CNY post~~!

a very very happy lunar new year to one and all~~~~

*cue the very sickening "xin nian lai lo~(dongdongdongCHIANG) xin nian lai looo~~~ song*

in case any of you darlings have been ensconced on the internet for so long that you've lost any semblence of contact with good old planet earth and mediacorp's immensely nerve-twitching series of CNY MVs, here's my 2 cents' worth on some of the more memorably irritating clippets that were produced with the good intention of bringing good cheer. first up to bat is "ah jie"'s rendition of some nauseatingly jarring song filmed in (i think) the orchid gardens. the song was already very very awful cos of the discordant repetitions of the same 4 words (my bro pointed that out), which, incidentally, can be a trigger for people with grand mal seizures. haha i can just imagine some poor sod twitching on the ground doing tonic/clonic hiphop moves to the migraine-inducing beat of the song. what made it worse was that she was decked in a really awful ancient-dynasty-red-lantern-like swath of red cloth that showed off a sadly barely-existent chest. furthermore she wasn't doing anything in the entire 5mins but bending down to, i gather, show off what is apparently hallucinatory material, and grinning idiotically at the camera, thus showing off very clearly what she probably didn't want to show off - her paired medley of fishlines. my dad was GROANING all through the song... haha :D second place is tied by quite a few songs. actually according to NANA there's just one very very very bad one, and the rest aren't too far off. haha. there's the song by all the female hosts of reality shows (with quan yi**** decked in a completely, shockingly, breathtakingly yellow jacket that screams DISCORDANT against the outfits of all the rest), there's this "good attempt" one by the newbies where 4 young people who look very photogenic push their faces up against the camera and make distorted, almost pained faces at the audience in an attempt to come up with creative poses all through the 5min long MV where there's nothing to do, no plot no script no nothing, save for 4 large circles drawn on the ground to mark where they have to permanently plant themselves before contorting their beautifully made up faces at the people of Singapore. and for miss fann ****'s MV, it was indubitably a nice and calm and relatively well done one save for the very blatant fact that it serves as her personal xie3 zhuan1 ji2... the point here being that she's the real caldecott queen now and everyone else, you guys can just stand to one side and stop whining about the hot sun at your photoshoot areas even as we all witness how the beloved queen capers merrily around a well shaded glade somewhere in ulu-ulu reservoir. smothered in spf 550 sunscreen, no doubt.

oh LEH was saying that we're all resigned to the very sad fate of being slaves to fashion unless we "live in a nudist colony"... i found that statement vaguely disturbing cos i tend to conjure mental images to fit what i encounter in words, and somehow the concept of me cavorting around nude in the midst of others doing the same is simply... very disturbing. yes. especially when my brain gives me the mental image in slow-mo. heh >_<"' anyway. so being the purported fashion slave i have to be (given that i choose to be anything besides a nudist), i glued my eyes to the TV last night over CNY eve reunion dinner to see what the artistes were wearing. if you guys were as sober and astute as me (heh - own up... how many hungover today???) you'd realise that 1) they put christopher lee and zoe tay together, then let fann drag christopher lee's little finger all the way down the stairs... TSKTSKTSK, 2) most of the female artistes wore empire cut dresses YESYESYES!!!!! (NANA bought into the empire cut bandwagon too! haha see i HAVE taste ok.) and 3) WTH were those 4 electronic pigs doing demolishing the cones on stage and wasting like, 5mins of airtime??? the point of the game was entirely lost to me, especially when i realised i was laughing not because the game was even remotely entertaining, but rather my sadist streak was showing up after i witnessed the immense difficulty 8 people have in controlling 4 metallic pigs (they were actually breaking out into sweat, God help them). my relatives were pretty clueless as to why i was laughing so much, so they looked collectively at the screen and suddenly i've reduced the entire tan household to TV gogglers for 2mins until they realised that it was really not funny at all and that i was either mad or severely inebriated (the former was right).

haha. oh well. oh my friends are all suddenly popping up on msn! :D if i have time i'll post some pics of me and my very photogenic family up here, right now my phone's dead and charging (CLEAR~~ 360 volts!!!!) haha :D

cheers all ya dudes and dudettes~ and go easy on the beer/bubbly haha!