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For my Korean lesson last night, learnt
Korean numbers for your age, things, persons, animals
20-10000, memorised already...
Yul, si mul, so run, ma huen, shwin, ye sun, yirun, your dun, ah huen, pek! Chon 1000, Man is 10000
Yesterday for my Lit lecture, we watched a documentary on how big media companies keep up with teenagers’ cultures and trends. How MTV tries to continually find for the next cool thing to give to teens. So they got inspiration from metal rap bands such as Insane Clown Posse, Nine Inch Nails and Limp Bizkit, all of which were underground bands, before they were discovered by record labels and promoted on MTV to the masses, thus, becoming not so cool after being mainstreamed. Metal rap bands are like CRAZY. They have all these angry lyrics, crazy hairstyles and garish makeups, and many teens out there identify with them just because they are not mainstream and that not many people know about them yet. It’s like, nobody knows their songs so you feel special if you know about them. Like, compare them to Hoobastank for example, personally I felt that their hit song “The Reason” was waaay too overplayed on the radio. Everyone loved that song. Maybe too much And then suddenly I realized the song wasn’t hip to me already…the same goes for Avril Lavigne. I thought she was unique because of her original punk look, and she always insisted to be self-styled. Hell, she was such a phenomenon that she is even mentioned in my Sociology textbook. And because her poppy songs were wildly received by the masses, she didn’t seem so cool to me after that. You know what I’m saying?

Anyway, it goes on to talk about how MTV’s other shows catered to the masses, shows such as Jackass, The Tom Green Show, The Howard Stern Show and Spring Break. And even WWE. All these shows are like outrageous. Jackass and Tom Green do crazy stunts and cause social havoc-they called themselves mooks. M.oo.K.s! I think it's so...retarded! Howard Stern has naked girls on his show all the time and he has them do things like massage him while he’s lying down on the floor. He is a guy whom many teens look up to. Man. He has also become a phenomenon, releasing his own book and having more control over his show. That guy was the one who had actor Wilma Valderrama on his show and where Wilma talked about his trysts with actress Lindsay Lohan and then-virgin singer and actress Mandy Moore. Moving on to Spring Break, it’s a show where college students graduate or something and how they spend their holidays celebrating, with girls dancing like whores with guys, and all of them covered only in whipped cream. And they show this on TV. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I wonder if youtube has that show….u gotta see it to believe it. I’m so disgusted by all these behaviours of American teens and treating sex lightly and having sex like rabbits do. I'm not a prude. whatever. I just think it's ammoral.

Which got me thinking to Laguna Beach! I had just bought the VCD recently. Its tagline is “The real OC”, chronicling the lives of high school and college students living in Laguna Beach, an area in America. Man! I now fully realize all that drama in LB is probably contrived and hammed up for the cameras. Teens don’t just hook up and break up and have catfights like nobody’s business. I mean, I know reality shows are edited and all but what is actually reality means hamming it up for the freaking camera in font of you! big time.

AND MOVING ON TO WWE, WHAT’S UP WITH THAT FREAKING WRESTLING SHOW? Tons of guys including my two brothers enjoy that show and relish every moment. God, I think it’s like, a macho-male testosterone kind of effect.

So yeah, these kind of shows mentioned above are what teenagers are attracted to, and they think it’s cool and try to emulate these characters. Furthermore, teens who are filmed and featured in these shows like Spring Break totally ham it up for the cameras by dancing more wildly with guys, more sexily, and then teens watching them would go and copy them and think it’s normal. It’s a vicious cycle. Like who actually defines what is reality and what is actually cool? The camera-whore teens? Or the cameras?

K then after school I went to Mcds with L and we talked a bit about her bro’s results. there were a bunch of Jap boys there and they spoke freaking loud. They don't speak, they SHOUT at one another. It was so crazy. And then there were a couple or two of them androgynous boys who I mistook as girls.

Anyway, L's bro didn't do too well for his As...and then we got to talking abt how RJC students are heck-care when they get 4As and all, and even play cards at the hall after collecting their slips, as reported by The New Paper. As in the words of one RJC student, they have a 'warped sense of success'. It's so sad that they can't be excited and happy for themselves over stuff like that...its so sad to act cool in an environment like that, if you know what I mean...wait till they go NS and experience it for a while then they'll know how to appreciate certain things in life that should be worth appreciating by any normal person,lol...