when I hold doors for people
- Kids: ...
- Teenagers: Thanks.
- Adults: Thank you.
- Old People: WHY, THANK YOU. YOU'RE SO KIND. EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS YOUNG MAN HELPING OUT THE COMMUNITY. WHOO, THIS GENERATION IS SO POLITE AND KIND. I WOULD PLAY BINGO WITH THIS YOUNG MAN ANY DAY. GOD BLESS YOUR BEAUTIFUL SOUL.
About half the people I hold doors for in NUS walk through entitledly as if something invisible held the door open for them. Now I know why my boyfriend once shouted 'YOU'RE WELCOME!' at a girl who did that. I really wish I had the guts to do that to these rude fuckers.
One girl even stared me down as I opened the door then proceeded to walk through without a second glance.
I really dislike the people here. High school and junior college have really spoiled me.
I swallow
So during my Communications and New Media lecture which was about interpretation, my lecturer showed us this. He then proceeded to show us a blog post by a Singaporean woman 'Yvonne Ng' who said she didn't get it, hence it wasn't an offensive ad. My lecturer then told us all 'I'm very innocent so I don't get it as well' then moved on to the next slide.
I don't think he was telling the truth. If he was, it would be really sad that someone who teaches mass communication doesn't know this simple slang. Alright, I know it's not his job to recognize that this is offensive and to tell us why. I just want to say that ignorance is never an excuse. If something offends so many people, surely you should bother to find out why. It's plain stupid to say it's not offensive just because you don't get it.
And for those who don't get it, swallowing is to swallow semen. The fact that Zoe Tay is on a fucking bed in lingerie and striking a seductive pose shows that the ad creator meant for us to interpret this. (What I don't get though, is why they're sexualizing women in an ad for women.)
It really bothers me that even women are defending the ad. It's as if we already accept ourselves as second class and it's okay to sexualise us in advertisements. And this sends the message to these (probably male) ad creators that YAY we can sexualize women to attract man consumers and women will be quiet about it! It's a win-win! And they'll keep doing it like in those Burger King and Carls Jr adverts.
Like lulu said, you shouldn't use the phrase 'sex sells' anymore. It's clearly 'sexualization of women sells'. I would be more accepting of this if ads that sexualized men were as common as ads sexualizing women, but it's not the case. There's too huge a discrepancy here.
I find this mostly OK
But this is not!!!!
If you're interested, you can see http://ad-busting.tumblr.com/ to see how prevalent the sexualization of women in advertisements is, put forth in a humorous manner. Please don't stay quiet about this anymore.
Random thought slightly tangential to this matter: I used to think I was misogynic because I told myself if I wanted a child I want a son. My reasons were 1. Men don't get raped/pregnant so they don't live in as much fear as women 2. Women get judged for fucking around/losing their virginity while men get praised for it.
Then I realised it was only because I wanted a better life for the kid I was gonna have.
gangnam s-
GUYS PLEASE STOP THE GANGNAM STYLE SHIT IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY OR COOL (other than the little kid who dances at the start) BUT OTHER THAN THAT the video makes me super uncomfortable
philo lecture
So I was in philo lecture and this girl sat next to me. She started shaking her legs non-stop with varying force. Anyhow thisshook my chair and she didn't seem to notice it affected me. I couldn't write properly or concentrate.
Johannes was sitting a few seats away so here's our Whatsapp conversation.
Me: ARE YOU THETE
Me: can i sit next to u
Me: my butt is crying
Me: Girl keeps shaking her chair
Me: which affects my chair
Me: which affects my butt
Me: HALP
Me: help my butt
Me: LOOK AT HER
(her hands are near her crotch)
Me: is she wanking
Johannes: She's shaking her legs lol
Me: HER HANDS
Me: omg should i just tell her
Johannes: Oh god
Johannes: I dunno man
Johannes: Table is blocking
Me: do puppies turn u on because they don't turn me on
Me: maybe she rly needs 2 pee
Me: I do that when i need to pee
Johannes: Maybe she's just impatient. Can't sit still. I sometimes do that. But not with my hands on my crotch.
Johannes: Depends on breed. I find toy dogs disgusting, so puppy toy dogs are even more disgusting.
Me: TOY POODLE
Me: Y u no like toy poo
Me: Ok i'm moving over or i'll start crying
AFTER 45 MINUTES OF SHAKING I FINALLY MOVED OFF and tried to give off the impression that I only moved because I wanted to sit with Johannes so that she wouldn't feel extra bad.
Why can't I have the guts to just tell them? Sigh ._.
I love philo lectures so much though.
Anyway yes I got full marks for my second philo summary!
Me: Eh you know the summary I sent you to refer to last week? It got full marks! Did you follow it? Coz you should get full marks if you followed it too
Johannes: *rather uneasy*
Johannes: Should I introduce you to this guy who knows how to write summaries
Me: ...?
Me: Okay....
(Johannes and I go to Philosophy Faculty Office to collect his summary.)
Johannes: Omg this summary is so good!! *goes to take a picture of random person's summary*
Me: Huh why are you taking photo?
Johannes: He got 10 marks!
Me: ....but the one I gave you last week also got 10 marks.
Johannes: You got 10 marks too?
Me: I thought I told you just now!
Johannes: You said you got four marks.
Me: I said I got full marks not four marks.
Me: ...
Me: No wonder you were looking all weird and offering to introduce me to your friend who can write summarys.......
Wat.
I actually have a high chance of getting 4 marks for my latest summary though. It was badly written.
return SOMETHING
Okay I have a really awesome tutor for CS1101s who I really bug with lots of questions because i'm dumb
And there was this one time I really couldn't write a particular program and he was trying to explain it to me.
But no matter how much he explained I still couldn't get the answer right so I got really stressed and close to tears because I felt so stupid and bad.
So he asked if I was still sitting at the basement so he could come explain it to me personally and I really started crying so I told him "I'm really stressed about not getting it and I'm crying please don't come" And I asked for the answer since I couldn't get it.
But he still kept trying to explain it to me because he believes in figuring stuff out yourself so you can do coding by yourself later on.
THEN LATER HE WAS LIKE "did you return anything in the function"
I was like
And then I was like
..................
Random thought slightly tangential to this matter: I used to think I was misogynic because I told myself if I wanted a child I want a son. My reasons were 1. Men don't get raped/pregnant so they don't live in as much fear as women 2. Women get judged for fucking around/losing their virginity while men get praised for it.
Then I realised it was only because I wanted a better life for the kid I was gonna have.
gangnam s-
GUYS PLEASE STOP THE GANGNAM STYLE SHIT IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY OR COOL (other than the little kid who dances at the start) BUT OTHER THAN THAT the video makes me super uncomfortable
philo lecture
So I was in philo lecture and this girl sat next to me. She started shaking her legs non-stop with varying force. Anyhow thisshook my chair and she didn't seem to notice it affected me. I couldn't write properly or concentrate.
Johannes was sitting a few seats away so here's our Whatsapp conversation.
Me: ARE YOU THETE
Me: can i sit next to u
Me: my butt is crying
Me: Girl keeps shaking her chair
Me: which affects my chair
Me: which affects my butt
Me: HALP
Me: help my butt
Me: LOOK AT HER
(her hands are near her crotch)
Me: is she wanking
Johannes: She's shaking her legs lol
Me: HER HANDS
Me: omg should i just tell her
Johannes: Oh god
Johannes: I dunno man
Johannes: Table is blocking
Me: do puppies turn u on because they don't turn me on
Me: maybe she rly needs 2 pee
Me: I do that when i need to pee
Johannes: Maybe she's just impatient. Can't sit still. I sometimes do that. But not with my hands on my crotch.
Johannes: Depends on breed. I find toy dogs disgusting, so puppy toy dogs are even more disgusting.
Me: TOY POODLE
Me: Y u no like toy poo
Me: Ok i'm moving over or i'll start crying
AFTER 45 MINUTES OF SHAKING I FINALLY MOVED OFF and tried to give off the impression that I only moved because I wanted to sit with Johannes so that she wouldn't feel extra bad.
Why can't I have the guts to just tell them? Sigh ._.
I love philo lectures so much though.
Anyway yes I got full marks for my second philo summary!
Me: Eh you know the summary I sent you to refer to last week? It got full marks! Did you follow it? Coz you should get full marks if you followed it too
Johannes: *rather uneasy*
Johannes: Should I introduce you to this guy who knows how to write summaries
Me: ...?
Me: Okay....
(Johannes and I go to Philosophy Faculty Office to collect his summary.)
Johannes: Omg this summary is so good!! *goes to take a picture of random person's summary*
Me: Huh why are you taking photo?
Johannes: He got 10 marks!
Me: ....but the one I gave you last week also got 10 marks.
Johannes: You got 10 marks too?
Me: I thought I told you just now!
Johannes: You said you got four marks.
Me: I said I got full marks not four marks.
Me: ...
Me: No wonder you were looking all weird and offering to introduce me to your friend who can write summarys.......
Wat.
I actually have a high chance of getting 4 marks for my latest summary though. It was badly written.
return SOMETHING
Okay I have a really awesome tutor for CS1101s who I really bug with lots of questions because i'm dumb
And there was this one time I really couldn't write a particular program and he was trying to explain it to me.
But no matter how much he explained I still couldn't get the answer right so I got really stressed and close to tears because I felt so stupid and bad.
So he asked if I was still sitting at the basement so he could come explain it to me personally and I really started crying so I told him "I'm really stressed about not getting it and I'm crying please don't come" And I asked for the answer since I couldn't get it.
But he still kept trying to explain it to me because he believes in figuring stuff out yourself so you can do coding by yourself later on.
THEN LATER HE WAS LIKE "did you return anything in the function"
I was like
And then I was like
..................
....
...
..........
HOLY SHIT
THAT WAS WHY
MY PROGRAM DIDN'T WORK!!!
I was crying because I forgot to return the answer in my function but the rest of the code was correct
This taught me to never forget 'return' in a function.
I can't imagine the rest of my life programming man.
International cosplay day
Oh I forgot to say that I sold handicrafts and art commissions at ICDS! The handicraft sales were quite disappointing.... I blame the crowd. We made 10x more during Cosfest man.
Art commish was ok though. I drew this most adorable girl I've seen ever :')
Didn't draw for a really long time. Maybe I should start carrying a sketchbook again!! :O
...
..........
HOLY SHIT
THAT WAS WHY
MY PROGRAM DIDN'T WORK!!!
I was crying because I forgot to return the answer in my function but the rest of the code was correct
This taught me to never forget 'return' in a function.
I can't imagine the rest of my life programming man.
International cosplay day
Oh I forgot to say that I sold handicrafts and art commissions at ICDS! The handicraft sales were quite disappointing.... I blame the crowd. We made 10x more during Cosfest man.
x23 one of the commissions i did
Didn't draw for a really long time. Maybe I should start carrying a sketchbook again!! :O
