Get Well Soon:(

she used to be so healthy looking


now she's so messed up. but she is still
my favourite singer, in fact,one of the best singers of our time.


she punched a fan last week.lol.

everyone's caomparing her now and then.where she used to voluptous and healthy and now unhealthy,skinny evidently caused by drug abuse and the missing her husband too much(who's in jail btw). everyone' predicting her death like how its was with anna nicole smith. you guys think im gonna rain on you guys with communication studies, but i won't, i will let you off since its the last post<3

i just hope that amy won't die so soon, at least make a few more albums before dying. seriously, i don't want anymore imitations like duffy or adele, AMY WINHOUSE IS THE REAL DEAL!


get well soon amy, we still love you.

you Americanized yet?

house from beverly hills. haha. yahoo and its darn search engine.

okayokay, lot of ya'll wanna stay in a place like this ehy, preferably beverly hills. uh huh uh huh. but who's and what gots you all getting into this whole thinking? what is it that got you all fired up to have the fabulous lifestyle, wearing nice clothes, drinking wine and eating caviar? let me refresh you.



her? (kimora lee simmons)


them?


him?


this? (is this fake?)lol.

Not saying that it right or wrong, but i think Asia's youth,
Singapore's, especially are being highly influenced by this
whole beverly hills, posh, party every week kind
of lifestyle. It is definitely a whole different culture introduced
to the asian context fro m the westerners. Wednesday night
used to be stay-home watch tv do homework go sleep night.
Now it's lady's night, go party with your friends night.
I can say that because the television programmes we have
is dominated by American shows and these "values" are passed
on to our nation and of course the first to catch this cold would
be our youths, because youths are the ones finding who they are,
experimenting, highly being influenced. They find it cool.
(but im one of them so whatever)

However there are things that are controversial about our media
being dominated by American programmes. Some say it is good
because we should be more open like America or we should see
more outside of Asia. On the other hand, some say its bad because
of the negative influences brought on.

Hey, im not gonna forget our mass comm term for this.
Hello, its cultural imperialism for you. okay. background.

Cultural imperialism is the one-way flow of international messages or media products, especially news and television flows, from a few metropolises that has led to the dispute over cultural dominance.

ah,we've been f*ked up by tv. and i'm one who is going to admit it,
i know that im losing my chinese roots by the minute and
its like english is my mother tongue. and the values, oh my tian,
i don't even want to go there.i'm glad i have parents who keeps
me grounded.

so,you americanized yet??

Happy mother's day Nicole:)

Okay, yah, mother's day is over, but. just listen you all. listen i say!


remember nicole richie's party-capades?
with ms.Lohan and the infamous Hilton, Paris.
where she was all fat then skinny but still boob flashing?
im so sorry, i keep writing about the whole entourage.
i just realized. but its interesting right???? i hope so-_-

ANYWAY.
i don't think anyone thought that she could be a good mom who would take care of her child properly.and be as f*ked up as Britney. Well, these are the times where celebrities make me smile and be happy for them. Nicole Richie is a good mom. She really has changed for the better and know what she has to sacrifice to be a mom. She took the challenge and changed everyones' perception. I know i have done a post for one on perception but i think this is a better example. I really did not think that nicole richie would be a good mom.



Well, that's that. Take that Britney. andandand
I think Paris is secretly jealous of Nicole cos she's getting the limelight from being a good mom.
Good luck both of you! Although i know someday you guys would divorce, hopefully not!

Journey is bacccck!

Okay, ya'll might not know the band journey so here is a preview!
WITH A NEW LEAD SINGERRRRRRRRR YOOOOOOOOOOOO.



okay,sorry i was too excited BWAHAHAHA, but its because he really sounds like the old journey frontman. A little history on Journey. okay,sorry i was too excited BWAHAHAHA, but its because he really sounds like the old journey frontman. A little history on Journey. Journey is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1973, which had sold more than 100 million albums. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana. The band’s greates commercial success came in the late 1970s through the early 1980s with a series of powerful ballads and songs such as “Don’t stop believing”, “Faithfully”, “Open Arms” and “Separate Ways” After a few years of hiatus, they found their new lead singer, Arnel Pineda




Videos of The Zoo, which was the previous band he was in,performing cover songs by Journey, Survivor, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Air Supply, The Eagles, Kenny Loggins and other popular acts from the 70s, 80s and 90s, began appearing on YouTube.com in February 2007. On June 28, 2007, Neal Schon of Journey contacted Noel Gomez, a longtime fan and friend of Pineda who uploaded many of these videos, to ask for Pineda's contact information. Schon sent an e-mail to Pineda inviting the latter to audition for Journey. Pineda initially dismissed the e-mail as a hoax, but after being persuaded by Gomez, he finally replied to Schon's e-mail. Ten minutes later, Pineda received a phone call from Schon. On August 12, Pineda, along with his manager Bert de Leon, flew to Marin County, just north of San Francisco, for a two-day audition. The star-struck Pineda was welcomed warmly but he described the audition as "nerve-wracking, tense".

On December 5, 2007, Pineda was announced as the lead singer of Journey. CNN Headline News ran the story as part of their "News to Me" segment. The next thing you know the new band is making a new album and appearing on the Ellen Degeneres show.



Now, a new addition to a group, calls for a different dynamic.
Well,i think its more of Arnell who needs to adapt to the group.
However the group has to adapt and give leeway to him if he does any mistakes too.
There also have to be an effective group communication to hold the group together.

Group socialization is played in here, where there is a kind of contest between the individual and the group. Throughout the life of their relationship, individuals try to influence the group to meet their needs, whereas the group as a whole seeks to influence individuals to do what is best for it.


For Arnel especially, he has to adapt to group pressures.

• One way that he can do that is to recognize that full membership comes only with time. Different stages in one's relationship with a group, different behaviours are expected. Before a new member can be accepted, he or she must earn the right.

-An idiosyncrasy credit is used to explain how groups regulatr the behavious of inexperienced members.

-An idiosyncrasy credit is a kind of symbolic currency earned through conformity. By meeting group expectations, members build up a 'credit balance' that can later be traded in for innovative behaviour.

-In simple terms, you earn points if you do something to make your group happy. However this process is slow and you really have hold it out and be "good" to earn that credit. I think most of that fraction is trust.

• Adapting to group life is usually easier with support from others also. This support can come from a more experienced member who knows the ropes.

Well, Good luck to you Arnell, i hope you can be in Journey for a long time! Southeast Asia is proud of you!!

BRITNEY,BRITNEY,WHAT'S NEXT?

YES SHE'S BEEN PARTYING WITH PARIS HILTON
AND THE WHOLE ENTOURAGE.



YES SHE'S SHAVED HER HEAD BALD!



YES SHE DROVE WITH HER BABY ON HER LAP!!



YES SHE DANCED WEARING A BRA TOP AND UNDERWEAR AT THE 2007 VMA!!

YES SHE FLASHED HER PRIVATES TO THE PAPPARRAZZI!
(but im not going to show that.)

SHE ISSSSSSS BRITNEY SPPPPEEEAAAARRRSSSS!!
From when she started out at a tender age of 18 making Baby one more time the top hit, winning many many awards till now, doing the craziest things apparently to get attention, she has always been looked up by millions of girls worldwide.Established as a international sex symbol, garnering controversy over the influence of her public image on teenage girls.

People especially mothers, do look at her in dismay and ask "do you know that you're an influence to girls everywhere including my daughter? why can't you just be a good example for girls all over the world?!" Her reply to that was that she has her right to do whatever she wants and that its not her responsibility that little girls follow whatever she does.

But she has to take up that responsibility.

No matter how much she deny it, she is still a powerful influence on little girls. Even her own sister got pregnant at the age of 16. As little the influence she might want to think she gives, little influence still is influence. Girls at young age who has so much access to the televison would think that maybe flashing privates or getting pregnant just like that would be okay.


(jamie lynn spears pregnant)

Now, on more technical stuff. Why does britney spears have so much effect on little girls ?
It is because of the hypodermic needle model. It is a model of communications also referred to as the magic bullet perspective, or the transmissional model. Essentially, this model holds that an intended message is directly received and wholly accepted by the receiver. The model emerged from the Marxist Frankfurt School of intellectuals in the 1960s to explain the rise of Nazism in Germany.

The "hypodermic needle theory" implied mass media had a direct, immediate and powerful effect on their audiences. The mass media in the 1940s and 1950s were perceived as a powerful influence on behaviour change. Several factors contributed to this "strong effects" theory of communication, including: the fast rise and popularization of radio and television, the emergence of the persuasion industries, such as advertising and propaganda, the Payne Fund studies of the 1930s, which focused on the impact of motion pictures on children, and Hitler's monopolization of the mass media during WWII to unify the German public behind the Nazi party.

Britney may not have influence on us but it would have on children.
And it is really up to parents to guide their children properly.
However, i think she should take up the responsibility to set a good example for kids out there. But i don't think she's doing that just as yet. I don't blame her entirely actually, early age of stardom f*ked her up.Britney, i miss the old you.

please stop marrying.

brad and jenn






jessica and nick



K Fed and Britney



Kid and Pam

ya'll gotta stop marrying, unless you know that you ain't gonna break up after 2 years. it is irritating for eyes to watch and disturbing. Do you agree with me? Everytime some celebrity get together to get married, they divorce a year or even a month later even we commoners can predict. It is quite fun to predict sometime. Let's analyse why and how these break up happens.


Bad interpersonal communication- duh.
Dysfunctional patterns
-Rigid role relations (dominance,distributing power within the relationship)
-disconfirmations (rejecting responses,responses that leaves us with a diminished sense of self-respect)
-paradoxes (sending once another contradictory messages,double messages)
-spirals (one partner's behaviour intensifiesthat of the other -progressive spirals,regressive spirals, interpersonal self fulfilling prophecy)



Stages in coming apart- THE RETREAT FROM INTAMACY
Knapp's relational development model
1)Differentiating-a couple begans to notice and comment on previously overlooked differences.
2)Circumscribing-couple carefully restrict their communication. certain topics are placed off limits because they are too painful.
3)Stagnating-characterized by silence and inactivity.communication is infrequent,and when it does occurs,it is stylized,rigid and awkward,as though the partners were strangers.
4)Avoiding-partners seperate either physically or emotionally. In this case, in a marriage, a spouse may spend more times at the office or visit relatives for the summer. Or even behaving as though the other don't exist.
5)Terminating-If both parties are aware that their relationship is dissolving,termination may come as a relief. - relationship is over.

So now you know. I'm not sure what happened to each of those couple who divorced but im sure that the dysfunctional patterns and stage of reetreating from intamacy was in play. lets wait and see nick cannon and mariah's marriage:DD

Rondsay?!?!

OKAY PEOPLE, before i start to say anything,
look at this pair and what relationship can you conclude from the two?

Samantha and Lindsay, left to right.

holding hands


having quality time together.



sitting intamately together.





hugging and kissing each other.

okay i know what you're thinking but hold that thought first.
Early this year, when Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson
were seen going out with each other alot,claiming that they
are just bestfriends spending time together. Lots of time i
must say.Everyone, especially the papparrazi and megazine
companies were asking if they were REALLY best bestfriends
or otherwise. They were denying, well, at least Lindsay's
parents were. Unfortunately, non-verbal cues gave them away.

Obviously they are girlfriends. Not girlfriends in the bestfriends
sense but girlfriends in the lesbian sense. Till now it is not confirmed
but clearly they are sending out signals that shows the world that they
are together as a couple. Guys, don't be sad, there's still Hilary Duff.
Or i think Lindsay is bi-sexual, so maybe if you don't mind...
ANYWAY, back to the point.

How can we tell? Non-verbal cues says a million words.
Proxemics is the study of how people use and perceive the physical space around them. The space between the sender and the receiver of a message influences the way the message is interpreted. now, the intimacy between the Rondsay pair is too much for bestfriends isn't it?

Chronemics is the study of the use of time in nonverbal communication. The way we perceive time, structure our time and react to time is a powerful communication tool, and helps set the stage for communication. Lindsay, being Lindsay,had filming commitments and so they had to be seperated for a few days and they were obviously counting down the minutes untill they are together again.

Kinesics is the study of body movements, facial expressions, and gestures. Kinesic behaviors include mutual gaze, smiling, facial warmth or pleasantness, childlike behaviors, direct body orientation. Lindsay + Samantha = lots of smiles,hugs,kisses,holding of hands, pictures of deep gazing into each other's eyes. what more can we say? they are happy to be together obviously,but forever? lets stick around and find out.

Posture can be used to determine a participant’s degree of attention or involvement, the difference in status between communicators, and the level of fondness a person has for the other communicator.Studies investigating the impact of posture on interpersonal relationships suggest that mirror-image congruent postures, where one person’s left side is parallel to the other’s right side, leads to favorable perception of communicators and positive speech; need i say more??

Haptics is the study of touching as nonverbal communication. Touches that can be defined as communication include handshakes, holding hands, kissing (cheek, lips, hand), back slapping, high fives, a pat on the shoulder, and brushing an arm. Touching of oneself during communication may include licking, picking, holding, and scratching.These behaviors are referred to as "adaptor" and may send messages that reveal the intentions or feelings of a communicator. The meaning conveyed from touch is highly dependent upon the context of the situation, the relationship between communicators, and the manner of touch UH HUH???

p.s.:Another move indicating they are more than just friends is the $22,000 commitment ring Ronson bought the 22-year-old for her birthday last week.

You Don't Mess With The Zohan

Trailer of "You Don't Mess With The Zohan"

Official Website: http://www.youdontmesswiththezohan.com/

Oh man, can't wait to catch that movie ehy?! Me too!

No, i am not going to talk about the political issues that this show has raised but rather the story line and the character, well mostly the main character played by Adam Sandler, who in the show is named "Zohan" ,a big shot in his native Israel, is a terrorist-killing, gets high-fives whenever he strolls down the beach. Enemies dread him, men want to be him and women want to be with him. He is like a super-human as he can catch bullets in his teeth and beat up 10 men with his bare hands at super-speed. Not bad for a guy whose style is left over from the early '80s.

As the story goes, Zohan is unhappy and longs for a different life. Despite his patriotism and years of loyal service, he is exhausted and disillusioned from the incessant fighting between Israelis and Palestinians. He tells his parents that he wants to move to America and start a new life. But they laugh at him and call his sexuality into question when he finally discloses that his secret dream is to be a hairdresser for Paul Mitchell. They also remind him that his country needs him now more than ever. Zohan's fate seems sealed until his arch-enemy, The Phantom (John Turturro), returns to the scene. During a battle to capture The Phantom, Zohan fakes his own death and then stows away on a plane to the States. Living under an assumed name, he resides in a New York City neighborhood where Palestinians and Jews co-exist peacefully.

Although he has finally found some peace, Zohan's dream of working for Paul Mitchell did not come true. Instead, he is hired by a neighborhood beauty salon owned by Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui) -- a beautiful Palestinian woman whose business, like the others in the neighborhood, is threatened by a wealthy real estate developer Walbridge. Meanwhile, Zohan is tracked down by the angry cab driver Salim (Rob Schneider), whom he'd encountered years before in Irsael. Salim gets word to The Phantom that his old enemy is still alive and well. Zohan must fight with old foes gunning for him while also trying to save his new found community from the clutches of a greedy businessman.

That's a whole lot of information from the storyline! Well, the point i wanted to talk about is when Zohan moved away into America, no one knew or could tell that he was a Israeli soldier ("super-human") who had fought many and won many, because of the way he perceived himself to be; a hair-dresser (a sexy one). In this movie, he had changed his hairstyle and dressing to make himself look more like a hair-dresser. Well, everyone bought it, the women loved him lining up just to get a hair cut from him.

But never judge a book by its cover!(gosh,cliche i know, i just needed to prove my point) Every one's perception is based on an information built up from the past experiences,character,thought processes and even social factors. Be it from individual characteristics as mentioned or the mass media,social networks,psychological state, priorities, motives or environment, all these builds up our perceptions on things. In time to come, we all realize that these perceptions that are built are not always correct to judge a person or anything.

One very clear cut example like my friend "A". I thought that "A" was a simple guy with a simple past, polo t-shirt and jeans,sling bag,just plain "A" when i first saw him. Who knew,he was this American-trained military soldier! He had so many stories to tell us and we were all fascinated and entertained by it. Yes, never judge a book by its cover.

Anyway, Adam Sandler movie fans, be sure to catch this show as it releases on the 19th June in Singapore.

-show analysis from http://movies.ign.com/articles/879/879562p1.html

You Deserve Better

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Ever been ignored by a person like the way the girl you see in the comic? Or face someone who doesn't understand you at all and throw away all the suggestions or plea to comprehend you better? Well, take a look at this video. This video pertains to today's service industry; M1 and its campaign to want to know their customer's wants better.



As you can see while getting feedback from customers, these surveyors listen to music, and their suggestions fall on deaf ears,literally. Some companies just don't listen, apparently, M1 does.

Customer service does not only includes serving them well while they shop but also to get feedback to futher improve on the service given. Getting feedback is one thing, acting on the customer's feedback is another. The cliche saying goes "Action speaks louder than words" really is put in play here in this industry. Its goes the same as when your group mates don't listen to you when asked to do the project work properly and get you all frustrated. But of course, your groupmates do not have to impress you for anything, they fail,you fail, it doesnt make any difference.The service industry needs to impress their customers like their lives depends on it. Thats why they need to improve on it.

We learn in the psycholgical perspective, to improve the communication, the impressor has to:

• See things from the other's point of view, in this case the customer
• encode their message in clear,lively and appropriate ways to attract their customers
• use multiple channels (radio advertisements, print advertisement, TVC, surveryors, tele-marketing etc.)
• Create noise free environments
• Build opportunities for feedback and learn receiever's non verbal messages
• improve on listening skills
• lastly, study the customer's want ahead of time

If companies do not improve on their communication or listening skills like the guy in the comic, they can forget about doing any business anywhere because customers would want to "break up" with them.

CHING-A-LING

Missy Elliot has once again made it to MTV with her wacky ideas and rhymes in her new music video "Ching-A-Ling". If you guys caught the movie step up 2, this song was one of the soundtracks.

For those of you all who don't know who she is, Missy Elliot (Melissa Arnette Elliott) is a American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer who is known for a a series of hits and funky music videos such as "Get Your Freak On","One Minute Man", "Work It" and "Gossip Folks".

Now, what is so special about her new music video this time? Nope, not another neck twirling out like in her early music video "Get Your Freak On" but the world's first ever 3D music video and yes, you need those special glasses to view this video to get the 3D effect.

Thats not all, its nothing really new, but she has invited a dance crew from Japan called the "Woomin Crew" whom she had found while surfing on the internet to dance in this video. Its not really about the part that the crew was Japan. It was really about the "East meets East" feel to the music video, not the usual kind of hip hop video where you only see african americans on the set dancing. These Japanese hip hop kiddos were dressed in vibrant colors, Harajuku street style, and not only that, they combined a hint of Bollywood-style movements with the defying-time-and-space warping stop slow motion dance that really captured my attention.

"My inspiration comes from all over the world and this video really showcases that.” Missy Elliot commented




a clip of the Woomin Crew dancing.

Now, you, may be a six year old kid, an asian dude, a 34 year old adult with nothing to do with any music,whatsoever or even a teenager so very into hip hop. Whoever you are, i think you would be enticed by this video that Missy Eliiot made. Not because it has hypnotic powers to woo your souls into this but i believe its because these are the kinds of things that make up the modern day "PATHOS"; an appeal to emotion. Not so much to argue using emotional grounds but to appeal to the emotions, makes people want to sit down and listen and watch the strange moves that the Woomin Crew has to offer. Come to think of it,the colorful and fresh flavor that is being displayed really is hypnotic. Whether you're asian,white,hispanic,black, whatever! You'll still be quite interested in this video because of the appeal it has.

If you were to be asian, not so into hip hop and suddenly you see your fellow "yellow-skinned" dancing in the television screen to a not so familiar sound of hip hop, i bet you 10 cents that you'd sit down for at least 30 seconds to catch what in the world are these people doing. Really i say, its the modern day pathos.



and last but not least, the Ching-a-ling video clip! ENJOY!
(hope you get your hands on one of those 3D effect glasses. IS SO COOL!)

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<3 the rach.