Thursday, November 20, 2008

The fallacy of sharp noses

In one of my $300 per hour class where I was supposed to be learning about leadership and all that sort of wonderful stuff, I noticed that the 2 male ang moh* classmates sitting across the desk have noses like this:

Granted, guy 1 is pretty good looking. But on close examination, the side view of his nose looks like this:

You can see the nostrils from the side!!!! Urgh! The nostrils are super tapered at the tip, I wonder how they dig their noses. With a hair pin perhaps!

The typical Asian nose looks like this:Here is a side by side comparison. Notice that the Asian nose is flat and wide. The ang moh nose is sharp and pointy. But I ALWAYS THOUGHT NOSTRILS WERE ROUND! No one told me that ang mohs have such funny rain drop shaped nostrils! Go look!

The Asian nose does not look very attractive in my drawings (snout-like). I think the nostrils are too circular!
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Anyway, it means that if you have a sharp nose, you probably have ugly weird shaped nostrils. If you have a flat nose, maybe you have slightly better looking nostrils. Then again, the attractiveness of nostrils is purely subjective. Maybe people like weird triangle shaped nostrils instead of circular nostrils!
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Side note: For those who are wondering why I can see people's nostrils. My torso is SHORT. When I sit at a table with a bunch of people who are the same height as me, I become the shortest. Short body. Boohoo! At least it makes it seems like I have longer legs. Or maybe I do! Hmmms... So the short-body-me is always looking up people's nostrils. I ALWAYS know when OF has nose hair sticking out. He can't see it because his nose blocks the nose hair from his sight. Argh!
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Anyway, I have the nicest nostrils. They are heart shaped!! They look like this:See, they are so nice. My nostrils are pink (not black).
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And when I wrinkle my nose, my nostrils look like 2 symmetrical hearts! Like this:
Totally irrelevant post. But do check out the ang mohs' nostrils. Darn fascinating. Or maybe I am easily amused.


* ang moh: Singlish, Caucasian

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