Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Lord of the Wossnames - The Two Towerblocks
It seems that Re-minisce and Xiaxue have come to an impasse.
What, you ask, is an impasse?
Well, do any of you remember LOTR, you know, that bit when beat-up boy Aragorn is tryping to persuade pretty boy Legolas and ugly-troll-boy oops dwarf-boy wossname not to accompany him into that deep, dark pass that belches out scary music everytime it's glanced at? (What do you mean you were asleep at the time?) You know, that big crack-thing in the mountains, sorta like the butt cheeks of evil carved in stone, where ethereal shades of doom and gloom resided, condemned to all eternity to... okay. I guess you get my drift.
Well, an impasse is very much like that, but on a smaller scale. Habited by imps. Yeah. that's it.
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Re-minisce maintains, however that many of the things Xiaxue has written, and done are ugly. Like a beacon of dark in the light, they cast shadows on the darkest parts of ourselves, they highlight in shadow the ugliest of the Ugly Singaporean. They remind me about the things I hate about myself - except, somehow unlike Xiaxue's readers, I don't find them funny.
Encouragingly enough, Xiaxue seems to have had a rethink as well. She's taken down the picture, she's even apologised for her previous outbursts (I can do whatever I want, I this, I that, it is my site, I can insult whoever I like, even your girlfriend, etcetc). It remains to be seen if she realises that her campaign of hate against those who hated her -- earned the same response when she badmouthed Jeremy (whoever he is)'s girlfriend, along with posted photograph on her blog.
One has to wonder how much of her regret is sincere, and how much is owing to public reaction. One tends to remain a cynic after too long watching everyone else destroy themselves.
Re-minisce would like to think that Xiaxue was sincere. And that perhaps, in the future she'll think twice. Possibly even thrice, before unleashing the spacious void between her ears unto the world :) (that was a joke, xiaxue.)
It seems that Re-minisce and Xiaxue have come to an impasse.
What, you ask, is an impasse?
Well, do any of you remember LOTR, you know, that bit when beat-up boy Aragorn is tryping to persuade pretty boy Legolas and ugly-troll-boy oops dwarf-boy wossname not to accompany him into that deep, dark pass that belches out scary music everytime it's glanced at? (What do you mean you were asleep at the time?) You know, that big crack-thing in the mountains, sorta like the butt cheeks of evil carved in stone, where ethereal shades of doom and gloom resided, condemned to all eternity to... okay. I guess you get my drift.
Well, an impasse is very much like that, but on a smaller scale. Habited by imps. Yeah. that's it.
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Re-minisce maintains, however that many of the things Xiaxue has written, and done are ugly. Like a beacon of dark in the light, they cast shadows on the darkest parts of ourselves, they highlight in shadow the ugliest of the Ugly Singaporean. They remind me about the things I hate about myself - except, somehow unlike Xiaxue's readers, I don't find them funny.
Encouragingly enough, Xiaxue seems to have had a rethink as well. She's taken down the picture, she's even apologised for her previous outbursts (I can do whatever I want, I this, I that, it is my site, I can insult whoever I like, even your girlfriend, etcetc). It remains to be seen if she realises that her campaign of hate against those who hated her -- earned the same response when she badmouthed Jeremy (whoever he is)'s girlfriend, along with posted photograph on her blog.
One has to wonder how much of her regret is sincere, and how much is owing to public reaction. One tends to remain a cynic after too long watching everyone else destroy themselves.
Re-minisce would like to think that Xiaxue was sincere. And that perhaps, in the future she'll think twice. Possibly even thrice, before unleashing the spacious void between her ears unto the world :) (that was a joke, xiaxue.)
