The Kim Chees Invasion

If there is one director in Hollywood who could cast Tom Cruise the
perfect role he's ever done, it's Ben Stiller. Tropic Thunder made Tom
Cruise look like a pansy in Jerry Maguire, a whiney in A Few Good Men,
a retard in Magnolia and a psycho in Eyes Wide Shut. I have always
refused to see Tropic Thunder back in Sydney and I have no idea why
but after watching it on DVD today, it was the creme de la creme of
awesomeness. Good movies take time to be convinced for me to rent or
see.. hmmm

Double A finally celebrated his birthday today. It was a room full of
mostly his relatives, me, Double P(another friend) and three of his
wife's friends. Double A and I go way back when we used to be in this
gang that became a gang outta nowhere. Both our characters in the gang
does not really fit. I was the peacemaker and he was the quiet
info-guy. I didn't really see us as a gang gang but just kids racing
cars and double A and I were the ones who didn't really drive back
then; pfft.. I still don't.

It was pretty good since I could talk with almost anyone there. Double
A's wife, Double A's cousin, Double A's cousin's girlfriend (who's the
singer who did a duet with me and got interviewed for this month issue
of some magazine), Double A's brother's wife, Double A's brother and
finally double A's cousin's cousin. I love family trees.

Now.. Double A's cousin's cousin is in a band called Ice Cream, which
is semi-mentored by KP and I have to admit that boy's a cutie. I did
not mean that as a sexually attractive object but he is a pretty cool
kid to talk to and a quite awesome lad to have a rant with. He and I
were talking about how showbiz in Burma has sunk. On a scale of 'suck'
to 'average', Burmese showbiz these days is a minus suck and a half.

It used to be the Brits or the Americans; the MTV Generation, where
music from these two major continents used to inspire us. Now-a-days,
it's the Koreans who are reigning our music industry. Inspired by the
Kim chees, Burmese singers find it quite impressively cool to dress
like a Kim Chee or to sing like one. I have NO problems with Kim Chees
but seriously, the inspirational level for Burmese singers had
narrowed down to its own continent, Asia. And for someone who used to
work in a jeans shop near Chinatown, this new statement makes me
nauceous. Why the Koreans???? We should be holding hands and making
cool music, not copying them. Are we actually running out of races or
countries to copy trends from? The funnier thing is how the Kim Chees
actually look cool with their white skin, surgeried nose, and uber
cool straight hair, whereas Burmese are a bit too brown for my liking
as an impersonation of a Kim-chee person. I'm sure one of my close
friends, Jack Han, would be pleased with this news cos he's a Korean.
Take that, bro!

P.S. I find this quite hilarious for an eye candy celebrity boykid in
Burma to answer this question this way when asked. "Which other
celebrities are you inspired by?". His answer was "Rain" and
"Backstreet Boys". Hmm.. this kid has to totally get outta his closet
and try not to have answers as stupidly cheesy as this. Backstreet
Boys is so last decade and Rain is a Chinese sex symbol. Poor lad!!!!