Mushrooms in the Sky

I got cut off. I was supposed to answer a question and I got cut off. 25% of my CA marks gone like that because of some overzealous sista. I mean please la, we all take turns to speak you cutting me off was just plain rude. i'd have liked to throw my water bottle at you if not for the fact that I still had water inside and didn't want to waste it.

i suppose that's how it works. in court we have the adversarial system. in class we have the class participation system. each class is only 3hrs and within that time (if you're the presenting group), you have to get yourself heard. granted everyone wants to get ahead, but it's just a bad rep one'll be getting if this happens persistantly. what's sad is when we get to the big four firms, we'll be doing it all over again. but it'll be perfectly justifiable. in that scenario, there'll only be 1 SC or 2, and 40 pupils. everyone wants the attention of the SC, so you can bet the fur flying will start pretty soon. in a way i'm looking forward to 'working' as opposed to studying right now. i believe i can function better practically. i don't really like all the academic stuff. but when it comes to competing with fellow pupils, well.. we all will have to do a bit of back stabbing and such right?

although i'll sincerely avoid doing that because i believe in karma.

and also because i'm quite lazy to do that and if it backfires it'll be a career suicide.

i have a newfound respect for china because it's making me a bit of money somewhat. and i am pretty proficient in typing chinese nowadays. which is why i can spot a forged chinese letter a mile away. someone tried to pass himself off as a prc recently. my god it was hilarious. the terms used were a little off but the funniest part was it was all tied to the disgusting person xy was mentioning about in her blog. absolutely hilarious this guy's efforts to save his non-existant dignity. makes for great crapper read.

anyway, i have to get used to typing again. and i should start having more observations and long rambling posts soon because if not, this blog would be meaningless.

just spotted a blog 'reviewing' movies and i must say i slammed the author pretty hard because i could not get over the fact that she reviewed a movie badly due to her inability to understand and follow the movie which wasn't even hard to follow in the first place. there was simply no way to misunderstand things and yet... yet ... she did it. and she was one of the top finalists for a certain movie blog contest as well which begs the question: if this is our best of the best movie blogging critics, does this reflect the level our singapore movie-goers are?

i'm so tempted to go full mode into my anti-jack ramble ala 2 years ago but i shall refrain. other than my point that he's a money making scumbag that sacrifices quality for quantity, and he has no concept of art not that he ever had. he has not a shred of originality on him if you consider that liang po2 was copied from a taiwan variety show and his only decent hit was home run, which was copied from an independent film (children of heaven). [incidentally, his version was children of heaven meets i love coffeeshop politics, which i have a low tolerance for] other than making remakes, what did he really do right if he ever did right at all? look at his biggest hit, money no enough. if THAT is considered art, well, then i say singapore can esad. it doesn't help that mediawhore is doing anything BUT promoting art. sure, they throw money into raintree pictures and they sponsor movies. but think about it. what part of those 'international' raintree films are actually singaporean? or have anything even remotely connected to singapore? perhaps the film they shot it on was bought in singapore since they sponsored the film and just slap their logo at the opening credits rite?

think about this again. singaporeans may not deserve good writing and good films/tv shows. why do i say that? remember a long time back they had this pilot thingy going on. 6 finalists shot 1 pilot each and they allowed singaporeans to vote on which one should be made into a series/mini series. out of all 6, the best concept one imo was the one where a group of NSman were training in the jungle and were transported back in time to the japanese occupation. sounds interesting? i caught it and felt there was potential here. then guess which one won the chance to be made into a series? some reality tv fuck about city kids being forced to stay for 1 week in the kampung. WTF. singapore has chosen. and it's saying that WE WANT STUPID SHOWS BECAUSE WE ARE STUPID. and mediawhore (and jack) are listening and churning out CRAP to feed us becasue WE DEMAND CRAP.

therefore sgtv will FOREVER be stuck in the crap stage where you turn on ch8 and chU and all the soap dramas are alike with screaming females winning the best actresses awards. we will never progress and we will forever have the false impression that THIS IS ART.

why change something when it works and is making money? here's a tidbit to discourage people from watching the new jack flick. it was reported that the CGI artist said he didn't have time to finish the work. but it was demanded that it be handed up by the deadline. which is why the CGI looked half fuck. apparently some scenes were so bad that an actor's hand can disappear. so we can see he's not even making the effort to produce quality films for singaporeans, all jack cares about is churning out his crap to suck the cny ang pow money. and the throngs of singaporeans are blindly supporting him.

xy told me something interested regarding an indonesian god and politics. which lead to the question of: if jack runs to be an MP, will he win? she says yes. i say yes but i hope for singapore's sake no. not that arnold was such a bad governer though i don't know. not that ronald reagan was such a bad president. he's supposed to be good incidentally. but because this is jack. there has been nothing original about him and i fail to see how he can contribute to parliament. (and i don't like the way he's saying how he feels for singaporeans but he's actually screwing them in his own special way) he may get in because the majority of singaporeans are stupid and will jump to vote for a friendly face. this is especially so if his opponents are WP members.. hahaha.. i will vote against him, wayne will vote against him. azmin will vote for any melayu that's there... oopss...

why is this titled mushrooms in the sky?

that's because...