losing friends + idolizing the west
Monday, August 15, 2005 (12:33 PM)
yes, i lost my friends to spywares. i've formatted my pc 4 times for the past 2 months due to unwelcomed invasion of spywares to my system and seriously, none of those anti-spywares i installed seem to make things better. finally, i decided that i need to format the entire hdd instead of the boot partition only. making backup was a real hassle so i had to give up 4 full seasons - + miscellaneous - which amounted to 10.4gb of f.r.i.e.n.d.s episodes and many other clips that i wouldn't have cleared off my disk if not for the malicious spywares, or what they call malware. and we say technology benefits mankind.
as a matter of fact, such malicious attacks did bring a point across to me despite not being the main purpose of its existence. i've learnt not to hold on to things that are 'maybe i would use', which i almost never do, or 'i can't bear to throw', when it proves no use to me. hence, i am now in the midst of clearing stuff off my cupboards, drawers so that i would have a neater table and a bedroom that looks like one.
after losing my 'friends', i guess the only alternative is to save for the full dvd sets of which i have been trying to for the past 2 years. let's reminisce on some of the classic conversations we have seen. warning: i might be doing this for every entry as of now.
joey: maybe this bag's for men and women
rachel: that's right! unisex!
joey: i don't need sex, maybe you need sex. i just had sex yesterday.
rachel: nonono... u-n-i-sex
joey: i'm not going to say 'no' to that
haha... i'm feeling down already. imagine losing my friends. when people say you can't live without friends, i totally understand what they mean now.
i'm not a firm believer of horoscope predictions but i find reading it fun. today's straits times said i'm going to get some reward for my hardwork and 'don't be surprised if it comes in the form of money'. i don't really know where this 'hardwork' came from but i sincerely hope some cash is about to come my way.
next, this is becoming more of a speakers' corner for me than an anecdote of my life. i used to wonder why the japanese idolize the west so much. even more than we do. i'm not promoting anglophobes or xenophobes here but it just makes me wonder if it is something good if people around the world begin to idolize one another.
then our conservative upbringing frowns at tactless comments, in-your-face criticisms yet we get amused and all hyped up by the simon cowell kind of straight-forward jabs like kids during halloween when they get uncontrollable over sugar. while we applaud simon's 'never-before-seen-on-tv' personality, we seem to be intolerable of it when it comes to singaporeans. how many of you liked ken lim? when we see the kind of comments he gave, we start doing what we do best - diminish our own kind. comments like 'copy simon cowell one lah' or 'sibei guai lan' starts occupying the streets since singapore idol began.
then a few years back when the japanese-fever came to singapore, we saw our girls go ga-ga over fair-skinned, long-haired boybands - and we couldn't even tell if they are really 'boy' bands. so back to my main point - is this a healthy sign?
definitely, we ought to learn the good practices of other countries such as the japanese' courtesy (they are the best at it) and their technology, not to forget their passion in doing things to such intricate details that i shame at all the projects i have attempted - it's not 'completed' by japanese standards. they set high standards for their quality work and they produce the best works. then the americans are the open-minded kind of people. they befriend everyone. a stranger can talk to you like you've been friends for ages. they are the fun kind of people. and after reading a chapter by Flew. T. on New Media, i realised that despite not having a trend of your own, it is better than the case of s11 where the twin towers no longer provide a path for spiderman to leave his web. the perpetrators obviously didn't idolize the west. and i realised that idolizing is also a form of friendship. if idolizing is the way to peace then go on, start idolizing. you can always start with me if you're lost.