OK. Here we go…
Things that I find overused and overrated around me. The number 1 . Yes, you hear me right. The main single digit number that emphasis you’re the winner, the best among the rest and reflects quality, among other things. Everybody wants to be the best among the rest. The most sought after position in every aspect of life. There’s nothing wrong to be the best but there are limit of its usage. Since the government introduced the policy of being united in one nation, everyone are banking in the idea of putting “1″ in their campaigns, products and motto. No, I’m not against the policy (sort of) but I hate people sucking up the idea just to increase their sales and profit.
What’s wrong of being other than numero uno? Does you get number 10 in class doesn’t cut it? Does finishing last in a race means you don’t achieve anything? If everybody want to be the winner, who will be the loser? C’mon. You can learn from your mistake if you lose/fail and improve yourself in the future. If you always want to be number one, you might turn to underhand tactics: make your product very popular by employing the usage of sub-grade components/services in your product, falsely advertise your product and cheat. The whole nine yards. Oh, well, nothing is perfect in this world.
Moving on with the next thing that I found overrated; the exclamation mark, ! (Ironically, both 1 and ! link to each other). I found this punctuation are being use excessively in one of Japan’s biggest industry: animation. They like to abuse ! in much of the popular titles like K-On!, Durarara!! and Toradora!, just name a few. They even use it to show the continuation of the existing franchise. Lot worse than usage of the letter ‘Z’, after one of the Gundam landmark series, Zeta Gundam (even though Zeta is Greek alphabet). They need to come with an original title with a solid story to go with it, because current titles are too shallow for my liking.
OK, I will stop here for a while. I hope you like/dislike my first entry.
‘nough said
