11:11 11/11/11

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Mind Your Language

Just finished watching the entire first three seasons of the 70's British sitcom Mind Your Language. Ah, the nostalgia. I first watched it on TV2 in the mid 90's when I was around 10.

They don't make sitcoms like this anymore. And I mean that quite literally. The show got its laughs by playing on the racial and cultural stereotypes of the different nationalities of the students in the classroom. We have the communist, Chairman Mao-loving Chinese from China who spouts communist propaganda at every available opportunity while replacing her "R"s with "L"s (who incidentally, is played by a Penangite and speaks Hokkien in several episodes), the Pakistani Muslim and Indian Sikh who are ever-bickering over their religions and calling each other a barbarian and an infidel, and the Japanese who ends every other word with an "O", just to name a few.

In this age of (extreme) political correctness, it would be a miracle for a sitcom such as this to be produced and broadcasted. In fact, Mind Your Language was cancelled in the end due to fears of criticism being directed at it for being racist. Screw political correctness is what I say. Sometimes, it goes so overboard that its ridiculous. Methinks that nowadays, we spend too much time sanitizing and tip-toeing around our words out of fear of offending the other person instead of just taking the piss and having a laugh over it.

And that's what makes Mind Your Language so special. It's a comedy of its time, where political correctness was not so prevalent and we could all have a laugh over the gentle ribbing of the different stereotypes as compared to now where the authorities would go berserk over anything deemed 'politically incorrect'.

As for me, watching Mind Your Language now takes me back to the days when I was a young boy, eagerly waiting for the next episode of Mind Your Language to air on TV2 and laughing at "por favor", "holy ravioli" and "santa maria". Good times.

Sucker Punch

will be watching this tomorrow..am so psyched up for it! this movie can easily be a movie with a shitty plot that's just an excuse to show off all that stylish action but i don't care. i wouldn't care even if it's just a 2 hour long trailer with no plot line at all...i'd still pay to watch it.

to quote a comment from the youtube trailer

1. Girls with Guns: Check

2. Girls with Katanas: Check

3. Dragons: Check

4. B-25 Mitchel: Check

5. Biplanes: Check

6. Samurai: Check

7. Giant Robots: Check

8. Gatling Guns: Check

9. Giant Robot Samurai with Gatling Guns: Check.

This trailer. It does not make sense. But I do not care

it's a geek's dream come true. it's the ultimate homage to geek imagery. it's geek heaven!

and i'm not the biggest fan of vanessa hudgens but even she looks awesome in this movie. fuckin 'ell...i cannot wait to watch the giant samurai with the gatling gun scene.

i hope i don't break down in tears of joy tomorrow..heh

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

apparently to commit suicide.

i was waiting at a traffic light in the middle of the night and there weren't any cars on the road when i suddenly saw this chicken running quite quickly pass my car and down the road. it just kept on running and running and i couldn't see anything chasing it or find any reason why it was running. it was both a bit amusing and perplexing at the same time. you don't often see chickens running at full speed without any reason do you?

after the light turned green, i went down the road the chicken took and i saw the chicken on the opposite lane trying to cross the road a little distance ahead of me. an oncoming car drove by and i couldn't tell if it hit the chicken or not as the headlights were quite bright.

next thing i saw was a dead chicken lying on the road in front of me. i'm assuming the car probably hit the chicken and it flew over to my side of the road. if that was the case..the chicken flew quite far after being hit.

or maybe the chicken i saw running was trying to get to its dead pal on the road.

10:10 10/10/10

In accordance with my previous post, this just had to be done.

!!!

i think i just died from an orgasm and gone to heaven but that cannot be....

becoz that's gonna happen on the 19th october. unless one can die twice.

thank heavens i didn't waste all that money to catch them in singapore.

and yeah..cheapest tickets available but wtf, i'm still seeing them nonetheless! hayley, here i come!

May The Wind

May the wind be always at your back

The sun shine warm upon your face

The rains fall soft upon your fields

And until we meet again

May God hold you in the hollow of His hand



Rest in Peace

And So The Cloud Breaks

After 11 days, I'm finally able to get a good night's sleep.

Thank you.

Sweet dreams.

=)

Four Nights Ago

It was all one big blur. A hazy vortex of blurry images and cloudy moments, as if one was looking through a sandstorm. A few minutes or a few hours, who knows? It's hard to tell the time in the dream world.

What happened was lost to the drifting sands of dream as consciousness reigned once again, sweeping the lingering images into some deep dark corner in my head. I could remember nothing save for her, but that was enough. I think I smiled when I greeted the morning light.

Two hours and 1200 km were bridged in an instance. And so was a bucket full of longing sated, but only for the moment and barely just. Here's hoping that I'd dream of the sweetest thing again tonight. Maybe I should make a phone call just before I lose myself to Hypnos' arms, it seemed to work the last time around.

Sweet dreams.

Dreams

had a funny one just now. dreamt that dad was still alive, he had recovered from his illness. funny thing was that everyone thought he was dead. i remember thinking to myself, "shit..we gave out the wrong info to everyone..he's still alive".

another point to note was that we were staying in our old house at nanas road...and we were all together in the master bedroom.

dreams of nostalgia?