the hand of breaking stuff

お久しぶり～

these days,
the things around me keep breaking.
i have ABSOLUTELY no idea why.
and it's all those things that NORMALLY do not break, break.


My necklace broke just this afternoon...
My spectacles broke just nicely into half...
EVEN MY BED FRAME BROKE.
just last night.


What a luck i'm having these days. HAHA.
it's not common to have so many HARD TO BREAK stuffs breaking consecutively.
oh well, i'm starting to think of it as having some sort of 挡灾 purposes.
HUR HUR.


anyway,
these days have been thinking quite a lot about Representations of War on films.
haha. it was a pretty interesting topic.
somehow during the tutorial we keep deviating from the main topic,
and went into a discussion of whether the Japanese were aggressors in WWII
gained quite a lot of new insights though.
till now then i realise that what we've been studying during secondary schools,
are actually kinda biased. LOL.
well, it was after all from the point of Singapore, who was a victim of WWII.
so hmmmm.... in any case,
it was pretty interesting. HAHA.
maybe i should go visit Hiroshima and the Yasukuni Shrine someday.. XD



The last lecture on popular culture in Japan was also pretty interesting.
LOL. although it was pretty... OPEN in a sense. haha.
Talked about "okama" or "onee" in the Japanese media.
Well, loosely translated would be transsexuals or cross-dressers.
Apparently there's this super famous program in Japan called the "oneeMANZ"
It a variety show whereby "Onee"s will be displaying their skills and teaching the audience how to do stuff like make up, ikebana and hair styling... i think.
It's really intriguing to see how they are so popular..
even though it was widely acknowledged that masculinity hegemony runs deep in the Japanese society.
things are sure changing fast...
hahaha.
and i'm really interested in the "soushoku-kei" in Japan nowadays.
HAHAHA. or in english terms, known as the grass eating males.
LOL. Japanese sure are able to come up with all these weird terms. XD

Anyway, go take a look at IKKO-SAN.
he's like the MAIN guy in OneeMANZ now. XD

Gender is a highly discussed topic these days. HAHA.
getting more interested in it too. XD
Sociology really DO provide new ways at looking stuff. (:



Think this must be the MOST serious post i ever made.
HAHAHA. no longer that random.
HUR HUR.
in any case,
hope that i'll post again soon!



Just a LAST NOTE:

SUMMER WARS IS A MUST WATCH. GOT IT?