I get slightly miffed when I see a group of girls milling around shopping malls or in any public place, all dressed in similar clothing (or even *gasp* the same! clothes), but you know they are not in uniform (unless tiny skirts and tiny tubetops count as uniforms? And no, I wasn't at a Formula 1 race, nor was I at a car show). No, I am not hating on scantily clad girls because I have body envy. They can all wear jeans and T-shirts and I'd still be annoyed because we're all meant to be different! Why would you want to look and dress like someone else?
Cookie-cutter clones istockphoto©renejansa
Would you not feel horrified if you walked into a posh event and found someone in the same dress as you? I think the vast majority of us would hate that. So why would anyone go out dressed in similar clothes to someone else? And no, when you were a kid, it doesn't count. Yes, you can blame that on your parents' bad judgement.
If you want to know, I don't agree with the whole burkha-wearing thing. No disrespect or anything, but I feel bad for them, having to look like everyone else in burkhas when they're out. How about getting mistaken for someone else? I'm sure that happens a lot. Poor things. I'm aware that they can get burkhas in a really nice, expensive fabric, and some even have pretty details! But what about colour? Is that too much to ask for? I'm all for being conservative, but in this case, it seems like they can't show off their individuality at all (unless you count fabric details)! Anyone out there with experiences or thoughts about this? Leave a comment at the bottom of this post.
Anyway, I digress. Back to the theme.
I picked individualizer.blogspot.com because someone already picked theindividualist.blogspot.com. If you care to, you can pop over to that blog and you'll see that the little gnat has only ONE post. And that was *gasp* 6 years ago!!! =.=
I wanted a name and theme that would reflect on being an individual, so what better name than The Individualist. Individualizer to me sounds like hmm... a machine where you step in et voila! You come out an individual! Yay! So in it's own way, this blog has the intention of providing people everywhere with the motivation (for lack of a better word) to be their own person!
Three cheers for individuality!
I trawled lots of sites to find a theme that suited this blog mission. I wanted a plain, classic (not boring!) theme, with little distractions (I have matured!! I think some would sigh in relief for I have finally let go of most of my love of bling. Imagine trying to read my blog whilst being incessantly visually assaulted by the constant blingature of various gifs and whatnot *phew*). After considering a lot of solid black or white themes, I chanced upon this blog theme by Gisele Jacquenod, and the more I looked at it, the more I liked it. Why?
First of all, you see all those pink flowers at the top? Yeah, they're not the same, but they're all pink! Yes, I know it looks nice and it's meant to be matchy-matchy and all, but hear me out. You see that little yellow birdie? And you see how it looks like it's kind of being snooty and sticking its nose in the air? Well, to me, this totally represents me sticking my nose up at all those cookie-cutter clones that exist everywhere (refer to above pic! And before you whinge that you can't wear anything else to the office, I'd like to say, "YES, you can!" Ask me how). So that's why I chose this theme.
Secondly, I wanted a theme with 3 colums. Again, why you ask? Have you ever been to blogs where you had to scroll all the way down to Antartica and back looking for a link but couldn't find it? Well, I have and I don't like it. Therefore, I decided on a 3-column design, where the number of links will be split on either side of the page, cutting your scrolling time in half! (Your index finger will thank you!) There are not many links at the moment, but if you'd like to be linked, drop me a line at purplemunzter@gmail.com and I'll link you gladly, in exchange for a link on your blog, of course.
What's with the uber cheesy/lousy-excuse-for-a-breakup-reason doing under the header? That, folks, is this blog's motto (my personal one is "There is no box"). Yes, but why?? Because I thought it fit nicely. Yes, it might have started out as a really bad excuse which can only have been thought of by a guy (sexist joke :P), but I'm trying to give it a second life on this blog, by giving it a positive spin.
"It's not you, it's ME."
How this would work in a conversation:
"Why aren't you dressed like me?"
"I'm not dressed like you. I'm dressed like me! I'm being different! I'm special!" :P
Jokes aside, it really just popped into my head and yes it fits, but mostly, I tacked it on because I thought it would be a laugh.
So, who am I? Why do you want to know? No, really. Why do you want to know?
My name is Munz @ purplemunzter and now also known as The Individualist. Yes, I like purple and no, I'm not a monster. Munz is not my given name but I'm considering changing it by deed poll (only joking!). Munz is a twist on my given name, and I got it in highschool and it kind of stuck. I'm not complaining! I have had my share of nicknames growing up (which I may share in a different post. Yay or nay? Leave a comment!) and I've learnt to first ignore them, then I dealt with them. Now I've come to embrace them :)
So yeah, you can call me Munz, purplemunzter, purplemunz, munzter, etc. You can call me anything you want as long as you don't call me in the middle of the night! :P Or anything mean, nasty, irrelevant and uncalled for.
Oops. It looks like I've already started on one of my long essay posts. Right, I better stop here. Check back soon for updates!
Cheers
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