Conformity
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Concerning on the fact that people nowadays are trying very hard to follow the social perceived stereotype or what-you-called "trend". You know it when pay more attention to the people when you walk around in the city... One very obvious example would be, still remember when Matrix:Resolution (the last one.. hopefully) were screened on the cinemas all around malaysia (when i havent transferred to Adelaide yet), you could straightaway notices the quick changes in some of the population's dressing sense n all..

People starting to wear black, thick, bold sunglasses; wearing leather jacket or even trenchie in midvalley (i swear that i saw someone wearing it during that period) and all kind of nonsense that would make you look a tiny bit more like Neo (the cheating character in every sci-fi show) and Trinity.

When something seems to smell interesting and would fry up your appetite to test it out appeared in the society or being blessed by the media, ppl tend to follow, then once some of the more "influential" entity among the population picked it up.. the acquaintance of that particular "influential" entity would then followed and those around them tends to feel the pressure and later on decided to join...

Another example, ownership of an Ipod, why Ipod? it isnt the only GOOD mp3 player that provide all the functions that apple claims it possessed.. But why still it's so popular? 3 keys, 1-superior level of media frying, 2- image persuasion with sleek design of the casing,body that fascinate ppl's fetishes on the slimmest/tiniest/handy's title, and the cool-white-appleuser-must-have-earphones, 3- combination of 1&2 as the starter that later on burn up human's nature of "I-also-want" 's mentality. Without a doubt, ipod IS cool (i m thinking of getting one ass well if i hav money to spare) and i m not trying to criticise or anything.. ipod users please don't bare any grudge towards me just becoz of this.. (it's true anyway right?)

My point of bringing up all these, simply just to ellaborate more on our tendency to comform and stretch ourselves so that we could fit into the society or the community that you chose to belong to.. It's nothing bad actually on the surface. What's wrong of being common, social friendly and cookie-like to all the others in the society? What's wrong of seeing everybody wearing the similar dressing code, using the same phones, eating the same food, driving the same car, watching the same sorta movies, loving the same ideal forms of male/female (depending on your interest, bare no grudges toward homo-liking homosapiens;unless you are asexual), becoming the same ideal forms of male/female, dating the same ideal forms of person, and marrying... etc.. now.. see the problem?? If everybody behaves in that manner.. in 100 years time, everything would be "uniformalized" and everybody will be like cookies, one looking like the other. (p.s, at the sametime i m not trying to persuade you to be extremist... please don't turn yourself into goths or screwed up dressing victims or so)

So, since we cant really help and change how other wanna carry on their lives... the moral of the story is, be true to yourself, know what you like and conform only to stuffs that are harmless by nature and/or stuffs that you truly like.

Alright, so, that's the end of my moral teaching.. now i shall demonstrate on a practical behaviour that very-related to conformity... *drums rolling.. *ta-da , = that's filling in purposeless surveys and posting it on internet...

Since.. i've been tagged by both davors and jaime (stubbornly spelled it that way) the zebra, both somehow related to me one way or another; one's my blood related cousin and the other long distance relative of my ancestors' (first few hominids) prey back in africa. Due to that, i shall put in a lil bit of efforts to pull this one off and complete this infamous 7 tag thing with my utter sincerity and truthful responses.

Now, let's just bring it on!

Seven things I plan to do before I die:
1. Befriend with at least one of my personal idols (to name afew, Chris Cornell of Audioslave, Flea of RHCP, Sean Penn, Hayao Miyazaki, Chuck Pahlaniuk, etc)
2. have one of my creations, be it a book, manual or any sort, published and sell hot (bestseller if possible ;) )
3. Involved in a birth of a genius boy or girl
4. Achieve or succeed in something, so that someone would sincerely build a monumen/statue or something close to that as a remembrance of my existing life (even a nicely carved epitaph and gravestone might be sufficient)
5. Revive the oldschool-style of poetry by making tons n tons of good poems (refer to here, for sample; excuse me for promoting my other site :P)
6. Lay my footprints on these countries - Egypt, USA (NY n LA preferably), Germany (specifically Berlin), Bueno Aires, Lisbon and Greece.
7. Go on an outing with my katana/wakizashi (japanese sword) without getting caught into any trouble or complication

Seven things I could do:
1. Burp whenever and however loud i want it to
2. Seduce and calm down most stray cats (dun believe you ask my mates in Adelaide)
3. Down a can of bitterish guiness in one shot
4. chatting in msn, listening to songs, talking on the phone, arranging notes and eating chips at the sametime (that's y some old frens of mine called me octopus)
5. Poetry writing and still continue doing so in a very frequent basis
6. enduring lame jokes and improvising them
7. eat more than 7 (proper meals) or sometimes surviving on just 1 per day

Seven Celebrity crushes:
1. Sarah McLachlan (Mclaughlin) and her voice
2. Monica Bellucci ~ so unreal...
3. Franka Pontente ~ the actress in Run Lola (Lola rennt), 1998
4. Chiaki Kuriyama ~ especially when in Killbill vol.1
5. Carmen Soo ~ if you consider her as one
6. Rachel MacAdams
7. Chris Cornell ~ simply for his electrifying voice and eagle-like eyes.. how i wish i could possessed those 2 gifts

Seven physical traits I look for in my partner:
1. Hair, must have hair on top the head.. not baldness here, long, short, layered, colored, non-colored, as long as not bald (So, justin failed)
2. A touch of "naughtiness", am not really into the 100% clean, neat, nice-girl-next-door look.. tho it doesnt mean i do not welcome their presence.. (we all can be friends, semua orang pun boleh.. mari mari)
3. Not too short, not too tall (cant exceed 25 cms in both ways) i'm bout 167-169 btw if you wanna know, otherwise semua pun boleh, :P (no way i m gonna date a 190cm + girl)
4. fingers' proportion and finger nails.. (i know i m weird)
5. legs, precisely ankle (again... please dont judge me stereotypically..)
6. Jaw's proportion, other words, formation of the face (some ppl said by looking at how the jaw linked to the face skulls and cheekbones you could tell the basic facial features of a person)
7. Lips.. not too big.. not too thick.. some says Angelina Jolie's thick juicy lips are sexy.. i dun deny, it's sexy.. but not my ideal lips

7 Often Repeated WORDS/PHRASES: (tough ones... -.-)
1. This is what i called *take a deep breath.. ~ SKILL
2. forget it
3. bangla
4. yau mou l*n (paiseh paiseh, just being honest here)
5. Uhnn then?
6. lol.. (as in the pronunciation, meaning as same as wahlau, yo, etc)
7. So?

7 tags to go to:
1. Gayson/Jase/Jason
2. zebra (do it again)
3. Teddy
4. Fred (not me)
5. Brian Gerner (my lecturer lol)
6. Satan
7. Roy a.k.a Weizhi (doubt that u wanna do it tho)

leaving skool f-r3d at 4:03 AM 8 pokies

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