Sugar Magnolia

I've got my life planned out.

Upon graduation, i'll go take up driving and apply for a license to sell ice-cream. That's right the one-dollar kind of ice cream. You may choose to have it wrapped in bread or wafer pieces, on a cone or in a cup. Some vendors sell ice-cream using a scooter. I think owning an ice-cream scooter is fucking ace. But the weather here is crazy like crazy horses so a van might be safer and easier. I can blast music in it too. Andrea and Nausheen have offered to do up advertising campaigns for me. Well i can't even begin to fantasise how my van would look like... very exciting. The base colour would probably be red.

I'll be selling ice-cream till i'm 30, then i'll switch professions and become a taxi driver. Why till i'm 30, because it's a requirement here. You have to be above 30 years of age to drive a taxi cos they give priority to people with mid-life crisis and have difficulties finding other jobs. I'll take the day shift for safety.

For extra income, i'll be a football punter on weekends.

Wild Horses

Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away

I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away

I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day

Sleep

Because it's awful to be awake and knowing that this is happening.

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

Happened to watch a current affairs tv programme on channel 8 last night. The topic was on how the media and general public slammed this year's Miss Singapore contestants and labelled them as Ah Lians. Well, maybe, just maybe that wasn't a fair statement and calling them Ah Lians is over-generalising. They're mostly just hideous. Anywayyy... so the winner, first runner-up and second runner-up were interviewed for the programme and asked about their feelings and reactions on the harsh criticisms.

Winner Sandy Chua said something about how it doesn't bother her much because those people who had a case against the pageant girls didn't know them personally and without any form of interaction with someone you can't judge if they possess grace and all that stuff.

First runner-up whatever-her-name-is replied in awfully-pronounced English, "I am a very confident girl, and i have a tertiary education. I hold a diploma and a degree. So what about me that is so Ah Lian I don't understand".

And when asked for her definition of an Ah Lian, the snotty thing offered, "Someone who's not very highly educated".

Okayyy... so belonging to some institute of higher learning spares you from being an Ah Lian, it could be University of Kota Tingi for all we care. And holding several pieces of certificates means you're of a different breed and standing. No doubt calling them Ah Lians is not a very justifiable thing to do, and to begin with, what is an Ah Lian? But so fucking what if you've received an education? Everyone goes to school and these days, almost anyone can be a degree holder. If anything, it's just a measure of one's academic capabilities and has nothing to do with x-factor, elegance, wits, sophistication, whatfuckingever.