As Suanie Sees It

So I was lovingly planting some bulbs in hope that they would grow into lovely lovely blooms when the earth suddenly shook and shattered. My bulbs were crushed. I was devastated. Then I heard a loud voice booming out of nowhere;

“Now that I have your attention, go to the nearest newsstand and purchase a copy of Weekend Mail.”

“But.. but.. I am gardening! My bulbs are all dead and now I have to buy new ones!”

“No, you will do as I say and take out RM1.20 to buy the goddamn paper.”

“Can’t I do this later? My hands are all dirty and it’s a couple blocks from the newspapers guy.”

“Now!”

Gulpz. “Okay. By the way will I win the lottery?”

“In your dreams.”

My heart sank as I walked slowly to do as I was told. What is it? I thought, what could be so important that it couldn’t wait till the end of the century?

This had better be good.

Turned out, it was. Who should I see but some chicks on the cover of the Weekend Mail? With a photo feature of Angelina Jolie holding a wad of money no less?

A-ha!

The culprits are on the cam-ho worthy shot are: Kim, Fireangel, Cheesie, Jas, Pinkpau and KinkyBlueFairy.

The second page of the feature looks like this:

FA and Kim hated their photos. I didn’t think the interviews were any good, but then do you see me writing for ANY newspapers? Take heart la bitches, could be a lot worse, no? You are femes, yay!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice plug, cheers.

By the way, I don’t garden. Not like that matters.

Via BBC News:

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Canada’s government is thrown out

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin’s government has been ousted in a no-confidence vote.

Canada’s three opposition parties united against his Liberal Party, which has been mired in a corruption scandal.

Mr Martin will seek the dissolution of parliament on Tuesday, and a date for a general election - thought likely to be 16 or 23 January.

Recent polls suggest Mr Martin’s Liberals will take most votes in the election - but will not win a majority.

In parliament on Monday evening the opposition voted by 171-133 to bring down Mr Martin’s government.

“This has been an historic evening,” said opposition Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

“This is not just the end of a tired directionless scandal-plagued government. It’s the start of a bright new future for this great country.”

Mr Martin insisted his party would win the election.

He said he would visit Governor General Michaelle Jean on Tuesday to ask her to dissolve parliament, after which the election date would be announced.

Lost support

His government has only been in power for 17 months, but has failed to shake off a scandal dating from a previous Liberal administration.

In the late 1990s C$100m ($85m; £50m) of public money was paid by the Liberal government to advertising agencies, for little or no work in return.

It has been alleged that Liberal officials demanded kickbacks for awarding the contracts.

Mr Martin is not implicated in the scandal, but the opposition says he has lost all moral authority.

The prime minister fought off a no-confidence motion in May by a single vote, but lost the support of the New Democrat party earlier this month following a row over private health care spending.

The New Democrats joined the Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois in bringing the latest motion after Mr Martin rejected their ultimatum for an early election in February.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

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*thinks thinks thinks*

Ho ho ho Suanie, one day you are so gonna get into trouble.

Because I am sometimes a blog-ho and I’m an egoistical blogger and place way too much importance on myself and this blog, I like to click on my sitemeter to see who’s on, who came from where, that sort of stuff. KY should know - his FF browser’s homepage is his blog and he has his sitemeter there all the time. If you want to know how many visitors everyone is getting, ask KY.

When I put up the post on Dawn Yang, it was almost immediately after the New Paper article of her got published.

And then the blogosphere madness followed.

I don’t really give that much of a damn about her having plastic surgery or what-not. If we could like, snap back to Hollywood reality for a bit, almost none of the celebs would willingly admit that they underwent the knife. Michael Jackson would only admit to a couple of nose jobs, but anyone with a brain would know better. Sarah Jessica Parker, Sharon Stone, Al Pacino; almost every he/she/it done it.

Your local celebrities, your Singapore celebrities, the tai-tais, the Datins what-not, Lord this and that, socialites of the highest order, almost the entire LA county, they all dunnit. And of course they won’t admit it- who the fuck in their right mind (except for porn stars) would go all out, especially in the beginning of their blossoming careers? Yes it is a hypocrisy, yes we all know better, yes Britney’s boobs are fake, and then what? As much as I dislike Britney, I have to admit that she’s got to be smart to stay around this long even though she can’t sing for shit (her live performances are HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!). Either that or she has some really good people around her.

You can argue till the cows come home about DY and PS; at the end of the day she’s still signed to the talent company, if she’s got brains she would know how to milk it, and whatever happens next, well we shall see, eh?

And yes, I think that Dawn Yang is hot. I think that Angelina Jolie is hot. I think that Siti Nurhaliza is hot. I think that Camelia is hot. I think that the chick who was in ‘Return of the Condor Heroes’ with Andy Lau and dated Chow Yun Fatt is hot. I think that Mack’s wife is hot. I think that my friend Melissa who used to work for SIA is hot. I think that my ma is hot.

Deal with it.

About my sitemeter, it is rather annoying to have a traffic spike to that post about DY. The first couple days were fine, OooOoo traffic increased, people coming bla bla bla - then you realise that it’s all useless hits. Everybody wants to know about DY. Everybody wants to see what she looks like. And this irks me to no end.

HELLO, THIS IS MY BLOG! SINCE WHEN DID THE UNIVERSE STOP REVOLVING AROUND ME?!? CAN WE LIKE, STICK WITH THE PROGRAMME?

Well, things are getting back to their usual state, i.e. less pointless hits. So to Dawn Yang, so long and thanks for all the hits.

I know, I know.

Now go spike Swifty’s traffic.

1. Swifty Admits With Tears That His Relationship With Beautiful Blogger Dawn Yang Won’t Work
2. A webcomic done by Dawn Yang for Swifty
3. Swifty Announces ‘Chubby Cheeks Contest’ Winner! The Queen Is Not Amused
4. Swifty Says Farewell To Dawn Yang. XiaXue Is Pissed. Guestblogger Justin Is Happy

I did the collage above using film grain, ‘coz that’s what Dawn Yang is going to look like in the papers (read news article below).

The Great Swifty will be pleased that his object of fascination is headed for MTV-like greatness. Maybe he should get her to star in one of his independant films or something; nobody objects to obvious pretty-ful chicks.

I think it’s pretty hot that she got noticed via her blog (and looks, obviously) even though she’s a semi-socialite in Singapore and all that. I read her site from time to time, she seems pretty nice and non-malicious, plus the scholarship to the US should be some kind of indication that there’s a brain working somewhere.

Though I do agree with Mr. Miyagi’s thoughts on this being a gimmick (refer to article below), well no harm seeing where this leads to. MTV sucks, manufactured pop idols suck (looks like Dawn’s headed that way if she’s to hone her entertaining skills and the no-bf disclaimer) but she’s got brains so she’ll figure out her own path after the publicity. At least I hope so, would like to see her succeed.

Yeah I like her ‘cos she’s hot and if I had a hammer instead of a pipehole I would definitely invent all sorts of fantasies, with her in every scene of course.

Added: I just realised that her name quoted in the papers is Dawn Yeo, though she calls herself Dawn Yang on her blog. Whatever lah.

Added: The outcry over her surname is silly. I’m Tew in Hokkien, Zhao in Mandarin. As far as I know, Singaporean Chinese use the Mandarin versions of surnames instead of dialects like Malaysian Chinese. Why not spend more time and effort arguing if conforming to media and advertising’s version of beauty from a lack of self esteem is beneficial or not, healthy or not?

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1. Is that really her? I seem to remember that she has curly hair.

2. If it’s her, why she so dumb go and pose in a shoot like that?

Idiot.