An Unsated Saturday

Saturday. Sleep, sleep, read bimbo magazine, and sleep more. Online in the late evening, I realize that nobody is on, except for TY (xiao-pang), who’s working like crazy – as usual. Must be another fellow leading not so exciting life. Is everyone else leading happening activities out there on a Saturday evening, or is the list in my MSN contacts too few to count?

Hong came online a while later and asked what I was doing. Actually, I was perpetually doing nothing, except replying to her messages. She mentioned something about her reading xx’s blog.

(I’ll just use initials here. Read on the bimbo magazine earlier today that we have to blog responsibly and to be discreet. I think I’d better to add a disclaimer too – to be doubly sure.
Disclaimer: No animal was hurt, nor characters meant to be slandered while writing and posting this. Readers will be liable for their own interpretations.)

And so, in my ennui, I keyed in the search for the blogs of both xx and DYeoh. I remember having read them when they first hogged limelight on the national papers, but their works left little impressions on me. Now that Hong brought xx up again, and I’ve got nothing to do, I took some time to just read them.

Except for the different blog layout most of us use (which are from the templates provided), the long blog writings held little content. Quite obviously over-rated. They are just little crass and unrefined observations, peppered with grammatically wrong phrases and tenses. None of those points spoke any depth nor volume. Only superficiality. (I shouldn’t even say there were points!)

Why the popularity, I really don’t understand. I am not trying to be depreciatory (I know I can’t write well too), but the fact that such works have gained popularity seems to point to something being grossly wrong. I seriously hope such blogs do not become the literary representation of this century.

I mean I would have enjoyed reading satires with points or humors holding up human vices and follies, ironies and struggles. But works that assumes no point? Tsk, tsk, Waste of time.

I think anyone can write better…. Meanwhile, I will just stick to Mr Brown….

Ermmm…. Am I being quirky again?
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