Something funny?

By funny I mean weird funny, not haha funny.




You tell me.

This would explain the some 6,000 votes last night. I don't know how you (all) did it, but you are not very clever. Subtly does it.

If there are any cheaters for me too, please don't do it, because it might get me disqualified!

Oh, and I have already written to Wizbang about it, so no worries.

Right, I'll go on blogging!

Meanwhile...



*Updated!




Post-note: Wizbang already emailed me back. There are several cheaters on both MB's and mine, so their ips will be banned and their votes removed.

Postnote no.2:

Subtracted from mb's votes - 9944 votes
Subtracted from my votes - 5048 votes

Turns out I had more cheaters with 9 ips addresses, but maxing at 1478 votes.

mb had only 3, but his highest-voting cheater is quite a fanatic - he voted 7385 times! Sorry to tell you dude, all your efforts are gone to waste. *laughs at the fucker*

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Gambatte readers!

I received an email from a reader:

Hi XiaXue,

Just wanted to send you an encouragement mail. Jia you! The last I checked, Mr. Brown is leading you by about 3931 votes. Don't despair. I'll be voting for you daily.

A few things you may want to take note:

1. Mr. Brown's post indicates that you are leading.
2. You have also stated in your own post that you were leading.
3. Due to Kevin's post in tomorrow.sg and pie chart , people may think that you've huge lead over Mr. Brown.

Based on the above 3 points, your fans and readers may think that it is not necessary to continuously vote for you as they wrongly think that your other fans will vote. If everyone thinks so, you will be getting less votes than you would be getting. Conversely, fans of Mr. Brown may think that he is way behind you and will therefore vote more aggressively. This may explain the sudden huge lead that Mr. Brown has gained over you.

Your sentence in your latest entry, "It is NOT MY FAULT that I have a younger bunch of readers, and that these readers will naturally vote more than Mrbrown's will; because they (mb's readers) are maturer and possibly less enthusiastic about such issues." is no longer valid. Mr. Brown's fan and readers will vote aggressively for him! Also, as Mr. Brown has been writing for the papers "Today" regularly, it is likely that he has been getting increased fan base. He may have become the juggernaut of blogging.

Do not despair as there is still time to pull votes. But you need to work for the votes.

From now till 15 December, you'll need to post an entry daily. You need to get your fan's and reader's attention on a daily basis. Remind them to vote for you daily. That's why you'll need to blog daily till 15 December.

I admire you for your truthfulness and daring to speak your mind. For some twist of fate, you've now become the underdog. Don't give up. There is still time to pull votes! By the way, by virtue of your gender, even if Mr. Brown wins, you'll still be the reignning blog Queen/Princess! ;-)

I'll be voting for you.

Best regards,
X

I read this as I was about to generally give up on life, and wallow in self-pity, while thinking of ways to glare at mrbrown the next time I see him.

But after a few email exchanges with X, which is of course not his real identity, I decided that I must not give up!

That's not Xiaxue spirit, is it? =)

Besides, mb himself and Kenny Sia both spoke to me.

mb gave me lots of encouragement.

Kenny was laughing at my distress, telling me that I was taking this far too seriously. I told him that I needed to see that more people love me than hate me. This is my motivation for blogging on.

That being said, you have to continue voting. What, 4,000? 4,000 is nothing for 20,000 readers, is it?

Me, I'll go blog now. At least for these days till the 15th, it will be for you. =)

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Feeling quite pensive

I wrote my first vote-pulling post at 8pm, and by 1030pm or so, my votes quadrupled, beating the next best contestant, Mrbrown.

The next day, a gazillion angry blog posts sprung up. These people are angry, furious, that my so-called "sheep" have once again efficiently done their job at doing whatever I wanted them to do.

My readers are not sheep. Liking something mass appeal does not automatically make you a sheep, so stop it. Do you like french fries? So do 90% of Singaporeans. Therefore, you are a slave to french fries is it? Are you blindly following others to eat fries? You mindless lemming.

It saddens me to read these entries.

Not because I feel upset to read that my blog is infantile, childish, superficial, or even malicious (which I don't think it is). I've seen enough of these comments, and I have long had an answer for myself.

There are 22.5 million blogs, and a few hundred new ones have probably sprung up while this entry is written.

Yet, only so many make it past 10,000 readers a day.

Overtaking my own blog idol (though he insists that his is not a blog)

Amongst the esteemed top 100 blog list, you will see a variety of many different genres of blogs.

There are gossip blogs, war journals, political blogs, technology blogs, and there are, of course, no lack of the girly blogs - like my own.


These blogs are popular for a reason: And the reason is that they are all the best at what they are doing.


Be it chicken rice or foie gras, as long as you make it well, it will be popular.

Is it right then, to exclaim things like, "Oh chicken rice is so cheap! It has no class! From now on, chicken rice seller, please cook only foie gras! Since you cannot cook foie gras well, you must be a lousy cook! You should be booted out of cook rankings."

That's just silly, because without the best chicken rice seller around (he failed miserably at selling foie gras and is now a hobo), people will just move on to the next best, and soon, this next best will once again earn loads of money.

How many chicken rice cooks are you gonna kill before everyone eats only foie gras?

If chefs are judged by the amount of money earned from sales, then surely Mr Next Best Chicken Rice is a good chef, isn't he?

I hope you are not looking confused at the whole food thing, because that chunk is supposed to be an analogy for blogs as well.

People are constantly harping on how my blog is not intellectual and thought-intriguing as other, more worthy, blogs are.

Enough! Once and for all, shut the fuck up and stop being a pretentious bigot trying to prove to the world how superior you are by the pretentious blogs you read.

That's the way I like to write, and there are people who enjoy it. Why constantly try to change something other people like?

There are 22.5 million blogs for you to choose from, dude... Go ahead, give another genre a shot if you don't like bimbos and entries on how to do your make up.

I'm sure there is a blog out there which will fit your interests... That day I just saw one seeking readers who have the common habit of digging their assholes and smelling their fingers afterwards. That would suit you.

And don't come here already.

Back to what people are saying that makes me sad. I am sad, because I am actually feeling GUILTY that I, then, so easily became the winner. It is sad when a victory only serves to make you feel bad about yourself.

Mrbrown wrote a post saying it felt good at least to be leading for a while, and that made me upset too.

He is my friend, and I don't want him to be unhappy. But yet, I do want to win (it makes me happy to see readers appreciating my work), and since the post is already up, I can't stop people from voting (and nor do I want them to stop).

For the longest time, whenever it comes to blog affairs, I am always deemed as the stronger one.

I have come to realise that Singaporeans ALWAYS protect the underdog, which I suppose is a good thing because it means we have compassion. But sad for me, of course! Look at my controversial issues:

SPG (poor underdog already hounded by media you still go and say her tits out of shape) = Xiaxue is a meanie (although I wrote about her before she got hounded by the media)

Toilets (handicapped people are already unlucky in life, you should never write anything even sounding vaguely against them) = Xiaxue is a meanie

Cab snatcher (She defamed you on a forum and you merely defended yourself, but so what? She is nowhere as powerful as you on the internet so you should have kept quiet) = Xiaxue is a meanie

And stuff about animals, Fiona Xie, etc.

I don't want to be superior anymore. I am sick of it. If now, say, a semi-known female blogger and I, at the same time, wrote something bad about each other, guess who is in the wrong?

ME!

Coz I am the blog queen!

And so many blog entries sprung up, defending Mrbrown and other contestants, saying they are more worthy winners, let's beat Xiaxue and vote for them, etc etc. Did they care about my feelings? Nah. Xiaxue is strong enough. For once, can we please turn the tables and say other people are bullying me?

I am a girl, and I also want to be protected at times.

Sorry if I am rambling on, I am just trying to get my thoughts out straight, because I am so confused right now.

So yes. Why am I the victim of such anguish? It is NOT MY FAULT that I have a younger bunch of readers, and that these readers will naturally vote more than Mrbrown's will; because they (mb's readers) are maturer and possibly less enthusiastic about such issues.

It is NOT MY FAULT I have a large readership, just because more people are generally more interested in gossipy, bimbotic, light-hearted affairs than ostentatious high-brow content (I'm not talking about Mrbrown, but you know the sort of blog i'm talking about, where the authors are usually poets and write only with words more than 3 syllabi).

This is what I want to say to those who are feeling so antagonized and bitter that I was once leading:

If you want to say sour grapes things like, "It is just a cheap popularity brawl and of course stupid girls like Xiaxue will win, since dirty old men and naive teenagers will vote for her. Vote Mrbrown! He is more worthy than Xiaxue!", then perhaps you should look back upon your words and realise how silly you sound.

Because if it is just a cheap popularity brawl, when the win doesn't really matter anymore, does it? The prize is not worth shit: it merely shows who has more lemmings, right?

So why get so bothered?

It is just the Best Asian Blog Award. Every blog nominated is a winner already (except those who nominate themselves; guffaw), because they have readers who like them enough to think they ought to win.

That being said, perhaps it is a good thing that Mrbrown's current votes have bypassed mine. Then people will stop Kpkb-ing.

Go vote if you think I'm the best Asian blogger in your opinion. I will appreciate every single vote casted. But if you don't think I'm the best, read the rest, and vote whoever you think rocks your socks!

There is no need to put the other bloggers down.

What you may not like, others may.

My blog readers don't ever do that. They just think I'm cool, and they never put others down to justify their opinions (or at least I don't see them doing that), and for that, I'm proud.

Are the readers of these supposedly pedantic blogs really less mature than Xiaxue's "sheep" readers?

What an irony.

To the nice people who liked me enough to show me that little bit of appreciation, thank you!

As a reward, I give you something even better than Junny's boobies:



Pretty pretty Dawn! The blogosphere is suffering from withdrawal of her photos. =)

My head looks so goddamn big besides hers man! We did a Cleo photoshoot together, so be sure to buy the magazine!

Ta! If you vote enough, I'll post up more photos of Dawn, muahaha! She must be feeling like smacking me now for making use of her chio shots, heehee.

Oh and if you have voted yesterday, you can still vote today. Once every 24 hours! :)



- Because if your reason for voting is "Xiaxue sucks", then you are voting for completely wrong reasons -

Update: I was refreshing the page after writing this, and in the last refresh Mrbrown's votes increased by 3 while mine increased by 1. I guess hate is indeed a better motivator than love. Haha! IS THIS THE BEST YOU CAN DO, BLOGDERS?? Jia you! We must not let the hatemongers win! Click here! =)

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So many photos no title can cover them.

It is 8 freaking AM! Yesterday I shocked myself with my sleep patterns.

I woke up early right, so by 9 at night I got tired, and went to bed.

In the end I woke up at 7am! 7am! Never woke up so early since secondary school! So I woke up, chatted a bit with a friend in US, and by 9am, realise that none of my bumming friends are up yet, so I fell asleep again.

I slept till 6pm. -_-

I am very amazed. So yes, right now, I have not yet slept, and I am feeling hungry!

Momo woke up at 8am, no longer feeling surprised that I am not sleeping yet, and asked if I want breakfast. Except it is not really breakfast but supper, isn't it? Ha. *dry laughter*

So MY POINT IS!!!! She is downstairs buying breakfast and the only reason why I am not sleeping yet is because I want to eat it! Yay!

So if you like my blogs, you thank Momo! And click here to vote for me too! (Can vote once everyday) :D

Here are some very ancient photos! You know they are ancient coz I still have my braids on, and of course, Shuyin have recently grown a fine beard - and she is still beardless in these pics.

This is Shuyin before the beard. I told her it's fashion suicide but she insisted on growing it, saying it matches my single curly 5 inch armpit hair, which I have refused to pluck ... since puberty I think. You remember the date you started puberty? Mine was 11/02/1996!

Ah, I think from now onwards I will celebrate menst***tion anniversaries! :D (I starred it coz the word somehow looks more offensive than che**bye)

Friends, "Why are you treating us to this red cranberry cake?"

Me, mysterious smile, "What date is it?"

Friends, "It's the 11th of Feb. It's not your birthday, that's on 28th of April, isn't it?"

Me, "That's correct."

Friends, "Then?"

Me, "Today we celebrate the 10th year of my womanhood! Let's drink up!"

Friends, "... Oh wait. This cake... Red... It is not...?"

Me, chokes, "WHAT? Er no... No... Eat up, eat up."

Yay!

Just on an irrelevant trivia note, woman spend an average of 6 fucking years menstr**ting.

THAT IS SO FUCKING LONG! I asked someone if she would want it all at one go or have it like now, once a month. Think she said all at one go. Siao! Imagine 6 years of no tanning and constant cramps! But wow, freedom after that, shiok!

Er... Did I digress a lot? Sorry sorry...

Me! My wonderful hair colour is still sponsored (not endorsed) by Kimage and it is still gorgeous!

The stylist was so sweet, she wrapped up my braids!

Long hair, no beard.

Short hair... Nice right? It is supposed to look like Jessica Alba's style.


Met Idris for show but couldn't catch any...


We both have nice hair! :D


Next day! Look very angelic right?

I KNOW! Coz I did "Apply image, screen" on photoshop, haha!

Shuyin and I spent so much at the Loreal Warehouse sale! Super cheap can, mascaras for $5!

Junne came back from Perth that day, so we went all the way to Pasir Ris to find her, at her place!

The chao turtle is very ungrateful, she let her dog bite me and Shuyin... :(

After that Kelvin called and asked if we wanna go to KTV, and I brought the girls along!

Partyworld...


Kelvin engages you in a staring competition.

Big eyes are SO WASTED on guys! What do they need it for? Only makes them look sissified can. Gimme lar. I swap eyes with him. Will look perfect on me. *mumbles* guys don't need big eyes...

To the million or so people who say that Junne looks like Joey Yung, thanks for being another one to bite the dust and stating the obvious.

To be fair Junne looked more like the pre-surgery Joey, but hey, I think actually Junne's parents might have gave birth to twins and sold one to Hong Kong in poverty, where she got raised by mafia parents and was pushed into stardom.

I discussed this possibility with Junne, but she just shot me a disgusted look and shouted incohorently something about "never was", "poor to that extent" and "you" "crazy bitch".

Whatever man, you judge for yourself:

Anyway June likes looking like Joey. I've got proof!

She really getting into the mood...




A bit ding dong hor?

After KTV Shuyin and I stayed over at Jealous Junne's place... When she was bathing we ransacked her 3-doored floor-to-ceiling cupboard!

Inside there was a lot of stupid hats, so we started wearing them! Junne is siao, last time in poly, she'd go into this "fashion transition" where she will do a complete image makeover.

One of her most horrible ideas was to "act jap", when she procured a lot of these crazyass headgear!

See?

I'm wearing a fucking BEANIE! Whahaha! Junne thinks she is a guitar strumming punk is it? LOL

What's that with Shuyin? A BONNET!

WAHAHHA SO AWFUL!

We started to dig more hats to wear, and Shuyin got this fat golf cap or something, and I decided to put a bra pad on my head! With Junne's ancient sunglasses! Wahahaha!

How do I look with a bra pad?

Me lucky, me touch pad which touched Junne's boobies! MUAHAHAHA

Junne has these crazy scarves! How, I was trying to imitate Jerry Yan's "Feng li tou" from Meteor Garden! Look like right?! :D

Awful!

Remind me never to wear such headgear again...

Next! The Balcony!

Some of you might have noticed this swanky place just outside Heeren, which has white swinging chairs... called The Balcony!

I met Huifen and the rest of the guys to check the place out!

I am so impressed by the place! Every single detail of the decor was money splashed. You can tell that the owner of the place had no qualms about throwing out the moolah to make his place the most lavish of all...

From the rocking chairs, swings, swinging chairs... to the big glasses and opium-smoking-like beds for the alcholics... and even a fucking JACUZZI in the middle of the bar upstairs! Amazing.

And it's 24hrs! The service was great too! I think I will be going there very often. :)

Huifen and I...

This is the same photo as the nose-surgery one, and when Huifen reviewed the picture on my camera she immediate went like, "Yikes, you ting xiong!" (thrust your chest out)

I swear I didn't! It just turned out like that.

With the trademark drink, Melon Lemon or something.

Ok, I just realised they are anagrams of each other.

My favourite MNG jeans! Wah lau! Unfortunately for us, we sat on the seats after fresh rain, and the connecting screw on my seat was rusty.

As a result it dripped brown water on my pale jeans! Grrr... But Momo managed to wash it off. Be careful if you sit on those seats after rain!

I really should do something about my tummy. Slimming sponsors, anyone?

Great food variety! Food closes at 2am, I think.

Eh, I asked the waitress how big the foie gras was, and she made a diamond shape with joining her index to her index and her thumb to her thumb.

I think I actually laughed out loud and told her that no freaking goose can have that big a liver, and might have even meanly sneered a bit to Huifen.

She just gave me a confused face.

Later, I realised the waitress was right:

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Bah! Pate! But what to do, it's only $14.50! It is still nice though. :)

The one thing I REALLY loved about Balcony: A UNISEX TOILET!

Surprisingly yeah? There is only one toilet, and it has 3 cubicles with one shower room! It is so weird to see guys using the sink just beside you... :) But fun!

There, all of us inside the toilet!

While I was doing my hair Vyasa grabbed my camera, locked everyone in the shower room, and took these pictures! Crazy friends!

I met the owner of Balcony and he beckoned me over and said he reads my blog! :D So honoured!

One of them took sneaky photos of me while the GM of Ministry of Sound was talking to me, lol... It truely looks like a sneaky photo; complete with the uninteresting foreground! *ducks Huifen's smacks*

Five-ten.

After this, I started to irritate Kelvin by picking up this curtain string thing that dropped out from the cushions, and tickling him at the ear when he is talking to other people. He twitches.

He got angry with me, and started tickling me back with that thing - and Huifen joined in, while Vyasa snapped photos. -_-

You can see their hands holding that stringy thing! GUILTY AS CHARGED.



Damn you Kelvin and Huifen!

Up to here, I realised I am only half-done, and I should possibly continue tomorrow... It's getting long isn't it? Go vote! My, it's 11.10am now.

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