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The Halloween Stooge

I think I’ve turned into a stooge, because I no longer give a crap about Halloween. For children, Halloween is for dressing up and stuffing your face with candy. But when you’ve reached an age where copious amounts of sugar is no longer a liable source of blackmail, Halloween becomes a sad excuse for everyone to dress up like sluts and drink alcohol. It’s a rationalization for incongruent behavior.

An example would be this girl at school who was overcome with the need to dress up in a low cut schoolgirl blouse and splatter the front with blood. I mean, who are you supposed to be? A character from a porn movie that has been stabbed in the breasts? There are ingenuity in some Halloween costumes, but most people will sacrifice ingenuity for the sake of looking sexy.

I guess ridiculousness is applicable to every holiday, but Halloween is one of those holidays I’ve never had a particularly fond affection for.

Rise and Fall

I started this blog when I was an ignorant preteen, indulging in what I saw as an extremely productive hobby. There used to be a phase when owning a website and graphic designing was the epitome of cool. This was once a thriving virtual community with teenagers that relished in quasi-web designing, but every civilization has its rise and falls and it seems as if this virtual community is slowly meeting its end.

I am sixteen years old right now and the thought of impending adulthood is daunting but inevitable. I refuse to cling on to my less than glorious childhood. Things have invariably changed ever since I found paradise in the form of a metal hunk. I’ve long felt like neglecting this website and letting it descend into the internet graveyard but there’s a naggingly sentimental part of me that feels nostalgic for the drive and passion I had for maintaining this humdrum of a website.

Albeit my adamant refusal in letting this website die a gory internet death, I think it’s time to mark the onset of a new era and branch out into other things. I will continue to maintain this website, only it will probably reincarnate into something a little different. Change won’t happen that quickly considering my dispassion for anything remotely internet-related but it will happen (hopefully).

Back from Planet Awesome

I’ve been neglecting this lately because I’ve been busy, you know, applying myself academically. I will be having exams soon and I feel obligated to work harder than usual. I didn’t exactly slack off in the past but I’m just putting in more effort than I normally would because I don’t want to fail at life.

Things have also been hectic around here these past few weeks because we just got a new domestic helper, and yes that’s a less fancy way of saying maid but it’s not the kind of maid that wears a maid uniform and struts around a mansion dusting stuff with a yellow duster. You don’t have to be Bill Gates or the Queen of England to hire a domestic helper. There are tons of households in Hong Kong that employ domestic helpers because it’s cheap and people here are too lazy to clean their own dishes.

My parents, who are total slave drivers when it comes to helpers, drive out every decent helper we’ve had. I remember when my dad discovered a single strand of hair on his bathroom floor. He was all like “HEY WHY IS THERE A SINGLE STRAND OF HAIR ON MY BATHROOM FLOOR? HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO PEE UNDER THESE CONDITIONS!!!” I think we’ve had over 10 helpers in the past 8 years. If they weren’t fired, they fled back to their home country because working for us is just freaky like that.

I’m still trying to adjust to the new helper because a new helper is like having a new member in your family. While helpers are helpful, it’s a total invasion of privacy. Like the other day, I was doing serious business in the bathroom when she just marched in and tried to shove a bunch of towels at me while going “Here is towels, take the towels. I just clean, they fresh from washing machine.” I’m just like, uhhhhh I’m kinda busy here so can you come back when I’m not sitting on the toilet?

But in all seriousness, I’ve been trying to deal with school and other melodrama in my life. Sometimes I feel like my life is an Asian soap opera, minus the part with the guy with the coma who wakes up and forgets everything. So if you find me disappearing, it’s not because I fell into a coma and forgot to tell the internet about it, but because I need to deal with stuff I have going on in real life. Hopefully, once everything’s sorted out, I’ll start blogging more frequently.