Xiaxue vs Dawn Yang

CLEO was comparing our Singapore 2 most famous bloggers, Xiaxue & Dawn Yang and it sorta sparked my interest to read about their blogging styles.

Superboy has a link for Xiaxue's blog (www.xiaxue.blogspot.com) which I occasionally peeked into just to look at ...the photos. The first time I saw her blog, her last entry was about a talking kai-lan and she had some pics to narrate about her cooking an egg and she was fascinating about the egg-white looking like her white scrungy. My then reaction was: "What an idiot (bimbo is used to describe pretty girls with no brains)! And I was puzzled why the whole Singapore including Superboy (duhz!) was so glued on to her nonsensical blogging. Was it some kind of an in-thing to read about crazy stuffs, or were they just keen on looking at the pictures of her and her friends in itsy-mini spag tops? One year later, I was reading an interesting article from the one of the local papers and I was praising how well the columnist wrote when Superboy pointed out to me that the writer was Xiaxue, the xiao zha bor! It was then I started to actually read about what she wrote in her famous blog and inadvertently became her ardent fan of her columns in the papers.

I came to know about Dawn Yang the blogger (www.dawnyang.com) through TNP. What caught my eyes was that this girl looks so chio! She has that caucasian-asian manga look with her big and dewy eyes. I signed it off as just some pretty girl's blog which lonely Singaporeans visit instead of going into those restricted porn sites. Was bored after Superboy fell asleep just now, I remembered the chiobu blog which was as famous as Xiaxue, and decided to take a look. She did not write much in her blog though, sporadically some englishy poems (dunno written by her or not) and mostly pictures of her in nightspots, her in the States, her potato friends (I have this supernatural powers to tell if a person is a potato just from looking at his photo), her on couch, her with damn thick mascara (Do famous bloggers need to coat their eyes with thick, lengthening mascara?), her and her alone.

Both of them writes good english but I think Xiaxue woos readers by her wacky and oh-so-Singaporean style of writing. The contents are very to the hearts of every Singaporeans. She blogs about the current affairs, she bitches like nobody's business, she critisizes people's looks, she pens vulgarities and she evokes a blush on women out there with her daring entries on the penis, boobs and orgasms. In one word, she is real; she symbolises woman, ME!

On the other hand, blog readers goes to Dawn for her lavish style of living, her havoc incessant clubbing, her celeb friend Fiona Xie aka Big Boobies, her choice of male friends (lucky fellas) and her once in while cleavage peek-a-boo. I bet most of her readers are males. After I look through all her entries which isn't many (actually I was just squinting at all her photos), I began to dislike her. Her photos displays too much innocence. It's sexy if you strikes an innocent schoolgirl-look once in a while when taking photos but NOT every damn picture! Ok, she is a goody-two-shoes alright.... but wait! Do innocent girls cheong discos, get sooo close to different males when taking photos, go travelling with guys alone?? She seems to me like a poser... those rich kids from a certain girls school near Orchard (she is from that school to my not-so-surprise) who can't speak a proper word of chinese, who is smart - don't have to study also will get As types, who giggles and exclaims loudly when happens to meet friends in the streets, who buys prezzies for their gal-friends on Valentine's Day and who likes to shop in Cold Storage and not NTUC.

This is soon going to turn into a hate-Dawn Yang blog.... think maybe I am just envious? :)

Crossroad

Statement: Challenges or stability?

I always thought I was someone who wants a sense of security. This applies to many aspects. Many things going on my mind recently. I am at a crossroad now. Shall I continue to embark on my stable journey with expected route and destination or shall I hook on to my tiny thread of youth for challenges and excitment and new discovery?

(1) Career. Been 2 and a half years into my first job. I would say besides the physical tireness, there is nothing tough about it. Initially I was glad and adored what I was doing but now it seems a bit too simple. Like I am not making use of my knowledge and capability. In other word, there is no breakthrough. I want to have that opportunity to develop and present my ideas in front of all the big bosses in the company and be indispensible. There is such an opportunity now, a position which ensure lotsa challenges and one which requires me to travel to different parts of Europe and interact with the important people of the company. This is such a tempting chance, just what I had been waiting for. But fear of regrets creeps inside me. What if I find out that I dont exactly look forward to that much challenges as I thought I would? What if I dont like the new environment? Sigh! So many what ifs...

(2) Car. Suddenly feel that I have not been saving much for a person who have been working for 2 over years. Realised that all the money seems to go into the installment for my car. Is it time to change to a smaller 1.6 car? I need to see my bank account GROW! European cars are known to be safer than the Japanese cars but the affordable European cars designs are so boring.. except for.....The Peugeot series. I fell in love with the 307 1.6 hatchback but that is like 10k more that the other common 1.6s. I dont like the Altis, seems like every Tom, Dick or Harry is driving that. Throw a stone on the road and you will most probably hit an Altis. I quite like the Mazda 3. I like the design and their bright colours. :) I think the white looks cool on the road, like a police car. Geez.. But the thing now is, if I change to a 1.6, will I not be able to accustom to the slower pick up and the more inferior road-holding? Sigh!