There aren’t many movies that make me want to head to the cinema these days,
but i think this may be one of the few that i’d make an exception for.
One of the highest grossing movies in US right now,
The Social Network is a film about Mark Zuckerberg –
the Harvard computing genius that is responsible for Facebook.
There will be a screening for The Social Network and KinkyBlueFairy will be giving 8 winners a pair of tickets each!
Thanks to Nuffnang, a bunch of you will get to watch the movie before everyone else in KL!
Date: 1 Nov (Mon)
Time: 9pm
Venue: GSC Mid Valley
Ticket collection – 8pm till 9pm
: : Edit : :
The movie distributor has just let out that The Social Network premier in Malaysia will be pushed back to 2nd December.
Screening will too be postponed to 22nd November.
Date : 22 November 2010 (Monday)
Time : 9pm
Venue : GSC Mid Valley
All you have to do is comment and tell me an experience you’ve had with Facebook.
It could be something hilarious,
about love,
your friends,
an embarrassing experience,
why you love Facebook even,
or something just absolutely tragic.
Alternatively, you can email your answers to joycethefairy@gmail.com
Closing date: Monday 25th October 2010]
I’ll give you an example…
Years ago, someone tagged me making out with a girl friend on Facebook.
I didn’t think anything too much of it…
‘Twas our wild TAG party days (those days don’t seem to exist amongst us anymore)
and it was just one of the many party pictures…
so i just left it.
Manatau weeks after that,
i get a phonecall from a friend saying, “Joyce… i think… there is a picture of you making out with a girl on the Zouk flyer.”
“Are you sure?!”
“I’m looking at it right now… and i’m pretty sure it’s you.”
Dammit.
How would i know that the Zouk designers would think it was okay to take party pictures that were ON Facebook taken IN Zouk,
contrast the pictures,
and use them for flyers that would be distributed around the city?
The flyer my friend spotted was in a boutique in Bangsar!
Now i can look back at the experience and laugh.
But back then, i was thinking, GODDAMMIT FACEBOOK!
Facebook is a great tool for me to widen up my connections, for both business and personal wise.
I remember that! Ahhhh good times.
The second time I was mugged (right outside my previous apartment), I was threatened with a knife around my neck. When the whole incident ended and I was back home, calling my parents to tell them what happened/my condition/etc, I noticed I was “slashed” on my right arm (scar still there). Kinda Facebook-ed the photo via Mobile Uploads (hehe!), and received a flood of comments from relatives/close friends/primary school friends/etc showing concern.
It was then that I realized that so many people actually cared. I was astounded by the response as I have been living independently since I was 18 years old, focusing on my studies, life goals, plans to travel solo, etc (complicated life philosophy of mine, skip!)
I guess I like how Facebook keeps us all connected even if our friends are on the other side of the world. Facebook even helped me locate my kindergarten/primary school friends (wow!). And although we are busy ‘surviving’ in this globalized life, sometimes, all it takes is that small gesture of dropping by a friend’s profile to say “hello. How are you?” to put a smile on my face.
At this point (being single for 3 years and counting.. heh!), I’ve got enough LOVE from my family and friends to last me a lifetime! π π π π
I am an internet nut and am ALWAYS on facebook π and after reading the article on Mark Zuckerberg on the new yorker … I was super intrigued to watch this movie :p
Tragic story:
my best friend’s ex boyfriend passed away in a car crash when he was driving back to KL from Penang … and most of us found out about it through facebook π
we were not that close but close enough for him to send me a FB message a few days before the crash, asking me if I’d like to hitch a ride to Penang … cos he thought that I might like to visit my best friend, who was in Penang at the time as well π it was all very sad, you see people he wasn’t all that close to posting nice messages on his wall … saying how his death affected them, each in their own ways …
Funny story:
for me, this would be all the couples hooking up and breaking up on FB … ‘coz the comments are sometimes so inappropriate its funny. :p I saw a guy asking a girl friend out, by commenting on her changed relationship status, hahaha
Why I love FB:
mainly, it just makes keeping in touch SO much easier, and you can see what friends are up to … even when they’re half a globe away!
I also met this ultra nice guy who was backpacking around asia when I was in Singapore early this year … it was Valentines’ eve and I was just exploring around :p he was so perceptive, interesting and a complete gentleman!
anyway, we exchanged emails after a long talk, he found me on FB the same night, and asked me for my number … and also asked me out on valentines day for a nice dinner π
I guess if it were not for FB, we would have emailed or something … but with FB, everything is just ‘smoother’ … and u also get to see bits and pieces of someone else’s life, when you may not really know him or her yet π
… wow this is a damn long comment wtf.
Why lah you didn’t put that picture up together with this blog post? π
This happened one month ago when i was having my study break. So, I’ll have papers scattered all over my study table. I was feeling numb after long hours of study then i took a piece of paper and started drawing “PLEASE, KILL YOURSELF. Save the planet”. Then i randomly state the caption as “shoutout to racists”.
He’re the link.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433950694470&set=a.360838604470.158040.648454470
Few minutes later i got a comment from a friend saying…
“go sim yee , i think you can make the change..go go go go gogogogogogogoggo , shit i will make it infinite loop
return (simyee==dap); ”
LOL. Its programming language he’s using. Funny thing is he equals my name to DAP.
And a moment later i got tagged by another friend in his status saying,
“Coolest DAP chick of the decade: Lim Sim Yee!
*If your boyfriend ever foolishly decides to dump you, let me know. XP ”
I was thinking, am I gona get in trouble for posting that picture because everyone is relating it to DAP.
Lucky thing my boyfriend didn’t see this or else he’ll go furious. Haha!
I guess, that’s the power of facebook. It connects everyone and everything.
So I stalked random people in facebook. I know it sounds creepy but no, I do not have any other intention except i think they are cool, the way they dressing up, they way they camwhored, etc etc. Once I met this girl in a shopping mall and thought of saying hello to her. then i remembered she doesnt know me, what if she ask who am I. Do I have to say, oh, I stalk you in facebook. It sounds wrong. So, I gave up.
Can we deny how addictive, infectious and powerful Facebook is? NO!
I have been on Facebook since 2007 when Facebook was still not that famous back then.
And I remember I had a fight with a girl I use to like about how cool facebook was compared to other social network.
I tried to get her to open up a Facebook account but she refused to saying that Facebook was not fun and interesting at all and she preferred MySpace over Facebook.
I even said that facebook would take over the world by storm soon.
But she wouldn’t want to believe it.
From there, we sort of parted.
And next thing I know, she is on Facebook after that and now, she is more addicted to Facebook than I am.
Hahaha, see how big of influence Facebook has, even on a relationship that is about to bloom,hahaha
Now, she is eeing somebody else but heck. I don’t care.
So that’s it, one of of the most memorable memnories I had with Facebook. π
i m addicted to facebook… i cant stop myself. i need to stay connected all the time or most of the time if not i feel lost.
through facebook i get to know many new friends. some of my facebook friends i meet them regularly at events, functions and parties. i like them a lot coz they are bunch of happy and light minded people who like to socialize and share information. through facebook also i get to know many great company, products, useful information, tips and events…so exciting!!!
yeaaa we all wanna see the pic!!!!
It happened a few months ago.
It was another typical schooling day that I had to stay back until 4.30pm for library duty. After my duty ended, I went to McDonalds with another two friends of mine who are librarians too. Being lifeless and childish enough (okay, for me, it’s nothing very bad and we do need funs at times =P), we took out an A4 paper and started writing a love letter using another friend’s name of ours, say G, stating that he loves his classmate, K. Then, we took picture of the paper and posted it up on Facebook and tag our friends.
Many friends commented on it and it went on until it reached 80+ comments. Yes, our friends are ‘kepoh’ like that. XD However, out of our expectation, friend G got angry. =( We were quite shocked because friend G used to play with us a lot and he did tricked others too. Moreover, we thought the love letter was nothing big and serious. We did not know that friend G will take it so seriously that he scolded us on his Facebook status and demanded a public apology.
I took up my effort to sms him, phoned him and even made an apology card for him but all my effort went to nothing. He replied my texts saying that he was okay, refused to answer my calls, accepted my apology card but acted the other way when he saw us in school. He tried to avoid us and did not want to talk to us. When he was being asked again seriously, he said he still want a public apology IN FRONT OF HIS WHOLE CLASS! He claimed that our action on Facebook spoiled his image. =.=
I got very down after this incident as I never know that friend G could be someone like that. I admit that we may be lifeless and childish for doing that, but if he does take us as friends, he will not want us to do the public apology in front of his class, after we made a public apology on Facebook. Thus, I expressed my sad feelings to one of my partner-in-crime, S, who was also my pet brother back then. S did well in comforting me. He made me smiled and laughed even at moments that I seriously did not feel like cracking a smile. I felt better after talking to S about it. It was the time that I started to develop a special feelings towards S.
Back to the incident, we did not make the public apology in front of his class because the news reached the class monitor’s ears and he wanted to stop it as we may be scolded by teachers if they ever found that out. Thus, the class monitor talked to G and things got settled. However, my perspective towards G changed. We are not as close as before nowadays.
On the other hand, after the incident, S and I got even closer and guess what? We are in a relationship now. =D He has been there whenever I need him, be it morning calls, goodnight calls, sad moments or when I had a problem, makes me feel loved and treats me with respect. That is why I fall for him. =)
Facebook somehow makes me see the true colours of someone. Not forgetting, Facebook somehow initiates the relationship of S and I!
END.
Lol this comment is even longer than my recent blog posts. Please give me a pair of tickets! I really want them! =D Thank you!
Hey, it’s been awhile. Saw your update on FB. Don’t usually respond to stuff like this but I’ve had my ‘Facebook’ moments & I thought I’d share a silly one:
It started with a simple comment from a poker friend that a close friend, Calvin (“Fatty”) and I bicker constantly. That comment amused me so much the next day I changed my Profile Status Update to: “Calvin and I argue so much, we might as well be married.” Or something like that.
I got a few laughs on that Status Update, and for effect, I even changed my legal status to ‘Married’ to Fatty. Calvin even accepted the tag request as as part of the joke.
There I was, 2 months down the road, when one lady, a married ex-colleague of mine started chatting with me on FB, telling me how brave I am and that it was good for me to be so honest about myself. It took me awhile to realize that on FB, I was STILL MARRIED to Calvin. She though I came out of the proverbial closet.
This was one of the rare moments I was caught for words and I hastily corrected her perception, although in hindsight, I don’t think she believed me at the time.
I’ve since removed the ‘Married’ status and changed it to ‘Son – Calvin Symons’. Its still there. Waiting for me to do something stupid again.
Another stupid thing? If you search FB for my (actual) NAME, you won’t find me. Instead, you’ll get this African-American dude with dread locks. That’s another ice-breaker.
I stopped talking to my younger sister and cousin last month because of my lack of updates on facebook. My facebook profile only have minimal information as it only function as my electronic contact card and apparently this makes them ‘worry’, consequently message my bf about it. Then, I have the first argument over facebook with them because they are not in Malaysia and were assuming too much and also argument with my bf because he thought what they said have a ground to it.
All thanks to facebook.
Now, both my sister and cousin is not my ‘friend’ anymore on facebook. My facebook remains minimal as I couldn’t be bothered with it (but still need it out of social obligations) and my younger brother have his facebook turned off after knowing about this.
Thanks facebook for messing with my real life relationship.
I had dinner with my girl friend about a week ago. She told me that, “It seems like I need to spend more money on clothing now.”
Me, “Why lah? Too many parties to attend? Just make sure the same group of friends don’t see the same outfit lah ;D”
Girl friend replied, “I did that all the time. But now got FACEBOOK!! Once 1 dress came out on Facebook, cannot repeat again!!”
Me, “…..”