer back in Taiping rather than in Kuching. Just that sometimes when your back you really don't know what to do. It's kinda funny, I always joke with my gang.. LOL .. (90% of them have a girlfren adi and going steady..). I always tell them " SIgh Lu lang ka liao ou cha bo peng yiu liao... kua tiuk pun chiak chor ( vinegar) ... cham liao la wa... sien si ar ti chu chi kiok lang" - literally translated it means " Sigh.. all of u have gf adi .. see adi also jealous.. i'm in deep sh*t.. bored like hell alone at home" .. =)
Well its funny ya know.. I tell one of my friend ... He shoots me back that he's instead jealous of me, free to go wherever I want.. Don't have to answer to anybody.. Don't have to report to anybody. HAHAHAHA........
Ya know that day one of my friends asked me about my opinion on his relationship with his gf. How about this, and how about that. Hmm... then later when we were playing snooker with another close friend ( who also has a steady girlfriend for quite some time), they commented that I'm the earliest to have one la... most experienced la (?? WTF???).. so its good for them to ask me la... I WAS LIKE WFT!!!! experienced??? ARE U GUYS OUT OF UR MINDS??? I WAS 16 then!! and now look at me?? hahahahah!! LOL
No way.... aahahh
To think of it.... it is difficult to think of any of my friends who does not have a partner or who is not close to having one. I maybe one of the earliest to experience having someone but...The first to get... the last to have one again maybe? HAHAHA...
Anyway as a disclaimer: I'm not desparate or anything for a partner.......its just that nowadays its extremely hard to find an activity partner of the same sex for football or games or running or hiking. My god.. asking frens of the same sex to go for morning runs or evening hikes or for cyber games during afternoons and evenings is so damn difficult when they have girlfriends!! haha... maybe I was like that too last time. I think I certainly was.
Sometimes it feels so lonely when your back. Don't know ler. Dont get me wrong, I always prefer back in Taiping rather than in Kuching. Just that sometimes when your back you really don't know what to do. It's kinda funny, I always joke with my gang.. LOL .. (90% of them have a girlfren adi and going steady..). I always tell them " SIgh Lu lang ka liao ou cha bo peng yiu liao... kua tiuk pun chiak chor ( vinegar) ... cham liao la wa... sien si ar ti chu chi kiok lang" - literally translated it means " Sigh.. all of u have gf adi .. see adi also jealous.. i'm in deep sh*t.. bored like hell alone at home" .. =)
Well its funny ya know.. I tell one of my friend ... He shoots me back that he's instead jealous of me, free to go wherever I want.. Don't have to answer to anybody.. Don't have to report to anybody. HAHAHAHA........
Ya know that day one of my friends asked me about my opinion on his relationship with his gf. How about this, and how about that. Hmm... then later when we were playing snooker with another close friend ( who also has a steady girlfriend for quite some time), they commented that I'm the earliest to have one la... most experienced la (?? WTF???).. so its good for them to ask me la... I WAS LIKE WFT!!!! experienced??? ARE U GUYS OUT OF UR MINDS??? I WAS 16 then!! and now look at me?? hahahahah!! LOL
No way.... aahahh
To think of it.... it is difficult to think of any of my friends who does not have a partner or who is not close to having one. I maybe one of the earliest to experience having someone but...The first to get... the last to have one again maybe? HAHAHA...
Anyway as a disclaimer: I'm not desparate or anything for a partner.......its just that nowadays its extremely hard to find an activity partner of the same sex for football or games or running or hiking. My god.. asking frens of the same sex to go for morning runs or evening hikes or for cyber games during afternoons and evenings is so damn difficult when they have girlfriends!! haha... maybe I was like that too last time. I think I certainly was.
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