Isolation Scheme 02062006
[Advertisement guy with '70s-era accent]
Feeling exhausted?
Tired, worn out, and utterly drained?
Wish you could just disappear?
Sick of your life, and everything in it?
Want to be taken far, far away from here?
Why, we have JUST the solution for you!
It's the all new, Isolation Scheme 02062006!!
No matter who you are, where you live, what you do, Isolation Scheme 02062006 is JUST the thing for you!
It detaches you from all your responsibilities, all your sucky obligations; it makes you YOU, worry-free and responsibility-free!
For only RM0.00! You vocabularists would say it's totally FREE!
So call our toll-free number now, and we'll throw in a free trip to the Land of DayDreams, "where you daydream and not feel guilty about it!"
The Isolation Scheme includes simple steps to help you detach yourself from your social network, and ultimately from the outside world!
Easy to follow steps include switching off your cellphone, not logging into MSN Messenger, not reading blogs or signing into Blogger, and most importatly, pushing thoughts of schoolwork and exams and peer obligations to the back of your minds!
The Isolation Scheme also includes simple tools to help you spend your disconnected-from-the-world days in a more beneficial way, i.e. spending time reflecting on who you have become, where you are, and where you want to be in the future.
Tools to help you rediscover yourself, tools to help you organize your priorities in life, tools to help you realize life isn't about the superficial and utterly stupid stuff you fret over so much.
Yes, The Isolation Scheme would definitely benefit everybody. Try it now, satisfaction GUARANTEED!
[End of Advertisement]
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What with spending so much time with my head buried in books last week, I told myself that I'd totally be completely lazy this first week of holidays and not do anything at all.
You know, not think about school, or classmates, or homework, not chat on MSN Messenger, not SMS anyone, not reply SMSes so much , not read blogs, not blog... you know, disconnect myself from the world, just completely drop off the radar, just have a whole lot of 'me' time, and none of 'other-people' time.
Okay, so, I haven't been completely disconnected. I try to not reply SMSes, but you get that occassional message that you cannot just ignore without feeling guilty. But on a few accounts, it took me 3 days to reply a message. I dunno, I just got lazy.
So this brings on the whole 'lazy to communicate, lazy to interact' thing that I'm in for the past few months. Yes I get lazy when it comes to SMS-ing people. There are so many times when I just completely ignore a message, because I was too lazy to reply. I don't even sign into MSN during the day anymore. I bet you haven't seen me online for the past 2 months (until today la). Utter laziness.
That's one thing. Another thing I've realized is how much time us teens spend on stupid stuff, you know, like Friendster, or chatting on MSN, or typing on the cellphone, or MySpace or whatever is the rage right now.
Tech junkies my ass. Teens just think it's an indication of teen-coolness, of being In, not Out.
Yeah okay, lemme explain how I got to conclusions like that.
I did say I didn't spend a whole lot of time 'communicating with people'. And because of that, I had a lot more time doing what should be the real pleasures of life.
Like baking a cake with my sister, then celebrating mom's birthday at night, like watching The Nightmare Before Christmas on DVD (yes I finally found it!) with my family, like spending my nights cozied up in bed, reading about the mysteries of the universe and how it came to be, and stopping only when people are almost ready to get up, like spending hours sitting on the floor, just listening to amazing music (it's funny how few people actually listen to music as a sole activity), like reading your notebook journal from years ago, and adding new entries to it. It obviously is very different from writing in a blog.
Oh, and also lying on my bed, thinking. They sometimes come all at once, but the important ones come one at a time, and I do a bit of reflecting on the Chooiyen as of May 2006.
But that's not important. What's important is, I've realized that I can live without MSN, without the internet, without my cellphone, without being a busybody and reading other people's blogs.
After days of being detached to things like that, I come online again. And someone tells me about a photo someone else uploads onto Friendster. And I actually think, 'how sad for her'.
It is pretty sad, you know, on one hand there are people who have totally gotten over the Friendster craze, deleted their accounts even, and on the other hand there are some other people, still spending hours surfing other people's profiles, going through their photos and testimonials. (It's also very sad how some poeple think the testimonial count is a measure of their popularity. How sad to keep asking for testimoials.)
I signed into MSN today, my first time in months, and already I had someone talk to me about how XX did something for the sake of beauty, and how YY and ZZ wants to be doing the same, too.
I think it's perfectly fine for one person to do something, you know, to make herself look better, but problems arise when a whole bunch of people want to start doing it to look beautiful, too. And when I say 'do it', I mean taking away what is natural and turning it into man-made beauty. That is probably not going to last long.
You know, we are chest-deep in this now, it's prety hard to get out. You read about the teenagers who spend hours and hours SMS-ing on the cellphone, but you don't think "cool dude" or "Ms. Popularity", instead you go, "how sad, how pathetic, what a waste of time".
You read about them in the papers, but don't think people like these don't live among us. These are the people who spend a whole lotta RM's on phone bills, these are the people who leave their MSN status on "Away" for hours instead of just switching the computer off, these are the people who goes through people's Friendster profiles and photos all the time, these are the people who look at other people's 'This' and 'That' and compare those with their own, these are the people who think all of this is just a measure of popularity.
And I think, at some point or other, we have all been one of 'these people'. So, I urge you, take up the 'Isolation Scheme', see that life really isn't about how up-to-date you are with your friends.
Spend time with yourself and do some serious thinking about where you're heading, and if it's some place you don't fancy, you better stop right there.
I sure as heck wouldn't want to remember my teenage years as time spent in front of an MSN chat window.
P.S. Thank you LOADS for sticking with me till the end of the post. I know this post is pretty boring, but it's kind of a reality-check, you know. Look how much time we've spent doing the usual 'teen stuff' that really is stupid when you think about it. A small dose is okay la, of course, but big portions would be stupid.
P.P.S. I know the whole Isolation Scheme 02062006 advertisemet is pretty (okay, very) lame, but it just came to me, you know? And when something like this comes, you just don't stop it.
Thanks for reading, and if I offended you in anyway, well, I really didn't mean to, you see?
Have a very special day. Ciao!
Feeling exhausted?
Tired, worn out, and utterly drained?
Wish you could just disappear?
Sick of your life, and everything in it?
Want to be taken far, far away from here?
Why, we have JUST the solution for you!
It's the all new, Isolation Scheme 02062006!!
No matter who you are, where you live, what you do, Isolation Scheme 02062006 is JUST the thing for you!
It detaches you from all your responsibilities, all your sucky obligations; it makes you YOU, worry-free and responsibility-free!
For only RM0.00! You vocabularists would say it's totally FREE!
So call our toll-free number now, and we'll throw in a free trip to the Land of DayDreams, "where you daydream and not feel guilty about it!"
The Isolation Scheme includes simple steps to help you detach yourself from your social network, and ultimately from the outside world!
Easy to follow steps include switching off your cellphone, not logging into MSN Messenger, not reading blogs or signing into Blogger, and most importatly, pushing thoughts of schoolwork and exams and peer obligations to the back of your minds!
The Isolation Scheme also includes simple tools to help you spend your disconnected-from-the-world days in a more beneficial way, i.e. spending time reflecting on who you have become, where you are, and where you want to be in the future.
Tools to help you rediscover yourself, tools to help you organize your priorities in life, tools to help you realize life isn't about the superficial and utterly stupid stuff you fret over so much.
Yes, The Isolation Scheme would definitely benefit everybody. Try it now, satisfaction GUARANTEED!
[End of Advertisement]
* * * * *
What with spending so much time with my head buried in books last week, I told myself that I'd totally be completely lazy this first week of holidays and not do anything at all.
You know, not think about school, or classmates, or homework, not chat on MSN Messenger, not SMS anyone, not reply SMSes so much , not read blogs, not blog... you know, disconnect myself from the world, just completely drop off the radar, just have a whole lot of 'me' time, and none of 'other-people' time.
Okay, so, I haven't been completely disconnected. I try to not reply SMSes, but you get that occassional message that you cannot just ignore without feeling guilty. But on a few accounts, it took me 3 days to reply a message. I dunno, I just got lazy.
So this brings on the whole 'lazy to communicate, lazy to interact' thing that I'm in for the past few months. Yes I get lazy when it comes to SMS-ing people. There are so many times when I just completely ignore a message, because I was too lazy to reply. I don't even sign into MSN during the day anymore. I bet you haven't seen me online for the past 2 months (until today la). Utter laziness.
That's one thing. Another thing I've realized is how much time us teens spend on stupid stuff, you know, like Friendster, or chatting on MSN, or typing on the cellphone, or MySpace or whatever is the rage right now.
Tech junkies my ass. Teens just think it's an indication of teen-coolness, of being In, not Out.
Yeah okay, lemme explain how I got to conclusions like that.
I did say I didn't spend a whole lot of time 'communicating with people'. And because of that, I had a lot more time doing what should be the real pleasures of life.
Like baking a cake with my sister, then celebrating mom's birthday at night, like watching The Nightmare Before Christmas on DVD (yes I finally found it!) with my family, like spending my nights cozied up in bed, reading about the mysteries of the universe and how it came to be, and stopping only when people are almost ready to get up, like spending hours sitting on the floor, just listening to amazing music (it's funny how few people actually listen to music as a sole activity), like reading your notebook journal from years ago, and adding new entries to it. It obviously is very different from writing in a blog.
Oh, and also lying on my bed, thinking. They sometimes come all at once, but the important ones come one at a time, and I do a bit of reflecting on the Chooiyen as of May 2006.
But that's not important. What's important is, I've realized that I can live without MSN, without the internet, without my cellphone, without being a busybody and reading other people's blogs.
After days of being detached to things like that, I come online again. And someone tells me about a photo someone else uploads onto Friendster. And I actually think, 'how sad for her'.
It is pretty sad, you know, on one hand there are people who have totally gotten over the Friendster craze, deleted their accounts even, and on the other hand there are some other people, still spending hours surfing other people's profiles, going through their photos and testimonials. (It's also very sad how some poeple think the testimonial count is a measure of their popularity. How sad to keep asking for testimoials.)
I signed into MSN today, my first time in months, and already I had someone talk to me about how XX did something for the sake of beauty, and how YY and ZZ wants to be doing the same, too.
I think it's perfectly fine for one person to do something, you know, to make herself look better, but problems arise when a whole bunch of people want to start doing it to look beautiful, too. And when I say 'do it', I mean taking away what is natural and turning it into man-made beauty. That is probably not going to last long.
You know, we are chest-deep in this now, it's prety hard to get out. You read about the teenagers who spend hours and hours SMS-ing on the cellphone, but you don't think "cool dude" or "Ms. Popularity", instead you go, "how sad, how pathetic, what a waste of time".
You read about them in the papers, but don't think people like these don't live among us. These are the people who spend a whole lotta RM's on phone bills, these are the people who leave their MSN status on "Away" for hours instead of just switching the computer off, these are the people who goes through people's Friendster profiles and photos all the time, these are the people who look at other people's 'This' and 'That' and compare those with their own, these are the people who think all of this is just a measure of popularity.
And I think, at some point or other, we have all been one of 'these people'. So, I urge you, take up the 'Isolation Scheme', see that life really isn't about how up-to-date you are with your friends.
Spend time with yourself and do some serious thinking about where you're heading, and if it's some place you don't fancy, you better stop right there.
I sure as heck wouldn't want to remember my teenage years as time spent in front of an MSN chat window.
P.S. Thank you LOADS for sticking with me till the end of the post. I know this post is pretty boring, but it's kind of a reality-check, you know. Look how much time we've spent doing the usual 'teen stuff' that really is stupid when you think about it. A small dose is okay la, of course, but big portions would be stupid.
P.P.S. I know the whole Isolation Scheme 02062006 advertisemet is pretty (okay, very) lame, but it just came to me, you know? And when something like this comes, you just don't stop it.
Thanks for reading, and if I offended you in anyway, well, I really didn't mean to, you see?
Have a very special day. Ciao!
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