American IDIOTS.

Wow. That’s right America. Vote for the most forgettable. What a bunch of shallow half-witted tweens who vote for the boy-next-door with questionable vocal prowess. I don’t even know what to say on this matter any more. Well apparently people now use their eyes to listen instead of their ears. I’m amazed by this phenomenal evolution.

But somehow I’ve seen it coming. I mean, the majority of voters are hormonal tweens, a.k.a 12 year old girls who have too much time to spare voting their asses off for the next cover guy. Or maybe the voting system was rigged. I don’t know and frankly, I no longer care even though I voted for Adam yesterday, the first time I voted for a contestant since I first got hooked to the show in Season 4 (yet another season which produced a terrible Idol, I can’t see why Carrie is so barbarically popular).

I suppose that part of the reason Kris is the current Idol *note heavy sarcasm* is because Americans are so ridiculously homophobic that they can’t look past their prejudice to see talent. That sentence was beautifully phrased by Alyssa on the American Idol fan page on Facebook. I couldn’t agree more.

I came across this really appropriate banner on votefortheworst.com

Anyway I really don’t have much left to say regarding this issue. Even Simon was practically speechless when the winner was announced. Adam is, and will always be, a world icon, whereas the newly crowned ‘Idol’ will be a Kris Who? in a matter of months, if not weeks. Like Season 5 for instance. Taylor Who? The fact remains that Chris Daughtry went platinum after just 5 weeks of release.

So here I am, waiting eagerly for Adam’s debut album/single. I’m also waiting for Kris’ album, so I can leave it in the sun for hours then play it on the radio for comic relief. Oh wait, I forgot. He already sounds like his record’s been left in the sun for too long. I believe William Hung sells more records than him, at least William’s memorable and amusing =)

Rock on, Adam.

P/S : I am not an uncivilized Kris hater. I just don’t think it’s fair that a person who didn’t deserve it won.

I wonder

Sometimes I really wonder why the heck I even bother to be considerate about other people’s feelings when they obviously don’t give a crap about mine. Yeah sure I say some rather biting stuff sometimes but I don’t purposely -insult- my friends or their beliefs publicly or something. It’s as if I’m a fool for filtering what I say when other people just practically diss me straight in my face without thinking twice. Yes believe it or not even those rather biting remarks were carefully thought out before being said out loud, unless I’m in a particularly out-of-control mood.

Like, I don’t go around posting in my blog, “You people are such nincompoops with half the amount of gray matter a retarded person has for actually liking that limp piece of tune you call a song”, or “Oh, please, just stop with that annoyingly nasal voice of yours just begging to be complimented on your glory when the rest of us are still stuck in this rut “. Yeah now you guys know what I really think. Like it?

If you feel offended by this post, then you’ve probably antagonized me in some way or another, if not why the hell are you even feeling offended? Even if you are hurt, see if I care. I’m not even going to apologize for whatever offensive statements I might come up with in the future anymore. I’m sick and tired of being the idiot whose feelings are constantly being trodden on already. I’m an emo bitch? Why, thank you very much. I think you’re a baboon on caffeine overdose.

American Idol Season 8

Here’s the deal. Anyone in their right minds (or who owns a decent pair of ears anyway) would know that Adam Lambert would sail all the way through to the finals, contending against, hmm, perhaps Danny Gokey who made it to the Top 3, right? Wrong. Well, yes, Adam did make it through to the Finale, but the one competing against him is, sadly, Kris Allen.

Before I continue any further, I would like to state now that yes, I had never been a fan of Kris, and yes, this post is most likely to contain harsh comments about him, so to his fans who are reading this right now and are cursing me to STFU and GO TO HELL, well, I could say the same thing to you. So there. We’re even now, hmm?

And I’m not going to comment about Adam’s performance, because words simply aren’t enough to describe it. We’ve all agreed with that now. Adam could be sleep talking and still sound pitch perfect. Okay fine I was exaggerating, but you get my point. Oh, besides, his sexuality doesn’t affect his performance, so all you homophobes out there can just stuff it.

Simple lil banner I made <3

Back to Kris. Now,answer me truthfully. Would you pay to LISTEN to him sing without LOOKING at him? I’ve heard cats meow more melodiously than him. Alright, alright, I’ll give him props for tweaking his songs here and there but being able to turn a song into your own DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE GOOD AT SINGING. As the judges constantly say, this is a singing competition! Yes, a SINGING COMPETITION. The purpose of a singing competition is to search for a great singer, not the next cover guy!

There isn’t a single performance of his for me to remember him by since the first time I saw him (which I really can’t be bothered to remember when) until now.In other words, he is simply forgettable. He lacks personality and confidence. Most importantly, I just don’t get the message of “Hey! I want to win this no matter what! I -am- your next American Idol!” from him. Sure, having a laid back and humble personality is a good thing, but not in a competition.

Vocal-wise, he is just average at best. Most of his performances were pitchy and all over the place. In fact, I must say he even sounds boring. Perhaps the only performance of his that left a deep impression on me was ‘Remember the Time’ by Michael Jackson. Good Lord. He truly is talented. So talented in mangling one of my favorite songs so perfectly. Don’t even get me started on rock week. Goodness, it looked as though it took him a great deal of effort just to sing it. Heck, his veins were popping from his neck! And the duet with Danny? Without Danny, that performance would be utterly hopeless. Honestly, I really thought that a finale of Adam VS Danny would’ve been so much more interesting.

All I can say is, Kris, how could you be so heartless to slaughter songs, and it’s too late to apologize.

Anime cons in Malaysia!

So far I’ve only been attending Comic Fiesta which is held in December annually (because that’s the holiday season, the only time where I can actually go all the way to KL without having to skip school and not worry about exams, homework, and other traumatic school-related stuff), but this year, the year where I am finally out of school and literally have too much time to kill, I plan on attending THREE Anime Cons XD

The first I will plan to attend is DaiCon, held at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, on the 11th and 12th of July. It looks really promising – Chihara Minori, a seiyuu (Japanese voice actor)/J-pop singer is slated to appear live as part of her first South East Asia tour =D  Then there is the staple Cosplay competition, and the thing I am rather looking forward to, a Karaoke competition >D  Yes I’m planning to enter ohohoho~ The contestants get to choose their own songs, as long as it’s an anime/game theme song, J-pop or J-rock. I’d obviously want to sing a J-rock song but, the thing is, it’s rather hard to find the minus-1s T__T The contestants are to prepare their own minus-1s ._.  Then there is this J-pop exhibition, featuring merchandise from Johnny’s Entertainment (the agency that manages those crazy popular boy bands like ARASHI, KAT-TUN, HEY! SAY! JUMP!, NEWS etc.) Oh yes kyaaaaa ARASHI merchandise XDDD *starts going into HYPAA mode XP* Of course, there are other events scheduled, but those are the things I’m really looking forward to =D  To those interested in finding out more, please visit their official site : DaiCon

Next, I plan on invading going to GACC (Games Anime Comic Circle) on the 15th and 16th of August. I’ve wanted to go to GACC for some time now, but could never make it (because of the horror called school) ._. So this year, since there is nothing of that sort to hold me back, I really want to get there. One setback, though, is that it’s held in Melaka, and I’m really unfamiliar with Melaka T_T I’ve only been there once for an event way back in 2005 with my girlfriends, and we stayed in KL at that time (yeah we took the bus from KL-Melaka-KL swt). But anyway, GACC seems really fun XD  Apart from the cosplay competition, there’s going to be a console game competition! I am so looking forward to taking part in the Tekken 5 and Taiko no Tatsujin comp hohohohoho! But the places are limited, so perhaps I won’t be able to take part >_< But it’s gonna be fun, watching people battle it out XD Then there’s the Chibi Matsuri. According to the official site, it’s a small lovely Japanese festival where there will be yukatas, candy apples,  scooping gold fishes and many more. Time to get a yukata of my own! <3  To find out more, please visit their official site : GACC

Lastly, there’s Comic Fiesta. It’s most probably going to be held in December, but the official details aren’t released yet. We’ll just have to wait until some time in August I suppose =D  But having been to CF for 3 times now, I’m sure there will be loads of exhibits and performances and a whole lotta fun XD

This year, I really want to try my hands at cosplaying. I’ve only been to CF as a (very simple) gothic lolita and dressed up in  a (relatively plain) visual kei style. The question, though, is who to cos as? ._. I remember the very first person I wanted to cos as, back in 2005 (with regards to the above mentioned Melaka event) was Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist. At last I went as (a not quite similar) Mana. The idea of cosplaying Lust still exists, but the sad thing is, I’ve chopped off all my locks -_- And I do not intend on splurging on a black wig (since I’m naturally black haired) T^T Besides, Lust has rather big boobies which I lack. Perhaps I should just try a Wa Loli style (traditional Japanese kimono top with Western influenced skirts/bottoms), which I must say, I’ve been very tempted with for a long time now XD

Top:Typical Lolita, Bottom:Wa Loli

Typical Wa Loli style

More 'Aristocratic-looking' version

Yes, pretty, aren’t they? *_* I haven’t done Loli style for quite some time, though. And I’ve chopped off my long hair for a more ‘Visual Kei’ approach…but I suppose I could work it out somehow ^-^  The biggest problem : Shoes. Opinions please? ._.

Very stupid post XP

I know I haven’t posted anything in almost a week now, but truth is, I really had no inspiration to blog =S (Yeah yeah me and my excuses so sue me)

Anyway, Emily came over to my house yesterday (as she does almost every Wednesday and Friday nights), bringing along her NDS. Last week, she let me try out the “Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin” game and the song “Love So Sweet” by Arashi was included and I had fun playing it, getting a perfect score, until she told me there were three levels, and I was just playing the first level =_= So i said “Bring it on!”, attempting to play the third level. Huge mistake. I hated the song after the first 10 seconds (of course, this is said for illustrative purposes only. I still love that song *_*) The combos were crazy! (Okay I’m not good at playing Taiko, that was my very first time playing it hey ._.) Last night, I attempted to get a decent score on that song again, and only scored 78% ._. Then Emily asked me to try playing it with both hands a.k.a use 2 styluses. I was like “Eh? You use both hands to play?” and she told me we were supposed to use both hands =_= This time I only scored 81% (but still an improvement >P). Finally, both of us decided to join forces – she’d hit the ‘blue’ parts while I hit the ‘red’ parts. And still we couldn’t get 100% T____T

I found this video on YouTube just now, and I’m starting to feel really useless -_-

To Emily (if you’re reading this swt) : You see! People can play until so geng wor! Sked er! (Yes don’t be surprised we actually speak like this sometimes – it doesn’t mean we make grammatical idiotacies, we just love how hilarious English sounds like this XD You should listen to how we speak Mandarin with each other, but that’ll be another post, another time <3)

Happy Day XD

My dad just came back from KL late last night (or should I say real early this morning? rofl), bringing back with him my Arena 37C magazines kyufufufu XDD Gakuto-sama (a.k.a Gackt) seems to be really talked about lately 8D All three mags were filled with his photoshoots XD (But that’s practically the only reason I wanted to buy those mags anyway hoho)

I woke up real early today (by early I mean 7 a.m), went out for a cup of water and saw the glorious Kinokuniya plastic bag containing my treasures on the kitchen counter. Instant alertness, bye bye grogginess XP I quickly downed my cup of water and carried the bag back to my room. *_______________* was my expression when I saw them yummy photos. And there even was a medium-sized poster in two magazines, both featuring Gakuto-sama *______* I’m gonna have to tear down/relocate some posters to accommodate those two >w< I had to contain myself from kyaaaa-ing out loud and awakening the whole neighborhood =__=;;;  Sadly, though, two magazines were somewhat bent T^T Why didn’t you check the conditions before buying, dad? T____T But he said only 2 copies of each magazine was left so I suppose I shouldn’t complain too much =X (Holy I just realised I’ve repeated the number 2 a fair number of times now o_O *hurries off to buy 2222 for the lottery* XP) And I noticed that the price of the mags have gone up o_O I bought it for only RM49+ the last time (which was in last December) and now it’s RM58 per mag…. RM8 increment….いやあああ!!~~

My dad also bought a Death Note sling bag for me which, in all honesty, looked rather swt ^-^;;; The front part had a….group picture of the Death Note characters ^-^;;;;;;; Later he said there was another one which only featured the words ‘Death Note’ on the front but he didn’t get that. I was thinking to myself “YOU SHOULD JUST HAVE GOTTEN THAT ONE!!!!! T^T” but anyway it was nice of him to buy a bag for me so….yeah….^_^;;;;;;;

And he also brought back some books for me, mostly horror fiction XD They were second hands of his friend’s hohoho. I never knew uncle read horror fictions too >P THREE Stephen King books! Imagine that! Saved a ton of money buying story books – those are gonna keep me occupied for some time :D

Eeeengleeeesse

If you personally know me, you’d probably know that I am highly frustrated and disgusted at most Malaysians’ English proficiency. Dey speek like dis wan wor. Halo, I is a girls. I is not knows what you say. To those who feel offended just because you know what I’ve just said is nothing but the truth, well, sucks to be you. Those who actually take the initiative to learn and correct themselves, keep up the good work but those who still can’t form a SIMPLE sentence without a grammatical idiotacy and think that English are only for ‘ang moh’ (Westerner) wannabes are just sad people.*Ehem*

I could rant on and on about Manglish (Mangled English, also known as Malaysian English) but that’s not the purpose of this post. I’ll be talking on how people who don’t speak English, surprisingly, benefit me in a rather comical way. This is my account.

I was playing Shadow Hearts : Covenant in the living room when I heard a knock on the door. How irritating, right? Reluctantly, I went to open it (thinking that it’s probably a salesman anyway). And I was right – it was a salesman/someone promoting some stuff I don’t even know what. Anyway he started speaking Mandarin to me, and I replied him, “Sorry but can you please speak in English?” Then he said, “Umm……dunno wor. Ni chen de bu huay jiang aa?” (Translation : You really don’t know how to speak?) I shook my head, saying “Sorry, I don’t understand what you’re saying” (Of course, this was all just a lie >P Of course I understand Mandarin. SIMPLE Mandarin =_=) Then he started speaking Malay to me O_O He said, “Kamu orang Cina ka?” (Translation : Are you a Chinese?) [There. Another thing I don't get. Don't just assume I can speak Mandarin/Chinese dialects just because I'm a Chinese sheesh -_-] Exasperated, I replied, “Sorry I only speak English. What do you want?” Then he started saying (in Malay) that they’re trying to promote some stuff (I really don’t know what, I wasn’t paying attention =_=), and I was getting kinda fed up, so I said as politely as I could, “Sorry I’m not able to help you.” and started to close the door. I think he said something like “It’s okay then” or something along those lines rofl. There. Managed to shake him off without appearing rude in under 5 minutes >D

So to those of you Malaysians out there who can speak English decently, USE MY METHOD IF YOU DON’T WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME WITH PESKY SALESPEOPLE! Better still, if you speak a foreign language, GREET/REPLY THEM IN SAID FOREIGN LANGUAGE! Guaranteed success! >D