cheesiness
2006-07-10 3:12 p.m.
superman no longer needs to change in telephone booths, apparently.
he has now taken a leaf out of spiderman's book and decided to wear his costume underneath his normal clothes.
what's more his costume is the same bright red and blue as spiderman's. they even have the same daily activities, which consists mostly of whizzing around the city saving the day, unlike batman, who just keeps posing against the moon looking ominous with his 2 little pointy bat ears.
but unlike spiderman and batman, superman's transformation process is full of holes.
for example, superman has gelled hair with a little curly lock strategically hanging over the forehead, whilst clark kent has ungelled hair and a fringe that reaches to the eyebrows.
i wonder how he finds the time to style his hair when he has to complete his transformation in seconds before zooming off to save someone?
and what about the specs? he must have a million pairs of them, the way he just flings them away carelessly when becoming superman.
oh well. looks like superman isnt that flawless after all.
anyway, tan min has finally rejoined xenbar! ha. but unfortunately for her the very first day of her reunion she was tossed into a level 10.4 routine, which was hell on all of us but esp her, because dionne and yz are pretty much at that level already and i had had prior warning on friday.
the routine consisted of SO much spinning around that i spent half the time feeling disorientated and struggling to remember what to do next. without proper shoes or mastering of that stupid 'spotting' method, one would simply be lost in a perpetual state of dizziness. needless to say dionne and yz sailed through it, emerging with a smile and eyes that werent unfocussed.
then on sunday, we had service as usual and watched this loooooong draggy video about aids in china. honestly, a long draggy video is the worst way to attempt to stir up sympathy in the audience. they might start out interested and sympathetic, and maybe if the video is good they'd get motivated to do something to help and start taking out wallets and counting money. THAT is the time to ask for donations and end the session.
five minutes later the audience will still be looking interested, but their eyes will keep slanting upwards towards the clock before guiltily slamming down on the speaker again.
after about 10 minutes the little kindred bubble will start to go down and fidgeting would begin, together with the freezing of the concerned, worried expression.
drag it on for yet another ten minutes and the audience would have completely lost interest and forgot about their earlier thoughts about helping, and start gazing at the clock, willing the speaker to end.
ANOTHER ten minutes later the audience would not even bother keeping up the concerned expression anymore, and instead start impatiently tapping their feet, drumming their fingers and subtlely glaring at the speaker. ask for donations now? you wouldnt get a cent.
well. after it finally ended dora and i bought lunch and brought it back to church to eat with huilun weien sean emmeline and kerin.
kerin (a 12 year old) started sharing her school woes, which were a little different from ours. it consisted mostly of the never-ending detention she got for saying the F word, going into 16-and-above-only places and fighting in public. my, my.
then emmeline came and we went out for dinner at sakae sushi, before going to watch superman which produced the abovementioned results.
all in a weekend's work.
