I am a celeb, see me blog
I don’t understand celebrities. Every other day, they appear in interviews decrying the invasion of their privacy. While at home, they go set up personal blogs and post their every inane thought. Why blame the media for doing their job when they are helping you get famous. Show me a celeb who doesn’t want to be famous. Right, like being obscure would get you fed.
Paris Hilton is probably the most shameless media whore, but hey, at least she doesn’t get hypocritical about it. Lindsay Lohan is another fame-seeker and she summed it up best in her unusually lucid interview with Nylon: “I obviously like it, I wouldn’t ever want them not to take my picture. I’d be worried. I’d be like, ‘do people not care about me?’”
So I don’t know what do Singaporean celebs have to complain about. The media is hardly intrusive and frankly speaking, I don’t think most Singaporeans give two hoots about what Joanne Peh or Zoe Tay thinks. They’re hardly personalities in the real sense of the word ‘celebrity’. They’re merely actors in badly written TV shows.
The blogroll reads (two are kindly shared by my celeb-watching chum):
A law student / Miss Malaysia Universe/ Deal or No Deal’s Suitcase Girl thinks it’s her duty as woman of many substances to dispense dating advice.
Dasmond Koh (Some TV host/DJ)
He complains about his double chin and eyebags – how manly. Stick to writing in Chinese or he risks imparting grammatical boo-hoos to his fans. His blog reads “the new season of Jean Yip’s show is backed”.
Rainie Yang (Taiwanese starlet starring in Spider Lilies)
All in Chinese. Sorry, I can’t read it very well. From what I can make out, she talks about trying to love herself more and finding a dream lover. Okay, nice to see even cutesy singers have self-esteem issues.
The blog is full of Panda drawings! And many many many smiley faces and exclamation marks!!!!! Is she blogging while on speed?!!!!! As a guy friend says, it makes him feel nauseous reading it.
Nice witty entries about his movies and various other life experiences. Except nobody really wants to know about Zach Braff.
Things that puzzle me
It was a slow morning. My ipod was down and I had no magazine to flip. What’s a sad commuter to do but pay more attention to whatever was on TV Mobile. Channel NewsAsia had an interview with a scientist who was talking about the future of food. We are going to grow meat! Food research expert Prof Brian Ford spoke about the potential for Singapore to be a centre for food research, namely meat cultivation in labs. Imagine, growing our very own wagyu beef harvested from dinky Science Park at Buona Vista!
All that scary mad-cow diseases and Avian flu epidemics have resulted in the search for disease-free meats. While the idea is a lil hard to swallow, what was more disturbing is CNA’s reporter Pearl Forss’ interview with him. Talk about stiff. Perhaps she’s under the pressure to speak PRO-PER-LEE as a newscaster, but her entire delivery is unnatural at best and a turn-off at worst. She’s obsessed with pronouncing every single vowel in her questions. This is an illustration of how she talks:
“Pro/fess/oor Ford/ (widens eyes), with the rise of epi/de/mics such as mad-cow/ di/sea/ses (pregnant pause for effect) and the Avi/aan Bird Flu (pauses again), how much can groow/ing our own meat help? (smiles thinly as if she’s asked the most important question in the world).
Puzzle #1: Why is she speaking like that? Is this a Channel Newsasia policy? Did she have to take special lessons? But the other reporters speak fine to me.
Puzzle #2: Jade Sea’s Nivea Visage ad for Deep Pore Control is placed outside Seletar Air Base. (Don’t ask me what am i doing there). Strange. True, she’ll be good eyecandy for the NS men but would she be an effective sales person to sell the range to grubby guys who don’t bother to wash their faces? Or would these NS men rush to buy Nivea Visage for their girlfriends in the hopes they’ll start looking like Jade after use?
Puzzle #3: As reported in the tiny, running news strip at the bottom of CNA, Britain is tussling internally over the decision to grant knighthood to David Beckham. Who really cares who’s knighted ? It just shows how cheap royalty is nowadays. Of course, only a newspaper like The Sun backs his knighthood. Despite her Posh Spice moniker, Victoria Beckham is anything but classy. But if Becks gets knighted, Victoria’s anorexic bones can be displayed in museum as Lady Victoria Beckham.
Puzzle #4: Also reported in CNA, Hoya Corp is launching a friendly takeover of Pentax Corp. Why would a takeover be friendly? I’m clueless about business but no matter how agreeable the terms may be, it’s still a bad sign for Japanese companies. Their culture is such that they’d rather remain independent at the expense of shareholders than sell out. That said, the deal is inked. Culture lost to the Mammon yet again.
