The After-effects of SUPER Size Me

OMG...

I dunno if things can get any worse than watching something and then feeling like you shouldn't have watched it as it will probably scar you for the rest of your life...

Has anyone else seen "Super Size Me"???

Anyone scarred by the images and messages that you'll no longer walk past the golden arch and not have flashbacks of images that you've seen in the movie???

I don't know if there are any statistical information that can give me the answer to my question... I mean, McDonalds doesn't usually publish its sales performance figures to the public anyway...

Did its sales plunge immediately after the launch of the movie and throughout the period when it was showing???

It's a mystery to me, and always will be...

Since the daily queues seem to be still very much the same after the launch...

Maybe people around this area aren't that particular about the food they eat, or what the food they eat does to their bodies, since the local delicacies aren't exactly the most healthy choices in the first place... I think maybe the increase in cholesterol, blood sugars, etc don't really make a lot of difference to them. They'll probably say that they don't have it that often anyway, so it's okay...

============================================

As more and more of the stuff we eat daily are come in packaged form and are preserved for longer shelf lives, I guess it's difficult to really blame the fries to still look like freshly bought ones even after more than 10 weeks...

But I'll never be able to look at them again the same way, nevertheless savour the flavours of what we branded as fast food...

=============================================

Peace out
Same Old Brand New foodie-for-thought

The Queer Eye Syndrome...

WARNING: THIS IS STRICTLY NOT FOR THE MCPS, HOMOPHOBIC OR THE FAINT-HEARTED.

Isn't it a wonder how the men out there are sometimes so badly groomed that they look practically like the castaways on a faraway deserted island? While some can be so well-groomed that they put the ladies to shame?

Is it really a metrosexual thing or a SNAG thing to do - to be well groomed?

====================================

If you've been watching the new Discovery Travel & Living channel, it'll all start to make sense...

Saviours come in the form of the Fab Five consisting of:
Kyan - The Grooming Guru
Jai - Culture Vulture
Thom - Design Doctor
Ted - Food & Wine Connoisseur
Carson - Fashion Savant

An elite team dedicated to extolling the simple virtues of style, taste & class.

Each week their mission is to transform a style-deficient & culture-deprived str8 man from drab to fab in each of their respective categories: grooming, culture, interior design, food & wine, & fashion.

===================================

Queer Eye For The Straight Guy

Five gay men, out to make over the world - one straight guy at a time.

====================================

Yes, it's not the men that do it... or the straight men rather... they've got help from the experts in the form of the queer Fab Five!!!

One episode later you'll find yourself addicted for more...

One simple reason... The Fab Five are so fab themselves to look at!!! Nevermind they're gay... who cares... they make for great eye candy for the gals!!!

And all that drama going on with Carson pouncing on every candidate & getting touchy feely with them, there are some episode where you'd know that the candidate's TOTALLY homophobic and they're like getting all freaked out when they get touchy feely... but it's all these that makes it so funny to watch... LOL...

Gals never get bothered by all the touchy feely stuff going on, cos we do it amongst ourselves too... so it's hilarious when you see for example, in one episode, a macho mucho cop being groped up and down by the Fab Five and you can see his hand going everywhere to sweep theirs away!!! LOL...

Moreover, some of the make-overs are so successful that you can't believe that it's the same person after the grooming... Kyan's doing a gr8 job!!! Some hideous looking ones at first, actually come out really fantastic!!! Bet they never even knew that they could look that good...

===================================

It's official...

It's become a syndrome... Many I know are now addicted to the series...

Well apart from the hilarious & fab Fab Five, there's also the draw of the usually quite cute straights every episode...

So... what are you waiting for?

Check out the site and catch some previews of what I'm talking about here!!!

Peace out
Same Old Brand New Me (with Queer Eye Syndrome too!!)

Criteria of a gr8 Horror/ Sci fi/ Thriller/ Slash Movie

the weather's kinda gloomy today, but my mood was like that yesterday after watching a day's of horror/ sci-fi/thriller/ slash movies... I've figurerd that Night is a gr8 film-maker... & i've got all the traits of a gr8 horror/ sci fi/ thriller/ slash movie...

Criteria of a gr8 horror/ sci fi/ thriller/ slash movie - the 5 less & 2 more theory:
1. the less details you give, the better
2. the less you see, the better
3. the less talking there is, the better
4. the less light, the better
5. the less people there are, the better
6. the more music there is, the better
7. the more body language there is, the better

if you don't believe me, next time you watch movies like these, take note of these criteria, I'm sure it'll be true for all. i'll explain it here...

Reasoning for the Criteria of a gr8 horror/ sci fi/ thriller/ slash movie - the 5 less & 2 more theory:
1. the less details you give, the better - u dunno anything, so u feel scared of e unknown
2. the less you see, the better - same as #1, less u see, less u noe, more u scared
3. the less talking there is, the better - builds suspense with lack of talking to distract from acting, anyway really scared people dun talk a lot do they?
4. the less light, the better - less light, less u see, less u noe, more u scared; moreover, e dark is scary...
5. the less people there are, the better - less people, less talk, less help, more opportunity for e unknown to strike...
6. the more music there is, the better - music is e heart & soul of it all, no soundtrack, no scare...
7. the more body language there is, the better - builds suspense oso, cos u dunno anything, u can't see anything, characters dun talk, u have to depend on body language to know what's happening, & it's very powerful indeed...

That's all for now from the movie buff...

till next time i'll give more info on other sorts of movies... when i do my movie marathon again...

peace out
Same Old Brand New Me
m(~_~)m

Same Old Brand New Confession

I've made up my mind already....

I'm NOT going to make this a diary entry for myself...

gonng be deeper than that...

anywayz online diaries suck right???

i mean who reads other people's daily routines...

and as i've mentioned before it's all kinda routine...

unless something GREAT happens...

and you gotta tell it to everyone you know...

then it's a different case...

=========================================

if i do get to go to Japan this March...

and something fab/OTT happens...

then that's something to start with...

LOL...

something like my previous teeny-bopper glory days...

*sign*

could write a multi-book sequel to it man...

till further notice on Japan trip...

peace out じゃまた(read as jya mata in Japanese, meaning "till later")
Same Old Brand New 私 (read as watashi in Japanese, meaning "me")

这本书 This Book

每个人只会看到自己想看的东西
每个人在看到之后只会想起自己有关的东西
每个人在以为已经看透某些事情的真谛时其实已经被看穿他的价值观和思考的东西
这本书
应该也不例外


Food for thought from a new pictorial book I just bought yesterday after KTV...


Peace out
Same Old Brand New Me

A new definition of work

Working on a Saturday afternoon at home... So there's a thought evoked in my mind...

I dunno about the rest of you, but what does work REALLY mean to you?

When asked whether you prefer working to studying, what's your answer?

When you're studying, you'll say you prefer to work.

When you're working, you'll say you prefer to study.

But is that what we really want? 'Cos if you look at it, there's really a contradiction to our answers.... I mean, is it that we can't make up our minds?

Or is it just that we'd always prefer the other option to what we're doing now? 'Cos there's the unknown factor involved in the alternative that makes it so much more enticing, even though in the end it might be the same after all.

The Mystery of the Unknown, the Alternative...

The Joy of actually having a choice in our prefixed, routine lives...

Ah the things we do to try to make our lives more bearable...



I believe that there is no other option than one option.



We ALL wanna just BUM around and not have to do anything.



That's the ultimate answer to the question posed above. I mean, we choose the other option 'cos we think that it's easier, more relaxing, etc... but when we do it, we wanna go back to the previous one, cos it's also too taxing...

So pose yourself the question if you dare, and tell yourself truthfully...

What do you prefer? Studying or working? [Or bumming?]

An End Tag to 2004

Jan to Mar 2004:
Still struggling in nightmare of an ex-company...

Mar 2004:
Off to Chicago for film fest!!! Woo hoo!!! Winter blues? No way!

Mid-April 2004:
Melodramatic resignation...

Mid-April to July 2004:
Changed a new company... worked on NDP...

A global traveller, all thanks to a certain brand, travelling here and there to research, scout and film for my company... Tried and tested in practice, a good act as a lost tourist with a handful of maps, looking blur and pitiful on the streets... Can fool up to 3 Men-in-blues to give me full attention and assistance in getting to my designation, despite language barrier!

August 2004:
NDP unveiled!!!

September to Nov 2004:
Certain brand's post work... Phew thank God it's over....

Dec 2004:
Fresh projects to usher in the new year!!!