A Tale of Two Cities.

7.30AM, April 29th.

So I'm in bed, at the computer, with a half-naked skinny dude lying beside me, realizing how sick this sounds. No, it's not one of those coming-out-of-closet moments. He's a friend. I'd venture to say a good one, but you'd have to ask him. We had a brief conversation over the night about Writing, and his relative inability to. All this somehow leads in to what I've been meaning to do for a bit: Write about the two Blogs that were influencing factors in my deciding to start and maintain one.

Ok, so it's not that relevant, but for some obscure reason, I was unable to pass up the occasion to mention I have a half-naked skinny Chinese guy in my bed. Who snores. And has profuse leg hair. You know who you are.



www.wessatong.com

Written and maintained by the immaculate SPH Scholar Miss Tessa Wong. There's a whole, entirely more dramatic story about myself and my relationship with her Blog, and perhaps I will speak more on that later. For now, suffice to say, I stumbled upon her original journal at wessatong.blogspot.com one day, bored, at work. So I glanced past her first page, and intrigued, went to the first post in her archive some two years or so back and started reading afresh...

...And finished on the third day or so thereafter, having done nothing else but stare thoughtfully at the monitor at work and home. So clearly, she demonstrates for all the world why she is an SPH scholar, and people like myself are little dust bunnies in her shoe cabinet. Of the two-year old ones she doesn't actually wear anymore. She is where I want to be, intellectually and creatively, and if it all sounds a little far-fetched, a little too worshippy - Read it for yourself! Sheer genius, and that's coming from a self-confessed intellectual snob.

My firstborn child for a picture of her posing provocatively with a pen. The symbolism is simple enough, and the provocativity...well, men. -limp hand motion-

I've since sort of stopped myself from following her writings regularly, really, because it's depressing how somebody can be just that damned good. Kidding. More of...other reasons. I forget the source of this, but I quote -

Why?

Because she is alive.
So much more alive than I am.

The best to, and from you Tessa, wherever you are.



xiaxue.blogspot.com

Not that the esteemed Miss Wendy Cheng really needs more publicity, heh. My opinions on her writing remain somewhat...reserved. Being uneducated, of course, my comments on the awkwardness of her sentence structure, her dubious spelling and her...strange sense of grammar, may definitely be dismissed, for who am I to judge those above myself? She does have her moments of brilliance, I must confess, though I feel she rates her maturity at a far higher integer value than it actually is. What has earned her my undying admiration, however, is the fact that she has managed to attract thousands of readers daily, attain Local Celebrity Status, and landed several lucrative jobs by building a personal shrine to her ego. Wow.

Irony and sarcasm, in the hands of the unskilled, are sometimes lost upon the reader. Being unskilled, as par the uneducatediosity, let me clarify that that was NOT irony or sarcasm. She seriously has earned my admiration with that last. It takes a certain kind of person to get away with something like she has built in her blog, and not only does she get away with it, she secures her future with it. Hats off, ma'am. Xiaxue's success is the ignoble cause of I Quite Stupid. Heck, I'd be happy with half.

I still think the boobs help, though.


In all fairness, I have had limited experience with Blogs in general. Certainly, there should be far greater sites out there I have yet to hit, and some I never will. The success and quality of the two above, however, is something I hope to achieve in spite of the uneducation someday. As surely as the fact that skinny Chinese guy with the leg hair has since gotten dressed and left my house.

...Whatever happened to cuddling after?

COULDN'T RESIST.