iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: Bonde — Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder — Talk­ing Tim­buktu, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music.

Some angry young woman thinks I look vaguely gay on TV, and I wasn’t even hav­ing a dou­ble mac or an Orange Mocha Frappucino.


3) The only Blog­ger who claimed to address social issue [sic] looked sus­pi­ciously like a recluse.
4) Not only that, he looked vaguely gay.


In the post imme­di­ately prior, she’s just watched that Get Rea! episode and she’s very riled up by what she sees and hears, much like how other angry young women get very, very riled up when they watch Sin­ga­pore Idol because the judges are so stu­pid and gay and the con­tes­tants so untal­ented how dare they even audi­tion for the show et cetera ad nauseum.


···Yes, blog­ging in Sin­ga­pura is a dis­ap­point­ment. Even the more well-known blogs here are noth­ing but a big fat flop. All they do is ram­ble about their per­sonal lives, which to me, is all wrong. Nobody wants to hear the brain-numbing details. Some­times, I’m tempted to sim­ply take down my photo log because it dan­ger­ously adds per­son­al­ity to this blog. It makes it more human. Wouldn’t it be bet­ter over­all if I was blog­ging with­out a face? If I had no human per­son­al­ity attached to me? I would be noth­ing but a voice. Some­how, I sus­pect that putting up my pic­tures attracts trolls. They’re able to attach a face to a voice, and face it, trolls are usu­ally so stu­pid they can’t iden­tify a voice with­out a face.


Luvvie, it’s a teevee show, and it’s called Get Rea! They shoulda inter­viewed you instead, because you have more of an agenda than any­thing I’d ever be able to muster. But what to do? I min­gle with the glit­terati and Diana Ser has my mobile number.


···Another Blog­ger told us that the qual­ity of blog­ging here is seri­ously bad. Tell me some­thing I don’t know, mis­ter. And why didn’t he share his blog address? I’m curi­ous to see how hot shot a social com­men­ta­tor he is.


Be curi­ous no more, for I am not a com­men­ta­tor of any sort. And I tried my darn­d­est to ‘share my blog address’, but it just so hap­pened that the show had peo­ple called pro­duc­ers to edit the one hour inter­view and left the impor­tant bit out. For social com­men­tary, go to Mr Brown’s. He’s well-known, big and a lit­tle fat (my age liao mah), but def­i­nitely no flop by any measure.

Still, thank you. Bet­ter to look vaguely gay than vaguely straight. Orange Mocha Frap­pu­cino for everyone!

(Nabeh… simi recluse? I have lotsa friends ok?)

 
  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5039541 Cup­cake Queen

    Vaguely gay? How do you define that, ar? Has it got to do with your shiny forehead?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5039541 Cup­cake Queen

    Vaguely gay? How do you define that, ar? Has it got to do with your shiny forehead?

  • Anony­mous

    hehe, sounds like sour grapes to me. I wanted to catch the TV pro­gramme but both days I hap­pened to be out. Just wanted to let you know I have been enjoy­ing your blog for a few months already, thanks for sharing.

    umami
    http://umami.typepad.com/umami/

  • Anony­mous

    hehe, sounds like sour grapes to me. I wanted to catch the TV pro­gramme but both days I hap­pened to be out. Just wanted to let you know I have been enjoy­ing your blog for a few months already, thanks for sharing.

    umami
    http://umami.typepad.com/umami/

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4146500 Bub­ble­mu­nche

    Good­ness! I’m amazed by how you man­aged to find Angry Young Woman.

    Any­way, yes, ‘vaguely gay’ sounds hel­lva lot bet­ter than ‘vaguely straight’… how does one define these anyway?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4146500 Bub­ble­mu­nche

    Good­ness! I’m amazed by how you man­aged to find Angry Young Woman.

    Any­way, yes, ‘vaguely gay’ sounds hel­lva lot bet­ter than ‘vaguely straight’… how does one define these anyway?

  • Anony­mous

    Look, What­sy­er­name (sorry, didn’t catch it),

    I think it’s extremely reward­ing that you’re get­ting so agi­tated. Yes, as you prob­a­bly think, I write to pro­voke and see­ing peo­ple pro­voked amuses me no end.

    Because

    1) They’re actu­ally kick­ing up a fuss over what an 18 year old girl from a mediocre JC on a tiny island is bab­bling about.

    2) Some­how they take the time to hunt down com­ments which may be dam­ag­ing to their rep­u­ta­tion, hence stum­bling upon blog of said 18 year old girl.

    3) They take the time to ded­i­cate entire posts to said 18 year old girl. Prob­a­bly hop­ing she’d stum­ble across it and read it eh?

    4) They, regard­less of age/gender/occupation/creed/sexuality, usu­ally think such “blog wars” are the height of excite­ment and the high­light of their day.

    5) Said 18 year old girl is an Angry Young Girl (or more rudely labelled by oth­ers). Hence, being auto­mat­i­cally assumed to be young, infan­tile and pissy, I won­der why they still want to pick bones with her?

    So, over­all, it’s quite amusing.

    Oh well. What can I say, I didn’t actively want to insult you actu­ally, just giv­ing a few super­fi­cial (although admit­tedly impo­lite) com­ments. If you’d read my post thor­oughly, you’d see that it was more x**x** and the last girl whom I had a bone to pick with. Yes, I dis­like the way they speak, the way they por­tray females and I def­i­nitely dis­like the way they blog.

    I may not have liked the way you were pre­sented on telly, but face it, Get Real was ter­ri­ble over­all for all 4 of you. Aside from that, my com­pli­ments to your writ­ing, it is quite decent, espe­cially in com­par­i­son to the trash and dri­vel of many other blogs.

    Regards,

    Angry Young Girl

    or bet­ter known as ms.beautifuk.

  • Anony­mous

    Look, What­sy­er­name (sorry, didn’t catch it),

    I think it’s extremely reward­ing that you’re get­ting so agi­tated. Yes, as you prob­a­bly think, I write to pro­voke and see­ing peo­ple pro­voked amuses me no end.

    Because

    1) They’re actu­ally kick­ing up a fuss over what an 18 year old girl from a mediocre JC on a tiny island is bab­bling about.

    2) Some­how they take the time to hunt down com­ments which may be dam­ag­ing to their rep­u­ta­tion, hence stum­bling upon blog of said 18 year old girl.

    3) They take the time to ded­i­cate entire posts to said 18 year old girl. Prob­a­bly hop­ing she’d stum­ble across it and read it eh?

    4) They, regard­less of age/gender/occupation/creed/sexuality, usu­ally think such “blog wars” are the height of excite­ment and the high­light of their day.

    5) Said 18 year old girl is an Angry Young Girl (or more rudely labelled by oth­ers). Hence, being auto­mat­i­cally assumed to be young, infan­tile and pissy, I won­der why they still want to pick bones with her?

    So, over­all, it’s quite amusing.

    Oh well. What can I say, I didn’t actively want to insult you actu­ally, just giv­ing a few super­fi­cial (although admit­tedly impo­lite) com­ments. If you’d read my post thor­oughly, you’d see that it was more x**x** and the last girl whom I had a bone to pick with. Yes, I dis­like the way they speak, the way they por­tray females and I def­i­nitely dis­like the way they blog.

    I may not have liked the way you were pre­sented on telly, but face it, Get Real was ter­ri­ble over­all for all 4 of you. Aside from that, my com­pli­ments to your writ­ing, it is quite decent, espe­cially in com­par­i­son to the trash and dri­vel of many other blogs.

    Regards,

    Angry Young Girl

    or bet­ter known as ms.beautifuk.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Agi­tated! Of course agi­gated lah, nabeh, call me a recluse?! It’s 10.48am, and I am about to go out of the house OK? To meet some peo­ple OK?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Agi­tated! Of course agi­gated lah, nabeh, call me a recluse?! It’s 10.48am, and I am about to go out of the house OK? To meet some peo­ple OK?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/603515 Man­drake

    Vaguely Vague?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/603515 Man­drake

    Vaguely Vague?

  • Anony­mous

    Damn I keep miss­ing the Get Rea! pro­gram. Miyagi you have any­thing in .avi for­mat or what?

    Evie

  • Anony­mous

    Damn I keep miss­ing the Get Rea! pro­gram. Miyagi you have any­thing in .avi for­mat or what?

    Evie

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/597200 Cow­boy Caleb

    dude, she called you gay leh.

    for that, she and 3 gen­er­a­tions must die by the sword.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/597200 Cow­boy Caleb

    dude, she called you gay leh.

    for that, she and 3 gen­er­a­tions must die by the sword.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3852059 lit­tle­cart­noo­dles

    Acherly, I like read­ing about other people’s per­sonal lives on their blogs because I’m a freak­ing blog voyeur …

    Some blog­gers have very inter­est­ing lives while oth­ers can make com­mon, day-to-day expe­ri­ences appear so interesting.

    Social com­men­tary ? Sollee, my engr­ish not wery good …

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3852059 lit­tle­cart­noo­dles

    Acherly, I like read­ing about other people’s per­sonal lives on their blogs because I’m a freak­ing blog voyeur …

    Some blog­gers have very inter­est­ing lives while oth­ers can make com­mon, day-to-day expe­ri­ences appear so interesting.

    Social com­men­tary ? Sollee, my engr­ish not wery good …

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1551787 Jel­ly­Girl

    Per­haps you could take ‘vaguely gay’ to mean err…metrosexual. hee.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1551787 Jel­ly­Girl

    Per­haps you could take ‘vaguely gay’ to mean err…metrosexual. hee.

  • Anony­mous

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    I’ve check out her blog. She isn’t blog­ging. As a mat­ter of fact, she’s nag­ging. I like your blogs.

    Regards,
    Fan of Mr Miyagi

  • Anony­mous

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    I’ve check out her blog. She isn’t blog­ging. As a mat­ter of fact, she’s nag­ging. I like your blogs.

    Regards,
    Fan of Mr Miyagi

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1410811 chain­saw­ield­inun

    ditto here. and the ‘vaguely gay’ / ‘recluse’ remarks — what­ever man, the girl calls for tren­chant social com­men­taries in sg blogs in one post and frets about ghastly stripey socks 2 blogs after.. i mean, what the…?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1410811 chain­saw­ield­inun

    ditto here. and the ‘vaguely gay’ / ‘recluse’ remarks — what­ever man, the girl calls for tren­chant social com­men­taries in sg blogs in one post and frets about ghastly stripey socks 2 blogs after.. i mean, what the…?

  • Anony­mous

    Hello Mr Miyagi!

    Just to say I like your blogs (which is why I pasted the link in mine, hope you don’t mind).
    Keep hav­ing your Mocha!
    I’ll keep hav­ing my sake.

    drunk­ard today

  • Anony­mous

    Hello Mr Miyagi!

    Just to say I like your blogs (which is why I pasted the link in mine, hope you don’t mind).
    Keep hav­ing your Mocha!
    I’ll keep hav­ing my sake.

    drunk­ard today

  • Anony­mous

    that angry young women writes stuff that is clas­si­fied under “invi­ta­tion to flame”. I think that phase will pass..must be doing too much GP essays.

    evie

  • Anony­mous

    that angry young women writes stuff that is clas­si­fied under “invi­ta­tion to flame”. I think that phase will pass..must be doing too much GP essays.

    evie

  • Anony­mous

    I’d put the blame on the reper­cus­sions of that-time-of-the-month. Lost too much blood, so must bloody digress.

    It’s a case of bad tim­ing I guess.

    Jayaxe

  • Anony­mous

    I’d put the blame on the reper­cus­sions of that-time-of-the-month. Lost too much blood, so must bloody digress.

    It’s a case of bad tim­ing I guess.

    Jayaxe

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4377512 Kevin

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  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4377512 Kevin

    aiya, she con­tra­dicts her­self leh. I thought I’m the only one who posts lengthy and mean­ing­less entries and trip on my own words. Just to cite 2 snip­pets from 2 sep­a­rate posts;

    They take an online diary for what it lit­er­ally is — a diary. No! It’s not a diary, it’s a web-log. Nobody wants to know what you ate, what you shat and how many times you shat. Nobody gives a damn. That’s not jour­nal­ism at all. Oh, right, maybe it’s jour­nal­ism on your own insignif­i­cant lit­tle life? Which makes me shout again,

    “Oi! Nobody gives a damn lah!”but then in an ear­lier post, titled “my eyes my eyes”, it goes like this…

    My eyes, my eyes. Argggghhh.

    That’s how I feel after try­ing to sort out my 500, 000, 099 mobile phone pic­tures scat­tered all over the com­puter. Oh yes. Organ­i­sa­tion has never been my strong point. But after a lot of squint­ing, curs­ing and grum­bling, I’ve done it! Approx­i­mately 1 year’s worth of pic­tures in 8 fold­ers. Not bad, ms. beau­ti­fuk, for a morning’s work.

    And I saw Jakob Dylan’s blonde twin brother swim­ming in the pool this morn­ing. How good is that?

    I’ve got to stop this weird pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with twin broth­ers, includ­ing S’s one in YJ.

    Erh. I should shut my eyes to give them a break. Yep, I shall shut them. Just for a lit­tle lit­tle while. I’m not going to fall asleep. Nope, I’m not.

    lis­ten­ing to : Peo­ple Hate Me — Murderdolls your eyes? your cell­phone? your crush? what you lis­ten­ing to?

    Oi! Nobody gives a flip­ping fly­ing fuck la!now where’s my abestos longjohns…?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4377512 Kevin

    aiya, she con­tra­dicts her­self leh. I thought I’m the only one who posts lengthy and mean­ing­less entries and trip on my own words. Just to cite 2 snip­pets from 2 sep­a­rate posts;

    They take an online diary for what it lit­er­ally is — a diary. No! It’s not a diary, it’s a web-log. Nobody wants to know what you ate, what you shat and how many times you shat. Nobody gives a damn. That’s not jour­nal­ism at all. Oh, right, maybe it’s jour­nal­ism on your own insignif­i­cant lit­tle life? Which makes me shout again,

    “Oi! Nobody gives a damn lah!“but then in an ear­lier post, titled “my eyes my eyes”, it goes like this…

    My eyes, my eyes. Argggghhh.

    That’s how I feel after try­ing to sort out my 500, 000, 099 mobile phone pic­tures scat­tered all over the com­puter. Oh yes. Organ­i­sa­tion has never been my strong point. But after a lot of squint­ing, curs­ing and grum­bling, I’ve done it! Approx­i­mately 1 year’s worth of pic­tures in 8 fold­ers. Not bad, ms. beau­ti­fuk, for a morning’s work.

    And I saw Jakob Dylan’s blonde twin brother swim­ming in the pool this morn­ing. How good is that?

    I’ve got to stop this weird pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with twin broth­ers, includ­ing S’s one in YJ.

    Erh. I should shut my eyes to give them a break. Yep, I shall shut them. Just for a lit­tle lit­tle while. I’m not going to fall asleep. Nope, I’m not.

    lis­ten­ing to : Peo­ple Hate Me — Murderdolls your eyes? your cell­phone? your crush? what you lis­ten­ing to?

    Oi! Nobody gives a flip­ping fly­ing fuck la!now where’s my abestos longjohns…?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    OK, don’t play already. I actu­ally like Beautifuk’s blog, which is why I high­lighted it. I think she’s got the mak­ings of a good writer, so let’s all encour­age. Max­i­mize, not minimize.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    OK, don’t play already. I actu­ally like Beautifuk’s blog, which is why I high­lighted it. I think she’s got the mak­ings of a good writer, so let’s all encour­age. Max­i­mize, not minimize.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4377512 Kevin

    if u say so then, Miyagi Sen­sei, just didn’t like her holier than thou far­ti­tude, that’s all.

    Admit­tedly, she writes well, albeit in a very jar­ring way. Whereas your abil­ity to laugh at the world and your­self makes your blog more fun to read.

    btw, i still didn’t get to see for myself how shiny your fore­head looks on tv, but i can vaguely visualize…

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4377512 Kevin

    if u say so then, Miyagi Sen­sei, just didn’t like her holier than thou far­ti­tude, that’s all.

    Admit­tedly, she writes well, albeit in a very jar­ring way. Whereas your abil­ity to laugh at the world and your­self makes your blog more fun to read.

    btw, i still didn’t get to see for myself how shiny your fore­head looks on tv, but i can vaguely visualize…

  • Anony­mous

    dunno leh. got friend tell me you quite the hunk and got many chio ger­frens one. where got gay?

    –mb

  • Anony­mous

    dunno leh. got friend tell me you quite the hunk and got many chio ger­frens one. where got gay?

    –mb

  • Anony­mous

    Aiya, all of you just shut the fuck up lah.

    Sorry, Mr. M, had to say that. Some of your read­ers seem extremely intel­lec­tu­ally chal­lenged from the com­ments they write. Blame it on men­stru­a­tion?! That’s just feeble.

    ms. beau­ti­fuk

  • Anony­mous

    Aiya, all of you just shut the fuck up lah.

    Sorry, Mr. M, had to say that. Some of your read­ers seem extremely intel­lec­tu­ally chal­lenged from the com­ments they write. Blame it on men­stru­a­tion?! That’s just feeble.

    ms. beau­ti­fuk

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4740551 Inar­tic­u­late

    Hi Mr Miyagi,

    Stum­bled upon an old arti­cle about your­self back in 2003. Came to know about your blog through Beau­ti­fuk and Mr Brown [I missed Get Real!] and felt that you do indeed write beau­ti­fully. I had quite a few smiles and laughs when I read through your essays. Very beau­ti­ful indeed.

    Just curi­ous, what is the sig­nif­i­cance of the watch?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4740551 Inar­tic­u­late

    Hi Mr Miyagi,

    Stum­bled upon an old arti­cle about your­self back in 2003. Came to know about your blog through Beau­ti­fuk and Mr Brown [I missed Get Real!] and felt that you do indeed write beau­ti­fully. I had quite a few smiles and laughs when I read through your essays. Very beau­ti­ful indeed.

    Just curi­ous, what is the sig­nif­i­cance of the watch?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/782203 Indian Stal­lion

    Moral of the story is next time you get inter­viewed on tv, make sure you wear very macho cloth­ing like a leather jacket, spiked bracelets and a upside down cross hang­ing on your neck. oh and add a t-shirt with a almost nude image of a hooker on it. So that peo­ple can­not in any way sug­gest that you could be gay.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/782203 Indian Stal­lion

    Moral of the story is next time you get inter­viewed on tv, make sure you wear very macho cloth­ing like a leather jacket, spiked bracelets and a upside down cross hang­ing on your neck. oh and add a t-shirt with a almost nude image of a hooker on it. So that peo­ple can­not in any way sug­gest that you could be gay.

  • Anony­mous

    hey
    don’t get all defen­sive guys. the woman may have a point. i think it’s an almost uniquely yank thing to hate nitty-gritty per­sonal lives put on web — mebbe they get too many soaps over there or sum­mink. or mebbe they have too much of their own to want to read any­one else’s.
    to be hon­est — all of you must agree — that at times it gets really bor­ing read­ing what some­one else thought, felt, and did today (although the ones about who they did tend to attract me. cough.)

    course it can be a great time killer too. and i’m not just writ­ing this because some hot cana­dian chick i know thinks meme-blogging is lame. cough. nope. nuh uh.

  • Anony­mous

    hey
    don’t get all defen­sive guys. the woman may have a point. i think it’s an almost uniquely yank thing to hate nitty-gritty per­sonal lives put on web — mebbe they get too many soaps over there or sum­mink. or mebbe they have too much of their own to want to read any­one else’s.
    to be hon­est — all of you must agree — that at times it gets really bor­ing read­ing what some­one else thought, felt, and did today (although the ones about who they did tend to attract me. cough.)

    course it can be a great time killer too. and i’m not just writ­ing this because some hot cana­dian chick i know thinks meme-blogging is lame. cough. nope. nuh uh.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Hey Julian, what watch?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Hey Julian, what watch?

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