I'm Addicted to Bleach... Help... *Cough cough*

Now that I’ve gotten rid of my addiction to Kwon Sang Woo (but it might come back again), I hereby officially announce that I am now hooked onto Bleach.

No lah!!!! I’m not addicted to sniffing bleach, the chemical that cleans stuff, I’m talking about the Japanese anime lah.

It all happened a few weeks ago. There I was in my room, minding my own business. All of the sudden! My bro came into my room and said “wah, I borrowed some anime from my friend ah, and it’s very interesting!! Can I borrow your computer to watch ‘cos my computer is macham gonna be gone already.”

Then, being the good sister that I am (smirks), I said ok, but I told my bro should copy the file onto my computer, rather than play the file from the CDs.

This just explains why and how the anime files ended up on computer. Then in between, my bro encouraged me to watch the anime.

Then one fine day, I was disgustingly bored at home. Then I decided to watch the anime. That was the mistake. Cos that was how I got hooked onto the Japanese cartoon.

My bro borrowed from his friend episodes 1 to 40. The anime actually runs to episode 57. When I watched episode 40, I was telling my bro to faster borrow from his friend the last few episodes, cos I suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

Ok, let me tell you what the story is about. It’s soooo not biblical lah. It’s about this boy Kurosaki Ichigo who can see ghosts. Then there is this girl called Kuchiki Rukia who is a death god. Her job is essentially to send ghosts to this place called Soul Society and to vanquish any ‘bad’ spirits called Hollows.

The anime essentially revolves around these two characters.

Although this show is about ghosts and stuff, however it’s not scary macham ‘The Ring’ like that lah, but there are some episodes whereby it’s kinds scary. Then I’ll be watching it in my room at night, hugging my teddy bear. Then scar-ly, I felt a hand brush the top of my head, and I turned around and it was… (no prizes for guessing who it is)… my bro lah! Wah piang eh, and my bro continues to do this every single night when I’m watching the anime. How disgusting. Then there was one episode whereby there was this television personality that is an exorcist. And his trademark action is that he’ll cross his two hands his chest a la ancient Egyptian mummies and go ‘bwahahahaha’. Yes, it’s true, I’m soooo not making this up.

Then one night I was prepared for my bro and when he came into my room again, I turned in my chair and crossed my hands across my chest a la ancient Egyptian mummies and went ‘bwahahahahaa’. And my bro’s reaction was ‘you damn corny leh’. Then I was like, ‘what to do, I got a corny pastor what…’

Ok lah, corny jokes aside… I really like this guy called Abarai Renji. He is, like, so disgustingly cool ok!!! He has dark red hair and tattoos for eyebrows. Ain’t that sooo cool?!?!??? Wah… *drools* *slurp slurp*

Words of Wisdom?

Work as if you don’t need money,

Love as if nobody never ever hurt you,

Dance as if nobody can see you,

Sing as if nobody can hear you,

Live as if this earth is heaven.

Invasion of the Culture Snatcher?

First of all, even before I make the following comments, I would have you know that I have the immunity badge from Inferno II, and nothing you say has any effect on me and best of all, you cannot vote me out! Haha!

Anyhoos, I heard from somewhere that Korea is trying to influence Asia with its own culture, hence you have the really, seriously hot Korean wave going on.

For the uninitiated, the Korean wave essentially entails that hot, handsome and pretty Korean actors as well as actresses come splashing across your TV, and once seeing that, one would turn into jelly and adore them till one's last breath leaves one's lungs. Too chim? Aiyah, means that one likes them till they kick the bucket lah.

As I, the one with the immunity badge was saying, ahem, it's said that Korea was concerned that she would be swept away with the Chinese as well as Japanese culture. However, she is now making a comeback with her very own Korean wave.

It's also said (dunno how true, DON"T quote me on this) that the country of Korea is trying to make an impression on the West, that Asia's culture is like Korea's. Which, to put it simply, means that Asia = Korea.

Now, as a Singaporean proud of her cha pa lang culture (that means Chinese meets Western culture, mix mix mix till become rojak), I for one will violently protest this till the cows come home. I mean, come on man, you can't do this to all of us. It's totally unfair! Besides, what about other cultures such as Malay, Thai, Indian etc.

This is what we call (at least when I was still studying) cultural invasion.

I think it's ok if you wanna make money from the dramas and movies, but do not think that you can dominate us in this manner. I'm fine with people dressing up a la Bae Yong Jun and what not, but to misrepresent Asia is just totally out of the question.

Frankly, if you ask me, the one with the immunity badge, what is my culture, I can't honestly say that I'm Chinese. The reason is that yes, my race is Chinese, but my culture is not Chinese. Come on, I don't even know when is Mid Autumn and I mix up dumplings with the Hungry Ghost Festival!!!

Although I don't truly have a culture that spans thousands of years, but does that mean that I want to be subjugated by one? I seriously don't think so.

Actually, come to think of it, how does one define culture?

Is it the way one does things? The festivals that we celebrate? The way we commerate the dead?

Culture in essence is a intangible thing. And in my own opinion, I think that culture is part of our identity, it's something that makes me, me.

In any case, this discussion definitely doesn't have a solid conclusion. It's something that is open-ended and it's fluid, just like culture is.

Stariway to Heaven and My Granny

Hee hee... now I know that even my grandma is hooked on Stairway to Heaven, heee heee...

A few days ago my mum told me that my grandma asked my mum what was the ending of the show. Then my mum refused to tell her, even told her to watch the show to know the ending.

Now, intelligent people would ask: how did your mum know the ending?

And the not so intelligent answer to the question is: of course it's cos I told my mum the ending lah... duh...