Hobbies

To be honest, I don't have many hobbies.... which is a bad thing because instead I spend literally all of my time just doing random things on the computer. It feels friken unhealthy and I really should do something more useful with my day.

But one of the things I actually love to do is paint my nails!! =)
Which to me, is actually quite a girly hobby for someone who really isn't very girly at all.

But I really love the artistic aspect of it. I find painting really fun even though I'm actually not so great at it hahaha but I love using my nails as mini canvases for simple designs =)

Tutorial for this design found here

I find heaps of the designs I do from YouTube videos though, so i guess that's one good thing about me lazing about on the computer all the time LOL excuses excuses.

Plus it attracts many compliments when you've got something a little fancy on your nails! I guess because most people in Australia just paint their nail one colour and that's it.

But you know, all it takes is practice and then honestly I think anyone will be able to do something nice on their nails.

I was pretty darn crap when I first started painting my nails. I still remember the first time I painted a design on them. They were little paw prints, and even though I've got dotting tools now, anyone can do it using the brush that comes in the nail polish for the centre and then a toothpick for the smaller surrounding dots. Very simple and easy, good design to start out on! =)


So I really suggest giving it a go, it really adds something special and you can eventually move on to more complex designs as you get better.

I've also been wanting to start some new hobbies, which you know, don't involve a computer.
First thing I'd really like to do is start painting on actual canvases. Just afraid I'll buy one and then ruin it LOL
Another thing which I really hope to do sometime in my life is learn to make clothes!! Looks heaps fun designing your own piece of clothing and then creating it. Seems dam hard to learn though wtf. But lately I found SecretLifeOfaBioNerd's YouTube channel, and I seriously admire her sense of style and ability to make clothes. Will hopefully learn to make a thing or two from her one day!!

Oh, and I want to exercise more because I am ridiculously unfit.

But anyway, totally recommend you try doing some nail art if you haven't already!! =D

Stopping at Nothing

So how many of you checked your calendars to see what day today is?

Today, April 20th 2012, is the date we "cover the night". Kony 2012 was one of the biggest things I've ever seen hit the internet. Every YouTube comment were just people shouting at us, "KONY 2012", and every second post on my news feed on facebook were spreading the word further. And yes this did get annoying after a certain point hahaha

I admit after I realised the video was like 27 minutes long, I clicked away. Don't lie to me. So did you!!

But the internet really was giving it so much attention that I had to find out what the hell 'Kony' was. After reading a few words from the description box all I read was "make Joseph Kony famous" and I thought it was gonna be some retarded scam trying to get some pop singer well known or something bahahaha wtf yes okk I sound retarded.

I watched the video, and like everyone of you out there, I was quite touched by it. It was really hard to imagine that there are people out there who actually go through this. Living in Australia, I really am privileged  and it's not fair that this is happening in the world while I just sit here doing nothing about it. And I do think it's great that everyone felt for these people and wanted to help out.

But how much were you helping, really. By sharing around this informative video, we were supposedly raising awareness which will magically lead to the capture of Joseph Kony.

At the risk of sounding hipster, ('oh i heard about that aaaages before you.') even before all these critiques against Kony surfaced, I was already suspicious at this whole idea.

First of all, it reminded me all too much of those pictures/posts people share on facebook, in which there would be a picture of perhaps a diseased child, an animal being abused, etc. with a caption saying 'like if you are against blah and share so everyone knows!'. Oh my god, how they irritate me.Yes, I am against any kind of abuse, and wish cancer didn't exist, just like everyone else. Liking or sharing that picture, however, will get us nowhere okk. People know about cancer, that there's abuse, whatever it is and I do not need to see such a depressing picture every time I scroll through my news feed. It's not going to raise money, or stop the cause, you just want to be annoying and think you're cool for starting something which keeps spreading.

The video for Kony did seem much more sincere than those posts on facebook, not to mention it seemed much more legit. But there was a resemblance between the video and those posts.

While they told us that sharing the video and raising awareness would contribute to the capture of Kony, it didn't really feel like it would be doing anything at all, really.

Then a few days later, I saw various articles and videos critiquing the video. Statistics on how the money is spent, people from Uganda telling us this wasn't even an issue anymore, and articles explaining the uselessness of this movement, and that this is actually a complicated issue which was over simplified in the video.
And you know what. Even though this was such a huge thing all over the internet, it totally died down, not that soon after. It lasted about a little over a week, and I've heard nobody speak of it since.

So scheduled for today, April 20th, we were meant to 'cover the night' and wear shirts to support the arrest of Joseph Kony. But it would seem the fad has long passed, and nobody is concerned anymore.

Search trends on Google for 'Kony'

Nobody is interested.

Which is why I couldn't help but wonder what is going to become of 'cover the night'. How many people will really participate??

Of course I could just get proven wrong bahahaha

But to be clear, I'm not exactly against Kony 2012. I think it's great that they were trying to get everyone involved, and I do think that people should realise how lucky they are to be living in the conditions that they do, and should help out those who aren't as fortunate.

I guess it just seems that people may not care enough, or maybe too short attention span lolol i dunno.
I just don't feel like 'cover the night' is gonna be the huge success that was expected. Everyone's forgotten and moved on.

Instead, people should just give back, by donating to charities, maybe even do some volunteer work. Or just do something nice for someone.

Ray William Johnson vs. Nigahiga

Okay, okay, I know Ray William Johnson taking over Nigahiga as most subscribed on YouTube is like friken old news.

I am currently subscribed to both of them but to be honest, I don't think I will be subscribed to Ray William Johnson for much longer. And I was not all too happy when he became the most subscribed on YouTube. I mean, I guess it doesn't matter who has the most subscribers in the end, because you can watch whoever you want to watch and whether the person you watch has more subscribers than someone else isn't going to affect anything.

But I dunno. I used to quite like Ray William Johnson's videos actually. When I first found him I thought he was funny and I watched like 100 of his videos in one go. But at some point, his videos were becoming less and less funny. Is it just me? Or maybe I was just tired of seeing the same video over and over again.

See that's the thing, all his videos really are pretty much the same. Review one video, then another, then a third, always making some kind of joke by referencing one of the other two videos, then a comment question of the day. I know this is just the format for his show, but by doing this in the end he isn't really doing anything original and none of his videos stand out.

That's one of the things I like about Nigahiga more. He does different things for his videos, whether it be a parody of a movie, some kind of infomercial, a music video, or just a random sketch. Not to mention, his videos have a more personal, home-made quality about them. He does everything on his own, from writing to editing. Lately Ray's videos seem to be all about his production team. They always seem to pop up in one of his unfunny jokes and I really preferred when it was just him. I've even seen comments on his vlog channel saying how much better the old vlogs were, and now it just feels like some reality TV show.

I just feel like Ray isn't really all that funny, and his videos are the same thing again and again. What is it that's so special about his videos that got him to number 1? I'd really like to know.

Of course, this is just my opinion. You can think whatever you want. But please do leave me a comment and tell me what u think haha I've been dying to know if anyone feels the same way!

Oh Hi There!

Welcome to my blog!

Been thinking about doing this for a while, and I finally did it. I put it off for aaages because you know what, I'm really not the type to do this kind of thing. Writing something, putting my opinion out there, I don't do those kinds of things. I mean, I haven't even updated my status on Facebook before just because I feel like it's only going to announce something unimportant that nobody cares about. So you know, just like every other Facebook status out there.

However, lately I'd been reading blogs, like the ones by Xiaxue and Cheesie, and couldn't help but think I wanna do this too. Don't get me wrong, I don't exactly expect this to get majorly popular and for me to get famous off of it. There are literally millions of blogs out there and I have absolutely no idea how one blog is gonna stand out from the rest.

But I have a lot of opinions I need to voice and a lot of things I want to say and I'd be happy to even have like 5 people read this and comment back letting me know what their opinion on the matter is.

No idea how this blog will turn out, or how long I'll be able to keep this up.

Either way, hope you enjoy what becomes of it, and even if you don't, too bad because I'm doing this for my own enjoyment anyway.

Thanks for reading! =)