Evarael

Happening to catch part of the final episode for Miss Universe while waiting to watch another show, I couldn't help but notice that all the finalists were, for the lack of a better term, western and four of them from South American countries. Like the female MC said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Perhaps it might have had something to do with the judges all being from Caucasian countries, though it can be noted that the 2007 Miss Universe winner was Japanese.

What particularly irked me about the show was the nature of the questions and answers for Miss Universe. One question that I will be pointing out is the question posed to Miss Russia and the answer she gave. While most of the questions were rather personal in nature enabling contestants to draw from past experiences, she was given a question about whether women in this age are being discriminated against.

Her answer? Something along the lines of women being able to manage their career and being able to raise wonderful children and since in her country, women are becoming more "intelligent", women are thus leading better lives in this age, around the globe.

Basically, she seemed to have no idea about the kind of marginalization that women in less developed countries may suffer from. In China, baby girls have been drowned due to the one-child policy and the preference for boys to carry on the family line. In the Middle East, the honour killings are carried out where women may be stoned to death due to religious beliefs and lack of education leading to a warping of religious texts. In 2002, 15 girls died in a fire due to Saudi Arabia's police preventing them from leaving the building(which was locked to keep the girls segregated from boys) due to their not wearing the abaya. I might also mention that women are not becoming more "intelligent", women are becoming more educated.

Perhaps she didn't have enough time to think clearly? In her shoes I would have answered no right on the spot and proceeded to cite honour killings as an example. Perhaps it is also an indication that women are not becoming as intelligent as she likes to think they are, or perhaps not well read enough. Yes, I am female.

Who here's heard the song, One Week? -waves hand- I have!!!! Well for those who have, I have a 'revised' version of it here =D When I finish it I guess I'll post this again =D Presenting, One Week, School Version =)



Yup. Still got some parts to go cause I'm lazyyyy and should be studying XDD There's still another two verses and a chorus -groan- Probably put it on public when I finish it properly haha

Oh here's a nice song to sing to your friends who are sleeping in lectures:

Are you sleeping,
In the lecture,
How dare you?
How dare you?

Look at Madam/Teacher's red face,
She/He is very angry,
You're so dead,
You're so dead.

=D Today was the amazing race event that I helped to organise =D I slept in, so got there...just on time? XDD Stupid phone didn't wake me up. Anyway! To talk about the event it was basically a race with a paper of questions to find and answer around the island with game stations =D There were 11 teams of 4...6 dropped out midway cause they were too:
1. hot
2. "I can't find the places!!!"->Which was quite...ridiculous considering that we put in easy clues on purpose and the first four teams that swamped my station within an hour showed me their papers which were practically full and said the questions were easy.

Example question: I have a smaller twin on Singapore River.

Let's see, what is Singapore's most famous figure head that is found in Sentosa and at the Singapore River? I won't answer that.(Foreigners might not get it XD)

Anyway, the highlights of the event for myself was definitely!

1. The Icebreaker game where people paired up and had to put parts of their body together that the game facilitator called out. When it got a bit outrageous like, "Nose to Chest" or "Head under Armpit", quite a few teams sat down.

Now THIS is why it was a highlight =D Two guys actually kissed. (Before you guys say this was organised by a church youth organisation and hence should not involve kissing between two guys, let me explain XDD) There was already this "Nose to Nose" command and one of them put their hand between their mouths when they did it XDD (And made it look like they were kissing too XD) But as they were one of the two pairs that were left and the facilitator told them to do the most outrageous thing that they could think of, well there's not much left to do if you've already got "Nose to Nose" so yeah can't really blame them XDDD Eugene got a picture and I will most likely post it on my lj haha. For the sake of privacy though, I will probably f-lock it unless one of them happen to see this post and give me their permission =) Oh and yes, I think they're straight XDD

2. MY STATION :D I had four station games at the Merlion:
a. You had to walk up the stairs and back in pairs with a spaghetti stick between your mouths without breaking it. Two pairs from each group would go.
b. You had to waddle up the stairs and back in pairs with the spaghetti stick =D Same rules as above
c. Passing polo sweets using short spaghetti sticks =D Haha from the back it looked sooo wrong. I should've taken photos -cries- I forgot!!!!! T__T
d. I would blindfold two people, lead them somewhere, their other two members would get on their backs and from there the people on their backs would give them instructions to get back to my station

Needless to say, I had alot of fun =D The groups who actually made it to the station of course stood out the best in my memory. So I should probably talk a bit about them. <3 I'm sure you all want to know a bit more about the kissing couple because that was the group that stood out most in alot of our memories haha Anyway, I will talk about the participants in the order of placing they came in =) I wish I got to talk to them some more cause they were all very nice and interesting people and if any one of you sees this post, feel free to drop a comment =) Oh and I apologise if you guys don't like what I say =( Particularly the kissing dudes...

( Participants )

After the amazing race I went with Dawn for dinner cause I figured it'd be nice to have company on the way home and I hadn't seen her in forever. Cam whored a bit. Apparently her guy friends don't quite understand the meaning of cam whore...Yes if they see this I'll tell them what we did WAS cam whoring and if they ever send me the photos I will also post it here cause we took some pretty cool shots with their DSLRs of ghosty sightings...>D

I think Dawn was a bit uncomfortable because she kept either accompanying me or them cause I don't know them too well and I think they got annoyed cause I was taking up her time spent with them? Either way she felt uncomfortable as the middle person and she said she felt as though they didn't really like me after dinner lols =P I'm like: Well, then I'll just take a mrt home alone, it's okay. She's like: No T__T I'll feel guilty for abandoning you. So I stayed, we bought barcardi and played drinking games etc haha I guess I feel no guilt cause I've barely seen her for the past two years and they're in her school =P I guess I understood how the china guy(The extra member who got put into their group last minute) felt a bit, though it's fortunate that I'm the kind who doesn't care too much? Like Jo Ng says, it's impossible to be rude to me since I kind of take everything into my stride =)

Yups! Anyway, if any of the participants does happen to see this by chance, do drop me a note =) If you guys want photos after I get them from Eugene and stuff I'll post them here or maybe Eugene has flickr =) Or if you just want to talk I'm always happy to talk with you all =) I hope you all had a fun time even though it was hot and stuff, I think it was more or less a good day even though I didn't get much studying done....hahas...T__T i'm so screwed.

Hm. What should you say when you see your bunny (probably) having sex with his brother? -pause- -rewinds- See I was playing with them today and Hani kept running after Cake and hugging his bum..... Then when I put them both back in the cage, Cake went straight for food, Hani hugged Cake's butt and hm. I think it's hips started moving cause the cage started shaking and .............I don't feel like describing any further. -brain dies- To think I had trouble over Cake's name with wanting to name him Mori. He's so freaking uke!!!!! And stoned out...and doesn't care what Hani does.........Hm. -Actually interchanges the names quite often-

Waaah I wanna kill Rebecca and my mum. She told my mum that my violin rehearsal for the Suzuki Violin Concert was at 2.30pm when it's at 5.40pm!!! So as a result I'm here like...way too early to be natural and I'm stoning out T__T Lucky I brought my new macbook. Unluckily I left the charger at home because I didn't think I'd have much time to play on it and I didn't think that there'd be internet to make me even want to play it T__T...so I'm like...gonna run outta batt in an hour or so T__T....and due to me wanting to conserve energy...I am not going to play any music on my mac...-sulks- -brightens- Oh yesss. I brought my ipod too. Really. Estelle is an idiot XD

OOO Let me talk about my new mac <3 I got it for getting a D in chinese!!! (And partially because my mother's employee is leaving so she gave me his mac......not that I'm complaining XD My only issue is that it's not particularly new...so it didn't have the new leopard OS X installed in it...I'd have to pay extra to upgrade the OS =(....Which was the only reason I was waiting to pay for the a new macbook myself when my mother got me this one..... -sighs-

Hm...what do I REALLY like about my new macbook? <3? <3 I actually really really like the photobooth!!! I love how it's already got a webcam installed into it and all it needs now is probably a tablet so I can do all my art on it XD <3 -is a total cam whore- But the effects are really fun to play with =D Maybe I'll do what Chisame from Negima does and dress up in cosplay outfits etc and like...edit all my blemishes and fats using photoshop and post them on a website using iweb ^o^ ... -long pause-
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I hope everyone realises I'm totally not serious

Here are some of the crack photos I took using my mac <3

Hm...whee...I think I've had this livejournal since...dunno when and I keep intending to post on it...intending yes...but I've never known what to post on it. I guess it can be a sorta artblog? For me to post all my ugly shit that will never see the light of day anywhere else...cause I'm kinda teaching myself to draw/colour on the computer right now =( -is primarily a traditional artist...

SO YESSS...first posties....a bit of background info I guess =D... A 17th century woman who died ahead of her time, thanks to the negligence  by her guardian angel who was at the point in time of her death, petitioning for better uniforms and partially due to the bane of corsets(Death by fashion :D), is given the choice to reincarnate into a new body. She of course chooses to reincarnate as a boy, after suffering all the oppression women are known to suffer in history...aka I don't know when(Along with many other requests of course...it doesn't hurt to make life difficult for your slacker of a guardian angel after all...)

Bad news. She reincarnates into the 21st century. Apparently her requests were difficult to find a good match to. Aside from that, the body has to be the same age at which she died at! Or she could start as a baby and lose all her memories...reincarnations are not supposed to remember their past lives after all...apparently her guardian angel had something to do with that. So as we all know, the life of a boy in the 21st century isn't a bed of roses. What with the looming dread of national service, having to acede to the requests of many females in her CCA...it certainly isn't what she expected.