Friday, September 22, 2006

Okay due to the final year examinations which are coming up in about a week's time, I won't be blogging that frequently (not like I actually blog a lot). I would once again like to take this opportunity to quash any juicy thoughts of what you think happened. I was NOT spotted with a girl at takashimaya. Coach Shawn and Weber were just teasing me for some on-court banter. This is not to say that I visited takashimaya over the course of those few days. I hardly go out at all usually. Honestly speaking.
Anyway, logically, if one was so inclined to go out with a girl alone without getting spotted (regardless of the purpose of the outing), would one really think going to TAKAshimaya would do the trick? No. It doesn't fit the bill at all, namely for a few very obvious reasons which I will state. Firstly, although it can be said that Takashimaya (or Ngee Ann City if you want to be accurate) isn't as popular a teenager hangout as say... Cineleisure, Heeren or Lido (Shaw Centre), it is still HIGHLY visited, VERY crowded, and who knows if someone decided to go for a little shopping at Taka. Secondly, even if you're not spotted by someone from your age group, imagine bumping into your parents, or your parents' friends, or your relatives. You don't even have to see them, once they see YOU... That's it. Astalavistababy. Busted.
THAT IS, unless... well it's completely legit, or it is taken with a level of maturity which not many people have achieved. So I don't know, I'll leave it for you to decide.

| patty fought for sanity @ 2:00 PM|

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Sunday, September 03, 2006

Hello again. On the eve of the start of the term "break", I've once again decided to do something which I have recently been shying away from - posting on my blog. Instead of posting hilarious photos in this post, I'd imagine that you guys would want something else more... interesting per say. Something different. This is tentatively the beginning of a series on a specific topic which I will mention somewhere in the first part of the post, so read the coming posts (including this one) more closely or you might just happen to find yourself lost in a flurry of words which suddenly begin to not only be incoherent and illogical, but of a different meaning and put into a different context altogether.
The choice of topic of course will purely be in my hands, but I will try my best to make it as interesting as possible.

Okay. So today I will be writing (or more appropriately typing) about relationships. I don't mean THAT kind of a relationship. Not the BGR (Boy-Girl Relationship) of your imagination that's firing across your synapse at this very instant. I'm simply refering to relations between friends. Or more precisely, relations between members of the opposite sex (guys and gals if you're a doofus and still don't get me). What I'm trying to say is that guys and gals can still be friends without necessarily having to participate in a BGR. Or at least that's what's supposed to happen in theory. I believe that too often, guys and gals who are in the teenage phase of their lives fail to acknowledge this enough. You might think that this is all too obvious, but ask yourself, how many members of the opposite sex do you count as your friends and who you do not take even the slightest interest in? If you don't have this problem maybe you're just mature. Which is good. But I doubt that this occurs frequently among teens.

Even if a long standing guy-gal friendship has been established, it is either hardly ever acknowledged/mentioned, or mocked at. Rumours. That's the root of the problem. Teens having too much time on their hands, probing around for the juiciest bit of information in the market out there about friends, the who's who of schools, or even total strangers. One sighting of a guy with a girl, even if they are church friends or something, rumours will fly around. Any statement of them being friends is pushed away, swept under the carpet while everyone makes sure that the juiciest bits of the story remains intact for everyone to get a taste of. If that's the case, we should just quit school, and start our own publication the challenge The New Paper. We're definitely better at glamourizing stuff than they are.

This is not to say that any of this actually happened to me. Let me stress that this is not some angry, violent repurcussion of me being sighted with a friend who's a girl or anything along those lines. This is me relflecting upon the large volume of gossip and rumours that has been and will continue to be a large part of my student life. I feel for all those poor souls who because of all the mocking and teasing, have decided that friendship wasn't worth it. I feel aggrieved for these people. I feel that this should all be put to an end sooner or later, for the benefit of everyone who has been in the (currently unfortunate) circumstance of being close friends with a member of the opposite sex.

You know who you are. . . Go figure. Heh.

| patty fought for sanity @ 11:57 PM|

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Friday, September 01, 2006

I'll now take the opportunity to post some pictures that aren't on my laptop now that I'm using the desktop. Hope they'll either make you fall off your chair in laughter or make your day! (But if they don't, well... it's not my fault that you are devoid of a sense of humour!) Here it goes.

All of us knew that school was a dangerous place. Now those
suspicions
have been confirmed.

Ouch. Maybe he should have listened to his coach when he said
"KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BALL"

"sir" alex ferguson showing the mascot some love. how often do we get to see that?! he must be desperate to please the glazers...
MORE TO COME

| patty fought for sanity @ 3:42 PM|

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