Ambitions, Ambitions, Ambitions

When I grow up, I want to be... ...bigger .o.

Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, some emo kid had his hand chopped off by his cyborg father. And then someone dubbed that epic event in hokkien and we laughed and laughed ^o^

...in other news v_v;

Today Yesterday, certain events happened in a way that forced made me to think of what I want to do with my life. I'm looking for a job now, while I still have to complete my Masters' thesis. Things are lining up so that I have this impression that I should really chose which path I want to follow, set my priorities and all that kinda shit.

But of course, what I should do is just get my Masters done and over with and worry about everything else later v_v after all, even if I do decide on a career path, who's to say that I won't change my mind in the near future, or circumstances will open (or close) certain paths? like me suddenly becoming super good at starcraft or magic and becoming a PRO GAMER WOO HOO *o*

..dreams are good, you know. They set goals and motivate us to do things in life. That's why I admire people with ambitions, no matter what their ambitions are. The act of having an ambition or passion towards something is more important than the validity of the ambition itself ^_~ the journey is much more important and meaningful than the destination~

So because I have no idea how to end this post and I wanted to, here's a list of my previous-to-current ambitions (that I can remember and/or are not too ashamed to admit) ^o^

Visual Dreams

I've often heard lots of negative criticisms towards a lot of 'singer's nowadays, and the truth is, I think such criticisms are undeserved because the majority of them are not really 'singer's, but are actually idols.

Kim TaeYeon - the most adorable
and lovable girl ever~ >w<♥♥
*biased biased biased biased*

What is an idol? An idol is basically a new breed of performer and/or entertainer. This concept has become pretty mainstream in asian countries such as Japan and Korea, but not very well known in other parts of the world. This is a problem, because idols are not necessarily products of asian pop culture, but rather modern culture in general. I believe the idol evolved from the existence of video based entertainment such as music videos and television programs such as talk shows, variety shows, and reality shows.

The main characteristic of an idol is near-perfect features. And idol must be appealing to the eyes thanks to its visual based nature. You can't be an idol unless your looks appeal to at least a genre of fans. Looks aside, idols also specialize in other skills such as singing, dancing, acting, talking or hosting shows. Nevertheless, the highlight of an idol is almost always their beautiful, cute, cool, and/or amazing good looks. If they happen to be especially talented in anything else, that's just the icing on the cake.

It is this focus on good looks that subjects these idols to malicious comments such as they cant sing, have no talent, and rely solely on their looks to attract people. These are not only singers or actors or what have you, but sadly, most of them are characterized under 'singers','musicians', 'actors' or some other kind of performing title when in truth, they are idols.

I think the classification of 'idol' should be given more recognition. The main thing standing in its way, though, is the fact that it is not a good thing to admit that you like someone for their looks, it's too materialistic, too judge-a-book-by-its-cover. Such behavior automatically puts you into the same classification as shallow, materialistic, playboy/girls. But come on, who doesn't like to look at good looking people? To me, it sounds a lot like denial in the face of society's rules and peer pressure.

Justin Bieber - revered as a god in certain cultures -_-b

This mentality also stands in the way of certain performers wanting to accept the classification of an 'idol', it sounds way too much like admitting to the world that 'I'm a dumb blond durrr ^-^'. That statement isn't really true, though. The ability to be good looking is just as difficult as being able to be good at singing. Idols devote basically their entire lifestyles to maintaining their good looks, not to mention that attitude and characteristics are also very important contributors to being good looking - something they must watch what they do all the time in order to keep up a certain image.

While this is true for all types of performers and entertainers in our modern world, these are especially important issues for an idol, and to the people that think that these idols are 'fake' and are not naturally that beautiful on the outside and on the inside, the ability to keep up that image 24/7 is not an easy feat at all. I like to liken doing this to working as an actor that constantly have to be in character all the time for a movie that will never end until their career does.

The Beatles - don't judge.
chances are that your mom
thought they were hawt XP

I'm not saying that I defend people who are fake or think that looks are the most important things in the world, what I'm saying is that these acts are sadly misunderstood by most people and are automatically tacked with negative associations all the time that it's sad. To me, such things still require effort, and if such idols really are fakers, I still admire them for the effort they put into transforming themselves from bitches into angels on camera. Not many people can do that, and I think that kind of skill is just as admirable as other skills such as singing or acting prowess (in fact, its an evolved form of acting anyway).

The world is full of idols now~ in fact, idols have been around for centuries, beginning from the first performers to use music videos such as The Beatles, countless boy bands, girl bands, and one of the most popular idols in the world today - Justin Bieber.

Of course, all of this is just my attempt to justify the fact that I'm a crazy huge fanboy of SNSD XD and an excuse to put TaeYeon's picture on my blog (again) ;w;  kyaa~♥ lol XP

An apology to academics (that lack tact)

So I openly proclaimed how I was totally against (most) academics for being elitist because they produce totally unreadable manuscripts or journals that serve as a barrier to entry for aspiring students.

looks like a wrestler lol

Until I recently got re-acquainted with (translated works of) fellow great  French philosopher-sociolinguist-historian Michel Foucault (which does not look like what I'd expect him to look like at all).

Quick intro. This guy writes in extremely long sentences, most of them confusing. From the little that I've read, the structure of his sentences can be reduced to; a topic statement, followed by elaboration and tons (and I mean tons) of examples (to the point that by the time you're done reading the sentence, you had to go back to the beginning to see what he was originally talking about).

Notable reviews from colleague of mine that were succinctly put include; "This is the first time I've read a passage where I know the words, but the words don't know me." and "I've never read a journal where I know the meaning of each word, but I have no idea what he's talking about."

And these colleagues of mine are (supposed to be) scholars, so these words that they know a out? Most of the people (that would be classified as laymen) have zero idea of. 'Bombastic' words, as most put it.

It doesn't help that it is often impossible to get at what Foucault is trying to say, "What is his stand?" most will ask. Ah, asking that is the deadliest question and the surest way to fail in reading Foucault. One cannot indulge in the preconditioned inclination that all of us try to comfortably slide back into that is the pursuit of a 'purpose' or a 'conclusion'.

What this (bald) guy's writing does, (in my opinion,) is not to tell you something or to teach you a nugget of his knowledge, no. What ideally would happen is it would raise questions, thus promoting thinking in the reader. It makes you think and question everything! (transforming you into a five year old philosopher) Something I myself strive to do in my writing (which.. makes me think if I'm doing selective reading and seeing what I want to see.. realizing my own 'agenda'.. but that, is another long grandmother story of its own :P)

*rereads everything* ..okay, what I was trying to say (before I went off on a completely different tangent,) is that I owe this (bald!) guy, and probably many other guys I didn't give a damn to research, an apology. They might very well be elitist, but at least I don't think it's right to jump the gun and call the kettle black :(

Because I realized...

...That I write in the exact same way LOL

Sorry guys :P Guess I'm a black dark-skinned pot, huh. And also, apologies to all the readers who have been echoing "TL;DR" all the time ^o^; Is my 'English' that difficult to understand? Or am I unbelievably long winded and unstructured? 

Do let me know okay~ I value feedback very very much (because it boosts my ego so <3) ..that's what's the reply option is for, right? ^o^v

*P.S. - I didn't really feel guilty about calling people (I don't know shit about) elitist. I just really ran out of ideas for what to post today and decided to feature a (bald) philosopher on my blog ;P Thanks for reading~

Hey spambots,

you guys always spam my chatbox right, so often that I actually think that I can consider you guys as friends... ^_^

So tell me, do ads and spamming really pay well?

I've been making it a point to blog every weekday and its starting to feel like a job. So I thought, might as well make some money off it, right?

So yeah, how do you make money out of blogging? @_@ Is it really viable? or are those just scams and hoaxes trying to siphon money off my (non-existent) credit card?


...I bet the spambots won't layan me at all. They seem like the type of friends that are always there when they need you but miraculously go missing whenever you need them :P

Oh yeah, Happy Thaipusam to anyone celebrating it *O* Public holiday~ Whee~~ which means...

* * Blogger off duty due to public holiday, BBL * *

^o^/