Monthly Archives: May 2002

Messed Up Me

Fong Fei Kei

Fong Fei Keiverb (Malaysian slang) – to leave someone alone, to dump suddenly, to abandon on unforseen circumstances. Adapted from Cantonese, where it is literally translated as ‘leaving on a jet plane’.

Examples of usage: She Fong-Fei-Kei-ed me when I waited at the office to get things done, taking the day off to line up to buy upcoming movie tickets.

I was, in fact, Fong-Fei-Kei-ed by two people; one after the other, as we were to watch a movie in a group. Both of them watched with their families. Yeah, I know – unforseen circumstances.

Hype

Hype and its following crowdWe are all victims of hype. Myself included. Yeah, sure, I’m ashamed, but I still follow the crowd.

Like today. I was Fong-Fei-Kei-ed (read definition above) for a movie that was the hype. It had a cool trailer (so cool, it had to be pulled down!) It was widely believed that tickets for this particular movie were hard to get. (I know; I met someone who waited for 7 hours for a ticket!)

Sure, I could justify my yearning to see the movie – I had a fair amount of literature relating to it. However, my want turned ugly when I found out that everybody watched it before I did!

Could I watch it alone? Society has declared that watching a movie alone is a social no-no; a faux pas; an act of loneliness.

I felt left out. Classic symptoms of a sufferer of hype. Everybody’s doing it; why haven’t you?

It wasn’t so bad being the last, but being Fong-Fei-Kei-ed as well dealt the blow. I blew. I turned ugly.

To all of you who had to endure my ranting, I am sorry. A thousand apologies for the thousand harsh words that had been said. I knew I went overboard, but I continued on anyway. The hype got me overreacting. 🙁

I would have normally written it off, dismissed it, and found somebody else to go watch it with. But who? Although it wasn’t even a week since the premiere, everybody online I asked watched it already. I didn’t get anyone who went excitedly about how he/she wanted to watch it again. They wouldn’t mind, as the movie was okay.

It wouldn’t be the same if I forced them to watch it again. The after-movie (where people talk about the movie after that) wouldn’t be the same. The elements of surprise would be predicted. And most of all, I’d feel guilty.

I don’t even know what to make of what I feel now. Perhaps after the movie, you’ll find out!

Bah Humbug

Here’s something for the less uninterested in my rantings – a new skin! Called Narcissism, it features yours truly, in a very narcissistic way! Also, my About Me page has been updated once again!

Oh, and the *&%#^ Guestbook bug has been fixed! You can now sign my guestbook with my reassurance that it won’t be swallowed up by the deep void of bugs in web space!

More Geek Talk!

I stayed up to download Opera 6 and this is what I get?

Opera 6 is no more compliant with my website, formatting-wise, than the previous Opera 5.12!

It’s just two lines of geek talk – I hope the rest of you non-techie people don’t mind.

Anyway, I’ve added two links to my About Me section. They are, in no particular order:

Sanity Hills – a refreshingly creative, humor-laden blogger, and;

A programming wizard as well as musically inclined DJ Phuturecybersonique.

I didn’t even know the latter linked to me until I checked his site to link to him!

P.S. No golden star sticker for the dudes featured or linked above.