I DON'T GET IT

This is what I don’t understand.

It’s OK to have a (supposedly) international level award ceremony here. To have people ‘drown’ in the entertainment that are being served and it’s totally OK to have fame-hunger people to jump up and down in the local night club so as to be part of the audience of the awaited BIG event.

It’s OK to have night clubs that sometimes serve as strip clubs, with liquor being served to people off all ages and religions in this so called Muslim country.

It’s even OK to have the 51^st independence celebration in all sorts of places, involving every type of activities unimaginable although the Ramadhan is fast approaching.

It’s OK too to have orgy parties in public beaches (yes, it HAD been organized several times here in this, surprise surprise, MUSLIM country).

But it’s NOT ok to have a concert here in KL, performed by Avril Lavigne because she is a bad role model to the kids? And because the date is too near to the 51^st independence day? And because it’s approaching Ramadhan?

I won’t babble much if this is a country that consistently forbids entertainment that is deemed unsuitable. But it is FAR from consistent. It’s OK for one event and NOT for another. I must say, all these contributes nothing but adds to confusion amongst our so-called future leaders. Because to them, so what if the concert got canceled, they still have other ‘hidden’ events they can go to. And this cancellation actually affects those who go for the ‘mild’ type of entertainment. They are not the ones who you could find caught red handed in acts that are not suitable to the eyes of the society. Those people don’t go to Avril Lavigne’s concert, mind you.

Punishing one who is not guilty is just as bad as committing the crime. But I suppose it is OK for them, at least it looks like something has been done. Although we KNOW how shaky the ground they are standing on right now.

LOVE DAVID

Two Davids in a finale is not an annual event. Many were rather anxious to know which David rules the hearts of viewers of American Idol 6. And as we all came to know, it was David Cook. I prefer Cook over Archuleta too, and when he did the cover of Mariah’s “Always be my baby”, I felt like flying to the moon and his image (while singing that song) stuck in my head for days.

I don’t really dig his winning song though, which in my opinion is somewhat… mundane. He deserves better. So it was interesting to see if the 1^st runner up of AI 6 gets a better single. I listened to it for the first time on the radio. There’s this song challenge thingy where listeners could vote which (of two new songs) that they wanna hear. It has been Paramore’s “That’s what you get” for several nights in a row but their winning streak ended just now. Guess the girls must’ve been thrilled to be serenaded Archuleta.

My first reaction upon listening to his song was, well, it’s not bad. A sweet (a bit cheesy though ;p) song which I’m sure will make most girls go aaaawww J because we are creatures that have high appreciation towards romance! The fact that Archuleta sings it will make it be played on the radio for quite some time I suppose. I can just imagine how oh so sweet his face gonna be as he sings this song! Plenty of girls out there must be wishing that this song is dedicated to them (it’s about a crush that this boy has towards this girl, -ahh~ teenage years, how sweet. Try years later down the road, that boy must be really freak out for a commitment). Hurm, think I might just gonna let myself fall to sleep listening to Archuleta serenading to me any nights from now!

THERE'S A NEED TO CHANGE

Negativity could kill you.

It eats up your inside and leaves you feeling hollow and in most cases, fumed too.

Realising that (I had been enlightened about this a couple of times but good God, bad habit dies hard), I want it so bad to shed off this negativities that are nested in me. So I’m hoping that this writing marks my farewell to the negativities that I have so much in me. I might not be able to ditch all of them at one go but I do wish that I will get rid of them gradually as I go through this journey called life. I know all these sounds rather cliché but there’s no harm in believing all things that are so called cliché.

The negativities in my dictionary could be different from yours. But I’m sure the underlying principle is that it is something that could destroy you. When I listen to my whimsical needs, it often leads me to somewhere dark and gloomy. More often than not they made me suffocate. I don’t know if you have ever experience it but I’m sure all of us have problems, dilemmas, the likes. What differentiate us is how we deal with them.

And when I pay too much attention to these negativities, I forget about the good things. And that what made me fell into that deep hole over and over again.

I can’t really explain what exactly that had knocked some sense into my head. But I’m glad I took the time to stop and smell the roses. Because it is good for me and it’s about time I care more about me.