Wednesday, February 15, 2012
purge #1
(6.20 PM)
In the midst of studying for the MedSoc exam on Friday but I've got too many thoughts inundating my mind so I thought I would just, as Ernest Hemingway says to do, "sit at the typewriter and bleed". Well this isn't really a typewriter but whatever, the idea remains the same. Need to purge all these distractions to make some brain space for all the MedSoc information ("content regulation... community/public/commercial broadcasting" yadda yadda).
So Michelle tweeted a while ago, "Lush better not be playing mainstream shit now." In response to her friend's tweet (which concurred with her original tweet), she says, "I know right, if I wanted to listen to mainstream I'd have tuned into 987 or what not", "they're probably playing more mainstream to attract more listeners, but at the same time losing those that listen to what they originality played".
Okay I know going off on a tangent about this is pretty irate, but has MedSoc (as well as Radio Production last semester) taught you nothing, Michelle? I don't know if anyone remembers, but once when Mr Yoka started a discussion about radio stations in Singapore and Lush was brought up (by Michelle, LOL how ironic), he said that Lush is not doing very well, and there are probably all of 3 or 4 people in the team working for Lush... Which is a really miserable amount, just look at 987FM – the number of on-air presenters they have easily surpasses the whole team for Lush.
Of course they'd have to play mainstream music – if they don't start catering to more people, the station will shut down. I understand that Lush is pretty much for people who DON'T want to listen to mainstream music, but these people are few and far between and will not allow the station to have enough revenue to survive. If you know all this, then why are you still complaining? If they don't do this, the whole station would shut down.
Okay I'm not really angry even if I sounded like I was. I'm just exasperated at how stupid/shallow people can be sometimes.
On a side note, I am always frickin' irritated by people who say "I know right". Actually, not everyone – I'm just annoyed but those who say it in that pseudo-bimbo/act-angmoh tone, which pretty much means almost everyone who says "I know right". LOL that was a weird sentence. To be fair, there are some people who say it differently and makes it sound not too bad. I hate it when Singaporeans try to act angmoh: you are not American, can you please stop?
I'm supposed to meet Cheowyi and Colin tomorrow for dinner, but Colin couldn't make it at the last minute so I guess we're meeting next week instead, though I don't know if Cheowyi still wants to meet tomorrow. I kind of miss them both, Colin especially, because I've always felt this inexplicable sense of closeness to him. Maybe because I am supposed to be his "mother", hahaha.
This morning when I woke up I saw one of Shuwuen's tweets with a link to one of her Instagram photos. Apparently, she got into a fight with her mother and now has a scratch on her face (and some marks on her arms... Can't make out what those are and what type of assault caused them) to show for it. After I saw it, I took a screenshot and told Zhihao about it, "I thought she got into a fight with Shinan at first." I was really shocked at first because it felt like Shinan wasn't the type who would beat up a girl.
After realising it was because Shuwuen and her mum fought, Shuwuen has now locked her place as a goddamn volatile girl in my mind. I thought about that phone call a while back with Justin, where he told me to be myself and stop trying to please people who don't care and to be with those whom I care about/whom care about me. I am now pleased that I am not a friend of Shuwuen's HAHAHA, because I can now freely watch her without feeling bad about it. Her seemingly non-existent acknowledgement of my presence bugged me a bit in the past, but now I don't care. It is fun to stand by the sidelines and watch all the drama she causes in her own life, as mean as that sounds.
As angsty/bitchy/mean as this post sounds, my mood is really not at the low end of the scale.
(6.44 PM)
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