WHATEVER !?!
Music: Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever

There has been a few "whatevers" the past few days ... [Ed: For those uninitiated, "whatevers" refer to surreal situations where it is easier to roll your eyes and dump any last traces of memories of it into your "recycle bin", or risk serious damages to your ego. And as we all know, shame on you if you don't, my ego is the only thing that keeps me going LOL).

Anyway, as I was saying, there has been a few cases of "whatevers". Firstly, I happened to chance upon a friend's bf's profile on friendster over the weekend. Having met him a couple of times before, when he and my fren was trying to pick up innocent and fresh-faced 18 year olds at good ole TABS. So anyhow, being the ever-friendly and newly friendster-addict that I was, I msged him to ask him to add me in his list. A few days later, this is the reply I got from him:

"Hi XXXXX, photo does you no favours .. you look much
better than that. you're very good looking ...
but, sowwy, not my type cos i like 'em with
thin, slitty eyes, hehe.
how do i add you? new to this ...
okay la .. take care xx"

Well helloooooo, you think you could fool me with that kind of reverse psychology mind fuck?? Next time try something more sophisticated and .. just MAYBE you might succeed in getting me interested. I'm like, which part of my message even remotely sounds like a come-on to you ??? And that usual technique of an initial compliments, followed immediately by another contradictory statement (meant to be a letdown, so as to make the other party intrigued) is sooo OVER!!! Get a life dude, 22 year olds ain't easy to fool nowadays!! WHATEVER!!

Next case in point, I was at CENTRO on Sunday and this girl suddenly approached me and introduced herself as a talent scout for XXX Production Company. She said she is looking for someone to fill in a leading role in this movie that will be filmed here under a HK director, and that the cast will include the likes of veteran Sylvia Chang (Zhang Ai Jia) and hot actress Maggie Q. I was suspicious and cynical at that point of course but took her name card anyway.

So anyway, I kinda did a search on the company and found out that it is actually a respectable establishment and that plans are really in the pipeline to produce said movie during November/December period. I called them up and they arranged for me to come in for a casting/audition of sort. At that point in time, I had flashes of images going through to my mind; of bright spotlights, red carpets, glossy covers, tv talkshows, Patek Phillipes, first class flights, summer holidays in the Carribean and fucking loads of dollar bills to spend as I please hehe. I was like " Is this gonna be my big break?" ...

When I got there, they got me to read a part of the script, which is one of the "drama" bits and I had to act really furious at one point. Anyway, I casually asked why the character was so angry at his mother, and the girl cooly replied that it was because his mother did not approve of her son's homosexual lifestyle and kept interfering in it.

I was like "WHAT ..... EVER!!" .. At that point of time, the realisation struck me why I had been talent scouted at Centro on a Sunday night .. I guess not many actors want to be typecast in a gay role even though more than 90% of them are anyway. So it was with mixed feelings that I left the studio, should I or should I not??

I guess ultimately the decision would be a resounding NO. It is a good opportunity but what is the use if I risk all that I have at the moment. Watcha guys think?