» “This is SO you!”

This phrase is very new to me.

I get this comment every now and then. I can’t remember who started it but it is getting more frequent now.

Natasha always buys me clothing and fashion accessories from her trips and she would say:”I saw this top and think it was very YOU!”

Even when I wore her “presents”, people also commented the same thing – “This is VERY YOU!”

Some also commented that the illustration in my banner is also very “ME”.

I didn’t think too much about it because after all, I love those items. I assumed that it was pretty much about my “fashion sense and style”. (Though I am still not sure what “style” is)

But now I started to wonder…what have I done that contributeed to the SO-YOU thing.

What do you think which is SO ME? This?

Or this?

However, one fine day when I chatted with a friend of mine randomly about the sky, moon and dog…(Duh, it is just a metaphor.) Then, out of the blue, he quipped:”That’s SO YOU man!!”

I was quite taken aback and with a bit of defensiveness and curiousity, I demanded an answer with my “trademark queeny-broken-wrist”: “What do you mean by THAT???”

“SEE! SEE! Your “dono-what-broken-wrist!”

“Whatever…”

“Who WILL actually go and tell some random strangers where the food court is? Especially if people don’t even ask you?”

OK. The “prequel” is this: I was at Bugis one day and overheard an old couple’s conversation:”Eh?!! Where is the food court?!!”

In a split second, there I was standing behind them:”Upstairs. It has moved to the top floor.”

To me, it was a very spontaneous and natural thing. But to my friends, they think it is very “not singaporean”. (Of course what…I am not Singaporean what…)

Anyway, it sets me thinking, SO OTHERS KNOW ME BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF? Do WE, “brand” ourselves unconsciously? If so, is this “branding” the so-called” personality” and “identity“?

So what is “very singaporean” then?

DO YOU KNOW YOURS?

Posted under Me! Me! | [10] Comments

KisaSohma_Alfonse Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 11:37 pm

As the chinese saying goes – “﹐旁觀者清﹐ 當局者迷”。You may not notice certain traits that define you because you’re so used to be like this it’s just “normal”. Whereas, others, who have noticed those traits from you, might point that out to you.

Maybe it’s the helpful soul in you who spontaneously answers to queries from lost or clueless passerbys?

farhan Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 11:03 am

There are some things where it feels so natural for you, but seems quite strange to other people. Nevertheless it’s all the things that makes you special from others I guess. xD In a way, we do create a branding for ourselves. Eventually people would come to recognize this as your trademark of sorts.

But hey, I rather a person has personal style and taste than a copycat. Heh.

Oh. The rabbit is so cute!

PS: Yeah.. I don’t find you distinctively Singaporean. But that’s okay too.

ene Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 11:32 am

I think the emphasise should be like this:

This is so YOU!

At least this is how I’d say it. The “impact” word is “you” and not on “so”.

Hee.

And the phrase is generally just to say that a person usually has a certain way of talking/dressing/behaving and when you notice something that reminds you of that person, the phrase “this is so you” comes up. I do that all the time to my friends too. E.g. A friend is into retro-prints, funky colours, etc. If I go shopping (without her) and see such clothes, I’d think of her immediately.

Mike Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

This post is so YOU man hahaha.. just kidding.

tubak Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 3:24 am

Maybe it’s in our blood, I was like so bored couple days ago drinking at the beach alone, then somehow decided to join in the jokes with a bunch of strangers. Pretty fun though lol.

KisaSohma_Alfonse Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

If you need an answer, the first cherry is more “you”.

alexander Says:
April 8th, 2008 at 2:44 am

haha… Nice graphics. It’s beautiful.
“This is SO you!” a very familiar phase. I think I’ve heard it on the cartoon “Brats”. If I have not mistaken. They use the phase “It is SOo you!”.