<3 Zac.

Celebrity Trivia. Who:

Is a fresh young actor born in the 80's?
Has 2 syllables in his last name?
Has a brown boyish haircut?
Also sings and dances?











You guessed it: Me.

Oh, and Zac Efron too...but I mean we're basically the same.

I'm the one on the right.

You're either thinking one of two things right now: 1. Ugh! How dare he think he's on the same level as my hubby Zackypoo. 2. Does he really expect people to believe that just because he lists off a couple coincidences?

Ah but there's more where that came from. Let's see...we both have 3 syllables in our first name, and we also both have a second first name (Julian Charles, Zachary David). We've both seen the movie Hairspray!, we've both enrolled in school before...we both have top and bottom sets of teeth -- I mean, really, I could go on. Still not convinced? Maybe it's because despite the impressive amount of the similarities, it's still dwarfed by the innumerable amount of the differences.

So how can people chunk religions together? (c'mon, you didn't actually think this was to make a point about two prominent teen hearthrobs like Zac and me, did you?). English journalist Steve Turner puts it pretty nicely (and sarcastically):

"We believe that all religions are basically the same...they all believe in love and goodness. They only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation."

Some come to think that because by third-hand experience they notice similarities in different religions, that they're all "basically the same." Even if Zac and I have similar dashing features, the very core of our physical definition - our genetic makeups - are different. Then as things trickle down into our phenotypes the discrepancy just grows, so in the end similar eye-color is pretty trivial. Likewise while there are commonalities like, say, the application to treat others as you would want to be treated, they come from completely different mindsets and world views. And that's what a religion really is, a view of the world, isn't it? Well, at least that's what it used to be.

XOXO 143 637,
Zac-- I mean Julian Efron....I mean Leong.


p.s. something for Zeitgeist fans to think about.