HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, MOMMMYYYY! :)

you know i love you.

lots & lots & lots of love, joyce.

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some of you have probably know this, but to those who do not, i recently “entered” this contest by Michael. here was what happened.

Michael won first prize for the Malaysian Dreamgirl blog contest on week 3. i suppose he doesn’t live in Klang Valley, therefore he couldn’t go collect his prize at the Nuffnang office; which is in KL.

being “generous” enough, he decided to hold a contest on his blog to give out this prize he won, which is a RM500 worth of Escada/Wella products. this “contest” required people to leave comments on his blog, saying why should they win the prize.

and being the person i am, i entered this (so called) contest lah. i actually put in effort in winning it because i wasn’t planning on buying my mom a gift for Mother’s Day.

there were the 8 of us when the voting started. in case you were wondering, yes i did vote for myself. well at least i’m admitting it. i also dengan segala tak malunya, kindly asked close friends to vote for me on his blog. for approximately 2 or 3 times, i was informed by Michael that i was in the lead.

a few hours later, when i went back to check on the voting results, suddenly there were two extra people on the voting list. copykate, and someone else. OKAY LAH, SUDDENLY HE DECIDES TO OPEN THE COMPETITION AGAIN AND ACCEPT MORE PARTICIPANTS. FOINE.

so i just left the people to vote lah, since i could only vote for myself twice, once with Mozilla, the other with IE :P

the next day, i went to his blog to check on the results again. this time, he eliminated the 5 participants with the lowest votes and people with the 5 highest votes were still in the running. i think there were copykate, super pampered princess, charmayne, robin and me.

this time, Mr. Project Manager decides to make the contest more “INTERESTING”. he said, whoever buys him a RM30 Digi Prepaid Reload card and owns the highest votes will automatically win the prize. i was startled by his “INTERESTING” approach to the contest, so i left him a comment saying, “what if i DO get the highest votes but i dont buy you the prepaid card?”

i dont quite remember the exact words, but he made it clear that whoever buys him that prepaid card will be announced the winner of the contest.

this morning, when i went back to check his blog, i see this:

“copykate.. congratulations you won.”

or at least something like that. you get the idea.

so i was thinking lah. did she win because she bought him the prepaid card? or did she really get the highest amount of votes? well I DON’T KNOW. and i probably don’t want to know either. but i’m glad i didn’t win; because people would’ve doubted the voting results too, and having questions like i have about copykate too.

but what i’m not happy about is, copykate probably put in 7.5% of effort into her “slogan”. there were other people who did so much better than her slogan like ME (dhuh), super pampered princess and No. 44444. i know its not about “the longer the better”. but from the amount of words she used, is it really possible there are good enough statements to make her the winner?

this contest is not a big deal, and i don’t want to make a fuss over it. but when things like that happen, ayoh.

obviously, Mr. BLOGGER MICHAEL JOHN KON only wants to gain traffic for his blog lah. so friggin pathetic. fame whore. and just so you know, i’m not mad because i did not win, i’m mad because copykate won.

UPDATE: in case you were wondering, yes, the blardy coward deleted every single post on that blardy contest. and, copykate DID NOT buy him the prepaid card. apparently, he gave her the prize because she scolded him. i know, WTF.

“Two weeks before her death, she started following U.S. band My Chemical Romance.

One of their songs contains the lyrics: “Although you’re dead and gone, believe me your memory will go on.”

Hannah, described as a model pupil, had started cutting her wrists but told her father it was part of an initiation into the Emo fashion.

Coroner Roger Sykes said yesterday that Hannah’s death was “not glamorous, just simply a tragic loss of a young life”.

Hannah’s mother Heather told the inquest she had researched the trend since her daughter’s death.

“There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves,” she said.

“She called Emo a fashion and I thought it was normal.”

She added: “Hannah was a normal girl. She had loads of friends. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager.”

Hannah’s father Ray, a karate teacher, said: “Two weeks before, I saw the cuts. I asked her about them and she said it was an Emo initiation.

“She promised me she would never do it again.”

Hannah gave her name as Living Disaster on her page on social networking website Bebo.

The page is decorated with a picture of an Emo girl with bloody wrists after slashing herself.

Another picture shows a child’s exercise book scrawled with the words: “Dear Diary, today I give up. . .”

The inquest in Maidstone, Kent, heard Hannah had been with her boyfriend at a friend’s house on the evening of September 22 last year.

She had been angry when she was told she was not allowed to sleep over and when she got home in East Peckham she went straight to her room, saying: “I want to kill myself.”

The inquest was told Hannah had not used drugs or alcohol before her death but Vanessa Everett, her head teacher at Mascalls School, said self-harm had become commonplace among other Emo fans.

Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Sykes said: “The Emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing.”

•The Emo phenomenon began in the U.S. in the 1980s. It is a largely teenage trend and is characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide.

Followers wear tight jeans with studded belts and wristbands. Their hair is dyed black and worn in long fringes to obscure their faces.

Emo - from the word emotional - is a reference to the angst-filled lyrics and melancholy themes of the rock music central to the culture.

One of the foremost of these “suicide cult” bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey.

Their first single, Welcome to the Black Parade, from the album The Black Parade, was released in 2006 and became a huge hit, going to number one in Britain.

The Black Parade is a nickname for the place where Emo fans believe they will go when they die.”

The concept album follows the story of a character called The Patient, who dies of cancer.

source: The Daily Mail

okay. i need a couple of seconds to get myself together.

NOW. i gathered enough patience tolerating people labeling My Chemical Romance as an emo band.

EMO, my friends, is a stereotype that’s related to slitting your wrists, cutting yourself, suicide and what not. it is fucking about hurting yourself. and that’s fashion in the emo world.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE SAVES LIVES. well, they don’t. but they’re songs are NOT about killing yourselves. ohmygod i cannot fucking understand why people don’t get this. i was going through their lyrics and their songs are about getting up, not giving a fuck about posers who put you down, and building up a new life.

that’s the fucking point of this band. i guess most people don’t know this but Gerard struggled with alcohol and drug abuse years ago. this band gave him back his life. he had a purpose, he wanted to live, and he wanted other kids to know that they deserve every fucking chance to live in this world as any other people.

SINCE WHEN IS MCR ABOUT KILLING YOURSELF????!!!

ohmygod.

i’m so mad. i’m actually shaking as i type this.

AND. their latest album The Black Parade is not about dying for god’s sake. JEEEEEZ. its a friggin concept album about a cancer patient who dies. its not about making kids get infected with cancer and dying if thats what you’re thinking. The Black Parade is about DEATH. it is not about DYING. do you see the difference? seriously.

i know my points aren’t that strong to go against this fucked up article. but seriously, stop it with the emo labeling thing already. i’ve seen countless interviews where the band denied being labeled as emo.

if they claim not to be emo, who the fuck are you to say they are emo?

i say, this kid has problems of her own and has no one to turn to. i wouldn’t blame the parents because peer pressure isn’t something easy to discuss with your parents. she’s depressed and she thinks suicide is the only way to escape from her misery.

i don’t see why does this has anything to do with MCR at all. the fact that she listens to them doesn’t prove anything at all. so why relate them in the first place?

emo is one thing, MCR IS A TOTAL DIFFERENT THING.

emo is about suicide, MCR IS ABOUT SAVING LIVES.

fuck it, i’m done with this entry.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOOTS!

i didn’t know it was your birthday until i heard Ean mentioning it on air earlier. i hope you’re reading this :/

thank you thank you thank you for the My Chemical Romance and Backstreet Boys tickets you gave. i can’t thank you enoughhh. i know its not you who’s supplying the tickets but somehow, i still need to thank you for answering our calls and letting us win those passes.

hope you had a great one!

hey look, its Gerard shopping in KLCC!

i’ve been staring at the monitor for approximately 15 minutes now, BLANK, having zero ideas about what to write on. and i have no intentions of boring the shit out of you people too.

BLAME DIONN.

*runs & hides*

well okay. i AM on holidays, more like boringdays. i have yet to drag my lazy ass out to watch a movie with my friends. but i was planning too! until Dalila told me she’s flying off to the US tomorrow. okay, so here’s how the conversation went:

lala: jc
lala: i da hbs asasi
lala: hahahaha
jyc: lalaaaaaaa
jyc: haaaaaa?
jyc: so fastttttt?
lala: yeah
lala: im going 2 usa 2moro
jyc: WHAT.
jyc: YOU TIPUU.

*pause*

jyc: oi.
jyc: DALILA BADRUL HISHAM.
lala: yela
lala: patut hr ni
lala: tp td tertinggal visa then nak patah blk amik kt rmh x sempat
lala: so gi esk
jyc: lala stop it
jyc: you pg us for holidays ke ape
lala: holiday la

fuck dammit i thought she was leaving for the States to continue her studies. i seriously felt like stabbing myself, for real. i kept thinking, “why didn’t she tell me earlier?” and i kept thinking, “oh she had to come online to tell me this? does my other friends know this?”

HEEHEE. my bad. it isn’t her fault. i misinterpreted it. she’s going for a holiday, and she’s friggin going to LOS ANGELES! aaaaahhhh. lucky ass! and i told her to get me Gerard’s comic series, The Umbrella Academy if she sees ‘em :D

so anyways, what have i been up to this holidays? i’ve been pathetically chatting on KennySia’s Cbox. yup, you read that right. hee hee. i’ve shamelessly been talking to strangers on the net.

hm, i kind of forgot how fun it was to just chat with random people on the net. the idea of “Chatting” now has become Instant Messaging on MSN and you don’t usually get to “chat” with random people on the net with MSN Messenger. i remember logging onto MiRC a whole lot when i was in primary school. we even had our own Channel on it, i think it was #sks9 and #smks9 or something. and my nick used to be Mizz Dangerous.

LIKE WTF?!

haha, those days are over.

back to the Cbox thingy. i’ve met some really nice people. several are even from my very own crappy college hah! there are the not so nice ones too, but i won’t wanna state names here, because i’m such a professional *flips hair*.

hah, so there you go, another confession brought to you by joyce :) be good now.

www.theblackparadeisdead.com

OMFGWTFBBQ THIS SHIT IS SO COOL SOMEBODY KILL ME! I NEED IT, I NEED IT NOWWW.

okay. *breathe in, breathe out.*

*cries*

damn it my boys are taking TWO FRIGGIN YEARS of break after they finish up their tour in the US. that’s two long depressing years for meeehhh! i might just die in that two years. read about the break here.

those are the masks designed by each of the mychem boys that comes in the pinewood coffin box. but you will randomly receive only one mask in each set.

oh have i not explained what is this shiz i’m talking about? sorry, my bad.

okay so basically, The Black Parade Is Dead! is a limited edition package that contains a live CD and DVD featuring over 2 hours of footage from the Fall 2007 Mexico City and New Jersey shows. more information about TBPID here.

its now officially open for bookings, so, mychem fans, what are you waiting for? go book one now :)

as for me, sigh. i’ll try to figure out a way to lay my hands on those babies. it is not an option to not own one thankyouverymuch :)