To Blog for Fame ?

Everyone's talking about it... and i find it exceptionally strange. But then again, we're talking about tabloid, and the "to-be-seen" culture that we have unconciously inculcated in our young ones... What not the many "idol seeking" tv programs that these young mind are watching, on a daily basis. First, there was the Local Chinese channel idol seeking program ( God knows what its called) where it attracted scores of good-looking, and not-so good looking people. It seems that being in the lime-light is everyone's dream. People have move on from such fame-seeking opportunies via such programs to Blog Writting and publishing photo-shopped photographs of themselves... It would seem almost silly to put up any pictures of oneself on the net, lest one falls subject to the perils of internet hacking, getting their pictures re-editted to reveal more then it already has ? Or maybe, people just don't care these days ... because, sex sells.

One can tell from the many sex blogs available, not to mention the many Attention-Seeking blogs one can find, not only on the Internet, but also in the National Newspaper these days. I do find it really intriging to find Attention-Seeking (A.S) Bloggers all to come in simply just 1 form-factor, and it gets replicated over and over and over...

Here's the Dummies-101 guide to be a A.S Blogger (pronouce simply as "AS-blog"). To apply to be such a blogger, kindly see the pre-requisistes.

• Teenage Girl
• barely 22 years old
• fair skin ( be it staying away from the sun deliberately, all inherited from somewhere, from someone)
• long-curly tresses. which are usually dyed light brown. Loads of geling/styling/hair spray/hair moisturiser and all that shit required. A la-barbie look.
• mighty thick layer of makeup. usually elaborately long eye lashes.. with thick slabs of eye liner, mascara involved. probably some "bling" eye makeup (courtesy of Shieshedo's new product. pardon me for using "new")
• have gotten plastic surgery, or proficient in Photoshop, or any other photo editing software

AS-Blog themes are as such :

• AS-blogs has naturally a pink-shaded background.
• AS-blogs have to have alot of pictures of themselves.. nevermind others.. just plenty of photographs of themselves, with or without clothes on.

AS-bloggers characteristics :

• AS-bloggers wanna-be have to be fond of digital/mobile phone cameras.. a flare in posing will be excellent
• No qualms about being in the lime-light all the time
• No qualms in having heavily gelled hair and make-up while out of home.
• No qualms about having critism thrown in their direction....
• Usually sufficiently IT-savy (photoshop is a MUST)
• Having loads of time on hand.

Enjoy your new found fame if you manage to get into the A.S Blogger category. Most of the time, they would prefer to call themselves the Hottest Blogger. Honestly, its just another channel of getting more attention... as to a channel of voicing out opinions... i reckon that this perspective have very much changed to something else.

To those of us who are sitting back to enjoy this media frenzy -- kudos to us -- let the show begin. (",)

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