We have had a rare treat over the past few days. We’ve been able to sit back and watch mobs tear apart Dawn Yang for having gone under the knife. I’ve recently wondered if these inquisitive assholes have a right to know everything about her. For all those who’d love to mourn Princess Diana publicly, well, let’s just remember she got killed while speeding away from papparazi. Maybe celebrities deserve papparazi because, after all, people think they deserve to know.
Is privacy such an outmoded thing these days? It’s like there’s this trial by fire newborn celebs have to go through: once tipped for having potential, every particle and pore of their lives is examined, dissected, put out on display and pushed under the microscope. Everything, from what they might love wearing, to what scent they use, to what foods they like, to what brand of hair-wash they prefer, to reading double-meanings in their sentences, reading lies and innuendoes in innocent remarks, etc.
It all looks like a deluge of angry, voracious green-eyed’s swarming all over her. Those who survive and don’t leave carcasses behind then take their place amongst a constellation of stars, forgetting such juvenile ragging. I truly wonder if anyone deserves all that: it’s as if people are saying, “Nah, you want to be famous, let’s have a piece of you first. We’ll chew you out, rip you to shreds, then you’ll truly be a reflection of the best in us”. Take that whichever way you want.
Or go here and take whatever you want from the other posts. I smile as I type this, because I know it’s pretty ironic that this post has turned into yet another Dawn Yang special, falling on at least one side of the fence. (Does it really matter which side, anymore?)
She’s become a big hole in the ether, dragging everything and everyone down one swirly little whirpool. And what a little storm in a sinkhole this has turned out:
- The quoted-out-of-context line from Xiaxue (a journo’s revenge? poetic justice, even?), and btw, Xiaxue says “Fuck you, Jean Marie” : my little subversive contribution, I’m sure.
- A pissed off Hottest Blogger entrant. Ms Nicole Hu looks extremely hot, though. It’s her smile, I think, and her shoulders, probably, but all idle thoughts I’m sure; she hates invasive voyeurs like me, it appears. On the upside, I don’t think she’ll have trouble convincing people of her charming personality, honestly.
- Kahsoon’s grovelling in pure, orgasmic pleasure and waving about his willy, all in celebration I gather. He’s like a bumbling, bumbfucked slave-trader dancing across Town Square celebrating his happy exploitation of other people.
What an image.
Watch out, people. We’re a brave, new generation of hopeless fuckheads juiced up on the celebrity game. We’re a mind-blowing, all-consuming hoarde of unwashed villagers.
Maybe ‘we’ should get paid for this.


I shall quote a wise man “these people are vultures of controversy who hunger for strife so they can profit from disharmony”, the wise man, of course, is myself. And to have me saying this is ironic. Mwaha.
Comment by Eliar Swiftfire — Tuesday, 15 November 2005 @ 6:53 pm
we should start a counter-culture revolution… or maybe not. heh heh heh…
Comment by xpyre — Tuesday, 15 November 2005 @ 7:10 pm
As long as it’s profitable, I just might actually do it
Comment by Eliar Swiftfire — Tuesday, 15 November 2005 @ 8:49 pm
and the PINK! dude, you’ve GOT to do something about that pink, man.
(subversive webby design AND subversive content?!)
Comment by xpyre — Tuesday, 15 November 2005 @ 8:56 pm
IMHO, there is a price to pay for everything. There is an upside of fame, there is a downside. Whoever says being a celeb have it all should be shot.
Whoever who really have it all should really keep quiet about it. Most likely those are the ones who will never enjoy fame either.
No one can really have their cake and eat it too.
Its a cruel fact of life, but who ever says life is easy?
As much as I would like to say that people by right should just keep their opinion to themselves, wouldn’t the world be terribly boring then if everyone really mind their own business?
There is a reason afterall for the ENTERTAINMENT industry to exist. This, my dear fellow is nothing short of ENTERTAINMENT.
Comment by inex — Wednesday, 16 November 2005 @ 10:21 am
Well, that’s all well and good to insist that a price needs to be paid for everything, but this is just odd, to say the least:
Dude/dudette, come on , does that really mean we should shrug off whatever ounce of decency we have and have a go at her? Or anyone for that matter. It’s like saying “Ah, she has the balls to court fame, therefore let’s get our collective flamethrowers out and give her a bit of napalm-love”.
Dismissing it as a cruel fact of life should not dissuade any of us from the fact that it is cruel. I’m quite shocked that people celebrate cruelty, that’s all.
As for opinions, well, yeah, even my post is an opinion and so is yours. But it’s quite another thing to put forth opinions in a fair and decent way, I suppose. And as far as decency is concerned, issues about another person’s private life is a threshold we should do well to respect.
It’s privacy lah, privacy. I hate, for example, Xiaxue with as much abandon as the next person for what she writes, but I really wouldn’t want to know if she’s had a boob job or not (and neither would I care to know), and then parade such information like an effigy worth burning, mah.
It’s like running around, screaming, “there! there! I told you she had a boob job! what a lying bitch!”.
So bewildering.
But of course, not all of us are Gandhis-es and Jesus-es, are we? Uh… yeah.
Comment by xpyre — Wednesday, 16 November 2005 @ 11:59 am