Project Alpha: Kenny Sia

Reading Manglish's post on Pikey made my finger itch to write the same, so here comes my post dedicated to a person named Kennysia.

If you'd follow my blog long enough you will know that i'm actually a big fan of Kenny Sia. In fact, i have a post (Kepoism) dedicated to him 4 years back when i'm still a newbie in the blogsphere. *Pardon my poor grammar/vocabulary as i was still struggling to pronounce "palate", "palette" and "pallet" accurately during that time.

I was looking forward to Kenny Sia's Project Alpha episode ever since the show started to go live. It didnt fall short to my expectation actually. It felt totally weird and exciting at the same time to see the man behind the blog so lively not only in words but also in flesh and colors. (Check it out here!) When i watched those infamous disgrace photoshoped images and self directed cat fight videos of his, i couldn't contain my laughter and was bursting out with massive fit of giggle, IN MY OFFICE! * My college must have thought that i am hysterical or what.

Thanks project Alpha, looking at this really made my day!

The thing with KennySia is that i love his early sentimental posts which described his life in Perth, how he detoured from his original path, and came back to this little town named Kuching to inherit his father business, at the same time building up his blogging cliquish bit by bit. It's very much a lifelog, but one that full of laughters and humors definitely. I guess thats very much what real life blogger is all about.

However I've never really met this cheeky blogger in person although we came from the same hometown-bumi kenyalang. I remembered 2 years back when Peter visited my family back in Kuching, he tried to coarse me into setting up a 'date' with Kennysia. Well, if he is not my boyfriend, i would have suspected did he secretly admire him or what. Well the 'blind date' didnt worked out in the end. Although i had followed his blog religiously for 4 years now, be sunshine or rain, i would still prefer to confine the whole bloggers interaction in the virtual or cyberspace world.

Its a very weird theory of mine, which you dont really have to agree to. I've always think bloggers have the luxury of expressing themselves in a way without being prejudicely perceived through race, character or educational background. As such the impression can be judged solely based on their words. The anonymity we have in this virtual world itself is a way of empowering.

(However, its also scary that with the blooming of facebook and twitter and many other social networking gizmo, maybe one day, our virtual identity will become more prominent than our real selves.)

Bloggers may not necessarily hold the title of true friends who have your best interest, they do not necessarily gave you the same esteem as a true friend does. But we cant deny the fact that these group of people share our deepest thoughts and emotions which we usually reserve only for ourselves in this little space called blog.

I'm really enjoying reading random post from 栋物园, Pikey, Manglish, antithesis2, Minishorts although i dont know them personally. In fact reading their blog (and my friend's blog) has become my daily entertainment dose to ease my tension at work.

So guys, please continue to write more cuz my working life will be so boring without your words!

On being doomsday

Inhabiting this internet dominating age, we are bombarded by all sorts of uncensored message and information from various media everyday. Am not talking about the porn, but more of pseudo science fiction which are not so fiction anymore.

Golden example, was having a hi tea conversation with my colleagues and the topic of discussion is about the latest movie advert dominating the gigantic billboard near Phileo Damansara called 2012. I knew nuts about the movie but frankly i love to watch earth doomsday kinda disaster movie (Armageddon, The day after tomorrow etc.) and getting stirred to heightened exhilarating sensory awareness.

In case you dont know, 2012 is a doomsday movie based on the Mayan's calendar. It describes the last day in the Mayan's system on December 21, 2012, in which the earth will be aligned with the sun and the center of the Milky Way for the first time in more than 26,000 years. Now, the thing is, the 2021 myth which was widely spread by this website called "Institute of Human Continuity" has become a religion to many. It irks me that people followed the prophecy religiously in the name of science.

What on earth does this has to do with science?

There are no doubts that Mayans were great astronomers and their calender is more accurate than Gregorian calendar. However, the Mayan Prophecy is wholly based on the assumption that something bad is going to happen when the Mayan calendar runs out. And by forcefully associating the date to doomsday scenario referring to Nibiru collisions, a galactic alignment and solar flare is scientifically unacceptable.

Will the doomsday come one day? According to religious point of view, according to science, according to natural law, yes, of course! Every creation has an end, the only thing which is certain in life is death anyway. But if you think from another perspective, no matter the Doomsday comes or not, our lives is at stake everyday. Who can guarantee that he/she will not die in a road accident or Tsunami or obesity before the doomsday come. If thats the case, why are we felt so threatened by the internet rumors as though the solar flare is the only risk in our life.

Funnily, its not just my scientific thoughts being 'offended', my christianity believes was challenged as well.

Being a Christian, it never ceased to amuse me everytime when some Christian extremist try to relate the Goodnews to the judgement day/Armageddon and follow the so called salvation theology religiously.

"We Christians are not afraid at the doomsday because we will be rapture during Jesus second coming before the happens....." quoting bernama.

What a bunk!

If thats the reason which prompted someone to believe in God, which is by incultivating the fear factor, then i have nothing to say but God bless you.

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Anyway, just a string of uncensored thought stirred from a high tea conversation.

On Being a woman

i hate myself for being a woman at times. Being a XY species, we need to carry many extra baggage of physiological complication, traditional view of gender roles and worldly stereotyped perception of what woman is like.

Lets talk about the physiological complication of being a woman, apart from having to suffer the monthly menstrual pain and the labor pain, we woman are also haunted by the ghost of the menses named PMS, with dysphoria as one of the most prominent symptom. Am not trying to make an excuse of women being emotional by saying its all biological. However, women being emotional does relates to physiology and not entirely psychology.

Not forgetting the female social conditioning and stereotyping. In general, women is seen to be 'busy body', 'gossiper' etc. And sad to say, I cant deny that some of my own genders are unbelievably 'good' when it comes to bias-ness, backstabbing, gossiping and social cliques-ness.

Thats why i said that sometime i hate myself for being relate to stereotypically viewed women.

i was on the hype of emotions last week. First of all, i was completely pissed with my company management for not admitting their fault although it was a caught-in-red-handed kinda situation. To make it worse, they are tai-chi-ing the fault to ground people like me and my colleague. As such, am contemplating a silent protest to my boss. Luckily i was away from the office for the past few days which enables me to avoid all the unnecessary interaction with him.

I know its emotional, childish and am not proud of the things i'm writing here. Blame it to the Oestrogen, blame it for acting like a normal woman and letting the emotions over ruled me. I dont know how a guy will act in the same kind of situation, smile professionally and accept whatever crap thrown to him, and smartly put a positive spin on things later?

Sadly saying, it really doesnt sound easy at all when you need to endures the abdominal bloating and cramps, headaches and face the unreasonable boss at the same time.