Fake.

i just had 'fake' black pepper chicken. it's freaking good. so good that i think it may beat the real one. (i'm talking vegan black pepper chicken if you didn't realise.) and i should think it should be healthier than the real one, er, right? but anyways, i'm hooked on it. and with the pandemic chicken flu going about, best that we steer clear of anything that has feathers when it was alive. not that chicky flu can be spread through eating diseased meat (not that we do know of i think) but more of the antibiotics and what-not they inject into our feathered friends.

ever think of becoming vegan? this the best time.

anyway, i was saying, the fake black pepper chicken imitates the real one so well, that it prolly surpassed the latter. even the texture of the 'meat' was real-like. like tender chicken, not some old tough breast of a chicken. so, all things fake are not that bad.
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which links me to something - plastic surgery. with all the hype going about blogosphere regarding a young local woman who recently got pretty famous and termed as The Hottest Blogger. and yeah, she's reaaaally pretty. but there are blogs posted to slam her, saying that she had reconstructed, practically, her whole face. with pictures of her before and after to boot. and it's really quite dramatically amazing actually.

to have plastic surgery to enhance your look, ok, great, if you've the ching-ching and that it makes you feel better about yourself. but to reconstruct your entire face..? that's basically changing your identity, no? the face that her family and her friends used to identify with, has changed to a complete new (and pretty) look. where's the 'you' in the new look?

but what gets people going about her and her plastic surgery, was that she denied ever having one. prolly people will accept it better if she had admitted to doing her eyes, nose, cheeks, jaw, boobs etc...? maybe.

prolly the green-eyed monster is rearing its ugly head in the people who can't believe that a girl this pretty cos she did something to herself, is actually getting famous cos she was signed up by a media company. and she's smart, and she sounds like she's rather rich.

how many people have actually gone under the knife in the media industry anyways? maybe it's easier to count those who did not. but yeah, my boy was saying, that the media stars have actually gone under the knife after they got famous. but again, how much do we know? and then, i do not think that the hot blogger made herself pretty and desirable because she intended to go into the entertainment world.. did she?

she prolly denied it cos she didn't know how to handle such a problem with everyone scrutinizing her with eagle eyes. make one mistake, and everyone pounced on it like hungry tigers, tearing it viciously apart. she's afterall, just 21?

it's like the jacko's face business. ongoing for the longest of time. but his case was more of a retrograde.

this girl - i don't deny marvelling at the work of her plastic surgeon.
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read the newspapers today, about a teacher who blogs about her life explicitly. her sexuality, her thoughts, 'her favourite position', her intention to sell sex toys. there is way too much focus on bloggers these days, no? where's that blardy freedom of speech? and why can't people accept that teachers are human too? an occupation doesn't determine who you are, or what a person you are. a teacher cannot dye his/her hair? what bullshit, even if all the teachers in the schools have jet-black hair, there WILL be students still dyeing their hair to all sorts of colours. why? media, other adults in other occupations whom they see along the streets, their parents, their older sisters or brothers. what valid reason is there to restrict teachers from such freedom? to set as a good example? how do hair colours determine what sort of person are you? (i'm not referring to: blondes=dumb, redheads=geeky, brunettes=dull plain janes) as long as the hair colours do not belong to any of the rainbow colours, give all of us/them a break.

i'm digressing.

as i'd said, everyone has their own personal lives, and all of them are entitled to theirs. it's prolly silly that the teacher has mixed her professional life and personal life all in one blog (putting pictures of herself and her class as well), and got herself into trouble. but i don't think she deserved to be gone down so hardly on. what, you can't imagine a teacher to be sexually active, nor gay? you don't supposed that teachers, upon taking up their jobs, vow to ditch their personal lives and become saints, do you? you think that all doctors do not smoke, do not have numerous affairs? despite knowing about lung/thoat cancer and STDs?

it's getting way too dangerous to be blogging about anything now, i realise. the freedom of speech even here, is getting encroached on. what people say in their online 'diaries', are no more ramblings but statements. statements that are taken very seriously. it's like, blogging has become something that you have to engage in rationality and that you have to think twice about posting what you want to say. blogging, was never meant to be taken seriously at all.

i heard, china has banned blogging. i think, prolly, in time, Singapore might take to that stand too, given that so much negativity was shone on some bloggers these days.