When trawling through my dear MCAC forum just now, I happened to come across this little tidbit:
And I thought, ‘wow… that is seriously cute. Sexy. Whatever. If that really existed, I bet a lot of people (guys AND girls despite OS-tan tendencies to present female mascots) would fall in love with their laptops/PCs… and Windows would be able to 100% monopolise the curret OS market.’
It is however interesting to note that (quote Wikipedia) ‘the concept of the OS-tans is reported to have begun as a personification of the common perception of Windows ME as unstable and prone to frequent crashes. Discussions on Futaba Channel likened this to the stereotype of a fickle, troublesome girl and as this personification expanded Me-tan was created and followed by the other characters.’ (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan)
Ooooh. I see. Oooooooh. I See.
To think that such a sarcastic rendering of ME evolved into something like what that youtube clip showed. Doesn’t it just show how things can snowball from the small to the huge, and things can spin rapidly away from original purpose to something totally abstract?
You know how a rolling snowball from the top of a mountain (in theory and not in reality) can pile on to create a simply collossal mass of avalanche-causing travelling ice? Like how you can supposedly roll enough snow around in your garden to make a snowman via pushing balls into big ultra-plus-sized snowballs, instead of just padding it (the snowman) together with handfuls of frozen snow and ice?
Well, that kinda brings to mind a recent occurance between me and my friends.
We’d planned to do some cooking on the Wednesday during the Easter holidays, the initial four of us. Since one of us had our birthdays near Easter, the rest of us (without her knowledge) decided to celebrate her birthday then too (but we didn’t tell her, of course).
Then since the Thursday immediately afterwards we all had to go back to school anyway for a MUISS meeting, we decided to input a ’stayover’ factor into the equation. And along the road, somehow, ’studying’ got computed into the equation as well, since 3 out of us 4 were Commerce students.
Sometime between then and the next day, the total amount of participants magically expanded to 6, 9 and subsequently entered the double digit area, whereas the amount of days covered became 3 from the original 1. The ‘cook dinner together on Wednesday’ plan became ‘cook lunch and dinner on Wednesday, breakfast on Thursday, breakfast on Friday, and maybe lunch too’. Studying was peppered all over the planning sheet, with study groups awaiting sectioning due to the sheer amount of people becoming involved.
By the week before Easter, everyone was in a total mess as to what, where, and when everything was happening.
And then… more complications arrived. Another MUISS friend remembered the upcoming birthday and… … ….
Well, to make a long story short, in the end the mini birthday celebration for one transformed evolved itself pokemon-style into a mass birthday celebration for all MUISS members whose birthdays were in April (only 3 of them though). And a steamboat (whoa!) was inserted into the Wednesday agenda…
And so, a simple cook-together morphed into a collossal affair. Lunch with a birthday cake, became steamboat and a full-on birthday celebration. 4 people cooking and eating, became 20.
Wow.
That just goes to show how things can spin away from their original axis, like sarcasm becoming a fan-club-worthy Internet phenomenon, and snowballs piling into snowmen, and an afternoon together turning into something that lasted a whole night.
Ah, the unpredictability of life ^^
