Song of the mo': Songbird by Eva Cassidy


SHIT...been slacking the whole damn day..arrgghhh...i'm dying...only touched maths so far...Haizz...Samantha, looks like i'm going to get DODO liao... =(

Now on to some happy news: going to watch Pride & Good Luck after Common Test!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ureshiiiiiiiii~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think artists and philosophers are so sad....like, they see the world for what it really is...and....Arrrgghhh....it's so overwhelmingly sad

I'm having doubts abt pursuing a career in media. Like, all that money and cameras and beautiful pple.....all for wat? Seriously....yeah, pple are willing to pay for their entertainment but look at the size of some Hollywood stars' paycheques!!!! Some are like, equal to the income of a small African country!!!! (*hOrrOrS!!*) Ok, stars do deserve their pay but at the end of the day....wat the hell are all those films for??? pple are starving in other countries and they're 'making entertainment' and smiling and attening premeires. I really quesiton their contribution to society. If it is escapism that they provide, then what a hefty price we all have to pay for it!

Granted, films and dramas draw your attention to things happenng in other places and it's fine when they are used to inform and help us put things in perspective.

But i think the media is bad for like commercialising certain things like crappy shows (scooby doo/scary movie), reality shows (fear factor (frighteningly ridiculous & pointless show)/the bachelor/the simple life <--like our lives aren't miserable enough that we have to see those 2 socialites get thru 'the simple life' and then realise that it's juz an excuse to fatten their Prada purses & that their daddies are so f**king rich, they practically exist in a different plane from us normal folks), pop music (which boasted less flesh but more quality in the past), etc, all to increase the riches of a handful of already wealthy pple. What. The. Hell.

Moreover, the media perpetuates unhappiness & dissatisfaction amongst pple cos women can never look like a (pre-pregnancy) Catharine Zeta-Jones and men can never date someone like her.

Tv is arresting (colourful, snappy visuals!), brainless (open ur eyes & start absorbing; thinking is redundant), painless (juz sit and sit and sit on the sofa) and it's the staple form of entertainment for most pple in developed countries.

Sigh...why can't we all go back to the era where books reigned as the no. 1 entertainment-providers...At least it'll make me feel less guilty/ashamed for not helping our fellow human beings in other parts of the world.

Btw, Jonathan Phys Meyers, who starred in Bend It Like Beckham, was damn shuai in this white button-up shirt......