Tragic,Ticklish and Totally Timothean!

Totally Tim - Dusting off his Blog and bitching about yours!

Hokay. Surprise surprise the Tragic One makes a quick return to Blogville only for a short instance. No pre-publicity required. Not so conceited as to assume my return was so eagerly anticipated.

The world of Blogging especially in Singapore has changed tremendously and to some extent, ridiculously since I left it all those many months ago. Yes, when I stopped blogging, I also stopped following up and reading other people’s blogs.

How dramatic is that. The Timothean Titan has convinced himself that if he does not blog, then Blogging itself doth not exist. Muahahah! Yes still as cocky and delusional as ever. Some things cannot change lar.

But back to the point. I could be wrong but I always thought the premise for these online journals was to be, well, just that - Journals. Diaries if you will. A way for people to record what was happening in their lives, how they feel and perhaps a form of reference in the future for those who want to remember what life used to be like. At least that’s why I started blogging.

However it’s obviously clear, that is no longer the case. Blogging has become much more. Blogging has become everyone’s little piece of trashy tabloid space on the web. I guess Bloggers today are exploring this inherent need to be a gossip columnist. Which I suppose wouldn’t be such a big deal if they were a) eloquent, b) could spell c) had facts.

I always thought blogging, just like any journal or diary was supposed to be personal. Yet more often than not, the entries that I’ve read are mainly bloggers gossiping about celebrities, local (what a laugh) and foreign. Some bloggers have even taken to participating in BLOG WARS. Yes Blog Wars. Without going into detail…oh what the heck. Lets.

I was rather taken aback when I learnt about popular (or some might describe as infamous) Singaporean Blogger Xiaxue, another online blogger who even created a moniker called Xialanxue and their online assaults on each other. What was even more incredulous was the fact that there was so many of the blogging fraternity getting in on it, taking sides and fueling this Blog Battle.

Then there’s the case of the chick who apparently had plastic surgery. The blogging community was in such uproar. Why? Because some people and bloggers who claimed they knew her personally said she didn’t look like that when they were in school together. Then you have people who don’t know the girl at all taking sides and turning the issue into some investigative debate.

My take on this girl who may or may not have had surgery? WHO CARES?

I don’t know her. You don’t know her. How does her life and whether she had surgery affect your life? Leave her the hell alone. Even if she’s lying, what’s it to you? Everyone lies. If it doesn’t hurt you, let them.

Instead of writing about other people, write about yourself. What’s happening in YOUR life. Or even if you must write about someone else, then don’t just bitch. Instead explain how it affects you and how you feel about it. Make Blogging personal again. Don’t spend your time telling me what is going on in the life of another blogger. If I wanted to know, I’d go to THEIR blog and find out. Tell me what’s happening in YOUR life. I’m kaypoh. We all are.

The ridiculous thing is that there are probably a handful of bloggers in Singapore talking about their own lives. The rest of the blogging community is just blogging about what those few bloggers are blogging about. (Wow how many times did I say “blogging” in that sentence?)

Now the latest piece of news is this whole issue with the NYP school girl whose sex video got released on the internet. I actually saw the video at a friend’s place and really wasn’t all that impressed. Actually I take that back. I was very impressed. Not at the action on screen, but the phone itself. For a phone camera, the quality was freakin awesome. Plus I was amazed at the disk space and battery life of the phone to be able to take a 10 minute recording of such quality.

There are a few conspiracies going around. One is that this girl had her phone stolen and the person who found it uploaded the video. Another is that the thief was the girl’s lesbian partner who, jealous of said victim’s relationship with the boy (in the video) stole the phone and out of spite uploaded the video to screw them (as if they weren’t screwing enough already! :p ). The third one I heard was that this was part of an elaborate plan for publicity for a future pornographic movie starring the victim and this ‘leak’ was done intentionally.

Personally I think it might be an awesome marketing strategy for the hand phone company to impress people with the picture quality and video capability of their new set of mobiles.

These days, blogs are filled with “Oh I know her.” “Oh she’s the friend of a friend”. “Oh I went to school with her”. “Oh she’s the friend of my cousin’s dog’s grandmother whose owner was the godmother of my Dad’s sister’s classmate’s mahjong kaki!”

Okay maybe I’m exaggerating with the last one.

There was no mahjong involved.

I don’t think the girl was a slut. Neither do I think the guy is a pervert. They were two consenting people of age who had sex. So what? Is everyone who has had sex a slut and pervert? No. Is everyone who has sex a topic of conversation? No. If so we’d all be celebrities. Ok maybe not me. It’s been a while. Drought season. You understand.

So what if they used a camera. It’s kinky. I think so plus they had every right to do so. Whatever floats your boat, flies your kite or drives your car. Y’know.

I do hope that the person who stole the phone burns in hell. You and fuckwits like you are ruining the chance for the rest of us to live out our own fantasies and kinky practices. Because of you, people will now be afraid of video taping themselves and doing whatever else it is they do. You’ve spoilt it for all of us. The next time, erm….I should say instead…if ever there comes a time I might want to video tape myself in the throes of passion and think twice or face opposition from my partner because of this type of fear, you can be sure I will be cursing your soul!

Wow. For someone who said they weren’t going to write a lot, those words really came hard and fast didn’t they (Unlike the guy in the video hahah)?

Updates on my life…lets make this quick. Will try and elaborate later.

1. Many friends gotten married. Been emceeing their weddings. Have a funny feeling I will end up emceeing my own if I ever have one. Can’t remember the last time I was at a wedding as a regular guest.
2. Found myself once again in a long distance relationship. She’s a great girl so I’m going to try and make this work. I need to learn patience though. Becoming crabby in my old age.
3. Still unemployed. Need a full-time job. Any lobang not? Been living on freelance writing and hosting gigs. Need something more.
4. It’s been 7 months since I got my driver’s license. Just 5 more till I get rid of the “Plates of Shame”
5. Gotten a Tan. (The sun one. Not a person with the sir name. Never dated a Tan. Hmmm wonder why. Anyway I digress) First one in years. But I have horrible tan lines, or patches....mainly due to the board shorts I kept on. I’ll show you sometime. No? Really? You what? You pass? Ok then.

Egads! I’m sure more has happened than that. I can’t be such a No-Lifer can I? Waitaminute. It’s 3.30 on a Saturday morning. I’m home. I’m writing in my blog. Ok point taken.

Alright. Time for the Tragic and Tacky Timothean to call it a night. Or a ‘Morning’. Or whatever IT likes to be called.

Thanks for checking back. If you’re even checking back. Or ever did.

~Totally Tim – Forgetting Hollywood and looking so Bollywood. Well that’s what some people say. (Picture taken at Sanjay’s wedding dinner which yours truly emceed. Not surprising)

Congratulations Melon and Felicia!

posted by Timmy Tim Tim @ 4:03 AM