ahh... just watched a cinderella story. a show abt uh... a modern day teenage-high-school cinderella story. smth like high school musical. with the evil stepmother and stepsisters and stuff. was chatting with my friend after i watched high school musical a few months ago.
M is mel... P's anonymous.
start convo
M:i just watched high school musical
P:soarrrrrrrrrring
flyyyyyyyyyyying
M:lolz so i'm like feeling
yes
u sound so deluded but ok feel so happy
P: its a fairy-tale rights.
M: lolz it's nottt
P:tis completely unreal and unbelievable
but we still love it.
IT IS
M: oh yea in that case it is
P: its so fake la. ...
i tell u its a fairy tale.
teh most innocent looking person (the piano girl)
has a porno history
no way.
one friking fakey fairtale
M: lolz u're being sour grapes
P: i mean i love it
but its so fake.
i wish i dint love it.
and the guy's voice is fake too.
walau.
M: the guy's voice is so cool
but anyway
haiz its ur loss to think fairy tales are fake
fairy tales are stories to inspire
P: nou.
M: to inspire that we too can have lives like that
P: lol.
ok mel
^^
M: lolz yup yup u can hop on the bandwagon
in taking the cynical and skeptical point of view
P: u cant sing like that guy rite,
M: of things
lolz i can sing
better than that guy
u just haven't heard me
:)
end convo
:) sheer shamelessness. sibiliance :O ok lolz anyway the point is... as i said in the post earlier, maybe its a reflex protective action or smth but i've never dismissed fairy tales. its why i found peter pan absolutely fantastic (think can call it my favorite show). aiya think its quite silly to let cynicism ruin an art piece that is aiming to capture so much comedy.
but something that did strike me, negatively, when i watched high school musical and now, a cinderella story, was their... situation. how easy it is for people under oppression to find their 'true selves' and be 'themselves'. how easy it is for people who have always had a calling for something else in their life to break out of their monotony and find their 'kwan' (term from jerry maguire). no... its the mediocrity again. it's the commoners that find themselves lost in a whirl of opportunity, talent and personality. who are we really? wat does it mean to be 'our self'?
fairy tales like these have illuminated again and again the importance of revealing the 'true self' and throwing away those 'masks'. of course, it'd be so easy for these people, who have not been doing what they've wanted all their life, to truly realize what they want to do. but the unfortunate majority just don't have the calling. they don't know what they want, they don't know what they like, they don't know their strengths and weaknesses, and they don't know their true personality. how then, do we differentiate between the mask and the face?
maybe i'm just using the term 'majority' for a cover for 'I'. think i'd rather not assume that everyone feels like i do. but i've never really believed in the 'true self' thing. we all grow. we all learn. we all change. there's nothing permanent about our 'self'. its not a matter of 'hypocrisy', its a matter of 'fluidity'.
its not a very cynical point of view. perhaps i do feel a bit bitter that other people have found peace so easily, in the simple fact that all their points are in one area, and that their path ahead is so fixed for them. ahh... the shackles of freedom - spoilt for choices.
i wonder... now that i've gained acute awareness of my instinctive barrier against cynicism, will it be the first step to that protection being broken down? awareness is definitely an arrow that will pierce the defense. i'll lose my immediate rejection of cynical logic, and perhaps even consider it seriously. will that be a first step on the road to pessimism? drawbacks of introspection. i seem to keep coming back to this point.
congrats for making it through such a long and dreary post. i'm amazed that i wrote it. my expressions are somewhat disorganized and scattered as usual.
Name: Foo Guo Zhong Melvyn
Age: 19+
Affiliations: MSHS (Pri), Rosyth, RI, RJC, SFX (LoG)
Bday: 14th Nov
Email: mel_protoss@hotmail.com
ahh... just watched a cinderella story. a show abt uh... a modern day teenage-high-school cinderella story. smth like high school musical. with the evil stepmother and stepsisters and stuff. was chatting with my friend after i watched high school musical a few months ago.
M is mel... P's anonymous.
start convo
M:i just watched high school musical
P:soarrrrrrrrrring
flyyyyyyyyyyying
M:lolz so i'm like feeling
yes
u sound so deluded but ok feel so happy
P: its a fairy-tale rights.
M: lolz it's nottt
P:tis completely unreal and unbelievable
but we still love it.
IT IS
M: oh yea in that case it is
P: its so fake la. ...
i tell u its a fairy tale.
teh most innocent looking person (the piano girl)
has a porno history
no way.
one friking fakey fairtale
M: lolz u're being sour grapes
P: i mean i love it
but its so fake.
i wish i dint love it.
and the guy's voice is fake too.
walau.
M: the guy's voice is so cool
but anyway
haiz its ur loss to think fairy tales are fake
fairy tales are stories to inspire
P: nou.
M: to inspire that we too can have lives like that
P: lol.
ok mel
^^
M: lolz yup yup u can hop on the bandwagon
in taking the cynical and skeptical point of view
P: u cant sing like that guy rite,
M: of things
lolz i can sing
better than that guy
u just haven't heard me
:)
end convo
:) sheer shamelessness. sibiliance :O ok lolz anyway the point is... as i said in the post earlier, maybe its a reflex protective action or smth but i've never dismissed fairy tales. its why i found peter pan absolutely fantastic (think can call it my favorite show). aiya think its quite silly to let cynicism ruin an art piece that is aiming to capture so much comedy.
but something that did strike me, negatively, when i watched high school musical and now, a cinderella story, was their... situation. how easy it is for people under oppression to find their 'true selves' and be 'themselves'. how easy it is for people who have always had a calling for something else in their life to break out of their monotony and find their 'kwan' (term from jerry maguire). no... its the mediocrity again. it's the commoners that find themselves lost in a whirl of opportunity, talent and personality. who are we really? wat does it mean to be 'our self'?
fairy tales like these have illuminated again and again the importance of revealing the 'true self' and throwing away those 'masks'. of course, it'd be so easy for these people, who have not been doing what they've wanted all their life, to truly realize what they want to do. but the unfortunate majority just don't have the calling. they don't know what they want, they don't know what they like, they don't know their strengths and weaknesses, and they don't know their true personality. how then, do we differentiate between the mask and the face?
maybe i'm just using the term 'majority' for a cover for 'I'. think i'd rather not assume that everyone feels like i do. but i've never really believed in the 'true self' thing. we all grow. we all learn. we all change. there's nothing permanent about our 'self'. its not a matter of 'hypocrisy', its a matter of 'fluidity'.
its not a very cynical point of view. perhaps i do feel a bit bitter that other people have found peace so easily, in the simple fact that all their points are in one area, and that their path ahead is so fixed for them. ahh... the shackles of freedom - spoilt for choices.
i wonder... now that i've gained acute awareness of my instinctive barrier against cynicism, will it be the first step to that protection being broken down? awareness is definitely an arrow that will pierce the defense. i'll lose my immediate rejection of cynical logic, and perhaps even consider it seriously. will that be a first step on the road to pessimism? drawbacks of introspection. i seem to keep coming back to this point.
congrats for making it through such a long and dreary post. i'm amazed that i wrote it. my expressions are somewhat disorganized and scattered as usual.