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viernes, julio 04, 2003

[ 158. Blog Debate ]

well, apparently the arts faculty in srjc decided that since they are idle, might as well debate now.
Here's the current one.
Motion for the day: "This House believes that blogs are stupid."

And our dear proposition, mr lester lim junhong of srjc 03'2a01 has this to say,

"gordon bennet! why blogs are stupid? let me tell you why. in this day when almost every loser in this world has a blog, blogging has lost its meaning and essence. why the f**k do people have a blog in the first place? blogs are just like ego masturbation sessions. sure you can do whatever you want to yourself behind closed doors but once you get me involved anyhow you get nothing but all my flak.

how many blogs have actually sold out and retrograded into some mere imbecilic, trashy, b-grade site advertizing to the world how much of a life these people have? amongst people keeping a blog today there exists a somewhat odd exigency for ego-masturbation. who really wants to know what are the latest roxy skirt, quiksilver berms, ripcurl pants or stussy condoms that you have bought? like duh. pls. do you think people who really "have a life" even actually bother to promulgate their everyday occurences to the world? obviously not. if you do, and i mean truly do, have a life, you wouldn't need to market yourself door to door. you wouldn't need to spend time everyday typing paragraphs of what kind deeds you intend to do, you would get off your damn chair and do something concrete. you wouldn't need to upload photos of the people you hang out with and parties you attend. everybody knowst hat products marketed door to door are second grade as compared to products you need to get your ass off the couch to obtain. and perhaps people who really have a life wouldn't as bothered or dumb as you to be reading this now.

no, and I mean NO, the true blue bloggers from the yesteryears have always kept their online identity private or their blog pages to themselves. they have seen no need to show to the world how much of a life they have, or what cool friends they hang around with, or what pretty girlfriends or boyfriends that they have. among the blogs i have seen really in bad taste include those who blatantly LIE about themselves to portray themselves in good light. like hello, how low can you really descend to?

i seriously believe that these people who have blogs and unremittingly do the stuffs that i have mentioned above suffer from low self-esteem. dial 1900-self-esteem if this could somehow help you. marxists might call them victims of class struggle. if you have a blog now and you are reading this, i seriously ask you to question yourself why do you even bother to HAVE a blog and pass your SITE around to all of your friends for?

the last thing the internet needs is a smorgasbord of morons fobbing off their excessive emotional baggage on anybody dumb enough to burden themselves with generally bland and insipid content.

what does having a blog really mean? it really means nothing but all in all it has cheapened into some ego-boosting device for some really pathetic people. it has all but lost its meaning.

and if you think that the blog i'm lambasting about is yours, yes it is. *smiles*"

(source:http://audiosity.hypermart.net/collective/blog2.html)

Wow, that was a powerful opening speech isn't it? Obviously filled with certain... umm... unmentionable vocabulary. Never mind. Next, we have amanda of srjc 03'2a03 from the opposition who begs to differ. Hear what she has got to say:

"gordon bennet! why the hell blogs are not stupid?
i'll tell you why. firstly, blogs are not useless, mister, and having blogged before most of us did, you must know that it has a purpose of some sort.
your friends are entertained (or otherwise) with the goings-on in your life, and of course they'd be interested. they're your friends, for crying out loud.
plus, you get to rant. and rave. and who the hell cares about that? your friends.
if anything, at least you get to exercise some creative writing and amuse others at the same time.
true, it could be a sort of pathetic excuse for a life some people don't have, but blogging is not in itself a stupid idea. neither are blogs. so as powerful as your essay was, mr lim junhong of 2a1, in srjc, your title was unfortunately totally off balance and therefore you have a giant red cross slashed violently across the impression others have of you. because of your wonderful flamboyant brouhaha about why blogs are stupid, you (are we surprised?) come across as arrogant, pompous and pretending to be intellectual. and of course you don't care, you say. let them think you're arrogant. well, just the same, no one gives two hoots about what you think of their blogs.

blogs have another purpose. for example:

the other day amos tan hanwei of srjc 2a1 totally incurred my wrath. brave, i'll give the loser that, very brave. but stupid. wanna know how he did it? i was asking him which questions he did for literature paper 1, so he told me. naturally, he asked me the same question. i didn't remember the question numbers, so by accident i mentioned a number that i didn't do, which incidentally happened to be on stage directions. and what was our mr suave's reaction to that? shock. he was all, "you did THAT question? that one on stage directions?" and i replied, "oh no, my mistake. i didn't do that question." and what did our resident mr i'm-so-smart-i-landed-in-srjc say? "no no you couldn't have done that question. i mean no one did it. it was so hard." and after a moment's pause, deciding that i didn't hear him clearly enough, he repeated himself. "yeah. you couldn't have done the question. no one could do it."

wouldn't you be pissed off? i mean, just because you couldn't friggin do the stupid question doesn't mean i can't do it. he was obviously implying that i'm not as smart as him. sorry, didn't mean to be euphemistic about that. HE WAS OBVIOUSLY IMPLYING THAT I AM STUPIDER THAT HE IS. (or maybe he didn't mean to imply that, but couldn't help divulging his transparent opinion of me through his poor social skills.) $#%??? i mean, hello there, i've checked your scores. yes i have. oh yes and i check the scores of every single nitwit who thinks they i'm stupider than they are, or God forbid, that they're more intelligent that i am. yes i bloody do. and what do i have to say about that? BLOODY SIMPLE. if your literature grades aren't ANYWHERE close to mine, shut the hell up. i mean, there's this bunch of people from this class i won't mention who speak loudly wherever they go, behaving so intelligent and talking as if they have substance in their head. just out of curiosity, one fine day, i looked at their lit scores. whaddya know, practically the whole class proves how much of a failure they are with each lit paper, over and over again. i'm not kidding! the whole class. okay. maybe not practically, just ENTIRELY.

really, some people.

and that, my friends, is another purpose of blogging."

(Source: http://cremegirl.blogspot.com/2003_06_29_cremegirl_archive.html#105723787367469752)

I'm impressed with the high level of activity in the grey matter of these students nowadays. Thought they were just a bunch of nitwits who spend two thirds of their time trying to use bombastic language to achieve the same aim as every other college student: brag, ridicule, impress and flirt. Nonetheless, that was an interesting attempt, proudly presented by the srjc arts faculty!

Shannon left at 12:11 a. m..

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gone.

will i be back?
i don't know.
maybe i've started elsewhere.
maybe never. again.

viernes, julio 04, 2003

[ 158. Blog Debate ]

the guy

his wishes

his horizons

people.

tags

gone. will i be back? i don't know. maybe i've started elsewhere. maybe never. again.

viernes, julio 04, 2003

[ 158. Blog Debate ]

the guy

his wishes

his horizons

people.

tags

gone.

will i be back?
i don't know.
maybe i've started elsewhere.
maybe never. again.