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08 November 2005
Short Talk:
Wallpapers By kennysia.com
I am awesome.
I travel a lot, and I take a lot of photos when I travel. Very often, I wet myself witnessing how amazing some of the shots turned out to be. Most of these pics were taken using a simple point-and-shoot camera (my trusty 3-megapixel Kodak) with minimal touch-up done using Photoshop.
These pics had served me faithfully as my desktop wallpapers in the past. I reckon it's criminal if I don't share them, so feel free to download them for your own personal use.
The Boathouse
Perth, Australia.

Download as 1280 x 960 wallpaper
Saratok Sunset
Saratok, Malaysia.

Download as 1280 x 960 wallpaper
Singapore Sling
Singapore.

Download as 1280 x 960 wallpaper
East Meets West
Shanghai, China.

Download as 1280 x 960 wallpaper
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I need to rant.
It seriously pisses me off to no end listening to people with a warped sense of aesthetics.
Everytime I put up a photo of a girl who I think looks good or at least above average, 99.9% of the time I'll get inundated comments saying she's not JUST "not pretty", not JUST "an average-looking lass", but "fucking fucking UGLY".

Carrie is pretty. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a piece of turd oozing out from the backside of someone who had taken Melilea for 30 days straight.
Has the whole world gone mad? Whatever happened to the different degrees of beauty? Everything now must be either 'pretty' or 'ugly' one meh? Whatever happened to descriptions like 'reasonably pretty' or 'average' or even 'mediocre'?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying everybody should agree with me. I'm okay if people think the girl I put up is not pretty. I'm just saying I find it UNBELIEVABLE that people would actually classify girls like Ericka or Emma as "fucking fucking UGLY".
Shit, if girls like Emma are considered fucking ugly, what do you call Courtney Love?

As far as I'm concerned, there are two possible explanations to this scenario.
One, is what Lena Fonseka said to me was right. Our perception on beauty has become so screwed up by fashion mags and MTV, that anything less than FHM cover girl perfection is considered "fucking fucking UGLY".
If that's the case then I mourn for the deterioration of human intelligence. Thanks to you, every girl who has not graced the covers of FHM is now considered "fucking fucking UGLY".

Two, is that I went to sleep one night and miraculously woke up in Planet Mars. Over here, every thing is polar opposite to the way things are on Earth. Our red is their green, our cloud is their sea, and our pretty is their ugly. If that's the case, then I apologise for being an 'alternative' not willing to accept mainstream opinion.
And to make it up to you, I present to you YOUR most beautiful woman in the world.

Don't complain. You asked for it.
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69 Comments:
1st!!
Posted by: zc-ed at 08 November 2005 5:12 PM | Link to comment
2nd!!!
I should put up a picture of a girl I really think is pretty but she'll probably kill me and I'll never
see her again.
Posted by: thething at 08 November 2005 5:17 PM | Link to comment
Sigh. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder so why can't we all agree on that and...get along ?
Posted by: ene at 08 November 2005 5:24 PM | Link to comment
lol the first girl looks pretty. but courtney love .. its cuz she decided to fuck herself up lol. and the last one .. erg
Posted by: annie at 08 November 2005 5:25 PM | Link to comment
The return of the amazing human walrus! I agree with you, Kenny. I'm starting to get a bad taste in my mouth because for many male humans that I know, it's almost 95% about looks, 4.5% about submissivity and maybe some interest in intelligence / wittiness / conversation in the remaining 0.5%.
Posted by: suertes at 08 November 2005 5:25 PM | Link to comment
I totally agree with you Kenny!! I don't think there's a time in my 25 years of existence where I've not come across someone or somebody saying something about how I look. It's sick. Funny thing is, this happens more rampantly in Asia.
Back in Melbourne when I was studying, nobody cared how I looked or dressed when I went to Uni. Over here (KL), it's like a bloody beauty pageant just walking in KLCC. Going to work leaves me with no peace too as the people/society around me is so concious and caught up with weight issue that it really makes me sick. In the end, due to 'pressures from around' we get caught up in it all and of course, get all worked up and obsessed over our weight/looks. I've had my fair share unfortunately :(
Anyway, uhm, why is today "da day"? And uh, what's with the sheep wallpaper?? Oh btw, your photography skills are awesum!! Love the sunset and boathouse pic
Posted by: Sheila at 08 November 2005 5:34 PM | Link to comment
kenny's right.
just reading some of the comments (those probably yet to be moderated) in the previous post just pissed me off. the amount of inconsiderate rubbish people can actually say/type. these people shouldn't even be reading kennysia.com in the first place. degrades the other readers.
besides...kenny? whatever happened to the third reason?
Posted by: Averdim at 08 November 2005 5:49 PM | Link to comment
carrie is pretty. emma is so so. ericka is fugly.
Posted by: boob_omatic at 08 November 2005 5:57 PM | Link to comment
Kenny, I so agree with you and loved your punchline! You know, I think you don't get as many b**** comments as Xiaxue coz for one thing, you're a guy and gals tend to get more b**** comments. Another favour is that you're so serious in the start while getting your point across, although managing to pepper with a few funny points, but you end with a humongously funny punchline that even the b***** (most of them anyway) forget to criticsize =P. I sssooo do not get why people act so, like what I mentioned in your comments box. People are too much of perfectionists nowadays since the competetion is high (although i find it's mostly so for asians. i think they can be the most conniving, backstabbing, b***** people ever, compared to other b***** i mean. people who read this comment...well, i'm asian too so i'm not just any old how saying this as i recently migrated to perth) p.s. random comment: Unconsciously, most women (I'm not sure if the same is true for men) find male versions of themselves (not in colouring but in the stucturing of the face) more attractive. It's a scientific fact. p.p.s. love your pictures and I too have that camera =P sweet and sour dayz!
Posted by: Naomi at 08 November 2005 6:05 PM | Link to comment
I was once shallow too, but an incident opened my eyes 10 years ago when one of my friend (who was in fact a male model for a fashion design house) married his wife. He had a body of a greek god while, she...let's just say she is very healthy. But what really enlightened me was how in love he was with her and I finally got to know why....she has an electrifying personality that can but a big smile on your face. I believe character and personality should play the pivotal part in the context of beauty.
Posted by: dodah at 08 November 2005 6:05 PM | Link to comment
p.p.p.s. I have to say that I find Carrie is ssssooo much hotter than pretty, sweet-looking Ericka. Although you and Ericka still look like a perfect cutesy couple =P wahaha.
Posted by: Naomi at 08 November 2005 6:12 PM | Link to comment
very very nice wallpapers :)
Posted by: nicktay at 08 November 2005 6:21 PM | Link to comment
Wow! Makes me want to put up my own desktop wallpapers! lol.
The boathouse is definitely one of my favourites. A lot of wedding couples pose on the path leading to it - makes me wonder... aren't they afraid that the wind my blow them over????
Posted by: Nadia at 08 November 2005 6:34 PM | Link to comment
honestly, i think Carrie is pretty... first saw her at Mr miyagi's glob. she has the very healthy sporty type of pretty...
Posted by: yl at 08 November 2005 6:57 PM | Link to comment
cooL pics~ think digital SLRs etc are over rated.. keke.. =n.n=
as for beauty mmm... confidence shine through everything ba.. ;)
Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 08 November 2005 7:09 PM | Link to comment
hooray for furong jie jie!
great scenery pics, almost hard to believe they're taken with a 3mp kodak :)
Posted by: alysha at 08 November 2005 7:35 PM | Link to comment
furong jie jie!! the chioest!
hur hur.....(i can die saying that out)
Posted by: Cherub at 08 November 2005 7:40 PM | Link to comment
eh? the last one was a dugong? how can u compare a dugong with chicks
Posted by: silsis at 08 November 2005 7:56 PM | Link to comment
carrie sure is pretty...i love her little button nose :0)
Posted by: ThunderFoxy at 08 November 2005 8:15 PM | Link to comment
Dude.... the girls you put up are hot. Like your friend. But, i have to agree that sometimes girls' appearance are never enough for some guys.
Posted by: Mke at 08 November 2005 8:20 PM | Link to comment
In my opinion, I think beauty is a term where there is various definitions depending on that paricular person's meaning of beauty or perhaps something that appeals to that individual.
Posted by: Thenameis at 08 November 2005 8:23 PM | Link to comment
The FHM cover girl's thighs looks scary... I agree with Sheila that things are more rampant in Asia. There's never a time when meeting relatives that they won't say :"Aiya, long time no see grow fat liao ah! Didn't diet meh?" I become fat my business lah! Sheesh...
Btw, SLRs/DSLRs are not overated. There are situations where a point and shoot just won't suffice. A photography enthusiast would know which, I can type them out but I'm too lazy ngeheheh.
PS: What is the smudged part in Furong jie jie's pic?
Posted by: Emily at 08 November 2005 8:38 PM | Link to comment
People in general have too many things to complain. ^^;
Let me guess.. "Da day" = Desperate Addict Day?
Posted by: Muchakucha at 08 November 2005 8:51 PM | Link to comment
Hehe ... Courtney love looks bad there.
Carrie is pretty. Emma and Ericka are pretty too ... :D Whoever who has said otherwise ... Hmm, Jealousy, perhaps?
Posted by: Liz at 08 November 2005 8:59 PM | Link to comment
Carrie and Emma is pretty. Ericka is ugly. Courtney Love can be better off being my ass.
Posted by: E at 08 November 2005 9:01 PM | Link to comment
Great photos Kenny...
I like the Singapore sling one.
Carrie is cute.. I like how she looks very natural. LOVE it when a chic can look decent without too much make up on...
Yeah...the whole world has been brain washed by beauty magazines and air-brushed photographs of models..
RARELY do you see celebrities in real life looking as good as they do in published photographs of themselves. Its all make-up and air brushing skills lar!
Granted a LOT of them ARE naturally beautiful..
even Bobbi Brown... the make-up Guru says that its all a bit too much.. the whole image thing...
Also another SIMPLE reason is that different people have different perspectives of what beauty is.. :)
One man's meat is anothers poison.
Oh, and you made my day ;) Hahah.. women love being right you knw?!
Try tellng your girl friend that after you fight one day...
Just say "Honey, I'm sorry.. you were right" and youll be back in the good books. as simple as that... ;)
Posted by: Ninja-L- at 08 November 2005 9:04 PM | Link to comment
You know your blog is big when people start leaving "First Comment!"
Posted by: uzyn at 08 November 2005 9:07 PM | Link to comment
Wow....pretty wallpapers! Thanks for sharing....
Now, how do I set Carrie's photo as my wallpaper? Jk! She's indeed pretty....
Posted by: andrew at 08 November 2005 9:10 PM | Link to comment
Kenny uses the last imaged titled "Your most beautiful woman in the world" as his wallpaper secretly :P
Posted by: Jon at 08 November 2005 9:39 PM | Link to comment
Whatever happened to people actually liking other people's character, instead of whether they're hot, media standards, or not. You know, for who people are on the inside. I mean, you're like, "Whatever happened to descriptions like 'reasonably pretty' or 'average' or even 'mediocre'?" But I'm like, fuck those words, you don't measure people like that. Not a flame, just a pretty riled up opinion.
Posted by: Alexi at 08 November 2005 10:30 PM | Link to comment
nice photos. :)
Posted by: uglyfatchick at 08 November 2005 10:46 PM | Link to comment
Amazing wallpapers...With your great eye for scenic spots (if I wrote, beauty, it will become a hotly contested point again), You could even turn professional. :)
Posted by: dreamer idiot at 08 November 2005 11:17 PM | Link to comment
Thank you Kenny for putting up the larger version of the Singapore Sling! :)
The first time I saw it, I already wanted to use it as a wallpaper but the quality was too low. I like my wallpaper now :p
Posted by: Jac at 08 November 2005 11:32 PM | Link to comment
Am just wondering why people use Cannon, Nikon, Olympus etc when Kodak, besides being the simplist to operate cud produce v gd pics. Am using a Kodak as well, albeit a 5 megapics one. Most people cow to brand and v few believe in simplicity. Similarly one can never understand why Prince Charles irk Diana and prefer to wrap Camilla. U give me an answer!
Posted by: Observatory at 08 November 2005 11:36 PM | Link to comment
i usually stay away from such topics, as beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, as the saying goes...
Carrie is indeed pretty, and looks like a decent person too - to me anyway... to bad i have no chance with such a nice person - no lah live too far away :p
Posted by: ramesh at 09 November 2005 1:28 AM | Link to comment
Loved your comments.
Nice, subtle way of telling people off. :P
It is true that outer beauty is very important to people nowadays. Some even are willing to spend 50% or more of salary on accessories ie, makeup, handbags, clothes, shoes......
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think Carrie looks damn nice - very natural. Anyone who says very, very ugly....well that person just doesn't have good taste but we can't blame them... having good taste is an 'inborn' thing. :P
Posted by: jc at 09 November 2005 2:45 AM | Link to comment
The girl looks great!! but why no LONG KANG PICs??
Posted by: Xiao Long at 09 November 2005 3:50 AM | Link to comment
We've all been blinded by "Perfection" from mags and telly, e.g. Victoria Beckham Skinny Like Stick = "Perfect" - Blek!
Think society should have a new educative subject in the Core Curriculum, Perfection For The Blind and Brainwashed (PFBB for short).
Posted by: Colin at 09 November 2005 4:27 AM | Link to comment
Thank you for the wallpapers. I like the Boathouse one. Perfect composition :)) And the sky....oooohh. *moans*
Anyway, carrie is pretty. Period. :))
Posted by: Shawn at 09 November 2005 8:59 AM | Link to comment
Kenny, I like those pictures! Can you make them to fit 800 X 600? I've got poor vision la. =(
Posted by: Yvonne at 09 November 2005 9:31 AM | Link to comment
haha...
tats so evil shld the gal in e last pic views ur blog...
haha...but ppl here are so extreme...prob cos they dun ve to be responsible for wat they said here...
Posted by: Wei De at 09 November 2005 10:44 AM | Link to comment
I think all girls are pretty in their own ways.....and that personality plays a big part in defining how pretty a girl is. After all what is beauty if it is just a pretty face? When she opens her mouth, you can see how shallow or b***** she is.......
Posted by: sera at 09 November 2005 10:49 AM | Link to comment
We all just have ridiculous colonial hangovers. We are blindly willing to accept white standards of beauty, large eyes, light skin, straight thin or pert noses, stick thin bodies. Bland features, blatant sexuality, so much so that you can't even notice it anymore. This angers me a lot. We don't appreciate natural beauty anymore because we've lost our roots and are foundering in a sea of imitation. Sad. Actually, despicable.
Also, the lack of basic manners on some of these readers' part is appalling.
Posted by: Aranyi at 09 November 2005 11:57 AM | Link to comment
furong jie jie is passe alr!! i heard there's now shui xian 水仙妹妹who's out to fight for furong jie jie's status...whahaha
Posted by: mjy at 09 November 2005 12:29 PM | Link to comment
hmmm love the boathouse pic! i like practically next to the foreshore (and thus the boathouse), being a college kid- and so I know how beautiful it can be... no, IS. try the boathouse at sunrise... now that is awesome....
Posted by: chelle at 09 November 2005 6:30 PM | Link to comment
hey, carrie IS cute ay...although i dont agree with your definition of pretty through the past entries ;P
any chance of getting a 1280x960 version?
hahahah
Posted by: Midori at 09 November 2005 10:39 PM | Link to comment
But all the girls you say are pretty are slim! They almost have figures that of those on covers of FHM.
Maybe that's why ppl don't say FRJJ looks "okay". I think her facial features are alright actually. But every one would be too distracted by her blubber I guess.
Posted by: desperate addict at 09 November 2005 11:25 PM | Link to comment
i love the boathouse!! And i live right opposite it too! :-) It always feels nice and fuzzy to discover that other people appreciate the same random, quirky little piece of architecture as you..i think the boathouse is practically a metaphor for Perth's cultural scape!wonder who it belongs to...
Posted by: queenofsuds at 09 November 2005 11:49 PM | Link to comment
The pictures are picturesque! Are you sure it's a 3 megapixel camera?
Posted by: todaealas at 10 November 2005 2:56 PM | Link to comment
awesome pics Kenny. i'm sure some of us could use some pic-taking tips, especially for people like me with an awfully-similiar-sounding 3Mpixel kodak, who takes awfully-un-similar-looking pictures.
by the way, good to see you standing your ground.
Posted by: mick at 10 November 2005 5:40 PM | Link to comment
Hey,
Nice pics Kenny... actually not just nice, they are awesome! :)
My camera can't seem to capture pictures at night nicely at all, the background's always a blur. Which model do you use?
Posted by: MH at 11 November 2005 3:08 AM | Link to comment
If the whole wide world thinks that a particular person is beautiful, then everyone will need to compete for her? But if people has two opinions, then there is hope for everyone. It's all about the individuals, or else it would be unbalance and it's like the Ying without the Yang. Everyone is beautiful and handsome in the eyes of the person who sees it.
Posted by: T | N Y at 11 November 2005 1:12 PM | Link to comment
hey. i like the picture of the boathouse in perth. it is magnificent!
Posted by: mungyo at 11 November 2005 10:47 PM | Link to comment
Ericka and Emma, hmm...there are moderate lor. Not very pretty but not ugly for sure. I think these ppl are just so JEALOUS for these two young and lovely ladies...or maybe they are jealous of you?
Posted by: alice1604 at 12 November 2005 11:59 PM | Link to comment
hahahahaha
carrie is my sec sch schmate. XD
Posted by: .sya. at 13 November 2005 8:44 PM | Link to comment
i thought that picture of Emma was Courtney Love..
Posted by: halda at 14 November 2005 11:33 AM | Link to comment
i will use the last pic as my desktop wallpaper from now on. reason = to keep my male friends away from using my PC. works better than a talisman against demons
Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 19 November 2005 9:00 AM | Link to comment
i will use the last pic as my desktop wallpaper from now on. reason = to keep my male friends away from using my PC. works better than a talisman against demons
Posted by: i love the last pic at 19 November 2005 9:00 AM | Link to comment
Carrie is beautiful...
Posted by: XXX at 22 November 2005 5:57 PM | Link to comment
aiyo...who is the last girl pic that you put.. pity her :( like that as though you indirectly classify her as not pretty :(
Posted by: Lynn at 23 November 2005 2:01 PM | Link to comment
heythat first asian girl was REALLY pretty!!! why would anyone say shes ugly?? ugliness isnt on the outside like beauty can be ug;iness can only be found on the inside of someone even if their outside appearance may be classed as 'beauty.' yuck seriously would you rather be in the presense of someone who has a negative aura or a positive one?? great site!!
Posted by: chelle at 09 December 2005 1:52 PM | Link to comment
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Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 21 December 2005 9:23 PM | Link to comment
I was just going through the archives, and I definitely agree Carrie is pretty. I actually thought it was a wallpaper... Oopsss.
Posted by: Egoz at 23 December 2005 1:15 PM | Link to comment
HAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!! that Fur-Long Jie Jie pics still cracks me up every time i see it !!!!! hahahah!!!!
Posted by: kleine maus at 16 March 2006 10:52 PM | Link to comment
it sux
Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 31 May 2006 5:41 AM | Link to comment
this is quite mad.... why is my pic here???? horrors!
Posted by: Carrie at 27 November 2007 11:04 PM | Link to comment
hey.. carrie's sweet looking =]
Posted by: jungle man at 19 January 2008 1:01 AM | Link to comment
very funny and nice picture.
Posted by: David Chew at 19 January 2008 1:07 AM | Link to comment
hey m jst flaterrd lukn at ur pics kenny......m speechless n dnt hav words to describe it especially dat house on watr it gave me a peculiar peace.keep up d good work m ur fan nw.plz do reply me
Posted by: rashmi sharma at 10 May 2008 3:11 AM | Link to comment


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