寂しい時は、ピアノを弾く。

Today is yet another day for chaperonage, but today is a different experience as I’m going to step in a real studio, and witness the filming of a TV program.

Basically, my job today is to escort a MediaCorp artiste to the studio, snap a few photos and escort her back. As for who is the (unlucky) artiste – she’s Tracy Lee, cute voice, cute face, darn tall.

The program today is one of the episodes of e7, an entertainment news program – featuring Tracy Lee and Melvin, main characters of an upcoming television drama (which I apparently forgotten the title) to be aired on NTV 7.

The studio, to my surprise, is small. It’s more like a garage than a studio, with all kinds of backdrops and props cluttering the already scarce space.

And amazingly, the small cardboard backdrop turns out nicely in camera. Must be the lighting magic.

There’s a small TV screen to let the cast perceive how everything will look like to the viewer, with cut in scenes and stuff. When a pre-recorded scene is cut-in, they basically chat while waiting for their turn.

The rest are all photos :3

Having your Facebook “Highlights”, recent feeds section fooded with “All My Friends!” crap and planning to blame the Fan Check app for it? No, flame your “friends” in Facebook, because – well, they allow such mishaps to happen to you (they are stupid, really. Don’t tell them I said this though).

Contrary to popular belief, there’s no such nonsense as a “Facebook Virus” yet. Though I highly limit the scope of “virus” based on how the mass public perceives the term.

Why it’s not a “virus” -

1. It doesn’t installs itself into your computer, thus not able to wipe out your data, fry your motherboard or simply annoy you (after you navigate away from Facebook, that is).
2. It doesn’t steal your username or password (Facebook apps are run inside a fairly secured sandbox, this would not happen unless the developers screwed up something) or perform any action to compromise your privacy, in other words – it does not conduct any malicious activity.
3. It doesn’t seem to intentionally multiply itself (unlike other Facebook apps who constantly flood everything it can get hold of).

So, why it would seemed that so many people installed the application and why the “Highlights” window is 99% Fan Check app?

Well, it’s caused by 2 kinds of people:

1. The *cough*idiots*cough*, or politely labeled “Facebook-app-manias” who install just about everything they get their hands on, probably having at least 50 apps installed by now. On top of that, they allow any action to be performed by the any 3rd party, be it publishing, sending email, posting notes, posting photos, tagging people, stealing password, stealing bank account, stealing credit card etc. to be performed despite warnings and prompts (because they are button-clicking-manias too, they don’t read the warnings).
2. The *cough*pureidiots*cough* or politely labeled “Facebook-users-who-are-not-aware-of-the-situation-and-do-not-think-before-they-act”. The main problem is here – they clicked on the photos and post comments on them, effectively making them 1. appear on your highlights section, 2. spamming your mailbox.

With the above, 2 additional kinds of people took advantage of the situation:

1. The hoax-maniacs. For unknown motives (might be to get people to stay away from Fan Check app due to its annoyance, or to see how much publicity can his/her rumor get and be proud of it), they are starting to spread false claims on Fan Check being a “Facebook Virus” that will “potentially steal your password”. (similar to the Microsoft is charging $ if you do not forward this email to xx people crap)
2. The malicious attackers. These are the people you fear. Because of *cough*idiots*cough* believing everything the hoax-maniacs said, while not technically inclined, attempts to source for an “Facebook-anti-virus” on the web (when there’s no such thing as a “Facebook-virus”). Malicious attackers, hereby coined as the *cough*smartpeople*cough*, took advantage of this situation and releases a trojan horse (virus that appears to be a legitimate application, read the Roman history for the reason behind this name) that claims to be the anti-virus these *cough*patheticidiots*cough* is looking for.

Because of downloading a “proper” virus that disguises as an “anti-virus”, it will (naturally) claim that you are indeed infected with the “Facebook-virus” (along with other made-up viruses) and attempt to “disinfect” your computer, while in the background, it is logging your keystrokes or stealing your passwords, or destroying your data, or simply annoying your friends – making the *cough*stupidly*cough* helpless victims believing it is the payload of the non-existent “Facebook-virus”.

Bottom line – drop the crap and ignore them, untag yourself from the stupid photos. If it gets too annoying, delete your “friends” as well.

I am EBIL (intentionally typo). Thank you.

When you’re busy chasing after something in life, nothing else comes into mind, you isolate yourself from the the society, your time seems frozen. Unknowingly, the time space outside your domain gushes away, days are like hours, hours are like minutes and minutes are like seconds.

When you finally take a break and slow down. Everything seems different now, yet, you’re still isolated. You lose your direction. What was I doing all along? What am I doing now? What am I going to do? You can’t reach your feelings.

Everybody else moved on, you’re being left behind, you’re still on the same spot. Except, like everyone else, you have now aged. Time has slipped away.

This is a dream. I’ll go to sleep. When I wake up the next day, everything will be fine.

Up until now, textbooks, storybooks and fairytales have shown us a flawless world, an ideal world – a fake world. A world where evil is absolute evil, a world where good is absolute good, and nothing lies in between them. In the real world, things are not as simple as it seems: each individual is an entity to a synergistic group of entities – a community. Each entity is a duplicate of us, with a bit of variation in moral values, mindset, point of view, beliefs, and physical attributes.

For an entity to stay with the community, it must harmonize with other entities – a mutual agreement, whether or not the mutual agreement is passive or active. An example from nature: a bee and a flower – bee takes nectar from flower with pure intention of ‘obtaining nectar’, but at the same time, it unknowingly carries the pollen to other flowers, fulfilling the flower’s intentions, without much effort – this is an example of perfect harmony, intentions are hidden from the bee, but it gets the job done. Another example takes place between 2 monkeys, Monkey A scratches Monkey B’s back, and Monkey B scratches Monkey A’s back – both parties form a mutual agreement with both parties acknowledging the intentions.

An example of one-sided benefit (parasitic) ending up in disaster would be the case of mosquitoes – mosquitoes consume blood from host, host obtains nothing in return. In the end, host attempts to destroy mosquito, mosquito dies. Host: 0, Mosquito: 0. However, there might be pitfalls on what situations might appear to be mutual at first. Example: A venus flytrap presents what appears to be nectar to the fly, but once the fly goes in, it shuts up the trap and consumes the fly – Venus Trap: 1, Fly: 0.

A lost lamb is seen, stuck in the ‘perfect world’, rejecting the reality, wondering why is the reality so different than what it seems to be. Efforts of guiding a lost lamb from the ‘perfect world’, ended up in failure. Showing a potential case of Monkeys, the lost lamb emotionally disintegrates, rejecting the guide, and the theory as a whole, mission failed. Maybe the guiding process should be done slowly and less transparent. *sigh*