Sunday, June 12, 2005

the superficiality of it all

there are so many plastics around me - the number is uncountable. i've always wanted to blog about superficiality because its part of my life - not that i'm superficial - the people around me are, especially in secondary school where superficiality was RAMPANT. it was the number 1 characteristic of the majority of all the girls in there. if u're wondering why i chose not to blog about this sooner - its because i'm speechless. too many incidents.. just too many people.

a part of this entire superficiality thing is acting high-class. i despise these people more than they ever looked down on what they deem low-class folks like neighbourhood ah lians and heartlanders (just because they stay in a HDB). an actual look of these people actually shows that they ain't much higher on the ladder than those people they complain about. true, they may not stay in neighbourhoods like toa payoh, bedok, clementi.. but hey. just look at their housing. their parents probably got it at only 100k many years back and they're just sitting on it to wait for en-block so they'll be paid like 2m or 3m! and one thing i noticed - living in a HDB does NOT necessarily mean that u're poor or anything like that because people who live in HDBs can afford branded stuff too! pre-sale and when i say branded, i mean BURBERRY and Louis Vuitton & Christian Dior, not stuff like fcuk, guess, mango, stussy, roxy, billabong, mambo.

Acting high-class is just a nicer word for "High-class Wannabe". Honestly, its different from tai-tai wannabes.. cos who doesn't wanna be a tai-tai? And tai-tais don't have to be high-class right from the time they were born.. tai-tainess can be GROOMED. For example, u don't have to be a rich, spoilt princess to become a future-taitai. What about plain janes with super duper NICE characters who get picked up by rich prince because of their character (eg. they're not people who spend all your $ on shopping/yum cha-ing/mahjonging in a day)? The whole point about being a taitai is to ENJOY LIFE in terms of material needs and u don't have to be a rich, spoilt princess to be able to UPGRADE to that taitai status when you get married. So what's the whole point of acting high-class? I suppose those high-class-wannabes are just praying & hoping with all their might that some guy might fall in love with their superficiality. Notice - some taitais are not even pretty? But its ok - with money, u can groom those fugly taitais :) that's why they all become prettiER. Think Botox.

another thing to mention is the perfect lives that these people lead. i choose to believe that it is all a facade and Jiahui agrees with me on this entire facade issue. In fact, i got my idea from her! *u can call that influence + thought on my side* She said that there's no such thing as a Perfect Life. If there was such a thing as a Perfect Life, that person's life should also be known as an Empty one. Why? cos every single day that person walks around being aimless. Ultimately, do u live just to bitch about others? do u live just to be a taitai? if we live our lives so perfectly, we wouldn't know how exactly to cope with downfalls. Without sadness/anger, we wouldn't know what happiness is. Jiahui says these people are big fat liars because they portray their lives in such a perfect way - some of it is even just said. We all know acting on it and saying are 2 different things, yeah? For God's sake, when will these people actually OPEN their eyes to see that the REAL world is NOT perfect?

Is life truly about bitches and bitchees?
the last thing that i'd like to add.. is sth that happens daily, especially among girls. it not just as simple as gossiping, but its BITCHING. bitching = throwing false accusations at someone just because u dislike her. an ex-classmate of mine (sorry i can't name her) once said, "bitching is a part of every girl's daily life.. we can't stop it". People are just blind & deaf to the hurtful effects of bitching on the bitchee. Alright, i agree its more than fine to bitch (that's if u're talking about a person's negative/funny/weird behaviour/actions that u have personally seen or heard from someone else) - but i can't stand 3 things (which includes throwing false accusations). Firstly, bitching about your best/good friend. Secondly, Judging a book from its cover (bitching about a person u don't even know). Lastly, bitching about the poor bitchee's character and actions when the bitch bitcher (its supposed to be Bitch - but bitcher = the person who bitches about another person (Bitch is TOO general)) herself sucks in every way and manner. While bitching, i wonder if these plastics realise that they're bitching about themselves too? Bitching speaks a LOT about oneself and people who watch the bitcher bitch around know it. Sorry - it seems like that facade of a perfect life u've been trying to carry across is NOT that perfect to people who actually KNOW you.

i must thank all the plastics out there for being part of the inspiration needed for this post. =) cheers! well actually.. i kinda think they wouldn't even KNOW that they're superficial, so nvm. Charlene was right.. bitches bitchers are all around. I might be one - and i sense it. We just can't help but bitch :)

*please note that no part of this post refers to anyone in particular unless otherwise stated. the author wrote this in terms of superficiality as a whole.
bee at 2:09 AM