The Site

I will be honest and say that I doubt I'd be able to keep up with this for a long period of time. I've always wanted to do a review site, just for the heck of it, but I've always been too busy to. Now that I'm done with my promotional exams and, ideally-speaking, have until December to do whatever I please, I decided to start this. I forsee that I will abandon this as soon as school starts again next year but I hope to find time for it anyway. In the meantime, I will just have fun with it and practice writing like a professional critique, even though I'm just a poseur in reality, but hey, a girl can dream, can't she?

One thing I dislike about a lot of review sites out there is that the reviewers are overly generous, and they give you scores like 40/50 with a two-liner comment about how they "absolutely love" your content to boot. Such things, in my humble opinion, are a royal waste of time. I, on the other hand, aim to minimise that. I'm not perfect and I don't claim to be, but I mean it when I say that I will give you my honest opinion of your diary, whether you like it or not. I don't do boot-licking, and neither do I find comments like "you fucking suck, asshole" very amusing. What I write of your diary would be what I truly think, unless you're a personal friend of mine, and in that case, I humbly ask of you to not request 'cause more likely than not, I'd avoid confrontations and bad blood by giving you a nice review which wouldn't be very fair, now would it?

Just as the username dictates, I started this because I can, and thus I will. The name of the site is kinda inspired by my Literature teacher's analysis of Iago from Shakespeare's "Othello", and his explanation for why he does the evils that he commits. The reason is fairly simple: Because he can. I just thought that was pretty awesome.

The Reviewer

I'm a 17-year-old junior college student, Singaporean by default, and sometimes Singaporean at heart. I'm Chinese, and fiercely proud of my heritage, although my command of the language is pretty pathetic. I'm egoistic, arrogant and quite a loner. I don't like crowds, especially crowds filled with kids. I don't believe in romance and I'm a bitter, jaded cynic. However, I can be a pretty decent person if I want to be, and if I feel that you're worth it. At the same time, I'm quite non-confrontational because conflicts, in my opinion, are a bloody waste of time. My primary and main passion in and for life is writing and literature. Of all the subjects I take in school, literature is the only one that doesn't give me a headache or even insomnia, and yes, I am, or can be, one of those arty-farty people that aren't really connected with the rest of the world.

I have no problems with swearing or any sort of 'taboo' subjects as dictated by our society. In fact, fuck society. I don't understand why we all feel this crazy urgency to conform anyway. So I welcome any type of diaries as long as spelling and grammar are reasonably accurate. I generally prefer diaries by people around my age but it really all depends; I try to keep an open mind.

Some things that I like: Jay Chou, Joaquin Phoenix, iced milk tea, ice blended coffee, arthouse films, poetry, Joyce Carol Oates, Jim Carroll, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, James Dean and Rebel Without A Cause, unconventional people that dare challenge the status quo, anti-censorship sentiments, etc.

Some things that I dislike: Pop music, most Hollywood blockbusters, romance novels, MTV (unless they play Jay Chou), senseless patriotism, stupidity and ignorance, religious fanaticism, violence and wars, and of course, studying.

I will try to update this thing as frequently as possible but I'm not making any promises. Still, give me some entertainment and something to do besides lazing around at home and tearing my hair out in preparation for my Chinese A Level exam on November 7 by requesting, thank you very much.

The Layout

Version Two features my favourite singer, Taiwanese Jay Chou, a.k.a Zhou Jielun. He's not very good-looking (this picture lies) but he is genuinely talented in the art of music. He knows what he's doing, he does what he wants to, composes tunes that he feels like composing, and he doesn't care if his albums sell, but strangely, they always do. In my opinion, he's the most alternative mainstream Chinese singer of today. I don't even like Chinese songs, but Jielun just... he does it different. He is his own person. And his formula works, which is why the Chinese market is dominated by a whole bunch of sad, pathetic Jielun-wannabe, doing the whole R&B thing and whatnot. Like, get a life, people. He's the best and no one can ever come close. Don't even dream about it.

And yeah, version three is him again because I just love him. Yep.

past layouts

Version: Iago (as played by Kenneth Branagh) [1]

Version: Jay Chou [2]

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