Adi
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Discriminating Against Her Own Guests?
Watched an episode of "Tyra" and noticed that she seemed to have some sort of bias against this one guest. This episode happen to start of as being the war between the weight categories, between this girl who lost weight and became a size 0 (basically due to fear of having medical problems that come with obesity, as well as part vanity), and a size 20 girl who hates the thin (because of discrimination and derogatory remarks through the years).
The episode goes on with both girls living each other's life for a day, starting with eating each other's daily breakfast. More importantly, they "exchanged bodies", or body sizes. However Ms 0 is actually turned into a size 32, while Ms 20 stayed the same size but had make up done so she looked like she was wearing a fat suit and has a album of doctored photos to prove her "real size". Now what I don't get is if they're supposed to live each other's life, then why is Ms 0 changed to a size 32 instead of a size 20. If you look at the size 32 girl and the actual Ms 20, there's obvious differences and it's easy to understand why she got disgusted stares walking down the street. Furthermore, the make-up done was CRAP! Like another guest commented, Ms 20's "face was falling off her face". The make-up for Ms 0 wasn't that much better either and maybe some of the stares were for the ugly face they painted on her.
Anyway, after the whole unfair experiment, they were brought to the studio to talk about their experience and Ms 0 commented that fat people, along with SOME thin people, do get a lot of discrimination. At this point, Tyra butts in and asks if she really thinks that thin people actually get discriminated against. To put her point across, she goes and states her case, interrupting Ms 0 almost to the point that she's not allowing her guest to talk.
Then when Ms 0 says that thin girls do get comments about protruding bones, and Tyra goes to the aid of all thin girls saying that all they have to do to reassure themselves is to open a magazine and realise they look like the girls in pictures. Good point there. But what about girls who aren't anorexic/bulemic who are labelled as such? Or basically girls who are thin because of their metabolism and are labelled as having eating disorders just because of the way they look? It's just as devastating to a girl who is discriminated against for being fat. For someone who isn't fat nor really thin, I don't think she's in the position to comment or throw out Ms 0's remark.
Later on, you realise that the show isn't really about a war among different weight categories, (what the hell was her audience sectioned by weight/body shape for anyway?) but rather a show on fat people, the problems they have and losing weight for the right reasons. Oh, and the reason why Ms 20 was there seems to be to teach her a lesson that losing some weight can be a good thing.
Talk about veering off course. It's just as bad as the "So What" Campaign she started, but that's another thing.
The episode goes on with both girls living each other's life for a day, starting with eating each other's daily breakfast. More importantly, they "exchanged bodies", or body sizes. However Ms 0 is actually turned into a size 32, while Ms 20 stayed the same size but had make up done so she looked like she was wearing a fat suit and has a album of doctored photos to prove her "real size". Now what I don't get is if they're supposed to live each other's life, then why is Ms 0 changed to a size 32 instead of a size 20. If you look at the size 32 girl and the actual Ms 20, there's obvious differences and it's easy to understand why she got disgusted stares walking down the street. Furthermore, the make-up done was CRAP! Like another guest commented, Ms 20's "face was falling off her face". The make-up for Ms 0 wasn't that much better either and maybe some of the stares were for the ugly face they painted on her.
Anyway, after the whole unfair experiment, they were brought to the studio to talk about their experience and Ms 0 commented that fat people, along with SOME thin people, do get a lot of discrimination. At this point, Tyra butts in and asks if she really thinks that thin people actually get discriminated against. To put her point across, she goes and states her case, interrupting Ms 0 almost to the point that she's not allowing her guest to talk.
Then when Ms 0 says that thin girls do get comments about protruding bones, and Tyra goes to the aid of all thin girls saying that all they have to do to reassure themselves is to open a magazine and realise they look like the girls in pictures. Good point there. But what about girls who aren't anorexic/bulemic who are labelled as such? Or basically girls who are thin because of their metabolism and are labelled as having eating disorders just because of the way they look? It's just as devastating to a girl who is discriminated against for being fat. For someone who isn't fat nor really thin, I don't think she's in the position to comment or throw out Ms 0's remark.
Later on, you realise that the show isn't really about a war among different weight categories, (what the hell was her audience sectioned by weight/body shape for anyway?) but rather a show on fat people, the problems they have and losing weight for the right reasons. Oh, and the reason why Ms 20 was there seems to be to teach her a lesson that losing some weight can be a good thing.
Talk about veering off course. It's just as bad as the "So What" Campaign she started, but that's another thing.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Lack Of Creativity
Basically, I can't tolerate the latest McDelivery ad. It's a crappy, lame attempt of an advertisement riding on the coat-tails of the hype of Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and Kanye West's "Stronger". Are creative juices running out? With the best advertisements of 2007 being advertised recently for their annual competition, this ad seem like a corny joke. Then again, McDelivery's advertisement have always been one of the most artificial to me. If anyone can remember the time when they held their weekly contest to give away something to the winners, the winners all seem to have scripts to follow, and some of them even try their hand at acting and having fake accents.
Stick to kids just enjoying your fries.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Work's Little Fiesty Ball Of Entertainment
As suddenly as she came, she had to go. Moshi, Chomel, Xiao Mao Mi , or whatever pet names we had for her, this kitty was a constant fuzzy ball of entertainment when life @ the outlet got drabby. It started out with a kitten just calling out for some food, hiding in one of the potted plants, mewing for attention.
A little apprehensive of humans, she backed off whenever we came near, or sometimes scuttle away just at the sight of certain people. Soon, she got used to us and started playing catch whenever we went out to take an order, or serve them up. She would hide in a corner and run up to us just to get her claws on our ankles and ran away when she thought that we were going to turn around and get her. She would also try to catch our fingers from behind the glass door, stretching her paw through the tiny gap, making us laugh.
F-I-E-R-C-E!
Then she got so used to human contact that she begged for food and attention from some of our customers, some of which weren't cat-friendly. She would also try to get into the cafe, but we set boundaries (albeit with a bit of chemical help) and she knew her place. It wasn't always fun and games with her. She tormented our resident gardener, who wanted to murder her whenever she started digging in the beds of freshly planted flowers. Then the day came when an intolerable bitch decided to complain about everything but the kitchen sink, and so our operations manager got wind of kitty and told us to get rid of her.
After days of trying to find a home for her among our friends, it was down to relocating her, or sending her to the SPCA. But as luck, and a few days of procrastination, would have it, a family comes by and falls in love with her, just in time to bring her home and save her from a horrible end.
Lucky Cat.
A little apprehensive of humans, she backed off whenever we came near, or sometimes scuttle away just at the sight of certain people. Soon, she got used to us and started playing catch whenever we went out to take an order, or serve them up. She would hide in a corner and run up to us just to get her claws on our ankles and ran away when she thought that we were going to turn around and get her. She would also try to catch our fingers from behind the glass door, stretching her paw through the tiny gap, making us laugh.
F-I-E-R-C-E!
Then she got so used to human contact that she begged for food and attention from some of our customers, some of which weren't cat-friendly. She would also try to get into the cafe, but we set boundaries (albeit with a bit of chemical help) and she knew her place. It wasn't always fun and games with her. She tormented our resident gardener, who wanted to murder her whenever she started digging in the beds of freshly planted flowers. Then the day came when an intolerable bitch decided to complain about everything but the kitchen sink, and so our operations manager got wind of kitty and told us to get rid of her.
After days of trying to find a home for her among our friends, it was down to relocating her, or sending her to the SPCA. But as luck, and a few days of procrastination, would have it, a family comes by and falls in love with her, just in time to bring her home and save her from a horrible end.
Lucky Cat.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
I Hope You Choke On It
"Excuse me, why does my ice cream have ice in it?"
Now if you're in a restaurant/cafe not owned by me, you could expect the usual "oh... do u want me to change it for you?" routine. But if you were in one that I own, please expect this response:
"Well, u see, ice cream has to sit and wait in a freezer till a dumb arse, like you, decides to have a banana split, and only until then does it get scooped up and served on a banana boat, melting in the heat of the cafe. So unless you want your banana swimming in 3 different flavoured creams, you should expect a bit of ice in your bloody ice cream as the bloody thing is part liquid! Now eat that shit and stop complaining cos you ain't gonna get another split after eating half of the first one."
Unless there's a big CUBE of ice in ur ice cream, don't ask me, or any service staff, a stupid question like that. No one will know how to answer that dumb question of yours and we all know u're just a bloody greedy arse hoping to get a discount out of the whole thing.
I hope u enjoyed your split and that ur arse will after all the curses we've thrown at you. Or else, choke on ur next one!
Unless there's a big CUBE of ice in ur ice cream, don't ask me, or any service staff, a stupid question like that. No one will know how to answer that dumb question of yours and we all know u're just a bloody greedy arse hoping to get a discount out of the whole thing.
I hope u enjoyed your split and that ur arse will after all the curses we've thrown at you. Or else, choke on ur next one!
YOU STOOOOOPID IDIOT
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