exercise

played table tennis with my dad this morning and then met up with jasper. we walked from my house along yio chu kang road, did a stopover at the yio chu kang market, then walked all the way to thompson road, then walked to thompson plaza, did a stopover for dinner, and then walked to ang mo kio. then took a bus home.

that was kinda crazy; it's the most exercise i've done in a long long long time. i think we did about 5 or 6 hours walking in total. we even jogged a bit and sang army songs. started getting really tired, at least i did, so got quite crazy, as is natural. you lose your inhibitions (if you have any) the more tired you are.

played virtua cop in the arcade also before meeting jasper. it's fun! now at least i can almost win the beginner level in one game, though the boss is quite mean lor. it's much more fun than house of the dead because in house of the dead you need to shoot so many times before the zombies die.

also helped my mom gamble a bit. when you win something at jackpot machine you can go double or nothing, choose whether red or black. lost 10 coins. then won 30 coins. then lost 10 coins. then lost 10 coins and then 10 coins again. so better off not gambling. anyway, i think if go casino the best bet is to play odd/even at roulette, because that pays 1-1 and the odds are also 1-1. but even better is don't play lah.

well, one of the things we came up with during our walk is (jasper): love is not about possession, (me): it is about obsession. oh, and i saw this buddhist poster that said that buddhism is like fluoride toothpaste. need to apply it for it to work. equally applicable to many things. at the bookshop also they got "raising smart kids for dummies".

the weekend is over, but since i'm a slacker with nothing to do this just means i'll be doing my own thing. still have yet to totally organize and clean up my room. still have yet to go through the linux books and really play with the system.

i'll take the liberty of cutting and pasting the comments from a post on yvonne's blog: Ewong De Gu Shi [ http://juggleress.blogspot.com/ ].
the comments can be found at the bottom of this post.

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On : 8/28/2004 9:57:23 AM pf (www) said:

who got married?!
and yah there's a huge problem with the obsession to be thin in singapore. it's incredibly and scarily exaggerated.

On : 8/28/2004 2:03:26 PM juggleress (www) said:

nus classmate, not anyone from our class. if it's from our class the news will spread to everyone in 3 minutes.

ya i beginning to think so too. my friend from america keeps commenting that the girls here are just way too skinny and small. they (she and another american fren) can hardly fit into the clothes and shoes they sell here!

and of course wanyi says that 1 in 2 welsh women are fat. (and still wear short skirts)

i just watched a local chinese talent show and the judge told this girl she's too fat for tv! and she's not lor!! it's a conspiracy to make everyone anorexic.....

On : 8/28/2004 2:36:00 PM pf (www) said:

it's a whole lot of irresponsible superficiality and extremely irresponsible ignorance as well. the media either doesn't realize the kind of message they're sending out or they do and don't care, and are just concerned about making money / getting viewers and having an audience.

it's a subtle indoctrination that has led to the average citizen instinctively labelling as "fat" anyone who isn't thin, especially if they appear on TV. i heard they were saying zoe tay "still looks pretty" or something to that effect because she hasn't been able to keep much food down during her pregnancy.

On : 8/28/2004 3:20:28 PM juggleress (www) said:

yeah i agree. look at fann wong and her xando diet pills ad. there was a columnist who criticised the ad and wrote that if pple didn't know where singapore is, they might think we're from africa.

i'm surprised the girls in US are not reed thin on average (from what i heard from friends there), since all the superstars from there are reed thin. the cast of friends, nicole kidman, halle berry..all of them are like sticks.

i guess the media from every country is like that, but maybe singaporean girls buy the thin theory more.

i agree with the instinctive labelling too. there can be so many more ways to describe someone. "untoned", "flabby", "big sized", "on the plumb side", "chubby".

hmm, karen carpenter became anorexic because the newspapers said she's chubby so maybe that's not a gd word to use.

or better still, like my fren in sec 2 once said " you're not fat. well you're not thin, but you're not fat."

some pple are way way too thin. and yeah, if you're not thin, you're fat. it's all nicely back and white.

On : 8/28/2004 9:02:33 PM pf (www) said:

i think the thing with america is that the media isn't monopolized and is somewhat smarter, meaning there are subversive media and a whole lot of media criticism going on, so at least more people are aware.

this is also connected to the greater awareness of mental health issues too, in a general way. not that everyone knows about psychological well-being, but more people do, and it's talked about more.

but of course there's still stupid women's magazines that can't stop talking about how to lose weight, etc. and showing ads of super-thin models and stuff. yet there definitely isn't this proliferation of ads for slimming centers, at least not in regular newspapers like the new york times or whatever.

On : 8/28/2004 11:19:31 PM Beautiful Hair (www) said:

erm,spelt plump not plumb(means draining toilets)