Dawning of teh Truth

CommSec projects increase in egg sale for third quarter 2006

2006-09-04T02:06:00.000+10:00

P.S. CommSec is the stock market/investment branch of Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Eye Thought Eye Saw...

2006-01-09T00:13:00.000+11:00

It has been a while since I've written here, and no I am not dead (boohoo); I just arrived in Singapore a few days ago and have been unpacking. I hereby thank the PAP for not engaging in anal Internet Censorship similar to that endorsed by our dear Commie friends back in PRC (bunch of anal bastards I say). Without further ado, I present the lastest installment of my 2 penny's worth on all that is plastic.

Our eyes are called the gateway to the soul. A person's eyes can often betray his (assuming our person has a Y chromosome) inner thoughts and character, piercing straight to the soul. Great actors can 'talk' with their eyes: a flicker of the eye is able to convey disgust, anger, pleasure, sorrow etc. When two sets of eyes meet, a wordless form of communication is achieved (in Memoirs of a Geisha, it's a great Geisha is able to stop anyone in his tracks with a mere look). That is the power of the eyes.

With such expressiveness and importance placed on the eyes, man would naturally define what 'beautiful' eyes are. I can safely say that a 'beautiful' eye consists of the following:

large and wide eyes
thick, long eye lashes (curtains to the windows; find an Indian friend)
double eyelids (somewhat less common in Asians than Caucasians)
lack of eye bags
coloured iris (non-black/dark brown eyes) <-- this one is debatable since the grass is always greener on the other side.
Now that we have established what a 'beautiful' eye consists of, we can get down to the dirty business of analysing.
Before:

After:

Starting with the easy ones.

1. Coloured Iris
By the year 2006 everyone who hasn't been living in a well for the last twenty years should have heard about Contact Lenses. Now after all these years of development to bring us breathable lenses, hard/soft lenses, daily lenses etc; fashion finally caught up: Leethax & Co. proudly presents Coloured Contacts!!

Injectable-inks (damn the Nazi's were brilliant) are a thing of the past. Get one of these babies and slap it onto your eyeballs for instant racial transformation (now you can say you have Scandanavian ancestory too!). The lastest contacts come from Nike: the MAXSIGHT Sport-Tinted Contact Lenses are contacts and sunnies at the same time.

2. Full Lashes
The secret has been out eons ago. Modern cosmetics are able to length and thicken lashes at the same time. No more fake lashes, pay Takashimaya ground floor a visit and you can achieve up to 20% longer and fuller lashes.

3. Eye Bags
Lots sleep, no crying and not drinking excessive water before sleep helps (one of them might be a myth).

4. Double Eyelids
No need explaining here. She woke up one day and found another set of eyelids. Yes that's right! /end sarcasm. Simple surgery always does the trick. I'll explain the procedure (Blepharoplasty) at a later date.
And now for the trickiest bit of the lot.

5. Larger Eyes
Many readers have questioned the size of her eyes. Not surprisingly, the majority was if and how her eyes got larger. That is two questions right there.
1. Whether her eyes indeed got larger
2. How did she do that?

Observe the next few pictures (a to d from left to right)

a & b are pre-alleged operation pictures; c & d are post-op shots
Over picture b, I have included an outline of her iris (the round coloured membrane surrounding the pupil). As you might have gathered from reading my previous articles, some parts of the human body don't change much; well the iris is one of them. The size and colour of the iris remains with you for life.

Picture b shows about a 20-25% overlap of the iris by the upper eyelids. Upon examining c & d, where most of the iris is visible, we notice that the size of the eyes have indeed changed. Although some might consider this to be overwhelming evidence that her eyes have enlarged, I would still like to comment that the verdict is not absolute. Since we only have one picture of appreciable resolution of her former days, we are unable to confirm our proposition statistically (many other factors could make one's eyes look larger, for instance, opening the eyes larger).
Okay, here's the real kicker: Blepharoplasty can make eyes look larger.

Stay tuned folks!

A Short Note

2005-12-11T22:02:00.000+11:00

I'm in China at the moment and it seems that the blogspot.com IP address has been blocked by the government. Blogger.com seems to work fine but I can't view any comments etc.
WTB: None password protected proxy server.

Eyes-breakers

2005-12-05T00:24:00.000+11:00

Before we get down to the structure of the eyes, I would like to mention that double eyelids are a predominantly Caucasian phenotype. Most Caucasians I've seen on my trip to Queensland (a very enjoyable trip from Gold Coast up to the Whitsundays) had double eyelids. However only about 50% of Asians have double eyelids.
NB: I wish to address that the connotation of single eyelids is a misnomer: everyone has double eyelids, except in some cases, the crease, or fold, is so low (and close) to the lash line that it's not noticably visible.

In my sourcing for the article, I've found a very good site that explains the anatomy of the Asian eyelid, but I will attempt to summarize the gist of it here.

The important components of the eyelids for the sake of this discussion are
1) Levator Aponeurosis
2) Tarsal Plate
3) Skin of the Eyelid &
4) Fat, fat and more fat.

Levator Aponeurosis: A muscles that lifts the eyelids. Its different site of attachment in the Asian eyelid is what causes the single eyelid.
Tarsal Plate: It's just below your eyelash line and it gives some rigidity and structure to the lash line (you can pinch your lashes to feel it).
Skin: What makes up the external surface of the eyelid, it forms the creases and folds when we open our eyes.
Fat: Strategic locationing (and surpluses) of fat gives the "bulgy" Asian eye appearance (especially pronounced in the lower eyelid, a.k.a. eyebags), making us look wary and tired all the time. Caucasians (most) have relatively thinner eyelids.

In a nutshell, some Asians (me included) don't get double eyelids cause a muscle attaches to a different spot (see that red arrow?). It's as simple as that.

Lip Tricks

2005-11-22T01:32:00.000+11:00

Dawn Yang haters won't like this post.

Another feature of Dawn Yang that has came into question is her lips; sweet luscious fruits of kissing joy, are they for real? Before reading this article, one should probably read Lip Service (Part 1) and (Part 2)

For the sake of this article, I have found a pair of matching pictures with relatively similar poses and camera angles:

The first thing that anyone would notice is the shape and size of her eyes are rather dissimilar, but her eyes are not the topic of discussion for this article. They will be looked at on a future date.

Zooming up on her lips, we get:

Firstly, in my Lip Service articles, I talked about Lip Reduction and Augmentation. From the thickness of the vermillion in either pictures, I became pretty convinced that her inferior (lower) lips are more or less the same. They have the same thickness and the same shape. With that said, I am unable to find any evidence supporting claims that she had altered her lips to make them look fuller or thinner.

However, when we take a closer look at her superior (upper) lip, we will be able to notice that the shape of the Cupid's Bow (that's why Cupid was going "Where's my bow?" if you didn't get the joke in the last article) is different. The vermillion of the superior lip (on the left picture) is flatter and does not possess the same concaving indenture visible in the second (right) picture. If you do not know what I am talking about, place your mouse over the image and an outline of the border of the vermillion and the skin on the superior lip will be visible. Clearly something was done to erase the little depression on that lip.

"So she did something to her lips! Stone her!!" you might say. But I need to urge readers that this conclusion is based on only one set of pictures. This is, sadly, due to the lack of high-resolution pictures of pre-operative Dawn (however we have many, many pictures of post-operative Dawn, see the collage in Dude, Where's My Bow? [the Cupid's Bow is not evident in any of them]) <-- nested comments ftw.

In a nutshell, I am unable to draw a definitive conclusion to the problem at hand. All I can say is that I am about 75% confident that she did have surgical intervention on her kissers to remove that little bow on her upper lip. On the other hand, rumours of her pumping up or shaving off her lips are quite unfound.

Dude! Where's My Bow?!?!

2005-11-21T13:57:00.000+11:00

This is just a teaser and some major flame-bait:
"Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway? The game where everything's made up and the points don't matter, that's right the points are like whether Dawn Yang lied."
In the spirit of investigation, ~~1000 points for anyone who can prove I am the alleged Biren.~~ 1000 points for the first to tell me who that bloke in the middle of the picture is!

genetic gifts

2005-11-19T14:17:00.000+11:00

these days, successful people usually have one of the following: a genetic gift of intelligence or a genetic gift of beauty.

albert einstein has the former and angelina jolie [1] has the latter and they can be said to form the two extreme cases. einstein is known for his theory of relativity and jolie for her bee stung lips and curvaceous body. both of them are considered successful people in their respective ways. now we look at dawn. som argue that she is blessed with neither gift. to succeed using her brains would take years of hard work and honestly it would not be very fun. secondly, she is born possessing average beauty. but thanks to advances in modern medicine and surgury, plastic surgery has becoming an increasingly viable option to enhance ones looks. just a few cuts here and there and voila instant beauty!

people, ceteris paribus, will always choose the path that gives them the maximum benefits for the least amount of work. it is in our blood. in this case, dawn simply just cheated and is to be pitied and sympathised with. someone once said that contentment leads to happiness - woe to the unsatisfied. someone who has undergone drastic surgery is obviously not content with herself - her looks and other aspects of her life.

the problem with using surgury to alleviate ones discontentment with oneself leads to one major problem. she cheated by taking the easy way out. now every time she faces another similar problem, for instance, not liking her eyes, she will use the same easy way out again. never learning and forever trapped in a n endless cycle. this is why a person who has had plastic surgery is predisposed to going under the knife for the second, third, fourth time, until so much alteration has taken place that one can no longer recognise oneself.

i advise people who want to get aesthetic, that is to say you do not have some horrible disfigurement that prevents you from functioning as a member of society, plastic surgury to reflect within themselves before going under the knife. remember you are what you feel about yourself.

as for why people are so annoyed with her. in my humble opinion, i figured it is due to how proud she is of her looks. it is comparable to someone who has cheated for an exam to receive a A+ and haughtily boasting about her smart she is. this is different from jealousy but more of a scornful and contemptuous regard for another person whom you deem unworthy or despicable.

the moral of the day is:
words do not change what you are, only what you believe you are.

[1] 'sexiest woman in the world' search produces angelina jolie's name on google.

Lip Service (Part 2)

2005-11-17T00:48:00.000+11:00

Due to popular demand, objective omfgima1337hax has been reinstated. And regarding this Biren business, I am not Biren nor do I know who the hell this Biren person is. If only someone could be so nice as to provide more information on this mysterious name; much thanks in advance.

Without further ado, today we talk about the second type of procedure done on the lips (continuation of Lip Service Part 1).

2. Lip Augmentation
Instead of thinning the lips, lip augmentation allows the thickening or modeling of the lips as a patient sees fit. You can puff up your lips (if it floats your boat) or make certain bits of it fuller or rounder etc. This can be done by implanting either fat grafts (usually from the periumbilical region, peri- = around, umbilical = belly button) or a synthetic AlloDerm implant.

Sometimes, this involves the Cupid's bow of the upper lip, the vermillion (the reddish part of your lips) and the skin (see picture). Example of someone (Rick Springfield) obliterating his Cupid's bow, showing the pre-op lips (right) and the end result (left). The difference is very subtle but it's there nevertheless. A minute amount of fat or AlloDerm can be injected under the Cupid's bow to raise the level of the vermillion to fill up the depression. Alternatively, two incisions can be made to trim off the two peaks of the upper lip (this however tends to leave larger scars).

MTG Explains Dawn's Latest Post

2005-11-15T19:24:00.000+11:00

Tuesday, November 15, 2005
11:49 A.M.

It's been a really trying time being in the limelight... In Dawn's latest article, she starts talking about her side of the story. Interesting and full of niceness as usual, while talking about "what goes around comes around". And quoting lines from the bible "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone" (I am not an expert on bible studies but I think we all know what she is trying to imply here). Continuing by saying "I do not think I am a particularly bad person who has bitched about or intentionally hurt anyone or done anything remotely wicked/unlawful.... :(((".

Gssq: Those pictures you got must be FRAUDS!! HOW COULD YOU LIE!?!? OH MY GOSH*

Also I love the way she goes about trying to play the "victimised" card, saying how "how cruel and vicious some anonymous internet people can be". Ditto right back at her.
It seems that she is trying to take the moral high ground and the likes of gssq and xialanxue have lost by default due to their cruel intent (I do not rank myself amongst them yet for I am neither cruel nor vicious: just point out the truth :D) Seems she has learned a thing or two from her manager about fan management and rumour suppression during that one week absence. Maybe troll can give some of her insights soon?

IMO, its laden with hypocrisy but nevertheless an interesting read. She does not flatly deny the accusations of surgery and also does not addressing any of the issues (Thai/Dutch heritage, USC, Surgery etc) brought up by various inquests.

She's still in DENIAL folks!!

<----Framed ?
You decide.

Lip Service (Part 1)

2005-11-15T00:04:00.000+11:00

Two major types of aesthetic lip surgery frequently done are:

Lip Reduction
Lip Augmentation

1. Lip Reduction
Prominent lips are features commonly associated with non-Caucasians such as Africans, Asians etc. More often than not, these patients seek to reduce the size of their lips to obtain a balance with respect to their faces. Some might consider bee-stung lips (like that of Shu Qi and Angelina Jolie) are sexy, but in other situations, oversized lips are considered unaesthetic. Again there are multiple ways of doing this depending on the desired results and the problem.

Horizontal Incision (Left): A strip is removed from the offending lip interiorly. The gap is sewn together with fine absorbable sutures.
Vertical Incision (Right): Cut along purple line. Sew it back together. Simple.

Coming up: Lip Service (Part 2)

denial to acceptance

2005-11-14T22:29:00.000+11:00

any process involved with a sense of loss has five stages. in this case, dawn is undergoing tremendous duress and pressure from both her circle of friends, her fans and everyone else. the five stages do not necessarily progress in the exact order and some might go back and forth between the stages. however knowing the five stages * will help with understanding her situation.

Denial. she does not believe that she has had surgury. she is coercing herself that she is natural and has not undergone any surgury to her face.
Anger. she starts defaming others for implicating her, saying that they are jealous of her looks et cetera.
Bargain. she would start bargaining with others or herself about her situation. why she got surgury and how she thinks she is justified and so on.
Depression. now she knows that its not going to work and starts to feel down and depressed about the helplessness of the whole situation. this happens when bargaining clearly does not work out in her favour.
Acceptance. ultimately she will accept her situation, admit she had surgury done and move on with her life.

to the best of my knowledge, she has been cycling between the denial and anger stages from flatly denying any accusations to lashing out at people who argue that she has. it might take sometime before she gets to the bargain, depression and ultimately acceptance stage. but it will have to come, sooner or later, for better or for worse. good luck girl, hang in there.

love,
vb3rtr0ll

* based on psychiatrist elisabeth kubler-ross's the five stages of dying.

The Three Plasticteers

2005-11-14T00:20:00.000+11:00

Disclaimer: I am not trying to ruin anyone in this post, but this is just an observation I have made.

This is not totally related to Dawn but I thought this was funny:
Spot the similarities in the following two pictures and hover your mouse over each of them for the answers.

If my sources are ~~reliable~~ [Ed: not very reliable indeed], ~~Candice was from the 2002 graduating class of ACJC~~ and both Dawn and Grace ~~[Ed: Candice too, all three were from RJC]~~ [Ed. Ok, wherever the fuck Candice is from] were from the 2002 class of RJC. The three of them are friends.

This rumour has been to my knowledge since 2003 after the end of the A levels. It was said that Dawn, Grace and Candice got their noses done at the same place. At first I was skeptical of this piece of information, but just a while ago, I spotted Grace in the University of Sydney sporting a new nose. Another friend of mine informed me that Candice (the girl on the right in picture 2) was in USyd as well and people have been saying that she had a nose-job done (he also identified her in that picture).

I have no evidence or proof (I do not have secondary school pictures of them and also this isn't about them) of this but the similarities in the two pictures speaks a thousand words. Also I do not intend to burn more witches than it is necessary (I just hope Dawn can come clean). Simply put, this is just a sideline comment and an observation of the plastic scene in Singapore [Ed: There are shitzloadz of people who had plastic surgery done!!!1!one!].

Makes one wonder how much of your girlfriend is real eh (Troll <3 is 100% AFAIK).

Coming Up Soon

2005-11-12T19:27:00.000+11:00

my very (un)professional opinion on

her self-esteem, or hereby lack of
self elevation a.k.a. please worship the ground i spit on
ethnicity and post-surgical loss of identiy

soon to come! but i better continue studying on my remaining papers.

[Ed. by omfgima1337hax]
Yes I will be looking at other possible alterations made to her face. But those other aspects are still widely debatable. The nose is the easiest to look at and is also the most obvious of her array of reconstructions. What I plan to update in the course of time are:

Jawline Liposuction (Sharpened Chin) on the submental &
submandibular fat pads.
Lip Reduction, thinned out lips
Cut Eyelid and other eyelid modifications allowing for larger eyes
Breast Alterations?
Malar Fat Pad alteration (the fat under the cheek bones)
Botox Injections (which I still do not think she's gotten, but we will see)

And anything else that comes into my mind.
I will of course give a layman's overview of how each procedure is done and the methods behind every one of them.

Stay Tuned!
/Hax out.

the Troll has come out of her cave

2005-11-12T15:22:00.000+11:00

after a few hours of photoshop and excel work, the evidence is ready.
before we get to the goodies, i would love to comment on how i got dragged into this. personally i dont give a hoot about whatever my crazy 1337hax is thinking, doing THIS during the middle of the exam week, but just to get him off my back, i have agreed to doing this as a guest appearance to talk about how i feel about this dawn person from the view point of a psychologist in training. i dont know her and i would care even less about something that is happening in singapore.

anyway here it is!

Introduction:
faces are unique, they are like another set of fingerprints, visible to the scrutiny of the world at large. two important aspects of a face aid us in its recognition. 1) dimensions of a persons features such as the eyes, nose, ears and so forth. 2) the imperfections on a persons face that stand out. moles, freckles, scars et cetera all impress a mental image of the person we see. in order to probe the truth of these allergation brought forth against this dawn person, i have used very basic ratio analysis of her nasal region depicting pre and post images of this allerged operation.

Methodology:
7 sets of faces have been analysed. 4 from before the surgury and 3 from after the surgury. each picture was choosen as they are close to a direct frontal view of the face. some of the pictures are slightly off angle, but would leave negligible differences and has not been considered for the sake of simplicity.

on the picture to the left, there are three lines marked over her face. the bottom horizontal line measures the alar length. something 1337hax has failed to mentioned to you guys is that alar means wings in either greek or latin. alar measures the width of the nose in layman's terms.
the second horizontal line on the top i like to call the eye length line is another imaginary line that connects the corner of her eyes. this line is used as a marker since, according to 1337hax, that length does not change in a person unless there has been extensive, like vanilla-sky-car-accident-smashed-my-face-type, alterations of the facial features. lastly, the vertical line is the dorsum length. its a line that goes from the tip of her nose up to the eye length line.

using these three lines, the ratio and proportionality of her face can be measured and gauged in statistical testing.

Results:

here is the damning evidence. Alar to Dorsum as well as Alar to Eye length ratios fell about 20% in both measurements when compared to a facial marker. Dorsum to Eye length ratio was maintained within error range. note that the y-axis does not start from zero and parts below has been cropped off.

Discussion:
while the dorsum:eye ratio was maintained in almost all the pictures taken, her alar ratios dropped by 20% overall in all 3 pictures examined after surgury. this highly suggests that something was done to the alar regions of her nose.

again i stress that the eye length was used as a indicator as well as a scale for measurement of her nasal features. if she had undergone eye surgury say to make her eyes look bigger, there could be discrepencies and the results of this experiment would be less than reliable per se. however if she did obtain eye surgury, it still implies she had some form of cosmetic surgury done on her face and this would not do much harm in the stance that is taken in this blog.
also as i have stressed earlier on, the eyes cannot be ginormously alterationed as your eye balls have a fixed size and so on. most are done on a person's eyelids which again do not alter the eye length ratio.

there was a consistency in the dorsum:eye ratio and this implies that the experimental procedure was done within acceptable errors and that the results are indeed reliable.

Conclusion:
she got an Alar Cartilage Resection procedure done. its OFFICIAL.

Appendices:

Before!

After!

Rhinoplasty 101

2005-11-11T14:37:00.000+11:00

Figure 1: The Nose
The Asian nose is characterised by its shortness of the nasal tip, and the 'button' nose type is generally considered unattractive. Figure 1 compares the Asian nose with the Caucasian nose.

You would notice that the tip of the nose is not made up of calcified bone (Nasal Bone), but in fact made of cartilage. Cartilage is a tough, elastic, fibrous connective tissue found in various parts of the body such as the nose, ear and joints. So at this point the connection between rhinoplasty and cartilage is clear. To make your nose sharper, you have to harvest cartilage from somewhere and graft it back into your nose.

Basically you can't remove the cartilage from your joints (since you would still prefer to be a non-handicapped beauty), you would have to remove it from either the ear or the sternum's costal cartilage (the stuff that connects your breastbone to your ribs) or even someone else's cartilage (your body won't reject cartilage since its not alive). The ear is usually used (no one really listens anyway) and this bone is taken and grafted onto the tip of the nose. That's Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty in a nut shell.

In addition to giving you a sharper nose, other less demanding procedures can be accomplished. One of them is Alar Cartilage Resection. This one, basically, as the picture suggests makes ur nostrils narrower. Again eliminating the wide button nose South East Asians suffer from. So on the bright side, when there's a will, there's a way: if you wanna lose the nose, get a good plastie and pay your bills.

So ladies and gents that's how its done.

Of Plastic Man (and Woman)

2005-11-11T14:02:00.000+11:00

Recently the whole thing about Dawn Yeo a.k.a. Dawn Yang, clapbangkiss has been blown up to hell. After her appearance on a The New Paper article (since when TNP became a reliant an reputable force in Singapore journalism I cannot tell). Since the knowledge of her surgery is no longer a well kept secret. I shall let the cat out of the bag.

On side note, this is not a personal attack or a commentary (excuse the TNP attack). I am here to clarify and present evidence for the case on plastic surgery and hopefully outline her psychological basis during her reconstructive endeavour.