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20060810

Cyanide and Happiness

I was attempting to write a long post, but then used up all my brain juice halfway trying.

HELP! I'M LOSING MY MENTAL STAMINA. Only with blogging of course. But then the post I was writing on was emo again. And that's bad cause everyone will think that I don't have a life other than rant about random (most of the times - emo) things. Which has probably been true for the past few weeks. ARGH. Bad both ways, yes yes, I know...

So for once, I shall talk about something really not emo and really dry and really technical it will bore your hearts out.


I can't believe there are such things called scenesters.

1. scenester

a person who tries very hard to fit the stereotype of a certain scene. often having to do with a specific genre of music emo.indie.punk.rock. dresses and acts in a prescribed fashion. image focused. vain.


Now everyone won't know if anyone dressing like an emo kid is actually emo or not.

K, let Professor where-did-pokemon-go do a rundown on Emo People. Emo kids are always linked to punk bands, punk band t-shirts, guitars, long-hair-that-cover-your-face, and skateboards. Anyway, you should already know all that cause somehow loads of guys out there are trying to become emo. And I bet you have at least one friend that is. (HEY I know what you're thinking but I'm NOT one of them okay.)

Emo kids are really good conversationalists. That's one way of differentiating the emo kids and the scenesters. Not that being a scenester is bad or anything, in modern day Singapore, scenesters are normal people too. Cause nobody's gonna go up to them and try to figure out if they are the real deal. They just presume they are just emo people.

Okay... where one earth did that word come from anyway?

Yeah, I mean 'emo'.

I know it's from the word 'emotional'. But then everything seems to be called emo. From drawn sideburns to self-mutilation. It's too subjective as a word. Emo should just be a short form of emotional... then it'll be so much easier to understand. Okay, so from now on, when I say 'emo', all I mean is 'emotional'.

ANYWAY, I was on the topic on scenesters. Shit, I'm digressing again.

The word 'scenester' just makes half of the Singaporean teenage population look like bodies without personality. I tihnk most people follow trends, so the defintion is almost condesending everyone. Well anyway, why should I bother, I don't know anyone whose classified scenester so I have nothing good or bad to say about them. (Neutrality. It's great cause it keeps you away from trouble. :])

If you think emo is bad and all (which isn't really, cause everything boils down to emos....wait, that sounded bad. I mean emotions.) please do go down http://www.cafepress.com/popcynical and get yourself a shirt. :D



Okay, this brings us to the end of today's really dry and technical tutorial.

SY wrote at 11:41 pm