i need an ipod. its not a want, its a need. simply for the fact that my song collection is getting way beyond 2 gig(capacity of my current mp3 player): its standing at 1200 songs. i hate to brag (oh wait, i actually love it don't i?) but there's not nearly enough space. i've got to keep deleting songs to make space for new finds and i hate doing that! it takes time and effort. recently my collection's expanding at an alarming rate thanks to friends who have good taste (5 bjork CDs!, websites with unrestricted downloads, wouldn't you love them too?). i hope you ignorant saps notice the music that i've got on the sidelines. play them. it's always fabulous to have new(or rather old) songs in your itunes (or for some noobs: windows media player). they're songs that never get old, or get better with time. (exaples: wine/hugh laurie/pickles/MUSE).
speaking of hugh laurie, those copycat buggers down at mediacorp are going to air the FIRST season of House. MD. yes, i said first. wtf right? unless those dicks there don't watch any television and have been completely cut off from mankind, they should already know that AXN has already finished its third season of house and about to go on to its fourth. they're also repeating season 2. honestly, i hope they realise no ones going to be interested, especially since its practically showing at dawn. that's one of the reasons someone's going to gun down mediacorp one day (not me shit heads, i said someone!). they're slow at everything they do. not to mention their local programmes are no where near comparable to bbc entertainment. here are six shows that mediacorp has shamelessly broadcasted and considers to have earned critical success (do they even watch the shows before they start loading horse shit on innocent and potentially brilliant children?):
1) my sassy neighbour (features a foot reflexologist cum nosey neighbourhood aunty saving the neighbourhood from bengs and other perils of singapore)
2)Phoa Chu Kang pte ltd (features a yellow boot adorning contractor with an equally obnoxious family)
3)the yang sisters (i have no idea what fuck goes on there but im sure masturbation takes precedence)
4)under one roof (family sitcom featuring a typical chinese family with typical chinese problems)
5)living with lydia (words cannot describe the horrors that were being presented with this show, i hate to say this but i'm fucking ecstatic that its nearly impossible to make another season)
6)police and thief (cop and beng go at it like savage beasts/sigaporeans while secretly hiding they're feelings for one another PG 13)
all of the above mentioned shows have had more than one seasons and have not been canceled. while i can't understand for the life of me why not, i do understand that these shows appeal to the masses. to which i mean the chinese. im being racist, i know. if i thought that i should care, i would. but i don't. the chinese traditionally have a tendency to like watching things that lower IQ points. not all chinese though. after deep observations and monitoring for years, ive come to realise that only certain type of chinese watch these shows...fervently. i've categorised them accroding to the way they look, however, as any good blogger will do there's a disclaimer somewhere down the sentence, the sorting is not absolute. there are closet ah lians out there as well too, afraid of people like me to come out in the open. fringe that covers half their face+miniature clips that do nothing to pin the fringe up+tote bag+ostentatious coloured skinny jeans= ah lians who probably wouldn't mind cutting their time at zouk short on friday nights to catch their 9 o' clock mandarin drama. come now, be proud sad suckers, if you're stupid enough to watch those dramas, you're stupid enough to admit it. alas, nowadays it isn't just girls watching these local mind numbing shows either, our fellow bengs are getting their daily fix as well. well done! make your ah lian girlfriends proud!
so now that we've established who watches there programmes, lets discuss the theory of demand and supply. when there are screaming slutty (alliteration, my dears) ah lians desperate for someone on televison to tell them how to lead their lives, there will definitely be mediacorp making shows inspired to tell these ah lians how to lead their lives. furthermore, because of the gravity of importance placed on these shows, mediacorp takes the opportunity to advertise the govenment, its policies and their own views on how life will work out all fine and dandy as long as you "jia you" and say "ni yong le". eventually, everybody will end up with everybody and the bad guy will go to jail/die (but with no fault on the hero's part, of course). the dangers to these kinds of shows become really evident when prepubescent 12 year olds actually start acting like characters in these dramas. it just sickens me to see them taking over the likes of west mall with their fringes that cover half their face and useless banter in mandarin adulterated with english. soon we'd be hearing them go "kawaii ney? wo hen xi huan na ke teddy bear!". urgh...i just barfed in my mouth and swallowed it back for fear of damage to my computer.
the sheer truth of the matter is that there's a market for boring retold stories that are strictly rated PG in singapore. while that's good new for people with no cable television and the cheena community, those of us who actually desire a daily dose (im alliterating for emphasis, can you tell fuckers?) of quality entertainment would like prime time shows back where they belong: during prime time! sadly the likes of constuction workers donning yellow boots and the mundane adventures of the neighbourhood foot reflexologists are ruling the airways. its because of these shortcomings that we need external service providers like starhub and singtel to spruce up our living rooms' vital plastic boxes. the media has gone to the dogs and the economy is feeding off it. whatever can people who fear for the degradation of their IQ do? i'll tell you what we should do! let us rejoice for youtube and take a moment to thank and bless Vinton Cerf for the invention of the internet.
shit it ended being a "let's revolutionise the world post" again. no matter. progress was made on coarse language.
speaking of hugh laurie, those copycat buggers down at mediacorp are going to air the FIRST season of House. MD. yes, i said first. wtf right? unless those dicks there don't watch any television and have been completely cut off from mankind, they should already know that AXN has already finished its third season of house and about to go on to its fourth. they're also repeating season 2. honestly, i hope they realise no ones going to be interested, especially since its practically showing at dawn. that's one of the reasons someone's going to gun down mediacorp one day (not me shit heads, i said someone!). they're slow at everything they do. not to mention their local programmes are no where near comparable to bbc entertainment. here are six shows that mediacorp has shamelessly broadcasted and considers to have earned critical success (do they even watch the shows before they start loading horse shit on innocent and potentially brilliant children?):
1) my sassy neighbour (features a foot reflexologist cum nosey neighbourhood aunty saving the neighbourhood from bengs and other perils of singapore)
2)Phoa Chu Kang pte ltd (features a yellow boot adorning contractor with an equally obnoxious family)
3)the yang sisters (i have no idea what fuck goes on there but im sure masturbation takes precedence)
4)under one roof (family sitcom featuring a typical chinese family with typical chinese problems)
5)living with lydia (words cannot describe the horrors that were being presented with this show, i hate to say this but i'm fucking ecstatic that its nearly impossible to make another season)
6)police and thief (cop and beng go at it like savage beasts/sigaporeans while secretly hiding they're feelings for one another PG 13)
all of the above mentioned shows have had more than one seasons and have not been canceled. while i can't understand for the life of me why not, i do understand that these shows appeal to the masses. to which i mean the chinese. im being racist, i know. if i thought that i should care, i would. but i don't. the chinese traditionally have a tendency to like watching things that lower IQ points. not all chinese though. after deep observations and monitoring for years, ive come to realise that only certain type of chinese watch these shows...fervently. i've categorised them accroding to the way they look, however, as any good blogger will do there's a disclaimer somewhere down the sentence, the sorting is not absolute. there are closet ah lians out there as well too, afraid of people like me to come out in the open. fringe that covers half their face+miniature clips that do nothing to pin the fringe up+tote bag+ostentatious coloured skinny jeans= ah lians who probably wouldn't mind cutting their time at zouk short on friday nights to catch their 9 o' clock mandarin drama. come now, be proud sad suckers, if you're stupid enough to watch those dramas, you're stupid enough to admit it. alas, nowadays it isn't just girls watching these local mind numbing shows either, our fellow bengs are getting their daily fix as well. well done! make your ah lian girlfriends proud!
so now that we've established who watches there programmes, lets discuss the theory of demand and supply. when there are screaming slutty (alliteration, my dears) ah lians desperate for someone on televison to tell them how to lead their lives, there will definitely be mediacorp making shows inspired to tell these ah lians how to lead their lives. furthermore, because of the gravity of importance placed on these shows, mediacorp takes the opportunity to advertise the govenment, its policies and their own views on how life will work out all fine and dandy as long as you "jia you" and say "ni yong le". eventually, everybody will end up with everybody and the bad guy will go to jail/die (but with no fault on the hero's part, of course). the dangers to these kinds of shows become really evident when prepubescent 12 year olds actually start acting like characters in these dramas. it just sickens me to see them taking over the likes of west mall with their fringes that cover half their face and useless banter in mandarin adulterated with english. soon we'd be hearing them go "kawaii ney? wo hen xi huan na ke teddy bear!". urgh...i just barfed in my mouth and swallowed it back for fear of damage to my computer.
the sheer truth of the matter is that there's a market for boring retold stories that are strictly rated PG in singapore. while that's good new for people with no cable television and the cheena community, those of us who actually desire a daily dose (im alliterating for emphasis, can you tell fuckers?) of quality entertainment would like prime time shows back where they belong: during prime time! sadly the likes of constuction workers donning yellow boots and the mundane adventures of the neighbourhood foot reflexologists are ruling the airways. its because of these shortcomings that we need external service providers like starhub and singtel to spruce up our living rooms' vital plastic boxes. the media has gone to the dogs and the economy is feeding off it. whatever can people who fear for the degradation of their IQ do? i'll tell you what we should do! let us rejoice for youtube and take a moment to thank and bless Vinton Cerf for the invention of the internet.
shit it ended being a "let's revolutionise the world post" again. no matter. progress was made on coarse language.
