Thursday, April 29, 2004

WOMEN ARE BITCHES

It's our primal feline nature to hiss, scratch, bite and give arctic stares.
The core of our very existance revolves around seeing that bitch in her high heels fall flat on her face whilst strutting like she owns the whole Gawddamn sidewalk, to see that nasty twat with her up turned nose choke on her cigarette smoke and curl up and die from lung cancer in seconds.

Why do we do it?

Why do I give Dezzo a disgusted look when he says "I think Tanya Chua is not bad, I quite like her songs."
Too quick to judge,
Too selfish to give the time of the day to another female,
Too quick to stamp down another woman's effort.


We bitch, we gossip and are quick to comment on a certain girlfriend.
We do it behind her back, or heck, sometimes even right under her nose. It's funny, because we are actually the bigger fools for doing so, fools for thinking that that certain girlfriend is oblivious to the back stabbing unfolding before her.
THEN!
Like the world's greatest thespians that we are, we still laugh at her jokes, we still act as if we care.
The ensemble of hypocrites on the big stage of make believe friendship.

Why is it when we are introduced another woman, we approach the new aquaintance on our toes, head bowed down, hairs on neck standing, as if ready for battle.
Sizeing up this so called opponent.
The minute she exhibits
a) Unfriendliness
b) Superiority
c) Quirkiness
We judge and write her off IMMEDIATELY.

Then! Just by that ONE meeting, when asked "so what do you think of Ms. so-and-so", instead of going "Oh..I've only met her once, I don't quite know.." we choose to draw on the what we deemed as a negative smelly vibe and say "I DON'T LIKE HER, what a bitch!"

WHY?

Take away the gossip and bitching...and what will that leave a bunch of girls to do on a sunday afternoon?
Ha!
What do boys talk about?
I'm sure they don't sit down and go heart-to-heart with another male, like my pseudo-homophob boyfriend would say "Fuck! That's so gay!"

I've practised the fine art of bitching for many many years now.
Perhaps it's time to take off the crown and go in search of an alternative pastime.
Tennis anyone?

Saturday, April 24, 2004

I always have strange dreams.
Dez said I should start a dream chronical.
This one took place yesterday morning, whilst I was drifting in and out of 10-11am sleep

Dez and Jo are walking along a quiet stretch in a peaceful neighbourhood. The road is straight and long with lush green trees flanking either side of the road.
The come across a big hot dog/ice cream type truck that sells fruits.

Dez:Do you want some fruits?
Jo:Sure
Young Guy:Maam, would you like some spit cubes with shit powder (pointing to little cubes of guava covered in tamarind powder) or normal guava?
Jo:Just normal guava thanks! How much will that be?
Young Guy:Oh, for you free...my mother is playing with your boyfriend.

Jo looks over to see the young guy's mother putting a white plastic bag full of longans on Dez's head. She steps back and seemingly admires her little "Masterpiece". She then nods and takes the bag of fruits off Dez's head.

Jo and Dez then proceed to walk towards this architechturally gorgeous carpark nearby, with warm orange light illuminating the street. Whilst walking there, Jo finds it hard to finish the big slices of guava, so she wears two huge slices on her feet as shoes

Dez:But they'll get dirty then you can't eat them!
Jo:True...nevermind, I'll nibble on the sides later.

They enter the ground level of the multi story carpark which has loud pop music playing overhead.

Jo:So what do you think of these new car parks with in built radios?
Dez:I think the boom box is definately making a come back.

They continue walking up, Jo still eating her guava, until they reach a door nearing the top. When they open it, they see a pretty young girl, in her mid twentys, shoulder length hair, braces, wearing a red jacket. She sits at a receptionist desk. The room is small, with a window behind the girl which overlooks onto the street below. The fruit van is visible from the office.

Jo:The guava here is really good!
Girl:Yes, but you can't tell the Sengkang girls that, you have to tell them it's mooshoo(Some strange chinese term), only then will they eat it.
Dez:Yea...All these Suburbanites!

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

I hate it when I get so bloody emotional.
But yet, on the other hand,
I love to indulge my little moments of emotionally wasting away.
I'll put on the most melancholic music, lie in bed and relish my overtly emo moment.

Contemplating
Meditating

I close my eyes.
How many hours has it been since I constructed my nihilistic army?
Admist my pillow wonderland of annihilation.
The annihilation of dreams that were.


I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Scared of the spotlight
You don't come to visit
I'm stuck on this bed


Thin rubber gloves
She laughs when she's crying
She cries when she's laughing


Fat bloody fingers are sucking your soul away

I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Christian suburbanite
Washed down the toilet
Money to burn


Fat bloody fingers are sucking your soul away

If you're frightened of dying and then you hold on
You'll see devils tearing your life away
But, if you've made your peace
Then the devils are really angels
Freeing you from the Earth... from the Earth


White worms on the underground
Caught between stations
Butter fingers
I'm losing my patience


I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Christian suburbanite
You got money to burn


Fat bloody fingers are sucking your soul away... away... away..

-Radiohead and DJ Shadow, Rabbit In Your Headlights

Monday, April 12, 2004

Monday

It really stings for both the employed and the unemployed.
Yet another day of sifting through the classifieds and internet job databases.
My resolve has cave in and have started applying for civil service jobs (no offence to all ye hardworking civil servants). I never thought I'd ever succumb to having to look for work in the public sector. It sucks because I know that the bureaucracy will kill me. Not one for working within a system of administration marked by officialism and red tape, it seems like I'm going to pimp myself to a bloody communistic regime. Sigh...
All things aside, the 9-5 is attractive, which indicates that I'd probably have a life of some sort.

JUICE magazine advertised for contributors, so have asked people to send in a sample of their writing. Sat in front of the comp for a good part of the afternoon trying to write a review on the Marilyn Manson concert I attended last year. This cemented the fact that it was a wise move not to have wasted my father's money on journalism skool. It was not easy.
My brother says that I am still trying to find my own personal style of writing.
Ah wot the hell, I'm just going to give my two cents worth of the girls and boys that rocked up as Teachers, Enema Nurses, Punks, Defenestrated Geeks and Bunny Rabbits of the Donnie Darko kind.
Haha...actually is just a lame excuse to get the JUICE passes so can get free entry to big events, by turning partying into homework. Apparently dezzo was thinking of applying to be a JUICE freelance photographer a while back. How fun if we both got the freelance jobs and went to similar events!

Sigh...
Where were our big dreams?


Sunday, April 11, 2004

This is the most number of times I've been to church in a week.
Once on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday.
Perhaps it's enough to redeem my soul from the sin of gluttony.

Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Sunday was lovely.
I had been craving for traditional sesame paste dessert for the longest longest time. So after lunch, Dezzo whipped out his Makansutra and we looked up chinese desserts. Found 2 stalls at chinatown complex, but only one was open. The dessert was Ho-hum, completely bashing my pre-conceived expectations down to a smelly pulp.
I was anticipating a bowl full of the thick, smooth, full bodied sesame paste that fills Tang Yuen, but this one however was really watered down and bland. I must compliment the hawkers for putting such great effort into keeping the velvety texture of the paste, stirring it every few minutes, striving to serve the smoothest paste possible and not some congealed muck.

We went walking after, checking out the little back lanes. If you guys have time out on a weekend, I recommend chinatown. What a difference the place is during non-chinese new year periods, compared to the CNY madness, that sees a cacophany of aunties hunting for the best bargains, which to me seems to require some esoteric strategies passed down through the generations.
Smaterings of Boutique hotels, such as 1929, quaint book cafes, spas and pre war architecture.
Felt like a mini holiday.

Sunday, April 04, 2004

Supper at Crystal Jade.
Their Deep Fried prawns in Mayo are tantamount to an orgasm



Smokin' Hot Dezzo

Saturday, April 03, 2004

It's Saturday afternoon.
I just finished my usual "Lie in bed and think about life".
I am sitting here at my comp, eating museli in milk, listening to the crap that Power 98 is playing, and suddenly for no reason whatsoever, I just started to get really angry!
And it was'nt the general annoyance that we feel when there's an incompetant driver in front of us, when someone cuts our queue or when handphones go off in cinemas. It was the full on, ARGGGHHHHH I am so rabidly fucking mad I just want to gourge his eyes out slice him open shove a grater up his anus.
I think I am just drowining in this languidity.
Gone are the days when we could all just go out for doughnuts on a whim.
Throw dinner parties because we felt like it.
Sit around and make flippant comments about possible careers, because we had none.

Jo
Ever the impatient
My degree feels like a joke

Reality bites