#30
Friday, March 14, 2008



One thing is really ticking me off nowadays. It’s the new ‘in’ word. Previous ‘in’ words usually centered around dialects, such as words like ‘diao’, ‘jiaobin’ and the favorite hokkien vulgarities. Then there are those which are English in origin, such as ‘noob’, ‘dots’ and whatever the hell. Just thinking of them makes me pretty ticked off.

It so happens that I am picking up that the new word of the prepubescent society is the word ‘Random’. And it fucking ticks me off. Because unlike the usual so called cool words of the past, this word has had a meaning. All the others just sucked crap. I mean, where the heck does ‘dots’ come from? or ‘diao’? Random, now there’s a real word.

What’s my damn peeve? That people have now attempted and succeeded in making a real word something skewed and slaughtered right out of proportion. I don’t mind if you want to kill yourself by learning nonsense words that have no meaning, but don’t misuse such a normal word.

I drew some stuff today for the sketches of what I want my councillor nominee poster to look like, and I really forgot to keep it before the tuition teacher came. When she saw it, she uttered, “That is really random…” I think she is really brilliant, but I really hated the fact that she has followed such a fucked-up trend.

Some people may, with basis, call me a hypocrite. I myself am not a perfect user of the English Language, and if anyone should be angry, it shoud be the British. It is always the British who are complaining about the nature with which their beautiful language was slaughtered by the Americans. When I speak, I do use the word ‘like’ too often.

Take for example, “He was like, oh really?”

If I catch you saying the word ‘random’ in following with the trends, you’re going to bloody get it. Yeah. As if I can get to you. But you get my point.

Anyway, I took about three hours designing posters for my rally, but I have only one design with me now. All the others don’t make my cut. I’m going for a theme of sports, it may be irrelevant, but I think it can click with Meridians, since so many of them like sports. Tennis, so far, is my best poster theme.

As I said before, I am a copier by nature, and I rarely can do something good without having a decent example before my eyes. So next to my poster I have included my source from http://www.deviantart.com/, reintroduced to me by an ex-classmate. You like eet? Is clean, and green! ;-) The high quality is the result of a scan, courtesy of Isaac. Much better than taking a picture of it. I wanted to use my old works, as you will see below, and say somthing like, "i'm gunning for #30" but their size is simply too big for editing...










posted by joseph at 7:36 PM

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