The adventures of 3 bonklers!!!

Hmmm. I am amused at the state of danie’s OCND and townberry’s OCMD. Being the haggard granny of the group I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so obsessed with anything and I laugh and laugh and laugh…. until my friends point out that I used to be like that when I was younger too.

I used to be a lot more fixated with…. random objects of affection in my teenage years, my excuse is that I just needed to focus my energy on something, anything to cure teenage angst/boredom. Thankfully my so called ‘obsessions’ were very fleeting, often lasting 1-2 years before my fickle mind moved onto something new to fawn over.

As a sad reminder, a chronological list of the people/things I’ve been obsessed with in my quarter-of-a-century life:
1. Sandra Bullock [+ Keanu Reeves]

….All because of that movie Speed (1994). I loved Sandra Bullock, had newspaper + magazine clippings of her pinned up on my wall when I was 10 years old. I watched dumb movies I otherwise wouldn’t have bothered with (The Net, Two If By Sea, In Love and War) if she wasn’t in them… nowadays, I just point and laugh at Miss Congeniality. Oh and I er… managed to somehow develop a huge affection for Mr. Woodhead Keanu Reeves in the process. I watched Bill & Ted and Point Break and other shit like that just for him.
2. The Corrs
Ridiculous obsession which lasted around 2 years, around their Talk on Corners period (’97-98). I was so desperate at one point I actually designed a bloody rubbish Pepsi logo just to get my hands on their limited edition Lifting Me promo single.
3. The Lord of the Rings book trilogy [+ Tolkien in general]
When I got wind of the fact that there was gonna be a series of movies made based on the books it made me determined to read them before they got released (so I could act like a total condescending weaboo). So around 1998 I went down to the library and borrowed battered copies of the individual books and devoured them from cover to cover during boring English lessons in school. From the start I followed all the news about the film, from casting rumours (no Ethan Hawke or Uma Thurman in the end, pfft) to possible scenes being cut out (nooo Tom Bombadil) and shooting locations. It went on from there and I ended up an obsessed Tolkien fan collecting The Silmarillion and other random books I have yet to read to this day :3
4. Leo Ku [+ Gigi Leung]

I think this one was circa 1999-2002, where I went batshit insane buying every single one of both artists’ CDs… and if you know how prolific Chinese artists can be you’ll know how taxing on the wallet it was [half of my collection up there, the others are in the attic I think]. I had horribly stupid fantasies about ‘just how good Leo + Gigi would look if they got together!’ (they were labelmates & good friends back in the day)… I think I probably forgot about them after discovering a certain fresh-faced r’n'b singer called Jay Chou around ‘02 whose music made me realise that Cantopop was actually pretty shit - I own all his CDs too but I’m not obsessed with him… I think I just picked up mumbling techniques off him, that’s all.
5. The Matrix movie
1999 movie that I’ve watched easily more than a dozen times, I think I used to be able to quote 80% of the dialogue or something. And I had an obsession with Carrie-Anne Moss’s Trinity for the loooooongesssst period of time.
6. Utada Hikaru
Uggh. Probably started around 2000 after the release of First Love, and lasted for about three years. I was terribly obsessed with her music, listening to Addicted To You on repeat for days on end. I also almost literally camped outside my local record store when Deep River was released in 2002, so desperate was I to get my hands on a copy.
7. Hirosue Ryoko [+ Takenouchi Yutaka & Abe Hiroshi]
Lol Dekichatta Kekkon, lol. It was a 2001 TV dorama that I was majorly in love with and what made me a fan of all three actors for life. Yes I still love all of them but not on the scale of 7 years ago. I became so infatuated with Hirosue I actually believed she was a good singer (no, she actually sings like a constipated crow) and had the best legs in the world (no, more like cracked chicken wings).
8. Pro Evolution Soccer 2 [+ Championship/Football Manager]

I think I’ve wasted about 30% of my life on these games. Thank God all my consoles are broken and I currently run a 4-year old laptop that can’t run games without threatening to melt on the spot.
9. Chiba Saeko [+ Nanri Yuuka]
Can’t remember how I got so obsessed with Sae-chan, but there was one point where I’d practise my Wapanese on the poster of her on my wall every night before I went to sleep. It was when she did the tiaraway thing with Nanri Yuuka that my obsession truly went overboard and I developed a whacked-out pseudo-yuri mindset. This was around ‘03-04 I think.
10. My-HiME
This is the only anime I’ve ever bothered investing so much emotional energy in. I remember sitting at my desk throughout the evenings (’04-05) refreshing 2ch waiting for screenshots to indicate who was the latest victim of the green sparkles and staying up all night trawling Winny for raws. And oh uhh ShizNat, mmmmm. ShizNat yumm.

Nothing much in the last 4 years or so, where I’ve seen my leisure time cut down to a minimum and I’ve had to divide my spare hours wisely between the three dozen different hobbies I have, leaving me unable to bloody-mindedly pursue any activity or object.

Well to a certain extent I am still very much obsessed about two things (work and music) but I don’t let them govern my mind or cause me to take leave of my sense unlike the other two I’m just so normal these days it scares me, wooh….

…oh wait. I just looked over at my bed and I’m reminded of the one thing I’ve developed a maniacal fondness for…

…….say hi to the kids that share my bed =D I hope I won’t get sued by their families for molesting them like MJ did though D: