my classmate the porn star

perhaps the only article i read seriously in today's Sunday Times was the column by ignatius low. he wrote about Annabel Chong. whee. this may be controversial, but just like Arthur Woolgar in the GP compre, i shall try to be open-minded about it, and her.



what made it interesting, and gave it a "personal voice"(something from gp again!) was the fact that annabel chong was his classmate. that's quite something. choose a random girl from your class, and imagine her starring in a porn video, and setting a world record at that. and achieving another yet another Number One spot for our fair island nation after airport, seaport and all other things flat which she certainly isn't. ooh ooh ahh ahh OMG OMG it absolutely boggles the mind OMG and it's whicked sick okay stop it enough of visualisation.

i've never actually seen the video, and i doubt i'll ever want to, porn makes me sick. but i'd heard of her a long time back, like when in secondary school, and it was and still is quite surprising someone from singapore is actually doing something like that. and then you wonder - if there are so many chicks in America wanting a career with Hugh Hefner working with pointy-eared bunnies, or if being a Maxim centrefold is such an honour over there, why is the situation so different here?

we all know the story, but for the lesser-informed, ANC comes from RGS and HCJC, that much is covered by ignatius. psssst: urban legend has it that she auditioned for her career after being gangbanged (ooh it has such a different meaning here than when we use the GB word in dota) by five buff black men. either she had some perverse fun, or she went insane. perhaps both.

so she goes from 5 to 251. i imagine i got 251 kills in a dota game. now THAT's a record

this is not a place for judging the lady. the Bible tells us not to judge: "For by the very standard you use, so will it be measured to you", and "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone." i would give her the Nobel Prize for Sheer Guts.

(the Prize for Guts does not include considerations of morality, for otherwise it would miss out on achievements like this, since in exceptional cases like this the Wrong Thing is actually harder to do. usually the Right Thing is harder to do, like squealing on your friend for copying in a test)

what she did was brave because *shock* *horror* "what would your parents think!?" and "what would your friends think!?" and "what would your teachers think!?" and "what would your pastor think!?" and not forgetting all the associated concerns pertaining to genital health. heaven help her gynaecologist/urologist/whatever; but she had the guts - like none of us has - to go all out and do what she really wanted to do, and get what she really desired out of life, in spite of the tremendous backlash she knew she would face. that's a real independent and entrepreneurial spirit that Singapore certainly needs more of.

i'm not asking us all to become porn stars. i too really want to be a pilot, and that's what i really desire out of life. i'm not going to face any backlash from becoming one, in fact i'll only get encouragement. but chances are i'll fail the Air Force selection process (they've invited me but i'm not due yet) and if i fail SIA too it's not as if i'm going to save up to go to aussie to train for a commercial pilot's license.

annabel chong wanted to do porn and set a record. she knew the consequences - she would never be able to show her face back home again - but she went all the way and did it, no matter how demanding it was. that's a unique brand of guts.

i am putting such a disgustingly positive spin on things. as a christian deep in my heart i know what she did was terribly wrong. but intellect and testosterone make her out to be a hero.

and of course she's from that school known for girl power, female empowerment and women's liberation. if there was a better instance of empowerment and liberation from society's stereotyped and judgemental morality and rules and OB markers and general definitions of what is wrong and face-losing -- i don't know what is.

cheers, and keep your mind open always!




sometimes it's fun letting your balls talk for awhile. i'm not doing this seriously, so don't take it seriously either.