Butt Cream

I’m thuper confused as of late, what with Talvid’s decision to enter the 140-character-or-less world of twittering. I just don’t know where to vent my ridiculously life altering (for you, not me) musings. Facebook? The blog? Twitter? Your mother? Here’s what I’ve discovered: they’re all basically serving the same purpose. The purpose of relieving what it is that ails you. Think of the void in your life that Talvid fills. Nay, not a void, a deficiency. Even better, , the void/deficiency is a hemorrhoid. And fucking Talvid’s Blog of Shit, his Twitter account, and his respective facebook profiles are travel sized, everyday sized, and Costco sized containers of Preparation H. Does your Mind’s Brown Eye ache? Rub some Talvid on it and have a good modereffen night.

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Things Arise

Most of the time, I can ignore big world changes here on this blog. They might get a fleeting mention here or there, but I don’t usually dwell on it. Not usually. I feel like there’s something tonight that deserves a mention, mostly because of my own mixed feelings on this.

The Healthcare bill. That thing that Obama passed tonight, by a tiny nine votes. Not that we didn’t know it was going to be close either way, but this is interesting. Marnians got into this whole argument ages ago, and then consequentially banned it from the chat. They know my thoughts. Hell, I’m Canadian. Everyone knows my thoughts. I’m also pretty damn socialist, so lead on.

But I’m more interested in how it divides people. I have friends on both sides of the spectrum, and it always amazes me just how much policies affect people. I know. It’s a huge deal. I mean, Obama essentially has a cult following which was cultivated in a most interesting manner. But how much people differ in beliefs makes me wonder. As realist as I am, I’m still a little bit whimsical and hopeful. The human race hasn’t wiped themselves out yet, and there is a reason for that. The passions that flare over issues like this is understandable, expected to a degree. I imagine much of the world is seriously conflicted like this a lot of the time after big decisions. Hell, when I decided to apply for university, after I paid for it, I was seriously conflicted.

Politics is a divisor. It’s a heavy subject, but it is something that exists whether we choose to acknowledge it or not. We were born and bred to play the political game, and so help me if we ever stop. It is essential that in some form, we decide as a collective what will be better for us. It does more often than not show quite clearly the tendencies of people though. When we play politics, Machiavelli instructed us to illustrate altruism, even if our purposes have darker meaning. However, when decisions are made, it is as though all the masks come off. Any costume your wore during your play is now being returned to the box and any altruistic purposes no longer matter. What matters is how you have gained from the decision.

I’ve said my piece and I’ll say no more. I will neither rejoice nor weep at the decision made tonight, for it is not my place. I’m tired. School is tomorrow. As I said in my facebook status, I’m conflicted about a lot of things right now. Politics is the least of my worries, as long as I don’t have to think about it.

Seriously conflicted. About politics, boys, song lyrics, facebook statuses, shrimps, macs, mysterious men, french, couches, shoes or abs, sleep. You’d think the last night of march break would be less confusing.

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Pioneer to an uncertain future: The Internet

I often wonder of how our future will be with our relationship with the Internet and it’s minions driving fiercely forward from a mere casual to one…. something uber-serious!

I very clearly remember my first date with the Internet. It was a sunny summery day of the 90’s to remember. My dad was checking his emails and sipping away to glory his freshly grounded coffee made from the finest Arabica Coffee Beans that were handpicked from the most succulent coffee plants found in the high up altitudes of Costa Rica…(or wait, maybe it was tea, lipton…bought from the local supermarket )…but regardless, it was that Friday summer afternoon, when it suddenly dawned to my dad that I, his protégé, was ready and mature enough to take care of myself and venture off into THE virtual entity all by myself!  Excited yet nervous about the decision, I picked up the courage and sat on that throne of a chair,  sweaty palms and shaking thighs, I slowly moved the cursor over and double-clicked on the shiny blue icon, the Internet Explorer.  It was a moment as if I had just surpassed the blinding white lights of the sky only to see that the doors of heaven had just opened up to me. That fine summers day was when this bond with the ever-so increasingly addictive Internet first started! Its been around 12 years now, we’re going stronger than ever!

Nowadays, the scene of getting introduced to the Internet is a little different. Its become something meaningless and completely ordinary. These days, even before a new-born baby gets the inevitable spank from the doctor:

#1 It has a Facebook account

#2 Has a picture of him/herself tagged and commented on!

Gone are those days when a newborn baby would either receive a gold or silver bracelet from his/her parents or cousins to welcome them into this world with luck. Instead, the biggest and most seismic gift the baby gets is the sacred password his lifelong Facebook and twitter account!

I strongly detest these means and solemnly swear to stick to means more traditions and gratifying in nature! When the little “Shah-Legacy Carriers” pop out, I’ll probably gift them something that’s more of a necessity than a luxury. Something logical and down-to-earth….something like, an iPhone.

I very much believe our generation, pro 1985, to be the one that’s a curve ahead than our parent’s generation in terms of adapting to technological advances. And to be honest, I don’t think the generation that will follow us, primarily our kids, will be able to outdo us in this respect either. Oh sure, holograms may become part of our daily lives, we’ll be flying in cars and all kids by law be will required to have mohawks…but seriously, we’ll adjust to it just as quick as we did with the arrival iPhones and beta versions of the X-Box Natal!

To give you an accurate idea of how our generation will never be outdone in terms of technological advances, here’s an image that just naturally played over in my head this very instance:

You know how quite a few of our parents are just starting to use things like Facebook, whereas we’re already established and esteemed gods and goddesses on the site…say in the near future, our son and his female-counterpart come back home from their very first day at kindergarten… and they’re all excited and pouncing on us to preach about what they learnt in school. They start, “Today we learnt about this really cool site called Facebook where” (we stop them right there…and we continue) ….”where u can make your own profile and stay connected with friends! YA YA…been there, done that. I have been a member on Facebook for the past 15 years and am deemed as great as Zeus himself there. Now tell me, WHOSE YOUR DADDY ??

SEE!! This is exactly what I’m taking about! The timing of our generation cannot be better! We’re an integral part of it all!

(Maybe I wont think the same way say…15 years from now, but oh well! I’m quite well justified for now! )

The only way the upcoming Generation Next will be able to outdo us, is if they start speaking like this:

For the time being, I’ll just hold on to my guns and best pray that I don’t see this day !!

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Forgive me friends, for I have sinned...

Forgive me friends, for I have sinned… it’s been over a month since my last news update on Facebook.

How did it happen? Why did I lapse? Where did my Facebook faith go?

I remember those first zealous days of discovery. The joy of reconnecting with old friends… and co-workers and high school classmates and college buds… and ex-girlfriends, in-laws, business associates, guys I played D&D with while Reagan was still president, friends of friends I met at a party once, and even the siblings of  schoolmates from elementary school.

I proselytized, I evangelized, I got my friends and family to join.

I spent lunchtime on Facebook. I went on at night after my wife went to bed.

And then something happened.

I discovered Twitter.

I didn’t intend to convert. I avoided Twitter as long as possible. Josef Katz (@directmaestro)  said I should tweet, and I resisted. Eleanor Haas (@EleanorHaas), one of the most forward thinking marketing professionals I know, started tweeting and still, I resisted. But then Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) tweeted while interviewing Twitter founder Biz Stone and I was hooked. It was all just so meta.

So I started tweeting.

For a while I did both. I even thought about connecting my Twitter (@jlsimons) to my Facebook.

But my Tweets tended to be about marketing and advertising, and that wasn’t really what Facebook was all about for me. Facebook was about reconnecting with friends, and Twitter was about business.

At least, that’s what I told myself.

But that wasn’t the truth.

It’s time to face the truth.

Twitter is just plain easier. Twitter doesn’t miss me when I don’t tweet, or at least, I don’t feel guilty about not commenting on every tweet I read. Twitter rewards me when I’m relevant… and challenges me to stay relevant.  Some of the most interesting articles I’ve read recently I found because someone I follow tweeted them.

I’m not the most prolific tweeter. The total of my tweets wouldn’t add up to a single week of Kevin Smith’s tweets (@ThatKevinSmith). Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) gets more followers in an hour than I’ve gotten in almost a year.

And still, I tweet. When I find something I think people will appreciate, I tweet it and I feel like I’ve added something useful to a conversation I want to be part of.

When I post a new post on my blog, I usually tweet it. Heck, I might even tweet this.

I almost never tweet about where I’m going or what I’m doing. I never tweet about what I’m eating. I know some people do, and I respect their right to do it. Tweet and let tweet, I always say. (Well, actually, that was the first time. But I’ll probably say it more often now.)

Sure, sometimes I still go to Facebook, but it’s not the same for me anymore. I can’t tell you why, or maybe I just don’t want to know, but I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Facebook is now the most popular site on the web and gets more visits than Google.

That would be silly, right, avoiding something just because everyone is doing it? Because then, someday, I’d have to give up tweeting for the same reason.

I’m not the kind of person who does things just because they’re new and shiny. Really I’m not.

But just in case I’m wrong, can someone please explain Foursquare to me?

[Via http://cansomeonepleaseexplain.com]

Kepribadian Manusia dari Status Facebook

1. Manusia Super Update

Kapanpun dan di manapun selalu update status. Statusnya tidak terlalu panjang tapi terlihat bikin risih, karena hal-hal yang tidak terlalu penting juga dipublikasikan.

Contoh : “Lagi makan di restoran A..”, “Dalam perjalanan menuju

neraka..”, “Saatnya baca koran..”, dan sebagainya.

2. Manusia Melankolis

Biasanya selalu curhat di status. Entah karena ingin banyak diberi komentar dari teman-temannya atau hanya sekedar menuangkan unek-uneknya ke facebook. Biasanya orang tipe ini menceritakan kisahnya dan terkadang menanyakan solusi yg terbaik kepada yang lain.

Contoh : “Kamu sakitin aku..lebih baik aku cari yang lain..”, “Cuma kamu yang terbaik buat aku..terima kasih kamu sudah sayang ama aku selama ini..”.

3. Manusia Tukang Ngeluh

Pagi, siang, malem, semuanya selalu ada aja yang dikeluhkan.

Contoh : ” Jakarta maceeet..!! Panas pula..”, “Aaaargh ujan, padahal baru nyuci mobil..sialan. .!!”, “Males ngapa2in.. cape hati gara2 si do’ i..”, dsb.

4. Manusia Sombong

Mungkin beberapa dari mereka ga berniat menyombongkan diri, tapi terkadang orang yang melihatnya, yang notabene tidak bisa seberuntung dia, merasa kalo statusnya itu kelewat sombong, dan malah bikin sebel.

Contoh : “Otw ke Paris ..!!”, “BMW ku sayang, saatnya kamu mandi..aku mandiin ya sayang..”,  “Duh, murah-murah banget belanja di Singapur, bow,”

5. Manusia Puitis

Dari judulnya udah jelas. Status nya selalu diisi dengan kata-kata mutiara, tapi ga jelas apa maksudnya. Bikin kita terharu? Bikin kita sadar atas pesan tersembunyinya? atau cuma sekedar memancing komentar? Sampai saat ini, tipe orang seperti ini masih dipertanyakan.

Contoh : “Kita masing-masing adalah malaikat bersayap satu. Dan hanya bisa terbang bila saling berpelukan”, “Mencintai dan dicintai adalah seperti merasakan sinar matahari dari kedua sisi”, “Jika kau hidup sampai seratus tahun, aku ingin hidup seratus tahun kurang sehari, agar aku tidak pernah hidup tanpamu”.

6. Manusia in English

Tipe manusianya bisa seperti apa saja, apakah melankolis, puitis, sombong dan sebagainya. Tapi dia berusaha lebih keren dengan mengatakannya dalam bahasa Inggwis Gicyu Low..

Contoh : “Tie and Chair..”, “I can tooth, you Pink sun..” dsb..

7. Manusia Lebay

Updatenya selalu bertema ‘gaul’ dengan menggunakan bahasa dewa.. ejaan yang dilebaykan..

Contoh..” met moulnin all.. pagiiieh yg cewrah… xixiixi” << lol~

8. Manusia Terobsesi…

Mengharap tapi ga kesampaian.. pengen jd artis ga dapat-dapat.

Contoh : “duwh… sesi pemotretan lagi! cape…”

9. Manusia Sok Tau..

Sotoy tenarnya. Padahal dia sendiri tidak tahu apa yang ditulisnya.

Contoh : “Pemerintah selalu memanjakan rakyatnya.. bla..bla…bla,”

10. Bioskop Mania..

Update film yang abis ditonton dan kasih comment..

Contoh : “ICE AGE 3..Recomended! !”, “Transformers 2 mantab euy..”

11. Manusia pedagang:

Contoh: “jual sepatu bla bla bla”

12. Manusia penyuluh masyarakat:

Contoh: “jangan lupa dateng ke TPS, 5 menit utk 5 tahun bla..bla”

13. Manusia Alay..

Ada berbagai macam versi, dari tulisannya yang aneh, atau tulisannya biasa aja, hanya saja kosakata nya ga lazim seperti bahasa alien.

Contoh:

Alay 1 : “DucH Gw4 5aYan9 b6t s4ma Lo..7aNgaN tin69aL!n akYu ya B3!bh..!!”

Alay 2 : “km mugh kog gag pernach ngabwarin aq lagee seech? kmuw maseeh saiangs sama aq gag seech sebenernywa? “

Alay 3 : “Ouh mY 9oD..!! kYknY4w c gW k3ReNz 48ee5h d3ch..!!”

(Khusus buat tipe ini, ga usah di baca juga gpp..saya pribadi juga mikir

dulu buat nulis ini, walaupun jadinya kurang mirip sama yg aslinya..)

14. Tipe Hidden Message

Tipe ini biasanya tidak to the point, tapi tentunya punya niat biar orang yg dituju membaca nya. (bagus kalo baca..kalo ngga? kelamaan nunggu) padahal kan bisa langsung aja sms ya..

Contoh : “For you my M***, I can’ t live without you..you are my bla bla bla..”,

“Heh, cewe bajingan..ngapain lo deket2in co gw?! kyk ga laku aja lo..” <<< (padahal ce tersebut tidak ada dalam jaringannya.. mana bisa baca…:p)

15. Tipe Misterius

Tipe yang biasanya bikin banyak orang bertanya tanya atas apa maksud

dari status orang tersebut..Biasanya dalam suatu kalimat membutuhkan

Subjek + Predikat + Objek + Keterangan. Tapi orang tipe ini mungkin

hanya mengambil beberapa atau malah hanya 1 saja..Dan pastinya

mengundang kontroversi.

Contoh : “Sudahlah..” , “Telah berakhir..” <<< (apanya??),

“Termenung.. .” <<< (so what gitu, loh)

sumber : http://techno.okezone.com/read/2009/08/03/93/244457/93/kepribadian-manusia-dari-status-facebook

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My contest, film audition, and new webisode!

Yesterday marked the 2-yr. anniversary since we finished the actual filming on Bloodwine.  In honor of that, I wanted to do something a little fun, so, I started a best impression contest on a site I found called ibeatyou.com

http://www.ibeatyou.com/entry/fae31b/vanessa-leinani-says-hi-as-carmilla-from-bloodwine

OMG, I saw Jessica Alba’s on there, too.  That girl is such a trip!  I got such a kick out of here “I Pity The Fool” picbeat.  Hilaaaaaaarious!

Eileen Hadler-Pickard, a fan of mine, made a facebook fan page for me!  J Check it out!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vanessa-Leinani-Official-Fan-Page/395759316833?ref=search&sid=896760579.3009560702..1

On Saturday morning, I went and auditioned for a feature length film and had a fantastic time.  I was thrown a bunch of different roles to read, and it felt like I was on the playground just sitting around being goofy with a bunch of good friends.  It was THAT fun and had a really great atmosphere!

Then the lead of the film for that audition sent me a friend request and said he heard I nailed the audition, so, it looks positive; however, in a casting situation, it’s never over until you have a contract signed, and even then…funding could disappear, a project can go on hiatus, or right as you’re talking about coming on, they could get the celebrity actor they were holding out for and you could get bumped out of the role.  We’re talking a whole slew of variables that could change the casting situation.  So, you go in, confident that the role is yours, prepare and present yourself as if it is yours (which is why you hear the common saying “own it”) and remember that it could all change at any second no matter how you have prepared.  The point is, to present yourself in such a way that you become memorable, endearing, and above all, indispensable.

Also, on Saturday evening a filmmaker approached me with a pitch for a new webisode series.  As I found out, he had written it with me in mind and wanted to know if I would be interested in the project.  I happily accepted the lead role in the new webisode series set to film in September.  I cannot even begin to tell you how PUMPED I am about this project.  Not only is it going to be action-packed, but I’m also getting a chance to put my musical skills to work and already started writing a song for the show (with some delicious harmonies) and looking forward to more songwriting for it, too.  More details on the way as soon as we’re able to let you know!

+++++

Vanessa

http://www.vanessaleinani.com/

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webflexx on: twitter, facebook, google and yahoo!

These days, Twitter and Facebook are two essential websites that most would access apart from Google.com.  Up till now, many are still in the dark as to how Twitter and Facebook works.  It is true though when the industry experts and analysts mentioned that these two web giants can actually help propel a small business forward by miles.

Webflexx facebook is still very preliminary, but we have been actively advertising on Facebook.  We started on Twitter not too long ago and came up with a lot of interesting observations.  The amount of information is so vast that sometimes, I am beginning to wonder how does certain quarters pace up with these overloaded information.

We know more but the more we know the more I know I know much less than I thought I would knew!

My browser is telling me that Twitter is my most visited site in the past 7 days.  Yeah I am addicted to reading the latest news online and get into the minds of some of these web intellectuals as well as some of our Malaysian politicians.

Here’s a tip for those who have just started.

Do not follow more than you could manage.  It may send you into a frenzy and you may end up being more confused than ever.

I went surfing at some government websites as well as some big corporations.  Most websites have yet to establish themselves with a Twitter or a Facebook presence.  Seriously, if you were to ask me if Facebook is ever going to slow down, I would respond with a resounding NO.  Not for the next few years at least.

From Facebook and Twitter, you can see how much Google is responding with the Buzz, and these days, Yahoo tried entering the market quietly though.  Yahoo’s respond to enter the buzz market is nothing to shout about.  It is plain boring and you can tell it’s done in a hurry.

Looks like we will all be twitting and facebooking for a long time to come!

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