{"id":29,"date":"2002-05-04T04:10:50","date_gmt":"2002-05-04T04:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-08-28T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T11:48:24","slug":"messed-up-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Messed Up Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fong Fei Kei<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

Fong Fei Kei<\/b> – verb<\/i> (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’.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Hype<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\"HypeWe are all victims of hype. Myself included. Yeah, sure, I’m ashamed, but I still follow the crowd.

\nLike 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!)<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I felt left out. Classic symptoms of a sufferer of hype. Everybody’s doing it; why haven’t you?<\/p>\n

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

To all of you who had to endure my ranting, I am sorry<\/b>. 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. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I don’t even know what to make of what I feel now. Perhaps after the movie, you’ll find out!<\/p>\n

Bah Humbug<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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

Oh, and the *&%#^ Guestbook<\/a><\/b> 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fong Fei Kei Fong Fei Kei – verb (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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11541,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}