SUPERNORMAL PROFIT OF A ROCK STAR

Ever since NAPSTER, the first ever peer-2-peer sharing program that had been created, superstars have suffered great losses in terms of their profits from sales of their recordings.

Undoubtedly, the invention of NAPSTER had started a whole new way of acquiring music and has thus incited many other new inventions to support this uprising trend. Many ripping programs have been created to support the increasing liking of the MP3 format. This has also led to the creation of MP3 players and later on the invention of Apple's iPOD that has successfully become a popular icon gadget itself. Creative's Zen has also been created to carve a niche in the lucrative market for its own.

Laws that supported Intellectual Property Rights have also been laid in attempt to protect the music industry from declining profits. The trend of buying music online has also been started to restore some of the profits lost from piracy.

As for the superstars, they have started to diversify their job scopes to more than just doing recordings. Superstars now do more endorsement deals as another source of income too. However, in recent years, live performances have become one of the most profitable area in which superstars can earn.

Over the years, the entertainment industry has taken more of the form of a market and is now driven by market forces. When the new form of entertainment industry has been established, companies started to push up ticket prices to their own benefits. They found out that the price elasticity of concert tickets is pretty much inelastic. Consumers consider other non-price factors like who is performing and creativity.

Nowadays, live performances are moving in a direction of creativity. Thus, with this increased sophistication of such shows, prices inevitably have to be pushed up.

There will be new modes of music distribution - which means there will be more diversity and competition. However, technological innovations continually cause change. The industry has to change and it is changing.

FREEDOM

We have often blamed society for conforming us to its own set of standards. More often than so, many of us actually fear going against it. Thus, in actual fact, we have locked ourselves in an imaginary cage.

Freedom is self-proclaimed. We hold the power to dictate our own freedom. It is the fear of being prosecuted or condemned that prevented us from declaring our own beliefs.

However, freedom does not empower your with the rights to upset others' beliefs. If your aim of proclaiming freedom is to create another set of standards for others to follow, then you are no better than society.

Conformity is a choice. Freedom is not granted, it is inside of you.

BREAKING THE AGE TABOO

Is beauty only represented by youth? This is the question that is worth our time to ponder over. Have you ever seen an old lady somewhere and you just had to turn over and take a second look at her? It might be that she is someone you have seen on television or it might just be because she is beautiful.

Being beautiful is not just about having flawless skin or slender curves. Instead, having the right attitude and impressing people with your charisma when you speak with self-confidence and convictions. These are what it takes to make you beautiful.

If you happen to be one of those that worries about growing old and wrinkly or thinks that plastic surgery can make you look more beautiful, please think again. Worrying makes you grow older faster and plastic surgery only makes you look more plastic. Stop seeking plastic surgery as a solution to your fears. The best way out is to age gracefully.

Remember that your attitude defines you, not your looks.

MOTHS

there are moments of extreme sadness in life; there are days filled with insane encounters; there are months of depression; simply because we'd lost control of our lives. the thought of losing; the sense of insecurity; the symptons of menopause;

is this really you?

the struggle for power; the need to manipulate; the urgency; these simply amplifies the madness. these are exactly the moments that you should just lose yourself.

be the fire, not the moth.

RANDOM

i'm dreaming a lot lately.
last night, i dreamt of an indian.

GOING AGAINST

sometimes it scares me
just how accurate your words can be

let how you predicted
that my toe will turn black.

sometimes disbelief
it's a way to be ignorant

a method to disregard
the important issues

like you walk in the opposite direction of the wind
so your hair won't end up messy.

or you look in the mirror
in the angle that you look best.

it's just scary
how history repeats.

like you know your heart's racing
but you pretend you don't feel it.

you trash your hearing with songs
but it doesn't seem to rhyme with your feelings.

you're lying to yourself
the same way you did to them.

because you're scared to know the truth.
so you pretend you don't know it.

like going against the wind,
sometimes having messy hair

may be the best hair style you can get
on that windy afternoon.

LINDERFAIRE

ginger and michael grew up together in a small town called linderfaire. ginger came from an average family, leading an average life. as for michael, he came from a religious family. his family is very spiritual. he grew up wanting to become a priest.

throughout the years, ginger was michael's best friend. someone who stood by him everytime he needed somebody. however, to ginger, michael remained a special someone deep inside her heart.

she loved him.

it was a rainy morning when ginger broke the news to michael.

i'm getting married tomorrow, she said.

michael felt a sting in his heart.

how long have you known him, he asked.

15 weeks, she replied.

15 weeks and you know he is the one for you, he exclaimed.

yes 15 weeks and i know he is the one for me, she replied and boarded the bus.

michael's heart torned.

he was a priest. he was forbidden to marry a woman by his religion and by the society. he was a priest and he had standards to meet.

he loved her but he couldn't tell her so.

michael presented himself at ginger's wedding. he watched as she submitted her life to the other man. michael struggled to breathe.

from then on, he told himself, i devote myself to my religion.

the next morning, michael received a letter informing him that ginger was dead.

he ran to her house.

there she lay in the garden of roses. a letter beside her, dedicated to michael.

she couldn't marry a man she don't love.
ironically, she couldn't marry the man she love.
death was her solace.

michael killed himself that very night.

SPEAK IN ALISH PLEASE

individualists are a common sight nowadays. ironically, they can be classified as beings routed in the system of egocentricity. it's sickening to speak to intelligent people. they have this reflective ability to prevent their intrinsic character from being contaminated by alien particles.

yes i'm an alien. i speak Alish. apparantly it's a very profound language that many have not yet acquire; not even the basic understanding as to what Alish actually portrays.

i compare people a lot. i analyse people by assuming them as equations. apparantly, people are flow equations. they do not assume the same coefficients all at the same time. in fact, the probability of them assuming the same value can be rounded to zero.

i'm a bothersome person. my friends thinks i'm irritating being a bothersome being. they'd rather i pretended to be ignorant, which i do at times because i just don't bother to bother some people. i'm not a friendly person, mind you.

since we've been cultivated to be doubtful of everything, the acceptance of concepts become a challenge. ignorant people refuses to accept intelligent concepts because they're stupid; because they think intelligent concepts are way too confusing to be accurate.

sometimes we have to admit we're only people and there is only so much we can do for others. it's impossible to make a pig understand Alish because pigs snort; you don't. it's impossible to make a ugly woman admit that she's ugly when her impression of perfect beauty is what her face depicts. who knows, your face may be the exact representation of idiocy to her.

people are different. yellow is yellow to you, but red to him in your context. (red is red to him, but yellow to you in his context.) which language are you using when you speak to your parents? do you know how to speak parento?

when you speak to protect yourself when people criticise you, in my context, you have refused to truly understand yourself. everyone notices you differently. you can't fit the whole picture with 1000 pieces of the same piece.

i speak Alish.

unless you do, this entry will confuse you.

OH HEARTACHE

oh heartache
like a flu that hits any time.

a wounded child
oh it takes time, it takes time.

a critter wandering
lost in the fields of green.

where are you my dear
i can't find you in my heart.

have you lost your way?
i seem to have been lost these days.

i'm sorry i'd let you down,
but i can't even find myself.

oh dear
it hurts so much, there're tears in my eyes.

have you found another spring?
have you forgotten me, my love?

angels, angels
please give me wings

my love is lost
she can't find her way.

angels, angels
please carry me.

my darling told me
she will wait for me.

like the gold in the sands
she'd lost her way.

and i can't get her back.
can't bring her back to me.

oh heartache.
leave me

let me be, let me be.
a critter in the fields of green.

a wounded child.
the gold in the sands.

oh heartache.
let me be, let me be.

SYMBOLS

whiteskyblue is a symbol. a representation of a particular stand at a particular point in time. it does not represent the same stand all the time.

it depicts the opaque stand in life.

the rational is simply to view life from the other perspective and be appreciative of what we have now.

we have to be aware that not all that is happening is what it seems to be.

what we have been taught or heard might be wrong.

how right can something be if it was presented to you from a biased source?

it might only be right if you see it for yourself.

take a look at the alternate perspective.

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