Ballet Leotards - The New Age Chastity Belt

I love ballet to bits, it's my new passion! Well, my only passion. It was just one of those things that you think only happens in the movies.

I was stuck in a rut, experiencing a quarter life crisis, with my ego shattered to pieces by my boss who described me as "souless" and "passion-less". Thinking back on those days, honestly speaking, could anyone EVER be passionate about men's razors?!

But I digress.

On a whim, I decided to join an adult ballet class, since I was newly self employed and ready to exploit my freedom. In the words of my former colleagues, it's called being fun-employed! I remembered loving ballet when I was younger, but only did it til I was 10. Anyway, joined my first class, and experienced this roller coaster of emotions! Birds were singing, flowers were blooming, rainbows were shooting out of my ears and bodily orifices! I knew I was in love. It became one of those things I looked forward to doing on a daily basis (ok, the only thing I looked forward to doing) and the time I spent dancing, took all troubles and worries away.

I ended up taking classes 4 times a week. I would take more, if 1) there were actually more classes to take, and 2) if the classes weren't so ridiculously expensive.

My point is, if you have a young daughter who loves ballet as much as I do, always encourage her to do as many classes as possible. Not only will it nurture her talent and passion, I guarantee that she won't be doing the nasty with some boys.

I mean, have you SEEN what ballerinas wear?!

To demonstrate my point, I will now narrate what happened during my class tonight:

Class just started, we're all warming up nicely at the barre. We're halfway through our plies, and thanks to all the bloody squatting (to all the ballerinas out there, yes, I know we're not really squatting, but it does feel like it ok!) I have this sudden urge to pee.

I rush to the washroom and I:-

1) Take off my hip aligner belt
2) Peel off my leotard. It's body fitting mind you, it's a pain in the arse to pull it up and down.
3) Pull down my tights and undies. Which are also bloody tight and a pain to pull up and down.

That's just to pee.

Yep, at least 3 layers of clothing to remove before everything's gone. 3 layers of tight clothing, I cannot stress that more! By the time everything's off, you won't have the energy to do anything else.

And whomever watched Black Swan, and got the idea that ballerinas are all sexed up and get high all the time, you have got to be joking. Play back the scene where Tomas is groping Nina. Key word, groping. Nothing more. It's just too much of a hassle to do anything else.

Anyway! I hope this strange message actually does help to encourage you guys to send your kids to ballet!

Typical Malaysian Drivers

I'm on the left lane, and signal to switch to the right lane.

Car on right lane, 3 car lengths away sees me signal, and accelerates.

Car on right lane signals left, and over takes me.


Yup, typical Malaysian drivers.

Change of Heart

It's been 2 years since my last blog post. My "passion" for writing whatever I wanted to just went "fssst" and "poof" into thin air. What happened? I got greedy and materialistic, sad to say.

I became too ambitious and wanted to keep one of those blogs that everyone reads. The ones which I could make a killing out of from my readership. I wanted to transform this blog into "one of those" blogs!

So out comes the checklist - at that point in time, what did it take to own a "successful" blog?

1. Pictures and loads of them. The most successful blogs I've seen are those that have practically more pictures than words. I know, reading crap isn't as much fun as oogling that hot girl's cleavage.

2. A pretty face and a hot body. I say this because my boyfriend personally ONLY stalks blogs which have pictures (first point!) of the pretty blogger fully decked in make up, false lashes, colour contacts - ok a nice rack is also definitely a plus point there. Someone who looks good, and relishes in their narcissism. I have tried being like that, but after many, many futile attempts, I have abandoned trying completely. I am just not that kind of person. I don't even like to take pictures!

On that point alone, I don't even like wearing make up. In fact, I DON'T wear makeup and can't be arsed to do so! I am a very low maintenance, live-in-tank-tops-and-loose-pants kind of girl.

In other words I'm very lazy.

I could say I'm finally now comfortable in my own skin, and will not attempt to be someone I'm not. I don't mind dressing up for occasions, like the odd wedding and gathering I attend like, 4 times a year, but NO WAY could I do it every single day! I shudder at the thought.

3. Beauty or Food Blogging. Now I ADMIRE beauty and food bloggers, because unlike MOST bloggers which fall into point 2 above, their posts are full of substance. It takes a good handling of the English language to actually come up with all the adjectives to describe products / food. It takes time and dedication to write the posts. Unlike pretty bloggers who can finish up the writing portion of their blog posts in just about 30 seconds*

* I am not trying to be a bloody bitch and dismiss all pretty bloggers. It just so happens I'm very sore about a certain incident. I spent a good amount of money on an advertorial by a famous blogger, just to have churned out a good sized piece of CRAP. To add further insult to the injury, she blogged another post just less than 24 hours later full of nonsense SHOPPING pictures, which totally diminishes the impact of my advertorial!


So I actually tried beauty blogging (see my previous posts) but have failed dramatically. Sorry, I don't actually use enough beauty products to justify turning my blog into a beauty review site [see: Am too lazy to wear make up].

Food blogging is totally out of the question. There's no way I could actually refrain myself long enough to take pictures of food before actually scoffing it down. I enjoy food, I don't ever want to relate food to work of any kind. Plus I don't take pictures, enough said.

After all is said and done, I found that making money from blogging isn't for me and so totally gave it up. Until today. After my horrible experience with the advertorial, which was just last night, I realized that I didn't want to make money from blogs the way some people do, just by being pretty. I wanted to write stuff with substance! I wanted to be myself! Who cares if 99.9% of the global population wont' give a rat's arse about what I write or even come close to reading this?

From now I'll be writing to amuse... even if it's just myself.

Conflict Resolution - Not taking sides!

I'm pretty sure everyone's had to deal with major conflicts before in their lifetime, and I'm also pretty sure everyone else, like me, detests them. Some resolve them by facing and dealing with it aggressively, others deal with it passively, or just plain ignore it.

I fall into the latter category.

Taking as an example, a common conflict between two parties who are dear and close to you. When they are fighting amongst themselves, what do you do?

The natural reaction for the two parties is to look to you to take sides. "Well? Who's right? Aren't you going to support me on this?" They look to you for support. And for me, well I just don't give it to any party. I stay out of the way, choose not to get involved, and let them duel it out themselves.

I seriously HATE choosing sides, and hate it more when I'm forced to. And if I am, I STILL won't choose sides. If you see your parents arguing, eventhough you may have your own opinion on who is right, and who is wrong, would you back one parent up over another? I definitely won't, I love both equally and siding one just adds fuel to the fire, plus builds contempt between yourself and the party you didn't support.

I have often been blamed and frowned upon by not taking sides. But so what? I still choose not to, and I won't ever choose sides, so don't make me, and don't blame me for keeping quiet.

Campfire Legends: The Hookman

I downloaded this game just a couple of days ago. With a few days left to Halloween, the timing couldn't be more perfect! This is a GameHouse game, and with so many great titles under their belt, I knew I couldn't be disappointed.

And I wasn't.

This is a hidden object game infused with some great puzzles, based on the infamous Urban Legend of The Hookman. Don't expect it to follow the Urban Legend exactly; it has it's own little intriguing story line to it. That being said, this is one hidden object game that has a strong storyline - you actually become the main character, Christine, and help her in her exploits.

What's best about this game, is that the graphics are pretty good, with the sound and music matching perfectly with the mood of the game. It's eerie and creepy, and for the very first time since I started playing PC games (almost 17 years ago!) elements of this game really scared me. I was practically jumping out of my seat, I had to actually turn down the sound effects in order to refrain from crapping in my pants. Seriously.

The objects are actually pretty difficult to find, so it does pose a challenge. However, for once, you're supposed to find objects relevant to the game (ie. the things you need to change a flat tyre) and not some random objects like saxophones and barber poles. The puzzles were definitely challenging - I had to practically wring my brain out to even get close to some of the solutions.

There were a few minor downsides, one being that the game was way too short! It could probably be completed in an hour, which means you could probably complete it within the one hour free trial of the game. Other than that, my cursor response was horrible, but that could be due to my out-of-date laptop and specs.

All in all, I loved the game. Would rate it 5 stars, and recommend it to everyone out there. A word of caution, though; it's not for the faint hearted!

I anticipate more Campfire Legend games to be released. Can't wait!

Who IS Bringeroflite

Some people I know, must be thinking that I'm this pretentious little girl.

"Who does she think she is? A Bringer Of Light? Who does she think she's kidding?!"

Ok, they don't say it to my face, but I know some people out there do think it! So here's the history of my "nickname".

My sister gave this to me when I was a tiny tot, barely old enough to be able to read the words on this card. But it was from my sister, and boy I treasured it so!

I loved it so much, I kept this card with me wherever I went. It made me somehow feel at peace whenever I felt the world was so unfair.

And then, when it came a time when I started playing MMORPGs, finding a unique nick name for myself seemed easy as pie... "Bringeroflite" the shortened version.

The rest as they say, is history :) I now use this nick for everything!

My New E Shop!

I haven't been updating... because I've been ecstatically happy! :)
Remember in my previous post, how I said I would launch an E Shop to sell those tank tops I love so much? Well I actually created it, and after a week, I've had overwhelming response! So I've been busy with that basically.

Here it is!

Tanks For 5

Happy Shopping! :)